The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-01-06

ptsrl 0itn<os~1 the erf~hratiHn
wee the cofuplrslsn ~ the nrai Atlsn,ie
'abls On the crowded streets. ! sac
he moving panorama that pictured. IN
ts successive phases the tfiumphs ~
iisine energy. rescUlnk mankind from
the thfaldom ~ Ignorance tnrpidiy
md vice. l listened d the higher Ian
suagc u music as. ia majestic anthems
Ind with Instrumental unison. u iiftcd
The muititpics towards the ideaL 4
heard the blended melody and power OF
a great orator--of that kindred stock
v hitch duplicates our own conquests OF
time and space-as he condensed the
feelings and ambitions Of the hour into
nm Incompatible appreciation OF the
Century.
And now, after forty-four teeming
years. SIN higher and In more exquisite
strains does the paean OF resurrected
arise. and nowhere more
than from these Islands OF the
blessed. with their emerald setting and
their towering attitudes. which point
towards our final home.
For nineteen hundred years. the mes
sage from bethlehem has gradually but
surely electrified individuals communi- I
ties. nations, races. With all its gath
cred and resistless force 1t now repeats
Itself on these shores and new year
finds US vitality Joined to the throbbing |
breast OF the highest civilization. Under
the deep and restless sea that AT once
divides and connects the aggressive
West and the awakening East. the
slender wire has been placed that unites
us inseparably to thought. to action. to
aspiration. to oil the finest elements of
progress.
The cable means the extension OF
freedom. law. order. enterprise, intel
ligence. II means the obliteration OF
the narrowness. the weakness, the per-
sonalities. of provincialism. 1t means
defniteness. resolution. judgment. 1t
means the further promotion OF the
family OF man. 1t means the welding OF
discordant heterogeneousness into
peaceful unity. 1t means cosmopolitan
ism. broad, controlling. aspiring. resting
on settled principles and scattering to
the winds the plucked feathers OF pre-
tentious nonentity. 1t means that
spirituality will be extracted from the
right use of materialism.
AS the scale of being rises. the world
grows better,-in this era. at least. the
living century is always an improve
ment upon the dead. Good and evil.
light and darkness. storm and calm.
all contrasts and opposites. are only
through whose struggles and
conflicts. with many an apparent break.
and many an apparent relapse. man
ceaselessly forces his way towards the
shadowless future.
The commercial spirit has been I'M
justly derided. Commerce and fraterni-
ty have ever walked together. They
are the landmarks Of religion. They
bring to the masses. not alone the COM
forts and even the Injuries that supply
their growing demands, but the glowing
ideals of which peace and love are tho
ministers. They penetrate unknown
lands and unknown seas. They carry
to the very centers Of barbarism or
(petrifaction the seeds Of growth and en-
lightenment. They spin and radiate
the cords that bind together human
breasts. The masters of trade. OF man
ufacture and OF finance are the patrons
Of art. Of science. Of philosophy. Of edu-
cation and OF morality. And industry.
aids In raising and Identifying the
common level.
INSTRUMENTATION between men and
communities is the solvent OF mystery
and of difficulty. 1t bathes the world
with immortal hues. 1t aids significant
| ly in adjusting the relations OF labor
and of capital. born from the same
| womb, twins that should be and will be
intimately and indissolubly allied. The
spirit of association, OF combination
possesses the wider spaces of the earth
and the most intricate problem of the
| Twentieth Century is to preserve in
dividualism, to ripen personal charac-
| ter, and at the same time to harmonic
| the classes-to reconcile the liberty and
the integrity of the individual soul with
the safety and the soundness OF ma
| tional existence-to produce the highest
man, the perfect citiZen-to secure gen
uine equality, not in condition or In
! fluence, which Is impracticable, but In
opportunity. equality before the Law
that protects society and it's units, the
family and its members, and equality
before that deeper law that touches the
conscience and holds effort to It's un.
changeable moral anchorage.
The law of unselfshness, the law OF
brotherhood, of which developed and In
structed man is alike the product and
the seer. are the safeguards of the null
titudes, and, when the willing mind
supersedes compulsion and these laws
are spontaneously obeyed, the standard
of American institutions. resting upon
personal sovereignty within the limits
of the Moral Code. will be attained and
INDICATED, and our National Flag, dedi-
Gated to Liberty and Union. one and
inseparable." will be the stainless en-
blem OF purified self-government.
Each man shall find his own In al
mems good.
And all men work In noble brother
hood"
1t has been fallaciously said that the
globe shrinks in size as the means OF
rapid communication are extended. The
practical humiliation of distance Is the
motor OF intellectual expansion. The
invisible tie that brings races. nations
and individuals into contact. enlarges
\ the scope and power of nature, lifts