The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-31

above political parties; the political
party has rendered its highest SER
vice when as the requisite machinery,
IT places in candidacy for leadership,
honest citizens of the greatest ntelli-
gence, integrity and ability, and the
citizen is a true patriot to the nation
when he attends the primaries and
votes inteligentiy on these standards
We must further realize that directed
intelligence in human affairs is the
countrys greatest asset. No nation
vii so down when wisdom and judg-
ment fills the place of ignorance and
where righteousness and justice are en-
throned
Our conflicts at arms are oftentimes
looked upon as in the cause of liberty,
and this is true, but as often do we
look upon liberty as the consummate
object OF strife Liberty, however, is
not a final good, but is means to an
end and in order that we attain it and
consummate the objects of true free
dom requires constant vigilance, Int
gritty and rational action on the part
of every citizen of the state. The
value of liberty lies chiefly in the char
acter of the people who possess it, and
the way it is used Thus it may be
deemed that the Filipinos were not
ready for the freedom they obtained
by the conflict of 1898 Their tutelage
under the government of the United
States should rebound to their noble
ness of character as well as to promote
their welfare. The charm, sweetness
and interest of life both for the indi-
Wdual as well as for the community,
do not lie in ones ability to have
ones own way, but in the range ana
variety of resources which life offers in
tie opportunities for service. 1t often
happens that the highest type of liberty
is enjoyed by those who have the few
est individual prerogatives. There is
less liberty here in Honolulu in that
sense than there is in Wolfville, Ari-
IONA, but the liberty here is worth
more not only 70 our industries, but to
the comfort, safety and pleasure of our
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maintain this standard of liberty as
against drifting into the condition of
disorganized society.
The other heritage from this sacrifice
that we commemorate today is that OF
industrial opportunity The basis OF
our industry as organized permeates all
phases of our society. War is inva-
riably followed by periods of develop
.ment and nthi8 development society Is
subject to many forms of evil. Dis
honesty, oppression, political disorder
and corruption are the exigencies of
the upbuilding of our population after
it has been torn to pieces by the con-
flicts of battle and while it requires
high type of patriotism to go into
the conflict of arms for righteousness,
yet it requires a no less degree of pa
triotism to fight for righteousness and
industrial prosperity in the face of the
many forms of oppression and derange-
ment that confront us.
This is an age of construction. Chips
are flying, hammers are pounding, and
men are climbing ladders. Though
it may take years and even generations
to consummate our ideals of industry
and citizenship. yet we are progressing
! toward the desired end. Our country
is in the process of being made, and
this process involves such rapidity of
change, unsettling of old relations and
readjustnentg Of class to class and man
to ma nthat we are likely to see things
as of an insurmountable bank before
us and not in the perspective that such
obstacles really present. The object of
our industry is not ia make few for
tunately placed people comfortable, by
reserving the best places for them, but
rather to produce the largest number
of strong human hands, of generous
hearts, of pure human lives. Without
going into great detail it is sufficient to
point out some of the agencies that
count for industrial prosperity, First
is our system of education. In some
countries the ideal in education is
largely for culture, in other scholarship
predominates in educational effort
But in the United States the ideal
is without excluding either culture OF
scholarship, for service, No sooner Is
the pupil out of the grammar school
than he begins to plan for the activities
in life that he shall follow. So sire
nuous is this effort that there is great
danger that our education will become
perfunctory rather than thorough. That
new and so called practical subjects
will be substituted for the fundamental
in training 1t is not so much tha'
new subjects are wanted in our schools
and colleges as it is intelligent, vita
and rational methods of teaching the
old. The United States depends OF
its schools for the contamination o.
its principles of peace, patriotism, anC
citizenship more than any other coun
try. and the responsibility for results
! tba+ ara attained dpDpndS as much OF