The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-03
DAYS
OF CONSUL
Secretary Cooper Gets
Reports.
BOSTON Representative
Gorham D. SiIman Gpeaks on the
Early Missionary Influences IN
Hawaii.

L1er f1dNsilSll ConSuIS at IpoSlOl' view
York. Detroit, Toxic. Japan; Hongkong,
china; sydney, Australia, and City of
Mexico. formally announcing the clos
ing OF their respective offices and the
taking over of hawaiian affairs in for
eign countries Wy the United States
ConsuIs.
Nothing has aA yet been heard from
san Francisco. orF b. Job at Chicago.
but communicatiors from these are ex-
pected by Mr.. COoIer in the next mail. !
The effects and assists from each Office
are returnable to tie Hawaiian Terri
torial Government.
From Boston Mr. cooper received
very interesting lette1ifrom Gorham d.
Gilman, ex-Hawaiian Consul at that
port, relating to the Incidents of the
close of his office on Jlne IA, and the
ceremonies attending TIE final hauling
down of the Hawaiian hk \ more de-
tailed account of the merang Of the two
1 iations was contained a clipping
/ from the Boston Transcrih, as follows:
/ With the coming of the Midnight hour
Z tonight the Republic of HWaii ceases
10 be, and the Territory oAHawaii as
Il corporate part OF the Unted States.
in compliance with the billpassed by
| Congress on April 80, creatirt the new
Territory, comes into existen3. In the
Hawaiian Islands Thursday, pune IA,
which here is being celebratedAs Flag
Day by patriotic societies, is At apart
90. DavU nd a cQlAnra tiOr,
of more than usual in portanceknarks
the merging of the Republic IMP this
country.
Few men hereabout are more &osely
Identified with Hawaiian affairsthan
is Hon. Gorham ID. Gilman of thiAcity
and Newton, who for more than tNnty
years was a resident of the Islan9 at
a period when they were making Aeir
history and who for six years pastkas
been the Hawaiian Consul here forbll
the New England States. By virtuAof
this absorption of the Islands as a pit
of this country, his office ceases to eXA
as does that of all other Hawaiian Coz
suls, at midnight after which there w
be no consular office. Mr.. Gilman RI
Gently received from President Dole
personal letter, in which was expresse'
.. in highest terms his appreciation Of tn
ConsuIs long services, and emphasiz
] ing their value to Hawaii. Today. il
bringing to a close his term of office
, Mr. Gilman spoke interestingly abou
the Islands and their new regime.
THE pilgrims of the Pacific builde
, better than they knew" he said. 9TH
little band, mostly from Massachusetts
after n congregation meeting in tn
Park Street Church. embarked on tn
brig Thaddeus for their long voyag
round Cape Horn to the then littl
: known group Familiarity called tn
, Sandwich Islands. This band of me
2 and women started out under the au
, spices of the American Board of Com
, missiOners of Foreign Missions, for tn
. purpose of evangelizing and educatin
: the people OF those Islands. The tim
will come when this little band will b
compared favorably with the pilgrim
of the Mayflower. From the small be
ginning made by them four score year
: ago has now come the full-the annex
} alton of the Hawaiian Islands to tn
} United States.
} Primarily. under the then prevaler
q idea for mission work. they were in
structed to seek first the spiritual con
version of the benighted heather {
, these Islands. But imperceptibly, an
perhaps unintentionally on the part {
the teachers. they not only taught tn
precepts Of the gospel, but with ther
= also the principles of good government
: While they were persistent in seekin
=
2 with this the early New England prir
: ciples OF liberty and civilization.
due course of time the seed so faithful
o " sown terminated, and gradually OF
:, of the chaos of unrestrained monarch
: came organized constitutional govern
ment.
After forty years of faithful labo
= they We're permitted TO see, not onl
the beginning. but a promising growt
: of civil government. 1t is not compat
, BILE with truth TO charge them, as ha
. been done. with being political meC
? dlers. for they sought for neither sell
o ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or personal gain. TT
honored fathers of this band We're pei
, mitted to see a partial fulfilment
their desires to bring Hawaii to sue
a condition in religious ami moral deve
opment as would give her a creditab
place among the nations. The full fri
: ition Of their faithful and self-denyin
) labors was to be for the children WI
d came after them. The new generate
. represented by the children of the nit
:. sionaries, shared with their parents
: never-dying attachment to this countI
; as their native land. The children. how
; ever. entered into a dual possession
Hawaii as their birth place and IL
United States as their home land, ar
their lives have been developed aloT
these lines, with strong attachment f
and devotion to the highest and be
interests or hawaii. DelleVlng tnat tho
, interests could be best subserved und
y the PRINCIPLES of free government Ill
v that of the home land.
% while serving under the constit
: tional monarchy from 1870 70 1890 tn
: were faithful to the obligations of the
- native land. and did all that was pc
sible to advance the interests of XIII
and country. When, however, ii W
found in the closing years of 1880 al
L the opening of 1890. that the represent
= tives of the monarchy had so far d
% parted from the accepted constitution
% forms that the time had come when
>, became necessary for the question
& be met and decided between an irT
= sponsible monarch and a repub
, founded upon the principles of I
4 United States. ii was felt that the
| was no room for argument for the til
n for that had passed. and the young
v public then had it's birth. The form
:. government then inaugurated has pro
ed before the world that the sons ha
been WORTHY of their sires in guard
the interests of the Hawaiians as W
"a as the foreigners.
cit would not be true to history
we not state that there has always be
an element among the best of the fl