Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-04

/ Thereshas been a change of government. 1t
began two years ago, when the house of repre-
sentatiyes became Democratic by a decisive ma
Ijority It has>now been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also be Democratic The
offices of president and viee-president have been
!, put into the hands of Democrats What does
the change mean? That is the question that.i
Iuppermost in our minds today That is the ques-
ticn / apl going-to try to answer, in order, if
may, to interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere success of
la party. The success of a party means little ex-
Icept when the nation is using that party for a
large and definite purpose. No one can mistake
the purpose for which the nation now seeks to
use the Democratic party. 1t seeks to use to
interpret 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 Fery habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as We have lat
terly looked critically upon them, with fresh,
awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises
and shown themselves alien and sinister. Some
new things, as we look frankly upon them, will
ing to comprehend their real character, have
Gene to assume the aspect of thing long believed
in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions.
We have been refreshed by new insight into
our own life.
Moral Force of the Republic Great Force.
We see that in many things that life is very
great. 1t is incomparably great in its material
aspects in its body of wealth, in the diversity
and sweep of its energy, in the industries which
have been conceived and built up by the genius
|of Individual men and the limitless enterprise
of groups of men. 1t is great, also, very great,
lin its moral force. Nowhere else in the world
have noble men and women exhibited in more
striking forms the beauty and the energy of SYM
pathy and helpfulness and counsel in their eff
forts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering and
set the weak in the way of strength and hope.
we have built up, moreover, great system of
government which has stood through long age
as in many respects model for those who seek
against fortuitous change, against storm and ac-
cident. Our life contains efery great thing, and
contains it in rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the good, and much
fine gold has been corroded With riches has
come inexcusable waste. We have squandered
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 impo-I
tent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal
as well as admirably efficient. We have been
proud of our Industrial achievements, but wei
have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough
to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed
out of energies overtaxed and broken, the fear-
full physical and spiritual costste the men and
women and children upon whom the dead weight
and burden Of it all has fallen pitilessly the
years through. The groans and agony of it all
had not yet reached our ears the solemn, NOV
ing undertone of our life, coming up out CT the
mines and factories and out of every home where
the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat
With the great government went many deep Sc
cret things which we too long delayed to look
into and scrutinizeswith candid, fearless eyes