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

J, 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:
J., Citizens, Your Majesty, Henri Berg
er, their servant, and members of the
Hawaiian Band:
Customary compliments, conven
tional expressions OF 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
present, 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 hanC
has directed, and your limbs have car.
ried you in the lead of your must.
clans.
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
4 hvfa
been diminished. -~
No bandmaster has ever had to be-
gin with the mea5er conception OF
music and its 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 re-
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
1854; 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 q republic, aud now as an
part Of the United States of
America
Through 1t all has run an under.
current of selfish commercialism, and
it, in degree, so still runs, that could
not and cannot appeal to any man
with heart in him and cannot appeal
10 any man who believes a true lover
can cast off instantly an old con-
slant love for q sudden impersonal
new love.
Irrespective of politics l shall
never forget the lovely, fresh early
lawn serenade by your dismissed mu
sicians, as they made sweet, minor
music at the home of and in honor
If the titled woman to whom their
hearts were loyal. 1t was the swan !
long of royalty. =
!, It shall not cease to despise the po-
itical and mercenary commercialism
which could not differentiate between
he art of music and rank material
SIN. 1.
warn the Hawaiians this very day [
% discard those who claim to be de-
rotedly in their ranks would control
hem through the rankest, most deceit
ul materialism, for neither truth nor l
lonor prevails in their purposes; only
Ielfishness and without truth, honor
md industry no good can come to the
Hawaiian race. "
Herr Berger, you were among
hose who gave to the world the
greatest lesson of preparedness the
world has ever known; your generals
nd strategists knew infinitely more
# the country they were to invade
han the enemy did of his own army,
lis own topography, his own fortified, 4
ions, his own resources and his own
dependable spirit and patriotism.
Commanding your intensely organI
zed forces with all this information in
lis brain and the details at hand was
hat silent, sad, firm man, General
'on Moltke, and it was but the work
f moment for him to set all his
orceS and resources in motion.
No enterprising newspaper cores.
ondent, in order to make a SCOOP"
etrayed his plans to the enemy.
1t was not modern news practice
ut it was and is the way to carry .on {
uccessful warfare: and wars are not r