The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-30

| Territory VIII be one of the greatest
provided you maintain the proper
| relationship to the Federal govern
ment and provided you make the most
! of the opportunities that are now with
in your grasp.
But for a moment let me call your
I attention to what the Republican ad-
ministration has been doing these last
years for the purpose of solving some
of these problems that you are so di-
rectly interested in.
In international affairs II has been
under the administration of Mckinley
and the administration of Roosevelt
that the United States Government
has left its old position Of isola-
ton among the nations and has
become one of the foremost of the
leaders. We have left our mainland,
we have gone beyond your islands, and
We are in the Far East. we are now
digging the Panama canal, that great
artery of commerce that is to connect
the Atlantic and the Pacific and make
the stream of commerce flow by your
very doors. All these things have been
accomplished under the Republican
administration, and that Republican
looking to the welfare of the greatest
number of our people. These steps, the
result of the Spanish war and the
opening Of the Panama canal, have not
been taken merely for the benefit of
private interests or merely for the
benefit of party gain, but they have
been taken for the benefit of all the
people of our United States, and there
fore the Republican party again comes
before the people of the country this
year and asks for a vote of confidence
in the work that it has been doing in
international affairs. We come before
the people of the country, and say our
record is clear. Every step, year by
year. every session of Congress, the
enactments made and the enforcement
of the law by the Executive, all these
are plainly to be read in the record of
our party, and we ask again that there
should be vote of confidence in our
leaders and in our representatives.
Now, in internal affairs, how are the
people of the Territory interested in
the success of the Republican party?
The officials who are appointed by the
President are those upon whom you
must rely If your welfare, Territorial
ly, is to be cared for wisely and well.
In connection with the internal rela-
tiOns between the Federal government
and the Territory, your Delegate to
CongIAss, If he be out OF touch with
the majority of the members in Con-
gress, will not be able 10 do what your
present delegate has SO well done dur
ing his term in offics. (Applause) If
you desire to have things done for you
in the halls of Congress you must send
there a man who will be in close polit-
ical sympathy with the Administration
and with the majority of those in the
House with MIN, and / think 1t safe to
assure you that the next Congress will
again be Republican and the next Ad-
ministration will be Republican, with
man at its head who will take no
step backward in the policies of the
present Administration. (Applause)
Your Territorial officials since your
annexation have been men Republican
in principle, Republican in action. men
who have been keenly alive to the in
terests of your Territory and yet wise
ly informed as to its relation to the
Federal government. They have been
men of the highest integrity, men of
ness, of Individual life and of public
honor. They have been men who have
filled their offices with honor to them
selves, with credit to this Territorial
government, and 1 wish now to ex-
press to you the appreciation that L
have of the relationship between the
present territorial officials and the In
terror Department L found in your
Governor man upon whom L could
rely at any moment and at all times,
(Applause.) His advice upon conditions
in the Territory his suggestions as to
what was needed. and his recommend
alton of what should be done ] have
been able to follow. because | found |
him wise, honest and having in view ]
the best interests of all the people of
this Territory. tApplause). Now, If !
you wish to continue those conditions, |
II you wish to make II possible for the |
Representatives in Congress TO under
stand what your conditions are and |
act upon the advice given, IL you wish |
TO have Territorial officials continue |
of the class that you have now, then |
by all means you should desire the re- |
turn to power, or the continuation in |
power, rather, of the Republican Ma. |
tional administration. (Applause). |
Let me for a moment call your at |
tention to some of the special things |
that this administration has done, and |
the special things that l desire to |
bring before you tonight are those that |
have to do with the matter of in |
dividual citizenship. There has never |
been in the history OF our own party |
any President who has 50 EN- |
phasized the need of high civic |
virtue as has been emphasized by |
President Roosevelt, and that civic |
virtue that he has preached and has
practised has led him to apply the |
same principle OF individual honesty, |
OF individual decency to commercial |
honesty and TO commercial decency, |
He has demanded that the great cor
porations should be cared for by their
directors exactly in the same way that
the individual would care for his own
private affairs. He has demanded that
the great transportation companies,
both on land and on sea, so far as they
were under the jurisdiction of the Uni
ted states government should do away