The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-16

OF the rlch by the poor. Men OF the
Disraeli type were cynical to the
! last word. Europe generally believed
that no state was safe without n train
ed governing class; men educated TO
. affairs and, perhaps, with an inherit
ed taste for them. In their belief
state was like ship at sea. There
must be certifcated mariners in COM
mand. What TO do in a storm could
not be safely left to vote of the
crew in the foreoastle. In the earliest
years of the republic when Presidents
of the ruling caste were chosen in
caucus Mt the capital,-hence the
; phrase liking Caucus - there was less
apprehension abroad among people who
thought of us at all. Our leaders then
We're men whom Europe could appreci
! ate. Washington, landed proprietor,
master of slaves, one given to cere-
mony, was of social class which. in
England might expect to have its sons
IN parliament, even in the peerage
The two Adamses, aristocrats at heart,
were understood. Jefferson, who had
lived in some state abroad before he
' became Jacobin at home, was look.
ed up to bY men who usually looked
down. But foreign opinion about us
changed when the reasantry of old
world fields and the waits of great
, cities swarmed to America and began
!. taking part in high poitics-men of
the sort who hailed Andrew jackson
as their prophet. "Wait,n said the
European philosopher "until this blind
mob controls the state, and, in some
desperate exgency. chooses one of its
own kind to lead it, Then the test
!, and the disaster. On the surface
the reasoning might have passed, but
: there were some things forgotten and
some things undreampt of in the old
: political philosophy of Europe. 1t
: ought not to have been necessary to
. remind Europe of the Swiss; of how
& "a few strong instincts and few
& plain rules among the herdsmen of the
: Alps had done more for mankind in
E one unhappy day~than all the pride of
intellect and thought And speaking
of those raised from the earth to do great
, deeds, England surely should have re.
membered Cromwell and France the
peasant saint and warrior of Domremy,
: They should have seen in their horo.
: scopes and taken measure of the
|. stalwart man.
Z Limbed like the old heroic breeds,
. Who stands self-poised on manhood s
|, solid earth;
> Not forced to frame excuses for his
birth.
Fed from within with all the strength
he needs.
Nature, when she puts forth her
, powers may matriculate greater man
than any University; and she had al.
ready done it in the American wilds.
For him her Old World moulds aside
she threw
5 And, choosing sweet clay from the
breast
Of the unexhausted West.
With stuff untainted shaped hero
new,
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God,
and true.
d Blind to many things the gray phil
osophers, but fate chastened them Be-
, fore they had fairly begun making
4. their fine epigrams, something had
happened in the backwoods of Amer.
!! lea which was to beat down the dis.
trust of popular governmental least,
of Anglo-SaXon popular government
, forest in log cabin, among the poor.
est of the poor, had been born the
Master Craftsman of democracy; one
who was yet to stand on pedestal
hewn for giants; one who was to EN-.
, body within his own self the hope, the
triumph and the majesty of the demo
cratic ideal. His figure rises before
us. Ladies and gentlemen, we are
met to honor him and / leave you to
give your own greeting tonight on this
hundredth anniversary own pa.
triotic greeting to the great name of
Abraham Lincoln.
Nothing could have been simpler or
more obscure than the beginnings of
this great man. Here is what he wrote
of them himself: ~ was born Feb.
II, 1909, in then Hardin county, Ken
lucky, at point within the now coun.
ty of La Rue a mile or mile and
half from where Hodgen IS mill now Is.
My parents being dead, and my own
memory not serving, / know no means
of identifying the precise locality. 1t
was on Nolin Creek
Contrast this simple record with
page in Burke's Peerage and we shall
get the point of view of transatlantic
critics of that day. Could any good
come out of the region of Nolip Creek
in the County of Hardin, little way
from Hodgen s milf 1t was the mod.
ern form of very ancient question
which the rabbits put when some one
told them of a strange event in
wayside village beyond Jerusalem.
The First Charter.
5 There are three chapters in the life
l Of Lincoln which tell his inspiring
story. We see him first as child in
: log cabin-a small, single room with
) latched door, a CLASHES window, a
chimney built outside of rails chinked
with mud. The floor, perhaps, was of
pounded clay or rough slabs covered
with pine needles and the skins Of
, animals; beds of corn husk or ever
green; rude stools in place of chairs;
a stump smoothed with saw and sand
! stones for a table. This humble place