Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-30
FILIPINO GUARDSMAN TELLSHIS
CONPATR|OTS Of PRESENT DUTY

What the law abiding Filipino de-
was Interestingly told by B. I. Nc.
Kapagal, student Of Mills School and
member of Company NJ. LIST Regt. Ha-
waiian Infantry, National Guard, at a
recent smoker of that company. His
address, entitled Our Duty as Citi-
zens," follows: + -",..:. ..@
Friends: / am sure what have
in my mind point of view dwells also
in you, and in good understanding. Be-
cause know great many of us who
are young in life, and who understand
the ideal OF the good thing, are SEN
sibfe ana intelligent to undertake any
activity In life, whether in civic or
economic responsibility. Each OF us
is an individual and that individual
has his individual responsibility and
share to the country he lives. As a
citizen, or whether he claims to be a
citizen of that country, there he must
possess some principles which he
might use for the welfare of that
country. Yet those principles must
be unnecessarily aggressive or often.
siye, but rather be effective and de-
fensive. Loyalty to the law of God,
and to the law of people, national or
international respect to that law are
the principles We have to preserve.
These are ideal, they are human in
their character. ..A>.E ........~... T.:
Day Of Justice Here ..a,....s
Then, If these principles are prin-
ciples OF mankind, and, il they are
violated by any individual, by any ma
ton, or by any race on the face of the
earth such member of that mankind
is accounted as dishonor and outlaw
to the law of the Ruler above and OF
the free people. There can be no
other course to the way toward honor
of an altruistic government of any ma
tion, but the drain of justice among
all men. Today is not the reign of
Draeo, whose law in history was the
law OF blood This is the day of JUS
tice, the day of democracy, and the
law of the commonwealth of the free
state. .......... . ~ o.
Loyalty First Essential
by law, or not by law we are
claimed not able to become citizens
of the United States. Whether the
question is inconceivable or not its
solution rests upon us. Because there
Is broader sense than that. There
Is more a vital problem than that,
relative to our status. But one burn.
ing fact that / want to lay emphasis
upon you, that, nothing is more vital
TO citizen than when he is loyal and
law-abiding citizen. You can trade
and live in any corner of the world
because that is your right, but you can
never be respected and trustworthy
unless you are loyal to the principles
you are expected to, and law-abiding
citizen CT that community; and with
out those responsibilities you deserve
to be a dwarf
. Three Glasses are Found
While we are not TO become Am.
erican citizens, because by the Crera.
tion of the law they exercise, We must
understand another fact And what /
can say Ia short In regal to orr colo
ny in this territory is that the Filipi-
uos brought here are classified into
three different types: They are the
ignorant, The criminal and TIE law
abiding factors And bringing tugetn.
er the qualities of these people will
represent the Filipino race We can
net expect an, ignorant man to be an
efficient citizen unless he is induced
to do so by the activity of the ideal
man; and you can never use d Grim.
inai and notorious man as factor in
any affair, unless he is imbued to the
test of obedience of the law aemdmg
man. Yet in a broader sense. the
question OF citizenship on the part of
the FilipiIios In Hawaii is too small a
thing for me 10 discuss. But never
theless. the fact that know of Is so
clear TO the minds of some inner men.
If there are men in the White House