The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-27

of the Interior did not touch on any
of the local issues except as they affect
ed the general national political situa-
ton. He urged the claims of the Re-
publican party as a party of progress
and action, advising the Home Rulers
of Hawaii to climb in with that party
as the one that would give them a
home to rule. He paid a high tribute
to the memory of President Cleveland
and also paid a tribute to the worth
of the Territorial officials with whom
he had come in contact, praisfng and
commencing particularly the head of
the government, Governor Frear. He
said in full:
Mr.. Chairman, Governor, my Fell
low-C Citizens: | am very pleased to
have this opportunity OF speaking puD-
licly to a large number of citizens of
Honolulu, in order to express to them
my keen appreciation of the many
courtesies that have been extended to
me during the days L have been upon
your isles. As your Chairman said,
I came to obtain information, and l
have never been in a community where
the people We're SO willing to afford me
the opportunity of getting information
detail and getting it quickly. You have
given me here the chance OF finding
out at first hand about those matters
which have been brought to Washing
ton in the form of reports. and many
of you know how dead a report is; it
means little or nothing but figures or
statistics. But when you have the op-
portunity of looking into the faces of
Al, x1-fD injFO~ D
things that the report reports about,
then you get the inspiration of person.
al presence, and you understand better
and more clearly the conditions under
which the people work. Now there
have been many misapprehensions,
many misunderstanding regarding
conditions in your islands. and those
Misunderstanding and misapprehen-
sions have been caused because neither
you here nor we on the mainland have
thoroughly understood one another.
Now We wish to get together; we wish
that both we on the mainland and
you here in the middle of the Pacific
will recognize that there is but one
sovereign and that is the United states
of America. (Applause)
While Il is true that the people of
Territory are in different political
condition from the people in one of the
states, because they have no direct
vote in the election of a President and
of a Vice President, yet there is no
real difference between the citizen
snip of a Territory and the citizenship
of the states. My friends. it is but a
few years before you viii be able to
take your place among the States of
the Union. (Applause) How soon that
time will come, neither you nor 1 can
tell. but it will come the sooner if you
study conditions, not only of your own
Territory but the condition Of the Uni
ted states at large, and understand
what the problems are that the United
states has to deal with and your re-
lationship to those problems.
And, on the other hand, We in the |
states must understand your condI- !
tions here TO the same end and for the |
same purposes that You are studying |
the national problems.
And thus it is that it is quite right |
that you should have this great Re- !
publican rally. a rally where you come /
and we come before you for the pur-
pose of discussing,-not discussing so /
much as telling what are the problems |
of national Importance, what the Re-