The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-11
TOAST TO MCKINLEY.

AT length the toastmaster arose,
glass in hand and said: cat the begin
ming of this banquet it looked as If you
were all hungry. Now I believe it is
time for something of another substan-
tial diet. / feel it my duty to ask you
to join me in toast to the President
of the United States" The toast was
drunk, and Mr.. Neumann called upon
! Hon. John c. Baird to respond.
| Mr.. Baird said in part: Mr.. Chair
man and fellow citizens of the United
States of America You have done me
much honor upon this occasion in ask
| ing me to respond to this toast. feel
however. that 1 lack the power of ex-
preston to do the subject justice. The
sentiment to which 1 called upon to re-
spond is a noble one. and embraces two
features. First the subject historically
considered and secondly the subject
considered personally. When We look
back but short time comparatively
in history we see what this nation was
1 am proud to stand upon the shores
of Hawaii and speak of the United
States as this nation When we con-
slider that this nation has expanded
from that little strip on the Atlantic
coast, first taking in the Peninsula be-
low and then spreading to the Pacific
coast taking in all the length and
breadth of the land, far beyond the
Rocky Mountains, I am proud of such
a history. That idea of expansion
that idea of growth, that idea Of self
preservation, because the nation. like
the individual that does not grow,
that does not expand, is simply retro
grading In the advance of civilization.
say that nation which is not growing
or expanding, is simply going back
ward. Take for instance that nation
on the opposite of the Atlantic ocean,
so grand that it's flag foated upon all
seas, that nation which expanded TO
i the four corners of the world. Instead
of expanding, she has gone to the other
extreme until now effete and weak her
boundaries are limited to the other side
| of the Atlantic ocean. She made a
grand discovery. She discovered AM
erica in 1892 and she discovered her
mistake in 1898. Territorial expansion
goes hand in hand with the expansion
| of civilization. The flag of America
was composed originally OF thirteen
stars You and i cherish the thought
that in the space of our lives we shall
see these forty-five stars expand until
they number fifty-four stars. 1t was
England's proud boast as voiced by
Daniel Webster that the sun followed
EngIand's drumbeat around the world.
1t is the proud boast of the United
States that the sun never sets upon the
american continent. The conquests OF
Russia were made the conQuests OF
hate and crime. Wherever the Ameri-
lean flag has once floated there does not
lexfst the nation which Will tear down
its folds. The man who represents the
ipower of that flag is a man of no or
dinary make. He is a magnificent type
of man among men. individually he I:
a Hercules in mind and an Apollo II
make. In wisdom he Is almost anothel
Eof those wise men of whom histor,
tells US. AS an American we men be
hold his standing forth as an exemplal
of American citizenship and the chic
man of the United States today, tn
greatest nation of the world"
TO THE GOVERNOR.
Paul Neumann then asked a toast t