Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-27
THANKSGIVING, 1912

War and runners of war, tariff revision and
umors of tariff revision, prospects of lively
PpIitical set-to between Republicans and Demo
rats for the next two years,-aI of these cx,
ernal troubles need not interfere at all with
dawaii's appetite for Thanksgiving dinner to,
morrow
The troubles mentioned, and the host of 9th
,rg that perpleX and irritate temporarily, are no
more than Il slight rash oil the body polite, no
more than q tiny abrasion of the skin. They are
lot serious enough to interfere with territorial
thanksgiving. The only bodily i'll that
nterferes directly with enjoyment of turkey and
ne fixin's is indigestion, and Honolulu and Ha-
xaii are far, very far, from deep-seated ailments
NJ that sort.
Most of our troubles said great philosopher,
IRE those that never happen. How true of many
NJ MS in Hawaii. We pass through a recurring
'series of scare epidemics, for day or a week or
a month we tremble at unseen horrors and grow
pale at Imagined calamities But the shadows of
disaster over the community pass away, and we
ire surprised to find that even while the shad-
|ows endured, the territory moved calmly, ire
|sistibly forward, and prosperity heaped Hawaii's
|tornucopia higher and higher with material
blessings gs llas3.4f. d
Hawaii is in a strategic position to endure
Without serious economic disaster, without sink
ing under the blow, even the imagined miShaps.
There is enough material wealth, industrial
prosperity, enough of resource and enough of
natural strength, to bear a far heavier burden
han any We are likely to be called upon to bear.
To turn from material things Hawaii may
well give thanks for the steady growth the on
ward march of knowledge, of kindliness between
man and man, of progress in ethical and spirit
hal development. 1t is a day of changing polit-
ical ideas, and much of the tawdriness of the old
Is giving place to the clean brightness of the new
Throughout the territory b h.nlinded men and
Women are coming forward to- help solve the
problems of sound government and sane citizen
ship. There has never been a year in Hawaii's
history more fraught with the spirit. of the Gold
en- Rule in politics than that just closing. There
he's never been year when the fundamental re.
lationsllip between good government, efficient
eoytrnmenf, and the "lfying of the people" has
been so thoroughly recognized, when the men
CARRYING Hawaii forward saw so plainly that its
POLITICAL structure must be built not by one man
Of set Oh IIlei but ny oil lhC pcoPic WI hlhS
one mind and one steadfast ideal. A =
Materially and spiritually, Hawaii is pro
pressing fast She has within her sea-swept
Boundaries the elements of strength TO solve her
vital problems and to bear without disaster
Whatever she may be called upon to bear.
Hawaii can have no greater cause for Thanks,
giying,--she needs no greater,--than the as
sured knowledge that her own men and women
are moving rapidly and courageously along the
best lines of progress in all fields of endeavor,
and that this territory can continue to bring
forth the citizens who will keep the standard
lust as hghhe1d and as boldly waving.