The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-30

statistics. But when you have the op-
portunity of looking into the faces OF
the men who have been doing the
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 it is true that the people of
Territory are in a different political
condition from the people in one of the
! States, because they have no direct
vote in the election of President and
of Vice President, yet there is no
real difference between the citizen
! ship of a Territory and the citizenship
of the States. My friends, it is but a
few years before you will be able to
take your place among the States of
/ the Union. (Applause) How soon that
| time will come, neither you nor l 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 condl-
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-
publican administration has done and
what the Republican administration in
the future promises for the people of !
this Territory. (Applause)
l have heard something about the
different parties in the Territory; 1
know the general division of the Re- |
publicans and the Democrats. l have
heard of the third party of the Home
Rulers; 1 don't know quite what it |
means. 1 say this, though, that if !
there are men here who believe in |
home rule, am with them if we un-
oil -hot rrr1a
Home rule means self-rule, but my
friends, you have got to have a home
before you have anything to rule. Gap
plause) And if you want a home II
which to exercise home rule, you can
only have it by keeping Uncle Sam
near by, (applause) and my opinion is
that you will keep him nearer to you
and you will have him fonder of you,
and you will be fonder of him, if you
leave the Republican party in control
of National affairs. (Applause)
The Republican party has always
been the party of the home; the Re-
publican party has believed that the
home was the foundation of American
citizenship, and, through its long his
tory, it has always stood for home
rule in its right sense. It's whole long
history has been the upbuilding of the
home idea, and therefore l say to you
who may be members of the Home
Rule party here, if you wish to sue
ceed in your highest aspirations for
self-government 1 believe that you will
find that those aspirations can best
be worked out if you will join the Re-
publican party and accept the republi-
can doctrine of the National Govern
ment
The Territorial government is very
much more closely connected with Ma
tional affairs than one would at first
suppose. You here recognize that your
own prosperity, your own independ-
ence. is coupled directly with the sue
cess of any national administration.
You here in the Pacific, the halfway
place between the Orient and the
mainland, with all the problems that
are arising in international affairs,
with all the questions that are arising
in commercial life, with all the mat
ters affecting the transportation be-
tween the East and the West, you here
are the center. geographically, and will
year by year become more closely the
center politically of these problems.
You are on the threshold of your own
development. Your industries are
really infant industries as yet, one
of them a very large infant, 1 grant
you, but nevertheless that too will
grow by leaps and bounds in the COM
ing years. You are just developing
other agricultural products; You are
finding that this soil is capable of
diversified cultivation; you are finding .
that manufacturers may come here;