The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-05

I stood the other evening upon the
shore at Waikiki and watched the
burning sun dissolve in fret Work
clouds of color that filled the earth and
air with glory, and. then the gray lids
of twilight fell upon the drowsy eyes
of the sapphire sea,and the stars came
out and the darkeDing dome OF eartH S
temple was lit with their CLEAN. Coo
gives such visions OF beauty alike TO
capitalist and pauper, and the poorest
laborer equally with the multi-million-
aire, can find heaven in the prattie or
his babies and tn. arms of the woman
he loves.
So long as our rivers flow to the sea,
so long will the words and deeds of the
patriots Of 1776 find cornmemoration
and hor.,r on each succeeding anniver-
sary of the nation's birth. The endur-
ing benefits of the American revolution
abide with US and across the chaSIn OF
126 years we send to It's authors the
assurance OF a love and gratitude that
shall not fail ''till the sea gives UP its
dead
Nav we not also rejoice that in the
tomb of the past the resentments and
hatreds of 1776 sleep in eternal death!
In a hundred ana twenty-six years
the governments of England ana Amer
lea have so closely asSimila ted that the
difference between them now Is one or
form rather than of substance. Ed
ward the Seventh has not so mucA pow
pr in the British Empire as Theodore
Roosevelt has in the Republic or the
United States. The King has the rlght
to veto an Act of Parliament, but
such a right has not been exercised Tor
more than a century, and an attempt
to exercise it might shake the British
throne. The King cannot, or at least
does not pardon a criminal or create
peer or appoint a civil or military OF
ficer except through the proper depart
~, Ia1r- of mr.
has no such potential voice In pass
ing Acts of Parliament as has an
American Senator in passing ACTS OF
Congress. ard cur public men are about
as eager to be called Senator, or Gov
ernor, or Judge, as is an EngllsnmaI
TO be designated as Your Lordsnlp.
Our methods of legislation and our sys-
TENS of Jurisprudence are substantially
the same. and a subject of Great Brit
ain has practically the same rights IL
his country that O. citizen of the United
States has in his country
Nor ought we to forget, nor shall We
ever forget, the events of the last fou'
years.
, when the cioven mail of the Maine
, went down beneath the waters, anC
, this nation arose in its righteous wrati
, against the assassin, there were nut
terings and menaces throughout Con
? tinental Europe from the BLACK Sea q
the baltic, from the Odu4OG ~ SN<'
, Rhire. It was not that the old King
doms and Empires loved Spain more. l
! was that they loved the American he
> public less and feared IL more.
); Then the red blood Of kfnship. slug
, cish for a hundred years. began t
course like quicksilver through tn
. veins Of John Bull. do not mean Z
: saw that the government Of Great Brit
. ain either openly or secretly proclaim
ed its friendship for US. Government
sneak only through official agencies
q and these are always cautious, cold an
i non-committal. But the beating hear
:. If England found expression in the col
4 uy1ins Of her journals, In the utterance
= of her orators, in the cheers whic'
: greeted tidings OF American victories
q II was through a hundred unoff1cis
q voices that John Bull gave warning (
= the nations: II say" said he to tn
: eorspirators. don't you think tina
. YOU had better hold on a bit? France
= vour neutrality leaves very much to b
a desired: 7 hope that you have not quit
: forgotten Waterloo. Russia you ha
q bests remember the ride to death of s.
= ut BaIaklava. Italy, this isn't you
a quarrel. and I beg to remind you tina
YOUR maritime cities lie under the gun