The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-27
THANKSGIVING.

better form than they were d year dSO
and they augur we'll for the year to
come. The great staple. upon which
the prosperity of the Territory depends,
is selling better in the markets OF the
world and as a consequence the money
outlook is hopeful. Great landed in
vestnents here add to the factors or
business security. A cable is coming
to relieve the isolation of centuries and
in a few weeks Honolulu will be in
touch with the daily news of the world.
Thanks to a rising public spirit, show
ing itself at the ballot-box, good prin-
cipIes have been infused into the legis-
lative branch Of the government and
into our representation at the seat of
federal authority. The courts have
been made more respectable and the
guarantees of justice increased. Re-
ligion has lost no ground and the health
of the people has not been clouded by
epidemics. There have been no public
disasters, no want that home bounty
was not sufficient to relieve, and the
peace of the community has not been
broken by any serious conflict of in
| terests.
! In the nation at large the year has
been one of reasonable quiet, of abund-
ance and of increasing wealth. Colonial
war has subsidized and foreign trade has
advanced to point which gives the
United States a commanding position
in the world 5 markets. A miners
strike, fraught with grave possibilities.
was composed by a resort to the prin-
ciple of arbitration. Enormous crops
have been harvested and sold at RENTS
nerative prices. The merchant marine
and the mileage of railroads have in
creased Population has grown as fast
as it could be assimilated, and has
helped to build up the newer States and
Territories and to increase the taxable
property of wide city and county areas.
The army has been cut down to a peace
establishment. Politically, the nation
has again ratified those principles of
government which lie at the basis Of
the common veal. Friendship with
foreign nations has suffered no abate-
ment and in some instances has been
strengthened. Higher education has
received notable impetus; religious
conditions have not been wrenched by
new forms of attack and the nation has
passed through no epidemics Of disease
and no hostile incursions of any kind
The world has also been prospecting.
In Europe no war cloud has arisen and
social conditions have not met the dark
anticipations of the pessimists Man
kind is in good health and has had
enough to eat. During the year the
Boer war has been composed and South
Africa opened to the enginery of prog
farther and farther from its coasts. In
Asia the spectacle of an empire slowly
but surely awakening to the call of
civilization has been presented. Good
order has come in the colonial posses
siens which the United States has de-
rived from Spain. The first work of
was registered in decision affecting
the United States and Mexico. Steps
have been taken to show the warning
South Americans that the interest of
great States will combine against an
excess of lawlessness. A marked in
crease in diplomatic antilles has been
observed in the relations of the powers
| especially between the United States
and Germany, the United States and
England, Germany and Russia, and
England and Japan. Trade has reached
into farther confines and carried the
| torch of civilization with it. An enor-
nous growth has come to literature
prejudice is overcome and mutual re-
spect between widely-separated peoples
engendered, has expanded in the multi
plicity of it's paths and in the numbers
tnat 1OlIOW tnem. tamlne mas held
aloof and the discoveries of science
have checked epidemics which, but a
= few years ago, would have ravaged
great populations, and have advanced
the median line of human longevity
The world is better place to live in
as result of the years development
1t is Of course on broad lines that
we must seek the objects of nationa
thanksgiving; as regards the ills ant
griefs of individuals, the burdens car
ried, the disappointments met, tht
griefs acutely borne, these are for eacl
man to consider for himself, and wei
for him if he can do so in the light o
comparison with what might have been
r and in that spirit of philosophy which
t beams from the noble verse of Pope:
All nature is but art unknown to thee
: All chance, direction, which thou cans
a not see:
All discord, harmony, not understood
All Martial evil universal cood.