The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-09-11
HER GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
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than double the number we had then.
| These ISlanaS were hardly known
\ when Bishop Berkeley wrote that poem
| in which occur the words that West
ward the Star of Empire takes it's
course" He had no more conception of
| a westward american empire than we
| had fifty years ago. Let me tell you
| the American has got new front door
and it opens on the Pacific. You win
have in your lives the greatest port
| west of the one at San Francisco. This
will be the stopping place for the COM
merce of the world, unless you, your
selves. stop II growing. Commerce is
power and that country which has
trade and seeks IL, is going to be the
greatest people of the earth, and is 60.
ing to command the world. hope l do
not offend when l say that the English
language and those who speak 1t Will
command the world. In California most
of my boyhood was spent. and there
are the graves of my children i left
| behind me when | came to Hawaii. to
another part of the American Union.
| You are Californians and native sons,
but first of all, Americans. and Califor-
mans afterwards. While you have only
| just become attached to this country,
this great republic of ours. you are ali
citizens of 1t and of California, too.
Your future depends upon the glory
of the country of your adoption. The
American republic will never take n
back seat again. 1t was not Dewey
that made 1t. 1t was not the armies in
Cuba, although they did noble work,
| but II was the spirit of American man
hood. that marches by day and night
and never will cease until the American
republic holds dominion over the seas,
| ,t,,lI a,.f d.
1t is manifest destiny that made these
Islands cling to the United States. The
stars and stripes have just begun to be
made known in the world, and wher-
ever it Is unfurled that flag
means civilization. 1t means the Chris
tlan religion. 1t means free govern
ment giving to man, no matter how
humble or exalted, the right to speak
for himself. You are members of this
great Republic Remember that one Of
the greatest calamltles that befel Cali
fornia may befall you in Hawaii.
when California was admitted into
the Union 1t had 15S land grants cover
ing the face of its fair land. and since
then 1t has been the bane of our State.
Day and night the hope of our leglsa-
tors has been that they will some time
all become divided to make homes. You
have rot to do it here. l am not talk
ing against wealth, and | don't think
there Is any one here so exalted that
they would not be willing to own the
whole town. But the land must be dl-
vided so that every man, woman and
child can obtain home In this land.
Remember that your public lands are
not all exhausted, 1t should BE- your
legacy to protect the lands. No one
desires to go to cou1try where he
cannot enter the threshold of his own
home TO eat his meal, no matter how
humble 1t may be.
II thank you for this opportunity to
allow me to look into your faces to-
night. think / see the California
stamp on your foreheads. I think | see
In the young Californians before me
what the Irishman In San Francisco
used to say, You have the markings of
a great deal of man in ye.' Let me say
am old enough to safely believe In
them. l believe in the fathers and
mothers OF the native sons and daugh-
tiers. / knew the most of them, not all,
but many OF them. They WERE as /
have said, worthy people, and none
better could have been found on Gods
green earth. / wish to say to you as
the old Roman soldier said when he
left the ranks: Call my name wherever
Rome most needs soldier and I will
respond and hope II will be the same
with all assembled here"
PAUL NEUMANN.
The POSTMASTER said that after hear
Ing Judge Estees tribute to the pio-
neers of California the native sons
should be proud to have been sons of
such worthy progenitors. He said none
lost sight of the fact that they We're all
Americans. but he sometimes knew that
they felt they We're first of all Califor-
mans. The stamp of the American
was upon all. There was no question
about their citizenship. 1.-The next
toast" continued the toastmaster, will
be responded to by one who is almost
as much In the hearts OF those who
have lived In California ana Hawaii as
any one of California's foremost plo-
neers / have nothing furth,r ig aug
gest when | ask that the toaa d Our
country be responded 10 BY I,ln. Paul
Neumann.
AS Mr.. Neumann arose he woe greet
ed with a salvo OF applause. i.- said
AN after-dinner speech IL one that
should be built around IA story con.
Tess ] am without "A story. Or youn-
try Such a sentiment blended well
win the toast To California. What
shall ] say Of our country The bright
est page In American history has been
written In the last few months IN this
country, deiraCt nothing from the
great battles ~ the revolution of 10. /
l detraet nothing from the saerihees OF