The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-05-05

life is not promoted by wealth or lux
ury.
! The American Republic from the be-
ginning slowly grew to its present po-
sition as world power, solely by rea-
son of our foreign immigration, COM
posed mainly of workers and Of men
who could and did become American
citizens And these same people help
ed to gain American independence, to
create the republic and establish a lib
eral government here. The great
American nation was the poor mans
country, and this territory Is such to-
day. although so many rich people live
here. 1t is the home for toiers and
these same toilers can make this ter
ritory prosperous and share in it's
prosperity, by their labor and unfailing
good citizenship. AS their numbers
multiply. they create home market
for home productions. There has been
constant and endless flow of immi-
grants into the United States and
many of the poor who came to toll be-
came rich and prosperous.
THE NEED OF CITIZENS.
1t is doubtless true that all Ameri-
can immigration whether to the MAIN
land or coming here Is composed largely
of a mixture of nationalities but hap
PLY, our constitution makes all people
born in the United States American
citizens. This is upon the theory that
child born here will grow UP with an
abiding attachment to the country of
its birth. Immigrants came to the
United States originally because they
could do better here than elsewhere
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them, they became attached to the
country. They observed that the peo-
pie here voted for their own rulers;
that they had free schools and enjoy
ed religious and civil liberty. They
learned that the people of the United
States are alone responsible for the
character of the civiliZat ton and for the
character of the government, and very
soon they adopted American ways and
became interested in American politics.
1t was then but step towards pride in
the great country of their adoption
and will to aid in making it prosper
Gus. These American strangers always
vote. They want to know more Of
the principles of our free government
by actual experience. The foreign i'm
migrants thus represent one of the
best elements of American citizenship
as they easily learn the value of the
elective franchise, and they possess our
chief capital, labor They are the
workers and producers Of the nation
and together with our native born
American workers, they are the bone
and sinew of the country and in time |
they will become the brains of the |
country.
FREE LABOR A NECESSITY.
1t will be seen that the United States
government was builded upon the |
foundation of free labor and on an
unlimited American citizenship. The
American people possessed not only the
industry but the genius of American
progress. They cultivated the arts and
sciences; they were inventors; they es
tablished the American system of free
public schools, colleges and universities.
They soon found among their numbers,
men of rare attainments who became
teachers. 1t was an American who in
vented the steamboat, the cotton gin,
the telegraph and the telephone. And
it was Americans who first invented
most of the labor saving agricultural
implements America thus became
a new fand broad field for the genius
Of the world to experiment in. Indeed
the genius of the world seemed to
come to America. Here mems brains
as well as their muscles were busy. In
every form of labor thus early we found
a new opportunity f5r~WStion. The
natural resources of this new land were
so eXhaustless that all men who We're
willing to work discovered something
% do. The fact that all men who We're
able to become American citizens be-
'ame such and that all American citi-
.ens were part of the government
made the United States peculiarly at
ractve to all peoples All men We're
hus free and equal in the commence
nent; all men had an even start The
asst generation of men Sowed the ma
ional seed which formed the harvest
or the next generation and today the
United States is the most prosperous
nation on the earth, made SO entirely
)y the people who live here. Our
athers early learned it was labor that :
made n nation great; that labor, la
'or, work was prayer"
MEN MORE THAN CLIMATE.
1t IS plain to be seen that it is men ,
more than the soil or climate that $
makes a state great. To succeed the ,
of state in the Union ,
hould be American citizens; they s
hould belong to the thinking and the !
working classes. They should know /
great deal about free government and /
axe an active part in it; and the more t
intelligent they are the better workers 6
hey are and the better citizens they ,
viii become. You young men hold the I
uture of this territory in your keep c
ng and You must bear in mind that 4
ood morals and good government go a
md In, hn, -, ~,
ot have the other. Do not conclude a
hat it is dishonorable to figure act
vely in American politics. 1t is the
uty of American citizenship to do this.
he future of our country depends on y
IS honest politics whether represented l
y the poor or the rich. 1t is good
ieas Joined with muscle which makes :
he man and makes the state in Re- :
ublic.