The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-29
IS Int DuTT HIGHER
THAN That or LOVE I

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drama who vas torn between
love and duty. has appeared ia
real life in the person Of Al OF
6cer OF the United States army. who
let his wffe die calling for him while
he went 70 the Philippines with his
regiment
The OHcer in the case. who. By the
way. is well known and much re-
spected colonel. was taking his rsgf
ment through Denver OF his way % the
Pacific coast His wife lay at the point
OF death in Colorado She knew she
was dying and begged her friends 20
bring her husband TO her for her last
goodby. The colonel received the
message passed within few miles
of his wife's death bed. and did not
stop to see her.
There is no question OF his deep
devotion 10 his wife. every one who
knows him knows that. and vet does
il pay. this devotion to duty which
breaks the heart OF those who love
US Is there not some duty in the OBJ
legations of love9
I may be an anarchist and subor-
ner OF discipline. but I'd like 10 see
any red tape army regulation or any
thing else that was human keep me
from the bedside OF the one | love
and who loves me- I'd go II the scat
fold loomed ahead Of me-and further
more. so illogical and so lost to all
sense Of duty am I that ! wouldn't
even struggle against my natural i'm
pulse. I'd pack my little grip il had
time. and IL I didn't I'd 20 gripless.
and the whole of Uncle Sans army
could chase me. and l wouldn't be
afraid 10 wager that I'd keep ahead
OF them long enough to lay my heart
to the heart that loved me before the
grave yawned between u.s.
Then they could court martial me
all they wanted to- wouldn't know
who was trying me, with my heart
under the green grass.
Duty@does a man owe no duty to
the woman who has left all to follow
him.
The woman who goes down to an
open grave to give a man the right to
call her the mother of his children
and finds a full reward of her anguish
in one look of pride and joy from him
has she no place in all this prating
of duty?
What would you think of a mother
who let duty" keep her away from
her dying child?
1t is very well. this talk of altruism.
but I would step right over a dozen
dead, and desert q hundred dying to
get to my own when they called me in
anguish.
SELFISH
Narrow
Perhaps-most love is.
1t has to be-that is what it Is for
What is it the marriage service says
For better. for worse; for richer.
for poorer; in sickness and in health:
till death do US part. Forsaking all
others. cleaye thou only unto her"
Nothing very altruistic about that,
Is there?
It does not say cleave only unto her
unless duty of some kind interferes
Does It?
'Forsaking all Others really that is
too bad of the marriage service, get
ting man to promise such q thing
as that. at the steps of the altar, when
the nice little affair of duty" may be
waiting at the church door to spoil
and make a silly joke of it all
The newspapers whereabouts have
been making a great to do over the
heroism Of the man who did this thing
in the name OF duty cast no stone
at him He did what seemed to him
right and proper No one who knows
him questions that. for one moment,
but the writer's who have gone into
Mysteries over this modern instance
of duty before love" affair, con-
tess it is little hard for me to see
their point OF view.
II the officers country has been be
sieged-if he was taking his regiment
to the relief of a beleaguered garrison,
if the lives of helpless women and
children hung upon his faith-that
would be one thing. But to colonel
regiment out to San Francisco in pip
ing times of peace. as far as the line
twenty-four hours delay would do.
that it different thing quite a differ
ent thing. mesdames and messieurs of
the duty lauding brigade
Army regulations have to be strict2
To be sure they debut a man may
resign from the army may he not
There is no duty in the world which
can take the place OF mans duty to
good wife. and there is no right on
earth which can stand before the
right Of a good man to the entire de-
vction of his wife.
The man who thinks otherwise viii
DO well not to take VOWS that ne does
not want to keep. and the woman who
IS not willing to give up every duty
on earth for her husband had far bet
Ter remain Miss to the end of the
CHAPTER
There is no law enforcing marriage
in this country.