The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-09
Big Boost for San :! Francisco
BY bert ubbard
BY Ebert Hubbard.

The year 1915 is the centennial of ths
downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon was Dictator benefcenr
tyrant And, by the way, all tyrant:
have ever regarded themselves as benef
cent
The year 1915 is to mark the Rule Of
the People,
1t is to commemorate the completion
of the greatest engineering feat ever
attempted work Of the People, bv
the People, for the People.
The building of the Chinese Wall Is
the only engineering feat in. history
that actually rivals it. The French
are supposed TO lead the world as civil
engineers. They made their plans for
Panama Canal; they spent untold
treasure and twenty years time and
then abandoned the attempt as impos-
sble
The Panama Canal will be the actual
realization of the short passage to
India, sought by sailors and navigators
for centuries. Columbus, Balboa. Ma
gellan, Cortez, Sir Francis Drake, Henry
Hudson, lived and died in ignorance of
the fact that when the Northwest Pas
rage was realized it would have been
made by the cunning Of man
10 commemorate this mighty achieve
ment IL worthy Of our highest, noblest
and most dignifed efforts.
No Mardi Gras Carnival, with its
dancing clowns, prancing nymphs and
showers of confetti will suffice.
1t is America s opportunity to usher
in the New Era--the Epoch of Brother
hood and Universal Intelligence.
1t means blossoming of intellect and
love that will give America a new birth
OF prosperity, heretofore unequaled.
Archimedes, who invented and holds
patent on the lever, said: "Give me
place upon which to stand, and III
move the world
San Francisco has lever and she has
a place upon which to stand She has
moved the world to admiration for her
recovery from calamity, and she will
now, with the help of the world. give
the world the greatest object lesson in
science, economies, art and industrial
betterment that it has ever seen.
She has the money, the location. the
men and women-the willing brain and
the strong and helpful hands.
San Francisco now asks congress for
ofhclal permission to invite the world
to come to her House Party in 1915.
San Francisco does not ask Uncle
Sam for either an appropriation or a
loan. :.
All she asks is for his smile and nod :
of recognition:
San Francisco has now pledged ana
at her command Seventeen Million Dol /
lars TO finance the Panama World s Ex- !
position
This is a larger sum than any WdFla : +
Fair has ever had, and the Centennial :
Exposition had only about onefourth +
as much.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana before
the congressional committee well said:
''The Panama Canal is not a Louisiana
project, nor a California affair. It is
the work of the whole United States
Even so. And the World s Fair that
commentaries this superb event must
he Of character and kind approaching
the greatness ara CIV hueur u tue ian. ian:
in which we live.
In mineral weaI+L Louisiana has moth.
ing. Her one and only great engineer
ing feat is sewer above grade. In hve-
stock-horses, cattle, sheep and SWINE
Louisiana has nothing to offer. People
coming from Europe and South America
with an idea Of emgrating here would
90 to New Orleans and depart with
very shadowy impression of what the
United states has to offer. People who
do not know Colorado do not know
America
II want the East to be siphoned
through Denver as a matter of educa-
ton.
San Francisco can reveal America at
her best. and this is just what must be
done. We must educate our boys and
girls to the great and splendid re-
sources that are here practically I'M
tapped.
The highest point of land in New
Orleans lies six feet above sea level,
Such an altitude can not thrill and
inspire. To invite the nations of the
world to view US from a height of six
feet above sea level is to make us re-
semble three lead dimes, and send the
visitor avar with visions pf a crrav-