The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-06

nations greatest claim TO future honor must he
founded | need not say that refer 10 the
services rendered by the United States Of
America TO the cause Of political liberty--no
new theme, but one OF perennial interest and
Importance, right understanding OF which
may contribute much to the importance Of those
institutions which depend for their existence
upon it, and which arc indissoluby connected
with the interests OF every American citizen.
The doctrine of human rights had never been
50 well understood as by the band Of patriots
who headed the new movement in the new
world They stood century in advance Of
their time. Everything Of value in the Eng.
lish constitution Us it existed in 1916 all that
was useful OF true in the French Revolution
Of 1859, was involved in that Declara,ion OF
Independence which we arc here to commemc.
rate and incorporated in that constitution whose
benciieent influences VIC still enjoy. Our
Fathers achieved liberty wilhou, license instead
Of, as in France, license without liberty. They
recognized on the one hand the abstract prin.
cples Of right which the English constitution
ignored, and respected on the other the estab
l,shed concrete right which the French Revo.
luton wildly destroyed. They combined ard
harmoniously combined the stuidest elcmentsof
English conservatism with the broadest prnci
piles of French theorists. They applied prime.
pes with sober g,rd to existing fact, and
limited the deductions o the speculative rca.on
by inf,renccs drawn from practical experience.
They were statesmen as well as philosophers,
men Of affairs as we'll as theorists, at on c
radicals and conservatives. To the o.d aStim, d
clinping to antiquatcd forms and CUSTOMS which
emasculaed the fine genius Of Burke, they OF.
opposed the breadth, the wisdom, the radio. |
views ui Hamilton. To the hensicd cnthusia m
Ut the Jacobin clubs were conrasted the
practicaa sense and enlightened lrvati m
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never more 6ney achieved, never with mere
patience, more moderation, more freed, nj
from excess. They destroyed TO create, they
pulled down to build again On
broader foundations And every American
must echo the prophecy that the glorious
fabric OF American Liberty, which our fathers
conceived in wisdom, erected with patience, a. d
hnaiiy consccrated with their blood, and which
now Tits in finished pcrtcctness It's sun.kss,d
spires 10 heaven, shall still endure, still stand in
morning and in evening light and under the
shining consultations, until the star Of cviza.
tiun shall have set beneath the Pacific and the
sceptre shall have passed away forever from
the Anglo. o.Saxon race.
1t was in the application Of liber.y that the
American tr umph consisted. Liberty itself
was no new thing. The Arabs had it, flashing
across their boundless deserts from horizon 10
horizon. The Chaldean shepherds, watch,
the silent stars from the plain, the rising aid
setting OF the slow consultations, had tasted
It's wild freedom 1t had splendid dawn in
the fierce Athenan democracy twenty centuries
befole its benignant beams shone upon the New
World. 1t set again in stormy eclipse, to rise
anew upon some iairer shore, and shed the
uncertain light OF planet upon savages in the
depths oil German forests, upon pirates securing
the North sea. Again n the a, sc OF cent?.
ries 1t shone with a bright, fierce transient
splcndor ON the Italian Republics, the SHOWS
OF Switzerland, the dikes Of Holland, until
finally in our own old England like the star Of
Bethlehem it s.t.lel, and became the gl ,ry ,f
the morning and the evening sSy Ii has IN
inextingushable being in human hearts, a d
never has suffered tola, eclipse. But in 1915
1t came with the redoubled brightness Lf
another morn risen on mid-noon," and it re-
mancd Tor the American people to demonstrate,
in labor and blood AM tears, that "governmelt
OF the people, by the people and for the people,
shall not perish from the earlh."
And how has this liberty been purchased
Dearly bought with blood and devotion ard
costly sacrifice. Everything that the individual
ho'ds most dear, home and friends and oppo'.
tunity and life its+f, has been freely given, II c
private yielding to the larger need, the ind.
vidual to the richer opportunity-all, a his
been devoted for love OF country and principle
and ''honor that never shall die" The sacr.
ticc OF 800, 900 lives has made American liberty
sacred thing, no mere name, rhodomontadf,
buster or boast, but indcscribably precious 10
every true American heart. And as we Of the
Younger generation hear from older lips tie
| story OF the war, Its sacrIces, its hardships,
its devotion, of the heat and struggle oI Il {
battle, of the long watchings by silent can D
hre', OF IN. bvo lac under tie oItn :av ms
| as we hear OF the wearness of forced marc.
iIg', Of the torture Of wounds, Of cold, hunger
and thirst, and worse than all OF separate
rom friends, OF Imprisonment, suffering a, d
death, all cheerfuliy borne for the natlol's
cause, our pulses will beat, our bosoms burr,
as We catch the echo Of lha, immortal strife
and our hearts will !nvest with new mean g
those o,d,s old words at is a sweet aid
beautiful thing 10 die for ones country.
We, who i've in these happy isianuS, breathe
another air than thlt when support d or
fathers. The dome which benas above ue,
serenely flushed with morning and event q
lights, Is not the inhospilablc sky which frown d
| upon The Pilgrim Fathers. This smiling u. -
in which iawaii.nei floats like ain opal--is (; Z
| different from that stormy ocean uion VII! h
the cradle Of Anglo.SaAon liberty was rookie.
The face OF nature is changed. She sho,
US smiling visage, and the physical dlhe, i.
ties with which other genera ions con,end,d,
con!r n. us no more. Yet we who travel acro
ING sea Cnahee our SKIES, mol our moral rca L :,
The glorious traditions Of American h.s,u.y
are ours. Deep in our hearts are engraved
! the lessons OF the past. American liberty, a
dearly bought heritage, has come to us 10 c
again transmitted by US as the most precious
boon to posterity. II brings its responsibilities,
lis duties its burdens. a thousand voices from
the past adure us 10 be faithful to The trust.
The dead lips of Adams and Jefferson and
Washington and Tia nil on, Of Clay and Web
sler and Sumn,r and Philips and Lincoln, lie
w Dad ail sc.ptersl sov.rsigns