The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-22
GOVERNOR FREAR'S SPEECH
AT MOHONK CONFERENCE
Says Hawaii Might Be Considered International
Storms Center, Though Its Wishes
Are for Peace.

Governor Frear delivered a short ad
dress at the Mohonk Conference, TAX
ing for his subject, "Hawaii's Interest
in international Arbitration. The
Governor had not expected to be called
on for speech when he was present
at the conference, as the delegates were
not at that time taking up Hawaiian
matters. In line with the international
arbitration matters which were then be-
ing discussed the Governor said as fol
lows:
i" Mr.. Chairman and Members of the
Conference: With your permission, |
will express a few thoughts, suggested
by my residence in little remote Ha-
wall, bearing upon the questions before
this conference. It not infrequently
happens that even the most far-reach-
ing questions may be illumined by OBJ
servation or experiment. upon a small
scale. The history of Hawaii is great
history in miniature. It exhibits, since
the beginnings of Christian civilization
there less than a century ago and in
small compass, many of the problems
and their solution that have made up
in large part the histories of great
nations of centuries growth.
''For four centuries before the adj
vent of Christian civilization, those is
lands were in a constant state of inter
nal warfare. Since then there have
migrated thither large numbers of other
races-Americans, English, Germans,
Spaniards, Portuguese, Porto Ricans,
Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and other
races, making perhaps the most cosmo.
politan people upon the face of the
earth and offering opportunity for a
continuation and an intensifcation of
the strife that had so long existed be,
fore. Yet so clear was the mutually
of interests among these different races,
though each lived largely its own life
and had it's own individual interests
and so permeating were the principles of
| the prince of Peace taken there by
the missionaries and propagated by
| their descendants, that the history OF
| that little group has flowed on smooth
ly and with wonderful results. It has
illustrated in a small way the words OF
our Secretary of State, made only q
| few DAYS ago at the laying of the cor
ner stone of the Bureau of American
| Republics, that no difficulties are sc
| great that they must lead to war il
neither party really desires war; while
no difficulties are so trifiing but thai
they may lead to war if either party
I really desires war. Tt is all in thu
spirit. To illustrate by single in
stance. Ninty japanese in the pub
lie schools nearly upset the great metro
polls of the West, and through tina
nearly involved two nations in war
The same problem was presented in Ha
wall, with five thousand Japanese chill
dren, and was solved without a rippl
of excitement, but in a different man
ner and different spirit. If in thes
little islands of Hawaii, among thes
different races, peace could be main
] tanned through a sense of mutually o
interests and the incubation of tn
doctrine of the brotherhood of man
may we not hope for similar results o.
larger scale and through the sam
process?
prey to designing nations, long main
tanned her independence. Why? One
she lost her independence for shor
time and on its restoration, in 1843, tn
King addressing the people told ther
that if they would continue numbere
among the nations of the earth, respect
ed by other nations and at peace wit
other nations, they must keep pace wit
advancing civilization and pursue RICH
eousness. In his own words: 'Ua ma
| Ike ca ka alma ka pono THE lii
| of the land is perpetuated by righteou