The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-28

anything to fear from any cause and
from any direction. because we are
ready. AS I looked down upon your
streets and sailed among your islands
I felt that the American navy could
always come down here to the Hawai-
ian Islands. and find the best sailors
in the world for any navy The same
is true of the army.
How many minutes was I allowed,
ten? Nine have already gone and am
glad to be in your presence. In re-
spending TO the toast let me say that
there is nothing foreign in this world
that the United States is afraid Of.
There are very few things at home
that our people in the United States
can not overcome. After what Colonel
Hepburn has told you about the Unit
ed States out here, there seems moth
ing for you to do but to go home TO
your hammocks. (Laughter.)
SMALL HOLDINGS THE THING.
IN Introducing Congressman Hamil-
ton, to reply TO the next toast, Mr..
Smith said
I'VE have with us tonight the chair
man of the Territories Committee, who
has helped the Territory in every in
stance Gentlemen, I have the honor
to. introduce TO YOU Mr. Hamilton, who
will respond to the toast of Our First
Insular Territory -
Mr.. Hamilton, who was greeted with
cheers, said:
Mr. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen: My
friend Caaron. of Rhode Island, is a
brave man; he comes from a long line
of fighting ancestry, and he tells you
what our American automobile would
do in case any dog ever dared to bark
at it. Ny friends, the fact that we have
visited every section of your beautiful
islands, and the fact that we have seen
,all classes of your hospitable people,
Wand have not been smashed up by your
automobile, shows that there is moth
ing but the deepest friendship between
US.
Civilization to a certain extent was
introduced by Captain Cook in ITS. He
found here a state Of savage despot-
ism tempered by assassination. Then
was the ideal state of cooperative
human inertia. Clothes We're superfiu-
Gus and the mysteries of the time We're
unknown. There were no thieves; the
natives lived out upon the beach and
watched the dark clouds come and go
across the sea. But someone had
greater strength and greater intelli-
yence than his neighbor and the evo-
luton of civilization came on. The is
lands We're first united under the Ka-
mehameha dynasty. In the quick prog
ress of time, in 1900, they became a
Territory of the United States of Amer
lea, sentinels in the midst of the Pa
cific, the great western post Of the
United states of America.
LAS a result of the Spanish War, a
nonpartisan war brought on in response
to the demands of our homes, the Unit
ed States acquired Porto Rico, Guam
and the Philippine Islands. There was
enough glory to go around, though a
somewhat smaller percentage from the
beneffciaries than our enthusiasm led Us
to expect. Gaughter)
'.Since that time we have established
the Republic of Cuba, governed under
-her own flag in accordance with her
tropical conditions. We have reorgan-
lied and regenerated the Island of
Porto Rico, developing it in accordance
with it's natural power, with a shining
bond of progress We have reorganized
the Republic of Panama, and before
many years we will see an American
operator sitting where the cables of the
Atlantic and the cables of the Pacific
emerge from the deep ocean beds, meet
ing upon American soil. He viii no.
tify the world of the passing of the
ships carrying commerce to and from
the occident and the Orient. Gap
pIause)
I'VE have set up a stable government
in the Philippine Islands, under the
flag of Iiberating, not of conquer
ing, nation, and we have begun the
business of regeneration in Guam by
the introduction of vaccination among
the natives. Laughter)
But the Hawaiian Islands came TO
us not by purchase or discovery, nor
as the result of war Hawaii came to
us in friendship-Hawaii was American
in love and sympathy long before she
became American in fact. (Applause)
The best that Hawaii had, to supple
ment the native goodness Of her own
people, came from America, and it is
fitting indeed that Hawaii, with her
splendid native population. with her
enormous provisions of beauty, scenery
and music. cooperating with the Amer
:. lean missionary. should be merged into
aremote from us in point of distance,
Sbut. by the laying of the Pacific cable,
Hawaii Guam and the Philippine Is
lands are on the electric circuit of the
world I am informed that a message
delivered about II o'clock tonight in
New York reached Honolulu about II
O'Clock this morning Gaughter), Ma
Mia about o'clock, and back to New
York in an hour while the sun looks
on beaten by % hours
you are with us. You are part OF
US. You are emerging rapidly from
a condition until you have become part
of a great power in the world, and
these people from Japan who have
come here and who are living here will,
I believe. make good American citi-
zens: because they love their own
country they can love America all the
better (applause). I take it that, the
intelligence of the people cooperating
here aS have seen il, is bound to