The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-11-28
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ThTfs ls mnth t0 ~ ihahtiui fHf ln
ths year ~ eface and plenty sr.ak
Inr ir o. purely local sense things orr in
letter form than thsy yer. "a year hr' /
and they auguf well Dor the year 90
come Tho great staple. upon whi,h
the prosperity ~ the Territory depends
Us selling better iu the markets ~ IN"
world and al n consequence the money
outlook il hopeful Great landed IN
vestments here add 60 the factors OF
business security. 4 cable IL coming
10 relieve the isolation Of centuries ana ,
In a few weeks Honolulu will be IN
touch with the daily news ~ the world |
Thanks to rising public spirit. show
Ing itself at the ballot-boS, good prin-
ciplcs have been infused into the legis-
lative branch Of the government ana
into our representation at the seat oil
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
epidcmlcs. There have been no pubHc
disasters, no want that home bounty
was not sufficient to relieve. ana 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 a point which gives the
United States a commanding position
in the worlds markets. miners
strike, fraught with grave possibilities,
was composed by a resort to the prln-
| ciple of arbitration. Enormous crops
have been harvested and sold at remu-
nerative prices. The merchant marine
and the mileage of railroads have IN
creased. Population has grown as fast
as 1t could be assimilated, and mas
! helped to build up the newer States ana
! Territories and to increase the taxable
property of wide city ano county areas.
/ The army has been cut down to peace
1 establishment. Politically, the nation
! has again ratified those principles OF
government which lie at the basis or
the common veal. Friendship with
! foreign nations has suffered no abate-
ment and in some instances has been
strengthened. Higher education has
received a 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
anticpations OF the pesslmists. 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
ress The dark continent has receded
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
sicns which the United States has de-
lived from Spain. The first work of
the Arbitration Court at The Hague
was registered in a 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
and learning, while travel, by which
prejudice is overcome and mutual re-
spect between widely separated peoples
engendered, has expanded in the multi
pliclty of its paths and in the numbers
that follow them. Famine has helc
aloof and the discoveries Of science
have checked epidemics which, but
few years ago would have ravagec
, great populations, and have advanced
, the median line of human longevity
:, The world is better place to live II
as a result of the years development
1t is of course on broad lines tina
we must seek the objects of nationa
a Thanksgiving; as regards the ills an'
griefs of individuals, the burdens car
, ried, the disappointments met, tn
n griefs acutely borne, these are FOR eacl
y man to consider for himself, and wei
{ for him If he can do so in the light o
A comparison with what might have beer
n and in that spirit of philosophy whic
- beams from the noble verse of Pope:
= All nature is but art, unknown to thee
/. All chance, direction, which thou cans
# not see
e All discord, harmony, not understood
y All partial evil, universal good;
= And spite of pride, in erring reason
s spite,
= one truth is clear. whatever is, is RICH
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