The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-31

ar0 Yorktown ana the Fourth OF July
have done quite as much for England
a. fOv America These brave contests
brought out the best of each nation
and these celebrations keep alive the
glory and good Of each and continually
invite tn brave and generous deeds And
80 long live the Fourth and long live
the Queen.
TO our F'nSG ~ HAWAIIAN WA
TIERS
sail. sail yon skies of cobalt blue
- star-bUiit banner OF the brave,
We follow YOU. exIllt In you
Or Arctic peak OF sapphire wave;
From mornlit Maine 10 dusk Luzon.
p st of sun or BURT Of GAVIN.
Ftom Honolulu's Sabbath seas.
From battie-torn Manila's bay
We toss you bravely TO the breeze
This nations natal day 20 stay
To stay. 20 lead. lead on and on
or set of sun or burst of dawn
% ye who fel at Bunker Hill.
q " who fell at Bunker Hin.
Behold your stars triumphant still:
Behold where Freedom builds her
shrine.
where Freedom still leads on and on.
or set of sun OF burst Of dawn
II Is something TO look upon this
newborn babe OF the mightiest nation
that is. "a 10 lies Graded and rocked b.
the deep Of all deeps. Wise men OF the
East saw the new star in the West and
came with incense of love. myrrh and
libeTty's sweet spices. May glory and
good come II II all. May there be no
crown Of thorns. no crucifixion here.
Yet what parentage. A giant, saw
age king. who began iife Win d war
club and canoe and closed his career
OF conquest with cannon and battle
ships. who hewed down the precious
forests Vf sandal-wOOd, and opened
trade with CHINA and garmented his
nude subjects in her gaudy silks.
Now. missionaries. the Bible and the
ploW shares. corr. cane church spires
in the valleys. school houses. homes
witt the vine and fg tree climbing the
let and voic3nic killsides. torches on
the mountain tops. fleets Of commerce
flying. vshiteswinged. in and out the
harbor 81 Honolulu.
Then gain. greed The native. like
"a silly child. giving his heritage for less
than mess of pottage to a stranger
and sitting, "A slave. at his feet Now
slavery. such slavery! Such as has not
been siDce Pharaoh's day. Ship-loads
on ship-loads Of contract coolies from
China. herds Of little brown creatures
from Japan. great. rotten. immigrant
hulks from The Azores. all mute help
less slaves. IOrded over by slave-driv-
ers. bound hand and foot TO silently
toll on or lie down and die in the fields
or Sight their drivers with the naked
body and empty hand.
This hardened the masters: and now
that liberty has come these men. who
have grown rich as never men in gold
fields grew rich. are still insisting on
having their slaves and treating them
~ no white man could treat the brute
only last week two Japanese We're shot
down. Take care! Japan is not so
helpless now.
The honest and hard -tOiling ship
loads from the Azores are now another
generation and prosperous and happy
and good citizens but with a hatred
ot their former oppressOrs that will last
and last.
The Chinese and Japanese are still
slaves. The star rose not for them:
the stripes are for their backs The
hewn down sandalwood has never been
restored. Hawaii has but the one sweet
industry and-slavery.
But the wonderful prosperity of the
sugar ppnter and slave-driver strikes
twelve. The broader. richer. deeper sell
~ the Philippines, II not the flag. will
free the mute and friendlcss contract
slaves of Hawaii
We are not strictly In the Orient. to
follow the school-bOoks. till we cross
an artificial line about midway of the
dczen days voyage from Honolulu to
Yokohama, but nature drew the line
between east and west at the Golden
Gate. You feel this as you embark on
the vast Pacific and you can't divest
yourself Of that feeling. try as you may
I You drop a day out Of your life as You
cross the artificial lire chasing the sun
and you havs two days Of the same
name and date as you come up from
the under seas looking toward the
sunrise
/ Long ago as I sailed west in a Brit
ish ship. we had no Fourth OF July.
and the old skipper thought 10 a good
joke on his American passengers. Re
Gently. some English travellers asked
an American captain II there was any
way OF knowing exactly when we pass
ed out Of the Occident into the ORIENT.
and the American assured them that
the place was distinctly marked by a
red buoy and that he always fired a
gun as he passed IL. Meantime a red
barrel had been prepared AT the sig
nal the barrel was thrown overheard.
n gun fired. the ship suddenly veered
and there lay the red buoy bobbing on
The alleged line
One Of the most notable Of all new
things in and about the old. old Orient
even from san Francisco 10 HOngkong
Is the eS<r-present Japanese and Chi
rese ssilers. From eabin boy to boat
sU ain. mot a white -Fnan TO be seen,
British % American rnothing but silent
and irdustriCus litts Orientals.
asked the captain OF the Doric. ar
English lieutenant in the ROYAL Nav
~ duty and he answered that -.
been found that the brown men make
no trouble. are sober. industrious. and
cutie equal. as seamen. to white men
He says the brown men viii soon dis
place the white men for the reason tha'
they never go on strikes or make AM
srrt of bother.
asked the captain of the Rio wha
he did with his great crew of Chiness
when in San Francisco. and he answer.
ed: II go bonds for them and turr