The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-26
Grand LQau Given to EX. Marshal
on Return to Hil0.
BADGE PRESENTED BY POLICE
Colonel Little Wakes EIoquent-Praise
for Work of the Marshal Telling
Points Made in Speaking of Strength
OF Republican Form of Government.

A splendid and hearty welcome was
rendered to ex-Marshal E. @. Hitch
cock, now Sheriff of Hawaii, on Sat-
urday, August 18th, at Hilo! The
District court room was cleared and
decorated and most elaborate luau
was laid by his friends, comprising all
that the best genius and best care
could secure.
After all present had fully satisfied
the inner man, Colonel Little arose
AID, after paying a glowing compli-
ment to the promoters OF the banquet,
made the following address of well
come to Sheriff Hitchcock. The
storm of applause that greeted the
speaker as he took his seat told of the
unanimous endorsement given his
remarks by the vast audience pres
ent:
The real welcome which a man
most appreciates on his return to
home and friends, after ali absence in
his country's service, is not so much
in the eloquent words of the speaker
as in that expressed by the silent tears
that we'll up from the soul to the eyes
of those who listen. The medal most
desired and appreciated by a patriot
is not so much the gold, or silver or
bronze of the Government he has so
faithfully served, as is the evidence of
sincere love, devotion and apprecia-
tiOn in the hearts of his fellow
countrymen.
Our distinguished fellow-citizen,
= no is the honored guest of this occa-
sion, has returned to his friends, to
the home of days and years ago, after
months of anxiety, care and devotion
to his country and its flag. How we'll
he discharged his duty, how faithfully
he filled the measure of usefulness in
the discharge of his great trust, is at
tested by the high esteem in which he
is held by the chief officers of the
Government and all the loyal citizens
of this commonwealth,
He comes to us today after the civil
battle has been we'll won, after his
work is all we'll done, and lays the
record he has thus far made at your
feet for inspection. And after exam
ination inexorable and relentless as is
that criticism of any public servant,
his associates, friends and neighbOrs,
friends and enemies alike, find in
him the same old friend as of yore,
they find that he has been ever loyal
and true. He comes to you with
none of the duties which were as
signed to him evaded, with no cove
nant of friendship broken, with no
trust confided to his care and keeping
betrayed. The universal verdict forces
itself upon us-"Well done good and
faithful servant" and as a token of
our continued friendship and broth
o-Irr lr1- .l1r, &C
regard in which all loyal citizens of
this Republic hold him we here and
now cast this mantle of our high
tribute over his honorable shoulders
which nave never known coWardice or
dishonOr. If you will permit me [
will say that this is the time and here
is the place for drinking in lessons of
patriotism from the events which
have so recently disturbed the peace
and quiet of this Republic. The utter
fruitlessness of any internal restive-
ness must in the future be apparent to
every sensible or loyal citizen in this
infant nation.
The establishment of free govern
ment on these islands but foreshad-
Ows the inevitable fate that surely
awaits the crown of every nation on
the face of the earth. The Anglo
Saxon will yield to the dictates of no
crown; the full comprehension of hu-
man liberty can only be duly appre-
ciated by the men who by birth, edu-
cation and training are Americans.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness, the love of home and the purity
of the home circle, walk hand in hand
with human happiness.
The loyal citizens OF this Republic
must expect to have opposition. All
great reform movements meet the
same character of opposition; some
are very bitter; sOme-mOst all, very
unfair. The roar of the cannon, and
the rattle of musketry, the clash of
sabres and sometimes rivers of hu-
man blood are some of the sounds and
sights, some of the music of liberty,
some of the price to be paid for that
precious treasure. But the citizens of
this Republic can proudly boast that
the events which brought about the
grand results by which a free govern
ment has been here permanentlyes yestab-
lished, was in a great degree free from
bloOdshed or loss of human life. Those
In favor OF honest, liberal, manly gov
ernment appealed to the intelligence,
the higher impulses, the nObler in
stIncts of humanity, and today we can
heartily com memorate the dignity
and power Of peace in this young and
prosperous commonwealth.
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