The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-19
STARVING
THROUGHOUT CHINA

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SHANGHAI, December l8.-Reports
from the interior Of China are desperate
and the startling news has reached this
city that millions of people are actually
starving to death, due to, coordination
.of floods, poor crops and the desOlating
. war.
4; Tang, Shao vi, who is representing
Rrfulier, Yuan Shit at the peace
conferences. which begin here today, has
arrived and expresses the hope that a
satisfactory agreement may be quickly
reached TO end the sufferings of the
people.
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thing. very prayer, every sacrifice was
a bargain with the god of Rome, Jupi-
ter Capitolinps. If pray, YOU have
got to help, was the idea Duty was the
only motive. Love was as foreign to
the Roman . notion of piety as it is
fundamental in ours.
90 Tins boys and girls growing up in
this cold, calculating faith lost all the
poetry of worship, and life became to
them mot beautiful round Of pleasure,
of communion with Mother Nature, Of
Joys and sorrows and tears and laughter
but severe warfare of duty where law
reigned and they themselves were mere
servants of Rome the Eternal City.
The speaker continued with the last
groups in the Roman house, the clients
and the slaves. Here, too, the absolute
degeneration was shown, for where in
earlier days the client was treated as
poor but honored friend and the slave
more as faithful servant, in later
and richer times both classes were made
to feel the rod of the rich and noble
master.
Truth Of Human RAghts.
And what Gan we learn of this sad
story of degeneraeyi The great lesson
of the Roman family is this: Let no
man obscure the truth of human rights.
II is the fashion of a certain school
of political and social scientists to seoff
at the phrase finalienable rights, to
laugh at our declaration of independ-
enCe, at the bill of rights, and at all
the other great charters off buman lib
,erty. Man has only right to what he
can get. Might alone makes right.
Rome sacrificed the life fgst az the fam
lily and. then4Of the. nation to inst such
a theory as this. With her might ruled,
and right between man and man was
unknown.
Every advance in liberty has been
won by insistcnce upon tho inherent
rights OF man, and has been based upon
his immortal spiritual nature. If man
is but q vocal spade or hoo, q speaking
animal. freedom and ,hrotheThpod are
mere high sounding phrasss with. no
reality behind them Egne, eternal ques-
tion for ansadvaneing civilization lies
hetween man, the animal, and man,
God e son. spiritdRI AN dnr modern
social problems hinge npon this funda.
mental distihrtion.
Enthronement OF vice.
''If social headers by the example of
devotion 20 money getting, by material.
ism and selhshneaa, by frequent divorce
and contempt OF the marriage tie can
convince the mass Of men that spirit Is
a hgment, that religion h delusion
and a snare, that eat, drink ana be-
merry IL the ba,all and end.aIl az lifh,
ihaf riches Is Tho principal thing. that
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