Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-11


fulcrum for Gods lever. with which
he has lifted the world forward and
upward. In some degree this is al
ready true OF the Hawaiian islands.
The idea of industrial education which
General Armstrong carried over from
the Hawaiian islands and applied in
his school for colored folk at Ham
den Sydney Institute in Virginia has
done more for the uplift of the colored
race, than New England has done In a
hundred years through literature. Sun
Vat Sen caught the light of progress
siVe Christian civilization In Honolulu
and lit up all China with il How far
yon little candle throws its light
Such contributions to human progress
viii increase; for Hawaii is an ex-
pertinent station in the relation of the
races
The economic situation is perplex-
ing In the old game Of cracking the
whip the chap at the end Of the line
caught the impulse of the swift, for
ward and torturous movement, and
was frequently bruised. Little Ha-
wall is at the end of the tariff whip
and is being bruised bit. However,
it is an old saying that one should
not carry all his eggs in one basket.
If in the new adjustment there Is a
Redistribution of the treasures Of the
Islands, the shock may do good And
then what sometimes seems disaster
is but new way of spelling oppor-
tunity When the Erie railroad was
completed and the event was eele-
brated at Buffalo. the terminus of the
road on Lake Erie, w. II. Seward
made speech and prophesied proph-
ecy was Stewards strong point He
prophesied that the day would come
when Buffalo would have two rail-
roads and the Erie canal would still be
in use. One of the New York papers
came out soon after, and with the in
finite wisdom that has always char
acterized the New York press, declar-
ed that it was a humiliation that a
great state like New York, should
have governor who on such an inn
portant occasion would get drunk and
talk like a fool -forsooth rail-
roads at Buffalo and the Erie canal
still in use. Well. there are more
than 20 railroads at Buffalo and the
state has spent 100000 recently
in deepening the Erie canal.
The year 1916 is at the door. It
will be an eventful year like that of
1892, when Columbus drove his cara
vels across the sea, pushing the hori-
zon Of the world 5000 miles westward,
and changing the line of human prog
ress in such miraculous way When
the Panama canal Is completed 'divid-
ing the continents and uniting the
world, the voyage Of Columbus will be
finished and his dream fulfilled; a
vessel can lift anchor in the ports of
Europe and drop 1t in the ports OF
Asia. The man with compass tells
us that the curved line to the north
of Hawaii is the shortest route from
the Pacific gate of the canal to Japan
and China. But progress does not
move on curved line or on a straight
line but on zigzag lane. and am
persuaded that Honolulu is at one of
the angles of the zigzag line. Venice
lost her halo by change of sea-route;
let us hope that Honolulu by a length
ening OF the sea-route may gain her
halo and sit as queen in the Pacific.
The most impressive things on the
islands to me are not its pals or its
palms, its canyons or its bays, but
its high purpose of life. The ideals
that are making the continent great
flourish here as shown in its churches,
its schools, its beneficent organiza-
lions. / know of no people who rec
ognize an opportunity more accurately
than those people or who respond to
1T mere generously or heroically. They
are working at the nations task, at
the worlds task and are doing SPLEEN
didly
leave Hawaii with hands out
stretched in benediction and with a
prayer IN my heart that she may real.