The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-05

and toll and suffering. No nation has
ever become great except through
agony and blood and tears. And good
gOvernment-the slow growth, the
most precious fruit of all the ages past
and gone-God only knows what that
has cost. 1t has cost the lives of mil
lions OF brave men who have died on
the battlefield, on the gallows, by
the axe, at the stake, for free thought,
free speech and free institutions. 1t
has cost the dumb agony of prison
solitude, where there is neither day
nor night, where there is neither
book nor bird nor flower, where there
is no sound but the dull throbbing of
the prisoners heart, where the eyes
become glazed and the blood stag
mates, and the brain reels and reason
dies, and there is no refuge nor rest
save beneath the cold stones of the
prison floor. 1t has cost the lives of
hero statesmen, like Saxon Alfred and
William the Silent and our own Lin
coin, who have toiled on through
weary years of darkness and treachery
and civil war, who have founded, who
have recreated states, "who have died
in the radience OF the future, and have
passed over and on through tombs all
filled with dawn" 1t has cost-and /
say il reverently-thesa sacrifice of Cal
vary, the type and elimination of all
sacrifice without which freedom might
be but an empty name. From every
conflict between might and right since
history began, from every struggle for
civil, intellectual or religious liberty,
from the Ten Commandments, the
Golden Rule and the Sermon on the
Mount; from all these has slowly,
slowly, through the ages, grown up
in God and faith in mau by which and
through which, by and through which
alone, peoples are enabled to govern
themselves.
1t is worth all il has cost. Security
of life and property, conditions under
which life can be enjoyed and prop
erty acquired, advancement in civil
iZation, art and science, an honored
place in the family OF nations, all
things that make for manhood and
womanhood all these things flourish
under good government like the Tree
of Life in the Garden of GOd-all these
things fade and wither and perish un-
der corrupt aud despotic government,
and in a republic good government
depends upon the virtue, the patriot
ism, the courage, the Intelligence aud
the common sense Of those who make
the government and are the govern
ment, that is, the people, the voters
their servants wisely and hold them
20 n strict account.
Fellow Americans, believe-I have
always believed-that the great re-
public which gave us birth, in work
ing out the problems of free govern
ment for itself, is destined, in the
providence of God, to be the Moses of
the nations, leading them out of the
house of bondage into the light OF
liberty. The inspiration of its exam
pie is permeating all civilized peo-
piles. The present century has been
marked with the wreck of dynasties,
and everywhere-in Europe, IN Asia,
in Africa, in the far off islands of the
Pacifc-with the growth of free insti-
tutIons. Every throne in Europe not
founded on principles of constitutional
liberty is tottering to its foundations.
In this age, when throne falls it falls
forever. In the present stage of the
worlds progress, nothing short OF the
infinite power of an infinite God can
breathe the breath of life into dead
monarchy. The government of the
future, for all enlighted nations, is the
kind of government for which George
Washington fought and for which
Abraham Lincoln died.
Fellow Americans, this is not a
fitting occasion to discuss the prob
lens that confront the infant re-
public in which we live, born |
one year ago today; but think l can
say this much: The eyes of |
the world are upon ii. History is be- |
ing made in these islands that in
wolves the future, for good or for evil, |
Of every man, woman and child here, !
and of their unborn descendants, and |
knows-the honor and |
greatness of the United |
States. Let us remember that we |
a land of free institutions
and brave deeds and generous I'M
nnIaes. that we are fellow country |
lnan OF Washington and Lincoln, and |
= the irving times in which we live |
and which are still before us here, let J