The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-07-05
DICKINSON ON
HURRY UP TRIP
Confined from Page one.)

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promised TO return some day, however,
either in this or another incarnation,
and make Hawaii a proper visit. =,
These were the only speeches Of the
banquet and there was but one toast
drunk, that to the President of the
United States.
A Hawaiian quintet club, in the en-
trance hall, played during the banquet
The secretary's Speech.
The secretary of war was introduced
in the pavilion by E. D. Tenney:
al would not have any one infer
from the fact that l have consented
to speak here" said Mr.. Dickinson,
"that 1 am travelling around the coun.
try like many of our statesmen with
speech in my system that am anx-
ious to be delivered Of. Oaughter,) 1
had a friend who said he was like
a slot machine and that all you had to
do was to put dinner into him to get
speech l do not wish to lose an OPP.
portunity of expressing the pleasure 1
have experienced in my visit to Homo.
lulu and my deep appreciation of the
courtesies that have been bestowed
upon me from the time of my arrival
| this morning to this hour
81 found that I had been preceded
by what / would regard as a favorable
introduction and it showed how Hawaii
keeps step with the times. / saw that
my presence was announced in the
paper today, but 1 recognized that L
had been disguised as my friend Jud-
son Harmon. ! hope the publication of
that picture will not bring harm to
my friend Harmon in his political as.
pirations. I should regret to be an
innocent cause of putting any obstacle
in the way of his hopes. Daughter.)
/ have always observed that in Amer.
ica-I mean in our part of America,
for / do not imply that this is not
part of America-we have always had
a feeling that in turning this way we
were going to a foreign country. That
was what l anticipated. / found moth
ing of the sort, except in the climate,
in the vegetation and the rare and strik
ing colors of your flowers, but in meet
ing your people I realize that this is
a part of our great Republic, with the
same sentiments, the same aspirations,
living under the same laws and that
we all have the same loyalty for the
same flag. (Applause)
"Some of you, / believe, have not
experienced all the beauties of Hawaii.
/ don't think you all appreciate the
loneliness that surrounds you, but for
the benefit of those, want to suggest
to you that at about two-thirty on any
afternoon you climb up the circuitous
route to the top of Diamond Head and
when you have seen the vista from there
why you will then appreciate some.
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have not experienced. (Laughter.)
"My visit here is mainly official. 1t
was said today by Mr.. Tenney that one
complaint you had was that we stop
here only as a halting place and spend
day or a day and half only. / told
him in response to that, that it was
because they did not know about the
country, but that no one stops on his
second trip for only day or day
and half.
"The principal object of my visit
here, so far as Hawaii is concerned, is
TO look after the defenses of the ISL
ands, and the military posts, and ] will
say to you, what you probably already
know, that the United States govern.
ment has some rather ambitious plans
in connection with the extension OF
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ment here, and IL Is probable, Ia the
near future, that there win be con
siderable increase IN the number OF
soldiers thar will come from the United
, States and remain as permanent gar
rison,
~ have no special message 10 yol
from the President of the unitei
T. States, but feel that ! can eongratn
late this part Of the country upon hag
ing in The presidency, a man who ha
? such D thorough training aud wide -
e perleneo DO our national aifaia 10 dlr
charge the high duties ~ his ofiiee. tha
lt should appeal 40 you 900 account o
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