The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-23

many more will in the future When
the Spanish war broke out men re-
sponded from Honolulu. Lawyers and
doctors and men with large incomes
from the East were all ready to back
the country and the flag. The first to
lose his life on Cuban soil was boy
from Georgia, whose father wore the
grey.
AT the battle of Shiloh, when Grants
army was shattered and broken, he
left a handful of men to hold the
Bloody Angle while ne retreated to
form again line of battle. The grey
line charged again and again only to
fall back as their front rank was leveled
by the fire from the Angle" The de-
tenders, then few in number, We're
finally caught in a grey wave that
swept over the breastworixs and Com
rade Francis found himself surround
ed on all sides by the Johnnies, who
cried, Surrender" Not by a DANCED
sight said he, as he threw away ev-
erything and started on the run for
Grants headquarters.
Now he could not beat an ice wagon.
But one strong wing of the Grand
Army of the Republic is seldom men
tioned-the loyal women of the North
that sustained and suffered in silence.
Sweethearts said. Co wives chung
weeping to the departing soldier, and
still said, 60" / was the only son
of widowed mother, and when L said
I wanted to go to the front she said,
GO. do your duty. and I will pray for
your return and l do believe you will
come back" When the bees sang close
to the ear and the shrieking shells burst
xx-if Of IL; in,
sight, my legs wanted to take my body
back to a safe place, but a still small
voice said, DO your duty, my boy"
am not a fatalist, but if I did my
duty, L believe would go back
to the little woman who was praying
for my return. Such women did the
greater part to give US one country and
one fag.
The last toast of the evening. "Tlle
President of the United States.'' was
responded to in a rousing speech by
Hon. Sanford B. Dole. He began by
thanking the members of the Grand
Army in the name of the President
and the United States government
which he represents for their heroic
sacrifice made that the Union might be
preserved. In speaking of the Presi-
dent he praised him for his action to-
ward the negro, speaking in substance
as follows: After the freeing of the
negro, an act which carried out to the
full the statement of the Declaration
of independence that all men are Great
ed equal Congress did it's best to carry
out this idea by the passage of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to
the Constitution and the enforcement
of the rights of citizens irrespective of
color by appropriate legislation. Since
that time some of the Southern States
have restricted the rights of the black
man. Where his rights as a citizen
have been admitted still there has been
a social line drawn hard and fast
President Roosevelt has been great
enough to disregard this prejudice and
invited a great man of the black race
to his table. He has brought down
upon his head storm of criticism yet
we should all honor him for being large
enough TO recognize that in the eyes
of American law the negro is true
citizen and a man for all his color as
Burns, sang; "A Mans Man For a
That. .
In addition to the members of the
post there were present Judge Sanford
B. Dole. Z. S. District Attorney Brock
ons, L. S. Marshal E. r. Hendry, a
number of ladies. and after the Pacific
Rebecca Lodge had closed its meeting in
another part of the building. they also
were in attendance and assisted in
making the affair very pleasing social
gathering.