The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-05


grand army reunion is re-published by
request:
I'VE are confronted with a century
big with fate for the whole human
race, a century big with disaster or
triumphs. We are confronted by great
national problems. We are confronted
by the idle dreamings of an impossible
utopia, and many remedy is proposed.
Most of these remedies will and can
avail but little. Much can be done by
wise combinations of individuals for
the helping of all. But much can be
done by instilling in the great pulse
of our citizens the doctrine that each
man should think most Of his duties
and least of his rights. When he has
instilled into him the doctrine Of do
ing the work for the sake of doing it
we'll, you'll find that the average man
will manage to work out a solution OF
the problems that confront him, and
until each man strives, not only for
his own rights, but to preserve the
rights Of others, you may be sure that
the best system will work imperfect
ly. When once We have turned our
public opinion to point where it will
recognize that the successful scOundrel
may be worse foe of the nation than
the man behind the bars in the peni-
tertiary; when we have made him
feel the intolerable fight of honest
public opinion against him, you will
have taken a long stride towards cor
recting these evils. (Applause)
you've got to work intelligently.
All the valor and patriotism of the
Civil War could not avail until they
had moulded the men into a drilled
army and trained navy; and so in civil
life all the valOr and patriotism of the
individual effort to correct abuses, will
avail nothing if he does not work with
Intelligence, and common sense.
Il do wish the people would learn
by history. They won't learn, or, at
least, will learn only a little. I've
sometimes felt when 1 heard men say
an army and navy would be improvised
at a moments notice in the United
States that he should read history. AL
most all of you know something about
the First Crusade. Peter the Hermit
did great work. He preached the
crusade. He did it very successfully.
That was his profession. When he
undertook to lead he slipped up. In
stead of getting his crusade where he
could fight the Turks he used it all
up fighting the Hungarians and
Greeks. He actually impeded it by
taking it's direction away, from the
practical men who afterwards made it
a success. You have the real with the
ideal, and those who refuse to look at
the practical methods for putting it
into effect, will fail.
"Ohi to you, my brethren, who work
for decency in social and civic mat
ters, l wish the truth of this could be
brought home. Charity, liberality, toll
Grafton. They are great words. You
want to keep the standards of right
and wrong sharply defined. Here be-
fore me | see the men whose greetings
touch me most. They risk their lives
in fighting for an ideal, but besides
the actual re-creating of the Union
those men did even more. They left
a memory for us who came after. They
set up a standard for us to emulate.
(Applause.)
People have asked me why | went
to the war. l suppose it was because
| couldn't help it. One of the great
things of the war with Spain was the
fact that under the banner in that war
the sons of the men who wore the gray
fought beside the sons of the men who
wore the blue, equally proud of the
flag which now floats over the nation,
united in deed as well as in name.
tremendous applause.) So it seems
to me that next to being the son of
a man who wore the blue was the son
of man who wore the gray. I'm glad
to tell you G.. A. r. men this, because
| know you are with me-" (Cheers.)
The Governor continued with per-
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promotion of men in his command in
Cuba. Captain Capron was first in line
for promotion but he was killed.
Bucky O'Neil was next, and he, too,
was killed. A son of Major General
jenkins, a Confederate, was next, and
said Governor Roosevelt: 'He could
handle the squadron and he got the
squadron We stand alike now. We
are all Americans and for the future
we will avoid sectionalism. Let us
profit as nation by the awful exam
pie that is happening in a sister re-
public across the ocean to see that
prejudice against religion and race is
left out"
The Governor continued with a Wig
Gus appeal to avoid all sectional, re-
ligious and race feeling and then took
up the topic Of expansion.
q have preached to you he said,
"the gospel Of work, righteous work,
intelligent work. Just one thing more
and then 1 end. AS you despise and
scorn the individual who shrinks from
work because it is difficult or danger
Gus, so the nation that shrinks from
work, because it is difficult or danger
Gus, is to be held of small account
among the nations of the world. So,
while the United States must face the
problems within it's boundaries, it can
not help but face the new problems
brought about by the war. One of the
great world nations must play its part
as a great world nation, if it is to work
out its destiny as it should be worked
out. (Applause)
people have said to me that the
Spanish war has left to us a legacy of
trouble. So it has. We have been left
with problems to face and if we are
great nation we will face them and