564 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

A. But the point I'm trying to make is that Baltimore City could
go Republican for a particular individual.

Q. Have you anyone in mind?
A. No, I don't.

ADDRESS AT DINNER HONORING FORMER U. S.
SENATOR HARRY P. CAIN AND THE ADVENT OF
FLORIDA MEMORIAL COLLEGE, MIAMI, FLORIDA

December 11, 1967

Tonight is essentially a double celebration and, therefore, I am
doubly grateful for your invitation. For tonight we honor a life of
distinguished service and celebrate the prospects for a college of
distinction.

While some private citizens are fortunate enough to go through life
without encountering moral conflict, few public officials have the op-
portunity to avoid such confrontations. While private citizens may
speak out or make "a separate peace" on the issues of the day, their
courage or complacence rarely affects their careers. However, when a
public official refuses to compromise his conscience and consistently
counters the current of popular will, it is bound to affect his career
and consequently requires special courage.

It is the kind of courage that the eminent eighteenth century jurist,
Edmund Burke, had in mind when he wrote: "Your representative
owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays in-
stead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "

Senator Harry Cain's life has been characterized by this special
courage. Early in World War II, as Mayor of Tacoma, Harry Cain
stood almost alone among West Coast elected officials in his opposi-
tion to the internment of Japanese-American citizens.

If Senator Cain's convictions on fundamental rights and human
liberty had been cerebral in Tacoma in 19-K, they became visceral in
Germany in 1945, when the then Colonel Cain viewed the horrors
of Nazi concentration camps.

In a speech before the authorities and citizens of the German town
of Hagenau — a populace assembled to view the burial of two hundred
Jewish victims destroyed in the local camp — Colonel Cain said: