The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-05-30

ont II there can be no stability, no morality, and
of course no true manhood. NapoleOns celebrated
tanswer-" Sire, what is the great need of Francel
+ Mothers r'-is in point. But would broaden ~
The great need of this nation, Of all nations isI
that Gods best gift, the family, should be kep
Those grand mon who founded America knew
this. Before the nation was born. well-guarded
home, whore simplicity. piety, ana purify Teignedi
was made tne national citadel MOdest, pure
Ihome-k -keeping mothers noble, brave, true. rltrlO
tic fathers were the nations standing army. They
needed no other. When in l776, the nations birth
hour came, forth from these homes went the
Washingtons. Lees, Marions, Sumter's and
|(Jreenes to fight her battles; and the Adamsesd
lTays Madisons Franklins and Jeffersons 10 frame
her Constitution and make her laws.
The homes Of every nation are her str0ngest
dfortifcation. Nay in her homes to-day Is the
'nation of 1900. The hand of every mother touches
anot alone the cradle of her babe, but the cradle
her Commonwealth: the fathers kiss, pressed up
on the lips of his baby is felt upon the lips OF the
nation OF the future. What IS that nation, m
the near future to bei Just what our homes
are to-day-no stronger, no wiser, no purer. Your
child breuthes the moral atmosphere Of your home
hi becomes his very life. He seesth world through
your ewes Your life and spirit mold him. de
lives and moves and has his being IN you. Your
.child twenty years from now, will incarnate your
home. And what is true of your boy. aud your
home is true of all. If the homes of this nation
of any nation. are, low, coarse, drunken, carnal,
passionate, profane, sensual deyilish, the virus
Will enter the very veins of the body polite. Water
Is never purer and never rises higher, than its
source A nations life Is never purer OF higher
Ithan its home life
Whoever raises his hand TO pollute the purity.
or weaken the stability of the family, strikes q .
1blow az the very heart of the nation. He, OF all
mcn is an enemy of his country. He who weakens
the family tie by the advocacy of easy divorce;
be who pierces the family TO the heart with the
stilletto Of free loves; be who violates the sane
ty OF marriage by the illicit qualification OF pas
siOr-such men are guilty of high-treason--treaso
against God, against humanity, and against then
nation. This Is of the dread perIls OF our day
Ii meuaccs the life Of every nation where 1t exists
Hfor il pOisOns the source from whence true man
HOOD, the life and strength of every nation must
How.
T. TIE NATION WHICH WOULD POSSESS THAI HIGHEST
STRENGTH AND WEALTH. MANLY MEN, MUST
FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATION.
All free government must be based upon intelll-
,cnce Despotism can exist without it, but freedom
must think. Side by side with the home should be
the free school. Every child of suitable age, should
ibe within 1t.
q The school should have for its aim to fully deyel-
ope the powers CT the child:-to fit him not alone
10 win his bread but TO take his place as an Inte-
rral part of the nation. He should know his rights
land duties as a man. His education should he
y such TO give him true views OF life, and all MS
responsibilities. In order to do this work, nation
|ISClOOlS luuSL De CuihlueItu hsiNAth bAuot+ Aei
Treasure, her best brain, and heart should be Law
lishly bestowed upon them. They should not be
prostltuted to serve the interests of any person
party or clique They should be nurseries of man
hood. How TO make them such should be the one
.|mOtite III their management and control.
Il ). But 1t is not enough that man DC trained 10
think if he is to bless and strengthen his nation
He must think rightly. knowledge Is power. But
the vital question is: What direction shall thai
toueI- take Shall 1t be power for good or evil:
The Aaron Burrs, with brilliant intelects and fas-
4cinating manners, but lcCntiOus and unprincipled
E in life, are n curse TO any nation. Woe 10 thai
4 nation which puts them IN its thigh places
Il Christianity must seize this brain power in the
schools and control it, and guide it, If 1t Is to be
4 blessing Back of the school must stand the church
las the teacher of morality. and of the principles oi
Justice, and of liberty The church must lay ITS
Ihand ON the hearts of rulers and people II thai
people is TO be strong one. II must be the insplre
and the teacher of that moral sentiment which lies
back of constitutions back of laws, of rulers ane
powers and which Is the power and glory oi al
human governments.
Let these three powers: the home, the school
and the church, lay their moulding hands upor
the life, the manhood, of nation. and that will b'
strong noble, mighty people. l care not how
Small may be her territory; how few her resources
nor how small may be the number of her people. IL
I the inyincble manhood of her sons, she will b,
great, ana take exalted place among the nation,
the earth. In all that goes TO make true nationa
g atuess pure homes are better than brDaC
bonanza mines; and church spires are Iuore potcn
q than bayUnets
COMRADES OF GEo. DE LONG rOsr
II These memorial days to you are doubly sacred
i To the luyal AmeTican-and the lover of Liberty
11the annual strewing of flowers Is only Il ttln,
iributc of n grateful nation to her dead heroes. /
that to You. But more To you it is also
loye-onering wet with holy tears, laid on thu
3 graves of friends and brothers! With Memoria
lHDay, to you, comes also the past, and those VIII,
4foupht with YOU. Once more they march at YOU
63 side. You feel the touch of the shoulder of som
= jonathan whom you loved tenderly as Davit
: i3loycd his. Dcld. more than two decades, but yoJ
love him still Your eyes fill with tears when vol
II think of that dreadful day when he fell at You
5 tside. The battle swept ON. You could not sta,
& ieven to bury him.
lie sleeps unknown
~ No tear wa sled upon his lonely grave,
1 No Fun raj dirgc in honor Of the brave;
"a Ey hurried soldier hands his covering thruwu-
sd Then quickly on the slab was carved unknown
@ And -ii the battle ragged
l3 lie sleeps unknown
|N Dead, lying in namoloss, unknown, undecoratet
& graves, but not forgotten. Each year, ~ heart
Z 4you cover the graves of your dead with immur
TALES.
And they do not forget us. Charnel house ant
gate Of glory open their lips, and louder than GU
e" much speaking comes the eOquence of tn
buried and the translated And this is their mes
Usage: I'VE died for America and for freedom. vii
YOU live for country and for freedom? We call Upol
tayOu who scatter flowers upon our graves, to TAX
aiup the work where death snaiched ii from gu
1hands in every land be true 20 the sacred caus
r for which We died-the cause of right, of liberty
( aud equality. BE manly, brave. true, courageous
iSeryc God, humanity and the right !"
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