The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-20
AMERICAN FETICHEs.

AMERICAN FETlCHES.
The American people always have
fetch which they worship awhile and
then abandon, to take up With other
fetiches more or less worthy of respect.
Their first fetch was the idea that all
men are born equal as we'll as free. No
one stopped to ask why, if all cattle
and all horses and all dogs were not
born equal. all human animals, not
withsanding their wide and visible
variations in intellect, and in power to
achieve results, should be born equal.
They did not stop to ask because no
one ever questions the authority of a
fetch when 1t Is first set up; it is mere
ly to be worshipped like the Golden
Calf which the tribe of Scripture or
dained in the desert. The sanctity of
a political fetch is as secure while the
object of alteration lasts as is the sane
tity of a religious fetch.
When the idea that all men We're
born equal was put into practical ef
feet by comforting upon the lately
emancipated slaves in the Southern
States of the Union the high powers
of suffrage. there was an exultant
strain In the comment of the fet-
ich-worshippers. Now we We're to see
the coming Of the glory of the Lord.
As the experiment. went on the strain
of exultation Iessened and finally, the
very men who had proposed to give
suffrage to the ignorant and vicious
were content to stand by without pro-
test and see the boon that had been
conferred upon the negroes, practically
taken away from them by force and
fraud. About then the equality fetch
began TO totter like great image of
brass upon pedestal of clay.
A Master OF Emotional Mind con-
Quoted ia School in which pupils of
fine Natural Capacity were. through a
Process of Years. taught the use of
Finely-tempered Tools. A Revolution
occurring in Public Sentiment, horde
of Hoodfuns who having been born
Free ard Equal, came into the Glasses
on the plea of Birth. were given the
Tools to- use. AS q Result they broke
the Tools. Cut themselves and Destroy
ed the Value of the School.
Moral Something besides Birth is
needed to make Dentist out of
Woodchopper.
The second great Fetch Of the Amer
lean people was that their country had
been made an asylum for the Cypress
ed of all nations That is a phrase
which once appeared in Fourth of July
speeches, but appears in them no more.
Instead we have a more stringent i'm
migration law to keep such people out.
UNLESS THEY CAN SHOW "A GER
TAIN SUM OF MONEY, thus putting
a financial price on the opportunity
this country offers to the Old World
peasantry Once the patriotic songs
of the nation carried the invitation to
all peopiesstossenters and partake:' nov
we regard this metrical warning. of d
contemporaneous- poet. as; having a
touch of Inspiration:
q UNGUARDED GATES.
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Wide open and unguarded stand our
gates,
Named of the four winds. North South.
Portals that lead to an enchanted land
OF cities, forests. fields Of living gold.
Vast prairies, lordly SUBMITS touched
with snow.
Majestic rivers proudly sweeping past
The Arabs date palm and the Morse
mans pine
realm wherein are fruits of every
zone.
Airs of all climes. for Ioi throughout the
The red rose blossoms somewhere-a
rich land,
a later Eden planted in the wilds.
with not an inch of earth within its
bound
But II slaves foot press It sets him
free?
Here. 1t is written. Toll shall have its
wage,
And Honor honor. and the humblest
Stand level with the highest In the law.
OF such a land have men In dungeons
dreamed.
And with the vision Frightening In their
eyes
Gone smiling to the fagot ana the sword.
Wide open and unguarded stand our
gates.
And through them presses wild motley
fhrong-
Men from the volga and the Tartar
steppes.
Featureless figures Of the Hoang-Ho.
Malayan. Scythian. Teuton. Kelt and
Flying the Old Worlds poverty and
scorn;
These bringing with them unknown gods
and rites,
Those. tiger passions, here to stretch
their claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues
are these.
Accents of menace alien to our air,
Voices that once the Tower of Babel
knew!
o Liberty, white Goddess! is It we'll
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