The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-30

! likely to be made still more attrac-
: tive for the native Hawaiians, aud
verify here the old motto OF John
| Adams that the ownership of homes
! is essential to individual thrift and
self respect and to national strength
and prosperity. The man who owns
q homestead has given bonds to
society for good behavior. Every Ha-
waiian who cultivates his own acres
is thereby fostering loyalty to the Re-
public.
The most striking illustration that
America affords of the conservative
effect of ownership of homes Is found
in the city of Pullman. a dozen years
ago when the guest Of Mr.. Pullman,
in his Magic City," [ was filled with
admiration at the wonderful achieve
meut that he had wrought. Beau
tifuI parks surrounding the station,
fine lecture hall and school buildings
open to all; admirable homes for the
use Of the officers. But on visiting
those homes alone 1 said often to the
occupants, "HoW favored you are in
having so comfortable dwellings, with
gas, water and bathing rooms in every
dwelling" The answer was Eyes,
but"-in every case came the "butD
As the guest of Mr.. Pullman could not
and did not express my convictions to
any of them; but said directly TO him,
"Mr. Pullman, have you not over
looked one of the strongest desires of
the human hearth" whats that"
said he. Mr.. Putnam, the best
men you have are the ones who long
the most to have and own a home"
Then I told him the history of the
most successful factory in America in
operation for siXty-five years, Fair
banks Scale Works at st JOhnsbury,
where from the start the men were
encouraged to own their homes, and
had, as your men cannot have, full
local autonomy; and where never in
any strikes or the slightest aliena-
ton between capital aud labor.
My only regret Is that my time here |
has been too brief, but the beauty and |
the attractions of Honolulu, varying |
at every turn, far exceed my eXpecta- |
lions. 1t seems to me that this place |
Is better fitted by nature to be win |
ter resort and a sanitarium for the |
world, than any of those places have |
visited in Southern Calffornia-even |
Riverside or Pasadena-Or any of the /
most frequented cities and towns in
Florida Under the Republic where |
every effort is made to promote the
we'll being alike of all classes with |
hese unrivalled attractions of soil and
climate, a grand future opens before
honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands.
The words Of Bancroft, the historian,
eem pertinent here today: "SOme-
lines, like a messenger through the
hick darkness of night, omnipotence
teps along mysterious ways; but
when tie hour strikes for the people Of
mankind to pass into a new form of
icing, unseen hands draw the bolts
rom the gates of futurity, and all
ubduiDg influence prepares the minds
f men for the coming revolution.
hose who plan resistance find them
elves in conflict with the will OF
rather than with human
esires; and all hearts and all under
landing, most of all the opinions of
he unwilling, are wonderfully at
racted and compelled to bear forward
be chain, which becomes more and
lore an obedience to the law of uni
ersal nature than submission TO the
of men,"
The hour has struck for the Hawai-
ms to pass into a new form of gov
rnment, the God of Nations has Gig
ally interposed in their behalf.