The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-06
No. 1915

of the Senate! Writes one of the ablest
scholars in American public life. in
| this or any other generation: 81 am
writing from the chair by whose side
| Charles Sumner was stricken down
= for defending liberty, his
head the target for a ruflian's blud-
geon, while Senators stood by in ap-
proyal or in silence" All, my country
men, these men who denounce Cong
ress and our public men today boast
OF their yeneration for the things of
the past, and of their loyalty to what
they please to call the best Americana
ism. But there is loyalty to the lig-
| ing as well as to the dead a loyalty to
the present as well as to the past. aud
it is vastly more vital to the Repub-
lie. My friends, loyalty is not in these
men, and it would not be did they live
a hundred years ago. or at any time
since. And pity the man-pity him
with the contempt | feel for one who
is false to his own, I challenge the
patriotism of any professed American
who, himself scorning to perform the
simplest duties of citizenship, from
easy sojourn in foreign lands, from
his study or his counting room, at
tacks or attempts to belittle these
faithful public servants, who in ele-
ments of craftsmanship, in knowledge
of their country's needs and devotion
to their country's service, have not
been surpassed by any of their pre-
decessors. and challenge ru.
with the members of any Legislative
body in the world
There are questions, | have said, of
which | cannot speak, on which our
countrymen are divided. But there
are questions on which they are not
and cannot be divided. And these are
questions affecting the attitude of The
United States toward the nations of
the world. When these nations deal
witt. the Government of the United
States, they deal with a Government
thai has behind it a united people;
our domestic divisions cease with the
shore, and in these relations we know
no party lines. The time is past--if il
ever was-when the reproach so often
made of republics can be made of the
policy. Such a policy it has, in the
broadest sense, and behind it an arous-
ed. an alert and patriotic public senti-
ment. AS to the manner of executing
this policy our people may be divided,
but when a great nation has decided
an end in itself to be desirable, it will
find the means of attaining it.
This policy is a policy challenging
mono. but commanding respect, and
self respecting. A policy that sh;.lr
enforce our primacy on the American
continent and wherever else shall he
within the sphere of it's proper in
! fuence. A policy that shall put cur
! flag once more upon the sea as be-
comes people with our great ocean
frontage and our magnificent mari
time traditions; that will send forth
our white winged messengers of peace
to the uttermost ends of the earth,
turning back to our shores the yellow
flow of gold that has gone out to for
eign shipowners; turning it back to
stay, and stay forever. A policy that
shal! build a navy adequate to cur
needs, able to be the protector of
these ships and the strong right arm
and the American diplomacy which IS
ours; that shall build the canal at
Nicaragua. an American canal, under
American control, while our newborn
ships shall stand at either side as
veiled bridesmaids at the marriage of
the seas!
And what shall this mean? How
pregnant with events on this great
ocean whose waters wash these
shores! More than any since Magellan
sailed the Straits or Balboa looked out
for the first time upon the waters of
the great South sea glistening in the
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