The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-28

:, 1900.
ces.gned his seat in Congress to go to
f,.her Was farming in California; Burn-
,u, was manufacturer IN ttnode ISL
and; Banks was Massachusetts lawyer
ana statesman. The leaders, even those
educated at West Point. came mostly
eroln the walks of clviiian life. They
were citizen soldiers. They were the great
COVER; The majestic and ifreSlstiDle 1vrce.
ne brilliant achievements OF the war
would have been simply impossible with
out them.
.A4lZEN SOLDIER DID IT.
Think of the motives llat inspired
them. No body OF men unaer arms mas
his DRY of warfare. They fought not tor
power, as did those who followed Caesar
unoer the homan eagles; tney fought not
for glory as did the regions who rose and
fell with the fortunes of Napoleon; they
fought not for wealth, Tor tnelr recon-
pense was only $13 per month; but they
fought TO perpetuate me natohaI exist,
ence; to protect the asylum of liberty. l
need not recall the history they made.
benealh the dome of ST. Pauls Cathedral
rests the body of Sir christopher Wren.
liz architect. On marble SLAB above his
dust are written these words: Reader,
wouldst thou behold his monument? Look
about YOU" The supreme memorial Oh
Inc citizen soldier is the United States of
America -,
America owes to her citizen soldier not
only her existence, but the establishment
within her borders or TOUR great pfihcl-
pies.
FIRST. the freedom of labor. Two an
tagonistic conceptions OF labor-tne one
that labor is honorable ana likeness is
diepraceful and the other that labor Is
serylle and it is honorable to be worked
fer-had grown up SIDE by side IN amer
lea, until at last they locked arms IN a
life and-death struggle in the civil war.
ont of that great issue between slavery
and liberty the citizen soldier OF the
Union emblazened on the american nag
made il a part of the American Constitu-
ton, ingrained it into the American life,
that labor is forever free in the United
States of America. That means TO-DAY
and now and always that labor is honor-
able. that labor is emancipated. No man
acles may be put upon its handThe WORK
ingman is free to work when he VIII,
where he will, as he will, and now ne
Will. without control exercised over him
either by capitalistic or trade organiza-
items 1t was not only the black maa
that was declared free by the stroke OF
Abraham Lincoln'S pen.
SACREDNESS OF GOVERNMENT.
America owes another thing to her citi-
ze,, soldier-the sacrednesS and power OF
government. Government means force
law that has not power behind II Is not
law it is only counsel. Law must nave
authority behind it. And the great run
damental question was presented 10 the
people of the United States, is 1t possible
own destiny to enforce their own VIII!
Is there a government? Inc answer
of the citizen soldier at NicksburS ana
Antietam at Gettysburg and AppomattoX
Court House was, There is a government.
Pass the nations of the world IN review
before you-Russia, Germany, ltaly, Eng
land F'rance-there is not one OF them
today that has a government so strong.
so powerful so able to enforce its de
crees as the Government of the nited
States The citizen soldier in the ClVli
And han
soldier in that great conflict established
another principle-the sovereignty OF the
people. Aristotle divided government IN
to three claSSeS-goyernment by the one,
government by the few; government by
the many The government of the colo
MES at the close of the American Revolu-
tion while in one sense government OF
the many. was still a government by one
portion of the community over the RESI-
of the community. There was no such
thing as manhood suffrage, 1 believe, IN
a single one of the Colonies. The suf-
frage was dependent upon certain
amount of property. The people dld not
elect the President: it was not Intended
that they should; the people We're to elecl
a college of wise and noble men, who
could be trusted to elect the President.
The people did not make laws: 1t was not
intended that they should; they were to
elect wise and noble men to Congress,
who should make the laws. But now the
Electoral College no longer elects Pres
ident except in form; and Congress no
be. The people elect the President. ana
the Electoral College does but register
their decree; and more and more the peo
pie of the United States are coming to de-
termine what the laws shall be, and Con-
greSS is but body of business men, or
ganiZed in various committees, who take
the decisions of the people and frame
them into laws for practical results. ]
venture the assertion that there has not
been a single great reform in the last
twenty years which has been born in
Congress. They have been all born out
of Congress, carried to Congress and
adopted by Congress upon the demand OF
the people.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
This brings me to the fourth great prin-
ciple which We owe to the citizen soldier
of the Civil War. Democracy may rest
on either one of two bases. 1t may rest
on the assumption of Rousseau that all
the people are wise and good and virtu-.
Gus, and that all the harm comes from So
ciai organization, and that if you trust
the people the people will always do
right; in other words that the voice of
the people is the voice of God. A democ-
racy built upon that assumption is built
upon sand; the assumption is not true.
But there is another ASSUMPTION upon
which democracy may be built viz that
God Is in His world, and that He gives
his grace and wisdom to all mankind In
other words, democracy may be built
upon faith in God. Some of YOU NAV re
member how in the dark days of the