Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-12

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treaty of the United States, is to
remain in force till the Congress
OF the United States shall other
wise determine.
"The existing customs relations
Of Hawaii with the United States
and with other countries, are to
remain unchanged till Congress
shall have extended the customs
laws and regulations of the United
States to the Islands.
Under these various provisions,
the Government of the Islands
will proceed without Interruption"
Signed HAROLD M. SEwALL,
Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiacy Of the
Uuited States of America.
Honolulu, Ii. l., August -, 1898
MR.. sEwALL TO THE PEOPLE.
After reading the proclamation
Mr.. Sewall turned to the people
and said: Fellow countrymen: |
congratulate you on the consumma.
tion this day records,a consumms-
ton not a change, the inevitable
consummation of the national poll
cies and the natural relations be-
tween the two countries now form
ally and indissolubly united.
" Inevitable as has been this
union, we may rejoice that it will
take its place in history with the
awakening of the American people
to sense OF their responsibilities
among nations, in that splendid
procession of events begun at Ma
Mia and which has now embraced
these Islands in its broad sweep.
You are no strangers to your
countrymen across the sea, bound
to them as you are by the achieve,
ments of their sons and brothers
here, and by all the activities that
make up a country's life. You
are no strangers, certainly not in
the momentous present. For as it
comes to every nation in the dread
ordeal of war to test the loyalty of
all its sons and the devotion of all
its friends so they have tested
you, tried you and found you true
when you refused to listen to
the suggestions of the selfish and
timid, aud at your peril, offered
up all that these Islands hud to
offer, as a sacrifice on the altar of
devotion to country you had not
yet the ri ght to call your own.
"And your c0untrynen can
never forget that this loyalty and
devotion and the opening of hearts
and house to our soldier boys that
followed this, was the loyalty, the
devotion and the hospitality of
Americans, though this were sweet
indeed, but of men who sought to
be Americans and had been de-
MED, of men who founded a state
for the purpose of admission to
the American Union and had been
denied, OF men who presented this
strange spectacle to the world that
they stood ready, as you gentle.
men about me today, to give up
office, and power and personal
emolumen's and glory, for the
simple dignity Of American citi-
zenship. Even as you have given
up flag you love, and surrender
ed the sovereignty of these beauti.
full Islands, that Hawaii may take
her place, however humble that
place may be, in the protecting
circle of sovereign American
States.
This is the consummation you
witness today, which you and
your children S children will have
the right to celebrate, and let
there be no mistake as to its
meaning. 1t means the triumph
of no party or faction among you,
the opportunity for no persona,
glorlficaiion or personal resent
ment, the confirmation in power
of no authority over you that shall
not commend itself to the sense
of fairness and of justice of the
representatives of the American
people, bat rather the burial Of
psst prejudices, the obliteration
of narrow divisions and the ulti-
mate political advancement of the
humblest citizen over whom this
flag shall float,
But 1t il not for you to rest
content in the enjoyment Of free
Institutions. 1t is for you to help