The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-03
Almost TlDi11s

@ IXTY years ago, on January IS, the first issue
~ of the Altoona, Pennsylvania, Tribune, came
OF the ppress and at the same time, Henry M
Whitney was laying in his type and getting his
press together for the launching of The Adver-
tiser, the first copy of which appeared just six
months later, than the Altoona Tribune. Our
Pennsylvania contemporary is celebrating the six
tieth anniversary of its birth in splendid llo-
pare edition, and The Advertiser desires to send
across the sea and the continent birthday greeting
to the Tribune. We know how it feels to be, as
the Tribune puts it sixty years young" and we
will be having our birthday party within a
few weeks.
In reviewing the whrligig of time since it first
appeared, the Tribune says
Franklin Pierce President Of the United States;
in the federal house of representatives. Proraeted
struggle between the Democrats and the OPP
position resulting in the election to the sPeakershiP
Of Nathaniel P. Banks, a member of the new Re-
publican party; James Pollock Governor of Penn
sylvania elected by the Know Nothing party,
sporadic organization which swept everything be-
fore il for couple of years. Andrew g. Curtin was
secretary of state under Pollock Life in the nation
exciting enough if quiet and primitive here,
for the slavery problem agitatng the people
everywhere, just the liquor question is troubling
them sixty years later.
Over in Europe Louis Napoleon, the little nephew
of big uncle was the strong man. according to the
superficial judgement of the cabinets of Europe. The
other nations trembled at his frown. Germany, an
empire not yet in existence, although plans
which to frution fifteen years later. Austria
was the proud head of the Germanic Confederation.
B Italy and Hungary her suffering bond slaves.
The patriotic of those historic lands either
in exile languishng in the noisome prison pens
In which the minions of Francis Joseph stTove to
strangle the immortal spirit of freedom. Nowhere
in Europe the workngmap recognized the
equal of the aristocracy Even in England labor
bound. Here and there the year 1855 witnessed the
far, faint gImmering of the Of hope that
so soon TO rise with healing in its wings but tbs year
was not of which the friends of equal rights had
much to boast although the spirit of preparedness
was at work under the surface.
The world has gone far during the sixty years
braeng the lifetime of the Tribune, and it has gone
In the right direction. The statesmen Of 1856, if
they able TO revisit the Of their former
activities would doubtless feel shocked and greved
over the tragic situation in the Old World And yet
they would behold every hand evidences of sub
stantiai advancement Possibly their ingrained con
servatism their refusal to believe that God made of
one blood all the nations Of the earth and all the
and women composing those nations might lead
them to msapprehend the truth but the fact
mains that all the planet there has been sub
Btantial progress in every department of human
tvity well in the intellectual and the spiritual
life Of the race, Men of the palace and of the
cottage closer together, understand each other
better comprehend closely their mutual rights
duties and privileges We must take the large view
Of life and its lessons if would make Hope
close comrade