The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-07-07

ZION was ultimately QeCrteu. a
Declaration OF Right was mu'gated.
Improved constitutions followed each
other. The whole machinery OF civil
ization was introduced and set in mo-
ton. Freedom, entrenched In law, was
fortified also by education and religion.
American influence predominated and
secured native cooperation. Through
successive developments the inevitable
end was reached and annexation COM
pleted the work. which had been con-
densed into three-quarters of a GEN.
fury.
ALL ARE AMERICANS.
This Is a unique record. Now, fell
low citizens of the Hawaiian race and
OF all other extractions, we are Ameri-
cans and are engaged in the celebration
of an American anniversary, which
brings to US realizing sense of what
we are and of what lies directly before
US. Here is an inspiration for present
duty. Let not the past, in its nobler
aspects, be forgotten. The man who dis
cards his ancestors is a renegade. A
citizen of Irish origin remembers with
enthusiasm the kings and the priests of
his native land. A Scotchman from the
Highlands quiverswith excitement when
he listens to the story of the Scottish
Chiefs or Of Bonnie Prince Charlie"
An English citizen glows with pride
over the recitals of great events in
! English history. Let the Hawaiians
also recall their past. Let them
cherish their former Queen, whose
sceptre has been dropped, but who is
still dear to the Hawaiian heart. Let
them respect and love the living de-
scendants of their departed chiefs and
sovereigns. Let them affectionately
recall their traditions, their customs,
their usages. which are untinged with
bitterness and are not Identified with
Paganism or violence. Let their kind
ly, impulsive. generous natures have
their full vent and be subjected to no
undue repression.
DUTIES WE OWE OURSELVES.
But there are things to be forgotten,
there are things to be realized. there
are things to be done, IL Hawaii is to
take its true position among American
communities. All former conditions
and origins are merged In the living
present. The subtle charm of memory
may be INDUCED, but the practical
situation of today is to be accepted.
ASSIMILATION is the high road to pros
perity. Americanization is Hawaiian
destiny Self-government has been
fairly introduced, and that means
American self-government The para.
mount rank in our population is held by
American citizens. Heterogeneousness
is to be superseded by cosmopolitanism.
We must rise to the true dignity and to
the true obligations of citizenship. An
lcient feuds, transmitted prejudices,
should be swept into oblivion. Glass
distinction or class dominancy, If 1t
exists, should be checked. Petty strifes,
trivial scandals, should disappear.
Parties, not factions, are the guard
ians Of liberty and order. and political
antagonism should turn on principle
and not upon the lust for office. Pro-
ductive labor is the American test and
proof of manhood. Workers and not
drones are needed in the Hawaiian
hive, and effective public opinion, ard
ing for territorial development and ig-
lnoring factional controversies should
open the door to American immi-
grants, as well as to Industrious and
respectable, but not pauperized OF
vicious. foreigners. Lands, unavail-
able for plantations and suitable for
agriculture. should be divided into
small farms. Labor questions should
be considered and wisely resolved and
united influence brought to bear on
Congress to meet all our needs, which
include the defense of this naval CEN
ter, now virtually unprotected, as well
as supply of suitable plantation
)aborers. Mongolian citizenship or
competition in skilled trades or occu-
patons, should be sternly interdicted.
IN CONCLUSION.
Government, rightly understood, in
all it's departments. Ia an Instrumental
ity for the performance of official bust
lress, with official regularity and sys-
tenn. 1t should be respected and sus-
tanned by all intelligent citizens, and
not converted into a moving panorama
lof alternating personalities. Public
offices are public trusts and. while
eterildl vigilance is the price OF libef-
tyr the incumbents of public Offices
should not live under constant sus-
picion and should be judged by results
and not be subjected to daily and
spectacular Investigations.
These are some of the propositions
that occur to my mind as relevant To
this occasion, locally applied. Some OF
them involve questions already part
ly solved. All of them, tentatively
suggested, are perhaps worthy of some
Earnest attention, at least to the extent
that they have just application. The
combined vitality OF nation is the
sum of the contributed vitality of its
divisions and subdivisions. Each part
laffects the whole and the whole affects
each part. A large national life OBJ
literates or at least mobiles obstruc-
tions to advancement and prosperity.
If practical lesson can be derived
from the day We celebrate, 1t is that,
while the strength, the ambition, the
glory of this Republic. are poured into
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