The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-07-05

gin in the massing together OF vast popu-
lations in our cities, increasing in enor-
nous proportions and with a rapidity
without parallel in other nations. How
shall these be governed SO that they
bring not the same terrible consequences
which were the fate OF the great cities OF
former centuries? Babylon, Tyre, Car
thage and Rome did not fall for want OF
force. Jerusalem, with her great
natural and fortified strength, was con-
quered by her moral corruptions and in
ternal dissensions, even more than by
Titus and his legions. True patriotism
has Its foundation on the solid substra-
tum of Christian ethics. Ii does not
scorn the Bible 1t does not repudiate
the Sabbath. Ii sternly opposes the
sweeping demands i'm the name OF amuse-
ment and FOSTERING license. It refuses to
make use of the wonderful forces OF iron,
steam and electricity TO break down
Christian institutions-the bulwark OF
free nations. Ii the vast network OF rail-
roads, taking in the continents and the
islands, with their mighty agencies OF
capital, commerce and labor, Is to be
used to abolish the Sabbath and to des-
troy Christian institutions, then those
who own the fields, the factories and the
workshops will think it expedient to do
likewise. If bonds, stocks and corpora
tons repudiate the laws and rules of re-
ligion, the demons of anarchy and vice
will speedily follow the example. Law
breaking and immoral commercial
license are contagious. Reputation OF
the Sabbath is professedly urged in the
interests of the workingman Ii he &C
cepts this reputation license he will be
shamefully deceived. To him it will
prove delusion and snare. Ii there
are men in the world who need the quiet
rest of the Sabbath and chance to give
the mind and heart full play in what is
pure and elevated, they are those who
earn their bread by the sweat OF their
brow Ii capital, commerce and corpo-
rations combine to abolish the Sabbath
and turn it into day of noise and
tumult, then the men of labor will have
taken from them fifty-two days of the
year, which the laws and customs of
Christian lands heretofore have given
them, for their physical welfare, and for
the moral and social improvement Of
themselves and families. Amusement
and hilarity are we'll as incidental helps
to good living, but those who are always
anything else. We were not made and
placed in this wonderous world merely
for play, like kittens and monkeys. The
poet never spoke truer word than when
he said: Life is real, life is earnest"
Genuine patriotism does not encourage
irreligion in any form. 1t clings to
Christianity as its everlasting chart.
Patriotism is reverential. 1t loves Liber-
ty with an undying love, but it repudi-
ates license as deadly foe to good gov
eminent and to human welfare. Man
has the right to do what he pleases, pro-
vided he does not infringe on the rights
of others, nor violate the laws Of God and
his country. The Liberty which Patriot
ism teaches and defends, is the liberty
which does its work in the harness of the
law. The liberty which demands the
license of anarchy and vice is more dan
gerous than hostile army on the
theater of war. America was founded
and has achieved her greatness as q
Christian land, and her citizens have
the right to be protected in their Chris
tan privileges and institutions, for these
are the salt and future safety OF America
and OF lands which have drawn from her
blood or would copy her example. 1t is
the highest patriotism to maintain the
American Nation on the foundations
where the fathers and the Constitution
placed it. Atheism is deadly foe Of the
great Republic and agnosticism is colder
than the polar seas where individual and
national life is impossible. If the Nation
which extends from ocean to ocean, anC
has resources unequalled by any othe,
in the world, is to be maintained and
shall furnish to the future strength O
government and OF civilization unsur
passed in the annals of men, it mus
guard and stimulate its moral life Will
| sleepless effort and undaunted courage
Its immediate duty is to strike dowr
| political and commercial corruption
everywhere, to wage war OF extermina
| ton against trusts, against all unhal
| lowed combinations which seek to con
| troll the food and material comforts o
the people, and to constrain with an iror
hand their natural and acquired rights
And the patriotic demand for the des
truction of these monstrosities is equally
strong for the removal of the liquor sa
looms, which send forth deadly malaria
moral pestilence, more fatal to thu
Nations life and to the peace and wei
fare OF human homes, than armed fort
resses of treason in the villages and cite
| of the land. All the foundations o
American liberty, morality and law mus
be watched with scrupulous care ant
answering fidelity. Powerful and indis
pensible aids TO this great work OF na
tional security are the sixty-three thous
and pulpits and churches, with their mis-
sionary boards and agencies, to which
should be added the three hundred an
fifty thousand teachers of the publ
schools, more potential for the defens
and safety of the United States than ar
the trained armies of Europe for tn
security OF it's kingdoms and empires.
Having thus rapidly glanced at tn
present status OF the Nation, whose brit
we commemorate, and emphasized som
of the pressing duties of Americans,
may be allowed us on this memorabl
and prophetic day to cast an open ey
on the future, to consider some thing
outside of America, yet intimately an
necessarily related to what concern
America. Ethnology, the laws of com
mercial development and the logic {
history, plainly indicate, that at n
distant day, four National Powers wi
chiefly control the Pacific, ii
islands, harbors, adjacent lands
its politics, trade and prevailin
civilizations. These are the Unite
States, the Australian Republic that
to be, and the Empires OF China an
Japan. The United States and Au:
tralia are sufficiently alike in essentis
elements of human development an
character to be considered as one, for on
present purpose. China and Japan ais
have strong points of resemblance an
are essentially Asiatic in contra-distint
ton to the American and Australian ns
tons. To-day the United States an