Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-04
PREPAREDNESS
EMPHASIZED BY
GOV. PINKHAM

Governor P:nkham's address at the
capital grounds Sunday at the exer
cises in honor of the birthday of Capt
Henri Berger was as follows:
Citizens, Your Majesty, Henri Berg
er, their servant, and members Of the
Hawaiian Band:
| Customary compliments, conven
tional expressions CT appreciation and
affection are inadequate in view oil
your life experience and the signifi
canoe of your profession.
The members of your organization
| whom you have watched and trained
with the care, patience and daily per-
sistence of an ambitious parent these
many years, so many years, are here
to honor you, together with the high
est representatives of the past and
Ipresent, on your SEVENTEEN birthday,
and to show you their affection as are
those who, from earliest childhood to
near old age, have depended upon
you and still depend on you for the
music that relieves these islands from
public monotony. ...s. : -.
For over 40 years your right hand
has directed, and your limbs have car
| ried you in the lead of your must
clans. ..-a....>.
You have welcomed arriving guests,
and serenaded departing friends as no
leader or band In the world has done.
II ever you and yours have left the
islands for brief period We have
been lost in oppressive silence and
the brightness of our sunshine has
been diminished. ....... ~ s,:~.
No bandmaster has ever had to be-
gin with the mea5er conception OF
music and it's instruments of express
sion as you found on reaching
these islands. Almost any other band
master would have been utterly dis.
couraged Not so yourself! -
When examined for detail to pro-
coed to the Hawaiian islands, while
you stood among the highest, you
were selected because you were the
most accomplished all-round bandmas.
ter in the Prussian army.
In coming here you needed to have
knowledge of the whole gamut OF !
musical instruments, as well as OF the
composition and adaptation of music.
You and your men have played at
the birth of royalty and the common.
er, and your dirges have led the last
sad professions to the worldly eternal
resting places Of royalty and the com.
moner.
Yearly you have joined in the great
procession that marks national REL
spect for those who gave their lives
that this nation might live undivided, /
and that great vital issues might be
determined by their blood.
Forty-four years ago today you
were among those who, on this very
anniversary day, clashed in arms that
similarly are POSSIBLY clashing today.
1t was not your first experience. for
you had fought in the Danish war OF
1864; the Prussian-Austrian war of
1866, followed by the Franco German
war of 1870.
In Hawaii you have, passed through
the phases of royalty, provisional gov
eminent and republic, and now as an
integral part of the United States OF
America.
Through it all has run an under
current of selfish commercialism, and
1t, in degree, so still runs, that could
not and cannot appeal to any man
with a heart in him and cannot appeal
TO any man who believes a true lover
can cast off instantly an old con-
slant love for a sudden impersonal
new love.
Irrespective of politics / shall
never forget the lovely, fresh early
dawn serenade by your dismissed mu-
sicians, as they made sweet, minor
music at the home of and in honor
Of the titled woman to whom their !,
hearts were loyal 1t was the swan
song of royalty. &
1t shall not cease to despise the POI
litical and mercenary commercialism
which could not differentiate between
the art OF music and rank material
ism. 4
l warn the Hawaiians this very day /,
10 discard those who claim to be de-
votedly in their ranks would control
them through the rankest, most deceit !
Jul materialism, for neither truth nor ]
honor prevails in their purposes; only
selfishness and without truth, honor I
and industry no good can come to the !
Hawaiian race p
Herr Berger, you were among I
those who gave to the world the '
greatest lesson of preparedness the {
world has ever known; your generals '
md strategists knew infinitely more
Of the country they were to invade
han the enemy did Of his own army, t
his own topography, his own fortifica7l
ions, his own resources and his own
spirit and patriotism.