The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-05

the English language, and ranged under
the American and the British flags, IS
blend of the rich blood of the Celt
with the blood and iron of the Saxon
and the fine arterial system of the Nor
man. Subdivisions of races can no
longer claim prominence. The deep,
and in some respects impossible, chasm
is between the Caucasian and the Mon
golian.
A CONTINENTAL REPUBLIC.
1t is generally conceded that the
United States the first and only sue
cessful example of a continental repub-
lie, with power now extended into dis
tant seas, is in the front rank OF gov
ernments and peoples. Our constitu-
tional system originated in the asser-
ton of the inherent sovereignty of man
and in the correlation of representation
and taxation. The Declaration OF In
dependence formulated these principles,
which were wrought into the funda-
mental law and resulted in the co-ordi-
nation of the States and of the Union.
After the Civil War had removed the
last obstruction to our governmental
system, fraternity became the leaven
of an charging mass of educated citi-
zens, who stand for the highest phases
of modern civilization, in which the
supremacy of the Personal God and the
binding force of the Moral Law are
central.
The country is still far from absolute
purity AS Bishop Restarick, in a
powerful sermon, recently said, our
actual standards are below our Ideals.
1.-THE righteousness that exaiteth ma
ton has not yet become absolute in
our individual and in our national life.
FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC.
But, when this is conceded, it is
nevertheless true that the American
nation. pressing forward towards a
itIanscendent future, represents the old
est aspirations and the best concep-
tions of mankind. The participation of
men in their own government is an
end for which in former ages torture
and death have been endured. Equal
ity of opportunity and equality before
the law which are not iden-
teal with equality of condi-
ton, are birthrights. Indeed, the
chief purpose of government, of which
President Roosevelt has shown the
deepest consciousness, should be to
give fair play to brains, to energy and
to integrity. The extirpation of bigotry
and an era of general liberation were
and are essential to progress. Liberty
could not exist, if individuals and
Iminorities, if property as well as men,
were not protected. The increase of
industrial population, the use of di-
versified resources, the elevation of the
starved and ignorant, multiplied under
political forms that concentrated au-
thority in individuals and in privi-
legged classes, mental enlightenment
the emancipation and the uplifting of
the soul, would be impracticable, in any
genuine and durable sense. if rational
majorities, if settled public opinion,
were not the chief factors in human
affairs. Constitutional law, justly in
terpreted and impartially applied, and
the ballot, honestly and intelligently
cast, are the safest guarantees for that
regulated and disciplined freedom,
which alone can foster civilization,
sound at it's core and fairly clean on
it's surface.
These points in human advancement
are emblazoned on that national his
tory, which is the inheritance and the
possession of the American people.
elfgoverning and self-supporting men
and women, impelled by the law of al
truism more even than by the demands
of the bod. self-governing and self
supporting counties and municipalities.
self-governing and self supporting
States, mainly self governing and
mainly self supporting territories, a
self-governing and self-supporting ma
ton, dedicated to the arts of peace but
prepared for the exigencies of war, are
the shining coruscation that the Amer
lean Urion has placed before the eyes
Of yearning humanity.
A QUICKENED NATIONAL CON-
SCIENCE.
And, if there are blemishes on the
picture, they will be removed While
in this century, the pressure of bust
ness activity and expansion, organized
and energetic in the extreme, is enor-
nous and generates evil as well as
Soou, IL Is disc true tnaC tnere mas Oeen
and that there is, in the United States,
under the magnificent leadership of
President Roosevelt. an impressive
awakening of the public conscience. No
real analogies to our national situation
can be derived from the decay and fall
of Greece and Rome. or from other
similar examples among the dead re-
publics and empires of the past. To
them representative government was
unknown, and this fact alone estab-
fishes clear distinction. But there is
much more to be considered. The world
has wonderfully advanced and, apart
from race, ancient and modern condi-
ions are dissimiar. Education and
opportunity have raised the intellectual
evel, and. while it is correct to say
hat graduated criminals are most dan
serous and that knowledge, without
principle. might infect and destroy So
,iety, it is inaccurate to infer that men,
al training, even without formalized
moral teaching. has a lowering ten
'ency. The consolidated influence Of
without reference to non-es-
entails, was Never so penetrating or
Effective as now, and it confronts ma