The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-12-17
FREAR's TALK
At MUsK0GEE

received letter from governor VAL
ter F. Frear, enclosing copies of the
two addresses delivered by the Gov
ernor at the Transmississippi Con-
gress. together with the text of the
resolution he presented there on be-
half of the Chamber OF Commerce.
Governor Frear states that the pres
ident of the Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce was elected as one of the
vice presidents of the congress.
He also gives the pleasing informa-
ton that President Loveland lof the
Transmississippi Congress expects to
visit Honolulu in January.
Other items conveyed by the Gov
ernor are already known to Adver-
tiser readers-the appointment Of H.
P. Wood, secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce, as member Of the
Congressional Committee. and the Sc
lection Of San Francisco as the place
of next years meeting of the Trans
mississippi Congress.
Following are the remarks OF Gov
ernor Frear on the opening day of the
congress, when governors were given
GOVERNOR FREAR'S GREETINGS.
Hawaii, the newest Of the Terri
tories, brings greetings and felicita-
tions to Oklahoma, the newest of the
States. These. regret to say. are not
greetings of welcome-for Hawaii, al
though she has ultimate hopes, does
mot yet belong to the sisterhood of
States. They are rather Fluctuations
of Godspeed to the parting one from
the sisterhood of Territories. In the
very nature of the case, they are not
and can not be merely perfunctory,
for the unexampled growth of Okla.
homa has been such in rapidity and
solidsIy as to give her not only SUI
perabundance of right to enter the
galaxy of States, but also unquestion-
ed and unquestionable assurance that
she will be a. star of the first magni-
tude in that galaxy.
Hawaii can not boast any such ra-
lpidity of growth, but she yields to
none in the solidity of her growth or
in the patriotic Americanism of her
citizens. In those islands there was
planted and for three-quarters of a
century maintained the only Ameri-
can colony on foreign soil. Upon the
comparatively small band of Ameri-
cans constituting that colony there
devolved the enormous and unique
task of educating and Christianizing
the native race; of building up an
American civilization under tropical
conditions; of so shaping the course of
events as to prevent those islands from
falling into the hands of various de-
signing nations; and of preserving
them and preparing their people for
union with the United States when
they could no longer stand alone. How |
well the responsibility was met, the |
issue has proved. Against great odds, |
the patriotic alertness, courage and |
steadfastness of that colony prevent |
ed again and again the threatened
acquisition of Hawaii by England, |
France and other nations, and SO de-
veloped American sentiment and in
culcated American principles among |
her inhabitants as to effect an evolu-
ton from an absolute despotism to a |
constitutional monarchy and then to a |
republic of advanced type-even be-
fore annexation. So well, indeed, was
Hawaii thus prepared along American
lines that when the time came for her
adoption by the great republic, she
was deemed worthy to be received as
one of the family-a full-fiedged Ter
ritory, and not as a mere possession.
But that is not all. There rested
on the members of that community.
also, the duty of building up those
islands industrially and commercially
"a duty performed with equally
marked success. BY the application
Of scientific methods and American in
genuity and enterprise, they brought
to the highest point of efficiency yet
one of the greatest of the
worlds industries-that of cane sugar.
The position of Hawaii as the center
Of the Pacific has given her an i'm
portance to the nations commerce out
Of all proportion TO her size and pop
ulation. In that commerce, too, she
herself plays no. inconspicuous part.
She has. indeed, long been the most
potent factor in the maintenance OF
the American merchant marine upon
the high seas. Exclusive of the nu-
steam and sailing vessels en-
S0tstQ ia 1tAt ttuNSs bAt
iessels entering and clearing from her
ports annually aggregate over two
million tons. three-fourths of which
ire OF American register. Her imports
Ind exports amount to nearly fifty
million dollars year. of which over
ninety per cent. is carried in Ameri-
an bottoms. They are greater than
hose of the entire United States
we're at the time of the adoption OF
he constitution. She is now pouring
nto the national treasury In custom
eceipts alone nearly a million and a
Ialf dollars a year.
Hawaii means to do her full part c
n the upbuilding of the nation indus j
rally and commercially. as well as o
morally and politically. She deems 1t o
n honor and at the same time feels II
hat she has proved herself not I'M
Iorthy of the honor TO be represent Z
d in this great commercial congress Z
{ the West. II
RESENTING THE RESOLUTION. =
In presenting the resolution which -
E was commissioned by the Chamber 4,
Commerce and cordially invited by =,
lie executive committee OF the Con- 6
-ess to do, Governor Frear made an "
idress, his theme being Hawaii and :,
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