The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-06

ueT SUI. MIN Ill whose veins courses
double strain of her best blood; him
who under trying circumstances such
as seldom come to any man, under
conditions which confront founders of
States, of which heroes are created Il
him who has shown himself worthy.
thrice worthy, to be the first Prrsi-
dent of Hawaii, and who honors us
with his presence here.
1t has been said. | trust not truly,
that there are Americans who. when
they leave their country leave behind
them the love of it. Whether this be
true or not, ] do not know: but one
thing | know, that of such are not
waii nei! For you, when you came
here, and the pioneers before yon
when you left the house of your faith
ers to come here, as they pressed on
to cross the Alleghanies, you left not
behind the ideals they implanted, and
forgot not their teachings. But rather
them closer to your bosoms, and carry
them with you-until today the vir-
tue, the intelligence, the respect for
law, and love of country that unite
and hollow every American home, con-
bine to feed here the holy flames of
a patriotism as ardent as burns any-
where outside the limits of the land
we love. Until here we can eXclainr,
as has every American landing on.
these shores, looking across the waste
of waters, as did that eloquent South
ron bridging the bloody chasm of
the war and the darker abyss of re-
constructions: 'We are in our Fathers
house; we are at home, thank God"
One hundred and twenty-one years
ago cur fathers gave us the right 10
celebrate this day, and ever since
the god of battles gave them the vic
tory that makes righteous revolutions,
we, their children, have paid our an
nual tribute of loyalty and love--:ls
we do now.
Our tribute-insignifica it must
be indeed. BY him whose life was to
he the final ransom paid to rescue rs
from the reproach that we gave the
lie to the charter of liberty in The
land of liberty itself-by him it was
said of other heroes: ''The world win
little note what we say, but it can
never forget what they did
So say we now-say it of those pa
triot sages who, when they signed this
charter, set thereby price on their
own heads; say it of those whose de-
feat meant victory at Bunker Hill:
who starved at Valley Forge, and died
in prison ships, in camp and field. so
say we of those mothers who, as
mothers, have since the wCrld began,
toiled and suffered, and sacrificed in
silence and unknown.
So say we now, recalling as we have
the right to do on this natal day, the
full roll of heroes, of those
al
second baptism of blood the birth of
liberty, and challenged on her own
domain the proud mistress of the seas.
In that war, 'when sailors rights wer,
won," yard locked in yard, hot gun
lip kissing un." An so repeat we
finally these words as they came
from the martyred lips of Lincoln,
said of those heroes dearer because
nearer to us all, to whom these islands
contributed their full share, who died
in the final convulsion of our IA
tional body which was to give it the
lease of a life of ages as eternal as
the justice of the principals on which
it was founded.
And so we pay our tribute-insig- |
nificant it is; but when we cease TO
do so we shall be dead to the holiest
sentiments of the human heart. For |
these men gave us the greatest bless |
ings that can be vouchsafed to man
the blessings of free government, OF
ullC ldN' HIS Is WHY |
we celebrate the Fourth of July, and
shall do so, so long as we are worthy
to bear the American name.
My friends, I speak no feigned or
guarded phrases. Such are not in my
heart; and were they there this day
and this occasion would forbid their
utterance. And yet I know, and 7
grieve to know, that there are those
to whom such eulogy of our insttu-
tions may seem eXtravagant. There
are those who share these blessings
who think so lightly of them that they
would not make the sacrifices neces-
sary to maintain them; that there are
professed Americans even in a foreign
land and among strangers who would