The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-13
1T Is DONE.

vast ocean Of American nationality.
The map Of the world was changed
in a minute particular. Several thou
sand square miles Of land-merely a
handful of earth, was covered with a
new title. \ small community, that
has lawfully and prominently ranked
as a nation among the nations of the
world quietly subsidies into one Of the
smallest territorial sections Of the
United States
1t is a transaction, an evolution, for
the good Of all, a recufcation of
boundaries demanded by all existing
conditions, a necessity in the readjust-
ment of national forces. And in it the
individual counts for nothing as
against the benefit to the whole.
The act of yesterday was the final
announcement of the United States
that, after a hundred years of growth
and education, and the storing up of
material, they would now share in the
mission of emancipating the world
from misrule and despotism.
Territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT" to the
thinking American has serious mean
ing. 1t means vast and troublesome re-
spOnsibilities, those that Gladstone
realized, when he doubted the policy Of
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT for Great
Britain. It means the extension of
good government, and wise laws, the
creation of educational systems, the
promotion of free thought.
It is not, therefore, surprising that
there exist in our country forecasts
of the future that are divergent and
significant in the new departure OF the
Republic.
There is no better exponent of the
younger, more ambitious, and hopeful
outlook for the future than Senator C.
X. Davis, the chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs: These
are his words:
I'VE are entering upon a new era.
The flag will not be lowered from Ha-
wall, and the fate of the Philippines is
linked with the destiny of the Repub-
lie. This Nation in the near future is
to become the leading factor in inter
national politics. We cannot retreat to
our former policy of isolation. In the
domain of the Pacific, ours is hence
forth the paramount Power, and we
cannot escape the responsibility. The
fu slstfcs 21lr-- -,nl,nrn empfIe ~ The
WEST, the farthest West, that borders
on the East again, lies in our hands
Il believe we shall be equal to this
responsible We can take care of
all the possessions we may acquire
and comfortably shoulder all the ire
mendous duties we may assume. We
shall find the necessary resources OF
craftsmanship, the qualities of diplom-
acy, the strength of rulership that is
our heritage. The future brOadens be
fore us in wonderful ways, which we
could not have foreseen. We may go
40 meet its destinies, calm, confident,
secure in, the might of the Nation and
the business of ITS purposes
There is no better exponent of the
thought of the educated, the thought
full American, than Senator Hoar who
in his speech that approved the an
nexation of Hawaii, used these words
of warning:
"If this country, tempted by the de-
sire to extend the market for its man
ufactures or to extend it's foreign COM
merce, undertakes to enter upon the
competition with the great powers of
Europe for empire in the Eastern
Hemisphere, it will require very soon
a reconstruction of our Constitution
and an abandonment of our great prin-
cipies of equality and constitutional
liberty which lie at its foundation. It
will change the sentiments and aspfr- ,
atiOns of the people. The controlling 6
passions, the controlling motives, of
our public and private conduct will be +
avarice, glory, power, wealth.
The teacher of the people Will no long +
er be found speaking of justice, free t
dom, kindness, love of country, love l;
of home, public spirit, education, hui t,
manity, charity. We shall go what is .
alike the common way of the great =
empires and the great republics of the
past.
There is the moral of all human tales;
lis but the same rehearsal of the past, 4
First Freedom, and then Glory-when
that fails,
Wealth, vice, ruption-barbarism at
last.
And History, with all her volumes vast,
Iath but one page"
On this soil of Hawaii will stand the
uternost picket line of the great army
f Occidental democracy, moving slow