The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-10

world had ever known, turned the heads
of the great merchant princes, who had
in their younger days sailed their ships
into the far indies, the Orient, Africa,
India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements and
Americas for the treasures Of these
lands. ,.r.
They turned not only their own
wealth, energies and fortunes, but the
banking and investors Of the whole
United States, aided by investors of
England and France, into this Eldorado
Of hastily inaugurated transportation
by land instead of well balanced
maintenance Of oversee commerce and
home development.
One man, great general, most
modest man, so modest he had the re,
spect of the entire world, had visited
all the prominent nations Of the earth,
and on his return home in the year 1880
realized that the United States was
making profound mistake In failing
to regain and enlarge her foreign com
merce. .'. T..
80 A great mass of people felt he had
the influence that would tend to insure
a profound effort to revive our foreign
commerce aud desired him for Presi,
dent of the United States for the third
time. ...." r.g
'Though an interval had passed, an
ambitious politician raised the cry of
third term, and the cry prevailed, but
the politician lost out. American com
meree received a setback from which
it cannot recover. so long as narrow
minds cOnfne their vision to their i'm.
mediate local neighborhood aud seek to
exnlot each other rather than trade
with rational equity with the nations
of the earth.
~. Lost Touch Abroad.
"This lack Of commercial trading
and intimacy has lost the United States
that reciprocal social relation that
counts for so much in the social, politi-
cal and business amenities that are the
underlying forces of the earth in inter
national intercourse in times of peace.
E Respect Sacrificed.
"For nearly fifty years the United
states has been sacrificing its only
means of securing respect and enfore,
ing its rights
g Its Navy is fifty or more per cent
less powerful than it should be.
g. = Powerful as a navy may be, Il is
powerless save within its own waters
unless ii has a great commercial fleet
to back IL up with the imperative sup
plies and Communication necessary 10 a
heet's activity. -.
'0ur flag has its meaning not only
on the secs and beyond our own con
lines, but within orr own borders,
Sometimes fear we make il so com
mon that the thrill of patriotism at its
sight il lost to MS.
IA" To those dwelling on these Islands
therc is inspiration when we see il ear
ried over the ranks of thousands Of
marc hing men, Of hurrying cavalry and
rushing artillery.
Some Of US 90 back to the time
when these Tags caused tears to flow
because they waved over fathers, sons,
and brothers, some Of whom wo knew
would never return. These flags were
TO be forced into the face and front Of
those who, down in their own hearts,
did not wish to fight the flag, nor did
the men under the old flag wish to fight
those under new flag
1.-THE ways Of the Almighty are past
fndihG out. @ @
"The control Of the masses by de-
signing and ambitious meg are past
finding out. 4,
Nearing Danger Line.
"lt would seem in the stern real.
tiles Of the world that a nation that
lasts after the flesh pots Of the world,
ease and luxury, becomes weak In every
aspect and a prev TO the more yirile
and longer sighted nations. Our eoun-