Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-06-01


historian of Whining the West can
not claim the immunity of the in
different and ignorant. He, who has
sat In the chair once filled by the
Adamses, by Jefferson, Madison.
Jackson, Lincoln and Cleveland.
fails of candor when he disparages
the services OF lawyers TO the people
OF the United States. We do not
forget. we never can forget, James
Otis, Samuel Adams. Patrick Henry,
John Dickinson and the host of
lawyers, who, that the flame OF lib
erty should not be quenched for
ever, braved EngIands might in
those days that tried mems souls
But let us more especially dwell on
the services rendered by lawyers In
the construction of our present gov
eminent. Among the earlier states
men. most of them lawyers, four
men--Jefferson Madison, Hamilton
and Marshall-stand pre-emlnent as
the founders OF our republic: each
and every. to use legal phrase,
bred to the bar and practising
lawyer. To their constructive work
Is due, almost entirely. the frame.
work and structure of our constitu-
ton. In degree, as human beings
must, they worked unconscious of
the grandeur of the edifice they
were erecting. They
- builded better than they
knew,
The conscious stone to beauty
grew
But still theirs Is the beauty OF the
edifice, the praise and glory of the
work is theirs. And the splendor
OF that edlfce! Sheltered beneath
Its heaven aspiring dome the poor
and the miserable OF the earth find
refuge from tyranny and injustice.
And the praise and the glory that
Is theirs! Remotest generations
shall hymn their eternal laudation.
In the gloom and shadow OF the
world the light of liberty has shone
casting out the darkness OF slav-
ery--and myrlads of the downtrod-
their manhood since democracy tri-
umphed In the great Republic OF the
West. Whatever of liberty we en-
joy, whatever of freedom the op-
pressed of Europe now possess is the
result of the statesmanship OF the
lawyers OF the Constitution, garner
Ing the harvest. the slow fruition OF
centuries of seedtime and culture
by the lawyer-statesmen of Eng
land. Beside such beneficent states
manship, how petty and ephemeral
is the glory of the camp and battle
field. Yet, despite that entry of the
Man of Peace into Jerusalem, be-
meath the Syrian skies. 1000 years
ago, today the multitude shout no.
sannahs to the man of war. Not
that, with our soldier dead fresh In
our memory, ! would snatch one leaf
of laurel from the crown of those
who bled In the great wars that
made and saved our nation. For
them let there be
Glory and honor and fame; tho
pomp that the soldier prizes;
The league long waving line as the
marching falls and rises;
Rumbling OF caissons and guns; the
clatter OF horses feet,
And million awe-struck faces all
down the waiting street.
But amidst the martial music let
not the memory die of those who
gave us that country. which these
heroes saved. And, above all, let us
not forget that the greatest of all
Americans was not soldier, but
was q clerk, politician and a law
yer, for such was he who, with an
humble and contrite heart, with
steadfast purpose and unwearied
VIII, through the storm and tempest
OF rebellion, piloted the ship of state
safe TO its harbor-himself to fall
at last, the martyr OF liberty, the
peoples God-sent leader. Abraham
Lincoln.
Before such an exemplar
- Memory bushes at the
sneer,
And Honor turns with Nfrown defiant,
And Freedom Ienning nm ko. aoo.