The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-13

carving out this idea it is simply
because of his kindness. l have known
the doctor a long time. I-have been
permitted to preside over the Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce for about ten years. 1t is the
committee which has the inceptiVe
with reference to all matters apper-
tanning to his bureau. L might say
here that the General never came to
US with any proposition, personal to
himself his rank or his pay, all of that
he 'has left TO others. The subjects
that have engaged his attention have
been for the public veal. L know
something OF the persistency with
which he adheres to every purpose
looking to the common benefit If the
doctor ever came TO Us with the same
persistency in personal matters that he
does with matters for the public
would say he would be a ID bore.
Gaughter) When he came to me
with this bill. and told me it was for
the public welfare, 1 did everything I
could to get rid of the bill. That is the
secret history of the measure. Cap
pIause and laughter).
Il am glad of the opportunity the
doctor has. Everything he has done
in the past dozen years L have known
him has been for the public interests
and has been we'll done. When he
takes hold OF a matter there is as
surance of success. I anticipate that
infinite good viii come from this move
ment and that those thousand and
more unfortunates on Molokai, beyond
the power of description by me, for
when man loses hope, and when all
the good he can think lies behind him,
he is deplorable indeed, and if there is
any way TO lift this cloud, it will in
deed be a benefit TO mankind. 1 hope,
for those thousand people, there will
be future for them and that hope will
fllumine them.
Il want TO say to you all how
grateful 1 am for courtesies received.
Every moment 1 have been on this
beautiful island has been a pleasurable
one. 1 have but one single thought
that gives me discomfort-my absolute
inability to get along with a language
that has only eleven or twelve letter.
in it.
You have a beautiful city, and what
pleases me most is that it is an Amer
lean city. You will still find many
cities in California, New Mexico Ari-
IONA, Colorado, Florida and Louisiana
that are not as Americanized as this
little city here and 1 am glad to know
it. There is a great chance of this
American nation of ours being a great !
people if we can only have time, and |
there is a great possibility ahead for
these little islands. No other spot that |
my eye has ever rested on has more
beauty than the scene from the top of |
your mountain behind us (Tantalus)- |
The view is incomparab BILE but that
landscape is no more beautiful than
your climate or the spirit of American |
ism.
1T seems that all Americans are in |
tent in pushing our nation forward all
the time until we take our place, not |
among the nations, but the first of all
the world powers. That is our place
in the march in the column of the
great states.
We hear a >great deal said in these
days of what is to be the future of the
East: we hear what is said about the
Yellow Peril and we hear about the
open door. and whether there is to be
an open door in this dark continent to
your westward. All eyes have turned
that way. That is the goal that is to
give us the richest trade.
Are we going to submit to having !
any doors closed in our faces? Surely .
not 100000 of Americans will say
No when that proposition is made, !
and 100000. 100000 of wealth win say :,
No Every energy and every exer
ton of a people that have never been
thwarted will be made to keep open all
these DOORS
Among other speakers We're Hon W.
O. Smith, DR.. c B. Cooper. Hon. H. E.
Cooper, Hon. Alexander Young. w. C.
Irwin, Hon. y. 5. Cleghorn. Prince
KalanianaoIe, Samuel Parker, George
W. Smith Dr. W. II. Mays, c. NJ.
Cooke. and DR.. L. f. Golfer.