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

..As homeward he his footsteps turned
If such there be, go mark him We'll
Following the prolonged applause
which greeted Mr.. Hopkins, Mrs Rel
lev favored the audience with another
song. 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner. ii. I
f. Herzer was to have given this num-
Der. but he failed to appear. and Mrs
Kelley graciously took his place on the
program.
TEE ADDRESS OF MR. THOMPSON !
1.-THE address of the day was delivered
by Mr.. Frank E. Thompson de was
often interrupted by applause, esPe-
cialIy in his defense of the American
heolfcy in the Philippines Ee sad:
Mr. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen
| must confess a feeling of pride at De
ing, on this day, celebrated from quiet
Maine. the eastern lighthouse OF our
country's original domain TO lne eulo
ilent Philippine Islands, the western out
most of our newly acquired Territory per
rnitted to address an audience represent
| ing. ancestrally, a score of flags, but rec
tognizing by adoption but one.
IT is one hundred and twenty-six years
ago today since the Declaration of indie
incidence penned by the hand OF tnat
master genius that bold champion OF
mans inherent God-given equality, JeHef-
| son was signed by the Colonial Congress-
ment which has been well called the
Golden Rule of Nations. One hundred
ard twenty-six years ago today there ap-
peared in the armament of nations new
constellation of thirteen stars, deStlneu
| to illuminate the paths of literature, TO
hight the dark vistas of science, and to
pierce with their effulgent splendor the
UNEMPLOYED. iabyrinths of broader, nopier
and grander system of government
government emanating from the people
the creation of their WILL and existing
II only by their WILL
i From the weak totterings of an infant
colony CARRIED in the swaddling clothes OF
, partial government; from the mooest
though firm assertion of Colonial 1nde-
! pendence: from a land bounded by the
distance in which the ring of its hardy
: pioneers AK could be heard, we have,
since the fourth day of July. 1716 taken
on the regal habiliments of national
: power, extended our boundaries from the
western shore of the Atlantic across the
continent of North America to the west
!, ern shores of the broad Pacific We have
| grated on to the Anglo-Saxon stock OF
our parentage. the branches of all liberty
loving nations; we have mixed the strong
phIegmatic temperament of the Briton, the
/. ideal-loving, hero-worshippinS character
: istics of the Latin races; the persistent
9 and insistent attributes of the Teutones.
' with the home and woman loving and
God-fearing offsprings of that small band
late shores as a refuge from religious
depression. and the physical sentimental,
political and religious admixture has
blended into that fearless asserter and
intrepid defender of freedom, the Ameri-
can citizen.
Since the days of Rome's world-domi-
mating supremacy, countrys people has
been judged by the defenders OF her flag.
and | believe it is timely and proper
on this day dear to every American, TO
: consider not only that army of Colonial
patriots who baptised their standard i'll
the red blood OF their convictions and
q made a nation: not only those gallant de-
s Tenders of their country'S honor who,
lin 1863. and the succeeding bloody years
: of the Civil War, upheld that standard
: and placed an Interpretation on the Dec
r laration of Independence which struck
from chafed limbs the ball and Chain OF
u slavery, and made a free country in name
e. a free country in fact. / believe 1t IS
:. proper not only TO consider the army
: which crossed the Rubicon of serYitudt
: and advanced upon the Rome of freedom
u not only the army which preserved in
II violate the Union handed down to it by
= patriotic ancestry; but believe we
d should throw our eyes across the PACING
J. pierce with voices raised in patriotic
i praise the tangled, fever-heavy swamps OF
Il the Philippines. and cry ont to the boy:
&c in blue who carrying our flag in
"a country ours by right of conquest ant
purchase, well done thou good and faith
: full servants"
u There is some political division as to the
: justice of our present attitude toward the
: Filipinos. The unemployed political aspir
IS ant, the blatant lingo, and the self-inter
n ested capitalist, have Joined in piercing
% diScordant cry of ''Shame:" But the
40 thinking members of our legislative anC
o executive bodies. and more than that the
:, backbone of our country, the common
= people, are closely in touch and heartily
> in accord with the InSular policy of oul
: government. Call our war in the Philip
: pines what you will-"benevolent assimi
If lation," Krag-Jorgensen civilization
: attribute it to what you villa courier
n of that day when Christianity shall be
II preached unto all nationS or the merci-
II less hold of the barbed tentacles of ma
. tional MeduSa around the neck of Free
= dom Infanta, but always remember that
we are a nation of majority rule. Along
side of our ''E Pluribus Unum,'' might
well be placed ''Vox Populi. Vox Del.
We should remember ourselves. and teari
our children. that when in the halls o
congress the gavel has fallen, the debate
closed. the 'ayes'' and nays registered
on the roll, and the result of the baIo
: declared the vote is the voice of 70, 5000
e-thinl<ing people. And the war in tn
Philippines has the sanction of our gov
eminent.
IS The Declaration Of Independence declar
o ing as you have heard that alI nan al
created free and equal, was writer
when 100000 Africans We're held in bond
age. The document is a general one, an
o must be construed in the light of it's sur
e lroundings. 1t accorded and meant to &C
e cord government to all who wer'
D capable Of exercising the functions o
/ government. It did not mean to hol'
y out to the cannibal inhabitants of Hot
n tentot jungle. the benefits of the Monroe
e Doctrine There is nothing in the Dec
a laraticn of Independence tkst advocate
n a retrogTade movement. ItNfs dial o
/ progress whose hands Of destiny poin
II to the emancipation of the world no
only from vexatious taxation but from
the ignorance of dark ages. and the dis
honesty of corrupt government.
Our expansion into she realms of
o. world power is not the result Of Provi
m dence-unsanctioned opportunity. 1t is tn
- inevitable outcome Of the Anglo-Saxol
= spirit of Territorial acquisition, combine
I with the American idea of the progress
~ and betterment of humanity. natioI
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