The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-28
CONGRESSIONAL. G. VISITORS TELL
OF THINGS HAWAII MAY EXPECT
Speeches at Banquet Last
Night TEEN With Ad-
vice and Prophecy.

The banquet given to the visiting
Congressman last evening at the Mo-
ana Hotel was the most sumptuous and
its forensics were the most interesting
and educative of any that Honolulu
has hitherto enjoyed. At least, that
was what the kamaainas said. The
great dining hall of the hotel was
filled, the menu had received the per-
sonal attention of chef who has as
sisted in the preparation of White
House dinners and the visiting states
men comprised some Of the most ef-
fective speakers in Congress. Every
address made was full of good will for
Hawaii; and the men who made them
were, as rule, as impressive in per
sonal appearance as they were in
oratory.
Perhaps the three most striking
speeches were those of Congressman
Hepburn, Congressman Fitzgerald and
Congressman Littlefeld, though all
were so noteworthy as to make the
distinctions fine. Fitzgerald's warning
to the planters in connection with their
duty towards the farming propaganda
aroused great enthusiasm. The argu
ment for the farmer was started by
Judge Dole, the only local speaker; and
nearly all the Congressional guests
added their quota. Tt was evident that
they were heartily in accord, Little
field possibly excepted, with the Presi-
dents policy of developing Hawaii
along typical American lines.
It was at 3 o'clock that Delegate
Kuhio arose, amid a round of hearty
applause, and welcomed the Congress
sional visitors to Hawaii in the name
of Queen Liliuokalani who had author |
lied him to express her sincere regret |
that, owing to the condition of her /
health, she had been unable to meet I
them personally since their arrival. t
He then introduced George w. Smith,
the postmaster, who was applauded
as he rose
cit is meet and proper began Mr..
Smith, "that in a country like this,
which was once a foreign and alien
land and which is now an integral part
of the great United States, that our
first toast shall be to the President of |
the United States. To respond to this
toast I will call upon Senator S. H.
Piles.''
SENATOR PILES ADDRESS.
81 am deeply impressed with the
welcome that the people of these is
ands have extended to u.s." began
he Washington senator. "You are
lot alone contented with extending a
hearty greeting, but You send your
beautiful maidens with smiles and with
beautiful flowers to hang around the
risitors' necks. I would say tonight
hat / have nowhere met a people
hat have extended a welcome as cor
lial as you have, and [ want to say
o the people of these islands that If I
t shall ever be my good fortune to
1eet you in my home IN Washington
'tate, or in the city of Washington,
hat it will give me the greatest pleas q
re in my life TO attempt to enter :
ain you as we have been entertained 1
ere.
HNow, gentlemen,I have been asked c
D respond to the toast of the Presl- I
ent of che United States | wish it
-ere possible for me to pay an ade- r
uately high tribute to the character $
the man who holds that great Office, n
nd who presides over the destiny of {
early eighty millions of people with I
le care and security that can be had V
| no other country on the face Of e
lie globe. If | may, | will allude to
1e of the great principles that the g
resident of the United States has (
led to lay down TO you, and that has
ldeared him to the people of this W
,untry. 1t is that his civic virtue nj
the one great characteristic that has tt
ldeared him to the American people. N
applause). The people had grown Sc
reless and indifferent to public virtue, Il
It there came to the Presidential chair CT
e man who now occupies it, and he re
ught the people of this country that hs
ere is something worth living for "
sides wealth, and today that infln- be
ce which has been stirred into this di
untry is being felt in every com th
unity in the United States. tn
Take the city OF San Francisco, hr