The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-17

dent Garfield.
From caAtoH Reposiforv. Sept. 81. 1881
Friends and fellow citizens Did l con
suit my own feelings | would not speak TO
you at this hour and upon this occasion.
With the grief which is IN every heart and
home throughout the land today. il would
seem 10 me that silence not speech. would
be the most fitting and appropriate
In difference, however, 10 the committee
who have in charge these solemn services,
and who 8 little while ago requested me
TO speak. shall say a word or two touch
ing the life and character of our dead
President
The melancholy intelligence has reached
US that last night at 10 O'Clock and 80
minutes President Garfield died. and the
nation which he loved so much and which
so much loved him is shrouded in the deep
est and most profound sorrow The news
although not wholly unexpected, fell with
awful force upon his fellow citizens We
had come almost to believe that with his
splendid constitution and his magnificent
courage. and in answer to the prayers of
fifty millions of people. he would yet sur
yive the dreadful wound and be spared to
the nation whose heart for seventy nine
days had been in his sick chamber and
around his bed of suffering. But it was
OlItlAtcc. We Can Only DOM
with uncovered heads and with submissive
hearts TO the decree of Providence. which
is the supreme law that must govern us
ALL and the wisdom of which no man
dares TO question.
President Garfield had a strong hold
upon the affections of the people No man
not even excepting Mr.. Lincoln. was more
endeared to the masses He was peculiar
ly representative of the American idea
m IS
He represented the possibilities of every
American boy and man. and his life and
work have been the inspiration and hope
of American youth. and will so continue
TO the boys yet TO be born. so long as lib
erty lasts and the love of liberty has a
place in the hearts of men. His early life.
his struggles with poverty and adverse cir
eumstances. his early victories and later
achievements are as familiar to all of You
as are the books of your boyhood He
has impressed himself upon the country
and its legislation. and upon the hearts of
the people. He has builded his own monu.
meRt. he has carved out his fame. and
nothing which | can say viii enhance the
Immortality of his life and work. His
deeds viii live. now he is gone.
When Daniel Webster died and his re-
mains were lying in state to be viewed by
the admiring multitude, an old neighbor
fin. and gazing fixedly at all that was left
of the great statesman said:
When you are gone, Mr.. Webster. the
world will be lonesome without YOU
And tonight, as we recall the universal
and heartfelt sympathy which has been
shown for our great President during his
long weeks of suffering. by all parties and
sections and all religions in this country
and beyond the seas, and witness the sor-
hof Ill. ,o1f SIr.,
we can well exclaim The world will be
lonesome. President Garfield, now that
YOU are gone -
He filled large space ia the country's
annals. and his influence and work are
worldwide.
Long shall we seek his likeness. long in
And turn 10 all of him which may re-
main,
Signing that nature formed but one such
man."
Let us not forget tonight to pour out
Dur prayers for the aged mother, the be-
reft widow and the fatherless children.
that God may give them that consolation
which no human power can bestow
And now permit me to close BY saving
IF the great and good President what
nearly fifteen years ago he said of the
nartxred Lincoln. in passing an eulogy
upon him in the Congress of the United
States:
'DivineIy gifted man,
Whose life in low estate began.
And on simple village green.
Who breaks his births invidious bar
And grasps the skirts Of happy chance.
And breasts the blows of circumstance.
And grapples with his evil star.
Who makes by force his merit known.
Aud lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty states DEGREES
And shape the whisper of the throne.
And mounting up from high to higher.
becomes on fortunes crowning slope
The pillar of a peoples hope.
The center of worlds desire
Let us hope and pray thar the country |
which he served so faithfully in life be /
lnited in his death