The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-08

| of warning. You have been strong in
your praise of our climate, of our beauty
| spots, of the hospitality of our people
| But we do not want you to go away
with the feeling that everything is as
| it should be. If you do you can do us
no good. We are confronted by a very
serious problem here, the race problem,
| the problem of the intermingling of the
races. 1t is a problem that will in
crease in complexity, and must be met
and answered"
| All that is for the best for Hawaii
| lies close to the heart of this loyal
patriot, and much indeed does Hawaii
owe to him.
AS Hon. Lorrin A. Thurston, former
Minister from Hawaii to the United
States, once wrote of him in the Out
look: He has an unselfish public
spirited devotion to principle regard
less of personal interests" He was
born in 1874 in Honolulu, of missionary
parents who left their home in Maine
in 1910. His parents founded Oahu
College, the leading educational insti-
tuition in Honolulu, and it was there
that Sanford Ballard Dole received his
early education. He then earned
enough money to take him east, where
he earned and was graduated from
Williams College in Massachusetts at
the age of p. He studied law in Bos-
ton, and was admitted to the Massa-
chusetts bar in 1866. He returned to
Honolulu and took up the practise of
law. His wife was formerly Anna P.
Cate of Castine. Me. In 1884 he was a
| Pa m hn r 10 r1rn
again in 1886 was a member of the Re-
form party formed to fight the arbi-
trary rule established by King Kala-
kaua and continued by his sister Queen
Liliuokalani. In 1887 Mr.. Dole was ap-
pointed Judge of the Supreme Court, a
life position, which he resigned in 1898
to become leader in the provisional
government which overthrow the mon
archy. He held the position of Presi-
dent for five years, and then, though it
would mean the giving up of the first
position in the islands, went to Wash
ington to urge annexation. He was
Governor of Hawaii from 1900 to 1903,
and now is Federal Justice of the Ter
ritory.
In 1884 he drafted and secured the
enactment of the first homestead law
providing for the sale of government
lands on easy teams to actual settlers.
Writing in the Outlook, Mr.. Thurston
refers to the great bravery of the man
when he and Chief Justice Harris stood
in the doorway of the judicial building,
and alone, for half an hour, fought off
and prevented 500 armed natives from
entering to wreck the legislative hall
and mob the legislators who had de-
clared Kalakaua King. Though he led
the reform movement in 1887 he seems
to have no personal enemies among
royalty in the islands, and is loved and
revered by all alike for his sterling,
manly qualities.
Judge Dole has always been opposed
to contract labor. one of the vexing
questions of the islands. He has al
ways been fond of the big out-of-doors.
and takes long walks of many miles
into the hills up steep paths and down
winding roadways. In his younger
days he was very fond of horseback
riding and boating, and often went on
shark-fishing excursions to Pearl Har-
Dor, or on long hunting trips into the
adjacent hills.
Judge and Mrs. Dole own charming
villa on the beach at waikiki,
four or five miles from town, and they
go down there for the week
ends quiet rest.
His friends in Honolulu say that to
look at Judge Dole's face is like bene-
diction, and to feel his genial smile
for it is the kind of smile you feel,
clear to your hearts worth many
On the morning in November when I
was sailing for the States, my first visi-
tor was Judge Dole, in his spotless suit
of white, who had come to say aloha
and wish me bon voyage. Court being
in session when my boat sailed, he
could not leave. so with the thought
fulness which is always characteristic
of him, he had come before he sought
his days duties.
GRACE HORTENSE TOWER.