Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-03
Big GIFT flag
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Federal court
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Murphy, Deputy Clerks Foster Davis
and w. Ladd Rosa, Deputy Marshals
Albert Harris and Otto Heine. Mrs
Edith Strader, Assistant District AT
torney j. Wesley Thompson. Judge
Stanley. o. r. Soares, B. l.. Marx, C.
II. Mcbride, former Governor Walter
F. Frear. Bailiff Sidney Smith, Mes,
senger Lau Wah, Judge Quarles,
Judge Watson. G.. X. French, r. B.
Anderson, A. ID. Larnach and Godfrey
Offonso. n. -. H..
in one corner of the flag is the fol-
lowing inscription: -
Presented to the Federal Court
Honolulu Il
by <.-- .-..r T..
Hawaiian Society 49,. .
Sons of the American Revolution
June II. 1915. -.
''Libertas ct Patria." -.
The opening address was delivered
by Judge Dele. He said: ...-. .
1T is the pleasant and responsible
duty OF this court to open the gates
of citizenship to those aliens who, hav-
ing qualified by residence and nctice
and on examination showing their ae-
quaintaince with the principles &C the
American system of government: and
their attachment thereto, and admit
them as citizens 1t is very fitting
that on such occasions the flag of our
country should be before them, as IN
and as reminder OF the
high position which one takes in be-
coming a citizen of the United States.
"The design of the American flag
grew out of most tense political con.
dition. A community struggling for
the right of self-goyernment, against
one of the great powers of the world.
1t would seem as If the design of the
flag was perfected by those circnm-
stances; the stars on the blue field
ienoting or symbolizing the political
night. which at that time enyeloped the
world; the hues of dawn in the stripes
the coming of a better
time.
This flag for long time was one
rather of promise than of accomplish
nent. The seven states represented
by the seven stars made the initiative
movement for freedom and equality,
and yet, as the nation grew, as the
increased, there was still
/ large portion of the community of
he United States who were not free,
who had no civil rights. The flag to
hem may be said to have been iron
cal. and still il was to them flag of
lope; it flew over them during con-
litions which permitted the parting of
husbands from wives and children
rom parents: still it was a flag of
lromise to them, and for generations
hey waited, and in time, at a great
ational sacrifice, the stigma was re-
moved and the flag in that particular
ttitude came into its own and slavery
gas no longer possible in the United
'tates. or anywhere under the folds OF
be American flag.
"And, with this great accomplish
lent the flag is still symbolic to my
lind of hope and promise. There is
luch more to be done. The principle
( equality has to be made real, to
e perfected, so that there shall be a
cal equality among citizens Of the
'nited States, real equality between
len and women, protection to child
IN, freedom from oppression and ey-4
rything which pertains to slavery.
here is need of progress in the way
freedom Of action. so that every
an ia the United States. citizen or
len. may carry on his own business
without Interference of any
ower. competitor, company or cor,
1ration- freedom of action.
The flag is promise of progress.
has 4 great record. and yet there
much to be done before its ideal is j
1t is blazing the pathway
rough Ithe twilight of political night, .
hich is diminishing. The great con-
citation of stars is giving more light 1
Id the world is receiving its influ- {
ice. Already, and for a long time
Ist its influence on other nations
IS been most powerful, the world is I