The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-05

livered by Hon. John Hughes, and g
splendid chorus of patriotic numbers
was rendered. The celebration was q
remarkable one in many ways.
The corridors of the Jail building
were decorated with flags, evergreenS
and bunting, while a big display OF
| banners was made on the great tree
standing in the center of the peniten
tiary yard Beneath this tree a plat
form had been erected, from which Wis
itors and prisoners rendered the follow
ing program:
Ny Country IT'S of Thee. -. Chorus
Duet-Violin and Cornet. ...........
| Mr. and Mrs. 2. Super
For the Red, White and Blue, Duet
and Quartet. ............ o. p. e. G.
Recitation For the Oppressed !" g.
Q. Adams) ...................
Song. .......M Mrs. Joseph G.. Pratt
Maikai Waipio princess Likelike)..
! %. 2. Glee Club
Either Solo ..C. w. Renear
Honolulu Medley in fat.
| ...............O %. P. Quartet
Address. ..... Hon. John A. Hughes
Song ........ Mrs. Grace W. Crockett
Ka Lai Opua (Malie Kaleikoa) ......
10. P. Glee Club
Song. solo. Mrs. Bruce V. Mackall
| The Good Old U. S. A.-Solo and
Quartet. o. P. Glee Club
Recitation ...........R Il. Venhulzen
Over the Ocean Blue-Solo and Choir
us 20. P. Glee Club
Duet-Kiliopu ka Nahele (native).
Adam s Son-Medley in G. ..
p. Quartet
Lei POM Moi. o. p. Glee Club
Five Minutes Talk. John NJ. Martin
'The Star Spangled Banner
Among those present at the celebra-
ton at the prison was Father Clement
A STIRRING ADDRESS.
The address, given by the Hon. John
Hughes, was:
Fellow Citizens, and Friends.-We
are gathered here today, strangers
to each other, yet bound together by
the bonds of a common country and the
brotherhood of man, to celebrate the
greatest event, the noblest achievement
ia the annals of history. We meet to-
day, men from every quarter of this
mundane sphere, but all Americans, to
celebrate the birthday of this great re-
public. We celebrate it because on this
day our ship of state was launched, our
banners were first unfurled to the
breeze, and then the chains of slavery
and abasement fell from the limbs and
souls of men, the tyranny of caste and
plutocracy vanished from the earth, and
like the sweep of a prairie fire, above
the din and carnage of battle, there
arose on the horizon of new hopes the
sun of justice and freedom, and man,
until then the lowest of his kind, stood
up. an equal amongst his peers.
cit was then that in every spot
where men who aspired to freedom
found home, they with longing eyes
and gladstone hearts turned their
thoughts to the Infant Republic of the
West, and cried in unison God save
America
''On this day one hundred and thir-
ty-two wears ago was issued the Decla-
ration of Independence. 1t came upon
the decaved and decaying monarchies
of the Old World like a lightning flash
across a storm swept sky. 1t echoed
and reverberated from meridian to
meridian, from pole to pole as state
and scholarly document, as the outpour-
ing of honest and fearless and patriotic |
hearts, as a message Of cheer to the |
of every land. 1t stands /
unique. solitary and alone, one of the /
greatest human documents that ever
from the mind of man.
cat and previous to the time the
Declaration of Independence was issued
the lot of the common man was but one
remove from that Of the beast of bur
den-if he was not a slave, he was a
serf: his condition was one of per
netual servitude. privation and misery;
his taskmasters. the voluptuous and
affeminate rich, l0rded it over him, and
ground him down with an iron hand,
for those were the days of the divine
right of kings and persecution for all
who dared protest.
'FTn those DAYS our country was the
poorest aa-0ngst the nations. It was
llso the smallest. a narrow strip. bound
I'd on one side Nv the bleak Atlantic
and on the other by q F0un3less and in
2osritalle prairie. the home Of hears,
and savage foes. Our popu-
alton was about three millions. hut
amongst those three millions were men
PRAYER than any Of Caesars legion,
more patriotic and seIf-sacrif .ing than
INV Spartan of old The founders of
his great republic were men that were
minated by the mol lest motives that
,ver fructifed in the hearts of men.
Seeing the desolation and oppression