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

Belgium and Spain, the Duke Of Well
ington was on waiting orders. Eng.
land might have taken all our feeble
ports and brought an army TO occupy
ihem; but she met our commissioners
half way, signed o treaty that brought
peace with honor TO both nations and
did not ask one single cent OF indom-
nifty.
Again In 1858 she had n chance 70
make war over the Trent affair and a
strong party at homo wanted her to
do so, and even the ministry seemed
to sympathize. The time was most
critical for us. We were in the midst
Of civil war; but tho common people
of Great Britain were for peace, and
when it was time for the British gov
ernment to act one way or the other,
Her Majesty the Queen, God bless her
memory-and never did majesty more
become the greatest Of human thrones
raised her imperial hand and said
to her prime minister: ''Write the Uni
ted States government a pacific letter"
and every sane Engiishman honored
her for IL. 7iise @
When oar turn. came to be magnani-
nous we also met the tests Of brother
hood. Our civil war was over. We
had many and sore grievances because
the shipping lords of England had
built cruisers for the Confederate use,
and our commerce was no more. That
was the time Of our temptations for
the United States had over 100000
men in arms and more cannon afloat
than any other power There lay un-
fortified Canada to serve as the in
demnity we asked; o continental AREA
large enough to recompense us for all
the material costs of the Civil War.
Like England, after the Trent affair,
we had our war party; but the govern
ment of the United States, never so
powerful for offense, dishanded her
armies, dismantled her ships, and left
her claims of indemnity to be decided
by q tribunal of arbitration. Once
again blood was proved to be thicker
than water; once more our Anglo
Saxon brotherhood paused on the brink
of temptation with swords half-drawn,
looked into the eyes of its kindred
and clasped hands.
Triumph of Example.
Let rs take broader survey and
think of the effect of this treaty upon
the rest of the world-the bearing of
our action upon the policies of other
nations. In these days of trade and
industry peace may be made as i'm
fectious as war ever was in the age
or armed conquest. All it needs is a
great example. Don't You believe that
peace is eatching9 Then what OF
Japan, fresh from her triumphs, asking
to be the next to sign the arbitration
treaty. And don t we all know that,
If the treaty comes to pass and the
lists are opened, some of the powers
of continental Europe will hasten to
afix their names also and draw their
first long breath in doing itG (Ap-
plause.)
Ladies and gentlemen, the times are
ripe for peace. Peace is the only way
out for overburdened nations. All
Europe is weary of preparing for the
next war. The people do not know
where the money is coming from to
pay the debt already massed, nor can
their rulers tell them. Vastly inereas-
ed numbers are pressing on the means
of subsistence. Prices are rising the
world over. There are more poor.
Socialism is gaining ground. Do the
warlords think that under these condi-
tions it is quite safe to go on grinding
the faces of the poor, to wiring more
gold from the hard hands of peasants,
to coin more blood for drachmas? My
friends war cannot go ON forever. 1t
is not in the economy of the world; it
is not in the order of the universe
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for nobler and saner things, and when
the rest of the world sees two invinei-
BILE nations uniting for peace, will it
not take the lesson home that these
powers make it possible for all others
to have peace also; that they, if they
choose, could stop the barbarism of
war. These powers jointly hold the
strategic positions of the globe; they
fix the price of money; they have the
best reasons and the best means to
safeguard the routes of trade, to keep
ports open, to save debtor nations
from being despoiled by stronger ones.
Their united fat will be the last. word.
When the rest of the world realizes all
this / feel, don't youg that the day
foreseen by the Judean prophet when
spears shall be turned into pruning
hooks win be very near and that just
before us waits the hour prefgured in
the vision of the laureate when
The war drums throb no longer
and the battle flags are furled
In the parliament of man, the
Federation of the world.
Mr.. Chairman, now offer the reso-
latiOn Of the evening:
Resolved, That this meeting of
American and British residents of
Honolulu cordially welcomes the
proposal that the United States Of
America shall enter into a general
Treaty of unlimited arbitration
with the British Empire, and it
urges on tho Senate Of the United
States the approval and ratiaea.
ton OF this most desirable and
important measure, believing that
such a Treaty would materially
promote tho peace Of the World
aud further the best interests Of
these tso great Nations
i move the adoption Of this Teaoln'
ton aud hope the response may be
unaulnlous PROLONGED apIlianfe,1