The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-19

sion had been granted. This dinner
/ now is in celebration OF the termina-
/ tiOn of service after having taken the
/ oath to support the Constitution and
/ Government of the United States. Capt
| Dodge proposed the health of Our
President Mckinley" There were
/ cheers for this and cheers again when
American Minister Sewall was called
upon TO respond.
MIR. Sewall was happy and earnest
in his remarks and was frequently in
| terrupted with applause of approval.
| This was particularly the case when
he paid tributes 20 President Dole and
Il L. A. ThurstOn. Mr.. Sewall said he
had never heard of an organization
with such shining and substantial
record as the Company of Sharpshoot-
ers celebrating its dissolution with
such hilarity. He recognized the sig
niticance and import and Importance
of the one controlling event which had
caused the company to desire to dis
band and claimed the privilege to eel
ebrate with it-not for what he him
self might have been able to do in
bringing about the desired sequel to
the efforts of all, but as one who joined
in any feHcitation or the outcome of
the Annexation negotiations and cam
DdlRIS. i. -
ilian he felt embarrassed in addressing
an armed body, for the reason that the
men in the ranks had shown the high
est spirit and faith and had met the
supreme test. They had evinced will
lingness to forfeit their lives in the
cause in which they had enlisted. MIR.
Sewall said he felt a positive pride
in claiming the privilege to respond
for the President of the United States,
whose commission he had borne here
and whose instructions he had endeav-
Ored to execute in the best possible
manner. President Mckinley was a
man Of pure courage and of patriotic
foresight He had taken up annexa-
tion as a policy ahead of his country
and ahead of his party and had brought
it to a triumphant issue, for which he
was now applauded by Americans
everywhere. Every man here cannot
but praise Mr. Mckinley from
the bottom Of his heart. All
who have been in the An
nexation movement have had some
thing to do 1t is honor enough for
any man or for any life to have con
tributed to the consummation. All
are familiar with the part that has
been carried on by the true men here.
All who can realize what has been
achieved can never cease to rejoice.
Men who have opposed the forward
movement will regret it more and more
as time goes on. You have registered
yourselves and have conducted your
selves with credit on the right side and
will always be more than satisfied that
you did So Other outlying territory
larger and richer than this Island
group has been acquired by the United
States. But no such extension of the
boundaries of the Mother Country has
been of such moment as the Annexa-
tiOn of Hawaii. BY this act the United
States has been rescued from it's isola-
ton and has come into the fullness of
the new position which forced this war
for humanity. The taking over of these
Islands has done more for the exten-
sion and protection of the coast lines
of the United States and to insure the
building Of the canal than any other
one act in the history of the Union.
And in the newest possession there
has been found developed educational
interest, law and order and the genu-
inc AngIo-Saxon traditions and senti-
ments While there has been in this
historical chapter placed first upon the
roll of honor the name of VIM. Nc
Kinley, President of the United States,
availed naught but for the persistence
and the determination of the people
here and the men sent by the people
here to represent them at the Capital
of the United States. The result, the
outcome might have been otherwise
had it not been for the even dignity
and the splendid and remarkable abil-
ity of your President of the Hawaiian
Republic. He has earned and main
tanned the respect of all and there has
not yet been measured the difficulties
and obstacles he met and conquered
In his diplomacy he has had the sup
port of a united and loyal Cabinet
There is a man-indicating Mr. Thurs
tOn-whO has as one shining virtue,
that he knows how to fight. He has
backed up quiet diplomacy with sledge
hammer blows. Mr.. Hatch was indi-
Gated as one whose services had been
Of great worth. Mr.. Sewall closed with
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