The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18

dices which many others have, because
You have been brought up under condi
tions peculiarly favorable for breadth
of mind and of heart You have been
in touch with the East and West, and
with northern and southern lands. You
IN these little islands are IN touch with
the great world as few boys and girls
are. You have had the best civilizino
influences and at the same time You are
not ignorant of the hindranees to the
best life, which exist in civilizations
new and old. The state through its
school system has trained you with the
hope and the expectation that YOU will
repay her by the service of true and
loyal manhood and womanhood. 1t
does not matter what avenues of life
may see the exercise of your future en-
ergies. Whether it is the home. the
school, office or the store, YOU win find,
wherever You are, ample scope for the
exercise of your education and its con-
tinuance. You know that education is
not the imparting of something to you.
1t IS the leading out of what is in you,
the development of your faculties and
qualities of mind and heart The dis
cipline to which you have been sub
jected here is one of the most import
ant parts of your education. If you
have profted by your school life, you
go with natures disciplined to self-re-
straint and to consideration of the
rights and feelings of others. To full
I'll the true end of your existence, you
must use all you have in you in your
daily life of service. As you do this |
you will continue your education. What |
you have is a good foundation. The |
is your life's work.
The best service which a man or a |
can render to the state is the |
of high standards into life.
This means often sacrifice and tempo
AIRY loss, but it means the development
If true dignity and worth. This is Ha
vail Nei, our land. Wherever you 60
7ou will love it and the memories of
hese days of school will go with you
o the end. If your life s work is here
hen it is expected that you will do
our part in building up in these islands
ruth and justice, the principles of our
american civilization.
Nothing so sad can come to the true
american heart as to see her sons pros
itute their powers to gain at cost of
manhood | believe that the American
cart is aroused and that young Amer
"a has ideals which will tell for right
BUSINESS in years to come. You live
/ eventful times. Great changes in
ocial order are, I believe, bound to
ome When we older ones are gone
on will have the reins. If there ever
as a time when sane judgment was
eeded it is now. The finging of mud
! men without sufficient proof of their
eserving it, the stirring up of passions
prejudices by newspapers for the
Ike of sensation, these things are to
; deplored and condemned. Be careful
your judgments and bring your rea-
n rather than your prejudice to bear
ION all questions.
Go, young friends, into your wider
'e, go with the hopes and the expecta-
ons and the blessings of your teachers
ID friends. Go to be true men and
1men Go to do and to dare for the
yht and the true. Go, be true to your
Ives and may the God of US all be
tn you and give you courage and
.ength to be worthy of the name of an
nerican, and to help to make Ameri-
n citizenship what it should be IN
,se Islands and in the world.