The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-28
.L|BERTY'S
FOUNDATION
Judge Highton Delivers
Eloquent Memorial
Address.

Quent address was delivered Dy Judge
Henry f. Highton. who pointed out
that the day was becoming more and
more observed as celebrating events
worldwide in their significance. While
the partisan feeling has long since been
eliminated. Patriotic music formed
part of the service. The address, which
was listened TO by good-sized congre-
| cation, was substantially as follows:
JUDGE HIGHToN's ADDRESS.
"There is a question in my mind, as
well as in the minds of many other
| citizens, as to whether the Fourth of
July or Memorial Day is the greater
| occasion for rejoicing. One celebrates
| the birth and the other the adolescence
| of a nation and both present to the
mind of thoughtful man the greatest
| question in secular history. Neither of
| the great days would have been posi-
BILE without the coming of Jesus Christ
| and the religion he brought into the
| world
| Christianity is the source of all lib
| erty, Christianity used in the broad
| terms of the liberality of America. Ju-
| daism has contributed largely to free
| dom and underlies the whole progress
| of humanity, finding its last and best
| expression in the institutions of our
| country and of the great mother coun-
! try from which we came 1t has pro-
| duced onr enthusiasm for high ideals,
our noble standards and great advance
| ment.
| Memorial Dav is valuable not
4 IL -
| erence and love for the soldiers of the
Republic who have died and for those
whose white heads are now catching
the CLEAN of eternity as one by one
they vanish. but beyond this it is valu-
able to the world because Of the idea
which it represents.
/ ''There are many analogies between
| the history of America on a large scale
and the history of these Islands on
/ smaller scale. When the Europeans
reached America they brought with
| them the conception of religion. Re-
| ligion was the animating motive in the
! jamestown settlement in 1907, and in
| the other settlements the same idea pre-
| dominated. Here civilization was
brought in the hands of religion. True
religion, which took root and can be
traced in the history since of the coun-
try, as in large way it has contribut-
| ed to the upbuilding of the United
States, through the Declaration of
Rights, the edict of liberation and the
Constitution
''The United States government was
not in essence new thing. In forma
ton and practical adaptation to the
needs of man it was new, but there has
been no period since Adam in which the
aspiration for self-government has not
existed in the breast of man, and this
has been caught up and formulated in
the Declaration of Independence. This
formed our Constitution, put into opera
ton our institutions of every kind and
established civil and religious liberty
for all times under the American flag.
But there We're discrepancies be-
tween theory and practice. The idea
was entertained that the union could
be broken up by the states. This was
first voiced in New England, then in
South Carolina and became then rooted
amongst some of the people. Slavery
was incompatible in principle and fact
with the theory of the Constitution,
and while secession ideas existed indie
pendent of the slavery question, yet
the two became associated and the
Civil War became inevitable.
when Fort Sumter was fired upon
the position of California was supposed
to be questionable, and the act of my
life of which I am proudest was the
moving of resolution in a meeting of
% 600 people in San Francisco, after
which there was no question of the
position of California
'EWar is a breach of the human
brotherhood, but all war is not wrong.
The Israelites fought for their inheri-
tance under the direction of Almighty
God; the erusades extended the religion
of Christ in Europe; the English civil
wars resulted in constitution which
has the wonder and admiration of the
world, the War of Independence was
fought for humanity, and the Civil
War, the greatest of all, was a war for
all future generations, for civil liberty
extending to universal brotherhood
and universal peace.
''The men who participated were
fighting that the Union be preserved,
the Union which stood before the world
for the sovereignty of man under the
sovereignty of God Let no man say
that the United States government is a
goddess government. 1t is govern
ment of liberation under which bigotry
the sovereignty of God as that of man.
There was 4 marked difference between
the founding of the American ana
French republics. There, in pride and
recklessness they tried 10 dethrone God
Himself. while this country rested upon
the belief in God and the enforcement
of the moral law. Through the civil
War it's union was definitely settled.
and with the determination OF slavery
it rose in its full panoply of moral.
intellectual and physical grandeur,
which has drawn the gaze of the civil
ized world
This is a suggestion of what Ne
MORTAL Day stands for. bringing a con-
sciousuess of the men who gave all but
their honor for their country and for
he cause which is to result in the end
f war. They were workers for peace
while giving their lives for the protec-
ion OF the Union of our country. The
,truegle was bitter. hard on the re-