The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-14
INAUGURATION OF,
NATIONS EXECUTIVE
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it is law to US all and faithful observ-
ance should follow its DEGREES.
StronA hearts and faithful hands are
needed and fortunately we have them |
in every part of our beloved country. We
are reunited. Sectionalism has disap-
peared Division public affairs can
no longer be traced to the war maps of
1861 Those old differences less and less
disturb the judgment when existing
problems demand the thought and quick
en- the conscience of the country and the
responsibility for their presence as well
as for their righteous settlement rests
upon all-more upon me than upon
you. There are some national questions
in the solution of which patriotism
should exclude craftsmanship. Magnifying
our difficulties will not take them off our
hands nor facilitate their adjustment.
Distrust of the capacity, integrity and
high purposes of the American people
will not be inspiring theme for flu
ture contests. Dark pictures and gloomy
forebodings are worse than useless. These
only becloud, they do not help to point
the way of safety and honor Hope
maketh not ashamed" The prophets of
evils were not the builders of the repub-
lie nor in it's crisis since have they saw
ed or served it. The faith of the ia
theirs was mighty 1Orce IN us crea t1On
and the faith of the descendants has,
wrought it's progress and furnished it's
defenders. They are obstructionists who
despair and who would destroy conf
dence in the ability of our people to
solve wisely and for civilization the
mighty problems resting upon them.
The American people, intrenched in free
dom at home, take their love for it with
them wherever they go. and they reject
as mistaken the unworthy doctrine that
we lose our liberties by securing the en-
during foundations of liberty to others.
Our institutions will not deteriorate by
extension and our sense of justice will
not abate under tropic suns in distant
seas. AS heretofore, so hereafter will
the nation demonstrate its fitness TO adj
minister any new estate which events
devolye upon 1T and in the fear of God
will take occasion by the hand and
make the bounds of freedom wider yet"
If there are those among US who would
make our way more difIcrlt we must
not be disheartened hUt the more earn
estly dedicate ourselves to the task
which we have rightly entered. The path
| of progress is seldom smooth. New
| things are often found hard to do. Our
fathers found them so. We find them
SO. They are inconvenient. They cost
US something. But are we not made bet
ter for the effort and sacrifice, and are
not those we serve lifted up and bless
| ed?
We will be consoled, too, with the fact
that opposition has confronted every
onward effort of the republic from it's
| opening hour until now, hut without
| success. The republic has marched on
and on and its every step has exalted
| freedom and humanity. We are under
going the same ordeal did our prede-
| ceSsorS nearly d century ago. We are
| following the course they blazed They
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and plead organic impotency in the ma
ton? Surely after l25 years of achieve
ment for mankind. we will not now sur
render our equality with other powers
on matters fundamental and essential TO
nationality. With no such purpose was
the nation created In such spirit
has it developed it's full and independent
sovereignty. We adhere to the principle
of equality among ourselves and because
OF no act of ours will we assign to our
selves a subordinate rank in the family
of nations
My fellow citizens, the public events
of the past four years have gone, into
history. They are too near to justify
recital. Some of them Were unforeseen;
many of them momentous and far-reach-
ing in their consequences to ourselves
and our relations with the rest of the
world The part which the United
States bore honorably in the THRILLING
scenes in China, while new to American
life, has been in harmony with its true
spirit and best traditions and in dealing
with the results its policy will be that o.
moderation and fairness.
| We face at this moment a most impor
tant question-that of the future reIa
lions of the United States and Cuba
With our near neighbors we must re
main close friends. The declaration q
the purposes of this Government in tn,
resolution of April 20, 1898, must be mad
good. Ever since the evacuation of tn,
island by the army of Spain, the Execu
tive with all practicable speed has bee,
assisting it's people in the successive
steps necessary to the establishment o
a free and Independent Government pre-
pared to assume and perform the obliga
tons of international law, which nov
rest upon the United States under tn
Treaty of Paris. The convention electe
by the people to frame a constitution
approaching the completion of its labors
The transfer of American control to tn
new government is of such great impor
lance, involving an obligation resulting
from our Intervention and the treaty o
peace that l am glad to be advised b
the recent Act of Congress of the polio
which the legislative branch of the Gov
eminent deems essential to the best In
terests of Cuba and the United States
The principles which led to our inter
vention require that the fundamenta
ldN upbH WHICH the new SONernmen
rests should be adapted to secure a gov
eminent capable of performing the dU
ties and discharging the functions OF
separate nation, of observing its intel
national obligations of protecting life an
property, insuring order, safety and lii
erty and conforming to the establshe
and historical policy of the Unite
States in its relation to Cuba
The peace with which we are pledge
to leave to the Cuban people must carr
with it the guarantee of permanenc,
We became sponsors for the pacificatiC
of the island, and we remain accoun
able to the Cubans, no less than to OIL
own country and people. for the recol
struction of Cuba as a free common
wealth on abiding foundations of RICH
justice, liberty and assured order o,
acknowledgements of the people will n,
be completed until free Cuba shall "be
reality, not name; perfect entity NJ
a nasty experiment bearing within itse
the elements of failure"