The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-22

/ hand In hand through the forests and
over the fields of their home Miss
Along then gave briefly the story OF
the coming of dissentions, the period
OF disillusion, when angry words were
said. when evil and misery reigned
until driven away by the spirit Of
Hope.
The Dreyfus Affair was the subject
selected by +. +. Hedemann who was
the next speaker. After summarizing
the principal incidents of that famous
case, in a manner which showed that
he had followed the newspaper ac-
counts of the French officers trial, he
told of the exciting trial of Emile
ZOla who violently attacked this per-
nicious method. Charles / by his
star chamber acts caused his own
overthrow" said the speaker. Here
is an outrage worthy of mediaevaI
times, committed today, in the crown
ing years of the nineteenth century.
Emile Zola has lifted up his voice
against this flagrant injustice, but
France is unwilling to listen. France
fOrgets that it is not Zola who is on
trial, but that the French nation as
still on trial before the bar of the
civilized world, and that she has al
ready been convicted in the highest
court of the nations, of injustice al
most incredible. The French Republic
must be just or she will lose her self
respect. She must recognize the eter-
nal laws of God-IIis truth and right
eOusness. All civilized nations unite in
the earnest hope that the day is not
far distant when the passions and pre-
judices of the French people shall
have cooled and reason shall have re-
turned to the brain and heart of
FRO cnaa lyar a1ncalv
followed by his audience and the ap-
plause was generous.
The English-speaking Fraternity
was handled in a clever way by VIII
liam Rawlins. The discourse was a
plea for an AnglO-American alliance.
The reasoning was clear Through
the pages of English history the de-
votiOn to the principles of freedom
and honor stand as the characters
ties of the English. In their earliest
days and during the succeeding ages
government of the people, for the
people and by the people" was taught.
The English-speaking race alone has
had an unbrOken growth Of popular
liberty to the present time" The
great names of Englishmen were
quoted, men who "are all links in the
same chain of Anglo-SaXon progress.
And it is the same history wherever
the EngIish-speaking race has gone
in Canada, Australia and New Zealand,
India, South Africa and the islands
Of the sea-"
The speaker said that Gin the Am
erican Republic and the British EN-
pire there are 100000 600 of English
speaking people under free govern
ment. The same blood and the same
institutions bind together these two
great nations" The influence of Great
Britain in preventing a coercion by
the powers of the United States in it's
treatment of the Spanish affair was
noted. Mention was also made of the
speech of the Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain in Birmingham recently, and the
of an alliance by the former
American Minister, Hon. e. J. Phelps
who declared that anything that will
the brotherly feeling be-
tween the two nations should be fos-
tered" The speaker concluded by re-
citing in very acceptable manner
the poem written by Alfred Austen,
poet laureate, which has for its theme
an AnglO-American alliance.
Mary G. Widdifield was next on the
program. She had for her subject,
the Master AS an in
PRODUCTION to her carefully prepared
essay Miss WidddieId drew a parallel
between the countless books Of the
day, "the mass of literature, little Of
which is worthy to survive as she
put it, and "the countless blossoms
put forth each season and few mature,
to take root and live" Miss Widdi-
field said in part: '"The young stud
ent, confused and amazed at the vast
wealth of libraries, may be reassured
by the comforting reminder that after
II fny crnnh hooks - After
many authors whose works
have delighted their readers she said:
Other authors appear above the hori-
zon, some attain the zenith of popular
fty. only to sink at last into oblivion.
But Shakespeare, through the changes
of time. still lives and with ever in
creasing fame. It is now essential
that all who pretend to culture should
be familiar with the works Of Shake
speare. He alone of all writers seems