The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-21

point of having tripled the record made
four years ago.
The union labor vote is an indeter-
inmate quality, and never will be more
IN America. In the first place. the
causes that make a union are usually
local and conflict with broader inter-
ests, as is quickly found when an eff
fort is made to treat them as general.
The mere fact of being federated ON
| the basis of a single interest, that of
common employment as skilled labor
ers for wages, can never force the mass
of union men to act politically with
anything like solidarity. We have seen
the labor vote of a district crush q
Congressman, or the labor men of q
State make a Governor or control g
Legislature, but never will it be pos
sible for the national labor vote to be
anything more than a myth, except
when W0rklngmen, no matter whether
union or nOn-union, individually de-
termine that vote for a national can
didate and his party platform means a
continuance of their prosperous estate,
or an improvement in one that is bad.
Preponderating in its Importance to
the future as to peace or war, and in
ternational relations and commerce. is
the integrity, sanity, and perspicacity
of the new Congress. Without wishing
to be understood as anticipating at
tempts from the exterior to hinder our
progress or balk the peaceful, prosper
Gus course of our development, it
would be an evasion for me to con-
clude this paper without taking cog
nizance of our international situation
and its relation to the campaign. AS
/ have intimated, there is no more rea-
son to consider ourselves world
power now than in the days when our
fleet met the British on equal terms OF
when we went into the Mediterranean
to punish pirates or, though young and
raw, dared to balk the European pro-
gram that made Macmillan Emperor
of Mexico
While it is true that our powers have
multiplied many times since then, it
must be remembered that the military
establishments and colonial activities
of Europe have more than quadrupled.
We are merely returning to our own in
some things, though taking on a new
Importance in others. We are palpably
drifting into set of relations toward
other powers, especially in the matters
of China, Hawaii, and the Philippines,
from which we can emerge without
war only through the strongest and
wisest craftsmanship; nevertheless, the
justice and humanitarianism of our
acts and policies will serve US in the
highest degree. and we may be able to
surmount the crisis without those GER
tain results which would be deplorable
in the extreme
1t is not often that Congress has
shown itself fitted to deal wisely with
conditions outside our borders, COM
pared with its handling of domestic
affairs, and our political economy
places snch a potentiality for mischief
in our deliberate assemblage that It
might undo all the craft of state and
the wisdom and conservatism of the
executive. For months the indications
have been that the next Congress would
see many new faces, and the country
may look for Republicans from the
South and Democrats from New Eng
land at a rate and with diffusion that
will be truly surprising.
But when the misadventures of par
ties, misled by sophisticated, sympathy
mad leaders, trumpet false calls TO re-
form, treacherous distortions of senti-
ment subordinating private interests
and the well-meaning but overheated
laundering of the impetuous are all
met and ordinated. there must rise the
final good for the Hand Of the Al
mighty lies to hold and guide, steadily,
unwavering, and eternally secure, and
through His infinite mercy we shall
come to the fulfllment of our mission,
foretold with our birth. noblv begun in
our youth, for the uplifting Of our race
and our brothers Of the fav0rs not our
own GROVER CLEVELAND.