The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-22

will work with 1t for the accomplish
ment of their common object which is
to foster and encourage commerce and
Industry and promote the welfare of
the Territory Of Hawaii.
PROMOTION wORK-E. NJ. BOYD.
The toast Promotion Work" was re-
sponded to by e. M. Boyd, secretary
Of the committee. Mr.. Boyd referred
to the fact that toast came his way,
seeing how often he and his work had
been roasted; and then went on to
say that, despite the phrase that had
made the committee famous, that body
had done well. When its work began
there was no printed matter in circu-
lation about Hawaii; soon tens of
thousands of pamphlets were sent out
and advertisements put in many maya
zines AS result we have received
and answered about 1000 letters, said
Mr.. Boyd People ask me on the
street Where are your tourists?' and
I reply with little story about the
darkey who was asked to make out a
census blank. The questions were,
Are you married?' to which the dark
ey answered Yes How long have
you been married. Three months
How large family nave your See
heah, massa,' said the darkey earnest
ly, Use just plain niggah; amt no
Belgian hare" prolonged applause.)
Mr.. Boyd then made an eloquent plea
for more funds. saying the Governor
had used his axe on the appropriation
good and plenty" and that it was
up to the merchants to continue the
, work.
1.-THE late hour, a. M, at which Mr..
Boyd's speech was reached in the
| stenographer's notes made it impos-
sible to give his excellent speech in
FULL
THE PRESS-WALTER G. SMITH.
| Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen:
1t is a pleasure to the press as we'll
as to the merchants to welcome so
| many distinguished men from the
armed service of our common country.
Speaking for most of the newspaper
writer's of Hawaii 1 hail the fighting
men of the Army and Navy, not only
as public guests but as fellow bellig-
erents. The twin services have to do
battle occasionally; the press is fight
ing all the time. For us are no in
tervals of peace nor any certainty of
promotion in rank and pay; it is lucky
II some of us don't go to Jail. 1 don't
much doubt that the fighting editor,
or whom my colleagues of the press
supply many bloodthirsty examples,
was known in the United States as
soon as the fighting general or adj
miral; like them he is an American in
stitution; like them he has conveyed
and suffered more or less damage and
got into the papers with it. The men
OF the pen in meeting men of the
sword greet them as comrades and
stand ready to compare scars.
1t would not do for me on this occa-
sion-it would be bad form even when
invited to boast Of the presto re-
peat the hackneyed phrase, 1.-THE pen
Is mightier than the sword" For one
thing 1t wouldn't be true; that Is not
what the author said. His words were:
In the hands of men entirely great
the pen is mightier than the sword"
Perhaps you will agree with me that
this is true when we think that Caesar
lives, not in the empire he carved out,
but In the commentaries he wrote;
that the most tangible thing left by
Napoleon after a century or less, is
his code of laws. May not our
thoughts wander to that immortal
scene on Mount McGregor, where Gem
eral Grant won his greatest victory.
General Grant sitting on the crumbling
edges of his own grave, face to face
with death, turned his mind to the
past, and, pen in hand, writing against
time and eternity, created those in
comparable memoirs which paid his
debts and saved his family from want |
In writing those tranquil and even
cheerful pages, the greatness of
Grants soul, the firmness of his char
acter, the serenity of his mind were
tested as never before. There was
might in that sworded figure as it
stood before the defences of Vicks-
burg and the guns of the Wilderness:
there was majesty in that shrunken
form as it sat, with no weapon but a |
pen. In single-handed battle with fate |
ITSELF in those last days at Mount |
McGregor.
Looking about this table it seems |
that we have three classes which often |
make history together; merchants
meet soldiers and sailors, and editors
are present with them; and right here
you have the logical causes of modern
wars. The merchant goes into a far
country and seeks trade. He sells the
natives wooden nutmegs, imperfect
canned goods, job lot clothing, rat
poison, and guns that won't shoot. all
at profit of 400 per cent; and by and
py when the natives rise and kill a
merchant or two with a club the edi-
tors OF the fatherland Shrek in
double-leaded type that an interna-
tional outrage has been committed.
mat the flag has been insulted and
that there must be war. Then Con-
gress, afraid It will lose votes IL II
doesn't act declares war and the turn
OF you gentlemen of the sword comes.
You get glory, the merchant gets n
chance to sell more wooden nutmegs
al higher price and the press, seeing
you people get about all the rewards
sours on you both and denounces the
water cure OF the soldier and the ra-
pacity OF the merchant. Then some of
you drop in and lick the editor and
the war goes on with it's endless chain
and history keeps being made.
know the press isn't the most pop
ular thing in the world. II It does its
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