The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-31
FORWARD OR BACK.

Today closes up OF 1902 1903
and naturally look forward Which the pasaner the
profitable the looking forward the looking back? The
gives hope and all the possibilities of the unknown The other
the certane OF the and the experience and lessons
which guide the future 1t the habit pause
when he reaches his arbitrary yearly span and think forward
look back or both However careless he may be- forces
his thought and the words often peruncory given "A Happy
New Year show the universal desire for epicurean
whether it be realized not
The tendency OF the older members of the community live
the past The tendency OF the younger members gaze
entirely upon the future The Happy New Year of the ODD:
would be repetition of many OF the The Happy New
Year OF the younger period OF entire change period
which all kinds gorgeous pageants airy castles and enormous
will materaze The cngs the known, other
lets its imagination riot glorious unknown rainbow tinted
with the coors OF unreaChable western sky.
really only convention pause New
Year We might pause any day of the three hundred and
and think the New thoughts forward and back
But man is metodica creature and likes to live exactly by
where exists. In tropical climate
there such have the temperate There
the constantly recurring give BY
We speak of last last winter talk OF six winters
the poet reckon by saying hardly sixteen
DID, and say such and such thing happened in the spring
the fall These arbitrary divisions of time they
natural divisions but we carry them along with us and fit ns
the dvsoness year the tropics Yearthe tropics have
time simply gde along and the tropcbon has idea OF
time, of age till down with
and teach him teach him. He may realize very thor
oughy what teach him. but he quickly realizes the epcrean
wish Happy New ear and he rings clearly and with
healthy lungs it is shouted in New York. London
Berlin Paris St Petersburg The pursuit of happiness
tropical attribute of peculiar strength and the tropical
heartily wishes happiness for himself and happiness for ALL if it
be had for the wishing his Happy New Year pecu
liarly hearfef be reached without work trouble
Following convention look back for year. and
what prospects then compared with the prospects
today The year 1902 opened gloomi in spite of bright
shine and bamy breezes We had just finished up with
unsatisfactory legislature and had begun realize how financial
y crippled Public works. which had been planned and
absolutely necessary, had be abandoned Buildings,
whose should be spread considerable
therefore have been erected from loan funds up
funds Changes laws present conditions
: had not been made.
Our commercial outlook very gloomy also Our staple
product steadily going down price and there seemed little
chance OF there being Stocks at the low
NOTCH indeed business had ceased in em and the brokers
taking vacation scratching gravel other drec
ton With this depression INDUSTRY other industrial
depression followed Land values down. houses stood
money promising enterprises could not be
ed. Trly we began with very gloomy prospect in 1902
But gloomy there necessity be down
hearted If the clouds black they must have silver lining
could always with thought that
always darkest before dawn The bottom did drop of
tub 1902. Gloomy the outlook the New Year
threshold of 1908 with smiling faces relieved hearts, and the
brightest of prospects.
Our staple product commands price which has touched
for years Our crops fine condition will give SPLEEN
did yield Politically have bright hopes amounting
taln that finances will be upon satisfactory basis and
that they will be well and honestly administered Stocks
looking and there quite business being carried
ing paid which will put large of money into circulation
Public buildings be erected which will give ample work
the mechanics Lastly have the cable which Joins the
outside world and makes part and parcel of the great
meca edihce of modern business. These brilliant aug
ries these all greet another confidently with
the words which the Star heartily endorses of
AHAPPY NEW YEAR