The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-05

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Judge a. S. Hartwell said that court
room was familiar to him from the
year 1874. when it was opened Tor t>@
Supreme Court OF the monarchy OF TIa-
vail. He had seen the law admins
tered there. through all the changes in
the government, with justice and with
dignity, but he had never seen n moE
interesting occasion than this-a
legalized Fourth OF July if ever there
was one. (AppIause.)
Every American should be ready at
the drop of a handkerchief TO do his
duty TO his country. But mere pro-
fessions did not make American citi-
zenship. To show by ones life and ex
ample that one was fit for American
citizenship was the main thing It took
four years of Civil War TO decide
whether there should be any more
Fourth of July and today the south
celebrated as we'll as the North. The
speaker agreed with the Governors
idea of the duties of peace. II was a
great thing TO show courage in the day
of battle. but to perform the duties
OF citizenship was not always as easy
thing to do. Their highest duty as
American citizens was to show by their
lives to Hawaiian fellow citizens what
the meaning of civil virtue is
E. P. DOLE.
| E. P. Dole, former Attorney General.
said there were three great landmarks
in the history of civil liberty Magma
Charta, the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Emancipation Proclama-
tion-stretched back nearly a thousand
years. Our liberty was the growth OF
more than thousand years. 1t took
its way through prisons and over fields
of blood. 1t struggled with kings and
lords and bosses and monopolies. 1t
bore contests in pariiaments and con-
crosses. Yet it took its great start
with the Declaration of Independence.
From thence honest civic duty had been
gaining a deeper foothold every year.
Mr.. Dole referred to the Hawaiian
motto as containing the spirit of the
Declaration. Referring to the influence
of the document on other nations he
said:
"One hundred and twenty-seven
years ago government of the people. by
the people, for the people had taken
no substantial hold of the nations OF
the earth. Today, thanks to the Dec
laration of independence, there is no
nation in Europe except Turkey and
Russia where the principles OF that
Declaration do not underlie monarchi-
cal government"
MR.. DUNE.
]. j. Dunno expressed his apprecia-
ton of the honor done him. together
with his embarrassment in seeking 10
say something that had not already
been spoken, and proceeded to speak
eloquentiy of the Jewish race as an ex-
ample of the persistence and power of
high national memories. After uttering
his sense of pride in the memory of
the SteadfastnesS that shone through
the misery of Valley Forge and in the
memory of the rigid adherence to moral
principle in the affairs of government
shown by that great but simple patriot
Abraham Lincoln, Mr.. Dunno conclude
ed thus:
shall we not draw inspiration from
look into our own past history and
feel quicken within us our sense of
kinship with its triumphs and it's sor-
rows? Can there be a more effective
bond of human action than this OF
national consciousness built upon our
inheritances from the past?''
OTHER SPEAKERS.
J. L. Kaulukou in Hawaiian, inter-
preted by w. o. Smith, spoke of the
light brought to Hawaii by the Ameri-
can missionaries in 1920 and bespoke
the patient teaching of Americai citi-
zenship to Hawaiians by their fellow
citizens born and brought up therein.
He believed it was in the heart OF
Americans to help the native Hawai-
ians to attain a high order of citizen
ship
w. O. Smith was called on by Judge
Estee for remarks of his own, since he
had shown so much ability as an inter-
prefer. Mr.. Smith had the laugh on
His Honor by making a brief declama-
ton in Hawaiian, with the addendum
in English, You will understand that
my remarks were very eloquent"
Mr.. Atkinson delivered an address.
of which the central idea. was that
common schools were the foundation of
good citizenship. He concluded with
an apostrophe to the flag and a pro-
posal of three cheers for the Stars and
Stripes. The audience rose and re-
sponded in good style.
Mr.. Highton referred to Fourth cele-
brations he had participated in during
the fffty-three years of his life in Cali
fornia- He said the Declaration gath
cred the aspirations of manhood for
five thousand years.
Judge De Bolt described the great
growth of the country. but
said the greatest things in the de-
velopment of the United States were
found in the Declaration of Indepenc-
ence. How it's principles were i'm
planted in the hearts of the people was
shown by the fact that Americans cele-
brated the Fourth in foreign lands as
well as at home.
Secretary Carter delivered an elo- &