The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-07

a city and such a coast to plead for
have listened to all you have said
of the cooperation and intelligent zeal
of your delegation and the absolute
disappearance of discord from your
ranks, and have believed it all.
have even listened to what some of the
delegates themselves admitted about
the new Golden Age they had inaugu-
rated, when none was for party,
when all were for the State, and have
also believed the most of that.
Success Deserved.
But, it may be worth tonight to re-
member for an instant that none of
these things-neither their zeal nor
their cooperation nor what we may
call their uncommon skill in the whole
art and mystery of dealing with legis-
lators, can be wholly credited with
your success. These things helped
no doubt-all thanks to your repre-
sentatives for it. But that success
could not have come, after all, II con-
gress and the country had not thought
they might Judge of what this people
could do by what 1t had rome.
The result, then, was far more than
a mere triumph of lobbying. 1t was
a triumph of just confidence in the
future arising out Of your perform.
ance in the past. The whole country
knows that your town was Frustrated
four years ago in struggle with the
elemental forces of nature, and within
two years afterward had risen supe-
rior to the earthquake and fire. 1t
knows, then, that no city on the con-
tinent. has ever more yconvincingiy
proved itself equal to any emergency,
and believes that no lesser task can
ever henceforth overmatch it's cour-
age and its energies.
Now, gentlemen, noDlesse oblige. 1t
is on this faith in your past perform
ance that you have been given what
you asked. There remains one over
whelming necessity; you must make
good. 1t is a big responsibility you
have assumed, and you will not dis.
charge it any the less to the salts
faction of yourselves and the country
if you take time to realize at the out
set just how big it is.
Will Eagerly Help.
You want and expect to make as
good a worlds fair as anybody. Yet
you are somewhere about half a mil.
lion, as against over two millions at
Chicago, a million and half at Phila.
delphia, nearly five millions in New
York. Besides, you are long dis
lance away from these centers of popu-
lation, across the deserts and the
mountains, and more than twice as
far from other essential centers, over
seas.
There have been a good many
worlds fairs; and some communities,
and, in fact, some governments, are
not quite so keen for them as. they
used to be.
l noted a remark about what is ex
pected of your diplomatic represent
atives. You need not be uneasy. The
United States has no diplomatic rep
resentative abroad who will not be
eager and proud to carry out to the
uttermost the instructions of the
President and the Secretary of State
in that regard
But, naturally, the chief executive
of continental republic, speaking for
a people of ninety millions, and to all
the world, can not rush out invita-
lions before the site of the fair has
been fixed. In view of his official and
personal relation to the matter you
will also expect him to secure the
expert approval of the professional adj
visers provided for him in advance OF
this formal Announcement. He may
need to be fortified also by the evi.
dence that the last dollar of the last
million of the munificenr sum you
have so generously promised is ready
on call, when needed, before he puts
the moral force of the whole vast ma
ton behind the invitation he then ex-
tends, in your behalf, and in its name,
to all the governments of the world.
Confident Of Our Aid.
When they are sent know we may
count on you to help us send them
under circumstances and in a way that
will conciliate good will and insure
cordial and hearty cooperation. 1t is
quite possible you may think you have
reason at that very time to object to
other things some of these foreign
countries do, or refrain from doing
about reciprocity, for instance, or an.