The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-28

wanton and objectionable that it brands
him as lost 10 social obligations. and
with a heart really bent on mischief
IF he had craved and coveted that
worm, if he had loved and longed for
it, we would have opened our homes and
hearts TO him. for | say to you tonight
that no man with as much real money as
Mr.. Rockefeller ever vet went South
without finding every home open and
every heart and hope beating high.
From the day when the rhetorical
suggestion about the wonderful hospi-
tally of the South took its rightful
place with kindred aphorisms, we, Of
the South, have extended ardent wei
come to every man with money. having
nothing to enliven us except the most
nebulous notion that we ght separate
him from some of IT,
I'VE have welcomed the wealthy with
no plans more definite than seyen-up;
we have hade them goodbye with moth
ing to cheer Us save the unreasoning
hope that made Micawber's life so
beautiful. And YOU know and | know
that greater kindness to strangers hath
no section than this: it permitteth the
rich alien to get away with his alien
riches. We welcome almost every body.
| Why, six months ago we welcomed a
Republican President, And, in passing,
[ II say that it looks like we are never
going to have any other kind
"Since Mr.. Bryan got the h00kworm
in his vocal organs and Richard Croker
took the veil. it is hardly worth while
to be Democrat
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vasion of our traditional rights-and
while the South is not so particular
about its rights. it is foolish about its
| tra3itions-I say to you that it was
not because he loved or lusted for the
worm, but because of his insatiate de
| sire to crush something.
Just WHY he should have turned his
! evil eve upon the South and proposed to
annihilate nature s sure antidOte to eff
| fort, I do not know We never sold any
coal oil And | hone that fact viii oh
| trude itself upon his conscience. before
| the final tragedy, and cause the still
small voice-if there are any still, small
voices left--to beseech him: 'Oh
Mister. spare that worm.'
eff he met that hookworm in the fair
/! field Of fight competing with it for SUI
! premacy-man to w0rm-our rage and
resentment would not have mounted SO
high. But he subsidized scientists and
marshaled the myrmidons Of medicine
applied to that worm the hideOus
i epthet 'uncinariasis, and with nc
| search warrant from on High proposes
to forage our forms and probe our per
sons. and 7 tell you tonight that the
peace Of universal man is placed il
peril.
~ do not speak for the worm, hut
for the world. That worm makes a mar
subside, it stops the soaring purpose
and makes the wild wave of tumult bt
as the still waters. If there was ever :
/ time in human history when the hook
worm could serve a God ordained end
it is TODAY Doctor Stiles one of Rookie
feller's Mamelukes of Medicine. say
that Just one little worm renders a MAJ
incapable Of performing any great eX
ertiOn. The CRYING need of the hour
then. is that worm.
elf one hooIworm had been place,
in Thomas W. Lawson before he wen
to finance his frenzy. that Gun woul,
have surely passed from us, No mat
can saw that this small object Of Rookie
, feller's wrath, if well and wisely used
might lot deaden, though It could no
destroy. Uncle Joe Cannon : willingness
to start rough house
owe have one citizen whose svster
. should he saturated with hookworms ]
the serenity of the world Is 70 he as
>urod Think Of the storm that would b
~tj1Ied and the tranquility that wonI
. pnrvade The earth if our Mighty Hunte
! J,