The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-20
ApROpOs OF YESTERDAY.

of the Deep within the land at once eH
heathul Not only skill In construction and skill III naVga
ton involved but the inspiration motive power supplied
by Nature The ceansed by SALT which the
Scriptures adopt the of purity The heavng sea- the
fresh fee sends its clear BREATH with equal stua
ton painting of capital and labor poverty and riches
The waves rise and fall in gentle cadence like the notes of
Hawaiian melody surge and and dissolve in snowy oa
with ntrcacy and harmony turbulence Of Wagner1an
chorus or Greek And in their ambitious strife fed by
all alike cleansing the body and the SOUL
yachts duck and and bluff and play with each other
like the graceful birds whose home the brine until the
spectators forget their aor their cares their dapponmnt
their successes and become merged the picture OF ardent and
happy life Nature and Man have spread before them
spectacle of yesterday. Drink orgies of
polluted the combination marred the beauty
that filled the eye and soed the ordinary aseres and conflicts
Men and women and the little children with
their tender hearts and their growing ASPIRATIONS for the time
distracted from the themes and bitter trials of life and
with ideals that gradually preparing the
family of for the higher apude and opportunities OF the future
Yesterday suggests thought original but unformuaed
Why repeat larger scae Why attract
Hawaiian international contest of the picked yachts of
This suggestion has been the ignore and
yet only broad but practical The United States leads the
globe, least its waters and long led
principal maritime nation in British Still it may be
doubted whether there has been international struggle be-
tween yachts which absolute superiority
These have always been held the Atlantic under conditions
less adverse where turned ng incident
momenay lapse This fact forcby illustrated by Sir Thomas
Iipon experience His Shamrocks have returned failures
the land of their origin and American triumph has not only been
secured but its gnuneness has been honoby conceded When
however this accepted still the elderly naval men, of both Great
Britain the United States doubt the final validity of that
have largely depended the of the winds and the
In this part of the Pacific probably beyond any other
available course the conditions stable and favorable and
the best craft best construction and best handled would inevitably
Here then above all other places the appropriate spot for
the browning struggle Illuminated blindness Swallowed
light
The eyes of commerce. of trade of finance manufacture
turning and upon the Territory of Hawaii Its capitalized
position the mighty immovaby fixed by Providence
It's social and political destiny settled by annexation It is
directly the track of the res energy of the Twentieth Century
Its provincial isolation belongs the dovng past and with
cable connections the of steamship lines the
tant of Istmian internal vitality and the circulation of
Its attractions through all the civilization is rapidly awaken
from he deep sleep of centuries and assuming
Manifest Destiny.
Unelrng Statistics clear prescence genuine perception,
ambition all point the suggestion thus made practical feasible
if taken up and yazed local government and our most
influential citizens 1t needs only energy perseverance, TACT
strength of and appeal bring the Cup
This would be for us the advertisement of the ages