The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-23

the other side there pour into it the
streams of a civilization only three OF
four hundred years old Those two
streams meet here, and you with your
education and your enlightenment will
profit, not alone for yourselves, but
for the world. China is open now,
and, as your president has said you
have found her merchants honest and
industrious. Our civilization, thou
sands of years old, is not perfect, but
it is worthy of study. You have here
a community where men of all nations
can meet on basis of equality ire
spective of creed, or color, or race. IF
you go on in this way. you can not
but be of great benefit to the world.
You with your schools and your enter
prise can help here to solve some of
the international questions which are
perplexing the statesmen of the world.
Il thank you for the kindly way in
which your president has proposed my
name and for the cordial way in which
you have greeted it, and I wish you
all prosperity"
OTHER SPEAKERS.
President Smith introduced Judge
Dole as one who could properly re-
snond to the kindly greetings of the
distinguished guest of the day.
Il am very glad of this opportunity"
began Judge Dole, ''to say a few words
I have pleasant recollections of meet
ing Minister WI at dinner of the
Gridiron Club in Washington several
years ago. ] am glad to speak in rec
ognition of one of the leading men in
China, and it is a matter of sincere
satisfaction to this community, I be-
lieve. that DIR. WI is being sent again
to represent his people at the Ameri
can capital.
Referring to the treatment of the
Chinese here, they have been coming
here since I was a boy, for fifty years
and more. A generation has been born
and brought up here, and many of the
youth of this generation have gone
back to the fatherland and have there
been able to enter upon well-paying
employment. I consider that these
young men. with their English educa-
ton and their ability to speak the Chi
nese language, have the best material
outlook of any set or class of young
men in the world
of the commission sent out few years
ago to study the governmental sys-
TENS of other countries, and / remem-
Der how earnest they We're in their
efforts The relations between the is
lands and the people of China have
always been of the most friendly sort.
/ can assure the minister that the feel
ing toward his countrymen which he
has so graciously alluded to is sin
cere one"
President Smith called on Walter G.
Smith to respond on behalf of the
press. Beginning, Mr. Smith said:
1.-TWO minutes ago I was asked to ex-
press the appreciation we all feel for
the guest of this occasion. I thought
then and think now that it would
be better to let the press in its own
way and in it's own time speak the
sentiments it has. remember meet
ing Minister WI many years ago in a
little village in western Japan, where
with that distinguished statesmen Ii
Hung Chang he had come to make
peace at the close of a great war. As
one Of the three white men in the
place, I met Minister WI there and
then, and / have never forgotten him
Il can assure Minister WI that he
is here among friends. Everyone who
lives here appreciates in the broadcast
way the part the Chinese people have
had in the development of these is
lands. We could use more of them
here And I think that Minister WI
must have recognized change of
sentiment among the responsible.
thinking people of America toward
what was done by some of the most
disreputable people of our land. l
think it is beginning to be recognized
that as a people we were mis1ed by
Dennis Kearnay. 1 have always held
these sentiments, and as the editor If
small daily paper in California. the
only pro-Chinese daily in the State.
hurled these sentiments in the teeth of
the anti-Chinese ranks.
When Dennis Kearney. in the sand
lots. was proclaiming that the Chinese
must go. because the Chinese sent
their surplus money out of. the coun-
try. those to whom he spoke were di-
viding their surplus money between