The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-05
BETSY ROSS
MADE The FLAG
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American nation mas played III the al
fairs Of the world.
DR.. Green spoke for more than an
hour. the rapt attention Of the audi
ence never lacking, the keenest inter
est being manifested n every sentence
that no word be lost. DR.. Green IS
undoubtedly one Of the greatest pub
lie speakers who have ever appeared
before 3 Honolulu audience, and his
GRAFTON at today patriotic celebration
in the Opera House viii no doubt be
another magnificent effort.
Upon the platform with the Gov
ernor were DR.. Green, DR.. Doremus
Scudder, President Griffths of Oahu
College. President Horne of Kameha-
lneha Schools and Prof. w. A. Bryan.
Music was furnished by special quar-
tet and the solo by Mrs. Mackali was
beautifully rendered.
Governor Frear in introducing Dr.
Green spoke OF. the separation of the
colonies from the mother country and
the establishment of the Republic, when
and since. although church and state
We're forever separated, religion and
patriotism had gone hand in hand This
was more so TO-DAY than ever before.
Here in Hawaii IN a marked degree
it was the missionary father and motif
er who instilled patriotism into the
youth Of the country and enabled Ha-
wall TO be saved to itself and finally
to become a part of the great Re
public.
To follow DR. Green through the
magnificent address he made in any
report would be TO lose the force Of
his enunciation ard the fire and energy
and patriotism which he instilled into
every line. He went back into the his
tory of the colonies and the events
leading up to the separation of the
colonies from Great Britain, the stand
of the minute men at Lexington and
Cincord, Paul Revere s ride, the suf-
ferings of the army at Valley Forge,
fhe indomitable courage of the Con-
tinental soldier, the making Of the flag
by Betsy Ross and the patriotic utter
ances of the great men of the time
Jefferson. Adams and others.
He went back to the days of Runny-
mede when the first liberties were
wrested for the people, and back again
to the struggles of the Colonies, and
their victory. He spoke of the battles
of the various wars, and then spoke
particularly of the origin of the Red,
White and Blue and the significance
of the three eolors The red signifed
the glory achieved by the blood of
those who had fought for it, and his
word painting here was beautiful. The
white signfed the stainless glory of the
Republic and the blue was God s prom
ise of truth. He spoke of witnessing
a few nights ago sunset when the
western Hawaiian sky was filled with
fluffy clouds, when the sun was sinking
like tired and worn warrior upon a
bed of clouds and finally as it sank |
to sleep the white was shot with
streaks of red, making streamers- of the /
white clouds, and beyond appearing
upon the blue of heaven a star shone-
typical, said DR.. Green, of the beauty
and majesty of the Stars and Stripes,
showing that it was God 3 flag which
waved over the great Republic.
It was flag, he said, which was
not crossed and criss-erossed with a |
maze of heraldic designs. These
marked the personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
princes. whose victories caused them
to embiazon upon their standards the
heraldic devices of the fallen. The
Red. White and Blue had no such origin
or meaning.
AS to Betsy Ross, DIR. Green said
that from Boston came the story that
Betsy Ross was only a dressmaker,
that she never had a conference with |
George Washington and that she never
designed the flag, but he told a pretty
story of a little flag which had been
made for him and presented to him
by the granddaughter of Betsy Ross. |
She had told him the story which she
had learned when child sitting at
her grandmother s knee. Betsy Ross
told her with her own lips how George
ashingten came to her, how they
talked of flag and fve-pointed
star: how she shipped" the five
pointed star and placed it against the
blue of her skirt. That was the true
story and he was glad to tell it to a
Honolulu audience, the story he had
heard from the lips of the granddaugh-
ter of the maker of the flag, the story
which the maker had told her.
In New England also they had said
that Paul Revere never made that his
toric ride. But IT was as true as that
BETSY Ross mace the flag