The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-07-11

Spokesman for the American residents
of Honolulu and mover Of the arbi.
tration resolution at yesterday Is
British American meeting.
and American people of Honolulu that
the two great English-speaking nations
which have kept 1the peace with each
other for nearly hundred years, may
now make covenant that, whatever
differences may 0Iise between them in
future, this truce of kindred and of
civilization shall not be broken nor
dissolved.
There is much, sir, that is peculiar
" fit in a gathering for such a purpose
on this soil. Most of the crucial events
in the annals of Hawaii bark back
either to .Englishmen or. Americans-to
one or the other great branch of our
common race. It was British sea.
farer who put Hawaii ON the world g
map. 1t was another who prepared the
way to the civilized ases of our soil.
Then came American missionaries
with the Christian religion and an
American jurist with the codes of
civilized law. The commerce and
staple industries of Hawaii were Great
ed and developed by the people of
both countries. For a little while the
British flag waved here; the American
flag remains over this as an outpost of
Anglo-Saxon power, And all this debt
of origin is recorded in or own terri
torial fag-the flag with the cross of
st. George and the stripes of union
blended into one pledge of fraternity
and peace. (Applause.) And so, sir, it is
fitting, that we of Hawaii should take
keen and hopeful interest in any
thing likely to bring the greater com
munities of Englishmen and Americans
together in that natural and peaceable
cooperation which, without the need
of formal compaets, we have accom-
plshed among ourselves.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us not for
get that the proposal to arbitrate all
future differences between the United
States and the British Empire, is not a
forced and dubious experiment We
are not here to see if we can mix oil
and water or kindie iron and rock into
a. lamp for orr feet. 1t is as natural
now for our people to deal with each
other in a friendly spirit as it is to
utter the same speech, to read the
same Bible, to obey the same common
law, to worship the same God and to
love the same simple and wholesome
things of life. Expediency has no part
in this high plan, We may go our
separate ways, if need be, safely and
without fear or selfTeproach But it
is in the nature of things that we of
the common family should draw to-
gether. Was it not this pride of race,
this fellowship of spirit, this common
footing in good viii that made the
stanch old Yankee commodore go to
the aid of a stricken British ship in a
quarrel not his own saying, "blood is
thicker than water7' that caused the
wrecked American sailors in the Apian
hurricane-men on the brink of death
to man their tatrered rigging and
cheer the seamen of the Queen as
they fought their way to safety CEN
thusiastic applause)
Admiral Mahan reveals diplomatic
secret when he says that continental
Europe would have hindered our war
with Spain bat for England Is refusal
oppose it. Again blood was thicker
than waterl And if we Americans had
held hundred grievances against the
Mother country then all would have
vanished when, in crisis at Manila,
when an alien admiral thought to in
terfere with the American naval opera.
l.tions there and asked British captain
what he would do in such event, the
latter answered like a fellow Anglo
Saxon, bone of our bone and flesh OF
our flesh. and let the stranger know
that he should take his orders from the
American commander. (storm Of ap
plause)
Joint Inheritances.
Natural for such people TO come TO
getheT in a pact Of peaeei Why, sir
II would be unnatural II they did notl
The British Empire and the United
States why, what 10 there 10 sever
themi Their people both inheFlt che
Magma CbaTta, they own the common
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sing the sama songs, ihe Scriptures u
King James belong p both. Their civil
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