The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-23

ever be in favor of righteousness, and
this whether the alternative be peace
or whether the alternative be war.
The question must not be merely, Is
there to be peace or war? The ques-
ton must be, Is the right to prevail?
Are the great laws of righteousness
once more to be fulfilled? And the
answer from a strong and virile peo-
pie must be, Yes" whatever the cost.
Every honorable effort should always
be made to avoid war, just as every
honorable effort should be made by
the individual in private life to keep
out of brawl, to keep out of trou-
BILE; but no self-respecting individual,
no self-respecting nation, can or ought
to submit to wrong.
RACE SUICIDE DENOUNCED.
Finally, even more important than
ability to work, even more important
than ability to fight at need, is it to
remember that the chief of blessings
for any nation is that it shall leave
it's seed to inherit the land. 1t was
the crown of blessings in Biblical
times; and it is the crown of blessings
now. The greatest of all curses is
the curse of sterility, and the sever
est of all COMBINATIONS should be
that visited upon willful sterility. The
first essential in any civilization is
that the man and the woman shall be
father and mother of healthy child
rem, so that the race shall increase
and not decrease. If this is not so, if
through no fault of the society there
is failure to increase, it is a great
misfortune. If the failure is due to
deliberate and willful fault, then it is
not merely misfortune, it is one of
| those crimes of ease and self-indul-
gence, of shrinking from pain and eff
fort and risk, which in the long run
Nature Furnishes more heavily than
any other If we of the great re-
lpublics, if we, the free people who
claim to have emancipated ourselves
from the thraldom of wrong and err
ror, bring down on our heads the
curse that comes upon the willfully
barren, then it will be an idle waste
of breath to prattle of our achieve
ments, to boast of all that we have
done. No refinement of life, no deli
cacy of taste, no material progress,
no sordid heaping up of riches, no
sensuous development of art and
literature, can in any way compen.
safe for the loss of the great funda'
mental virtues; and of these great
fundamental virtues, the greatest is
the races power to perpetuate the
race.
Character must show itself in the
mans performance both of the duty
he owes himself and of the duty he
owes the State The mans foremost
duty is owed to himself and his fam
lily; and he can do this duty only by
earning money, by providing what is
essential to material well-being; it is
only after this has been done that he
can hope to build higher superstruc'
! ture on the solid material foundation;
it is only after this has been done
that he can help in movements for
the general well-being. He must pull
his own weight first, and only after
this can his surplus strength be of
use to the general public. 1t is not
good to excite that bitter laughter
which expresses contempt; and con.
tempt is what we feel for the being
is such that he is a burden to those
nearest him; who wishes to do great
things for humanity in the abstract,
but who cannot keep his wife in com.
fort or educate his children.
RIGHT USE OF WEALTH..
Nevertheless, while laying all stress
on this point, while not merely ac-
knowledging but insisting upon the
fact that there must be a basis of
material wellbeing for the individual
as for the nation, let us with equal
emphasis insist that this material
wellbeing represents nothing but the
Foundation, and that the foundation,
though indispensable, is worthless un-
less it is raised upon the superstruc-
ture of higher life, That is why l
decline to recognize the mere multi
millionaire, the man of mere wealth,
as an asset OF value to any country;
and especially as not an asset to my
own country. If he has earned or
uses his wealth in a way that makes
him of real benefit, of real use-and
such is often the case-why, then he
does become an asset of worth. But
it is the way in which it has been
earned or used, and not the mere fact
of wealth, which entities him to Gre
dit. There is need in business, as in