Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-01
CARTER OUTLINES
DUTY TO nation
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car discussion began IN NllCn ne
took part. defending the president 5
declaration OF our war One stranger
ridiculed the idea that we could fight
the Germans in Europe others took
issue with him and the, discussion
ended just as the train entered the
station, when a silent man sitting in
the only chair rose and told the Ger
man sympathiZer to come with him.
he knew the place for him. Indig
nantly the man said Come with
you! Why should come with you?
Back went the strangers coat show
ing a secret service badge, and in a
twinkle the handouts clicked. and
off the two men went, another pris'
oner probably for Ellis island.
1t is said between four and five
thousand men have been thus arrest,
ed by the federal authorities in New
York City alone, and men with such
tendencies have learned there the val
ue Of silence.
Sense Of Publicity
When the destinies Of the world
are at stake. 1t is natural that there
comes a point at which private esteem
or personal admiration must give way
to the sense of public duty. There
are men here in this city, | am told.
who call themselves Americans but
think Germany is going to win the
war. The other day, the president or
a German-AmeriCan alliance in a
western state stated that its members
were proud of being citizens in this
great republic, but were prouder still
Of being COMMUNICATIONS, what
ever that may mean.
Now, if there is one man in this
world l want to hate and if l can
do so without endangering my moral
soul, that is the man who has made
his living here in our midst profiting
by your business and mine, who calls
himself an American but admires and
loves some other country more than
he does ours, that is the man | want
to hate. There was never a steer
large enough to grow a hide big
enough, to make boot large enough,
to fit a foot big enough, to kick him
far enough.
Any man with intelligence knows
that the origin of the whole trouble
in this world lies in Germany, and
that a German victory means no more
treaties in this world, no more in
ternational law, no more security for
life or property, no more safety on
the high seas, for plainly their pur'
pose Is to establish might over right.
THE thing that interests me most
about my talk at the registration
1,,~ fo hA hnR ~ nnnnln
tell me that expressed their thoughts
but of course they are in a position
where they cannot say anything.
81 like the story of the old Luth,
cram pastor in revolutionary days, who
told his flock from the pulpit that
There is a time for war, there is
time for fast, and there is a time
Off. battle. The time for battle has
come Then throwing off his sacred
robe, he walked down from the pulpit
in the uniform of the Continental
army.
81 want to tell Americans here in
Hawaii that it is time to talk that we
are at war, the time for false deli
cacy Of feeling is past: 1t is our
war, yours and mine. What are you
doing about it? Have you given until
it hurts? Are you making any sacri;
flee? Do you expect others to do n
for you?
When Crime Is Committed
When a crime Is committed, the
man who speaks no plain word against
it but argues about the victim may
fairly be said to condone the crime.
Petty objections to the language we
use are mere excuses Of a troubled
conscience, mere attempts to divert
attention from the true issue. That
issue is simply who willed this war
and brought all this trouble into this
world.
1.-THE American who admired, re-
spected, sympathized with Germany as
she was before the war can do so NO
longer, for the Germany Of the old
days has disappeared; Germany today
is nothing but an army that has run
amuck. Their musicians compose
hymns of hate; their famous poets
write hymns OF hate; their scientists
plan diabolical instruments to make
death more painful; their pastors
preach hate and paraphrase the Lords
Prayer. !.
"Of what value is all the, good that
Germany once had If its aim and re-
suit is scientific barbarims? The kali
ser forgot something the other day
when he grandiloquentlys>pre presented to
the Berlin Historical Museum the gold
pen with which he signed the order
of mobilization and let loose his
Apache warriors The future histor.
ian will want also to see the treaty
torn into a scrap of paper, the can
non that fired a shell into Rheims Ca
thedral, the written order for the exc
cution of Edith Cavell, a statue of the
first deported Belgian slave, the
medals cast in delight over the sink
ing of the Lusitania. These things
and much more will be wanted in the
future.
THE Germans and Germany have
lost their reason, and Germany's de-
feat will be the greatest event in his
tory because it will establish world
democracy and abolish the rule OF the
Gen. Treat Speaks
Brig. Gen. Charles G. Treat, tenn
porarily In command of the Hawaiian