The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-05
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Mr.. Young delivered an impromptu ad-
dress, full of patriotism, his sentences
frequently punctuated by applause. He
said in part:
COMMANDER YOUNG'S ADDRESS.
81 am delighted to know that that
sun which now almost blinds my eyes
as 1 speak to you, never sets upon the
influence of the United States. CAP
plause). One hundred and twenty nine
years ago recorded the advent to the
world Of a nation that became a great
power. She has been the teacher from
that day to this. When the earliest set
tiers came from European countries
they did not come to establish a new
government, but came seeking homes in
the barren Wilderness, where they
might be safe from the oppression Of
monarchical forms of government, and
after they had lived there in their
peaceful homes for years they were still
pursued by the prosecutions of their
governments, and We're admired and
wondered at by their oppressors who
saw them building the monuments and
towers of the great temple of liberty
in the Wildernesses of the American
continent.
Their masters laid embargoes and
levied taxes without representation I'M
til 1875 when the colonists agreed
among themselves to form a confeder-
alton and they established a little gov
eminent that for twenty years was
kept between the Allegheny mountains
and the Atlantic seaboard, until that
far seeing statesman Thos. Jefferson in
1903, purchased the Louisiana territory
from France and extended an arm out
toward the Pacific coast. From 1912 to
1914 we had to fight the battles over
again. because we had still the oppres-
sion of the monarchical forms of gov
eminent which endeavored to impress
our sailors upon the high seas and they
tried to stop our commerce in the Car
ibbean Sea. We went along to 1918
when a far seeing power purchased the
Florida territory. When under an old
act of Spain, that nation harbored and
commissioned privateers to sink our
ships, Admiral Porter went into the
harbor of St Thomas and sunk a ship
and was dismissed for what I would
like to do today under similar circum-
stances if l had a commission from the
government in my hands to protect our
commerce.
after the Mexican war a naval Of
f1cer was sent around to California to
give instructions to Commodore Sloat
and he went into Monterey sixteen
hours before the English Admiral got
there intending to seize it by conces-
sion from the Mexican government.
Never, 1 am proud to, say, has the
United States ever added any territory
by force of arms, but by merely ask
ing you, DO you want to belong to our
fraternity?
1--WE have shown in the Spanish
American war that when we make a
pledge we keep it. We made a pledge
to Cuba saying to them they had the
right to be free, and President Roose-
welt carried it out to dot and had
the pleasure of being on duty there and
had a helping hand in turning their
government over to them.
Take the Philippines today. Show
me a government in the world that
ever before paid $40, 900, 900 for territory
after it had been captured.
..One day in Washington I heard a
about Hawaii. 1 was sent for
by Mckinley. He asked me something
about the Islands and I said they had
the loveliest people on earth. He said:
L am glad then to have them become
citizens of America and to give them
the franchise
II want to say that there is not
soul in the United States that don't
love you people down here. We will
stand by you. We are proud of you.
The ocean may roll between us, but as
you sung Hawaii Ponoi in the days
gone by, you sing today the Star Span
gled Banner with the same faith as
American citizens.
Il thank God for having been per-
mitted to be born on American soil, for
in time to come the Fourth of July
will be the anniversary of all liberty
loving people in the world
The address was concluded amid ap-
plause. The Ellis Glee Club then sang
the inspiring song, Uncle Sammy"
Judge Henry E. Highton was next
introduced as the orator of the day.
Mr.. Highton read his speech, which was
a fine tribute to the great American
nation and it's principles In his con-
GLIDING remarks he referred at length
to conditions in Hawaii. The address
was a masterful effort and was given
hearty applause.
JUDGE HIGHToN's ADDRESS.
Prior to the Civil War, the Fourth
IF July was largely devoted to a pro-
vincial type of patriotism that was ex-
lberant and almost rampant. The
name of the British lion was plucked
Ind it's tail twisted simultaneously in
20 many different ways that it's insular
of the process was it's /
,nly security for continued existence. /
rhe features of King George III. were |
esurrected into satanic combinations |
md confronted by the majestic face of |
George Washington. Blue streaks ris- |
ng towards the sky typified the welts ,
eft on the body of parliamentary
tyranny.
Now the days of brag and buster are /
ver. The development of the nation is
% great, and its standing among the
III.