The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-07-04
STATESMEN IN LIVELY
TILT OVER BANQUET BOARD

right to the pursuit of happiness, en-
bodying as it does the right to make
TO control labor, EN-
bodying as 1t does the right to select
ones own employers and the amount of
stipend and the duration OF the hours
for work? Are we going to say that
certain gentlemen who claim to be the
especial guardians of labor. shall de-
teimine and make it their right that
no American citizen without the card
of some union and who pays tribute in
the form of a tax to a labor organiza-
ton, shall work?
THAT is what we have to determine.
Washington had no question like that
TO determine. No man has more respect
for labor than do. We all have. We
Americans have ceased to regard labor
that is done with the sweat of the
brow as a curse. No one believes it,
On the contrary, we believe that 1t is
labor that lifts men up 1t is labor
that converts the wilderness into
proud imperial commonwealth; 1t Is
labor that delves down into the ground
and converts 1t into that most useful
thing necessary to man; 1t is labor that
constructs the steel ships that traverse
the oceans and show that oceans do not
separate but unite continents. 1t makes
it possible for men to rise to the high
est attitudes of life.
II have been a laborer all my life.
1 am a mechanic. learned my trade.
for my parents were poor. ALI my SYM
pathies are with those who have to
toll. but 1 am not willing to believe
that We are ready to overturn the in
situations of our fathers or to re-write
the constitution, or permit a self-elected
tribune to dictate as TO the rights of
the citizens.
I'VE have our questions of foreign
interests. What are our relations to
be to Westward Shall 1t be the open
door? Every one will say Yes Shall
| 1t be the release of the hold we have
in the Orient? l have no doubt that the
wise merchant that is looking forward
to engage in great enterprises looks to
the East. We have the advantage of
being this far toward the Orient. Shall
we hold on to what we have, or shall
we conclude that our interests are con-
centrated only on the continent, and
that interests insular are something
beyond the spirit of the Constitution?
have never been much in favor of the
colonial system, but AM IN FAVOR
OF HOLDING ON TO EVERY FOOT
OF SolL Thai THE AMERICAN
FLAG HAS EVER BEEN FhhMII-
TED TO FLOAT OVERT! (Prolonged
applause).
The speaker then referred TO the Louis
lana Purchase. He did not regard It's
acquisition as accident. He did not be-
lieVe that man was born or died by
accident. There was divine guidance
to all things He said he would not
have favorehthe Mexican war had he
been permitted to have been an actor
in the events of those days, and he was
glad that he had not been, for that war
rounded out the limits of the United
States.
AS to the President, Col. Hepburn
said that no man has before had such
Questions to deal with as he.
'If there are times when, in your
minds you think he has made mis-
takes" he continued. remember that
he is not a sage in years at least.
TENNEy WEI COMES
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welcome ny 'he coiiiii'erciai DUTIES VI
fiohoiulu 10 our guest tne ooiil'i,is'
sroner Geherai Vi iiiiiii'sra'ioh VI 'he
oniteu states.
II ID seldom .hat 'he people ol THESE
isiai,os' isoia'eo as we are from ,he
poii.ies ana coiiipiicatiolis Oh Tue NAM
ia.o' nave an OPPORTUNITY 10 gree. 'host
VINO nave 70 40 WIN .he ihahins "
.he laws Oh 'he ohiteu states ana .ns
neaus ., .ne uepaI ,iiiei's Mhose uu'y 4
10 administer 'nose laws
we weiconhe such men. ana WE
earnestly nope mat 'he social INDUS
.riai ana commercial conditions OF thes'
isiailus WIN become as known TO 'hen
as are 'he cohuitioiis when exist II
.heir own states anu ierri'ories OF oi
me ihaiiii''iio III sehera,'
ANY man VINO mas calmly studied al
'he Narieu phases ol our lsianu ii'
..'iiiot pe pu, impressed with 'he rae