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

ployes without work, some of then
have to go away. Our little Anleri
can community cannot stand th
process very long without showing il
and being weakened by it.
The American farmer is a gooC
consumer He lives comfortably; h
I consumes lumber, hardware, and DIR!
= goods, not to mention many things les:
necessary. A thousand new familie:
would mean an added demand fol
goods that would give business an up.
ward tendency. a thousand Ameri-
can farmers with their families added
to our population and living content
eddy upon their own farms, would al
most guarantee the continuance and
growth of the public sentiment to
which l have already referred. With
such reinforcement every other good
interest would be conserved and the
work of the Territory in managing its
own affairs would become easier, and
statehood would, l believe, loom up as
something more than a mere distant
hope"
HEPBURN A KAMAAINA.
| Toastmaster Smith then stated that
the next toast was The Future of Ha-
wall" to respond to which he would
call upon Hon. H. P. Hepburn of Iowa,
showed that he had always been a good
friend of Hawaii.
| Mr. Hepburn, who was greeted with
| hearty applause, said:
| Il feel so much at home here, I have
| been SO kindly treated here, that 1 feel
| a good deal like trying to talk about
| the future of these islands. When
remember something of the changes
that have seen and with which we are
all familiar, / still feel more like talk
| ing, gentlemen. Just the exports of
this Territory alone are greater than
| the whole of the exports of the United
States were during the administration
| of Thomas Jefferson. The tonnage that
entered this port was greater last year
than the tonnage entering all the ports
of the United states one hundred years
ago. TWo-thirds of a century ago
was taken to a Territory that then con-
tanned 5000 people. There are now
more than six millions of people who
have prospered there and who have
comfortable homes within the same
Territory With such wonderful
changes how valuable it is for man
to prophesy what may happen, what
probably will happen within the Ter
ritory of Hawaii within a reasonable
period, within the lifetime of those now
living.
This Territory. its future, very nat
urally divides itself, and you have un-
doubleday, and will have, splendid
civic and a splendid commercial future.
Situated as you are with relation to
the Pacific Coast, with relation to the
Pacific Ocean, with relation to Oriental
nations that probably may some day be
the enemies of the United States. you
are bound to have your military flu
ture, one perhaps not SO important to
you as to the eighty-five millions of
people that live within the States |
Looking forward for half a century, ! |
can see no spot within the Jurisdiction !
of the American flag as important to |
the people of the mainland as is that !
area that fell within the vision of the !
men who visited Pearl Harbor today |
1Applause.)
owning this Territory that I have
spoken of, owning it with that harbor |
there, it must be the defense point OF |
a thousand miles of coast line. AsI
long as this harbor is held, as long as |
the American flag floats defiantly in1
the face Of its enemies, no public enemy
can reach the Coast and get back |
again. (Applause) In this locality, the I
government Of the United States being T
its guardian, the defense of your har-
bor-and that is not a matter of MANY |
years-is of the deepest interest to all I
np0nlP IN he
diction of the flag. You have here a |
population alien to you, of. nearly a /
hundred thousand people, whose care
and custody, the education and trans
formation of their young into respon-
sible American citizens, is fraught with
the utmost Importance, and your duty
IN this respect is being nobly perform /
ed.
No man can have the vision that |
will tell Of the situation of these is
lands half a century to come. When
the canal is built you would be the
crossroads of all the great commercial |
interests that will sweep from the At
lantic sea to the Orient and from the
Orient back again. This is to be the
port of call for all the steamers that
in that rich commerce of
the future. How much of benefit it will
be to you it is impossible to estimate.
and its Importance will be measured by
your quarantine and by the health of
the people in this city. For Hawaii we
may well prophesy great things to
GOMEZ
Mr.. Geo. w. Smith, the POSTMASTER,
said: Our next toast is Foreign At
fairs a subject not unfamiliar to US
who have lived in this country. To
respond TO this toast I shall call upon
the Honorable A. B. Capron.''
NO FEAR FOR AMERICA.
Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen of
the Mercantile Associations of this
splendid city," began the popular Rep
resentatfve from Rhode Island II
believe it is expected of me that
will be able to say something in ad-
dition to the wonderful marveIs that
We have seen in this land IF yours. and
of all that has come to us, aud that
might come to you from a longer and
better mutual acquaintance.