The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-01-23

"ltnnoiulu ~ ~ the rrosffnldf ~ hl
ne WORLDS great hirhwRYs
thus Bishas John W Hamilton, Of
The Methodist Episcopal church. nov
in these islands for the purpose " rats
Ing Hawaii out ~ the territory class IN
his church pollty. creating
missionary conference and finally rails
inr 81 10 an annual conference and "a
10 the dignity Of what. by analogy. Is
statehood IN the organization. Bishop
Hamilton had been asked a. give his
impression Of the islands and their peo-
pie. corrected by a stay Of some weeks,
and spoke very thourhtfully In the
larger view.
81 am a great believer" he continued,
'in the doctrine that the most ma
iestic drama In the worlds history Is
to be played out on the Pacific ocean.
We have been a wandering people,
since Cam went out into the land OF
Nod. and the movement has always
been westward. All eastward move
ments Of people, indeed, have come at
last to stagnation and retrogression.
That is to be seen In China and Korea.
The civilizing movement and the
movement of Christianity and progress
has been westward.
This movement began long before
the dawn of history The race came
from wherever II originated, into
babylon and Nineveh, and presently
there was q westward movement ana
those two cities were swallowed up by
the sands Of the desert and oblivion
covered them. Then, Jerusalem ana
Alexandria and Greece became the
centers OF the next civilization, only IN
time to decay, and Rome came up as
the mistress of the world
"The westward movement Of the race
continued. and the Goths and Nandals
swept down upon Rome and its civili-
cation was overwhelmed. Then, and
now for centuries. London has been
the mistress of the world.
But. already. we see'that the bal
ance of financial supremacy and so the
real rule has shifted to this side, and
New York holds supremacy. And even
as 1t has reached it's highest point there
begins a measure of decadence, and the
van OF progress reaches Chicago
Where are the Dutchmen who settled
New York, and the Puritans who made
Boston? They are in the west, and the
cities of the Atlantic seaboard are fill
ing up with the scum of Europe. we
do not draw to our shores what Is best
among the people of the old world
The best people prefer to stay there II
their castles and in their settled abodes
enjoying their wealth and leisure. W.
get the scum, and two-thirds of tn
populations of New York and of Bostol
is foreign. Nay, this tide of the riff
raft has reached even to Chicago, an
we see new centers springing up !
Los Angeles and in San Francisco.
CITY OF THE FUTURE.
81 believe as the boys say, that q
the present moment Los Angeles ha
the pull over San Francisco-and we
eventually, San Francisco is to be tn
great city of the Pacific Coast. tn
advantage of Los Angeles lies in III
fact that the mixed population of Sa
Francisco has made 1t an immoral cit
The tide of progress is the tide I
Christianity, and in this progress Sa
Francisco has been slower because
the mixed population and the large
size of the place. But it's redemptio
will come.
True progress has always bee
marked by the swelling of the tide {
true Christianity. Rome, today is r'
trograding, and the communicates
her are decreasing in every country
the old world and on every continer
but ours. Even in America, the pull
lie schools and the newspapers an
other influences have led to a create
falling away from Rome than her ma
ural increase gains for her. ! do M
say that this is good thing. I'll
first generation of apostates affilia
with no church, and float about {
derelicts until they are picked up /
some other denomination eventual,
But these are the facts.
"Well, then, that brings me back
the first proposition, that with tn
westward trend of civilization an
progress, Honolulu is at the cross
roads of all the great highways of tn
world. The tide of progress must was
at your gates as 1t goes by. The wes
ern pushing outward of the Christia
tides looks to the east past Honolulu,
and the eastern people look to IL
westward. In either outlook, stan
these islands. The shortest way froi
the rim of a circle across 1t is throug
the center-and you are at the cente
''It has been estimated that the cour
ties that border upon the Pacific cor
tain about three-fourths of the tot;
population of the whole world. A
ready you have steamship lines reacl
ing to San Francisco and to China ar
Japan and Australia, and the Southel
islands. 1t has been said in the new
papers within the past few days tn
the steamship lines from Seattl
operating the largest vessels on Il
Pacific, will find themselves cor
PEELED by the position of these islam
to send their boats down this wa
They cannot overlook you.
LOS ANGELES A WINNER.
1.-THE newspapers have livewi
spoken of a steamship line to be ope
ated between Honolulu and San PedI
San Pedro means Los Angeles, al
that line will strike the trade of 81
Francisco at a vulnerable spot,
cause those steamers will give
line the Oriapt q,