The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-22
THE MERCHANTS MEET
IN ANNUAL BANQUET.
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began shooting at everybody else. As
/ went on deck somebody caught me by
the sleeve and voice said, I say.
mister That surprised me little.
Uaughter.) L looked around and here
was that great big fighter of man
from up about Detroit, and 1 said,
What is it. my friend?' He said,
I came here to fight and I want to
fight, but don't know where TO go to.
1 said, Where is your station" and he
said, In the aft eight inch port turret.'
1 said then, Here it is alongside YOU
He said, I see 1t is, but how the hell
do you get into it?' prolonged laugh
ter) You see we have to have these
chaps long enough to teach them these
things before the fight begins.
Gentlemen, 1t is great honor to
me to have brought into this beautiful
harbor the largest fleet that has cross
ed the Pacific. If 1t is any benefit to
| you in a commercial way / am very
glad. I am sure the navy will always
be glad of any benefits that can be
conferred upon the hospitable people Of
these islands (applause), and in con-
clusion, gentlemen, l want to say just
one word about what 1 have seen our
friends in the army do lately. There
has been a good deal of talk about the
water cure in the Philippines; l thank
| the Lord that 1t was not left to me
to decide how many of those fellows
had to take the water cure. However
1 am not soldier and 1 am not in
that line of business. / did however go
on a short trip with General Sumner in
the island of Mindanao, where 1 saw
sugar cane that grew twenty feet high
without cultivation and l saw there n
sight that would gladden. the heart of
| every true Americana little band of
soldiers, infantry, cavalry and artillery
in an open camp on the top of this
beautiful island and sixty thousand
savage Moros around them, and two
thousand of those Yankee chaps as
hard as nails, facing this multitude of
sixty thousand and saying to them,
Just step over that line, and If you
want to fight you will get it, and when
the time came and they did step over
the line they got tin the neck.
Now, gentlemen, don't worry about
the navy, because we are all right; you
give us the men and the guns and 1
think we will take care of it," (Pro-
longed applause)
THE COUNTY,. A. GILMAN.
Supervisor-elec. ]. A. Gilman spoke
to the toast THE County,"
He said Act 81 as passed by the leg
islature of 1903 and known as the Coun-
ty Act gives us new government and
is step towards departing from the
centralized government which we have,
thereby giving the voters a voice as
to by whom and how the internal
government shall be run. Local self
government, so that the people have
the electing of supervisors and officers,
is a principle held and loved and cher
, ished by Americans, and we are all
Americans. 1t now remains for the
supervisors and the officers to launch
I this new form of government and they
will endeavor to do so, so that it will
be all to the credit of county govern
ment, under which we are to live.
cannot boast of achievements made
by this county yet, for it is too early
in the game, but 1 do say that it will
be the endeavor of the supervisors and
the officers OF this county to carry on
its affairs in a business-like manner
and to prove there was no mistake
when the management of the govern
ment affairs was placed in the hands
of those representing the party that
stands for economy and honest admin
istration.
II only hope that the, government,
the new county government, will man
age its affairs as successfully as the
Territorial government has managed
the affairs which are now going from
under their control" (Applause.)
CHAMBER OF CoMMERCE-MR.
TENNEY.
Mr. E. D. Tenney responded to the
toast THE Chamber Of Commerce." as
follows:
Mr. President and members of the
Merchants Association: This morning
l received a note from your secretary
informing me that l was expected to
make a brief response this evening to
the toast, 1.-THE Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce"
I am not born orator like your
esteemed chairman nor surcharged
with hot air" as is your able toast
master consequently my remarks will
necessarily be brief
The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce |
was organized under charter granted
~ iSSoiotch Va NhdJeSty, the fNlHS
of Hawaii, in Privy Council, on the |
25th day OF August 1888. It's first |
president was the Hon. Charles r. |
Bishop and embraced in it's member
ship all OF the large commercial firms |
then existing In Honolulu, which is |
also the case today.
1t has always been conservative in |
action and perhaps slow to arouse at |
times, but that 1t has always been a |
tremendous force in the upbuilding of |
the commercial prosperity OF this coun-
try and the maintenance of good gov
eminent nobody can deny.
AS the mercantile community grew
and expanded, a sentiment was grad
ually aroused to the effect that the
Chamber of Commerce was too con-
servative, that only the larger COM
mercial interests We're served and rep
resented by it, and that enough con-
sideration was not given to questions
vital to the upbuildng OF smaller in
dustries and devising means of in
creasing general trade in ways not
Immediately allied with our one great
industry, the production of sugar