The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-01-02
GABLE DAY.
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rogtamme, this afteroooa at the
Capitol gron d., AMI b,!ors largs
crowd OF psople. The mau event
ia the oratorial ever,s vas the
stirring address givsi by * ,dae
aighton formerly OF San Frauc'sc,
tut now resident here a1d number
II the fir OF Fit h and Highton,
A fair synopis is givan I tue
poin ia Judge Highton's a?dtess:
This is no occasion for prophetic sta
tistics nor cold prose. The imagina-
ton may soar to its utmost limit AMI
yet the full measure of the scene will
be untold The cable instruments, sill
emily recording the terse eloquence OF
new era through the labors and under
the direction of strong, trained and ex-
perienced men, in every department oil
the enterprise from its inception, who
ized dream, closes one OF the finest
stanzas in the epic of action Through
the eternal harmonies, God has again
spoken to His creatures. The invis-
| ible force, that is the nearest symbol
of life, has once more struck the note
of universal brotherhood, and every
where the human soul responds to the
electric appeal
We have witnessed the New Birth Of
the Hawaiian Islands, the beginning of
/ a transformation that will be immed-
lately felt, but that it may take years
to perfect. The spectacle, however, is
vastly more, for it includes the addi-
ton Of a fertilizing element to organ
lied society. Their line is gone out
through all the earth and their words
to the end of the world
In 1858, in the City of San Francisco,
| witnessed the celebration over the
completion of the first Atlantic cable.
On the crowded streets, l saw the NOV
! ing panorama that pictured, in its sue.
essiye phases, the triumphs of Divine
Energy. rescuingo mankind from the
thraldom OF ignorance, torpidIty and
vice.
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and now, after fortylfoGr teeming
years, still higher and in more ex-
| quisite strains does the paean of res
urrec,ed mankind alise, and nowhere
more grandly than from these Islands
OF the Blessed. with their emerald set
ting and their towering attitudes,
which point towards our final home.
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The cable means the extension OF
freedom, law, oder enterprise, intel
ligence. 1t means the cbliteration OF
the narrowress, the weakness, the per-
sonaiities, of proyipcialism 1t means
definiteness, resolution, judgment. IL
means the further promotion of the
family of man. 1t means the Welding
OF discogdant heterogeneousness into
peaceful unity 1t means cosmopoli-
tanlsm, broad, controlling, aspiring,
resting on settled principles and scat
te.ing TO the winds the pluclsed feath-
ers of pletentious nonentlty 1t means
that spirituality will be extracted from
the right Use of materialism,
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The commercial spirit has been un-
! justly deridcd Commerce and Fra
ternlty have ever walked together, i
# They penetrate unknown lands
and unknown seas. They carry to tho
very centeis of barbarism or petrifac-
ton the seeds of growt hand enlight-
enment. They spin and radiate tbs
cords that bind together human
breasts. The masters of Trade, ol
Manufacture and of Finance are thS
patrons of art, of science, of philos-
opny' Vi euueatioH "liu vi hloi ai''y- AAV
Industry, represented by Labor in ali
Us aspects, aids in raising and beau
tlfyins the common level
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The law OF unseiishness, the lazy o
brotherhood, of which developed and
instructed man is alike The product