The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-05
AMERICAN IDEALS
Belong TO WORLD
Signers of Declaration of lnds-
pendence Did Not Speak
For This Country Only.
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gu 10 hctJ out OF pe0ple which WISH
ed TO be done with classes, special in.
| terests and the authority of men whom
! they had not themselves chosen to
| rule over them. q.
! They entertained no private pur.
pose, sdesircd no peculiar privileges.
They we're consciously planning that
men of every class should be free and
| America a place to which men of
every nation might resort who wished
TO share with them the rights and
privileges of free men. ~ g..
Take Quo From Them Sa,s
%. And we take our cue from them
do we notf We intend what they, in.
| EI &c. Ne here lin America, be-
lieve our participation in this present
war to be only the frujtage Of what
they planned. Our case differs from
| theirs only in this, that it is our, in
! violable privilege to counsel with men
| out of every nation for what shall make
not only the liberties of America Sc
cure, but the liberties Of every other
people as we'll. This is our conception
Of the great struggle in WHICH We are
engaged. The plot is written plain
/ upon every scene, every act of su.
| premP tragedy. On one hand stand
the peoples of the world--not only
peoples actually engaged but many
others also who suffer under mastery,
but cannot act; people of many races
in every part of the world-the PEG
pie of stricken Russia still among the
rest, although they are for the moment
disorganized and helpless.
Teutons In Contrast
"OppOsed TO them stand friendless
group of governments who speak no
| common purpose but only selfish ambi-
| tions by which they cannot provide
but themselves, and whose people are
feeling their hands; governments
which are for their people and yet are
'or the time their sovereign lords,
making every choice for them and dis
posing of their lives and fortunes as
they will as well rs lives and fortunes
of every people who fall under their
error government clothed with
strange trappings and primitive au
hOrity of an age altogether foreign to
,ur own.
In Deadly Grips
Past and present are in deadly
grapple and the peoples of the world
re being done to death between them.
There can be but one issue. The
etuement .pust be final. There can
be no compromise, no halfway decis-
ion.
."These are the ends for which the
associated peoples Of the world are
fighting, which must be conceded them
before there can he peace. FIRST De
strurtiOn OF every arbitrary power
han khnk
~, of u single choice, disturb the peace
# the world or if it cannot I've pres.
emily destroyed, at least it's reduction
to virtual impotence.
"SecOnd; The settlement of every
question, whether territory, sovereign
~, economic arrangements or political
relationship, upon a basis of free ~
"Cptance of that settlement by the PEG
pie Immediately copcerpel, not upon
the basis of material interest or al
vantage Of any other nation or people
which desires different settlement
for sake of it's own exterior influence
or mastery.
Consent of Governed
"Third: The consent of all nations
TO hc governed in their rondurt toward
each other by the same principles Of
hOaOT and respect for the common law
Of civilized society that govern indi
vidual citizens and all modern state,
II relations ono to another; to the emf
that all promises and covenants hr sa
"rrdIy observed, no privy plots or con
|pirarirs hatrhed, no selfish injuries
wrought with the small, and mutual
rust established upon Il handsome
foundations of mutual respect for the
right.
Permanent Peace
Fourth; Establishment of an or
ganiHntion for peace which shall make
certain that the combined power Of
rec nations will check every invasion
f right and serve to make peace and
Justice more secure by affordiug
definite tribunal Of opinion to which
I'll must submit and by which in
trrnational readjustment that cannot
be agreed upon by the peoples direct
concerned shall be sanctioned.
Re On of Law
These great Objects can be put into
= single sentence: What We seek is
the reign of law based upon the con
sent of the governed and sustained by
he organized opinion of mankind.
These great ends cannot be achieved
~ debating and seeking reconcrha
tiOm, Or accommodate wlBtt statement
they u4ay wish with their projects for
BALANCES of power and of national op
portunity. They can be realized only
by the determination of whnt the
thinking peoples of the world desire,
with their hope for justice and for
social freedom and opportunity.
~ can fancy that the air of tins
place carries accents Of such principles
with peculiar Kindness. Here were
started forces which the great nation
against which they were primarily iii
rectod at first regaIded aS rev oh
against rightful authority hut which it
has long since seen to have been Il
drp IN the liberation of it's own people
rs well ms Of the people Of the United
safes, und | stand here now to speak
proudly and with confident hope Of
he sprrud Of this revolt, this hhrru
ION IN the great stage Of the world 1t
self.
"Thr blinded rulers Of prussin have
reused forces they. know little VI
forces which once reused cum never J.,
Iush"d I" earth again; for they have