The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-15
WORK FOR THE
LAND YOU
LIVE IN
trrom Wednesdays Advertiser.)

"You can hope to attain true, 4
4 and therefore great, success, when 4
A you have learned to love Hawaii X
4 for Hawaiis sake; when you love X
4 the land, its nature and its seen X
4 cry; when you love your work. and +
4 when you have developed within X
X yourself the desire to give your 4
4 life and your life's work for the X
4 land in which you live and In 4
4 which you earn your bread 4
X Count Otani, in an address of ad- X
X vice for the japanese Buddhists X
X of Hawaii.
At r 4 4 X 4 X Xxx X X + + .
Practical in its direct bearing upon
the affairs of everyday in Hawaii was
the address made to the gathered
priests of the West Hongwanji Bud
dhist church of these islands on Mon
day by Count Soncho Otani, their lead
er, soon to be their supreme head. Re-
markable in its clearness and strong in
its directness was the speech of this
young visitor, speech made to the
priests but undoubtedly intended for
the whole japanese population of
these islands.
Count Otani met the assembled
priests in the Hongwanji Mission
church and planted In their breasts
the seeds of practical good advice
that will undoubtedly grow, blossom
and fruit in every corner of every is
land, to the lasting good of the Japa-
nese laborers and residents and to the
future prosperity of Hawaii.
His address, in full, follows:
81 am grateful to you for coming
here to welcome me, coming in spite
of the distances you have had to travel
to be here and the inconvenience that
such trip may have caused you. /
am sorry that ! can not remain here
for some time and see with my own
eyes the good work in which you are
all engaged.
"However, can imagine how much
good you are doing for your fellow
countrymen when l note the good work
that the Reverend Mr.. Imamura is do
ing here. / can also imagine how ex-
tensive your work must be and how
encouraged you must be in doing it.
'Where your influence is great your
responsibility is correspondingly grave
and 1 must urge upon you to use good
Judgment in your work and in n spirit
of self.sacrifce continue in your la
bors for the Amida s teachings.
Japanese as people aspire to sue
cess, but success never comes in haste.
1t must be attained step by step. I'm
migrants are not necessarily all ad-
venturers and among them the spirit
of trying to amass fortune in the
shortest possible time should not be
encouraged. Such spirit among the
people will lead to vice and crime.
"Our fellow countrymen in Hawaii
should bear in mind the fact that true
success comes through honesty and by
conducting oneself honestly and right
eously, never yielding to temptation, but
working with steady purpose for sue
cess in its truest form. That success!
achieved is success of the greatest.
"You can hope to attain true, anC
therefore great, success, when you have
learned to love Hawaii for Hawaii''
sake; when you love the land, its nature
and its scenery; when you love youl
work, and when you have developed
within yourself the desire to give your
life and your life work for the lanG
in which you live and in which yor
earn your bread.
eff, each day, you put this spirit
into your labors, there should be n,
race prejudice to hamper you and you
9ellow countrymen. This so-called anti
Japanese sentiment appears only wher
our countrymen adhere to their ole
ideas and customs and refuse to adopt
those of their adopted land. My belief
is that those in n foreign land shoulC
he careful, even in the most triflni
Satters, and that when in Rome the.
should do as the Romans do. In TIN
Nanner you will gain and maintain tn
friendship of the people among whor
you have elected TO live.
'This will lead TO your success a
success should come and will place yo
among the ranks of the good citizen
of any country"