The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-18

Of the times and they composed some
] pieces of great beauty.
Il wish to welcome the editors as ka-
hunas with some hesitation, because
editors are known sometimes to in
dulge in a sort of occultism, with that
mysterious liquid called ink, out of
which comes such wonderful things.
Some of the spirits which arise from
the ink are rnisehievous.
When part of US were conducting
a campaign of annexation in these is
lands ii was important that we should
inform. the American nation of what
we wanted and we wrote articles for
the American newspapers and found it
slow work 10 educate about 70,0G0, 000
of people to our way of thinking We
the islands. governors, congressman to
stay a few weeks and for them to go
back and talk OF what they had seen.
1t a man came here and stayed about
a month he certainly knew more about
our conditions than the people here, I
am surprised that it did not occur to
as in those years TO bring lot of
editors mere for there is no better class
of people to disseminate news than
well-tr9ined EDITORS, to get information
abroad and put in a relia bic form.
Il hope you wiz be here long enough
to look beneath the surface of things.
l havo reid some of your articles about
the islands, and they are all of a fiat
tering tone. When California was
struggling with vigilance committees,
we We're a steady-going comm unity
with a legislature, courts, churches,
schools printing presses and newspa-
pers. We even sent to Oregon the first
printing press they ever had. We are
an old civilized country Gaugh-1
ter and applause.) When you talk of
our tropical verdure and luaus, etc, re-
member that we are civilized and have
prisons and lawyers constables and
doctors. We have liquor here, good
and bad accessible to most people.
Il like 10 hear these fattering things
"bout hui the people of the United
States might think we were merely a
happy poole N Arcadia. and then when
we go to Washington trying to get some
help in one way or another they will
say we don't need it.
lens on our hands. One is that so
many children in the. schools are Japa-
nese rH7 Chinese and that they are
increasing far more rapidly than the
children. Is that not a
problem for US to think about in ten or |
fifteen years? We have your difficult |
ties and few more than you have. We |
need help. I believe you are going to
do a great deal to help u.s."
A WOMAN RESPONDS.
Miss Grace Tower, one OF the Cali |
fornia party, responded to the toast of |
The Press" The speaker is a witty, |
newspaper woman, and an
excellent speaker. She expressed pride |
in her profession. Her profession |
touched life closer than almost any |
other. I'VE see the world with the |
mask torn off, she said. we are be- |
hind the scenes and know whether a !
calcium merely is playing about a |
mans head or whether the halo is
real
II closing she read a poem on the
press, told as dream. The meter
is Ktplins, the slang is Tower" she /
added. The poem. was excellent and /
depicted the hopes ~ the newspaper
scribes.
FOR CALIFORNIA.
{. l. Holland, also of the California
party. responded to the toast of Cali
fornfa. Our Big Brother" He had been
sizing up the little brother. Hawaii.
Hawaii was pretty good little brother
and as Californians they were willing
to stand by the little brother as long
as he had cent. They would be glad
TO defend the islands with the last drop
of ink in their fountain pens. A great
deal had been said about steamship
line from Los Angeles TO Honolulu. He
hoped to see it become ga fact. There
was a wonderful field open TO Hawaii
IN the way of tourist travel To the
Californians the tourist crop was the
best they had to harvest. Mr. Holland
praised the Hawaiian Islands in poet
cal language.
SMITH ON PROBLEMS
George w. Smith, chairman of the
Board Of County Supervisors respond
d to the toast Hawaii: A Review"
He said that Judge Dole had, in an able