The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-05
MOST SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC FOURTH
OF JULY CELEBRATION FOR YEARS
Splendid Gathering at the Capitol
Grounds for the Literary and
Musical Program.

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camp and field. They arrived at the
Capitol grounds shortly before 10
clock. Already many hundreds of peo-
pie had gathered, and they kept COM
ing from every direction and in ad-
ditional hundreds. By 10 O'Clock sew
eral thousand people were present,
though they continued to arrive for
some time later.
Promptly at 10 o'clock, Judge S. E
Dole, the presiding officer of the day,
opened the exercises. He spoke of what
the Fourth of July stood for both as
the natal day of nation and a day
dedicated to human and civil liberty.
"It is" he said, looming to be one
of the world IS great holidays"
The Hawaiian band played as its
first selection, a composition by Captain
Berger, an overture into which has been
worked the themes of several of the
best Hawaiian compositions and the
buoyant spirit of Hawaiian character.
The invocation was by the Right Rev.
Henry Bond Restarick, somewhat state
ly in diction, combining the dignity and
richness of some of the prayer book
petitions and collects, with appropri-
ateness to the occasion.
In introducing Bishop Restarick,
Judge Dole spoke of him as an Eng
lishman by birth but an American by
choice. Introducing Judge S. B. Kings
bury, after the singing of America,
Judge Dole said he was one who had
drunk in Americanism with his moth
er's milk.
Judge Kingsbury had splendid au-
dience. 1t reached far beyond the car
rying capacity of his voice, which
while lacking something III roundness
was pleasing and well handled While
there was some shifting of the audi
ence during the course of the address,
as was not unnatural, since all could
not hear, nor could even the wide
spreading trees of the grounds afford
shade for all who desired to hear,
and .he sun beat dcwn not on uDpro-
tected heads.
Judge Kingsbury's Grafton dealt
much with the relation of Hawaii to
the American union and he drew from
the accounts of past celebrations of
the Fourth of July, and from the words
spoken at some of these, notably in
addresses by Judge Sanford B. Dole,
proof of the fitness of the union be-
tween these isles of the sea and the
strong American nation.
His oration was as follows:
JUDGE KINGsBURY's ADDRESS.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
and Fellow Citizens:
This is the day we celebrate-We
the people of the United States,-the
strongest, richest, and most benevolent
nation on earth.
All right of any government to exist
is because it's governed need its gov
ernment. Government itself, in rela-
.rion to the object of its rule, has no
rights-it only has duty-duty to gov
ern those whom it has position and
power to govern, and, who need its
government.
This is true of every kind and form
of government. The parent governs
the child because the child needs con-
troll, and the parent has the place and
the power to best do this. The teacher,
for the needs of the pupils, properly
establishes school government. God
governs the Universe because his crea-
lures need his government. The need,
of those governed, to be governed, is
the foundation of all good and proper
government. Hence all right govern
ment is benevolent. No right govern
ment is established for the good of the
ruler.
The form of our government is found
in our Federal Constitution and is best
expressed in the words of Abraham
Lincoln-"A government of the people,
by the people, for the people" And
because it is for the people, it is benev-
olent-it is right. If our ninety mill
lions of people needed no protection,
no government, then the right to gov
ern them would nowhere exist.
All civilized nations, Of modern times,
to a greater or less degree, recognize
this truth. but, so far as I know, no
nation except ours has made it the
stone of its right to exist. |
One hundred and thirty-one years ago !
this day our fathers proclaimed US a /
free and independent nation. This |
they had right to do, if the people |
IF the then Colonies needed so to be |
governed, and, if they were able to /
maintain their place, as an independent |
government.
Var demonstrated the ability of ,
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