The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-09

Japan, climb and swing In the light
Maui winds, and then driven to the
head of the beautiful Eau Valley, where
l was seized with a great longing to
fly Hawaiian politics and United States
Commissioners for a plunge into it's
sweet green deeps, and then back into
the town to find that l was still early
enough at the Courthouse to see the
Commissioners arrive, all garlanded
with leis Of brilliant blossoms like prize
cattle at county fair.
A crush of all sorts of rigs and traps
was at the door and tied beneath the
trees were droves of the sturdy little
island horses, whose riders were, for
the most part, old native women who
had come mile upon mile through the
beautiful, simple, uncrttical country
where woman rides mans saddle and
rides 1T man fashion in her holoku.
They took their places with the rest, a
strange company Of troubled faces,
dark, full-blooded natives and half and
quarter whites come to listen to the
haole, Commissioners, who will explain
why America has taken their country
from them. The place was crowded.
Men stood four and five rows deep
outside the windows and doors.
Senator Cullom spoke.
He rose to the Introduction Of Judge
Kaalua-who was also his Interpreter
his lean, keen American face with that
fatal likeness to Abraham Lincoln
which took this man into politics and,
like the name Of a great father de-
scended to little son, has been both
his help and hinderance there-rising
with singularly silly effect out of his
lei Of yellow flowers. He looked like an
eagle in chains. He spoke like a man
who has nothing in particular to say.
He told his friends and fellow citi-
zens" all about what happened on the
7th Of July-as If they did not know
that much for themselves, the poor,
bewildered dears!-and how very good
1T was for them to belong to America
instead Of to themselves, and that he
thought their country was a beautiful
country, and that he was gratified, he
might say pleasantly surprised, to find
such intelligent. Industrious and
worthy persons abiding in It,
His interpreter followed him phrase
for phrase and doubtless lent his ut
terance something from the gracious
speech Of Hawaii for the native audi
ence bowed in their appreciation of his
parting compliments and sat expectant
of the next.
And the next was Repre- sentative
Hit, that member of the Commission
ers' party who is believed TO have
brought it's brains beneath his decent
white hair. He met his Hawaiians
with the open arms. He took them to
him as friends and brothers. He
gathered them with that warm per-
sonal magnetism Of the speaker which
needs no interpreter to make Its mes
sage clear. And when he closed with:
"I am from Illinois and / am proud
of II! love my native State with all
my heart and I am glad to serve her
with all my strength! But first and
best love my country, the great Re-
public to which my native State be-
longs. So let 1t be with you, Ha-
waiians! Love the country that is
your birthplace. It Is the most beauti-
full country ever saw. But feel for 1t
as l feel for my native State! Give
your first and best devotion to your
great Republicr When he said this
he made the appeal to that higher pa
triotism 30 personally persuasive-as If