The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-18
THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
Raa0 IT EDITOR FRIDAY MAY s !. The ADVnTHRs aMVn1
THE ADVERTISERS SEMI-wEEKLY
Welcome

N MERICA'S entry into the war was welcome
4 = most heartily throughout Australia, as tn
files from that country received yesterday indicate
The Sydney Sun. in the following editorial, ex
presses views typical Of those contained in a majo
rity of the Australian papers. Says the Sun:
President Woodrow Wilson has signed the declara.
ton of war against Germanyspeaking more strictly
has accepted behalf Of the Republic the status Of
a belligerent, Germany having waged war the
United States without proclaiming il.
The grounds on which America has at last come into
the fight morally inexpugnable They should com.
themselves be deluded into repeating the sneakihg
pacifst cry Australia in this is in condition of
uasindependence. Her contribution is voluntary.
The moral right of the struggle against Germany
should therefore appeal to Australians It APP
peals to Americana Those who have dared to prepare
for German peace by saying that sfths is a trade
war" must be silent and ashamed.
America is at for the sixth time in her history;
and this much must be confessed for the great Repub
lie, that in every struggle matter how mixed the
motives of may have been, policy of liberation
has always been included among them.
The war of Independence, waged against Britain
from l775 to l7SS put an end to the old theories Of
colonial empire, and prepared the way for the
the British flag The next war was the brief naval
episode Of 1879; undertaken partly to solidify the
young nation, and partly to defend neutral rights
against belligerent Powers. In the Mexican war Of
1S46, Texas had already revoted from Mexico before
i became absorbed IN the United States The titanic
Free well to assert the supreme power of
the central government in Federal republic Finally,
the commercial purposes of the Spanish war of 1898
did not wholly overshadow the fact that the liberation
of republican Cuba was one of its objects.
Therefore the world may truthfully say Of these
American cousins Of that they went to war
in spirit of mere greed; with tyrannous ideals
set before them Their history places them spiritually
beside the great democracies of France and Britain
and opposes them to German ideals of military con.
quest for conques's sake Philosophy, which may be
only longer way of writing the name of God, made
them Allies of Britain and France before the war
began. ~. .ff5st ..
Moreover, the American at war in the FIVE struggles
which he has undertaken in two centuries has inva.
riably fought with signally brave and chivalrous
spirit. The Civil War indeed bloody, and cost the
lives of 100000 mem but It contained story of out
rage. Humanity's instincts of honor and pity with
the Americans, remained paramount over humanity 8
instincts for combat and slaughter In the Cuban war
cay, America the battlefield has been on the side
of the angels;' and once again she fights with the
forces of freedom and honor against the darker powers
Of cruelty and tyranny with which the earth perod
cally cursed ~ Nv f5.s IVA I'D =. d.