The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-06

2 cant it is. but when we cease TO do so We
shall be dead to the hottest sentiments
| of the human heart. For these men gave
l us the greatest blessings that can b'
vouchsafed to mantle blessings. of free
| government of liberty under the law
This is why we celebrate the Fourth ol
JULY and shall do so, so long as we are
worthy to bear the American name;
> My friends, l speak no feigned OF
guarded phrases; such are not in my
heart and were they there, THIS day @ ano
, | this occasion would forbid their utter
ance. And yet l know. and l grieve te
| know that there are those 10 .Whonl
such eulogy of our institutions mag ih
| share these blessings, who think so light
" of them that they would not make the
that there are professed Americans even
i'm a foreign land and among strangers
who would rather apologize for the fauIts
they think our nation has than 10 eHaie LII
it's acknowledged virtues. Ana these are
not the mob, the ignorant or the vicious,
but a more dangerous because more more
Il Gated men, said the other day that
| representatiye young American whom all
/ Americans rejoice to see in authority
! over the Navy Observation-Disclosures are
some educated men," said he, and IT was
| educati merely serves to soften the
| fibre and to eliminate the hlgher, Sterner
qualities which tell for nasfomal ho,if ,aye Of
| mankind or for another country. as
! being in some hidden way substltute @
not a few men of means who have made
the till their fatherland, and who are
| always ready to balance temporary IN m
| terruption of money making. or tenn
porary financial and commercial disaster
against the self-sacrifice necessary IN IN
| unfolding the honor of the nation ana
| God forbid my countrymen. that such
| erican spirit in this land of robust Am,
| ericanism, God forbid that you, IN al
gneater tne pRrospsrt ht ahat beeve awaits
you-God forbid that any OF you ever
make the till your fatherland, or Naiue ;,e
1860 you rallied to the front TO deIend
them!
we live here in a cosmopolitan com
munitv. but there is no member who
loves and respects his own nationality,
who will have less respect for US II we
wherever and whenever we may, to ex-
press it. If defects have developed IN
our national system, 1T is not Tor US TO
proclaim them to strangers II blemls9aes
have appeared on our flag, 1T is not Tor
us to magnify these, perchance, TO those
who would welcome the disappearance OF
that flag from the skies: If liberty ana
happiness have not yet reached their
fullest development under our system,
remember that the remedy is in our
hands-not through fire and sword, Dy
which other nations must seek it, for to
ave us this was the work of the men
e commemorate today, but through the
wrftteu constitution and the laws they
gave u.s. which was their work and is
our heritage. If there have been defects
developed. remember that these have
excellencies of our system; If blemishes
have come on the flag, they have been
erased to leave it's folds unsullied, and its
azure field. No, my countrymen! The
God of our fathers was not a God of
been here today-nor shall ours be!
"a patriot makes better citizen than
pessimist,'' says that apostle OF nope
and of national good feeling, that pa
triotic President to whom goes out the
God-speed of all his countrymen in his
pIe-that patriot President, William Nc
Kinley. And we may add, pessimlsts do
not make good citizens at all The fu-
ture of the Republic is assured. No ma
ton that has passed through such crises |
as has ours need fear for the future No
the chosen representatives of it's people.
every problem that confrOntS II, as does
ours need fear it will fail to solve all
disappeared, and class prejudice, not
withstanding the pessinist, has not Ia
no longer divides political parties, or
directs and dwarfs national policies. i-lv-
ing issues are to the front, honestly, ably,
II is not for me here to discuss these
intricate, burning and bitter questions,
for you to aid Immediately in their set
tlement. But this we can do, and IN no
better way can we fifty celebrate this
day-we can send out to these our coun-
try's representatives, upon whom does
rest the heavy responsibility or thelr set
fuI public servants to whom forty-five
imperial States and seventy millions of
freemen have entrusted their welfare, and
TO whom they look with daily solcltude
to these men, L say, we can send out
now, instead of the reproaches of pessi-
mists, the greetings of patriots. We can
send out the assurances of our conf
dence and support, which as loyal Am
ericans we are bound to give, and which
they as our nations representatives have
the right to expect.
We are told that Congress has degen~
%A1 CO nnTNln hnX
But we know that the American people
never were more intelligent, more patri-
tions than they are today. Talk of the
degeneracy of a House of Representa-
tives. Led on the floor by such men as
Bailey of Texas and Nelson Dingley of
Maine and presided over by a man of
such mental and moral proportions as
Thomas B. Reedl Talk of the degener-
acy of a Senate presided over by a vice
President who would grace the presi-
dency itself: led by, those men. whose
American who would have his country
great and respected among the nations
IF Of the earth. Henry Cabot Lodge; VII
Morgan of Alabama! Talk of the degen-
eracy of the Senate, writes one of the
ablest scholars in American PUBLIC life,
IN this any other generation: Il am
writing from the chair by whose side
for defending liberty his head the target
for ruffian's bludgeon, while Senators
stood by in approval or in silence All,
Congress and our public men today boast
Of their veneration for the things of the
past, and of their loyalty to what they .
please to call the best Americanism; but
there is a loyalty to the living as well
as to the dead, loyalty to the present
as well to the past, and it is vastly |
more vital to the Republic My friends
loyalty is not in these men, and would
lot be did they live a hundred years ago. ;
Or at any time since. And pity the man
pity him with the contempt I feel for [
me who is false to his own. I challenge I
he patriotism of any professed Ameri-
IAN who, himself coming to perform the
simplest duties of citizenship, from easy
'ojourn in foreign lands, from his study |
or his counting room, attacks or at
-empts to belittle these faithful public
servants, who in elements of statesman {
ship in knowledge of their country's |
needs, and in devotion to their country's
service have not been surpassed bv INV