The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-02
WORDS
BY HIGHTON

THE Imagination may soar to its ut
most limit and yet the full measure OF
the scene will be untold. The cable in
struments silently recording the terse
eloquence of a new era through the Ia
bors and under the direction of strong,
trained and experienced men, in every
department of the enterprise from it's
inception. who are covered with the
honors of a realized dream, closes one
of the finest stanZas in the epic of ac-
ton. Through the eternal harmCnieS,
God has again spoken to His crea-
lures. The invisible force, that is the
nearest symbol of life, has once more
struck the note of universal brother
hood and everywhere 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 imme-
diately felt, but that it may take years
to perfect. The spectacle however, is
vastly more, for ii includes the addi-
tion 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 Francis
co, 1 Witnessed the celebration over the
completion of the first Atlantic cable.
And now after forty-four teeming
years, still higher and in more exquisite
strains does the paean of resurrected
mankind arise, and nowhere more
grandly than from these Islands of the
Blessed, with their emerald setting and
their towering attitudes, which point
towards our final home.
The cable means the extension Of
freedom, law, order, enterprise, intelli-
gence. 1t means the obliteratiOn of the
narroWness, the weakness, the person.
alities of provincialsm. 1t means de-
finiteness. resolution, judgment. 1t
means cosmopolitanism, broad. controls
ling, aspiring, resting on settled prin-
ciples and scattering to the winds the
plucked feathers of pretentions nonen-
tity. 1t means that spirituality will be
extracted from the right use of ma
erialism.
LAS the scale of being rises, the
world grows better. In this era, at
least, the living century is always an
Improvement upon the dead. Good and
evil, light and darkness, storm and
calm, all contrasts and opposites, are
only conditions through whose strug-
giles and conflicts, with many an ap-
parent break, and many an apparent
relapse, man ceaselesslY forces his way
towards the shadOwless future.
"Intercommunication between men
and communities is the solvent of mys-
terry and of difficulty. 1t bathes the
world with immortal hueS. 1t aids sig
niticantly in adjusting uhe relations Of
Labor and Of Capital, born from the
same womb. twins that should be and
will be Intimately and indissolubly all
MCS The spirit of association, of COM
bination, possesses the wider spaces of
the earth, and the most intricate prob
lem of the Twentieth Century Is to pre-
serve individualism, to ripen personal
character, and at the same time to har-
monize the classes-to reconcile the lib
erty and the integrity of the Individual
soul with the safety and the sound
ness of national eXiStence-to produce
the highest man, the perfect citizen-to
secure genuine equality, not in condi-
tion, or influence, which is impractical
BILE, but in opportunity, equality before
the law that protects society and its
units, the family and its members, and
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