The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-04-01

ways Inspired with tho ideal formulated
/ by our fathers In She great Declaration
I of Independence. never testing on mere
I conquest. but seeking 90 instil into tho
I minds Of those who have never known
the business Of self government. the
methods Of conducting government on
4 that basis.
Cardinal Principles.
, And the cardinal principles OF
American government ne exhibited in
the States aud in these instances, have
been that She laws should be made,
/ moneys should he raised. and their ex-
penditure directed by Representatives Of
the people met in deliberative assembly
and reaching their conclusions after full
discussion; that the laws should be ad.
ministcrcd by courts Differed by com
petent and Independent judges, and (
that the executive power should be di- F
rected in the States by men chosen by +
the people; in the Territories by the
designated representative of the Chief
Executive of the American people,
thereby preserving the direct connec.
tion between the central government
and its own Territory for whose ad-
ministration it is directly responsible.
think it safe to say that in the
history of the government, no institu-
ton has ever been devised which has
accomplished more for the public veal
than that principle which has obtained
in Anglo Saxon institutions for a thou
sand years and which has been the cor
OF stone of American political thought
the legislative assemblies. No greater
crucible for trying out the various
theories of public necessity has ever
been devised than the deliberative leg
islative body
In all governments questions arise
affecting one part of the community or
another; the government fails in its pur-
pose; it does not accomplish the ideals
OF those dependent on it; and theories
and remedies are devised, and in the
great crucible of thought which the de-
bate in the legislature furnishes, these
theories are tried out, the public is edu.
Gated in them, and finally results are
obtained which are formulated into law
or find expression in action.
Nominations Important
" Where legislative government has
tailed in the States and in those cases
where just complaint has arisen, il has.
In my opinion, been largely because
hrst, the character of the nominating
machinery has been debased and the
members of the legislative bodies have
not been truly representative of the
people, and second, because the people
IN the communities who have the great
est amount at stake have been least at
tending to the discharge their public
duties.
believe that if we address our at
tentlon to these two points, if we en-
deavor to correct the abuses of the
nominating machinery and if we insist
upon the performance by every man en-
TITLED to a vote of his duty to his fell
low citizens to exercise that vote. we
will be far more apt to correct these
faults than We would be striking out
the vital principle of government by the
representatives of the people, and los
ing that great means of reaching the
best result for the greatest number of
the people which comes from discussion
in an action by deliberative representa-
tive legislative assemblies.
His Congratulations.
Gentlemen of the Hawaiian legisla-
ture, congratulate you upon the rec
ord of your work since the organization
of this Territory. The laws enacted by
you bear comparison with those of any
State of the Union. You have been ami
mated by spirit of patriotic devotion
to your Islands and with recognition
of the value to you of your intimate
association with the American Union.
You occupy peculiarly important
and conspicuous position. You stand at
the crossways of the Pacific. You are
really the outmost post of the American
Union, for the Philippine Islands do
not constitute, as do you, part of the
American Union.
According as you discharge the du-
ties imposed upon you, so do you re-
feet credit or discredit upon the ideals
of the American people, and if your
work he performed well and if the gov
eminent of your Territory continue to
attract the admiration of those who
come here, if your domestic institutions
are well managed, your laws wise, the
administration of your revenues honest
ly devoted to the public interest, you
will attract the attention of the ma
tons of the earth and lead them to
turn from the ideal of conquest and sub
jugation to the better ideal of gov
eminent based upon the suffrages of
the people, representative of its best
aspirations and lead their footsteps in
the path of fruitfulness and ways Of
peace.
Souvenir Calabash.
Representative Poepoe, accompanied
by Sergeant-at-arms Parker, then pre-.
scented Mr.. Wickersham with the Gala
bash. With a few words of thanks by
the distinguished visitor, the pleasing,
though informal, ceremony was brought
to close, while Speaker Holstein in.
troduced the members of the legislature
and other visitors, as they filed past the
former attorney general of the United
States.
The calabash is made of kou wood
one of the rarest today in Hawaii. It
is some twenty inches in diameter and
highly polished. On one side of thu
bowl is silver medallion on which is
inscribed:
presented by the House of Repre-
sentatives of Hawaii 10 Hon. George
w. Wickersham, March 3lst, 1918. Alo-
ha."
on the opposite side of the calabash
is an Hawaiian coatof-arms. in enamel
and coiors, with the motto "Ua mau Ike
ca o ka alma ka pono," Hawaiian for
"The life Of the land is established in