Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-08
VOICED HAWAITS SENTIMENT

Following on the remarks of
Harold M. Sewall at the Fourth
OF July meeting:
"Fellow Americans: If there is
anybody within these walls whose
heart has not been moved by
what he has heard, by what this
day suggests and inspires, that
heart does not beat in an Ameri-
can bosom. For fervently as you
have celebrated this anniversary
in the past you have never cele-
brattd it with the feelings you
have today. For today you cele-
brate under the flag of the country
you have never ceased to call your
home, planted here to stay, to the
promotion Of your prosperity and
the Selory of the American name.
Swiftly, more swiftly than you
dared to dream, has this prosperity
come upon you, and you are CRATE
ful for 1t; but it has not deadened
your souls to a sense of higher
things. 1t has not deadened your
pride in the Union that links the
destiny of these islands with that
OF the Great Republic, not in the
war which fastened that consum
nation, which regenerated your
country, and forced from a reluc
tant world recognition of your
country's prowess and power! 1t
has not deadened your pride in
this war, nor your faith in the
result. For You have faith in
your President, William McKin.
ley, the President of the United
States, and in his efforts against
plotters and traitors at home, to
secure to your country, and to the
extension of civilization, the re-
suit of that war, the only result
the courage and conscience of the
American people will ever accept,
the vindication of our sovereignty
wherever our flag has been plant
ed, and then, and not until then,
not while hostile gun is pointed
against our brave soldiers in the
field, the establishme nt OF bene.
fcent government over the deluded
people we set out to free!
This is our message, then, to our
countrymen across the sea-one
OF gratitude, of pride, and of I'M
bounded and of undying faith in
American manhood, and in the
ability Of the American nation to
surmount every obstacle in the
path of its manifest destiny
And one more thing we have to
say, and when we say this we
speak for an American community,
the only American community the
flag has found in all our nations
newly acquired possessions, an
American community over half
century bred to the principle of
American laws and to reverence
for the American Constitution.
The thing we have to say is this
great and welcome as IS the pros.
perity that has come upon US, and
awakened these islands to new
life which is only harbinger of
what is to come-welcome as is
this prosperity, we want none OF
at the cost of the extension here
OF those laws and of that Consti-
tuition. For these are your birth
right into which you want to enter
and to enter now. Welcome as is
this prosperity, we want none of
it il it is to be secured only by
our evasion of the responsible
ties OF American citizenship, or
by the sacrifice of the guarantees
of the American Constitution,
even though those guarantees
affect only the humblest toilers of
of the land.
But we hail the day, hail it with
JOY beyond expression, beyond
all other joys We have ever known,
when that Constitution in its
every line and letter shall be pro
claimed here the supreme law of
the land, proclaimed so clearly
that he who runs may read, and
when under it there shall be en-
acted American laws, for the law
abiding, self respecting, self,gov-
erLing Americans, of American