The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-07-07
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regulated and disciplined freedom,
which alone can foster civilization,
sound at its core and fairly clean on
its surface.
These points in human advancement
are emblazoned on that national his
tory, which is the Inheritance and the
possession of the American people.
Self governing and self-supporting men
and women, impelled by the law of al
truism more even than by the demands
of the body, self-governing and self
supporting counties and municipalities.
selfSgoverning and self supporting
States, mainly self governing and
mainly self-supporting territories, a
self-governing and self-supporting ma
ton, dedicated to the arts of peace but
prepared for the exigencies of war, are
the shining coruscation that the Amer
lean Union has placed before the eyes
of yearning humanity.
A QUICKENED NATIONAL CON-
SCIENCE.
And, IL there are blemishes on the
picture, they will be removed. While
] in this century, the pressure of busi-
ness activity and expansion, organized
and energetic in the extreme, Is enor-
nous and generates evil as well as
good, 1t is also true that there has been
and that there is, in the United States.
under the magnificent leadership of
President Roosevelt, an Impressive
awakening of the public conscience. No
real analogies to our national situation
can be derived from the decay and fall
of Greece and Rome. or from other
similar examples among the dead re-
publics and empires Of the past. To
them representative government was
unknown, and this fact alone estab-
fishes clear distinction. But there is
much more to be considered. The world
has wonderfully advanced and, apart
from race, ancient and modern condi-
lions are dissimilar. Education and
opportunity have raised the intellectual
level. and, while it is correct to say
that graduated criminals are most dam
gerous and that knowledge without
principle, might infect and destroy So
ciety. it is Inaccurate to infer that mem
l1al training, even without formalzed
moral teaching, has a lowering ten
Idency. The consolidated influence of
religion, without reference to non-es-
sentials, was never so penetrating or
effective as now, and 1t confronts ma
terialism and INSTRUMENTATION, IN the
home in the schools, in the UNIVERSE
ties, wherever thought and action
exist, with accommodating success. But,
Independently of this fact, a uniyers al
law neutralizes atheism, agnosticism
and inAdelity in their roots and
branches. Profound thinkers and writ
lers have lately proved that the facts
land even the inductions of the evolu-
tionists are not only consistent with
but are conclusive evidences of the
substantial doctrines of Christianity.
However, must not wander into an
, abstract theme. All desire to suggest
lis summed up in the proposition that
there is no feature of progress, moral,
intellectual or material, in which the
, United States has refrigerated or. TO
the contrary, in which it has not gone
forward and upward. Its institutions
I and it's civilization are today solemn
, warning to despotism, within and with
out it's own limits, whether manifested
. by industrial or capitalistic combina-
/ social or political institutions on the
other. American citizenship spans a
continent with the radiant arch OF
promise, the light of which is projected
into the farthest oceans and the dark
!, est lands. 1t is reaching towards and
approaching the finest ideals of per-
sonal and of collective life, and, not
sacrificing but maintaining and exalting
individualism, has already inaugurated
! and vitalized cosmopolitan fraternity.
THE MEANING TO HAWAII.
1t is into this colossal structure of
lofty thought and of noble action that
the Hawaiian Islands are now incorpor-
lated. What to us is the import of this
celebration? Do we fully comprehend
the inestimable blessings of indissol-
uble union with the American republic?
Are we ready and eager to seize and
utilize the advantages and the oppor-
tunities thus acquired? If so, what on
J this day of patriotic congratulation can
we resolve to do? These are questions
which each American citizen before me,
OF whatever race or origin, should
answer for himself.
area, but it is great in its relation to
the visible future, already clearly out
) lined in the Pacific and in the Orient.
in it's Incompatible climate, in its al
Turing attractions, in its fertility, long
demonstrated, but, in large spaces
Awaiting the magical touch of labor.
Grandeur and loneliness are at once
contrasted and united in its scenery
There towering peaks rise above the
Iglowing intensity, the smoulderlng
|, LENDERS on the cold ashes of creative
!. fires, and challenge the majesty Of the
skies. Here the soft lines Of the closer
ranges appeal with mystical tenderness
TO the responsive soul. The whole
, Landscape. near and far. is yelled by
spiritual beauty, through which the
Eternal touches the heart and inspires
the mind. The exquisite color blend
ings. from the richest purple TO the
softest and rapidly changing grays.
J harmonic with the alternating music