The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-24

note of the evening. President G B.
Dyke, of Kamehameha Schools. read
the 9th Psalm. and then all the young
people of the two schools. TO the num-
Der of $50 sang T.. a. p. Newcomb's S
chorus Hawaii" in a manner at once
impressive and excellent. After prayer
by President a. II. Smith, the chorus
sang an arrangement of Lead. Kindly
Light" and Mrs. Turner rendered
The Holy City which led up to the
Howe's Battle Hymn OF the Repub-
iic." The grand old chorus sweiled
through the auditorium, and its echoes
had not more than died away before
Governor Dole was presented 10 make
the first address OF the evening upon
Lessons from the Life of Washing
tom Governor Dole spoke with out
notes and held the attention of the
hundreds undoubtedly from the first.
In part the Governor said:
when the historian comes to make
up his estimate of the life of one whose
career enters into the chronicle which
he must write, he searches about for
facts which will throw light upon the
character of the man. to find the real
man. His ancestry. his youth and his
age must be traced and when he has
reached the stage where the history is
to take him up, it must be learned
what has been the impress which he
made upon the people of his own coun-
try. Finally. it must be taken in
to account what impress he made upon
the age in which he lived. Has his life
been productive OF fruit: has he left
an indelible impression upon his peo
pie and the world.
THE character of George Washing !
ton must be studied in this way. All
sentiment must be brushed aside and
only the truth taken from the record
Of the life of this man. We don't
know much about his childhood. 1t
does not make any difference whether /
or not the story of the hatchet and the /
tree is true. the fact that the character
Of the man left this impress upon the !
people among whom he lived, is of
more value.
'The young man showed the character /!
which always distinguished him, for, /
sent into the wilderness to survey lands /,
where the men and the animals were .
alike ferocious, he braveIy and we'll aid
his work, and again when he took an
interest in military affairs. he was speed |
lily found at the front, leading his men !
and making for himself the name which
after led to higher places. Serving with
the troops of the mother country, he
showed coolness in trial and bravery +
In the face of danger When oppression
was ting the young colony from
the mother country although an ariSto-
crat, he became democrat in his de-
yotion to his country and the cause of
freedom. The whole world was in fer
ment and the cry was for a leader. SO
when America decided to rebel to the
young Virginian the Continental Con-
sress turned. Men from all the colonies
were won by this man and when he re-
,eived the unanimous vote he felt the
pressed upon him. He
ed his forces. and though often when
he clothing was insufficient the food
Door and the arms and ammunition not
n order, men deserted, he never lost
aith. Later he found that calumnies
we're spreading about him, and he at
,nce resigned his commission and re-
urned to his farm at Mt. Vernon, per-
laps the happiest man in the country,
hat his hopes for the nation had been
ealized.
Again he was called out of retirement
or the purpose of assisting in the for
nation of the Constitution, and there he
howed the same devotion to the cause
T good government and good morals.