The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-23
The Senator Speaks on the Duty
Of the PlhliCiSt.
ADDRESS TO A REFORM CLUB
The Ideal Government of the Fa-
Disqualification Paid 20 Imps-
rIausm and Expansion.

BOSTON, March 9.-The members
OF the Massachusetts Reform Club had
as their guest at the regular monthly
banquet tonight Donelson Gallery.
Senator from Louisiana. Moorefield
Story presided. Many portions of Sen
ator Caffery's speech were loudly ap-
plauded.
Senator Gallery spoke TO the toast.
The Duty of Public Man-To Him
self, to His District or State, and TO His
Country" In the course of his speech
he said: Our supplemented ances-
tors left the shores of the Old World
with the set purpose of living IN new
world Of freedom. They builded. In the
course of time, a Government whose
corner stone rests upon the consent OF
the governed They have. into every
state government erected beneath the
folds of their starry banner, incorpor-
aCed this living principle of self-gov-
eminent. They have widened their
borders so as 10 embrace vast eX-
tent of practically coterminous terri
/
states, where this seif-governiug prin-
ciple is recognized and enforced.
Not until the fires OF liberty cease
to burn; not until our race forgets its
inheritance of freedom; not until that
| eternal vigilance. which is it's price.
sleeps on its post, berugged with inn
perialism and expansion and all the
parasites and crawling things OF tyran-
ny and empire, will this energizing. es-
sential, vital principle leave our breasts
and cease to be governing principle
OF our Republic.
| When that time comes. Mr.. Chair
man, let the destiny that overtakes the
degenerate, the power-loving. the wor-
shippers OF .iammon, the followers q (
4-oloch, overtake us, as surely IL will
overtake us. The principle of self-gov-
eminent is our Coliseum-while Il
stands our Republic shall stand-when
it falls, liberty shall perish from the
earth
| 1T is left, SIR, in the closing hours
of the nineteenth century to clothe ty-
ranny and criminal aggression in the
cast of clothes OF Asiatic and Egyptian
fatalism. Are we to take for the guide
of our national life the enlightened
factor of living human conscience or
the dark counsel of a dead fatalism?
Shall nature and free will, both be
bound in the chain OF destiny? All. sir.
I 4 hA s-ta Of nj ha
ors and states to ruin.
| 1T is not too late to repair the
wrong of the treaty OF Paris. The bet
ter sense of the American people. not
the promoters. the obbers. the farm
chise hunters. the place men. the
searchers after glory. may come II the
rescue of our imperilled institutions.
God grant it may come soon.
The duty OF the legislator to his
state and to his country consists. first.
the Constitution. which he Is sworn TO
support; second. in performing every
act and giving every vote in all con-
Istitutional legislation, under the sane
ton and approval OF IN honest cuUvjc-
ton OF right. Neither n1ttery nor
threats nor Ccusure must sway him
from the right. His party may con-
denim, conventions and meetings CEN
sure, friends and enemies alike may
try 10 persuade, but conscience and
Judgment must rule"
Charles Francis Adams followed TIA
the same vein. number OF other
members of the club discussed the fu-
.ture policy Of the Government.