The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-26
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he policy OIL PRESIDENT Mckinley
was to weld together the Anglo Saxon
peoples. 1t was a policy devoid of
1lngoism, policy that recognized the
rights of the Americans but fully re-
spected and never encroached upon the
rights of the British. And in this work
of bringing together the Anglo-Saxon
race, say that, the loss of President
Mckinley is not a loss of the American
nation alone, but it is an international
loss.
"As an American by naturalization, 1
deplore President McKinley's loss. and
as Britisher, though expatriated, 1
still deplore President McKinley's loss.
I can say nothing more than the
thought expressed in Berlin by prom
inent German speaking of the death of
the President, namely that three points
impress me most. First, the cowardly
manner Of his taking off; second, the
blow to his family and the blow to his
stricken widow, and third, the loss
which the English speaking nations
have sustained in his death.
81 am not acquainted with the
politics of America for F have been too
short time an American citizen, but
to this audience 1 can talk not as an
American but as a British subject,
+; though expatriated, and I know that
the American people do not grieve more
deeply President McKinley's being
stricken down by the hand of a coward
ly assassin, than do the English VINO
are Just recovering from the loss or
their beloved sovereign" !
| Hon. Fred. w. Beckley, who was sent
by the last Legislature to invite Pres
! ident Mckinley TO extend his trip to
Hawaii. was called next and spoke in
part as follows:
'I was made an American citizen, not
from my own volition, but 1 may say
I feel fully the loss that you all feel
| this evening. AS an Hawaiian who has
/ been made an American citizen, l can
say that every Hawaiian feels the loss
| of President Mckinley, the great and
! good man."
/ He spoke of his visit to the President
! at San Francisco last May, and SAID that
no one could meet the President without
becoming at once his friend; that of all
the American men of note he thought
there was not a peer to Mckinley he
said he did not consider himself full
fiedged American as yet, but felt that IN
time Hawaii would make itself felt on
the mainland. He deplored the lack or
Hawaiian attendance at the meeting,
and attributed it to the fact that little
notice had been sent through Hawaiian
channels for he felt that the dying words
| of Mckinley, Good by ALL" surely in
cluded the Hawaiians.
| In closing, he said he thought the infiu-
ence of Mckinley would operate to BAN
| ish petty strife and unite all factions In
Hawaii for the good of Hawaii mel.
| Hon. w. R. Castle was next called to
the rostrum, and said in part:
| Like many others have said to you
| this evening, came here to listen and
not to speak; but he must be poor in
spirit indeed who has not a word to say
| for him who is gone, no tribute Of re-
spect or grief to lay upon the bier of our
| departed President.
"a few weeks past I was in San Fran
cisco and was standing on Market street
with the great crowds waiting for
| chance to see the President as he passed.
| In looking upon the faces of that crowd,
| 1t seemed to me that one thought was
| uppermost in their minds, and that the
| feeling they had for the man was not so
| much of respect as of love. Love for the
| man who had forsaken so many pleas
ures, cancelled so many engagements on
account of the Illness of his devoted wife.
| The man who had declined many honors
| that he might have more time to devote
! to his beloved wife. And the people felt
| that President Mckinley was indeed of
| the people. He came from the people
| the common people. We are the common
people. and President Mckinley was one
of us.
I'm this hour of sorrow there are no
| Americans, no English, no French, no
Russians no Germans, but instead one
common humanity grieves for the man
| who is gone. As in the case of Lincoln,
we felt that Mckinley had in meas
ure completed the work along the line of
policy he had mapped out to be carried
on. In some sense his work was finished,
but, as in his case. he had indicated
himself from the aspersions that were
cast upon him that he was for imperial
| ism, and that the rule of the people was
no more that Mckinley represented not
the people but the throne. That was all
past He had been sustained by the peo-
pie for he was for the government of the
people for the people and by the people.
All aspersions had been cast down and
he was indicated.
But in this hour of vindication, in this
free America, we can not understand
how, when the people We're enjoying their
greatest freedom, that such thing
should have occurred. We must all feel
that even in free America there must be
definite and severe measures taken in the
form of law against these enemies Of So
ciety whether they be called nihilists,
or by whatever name they are known.
1t was by one of these enemies of society
that Mckinley was stricken down. l feel
that we must all join in common sorrow
for him that Is gone. Meetings prepared
for beforehand are not always as truth
full indexes of public feeling as those
that are spontaneous. So / think this
meeting Is expressive because OF its
spontaneity, and is more so than II 1t
, had been called and planned for L think
; the cause of freedom has received
great blow, but not a reverse, for 1t viii
stand against all the attacks OF evil.
The chairman called for an expression
from the labor representatives, and John
Dawson sent up the following resolutions
as having been passed by the meeting Of
Labor Union men in the afternoon:
Whereas, William Mckinley, President
of the United States, having passed from
this mortal life by the hand of a coward
ly assassin: and
Whereas, The sorrow of the people Is
profound, with words of grief and deep
feeling for one whose character and viz
t11ac uare So honorabIe- therefore he 4;