The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-09
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than can be found in any similar COM
munity on the face of the earth. ]
think this accounts for the welfare and
prosperity to which Mr.. Thurston has
referred.
81 regard these islands as of the
highest Importance, not only to the in
habitants of them but also to us. 1
am wonderfully impressed with the
breadth and liberation of spirit that
pervades here. Here nations meet as
brothers in the closest amity and
friendship. I see no street brawls, I
! see no drunkenness. I am sorry to
hear that you have drunkenness here,
but I have seen no quarrels. And you
are as free to quarrel as any, but you
do not seem to indulge in this priv
ilege. You are teaching not only US
| but all nations lesson in liberation.
You are teaching us how Orientals and
other nations can come and live to-
gether in harmony, without in any
/ v.
| This is indeed a most valuable lesson
ITO take larger view of things. be-
cause here with the blue ocean all
around you can take a larger view
than we can with our skyscrapers
shutting us in. you can see that the
world has passed through it's several
periods in modern times. With the
Reformation, the Zeitgeist or national
| spirit was religious or ecclesiastical
and conflict between the nations were
q ecclesiastical questions, eliminating
in the Thirty Years war, it's wounds
| being bound up in 164S by the treaty
of Westphalia. Then another spirit,
| that of conquest, came, dominating
| spirit with efforts to crush other ma
tons for the building up of the one,
eliminating in the ferocious fury of
the Napoleonic period. With the strug-
gle for independence of America new
spirit was ushered in-do not start
that of commerce. The principle that
brought about the War of Independ-
ence, the principle underlying it, was
commerce, question of taxation. The
final stages that brought it on was
the tax on tea and lastly the sugar
act. I need not tell you that sugar
has played an important part in the
history of nations and in the conquest
of nations, sweet as it is it has caused
much bitterness.
so we are in the commercial age
and I think it is fortunate age. Com
merce is peace preserver and based
on friendship. mutually and fair
dealings and its basic rock is equity
and justice. 1t gives as much as it
receives. We trade with friends, not
enemies, and you here, upon these
beautiful little islands, are our outpost
of goodwill and peace and the harmon
ious example you have set in cement
ing your various races and people is
an object lesson, the value of which
cannot be overestimated.
| Il can we'll see, and doubtless in time
we will all realize it, that in shaping
our laws for the eighty millions on
the mainland we must see how those
laws will fit conditions for which we
are responsible in the Territorial pos
sessions distant from our mainland and,
as l have said, you are following the
very wisest course of having your
conditions understood by those who
shape the laws.
L have been induced to step a little
way out of my department through
the invitation and urgent insistence of
4 Admiral Very and went to Pearl Har-
Dor. l am not naval man but 1 can
see the value to commerce of having
Pearl Harbor fitted so Won can hide
away all the naval vessels coming here
and make room in your other harbor
for the vessels of commerce. 1 am not
| opposed to strong navy. I believe
In a strong navy, which is the best
guarantee of a long and a lasting
peace and I do not know a better
place to keep large share of that
navy than in your beautiful Pearl Har-
Dor and 1 feel convinced that Pearl
Harbor will be thoroughly equipped for
the purpose which have stated.
Il am pleased to learn from Mr..
Ihurston's remarks that so far as the
commercial interests of the, islands are
concerned you are able to take care of
them yourselves. 1t is certainly very
reassuring to know that your problems
can be met, because I had heard that
your future was viewed with some
| h.iSoiNih5o. IL HAS 10 ME that.
with agriculture, in all it forms one of
the surest bases of prosperity, that if
a supplementary industrial occupation
| could be worked up you would have
two strings to your bow, and one
greatly helping the other. OF course,
it is easier to state these things tn IN
to bring them about, especially for
such a newcomer as I am, but I was
in your wonderful museum and saw
that there was or had been a wonderful
capacity among the native population
for hand weaving. Such is a capacity
shared by many of the Oriental ma
tons. and it occurred to me what a
splendid industry could be created here
If the Turkish carpet industry We're in
i grated 1 think that it would be a
/ very easy matter to do it. The product
is staple article, in great demand and
with no danger of ever Cutting the
market. as it is all hand work and
!, there is no machine competition t.
| fear I mentioned this matter IN Ind pf