Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-16

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George Washington and Israel Putnam
we're comrades Sd mueI Adams and
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin
Franklin we're COW workers in laying
foundations for tn lie new common
wealth II: j. 49," .
The time was fun OF opportunity.
Freedom, was in the air. Robert
Burns had sung: 4 mans man for
a that Absoiutism was erumbling in
France. Government by the people
vas looming. up before the world.
definite and aIluring. The war. when
il came, was the peoples fight; they
did. not wait for the DeclaTation OF
independence and id was in this fierce.
welding heat of patriotic passion and
ardent zeal for the rights of man that
the American flag was born. 1t was
the flower of the crisis, the inspira-
ton of the seething, epidemic enthu-
siasm of the American people, men
and women =" - . 49,.
Story of the Nation. 49,. : .......
THE flag tells the story of our ma
tional growth. With thirteen stars at
it's birth, is number has increased to
nearly half a hundred. each star rep
resenting a great state. This union
OF stars in the flag tells of the mighty
strength of the federal government,
more than two-score of sovereign
states united in one system for the
Eerpetuity of which they have yield
ed portion of their own authority. A
union OF two or three political COM
.lnunities. is inherently weak as We see
from the examples of Sweden and Nor
way, and of Austria and Hungary.
But the security increases with the in
crease in the number of the federated
states The federal government was
too strong for the revolt of the Con-
federate States in 1861 to be success.
ful. The stars of the revolving states,
still on the flag, were constantly ex-
hibited to the Confederate army, the
token. of the steady faith of the gcv-
eminent and of the people behind it,
mot only that the Union had not disin-
tegrated, but that it would no. ~
Flag Promises Much. - .....
II have spoken of the flag as pro-
-Bhetic. When it was. first unfurled,
this flag of freedom, slavery was a
great business institution, so firmly
entrenched in nearly one-half of the
area of the United States, that no one
could see how it was to be- eradicated,
When, later, the, great Constitution oil
the United States was drafted and
adopted, there appeared no opportuni-
ty to terminate this national injustice
and disgrace, and it had to- go on with
the flag of freedom fying over millions
of slaves and the Constitution silent
on the subject. But the flag flew on
with its message of hope, educating
millions of men in it's principles until
the time came, after more than three
quarters of century OF weary wait
ing. to strike the blow that the flag
called for, and these millions of slaves
were free and received the rights OF
other Americans.
There are other things which We
may expect under the promise OF the
flag. White slavery shall be wiped
out, women shall have their due, work
ing men laboring by hand or brain
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capital and shall be given their. need
of opportunity.
.And so lie: US rejoice in the flag.
More than in its honorable victories
on land and sea, let us be glad in its
inspiration to human progress, in its
promise of future justice and fair play
and for the protection OF the weak
and innocent-and so let it be Old
Glory forever"