The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-03
HONOLULU CELEBRATES
CABLE DAY,
Continued from Page 81

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to the music and remarks and looked
around me and said, This is historic
ground All types of revolution have
taken place within the shadow of these
walls, but no revolution of such i'm
portance as that which we are cele-
brating today.
''You ask me what are the great
events in the history of these Islands?
Cook; although when I was on the
Island of Hawaii I saw a sign there,
More cooks wanted daughter and
applause.) Today I say that more
Mackays are wanted. But what start
ed out to say-what are the chief
events in the history OF these Islands,
which are in perpetual summer, and
where there is no snow, no ice, no win
ter. To me, these are Of greater inter-
est than reading today in Honolulu in
your newspapers, washington, Janu-
airy g." Well, as 1 said before, the first
was the landing Of Captain Cook; sec
ond, the coming OF the missionaries;
third, the installation Of that old flag
(pointing to that over the Capitol
building) over Hawaii; fourth, the
cable; fifth, may be the Panama canal.
These events have been OF moment to
Vail, anu IOO0y We olC OSACbAo SiAS
one of them.
cit was knowledge that sent Cook
around the world to find these Islands;
1t was love that brought the mission
aries to these little Islands; 1t was the
spirit OF freedom which planted the
dear old flag here, and science which
brings the cable to these shores on this
momentous day.
"I was thinking today that here I am
treading upon sod, and that sod rests
on coral, and when l go out into the
harbor find it inclosed in a coral reef.
tt was formed by the coming and going
of animated corals. Millions came and
laid down their lives to upbuild these
Islands in the bosom Of the Pacific.
said to myself, these little corals have
not lived in vain. There was some pur-
pose formed during the long billions OF
wears that they were patiently build
ing. and then they were washed over
by the volcanoes, giving you soil upon
which is grown sugar to sweeten the
world. (Applause)
what is your purpose and mine
upon the earth? Are we corals? NO!
When we come to die there is nothing
left of us in time. 1 say, then, 1t Is
nothing which has to do with mat
fer. that has to do with the purpose
1ectraJ advancement Moral and intel
IectuaI advancement is the end and
purpose of your existence and mine.
and in the brief space OF the passing
Of a shuttle we pass away. How many
mon have come and gone, and what
have we to show for the fact that they
once existed? We have the ambition
and desire in which we are trying to
reach higher individuality, and trying,
ON the moral side, to get a conception
Of Justice and mercy and a Christlike
life for all mankind. That is the great
end and object Of the existence OF man
CABLE BRINGS GOOD WILL.
ssBut we are not here today to cele-
brate moral intelligence, but l believe
the cable comes with the old spirit or
neace on earth and good will toward
man. CApplause.) But we are here 10
celebrate one OF the events in the IN
teIlectual development of mankind on
the scientific side of the animal man.
II has been very slow-the evolution OF
intellectual desires, and We wonder
why we have been so slow. You go to
work and look at the primitive days
of some ueople and see how crude it is,
and 90 back and find out how crude
we were Just a few years ago. 1t was
only 400 years ago that we all thought
that the world was as fat as the plat
form on which I standing. What were
we doing all the time previous to the
time of Columbus? What was man be-
fore that that he could not tell the
contour of the ball of mud on which we
are living. I am not throwing stones