Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-11

A
uary last: the same that had In mind
when address d the Congress on the
Sd OF February and on the goth OF
February. -.
OUR OBJECT NOW TO INDICATE
THE PRINCIPLES OF PEACE f.
AND JUSTICE !.
Our object now. as then, is 20 win.
dictate the principles OF peace and
justice In the life of the world as
against selfish and autocratic power
and set up amongst the really free
and self-goyerned people Of the world
such concert OF purpose and OF
action as win henchfcTth insure the
Observance OF those principles.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace OF the world
is involved and the freedom Of its
peoples. and the menace to that peace
and freedom lies in the existence OF
autocratic governments backed by or
ganized force which Is controlled
wholly by their win, not by the will
or their people. We have seen the last
Of neutrality In such circumstances
We are at the beginning OF an age
n which II viii be insisted that the
same standards Of condact and respon-i
sibility for wrong done shall be obsery-l
ed among nations and their govern
ments that are observed among the
individual citizens Of civilized states.
We have no quarrel with the German,
people. We have no feeling toward
them but one Of sympathy and friend
ship. II was not upon their impulse
that their Government acted in enter
ing this war. II was not with their
previous knowledge or approval
sEIF-GovERNEp NATIONS
90 NOT FILL THEIR NEiGHBoR
STATES WITH SPIES
/ It was a war determined upon as
wars used 10 he determined on in the
old, unhappy days when peoples were
nowhere consulted bv their rulers
/ md vars were provoked and wageG
in the interest of dynasties or OF little
groups of ambitious men who were
accustomed to use their fellow men as
pawRs and tools
( Seif.goserned EStlt'Is do not fill
their neighbor states with spies, or
set the course or intrigue to bring
about some critical posture Of affairs
winch will give them any opportunity
{ to strike and make conquest. Such
designs can be successfully worked
only under cover and where no one
has the right TO ask questions.
Cunningly contriyed plans of de-
ception or aggression, carried, 1t may
be, from generation to generation, can
be worked out and kept from the hgh.
!, only within the privacy of courts or
behind the carefully guarded conf.
dences Of a narrow and privileged
class. They ale happily impossible
where public opinion commands and
insists upon fin information concern
j ing all the nations affairs
A steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by d part
nership OF democratic nations. No
autocratic government could be trust.
ed to keep faith within 1t or conserve
It's covenants. II must be league Of
honor, partnership of opinion.
CRIMINAL lhTRtGuES WERE
EVERYWHERE SET AFooT
AGAINST OUR NATIONAL
UNITY. s-..s.
Intrigue would eat its vitals away;
the plottings of iGner circles who
could plan what they would and render
account to. no one would be corrup-i
ton seated at its very heart. Only
free people can hold their purpose
aud their honor steady to a common
end and prefer the interests of man
kind 70 any narrow interest of their
own.
Does not every American feel that
assurance has teen added to our hope
for the future peace OF the world by
the wonderful and heartening things
that have beer hapBening within the
last few weeks in Russia?
Russia was known by those who
knew ii best to have been always in
fact democratic at heart. in all the
intimate relationships of her people
that spoke their natural instinct, their
habitual attitude toward life
The autocracy that crowned the
summit Of her political structure. long
as il stood and terrible as was the
reality OF its Fewer. was not in fact
Russian in origin. character or pur-
Pose; and now 1t has been shaken off
and the great. generous Russian
people have been added In all their
native majesty and might to the forces
that are fighting for freedom in the
world, for Justice and for peace. Here
Is a Fit partner for league Of honor
One OF the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian anto-.
craey was not and could never be our
friend is that from the very outset of
the present war IT has filled our un-l
suspecting communities and even our
offices OF Government with spies and
and set criminal antiques everywhere
afoot against our national unity OF
council, our peace within and without
our industries and our commerce.
Indeed, 1t is now evident that its
spies were here even before the war
began, and it unhappily Is not matter
of conjecture. but a fact proved in our
courts OF justice, that the intrigues
. which have more than once come