The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-05
HOW THE FOURTH WAS
OBSERVED BY H|LO|TES
A Stirring Grafton by Col. Thomas Fitch, Long
known as the Silver Tongued Orator
of the Golden West.

every man to guard the general rights
ieaIousIy, and to resent any invasion OF
those rights promptly Ii would prop
abIv have been cheaper to pay the
stamp tax than to go to war ABOUT IL.
II would doubtless have been more
comfortable to drink the tea than 10
steep the waters of Boston Bay with IT.
hut orr fathers believed in making per-
sonal sacrifices for the public good, ana
because they so believed and lived their
belief. the United States OF Amerlea
was placed upon the map OF the Worlu.
Our fathers interested themselves IN
public affairs from patriotic and not
from personal motives. Treachery was
rare, and UNPUBLISHED treachery was
impossible. Not ambition. not love OF
wairi nor love of power, but patriotism
inspire6 those who fought with dubbed
muskets at Bunker Hill, who crimson
ed the SHOWS of Valley Forge with their
shoeless feet, who followed the gieam
of Mad Anthonys sword up against
the streaming fire OF Stony POINT, VINO
cheerfully suffered hunger and cold and
wounds. and who shouted the songs OF
| liberty as they went down to the req
death Of battle in order that this re-
public might Twelve as a beacon or
hope to the world, live as heritage OF
liberty to mankind.
| terminate with the surrender or Corn
wallis and the negotiation OF treaty
of peace. The new nation which the
pen of Jefferson had formulated ana
the sword of Washington had estaD-
lished might have been speedily tangied
and strangled to death in the meshes
of European diplomacy had it not been
for the foresight and adroitness OF
John Adams who, after peace was de-
clared, first secured from the Dutcn
government a favorable treaty, ana
, loan of two million dollars, and then
( no ytrnP in
with John Jay, he overruled Franklin.
baffied the intrigues and treacnery OF
Vergennes the French minister, cour-
ageously disregarded the unwise and
pusillanimous instructions or the amer
Jean Congress, circumyented the sur
Nv and irreconcilable" George the Third,
: and negotiated a treaty with England
)! which secured US the Mississippi valley
end share of the American hsherles.
4 not as a privilege, but as a. right. II
was well said by distinguished author
| "Ons the part of the Americans the
/ treaty of 1888 deserves to be ranked
as one of the most brilliant triunDnS
| of modern diplomacy"
/ To tell the story OF our wars. our
! achievements in letters, arts and arms,
our moral and material growth be-
tween 1776 and 1904 Is the task OF a.
| of an hour No romance In all litera-
i ture Is half so marvellous as our his
tory. United States, Do we ever pause
to reflect what a history of achieve
rnent in all fields of effort is comprised
in that little compound word!
A link of human brotherhood S0.O0o, :
600 times multiplied. A splinter from
IAN old-world yoke grown and fashioned
into navies and cities. A wilderness
of fishing pools and forests changed by
: the wand of free labor into land OF
factories and farms. States whose au-
lets n
statesmen, and inventors. and me-
! chanicians, and phiianthropists, have
made the nineteenth century blaze with
the splendor of the gems which they
have set like stars in the dtadem or the
. ages A land where education is free
where labor is protected, where man
hood is respected, where no slaves
presence dishonors TOLL and where nc
, freeman's utterances are choked by the
; hand of power. A country where there
! is no bar of birth or creed between the
; law student and the Supreme Bench
!. and no gold stick in waiting between
: the citizen and the Chief Magistrate.
!, In early life two of our Presidents
0 were farm hands, two were scnoo
teachers, one was canal ooatman
e one was a rail-splitter, and one was
Q tailor, who was taught by his wife how
: to read and write, Here every either
: has the right to be the equal OF AM
other citizen-if he can. Here. every
: man may hitch his wagon to star
e and none will say him nay.
Freedom unfetters the energies, up
: lifts the souls, and illumines the brains
: of her votaries. Despotisms produce
n Caesars and Napoleons, not Fulton
. and McCormicks and Howes. Al
Europe never developed a Mackay, VIII
u single handed assumes the task of grid
u ing the world. All the kings OF ali tn
e centuries from Charlemagne to the las
f1TTya t-I0 =
e son-ke was Gods gift to the Republi
/ alone, and not under any sun or on an.
shore but ours have there been stan
y fords toiling and planning for life
II time to give help to generations I'm
! born.
le ago, when the Bell Of independence
Hall rang the natal song OF America
l. freedom we have extended our oomat
= southwark to the Southern Cross, west
lie ward to within sight OF the shores @
y Asia, and northward to where the sui
lie len sun hangs for hour on the verg
" of the polar night. and the scarlet fir
ir of the aurora lights the flag of As State
lie as it is saluted by the booming artiller
~ of the Ice King.
lie In transportation we have progresse
3 from the stage coach to the Pullma
y express, and for wagons carrying tW
e. tons we have substituted freight cal
ID carrying thirty-two tons at the sam
u price, and If roads are the measure {
8 a peoples civilization" we are the mos
highly civilized power in the world.
In agriculture we have passed frol
q the single furrow to the gang pillow. an
OF from the hickory fail to the combine
u harvester.
ne In internal commerce We have Oil
IS tanced every nation and In foreign con
r merce we have passed all nations e.
v cept England, and with her We RAJ
ne neck and neck.
u Our capitalists and inventors ar
at skilled workmen have placed our coul
n try at the head of the industrial worl
st. A girl at a power loom makes mo-
IL yards of cloth in a day than both h
n grandmothers could have woven in
W year. Science has fettered the waite
n falls and telegraphed their power
We cities; and houses are lit and sire
NV cars are propelled, and furnaces &
I'D heated with it.
his Every day some new worker wi
pc. fingers OF steel and lungs of steam,
as with life fed by the cataract, is plac
on in che factory and the machine new