Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-12
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liraHt drinks and FURNISH some Of II
20 Your Potomac Generals" This
struck Mr.. Lincoln in very !unuy
place and he kurs' cat laughing and
laughed th" population out OF tn
room. He repeated the joke so often
that II became one q. Lincoln :
stories, but it really came from my
! ldthFr. He had been d member OF
! General Grants staff and mai been
very intimate with him all through
! his western service and knew posi-
lively that Grant did not drink at all
and did not allow the members OF his
staff 10 10 so.
When he was assassinatcd the
south lost their best friend. am sure
that if Lincoln had lived the unjust
way in which matters were handled in
the south during the reconstruction
period would never have been adopt
ed. and the breach between the two
sections would have been closed long
before il was
Tablet Is Accented.
Commissioner of Public instruction
W. r. harrington, in accepting the
| tablet Oh behalf Of the department of
| public instruction. congratulated the
| people and the children on the evil
dencr of their public spirit and their
devotion to the right principles of
American government which Abraham
Lincoln interpreted and vitaliZed.
He called attention to President
| l.inCOlnS 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 neighbOr," 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 LincOln's declarations OH
| education with especial reference to
the bond between education and man
ual labor. AS early as March 9, 1892,
! Mr.. lincoln in the course of cue If his
| 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
| .-2nI by itC means morality. sob ricty
| industry anu enterpriSe--Sha 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,
Mn 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
possible - quoted from the presi-
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-
| pecialiy in these free states nearly
all are educated, quite too nearly all
70 leave the labor of the uneducated
in any wise adequate to support the
| whole.
Educated People Must Labor
ut follows from this that hence
forth educated people must labor
"OtherWisc, education itself would
! become positive and intOlerable
! evil. No country can sustain in idle
ness more than a small percentage
of its numbers. The great majority
lAust 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 a blind horse in a treadmill all
the better off for being blind because
he could not kick understandingly.'
Free labor argues that as the
Author Of man makes every individual
with one head and one pair OF hands
it was probably intended that thar
head and that pair Of hands should CO.
operate as friends and that that par
tiCUar head should direct and control
that pair CT hands. AS each man has one
! mouth to be fed and one pair OF
hands TO furnish food it was probably
INT, nGed that that particular pair Of
, hands should feed that particular
mouth. That each head is the natural
guardian director and protector of the
! hands and mouth inseparably con-
nocted with it. ard that being So
every head shOHId be cultivated and
Improved ty whatever will add to its
capacity for performing its charge
: In word, Free Labor insists on
|, Universal Education"
1.-The Thought reCurs that education
cultiNatod thouSht-Can hest be
combined with agricultural labor or
any labor On thc principl" Of thorough
work: that Careless halt performed
slovenly WORK. makes no place for
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