The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-07
HAWAIHNE|kEY =.
TO GREAT TRADE
Of WESTERN SEA
Uncle Sans Bulwark In Struggle
For Commerce, Declares
Governor
PINkHAM CHIEF SPEAKER
At OPENING OF ARM0RY
Praises Garden Island For Work
Done In Building Up Its Ma
tional Guard

triotic Fourth of July address yester
day at Lihue, Kauai, on the occasion
of the opening of the new national
guard armory.
The Governor began his GRAFTON with
a recitation of some of the most strik
ing portions of the Declaration of In
dependence, and continued with an ap-
plication of Amt ricah doctrines TO local
conditions, and especially to Kauai He
proceeded 20 discuss the international
situation and Hawaii = importance as
an outpost of Americanism.
The celebration was the biggest
Fourth of July observance Kauai has
rad. From all parts Of the island folk
Egathered to take part in the dedica-
ton of the armory, and to hear the
Governors ADDRESS.
The Governor 3 address covered 3
wide range of international politics
and emphasized the importance of the
Hawaiian Islands as an American base.
It., was as followsi
Governor Pinkham' s Address
f"Mr. Chairman, Officers and men of
the National Guard of Hawaii and
SINlLGuN anu OHt HuHuItu buU
forty years ago this day there gathered
in impressive assemblagc, in the city
of Philadelphia, Rfty-six distinguished
men, representatives of the thirteen
colonies of America, charged with the
weightiest responsibilities and pre-.
pared 70 announce certain fundame ntal
principles of rights and government
that we're to mark a profound advance
in the welfare of mankind. and they
then and there signed a Declaration Of
Rights and Independence that brought
forth the United States of America.
'fAs a premise these founders of the
Republic declared:
We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal :;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit. of happiness.
That to secure these rights, gov.
.ernments are instituted among men de,
irving their just powers from the con
sent Of the governed.
Whom long train of abuses and
usurpatiOns evinces design to reduce
them under absolute depotism, it is
their right, it is their duty to throw
III such government and provide new
guards for their security.
""TO prove this let facts be submit
ted~to a candid world.
Specification Of Declaration
1.-The declaration specified as follows:
six charges of abolishing, Tefus.
ing passage and refusing assent to
Eight charges of Interference with
legislative bodies. elections, courts
ftrinls of jury and deportation for trial
-Four charges of unjust military i'm,
position in times Of peace
Five charges Of melting and prose
cutting war
"Thrre charges AS to foreign juris
diction. immigration and taxation.
"These twenty six charges were, at
the moment Of the signing of the
Declaration, reduced to the responsible
itN and the ability o. tn" New Nation
o property legiSlate for themselves and
execute their own laws WITHIN rnel'
own borders, to expel foes and defend
themselves and their rights on the lunG
and on the seas.
" In the Declaration there was still
one remaining charge, to-wit: For cut
ting OF our trade with all parts of
the world.
eth" eurtailing Of the trade of the
United States Of America by means
other than normal competition has been
live issue for the greater part OF
the one hundred and forty years Of our
national existence, and is today a most
vital issue.
at brought about war thirty six
wears after the assertion 9f independ
rncr
1.-The enterprise of the ship. builders
owners. mariners and traders of the
nited states had, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty, placed our merchant
marine in the highest and commanding
.rank of the world.
Commerce CT Orient Opened
"Ho aggressive and eager were w
| for distant commerce. and so proudly
New the AMERICAN flag in everp port
| that We pried open, by show of force
the commerce Of the Orient, and so wide
open we now wonder at the result, and
no spot under our flag has more Oecas
ion TO seriously wonder and reflect tina
TINS Mld'Phclhc Territory of Hawaii.
- Internal strife, within the State,
-0f the Union, gave an opportunity fol
international ethics to permit tAeoret
cnlly friendly nation to borrow q re
bellious flag and, under it, carry OF
every act and characteristic of sea war
fare, privatecring and piracy that oul
eHrned supremacy might be superseded
" 1t efFectuated its object, and mad,
rhP American fng unknown in tn,
n"rtS Of the world, where, a generation
"t"'" it bad been the most prominent
and respected Of any ensign aAoRt.
| ~ r"Yivnl Of the American mer
"b"nt marine, or its flag, has been i'm
POSSIBLE from the mania that has ii
fr Ppst largely affected the press, thu
"n''rrSitirs and the claimed intellect
n.de Of the Atlantic Coast, an pggre
'E-;'~" that denied aud disputed tn,