The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-28
COMMERCIAL HONOLULU MAY 3d. 1907

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/ myself, YOU ought TO have a good large
! dry dock there and a shop sufficient 10
make ordinary repairs. / have not the
slightest DOUBT but that viii be brought
/ about. But first, it will be necessary
TO have the recommendation of the
/ Navy Department, and the secretary Of
the Navy Board; and next. the esti.
mate of its cost. If / am not mistaken
the secretary has made some recon-
incubation. 1t is very doubtful if the
majority of the committee would vote
for any station at Pearl Harbor with.
out the recommendation of the Presi-
dent or the Naval Board. or the Sec
rotary of the Navy. At the same time
there is not the slightest doubt in my
mind but that will come about, and
believe at an early day.
THE HAWAIIAN JUDICIARY.
AS a New York member of the
Committee of the Judiciary, it is a
great pleasure for me to respond TO
the toast proposed" said Congressman
Alexander, of Buffalo, in answer to
the toast, The Hawaiian Judiciary.
In the first place l would pay tribute
to the high character OF the Hawaiian
Judiciary, and also pay respect to the
memory of great New York lawyer
who had the proud satisfaction of es-
tablishing on these islands the juris-
prudence adopted from Anglo-Saxon
civilization, your first Chief Justice,
William l.. Lee. By such men your
Judiciary system was established, by
such men it has been maintained until
it is equal to the first of Europe and
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prosperous people you are here now,
people who can keep in touch for
three-quarters of a century with the
music and march of eivilization-of
progress and of the events which, with
lightning speed, illuminate the civiliza-
ton of the world. A people who can
keep in touch with the world, a people
who can take care of themselves to-
morrow. (Applause.)
''And it pleases me now to be able
to note that the lawyers of this Ter
ritory. and their bar association have
lifhted up the bench and bar of these
islands until they are equal to the
bench and bar of any civilized country
of the world. Allen of Maine, Harris
of New Hampshire, Judd, a SON of
New Yorker, and your present Chief
Justice, in whose presence stand,
also a son of New Yorker, all have
made famous the judiciary of these is
lands in the midst of the Pacific. Such
a people having such a judiciary, born
of such missionary spirit, with the
spirit of Christi
"For three-quarters OF a century you
have been building yourselves up, and
for three-quarters of century, as my
friend Hepburn has said, you may well
be assured that you will be taken care
of; not perhaps because il is so i'm
portant to somebody else that you be
cared for but because you have shown
yourselves fully capable of taking care
of yourselves. (Applause.) And the
men that help themselves, get help,
and they never get left.
~ am glad to be able to pay my
respects to the Judiciary in these rs
lands, and 1 desire to say that, now
that YOU are a part OF the United
States, your judiciary is part of the
United States, also, it should stand up
on the same roofing, equal in pay,
equal in number, rated in accordance
with the involved interest, equal IN
rank, equal in power to that which Is
given to the judges and the Judiciary
of the United States of America.
"You have been led wisely and wen,
long before Congress took you up. You
will be led wisely and well even now
If Congress does not take you up, but
l assure you of one thing, my friends,
YOU judiciary ought to be, aid, II l
can help it, will be taken up by the
United States government and made
to stand on an equal footing with tine
highest court--the best court under tine
flag
The Merchant Marine was treated OF
h., Representative Charles T.. Littlefield
of Maine. whose speech was one OF the
most impressive of the evening. He
said. mfr. Toastmaster, Gentlemen or
the chamber of Commerce, Merchants
Association and Sugar Planters Assoei-
alton: Allow me TO say at the outset
that the subject upon which shali
dwell will be one very different from
any that has been discussed this even
ing. 1t is the last subject on this &C
casion and for many reasons IL is
therefore, the best.
you have all heard of the olu
preacher as he preached on until he got
TO his 11th-"what can / say more
when a little boy in the church yelled
ont. Amen So this wi be the
amen in the exercises Of this even
ing. 1t is perfectly fitting that this
should be the last toast. because
sneak of an industry that is now IAN
gushing. one which has less encour-
agement and protection at the hands OF
the national government than any other
industry within the borders Of the Unit
ed states. and it is an industry tha'
certainly concerns the people OF these Is
lands. but before reach the discussion
of this question allow me TO say per-
sonal word.
II desire to heartily endorse the sug-
eestion of Hon. Mr. Davidson. and l
not only desire to endorse II. Dut 1
desire to go further and say that whlie'
I appreciate as heartily as any the
great service of your Delegate to Con-
gress. I desire to say that the services
OF the Private Secretary TO the Dele
gate have been Indispensable, and be-
Iieve I voice the sentiment and 1udg-
ment of the Congressional party and
of every person in the Hawaiian Islands