The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-04

! or a cemetery, or by the old sweet,
| simple Saxon phrase Gods Acre.
would not sufficiently express the snob-
bishness of mortuary exclusiveness.
| I wonder what opinion the Caucasian
/ theologist of the thirtieth century will
entertain respecting the religion of his
ancestors? If he visit one of our burial
places he will find marble figures OF
nymphs and Angels, he will see cruci-
fixes and Jupiters, Neptunes and Saint
Sebastians, Cecials and Junos, Mary
Magdalenes and Bellonas, mixed up in
NEUROLOGICAL and theological profusion,
and he will be in doubt whether Chris
tianity existed five centuries before the
birth of its author, or Pantheism sur
vived the settlement of the western
world.
It was in Glasgow that we bid fare
well to Scotland and to Europe. The
Anchor Line has among its fleet of
slow but sure steamers two fine boats.
We embarked on one of these one sum-
mer morning, and gliding down the
Clyde and across the channel fingered
over night at Neville Tough Foyle and
in nine days thereafter anchored off the
Quarantine at Staten Island.
We bring the shield of our republic
canism back to the new world, with no
tarnish upon it's fair face. no cleft in
it's perfect proportions. That there are
great faults in our American social and
political life it were vain to deny, but
they are the faults of generous and
outreaching civilization and We would
not change our country for any We
have seen beneath the sun.
do you really believe" said an Eng
lish gentleman to me, that every man
is the equal of every other?"
NO." reioined I, 'but I believe with
Abraham Lincoln, that every man
should have the right to be the equal
of every other man if he cam
And this one feature of America
equality of nity-distinguishes
it from the countries of the old world.
No wave of popular liberty that ever
swept over any part of Europe, has
been sufficiently powerful TO wash
away the ruts which have been deep
ening and hardening for centuries.
The republic of France differs in no
wise essentially from the empire OF
France. United Italy offers no greater
opportunities to the Tuscan or Neapo-
Titan peasant to outgrow his birth
marks than the Italy of Bomba and
Charles Albert. Republican Switzer-
land has it's social and political grooves
as irrevocably cut as though it owned
a monarch for it's executive, and If
great uprising should overthrow the
Crown and Peerage of Britain, the born
lackey would wait as of old behind the
masters chair the cordwainer touch
his hat to the cheesemonger, and the
retail linen draper bow to the importer.
We have seen something to love in
all the countries, and we carry away
none but pleasant memories of all peo-
pies. The hatred. which-away down
in his heart-almost every educated
Englishman feels for America, fails to
inspire a corresponding sentiment in
your own bosom. You wonder at it, are
a little amused at it. and account for it
upon the basis that he has no other
way to occupy his time. AS for your
self. you have something else to think
of. Ireland with her primrose bios
SONS and her luscious verdure COM
pleteIy captured our affections. and if
our own land We're biotted from ex-
istence, and we were required TO be
born again, and could select the spot,
we should choose Erin. not less for her
surprising physical beauty than for
her sympathetic, quick witted, great
hearted thrfftless. glorious people.
join in proclaiming the motto OF
Phoenix
Erin go unlm
z Pluribus bragh.