The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-19


history-yet a war without single is
sue in il which could not have been
solved hy arhitrators; war over n
land claim Of the same general kind
that the common people settle in their
courts without elamor if not without
perplexity. But what could be donef
/ The Hague could not interfere, nor
could il interfere tomorrow if the war
should be resumed. a nation may still
70 forth in armor. may shed blood
enough to redden the seas aud burn
homes enough to dim the heavens and
pile an osSa of debt upon a Pelion of
ruin and there is none to say il nav.
There is no ceur. ~ call 1t to account,
no law to punish it, The courts and
the law are for the people who are
taught that hloodshed by the State is
patriotism and hloodshed by the man is
crime.
CIvILIZE BY EDUCATION.
We must civilize yovefnments-hut
howf Is there any snrer way than
through the continued spread and up
lift of education and civic virtuef Is it
not true that as man 5 education eN-
pandS, as the grain OF his culture be-
comes finer. rs his horizon widens snd
/ he sees more things above him. he finds
/ less and less excuse for war; Go 10 the
great universities where, at commence
ment. bodies of learned men gather 70
get the inspiration of the freshest
I thought. or to rekindle their intellectual
fires at the old altar-and ask their
I opinion of settlements by war. There
was such a gathering once when Long
fellow came'bae in his old age to the
academic groves which once were his
and were no longer his. and left the
/ benedietion of his nobleSt verse. There
was smother where Charles sumner
urged the scholarship of his day, with
all his matehless eloquenee, to help
make the Golden Rule the sovereign
law of nations; another where Wendell
Phillips left his stirring message, as one
grown gray in human service. There
sat in ranks Of serene ana lofty fellow
ship the American men of letters; and
if to them had been left the issues of
peace OF war, think you they would
have unleaShed the wolves that prev on
human fesh3 Not they, Not thevl
They would have sought and found a
nObler settlement. Seek the learned
company of magistrates and ask them
TO point the path of natural duty and
OF honor and they would turn away
from war and find a truer adjudication.
summon the captains of Industry
among whom. perhaps. are tre most far
reaching minds of this age-and they
Will tell YOU that war, in its last
analysis. Is an economic bluuder ard
crime
WASTEFUL WAR.
Only the other day al san Francisco,
a banker of the first rank said to a
legislative committee Of inquiry that he
attributed the panic ana the hard ines
10 the prosecution and results OF the
Spanish American and the Russo
japanese wars. If he was right, then
il was surely economic laundering to
wage either OF them, the injury to the
world being vastly greater han the
amount Of good done anybody.
We have said that scholars, mIsis-
trates and captains of industry are. as
classes. opposed to war Add 10 these
the philosophers. and they VII say as
did AragO ''that tire must oae
when the science OF destruction shall
bend before the arts OF peace; 81 zen
the genius which multipiies cor pow
ers, which creates new p-odue.s. v hieh
diffuses comfort and happiness among
the great mass OF the people. shall oc-
eupy in the general estimation of man
kind that rank which reason and con-
nonsense now assign to it. summon
whom YOU NAV. save those that make a
business of war or thrive on its politics,
and in proportion as their culture has
been fine and their education thorough,
they viii declare for the severe gnty of
peace. Our wars are made or US ~
strong. ambitious and selfish men who
represent the State, acting UpOn the
thoughtIess zeal of half-c ducated
masses OF the young and ucon the brute
passions Of the ignorant These multi
tudes must be educated SC that gov n
ments and the governing classes may be
civilized Shall we not IN universal
Christian education End the key TO this
dark problem that began Bith Cair
It IS the only way Out of 1ociety,
rightly taught. a law Of arbitration
would spring as naturally as a flower
or a blade Of grass starts from fertile
soil What The Hague may not do to-
day OF tomorrow, with its ruling spirits
chosen from among generals and adj
mirals and politicians, we ny sadly
guess; but we know what The Hague
VIII do when, for every fCIt are ten
rhOUsand schOOl-hOuses; when for every
hay0uet IS a library; when for every
medal OF war is a sheaf Of scholarly
degrees and when, outclamoring the
ruHult Of battle Is the thunder
million presses. tireless cervitOrs Of
peace. There viii be q new patriotism
then; not one Of flags ard drums ald
spitaphs. but a patriotism Of puDie
service and civic pride. Of learning and
the arts. a patriotism which tea hes
men 70 live fer their country, rather
than to die for it; and Wlen that time
cores the era OF war-if I may para
1hrase Edmund Burke-will be ike the
ynost Of the dead moon that dimly
launts the morning sky after the sun
has risen
What people shall lead in this work
II arbitrati0nl We may hope that the
honor may fan 70 our owp; but the
Anglo-Saxon race is great enough to
follow If a mightier eivilizer shall rise
and show the way Still that race Is