Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-12
TABLET UNVEILED.


II''' . Il. Mr I.Hl|OIh, con YOU
1HlHh = would BE- d good plan 70 NnI
"Ga N1ur brand OF WhIsk'H Genera.
Gru..r drinks ana !U"nisu SOM" of It
20 your Potomac Generals" This
stIurE Mr.. Lincoln III very .riuuy
plu," and he Lurs' cur Iauch!u~ and
laughed H." g., pUtatIOn out OF n"
room. He repeated the jOhc 20 often
'Iar It became one OF Lincoln )
stores. but it reaIIy came from my
iatI"r II" had been mcmhcr OF
/ GrnrrH! Grants staff and nad been
very Intimate with him all through
his Western service and knew posi-
lively tLat Grant did not drink az all
and DID net allow the members OF his
star 10 DO 50.
When he Was assassinatcd the
south lost the if best friend. am sure
that ii Lincoln had lived the unjust
T way in which matters were handled in
the south during the reconstruction
period would never have been adopt
ed, and the breach between tn" TWO
sections would have been closed long
before it was.
. Tablet l. Accented.
commissioner OF Public instruction
W. r. Harrington, in accepting the
tablet on behalf Of the department Of
public instruction. cong ratulat"d the
people and the children on the evil
d"nC" of their public spirit and their
devotion to the right principles Of
American government which Abraham
Lincoln interpreted and vitaliZed.
II" called ate ntiOn to President
linCOlnS greeting TO Hawaiian Envoy
Elisha Allen. who was received by the
president on July II, 1864. Mr.. Lin
coin at that time spoke of Hawaii as
a near and intimate neighbour, and
further Its people are free. and its
laws and language and religion arc
largely the fruit Of our own teaching
and example,
Mr. Harrington then quoted from
President I.incOln'S declarations on
education with especial reference to
the bond between education and man
uaI labor AS early as March 9, 1892,
Mr.. Lincoln in the course of Cte If .,lG
first public speeches said, Upon the
subject of education. not presuming to
dictate any particular plan or system,
| can say that | view it as the most
important subject that we as people
can be engaged in" And again in the
same speech he said, For my part |
desire to see the time when education
md by it, means morality, sUbrirty
industry anu enterprise shall became
| much more general than at present.
and should be gratified to have it in
my power to contribute something to
the advancement of any measure that
might have tendency to accelerate
that happy period.
Again referring to the point so often
made within this territory that eduCa-
! ton leads a people away from work.
Mr.. Harrington while calling attention
! to the fact that it was Abraham Lin
coin who signed the bill which made
| possible the great system of colleges
of agriculture and mechanic arts
throughout the country - the law
which made the College of Hawaii
dents speech made in the state of
Wisconsin. as follows:
The old general rule was that
educated people did not perform
manual labor. They managed to eat
the bread, leaving the toll Of prOduc-
ing it to the uneducated This was
not an insuppOrtable evil to the work.
ing bees so long as the class of drOnes
remained very small. But now, es-
pocialiy in these. free states nearly
all are educated, quite too nearly all
20 leave the labor of the uneduCated
in any wise adequate to support the
WHOLE
Educated People Must Labor
1T follows from this that hence
forth educated people must labor.
"OtherWiSe, education itself would
hCCCme positive and intOlerable
evil. No country can sustain in idle
ness more than small percentage
Of its numbers. The great majority
hust labor at something productive
From these premises the problem
arises, How can Labor and Education
be most satisfactorily cOmbined?'
Lincoln referred to the Mud Sill"
theory where mankind was supposed
to be properly engaged when acting
as blind horse in a treadmill all
the better off for being blind because
he could not kick UNDERSTANDINGS"
Free labor argues that as tn"
Author Of man makes every individual
with ono ht ad and on" pair Of hands
it was probably intended that that
head and that pair Of hands should CO.
operate as friends and that that par
ticular head should direct and control
that pair Of hands. rs each man has one
mouth to be fed and one pair Of
hands to furnish food ii was probably