Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-10

by Henry Il. Highton, who delivered
one Of the principal addresses on Ho-
nolulu's cable day, is copy OF thoughts
penned by his father, +. X. Highton,
on the cable celebration held in San
Francisco when the Atlantic cable was
completed in 1858. The article. writ
ten on the street in pencil during the
celebration, follows:
The Celebration on Monday.
In hoe signo vinces," was the deep.
ly suggestive motto which emblazon.
ed to the enthusiastic crowd in our
city on Monday-the last peaceful vic.
tory of civilization and progress over
darkness, brutality and superstition
as II appropriately headed the "tri.
umph" of genius and humanity. That
touching memorial of the one great act
of acknowledgement with
meaning to all who rightly appreciate
the high destiny OF our race; who Pa.
tiently toll and toiling wait with
hearts of hope, for the promised mil.
lenium, whose highest aspirations are
for the development Of the mighty re.
suits OF which the motto was the pre-,
cursor as II will be the consummation
when the last relic Of ignorance shall
have passed away-received another
commentary upon its true significance
on that occasion. To all who have
been baptized into the true faith OF
humanity and universal brotherhood,
the radiance OF its yet nascent glory
shone brightly along the vista Of age,
illuminating the dim pageantry Of
many a mighty triumph of science, art
and genius, in the progress, of amelio.
ration and elevation of our race. &c
MUS has no hope." All! oppressed,
Respondent sons OF a sunny cline
inheritors of a too ardent and enthusi-
astic devotion to freedom-erase that
unworthy tribute TO the powers of
darkness from your banners. Italia
unita" shall yet be realized, for the
cradle which nursed the arts of civil.
cation is even now rocking with the
young giant of liberty, and his strug.
giles with the yoke of tyranny and the
armed heel of despotism shall be but
the gymnasium in which to nerve
himself for that glorious final strug.
gle, whose events are so rapidly cast.
ing out their scintillations from the
general gloom. which, for the present.
curtains his restless slumbers.
We confess our inability to give ex.
preston to the big thoughts which
crowded our imagination, as that
mighty allegory passed before us, rep
resenting the events OF all time upon
its grand tableaux. As II inaugurated
the humiliation OF space In the event
It concentrated, II presented sub
jects too mighty for human thought to
grasp in all their boundless influence
upon the destiny of our race, and open.
of the grandeur of these scenes OF
which we are permitted to see but the
shadowy outlines. and which we are
now but roughly sketching under the
guidance of that All-Wise Hand, Who
is pledged ultimately to bring all
things into harmony with His own glo.
rious perfection.
The ovation was complete. II took
up the idea where language fails in de-
lineation. II was the expression of the
vague, indefinite longings of humani.
ty, due homage TO its noblest cham
pions and its worthiest advocates.
From the Red Cross Knights, who re-
called the first conflicts of incipient
civilization with regnant barbarism--
through the antiquated juvenility, In
which the Knickerbockers typified the
era of burgomasters and the rising
commercial spirit of our Empire City,
reminding us Of another triumph over
commercial restrictions and colonial
lmposts-to the display of modern in.
dustry and the living exhibition Of
brows expressed the hopeful present,
and literally exemplified that golden
age in the future, whose advent has
called for the glowing numbers Of the
heather barred-the inspired prophecy
OF the Jewish seer, when the COW and
bear shall lie down together-in the
very drolleries of the spectacle, even
In the grotesque and mirth-exciting ex.
hibition of Father Adam and his nurs-
inc family-it had its moral; it was
complete illustration.
II It be permitted to the spirits of
the mighty dead, the great and good,
the apostles of liberty, the wise philan.
thropist, the humble toiler in search OF
the principles of truth and utility to
our race-to look down upon the
events OF EARTH with what exulting
Joy must these spirits of all ages,
climes and races, have witnessed the
general jubilee! The Grecian sage
and philosopher, the Roman orator,
saw re.enacted the spectacles of the
ancient world. The rude, yet mighty,
genius OF free but barbaric Europe,
saw the fruits of that wisdom, which
decreed to a more energetic race the
Inauguration Of a more progressive civ.
illzation, while the Martyrs, Heroes