The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-09
GOVERNOR GETS CORDIAL
RECEPTION ON KAUAI

/, zone of my duties is, that am your
servant. I am here in answer to any
public duty the people OF Kauai may
wish to impose. The door of the execu-
tive building is always open to you.
all citizens have rights and can be
heard. The government is not for the
benefit of the rich ard powerful alone
but for all of you, no one is so poor
and humble that he cannot reach the
highest or the lowest employe of the gov
eminent. am the servant of the peo-
pie and I expect every man under me
to do his duty and to serve the public.
will not stand for any man who tries
in any way to belitt1e the Hawaiian
people, A great deal has been said as
to whether the Hawaiian people are
fitted for self government. Our govern
ment is In a way an experiment. We
natives of the soil and those who have
come among us are being tried and
must not be found wanting.
my grandfather and father before
me We're public men in the islands and
feel that it is part of my work to show
that Hawaiians are capable and good
/ tempered, and that they know the diff
ference between right and wrong and
that they can make a. success III re-
publican form of government. / have
heard my father say in Washington
that the people of the islands are fully
fitted for self government, and I must
now use my influence, and work to
show what he said to be true. / feel
that if we make a failure of this, that
if we are unprincipled and only want
office for the money there is in it, that
my father was wrong and that 1 am
wrong, and no man likes to make fall
ure."
THE LEGISLATURE.
"a few months ago when the question
of our finances came up, everyone said
one legislature had been a failure and
they didn't want a special session. But
I felt somehow and had confidence that
the people would so urge their senators
and representatives that if we showed
them clearly what was needed we could
go ahead. The extra session was called
and the Hawaiian legislature demon
strated that it could attend to business
and it was success. 1t has been shown
that the Hawafians are able to govern
themselves and that as we look down
upon the future we can see a brighter
day ahead for Hawaii.
THE credit is not due to me- The
man who let's down the bars that let's
the team pass with lumber does not do
the work. It is the carpenter who
builds the house, and it was the legis-
lature which did the work that is en-
titled to the credit, not the man who
opened the gate to let them come in.
My work has only just begun. I'm
doubtedly I have made mistakes but I
want you to help, me and with your
help we can make the name Hawaii
respected and admired all over the
country and around the world. Tt is
the admiration of the world that our
people must attain and keep. I want
You to be something worth while, SO
that when my four years are up can
look back and feel satisfied that all our
labor has not been in vain, Cap
plause.)
ATKINSON ALSO SPEAKS.
Secretary Atkinson said: ST think
the country is saved when 1 see so
many children here. and such hand
some. bright. intelligent children. II
| is the children who viii arve out the
future of our Territory. perhaps state.
when they get control of things. / re-
member when Governor Carter used to
come up here and steal water1nelons,
for was with him. I am as much in
leIeSteu IN WnaI Governor Garter says
as you are. for don't know what is
coming either. When We We're on Ha-
wall he told the people about being the
servants OF the people and one cid Ha-
| wa1ian sgssss. - promptly and told him
! tha LIZ case % Azsfs her
and nails an6 Idii
| them right aAag
governor did when ~ ~
nolulu was To order that bids BE asiver-
tised for, for that schoolhouse. and / pc
iieve it is being built now. But that is