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

operatives produce IT thousand million
dollars worth of manufactured arn-
cles per annurn, or $3.50 worth each IN
orr country six million workmen pro-
duce ten thousand million dollars
worth OF good per annum, or S1e6s
worth each Europe sends to US for
food and raw material and is begin
ming to draw upon US for fuel our
people supply themselves with these es-
sentials from their own fields and for
ests and mines, and even as we sur
pass Europe in natural advantages and
natural forces, so do We excel her In
inventions, and in the
skill and deftness Of our worknen. We
send redwood lumber to Australia. we
send fir timbers to Africa We send
steel goods to Sheffield. and cotton /
goods to Manchester. Our locomotives
are dashing through the passes or the
Alaskan mountains, and filling their
boilers with water from the Yukon.
They are coursing along the plains OF
Manchuria and the steppes of Siberia
They are climbing to the clouds up !
both slopes Of the Andes. They are ac- |
climated in Africa, from the Cape of
Good Hope to the Congo, and we can
paraphrase the language of the first
Napoleon and say to them as they |
sound their shriII notes of peaceful tri- |
urnph in the very face of the Sphinx; |
heights of yonder pyramids forty-one |
centuries look down upon you.
Our credit reigns at the head of the |
worlds finances; our flag is everywhere
respected on land and sea; our armies
would come at a drum tap out of the
hives OF industry to swarm in defence
of their country on every shore; ours
ia the greatest, freest and most pros
porous nation under the light OF the
sun.
And all this we owe largely to the
brave, bright, earnest, thoughtful men
who framed the great chart Of republi-
ear liberty 12e years ago. From the
principles of that chart there has never
since been a departure save in behalf
of larger liberty Capitalists and Ia
borers have alike understood that this
government is not Probate Court TO
act as spendthrift guardian for
Weddings but a republic where the
race must be to the swift, and the bat
tie TO the strong. 1t is a government
where equality of opportunity VIII al
ways be guaranteed, but where equal
ity of result will never be enforced.
The adversely of the civil war tried
us sorely. We are now passing through
the trials of prosperity, and who shall
doubt that we will come unscathed
through the fire? Wealth may control
the making of laws, but 1t dare not at
tempt to become a tyrant to the tnd1-
yidual. The millionaire may buy Sena-
tors and Judges, but he cannot GUST the
pauper from his place in line at the
postoffice or the barber shop. or force
any man to take off his hat nor de-
priye the driver of a mule cart of his
right of way. The combined capital OF
Wall street could not force an hours
work out of tramp who prefers to lie
upon the grass.
Our government says to the worker:
THE land is yours. free to cultivate;
the waters are yours, free to appropri-
ate, the forests are yours, free TO new;
the mines are yours, free to iocate-and
yours Is the right to Work or remain
idle as you choose.
No capitalist shall invade your rights,
neither shall you invade his. Nobody
shall cruelty you upon cross or gold.
neither shall you hang anybody upon
a galiows of silver. You shall not tear
up the rails and obstruct the car or
progress. You shall not srnite and de-
stroy with the hammers Of anarchy the
inventions with which bright brains
and deft fingers are exempting mankind
from the WEAKNESS of toll. RockeIelier
does not take one hours toll from you
unless he pays you for II. and you snail
not take one dollar from Rockefeliers
one hundred millions unless you can
earn it or he gives it TO you. Let Van
derbilt accumulate SO long as he can
DO SO lawfully. There will be mo pock-
cts in his shroud." He cannot take a
dollar with him when he goes.
And all he can hold in his dead, cold
hand
Will be what he has given away"
We live in an age Of light. We live
in an advancing generation, ana the
retrogressive, whining. wealth-hating,
labor shirking doctrines of foreign agi-
tators are out of joint with the times
and out OF place in this land. Every
where the world is advancing. Every
where invention, discovery and science
are pushing their mighty march up the
mountains, along the valleys, and into
the caverns of the earth. They are
riding in great ships over the foam
crested seas They are preparing to
climb to the very stars. Shall we alone
fear our fate so much or deem our
: deserts so small as to drop the herit-
age of the fathers at the feet OF some
disseminating anarchist, and Yield to q
mob that which we refused to yield &c
q monarch?
The principles OF the Declaration OF
independence have not so much to fear
: the constitution and the laws have not
so much to fear the structure OF clvi
society has not so much to fear from
the mfllionaires of America as from the
. banded brotherhoods of beer and brawI
: ing who beat the air with curses o.
! uilIionaires Neither in their origin
! nor in their use are the vast fortune:
, of America really offensive. The grea
: wealth of the ancients was the resul
. of plumber, not production. The laws
/ punished Roman citizen who became
: trader, and condemned to death
/, Senator who established q manufac
, tory. In these days we make Senator
out of manufacturers. So late as tn
: seventh century all wealth was in land
: ed estates, and savings banks were un
known. Caste ruled the world. and /
9 continued to rule it even in this repUb
2 lie until slavery went down in IN
, stormy shock of battle
\ have no sympathy with the politica
: catch penny phrases of those who as
( sert that Eve have drifted away iron
the doctrines of the Declaration Of In
g dependence and that the contest OF TO
g day is between the man and the dol
s lar"
= In so far as there Is any contest a
all it is a contest between the ma
n who is without a dollar, because ne
n too lazy. too ignorant. too dishonest I
q earn a. dollar, and the industrious ma
8 who has saved his dollar. In which con