The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-16
LlscoLs-s WORDS ON LIVING QUESTIONS.

LiNCOlk'S WORDS On LIVING QUESTIONS
THE REPUBLICAN put quietus upon the mon
1 strous doctrine promulgated By the organ Of
L the family compact when IT asked would it be
good policy to to educate the Porto Riean children
noE being brought here Even the members Of the
compact. dense as they are. evidently that such
doctrine &C tkis was mistake and that it would
hurt themselves the mainland IL the organ was
not nuzzled But a few DAYS ago the organ came
out with a reiteration OF the old doctrine promul-
gated b. Stephen A Douglass and other Bourbons
Of his time, that the American government was
founded by white men. Of white men for white
men" It is safe to say that only here in Hawaii.
where slavery existed third Of century after it
was abolished in the United States. could such
monstrous doctrine have been set forth under the
Stars and Stripes It is well known that those who
upheld contract labor. which nothing
less than human slavery, are firm believers that
some must be hewers Of wood and drawers of water.
and few OF this class would still further degrade
the laborer If they could instead lifting him up.
Every familiar with the history OF the United
States knows that the government was founded
upon the idea OF equal rights for all There has
just been issued by a Chicago publishing house a
little volume entitled "Lincolns Words on Living
Questions The very first address in the little vol
ume is delivered at Beardstown. Ills August
18th. 1858. and although it was delivered nearly
fortythree years it is directly pertinent Ha
wall at this time. 1t completely answers those PEG
pie who talk about this being a government for
white men. of white men. and those who would
shut out the Porto Roans from the benefits of edu-
cato Speaking of the fathers of the republic Mr.
/ Lincoln said:
These by their representatives in old Indepen-
dence Hall said to the whole of men mot to the
whites alone mark you: We hold these truths to
be selfevident: That all men are created equal:
that they endowed by their Creator with certain
| inaienable rights that among these are life lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness This their
majestic Interpretation of the economy of the uni
verse. This their lofty and wise. and noble
understanding of the justice of the Creator to His
creatures Yes. gentlemen. to all his creatures to
the whole great family OF man In their enlightened
/ belief. nothing stamped with the divine image and
likeness sent into the world be trodden on and
degraded and imbruted by its fellows They grasped
not only the whole race of man then living but
they reached forward and seized upon the farthest
! posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their
hidren and their childrens children and the count
ess myriads who should inhabit the earth in other
ages Wise Statesmen as they they knew the
tendency of prosperity breed tyrants and so they
established these great seevident truths that when
IN the distant future some man. some faction some
interest, should set up the doctrine that none but
rich men, but white men, none but AnoIo-
Saxon white entitled to life, liberty and
the pursut of happiness. posterity might look
up again 20 the UecIararion Independence and
take courage to the battle which their fathers
/ began that truth and justice and mercy and all
the humane and Christian virtues might not be ex
tinguished from the land so that no man would
hereafter dare to limit and crcumscribe the great
principles upon which the temple of liberty was be
ing built
Now my countrymen. if you have been taught
doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks Of
the Declaration of Independence: if you have list
ened TO suggestions which would take away from
its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of it.
proportions; if you have been inclined to believ,
that all not created equal in those inalien
able rights enumerated by chart of liberty le
me entreat you to come back Return to the foun
tain whose waters spring close by the blood of tht
Revolution Think nothing of me; take though
for the political fate of any man whomsoever. bu
back the truths that are in the Declaration
of Independence. You may do anything with M
ciples You may not only defeat me for the Senate
but you may take me and put me to death Will
pretending no indifference to earthly honors. I d
claim TO be actuated in this contest by somethin
D higher than any anxiety for office. charge you
( drop every paltry and Insignificant thought for an
mans success. 1t is nothing; l nothing; Judg
Douglass is nothing. But do not destroy that in
mortal emblem OF humanity-the Declaration of II
u dependence,