The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-04

'There has been change OF govern
ment. 1t began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by decisive majority. It
has now been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also be Demo
cratic. The offices of President and
Vice President have been put into the
hands of Democrats What does the
change mean7 That is the question
that is uppermost in our minds today.
That is the question am going to try
to answer, in order, If may, to inter
pret the occasion. ,riff
MORE THAN PARTY SUCCESS.
"It means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for q large
and definite purpose. No one can mis-
take the purpose for which the nation
now seeks to use the Democratic party.
It seeks to use it to interpret O. change
in its own plans and point of view.
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar, and which had begun
to creep into the very habit of our
thought and of our lives have altered
their aspect as we have latterly looked
critically upon them, with fresh, awak-
ened eyes; have dropped their DISCUSSES
and shown themselves alien and sinis-
ter. Some new things as we look
frankly upon them, willing to compre-
hend their real character, have come to
assume the aspect of things long be
lieved in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by new insight into our own life.
A GREAT GOVERNMENT.
1--WE see that in many things that
life is very great. It is incomparably
great IL its material aspects, in its body
of wealth, in the diversity and sweep
of It's energy, in the industries which
have been conceived and built MP by
the genius of individual men and the
limitless enterprise of groups of men.
1t is great, also. very great, in its
moral force. Nowhere else in the world
have noble men and women exhibited
In more striking forms the beauty and
the energy of sympathy and helpfulness
and counsel in their efforts TO rectify
wrong, alleviate suffering, and set the
weak in the way of strength and hope.
We have built up, moreover, a great
system of government. which has stood
through long age as in many respects
u
eFty upon foundations that will endure
against fortuitous change, against
storm and accident. Our life contains
every great thing, and contains 1t In
rich abundance.
EVIL WITH THE GOOD.
"But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come inex-
cusable waste. We have gquandered a
great part of what we might have used.
and have not stopped TO conserve the
exceeding bounty OF nature, without
which our genius for enterprise would
have been worthless and impotent
scorning 20 be careful, shamefnlly prod
igal as we'll as admirably efiicient We
have been proud Of our industrial
achievements, but we have not hitherto
stopped thoughtfnily enough 10 count
the human cost, the cost OF lives anuned
out, Of energies oyertaxed and broken
the fearful physical and spiritual cost
10 the men ana women and children
upon whom the dead weight ana burden
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