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BY AUTHORITY.
Dr. A. V. RAYMOND lias boon
appointed, by the Board of Educa
tion, Sciiool Agent for the District of
Kau, Island of Hawaii, vice Mr. G.
W. 0. Jones, resigned.
By order of the Board of Education.
V. JAS. SMITH,
Secretary.
Education Office, Dec. 1, 1888.
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Now School Honscs.
Tenders will be received at the
office of the Board of Education,
until TUESDAY, the 15th of January
next, at 12 o'clock noon, for the con
struction, including material, freight,
cartago, etc., of School Hbuscs at the
under named places :
Kona Waena, Hawaii, size 20xdOx
122 rooms.
Napoopob, South Kona, size 20x30x
12 1 loom,
Hoopuloa, South Kona, size 10x32x
10 1 room.
Pohakupuka, Hilo, size 15x20x10
1 room.
Kamaoa, Kau, si?e 14x24x10 1
room.
Punaluu, Kau, size 14x24x10 1
room.
Keanae, Hana, Maui, size 20x2Cx
101 room.
Honokaa, Hamakua, Hawaii, size
20x30x121 room.
Hanapepo (Eleele), Kauai, size
20x40x122 rooms.
Plans and specifications may bo
seen at the Office of the Board of
Education, where any otker informa
tioiicinay also be obtained.
By order of the Board of Educa
tion.' W, JAS. SMITH,
Secretary.
Education Office, Dec. 6, 1888.
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EDITORIAL ARTICLES.
i
HE KNOWS IT.
The editor of the Bulletin does
not want the place of any Cabinet
Minister or any Government official
whatever, and would not accept any
such position were it tendered. But
it is an undeniable fact that the me
dical editor of the "Advertiser"
schemed and squirmed for Govern
ment employment for more than ten
long years, and he knows it.
thTbest policy.
The established political system
of this country places the political
power entirely in the hands
of the aboriginal natives, white
foreigners, and the descendants
of the latter, totally ignoiing
all the Asiatics, of which the popu
lation is largely composed. The
natives canuot be blamed if they
consider thocnselves entitled to the
position of control. They have on
their side the strong argument of
prior occupiers of the soil. It is to
bo expected also that the white for
eigners and their descendants, with
their strong belief in their superior
enlightenment and civilization,
should be unwilling to occupy a
subordinate position. Besides, they
hayo a powerful argument in the
faot that thefr raonoy, their brains,
and their entorpyjse have macp the
potintry wljat it is, in il)o matter pf
material development and pros
perity. Tlj'e question arises, What dp
tri0 wisdom and the interests of the
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nation dictate as the best stato
policy for the guidanco of these two
elements comprising tho body poli
tic? Our answer is, coalition. Drop
all distinctions of race and coalesce
as one body for all purposes of
Government. The white man has
come here, is established, has in
vested his money, developed the
previously dormant resources of the
country, bringing with him the
blessings and cm ses of his civiliza
tion ; and here he is bound to stay.
He cannot be ignored. The native
was here first; he welcomed the
Btranger, invited him to remain, nnd
accepted his civilization. For the
foreigner to turn upon the aborigine
and relegate him to a subordinate
position in his own country would
be treacherous, unmanly, and un
just. The cry of "Hawaii for the
Hawaiians," and the demand to
mako this "a white man's country,"
in the sense of giving the white man
sole recognition and control, are
alike foolish. The native and tho
foieigner should work together for
the common good of the two, and in
harmony they will find the interests
of both served.
In drawing towards a conclusion
we would observe that the peoples
who constitute tho body politic by
the provisions of the fundamental
law of the land should never lose
sight of the fact that there arc other
peoples and other nationalities beside
themselves domiciled in our borders,
who have been invited and welcomed
here, and that upon those in whom
is vested the political power de
volve the duty and responsibility of
seeing that none aic oppressed, but
that justice is done to all. Small as
the country is and limited the total
population, probably no country
can be found in which a greater va
riety of natioualitioo 10 roproooutotl,
and in consequence a greater variety
of habits of thought and fixed
ideas relating to the management of
public affairs. Among tho foreign
element enfranchised by the opera
tions of the new Constitution are
many nationalities, each of which is
naturally predisposed in favor of the
laws and methods of government
prevailing in its fatherland. To
suit all is an utter impossibility.
But enlightened statesmanship would
establish a broad basis and operate
on the most liberal lines. To sweep
away every vestige of the sectional
nanownes3 which has been a promi
nent feature of the general past, to
blot it out ns far as possible fiom
the records of our policy, to let its
history be deemed an incredible
myth, and to redeem by energetic
action its disastrous consequences,
should now bo the hope and object
of every thinking man who wishes
well to the country, and desires to
see her rise superior to the degrada
tion of many years culpability.
INFLATION DISAPPEARED.
When, during the period between
two and five years ago, this paper
and the present writer took the
ground that the rents of business
premises, private residences, and
lands in Honolulu, and the selling
prices of the same were simply in
flated and had risen to a pitch that
could not be maintained, some in
vestors, men who considered them
selves shrewd speculators, held and
argued that we were ignorant of
what we wroto about, and that time
would convince us of the fact.
Has the history of tho two subse
quent years, now ending, vindicated
our pobition,or justified their conten
tion? As a matter of fact, rents and
purchasing prices of every descrip
tion of property have come down
very considerably, In many instances
to less than oue half of the former
rates. This means what? Simply
that the inflation has disappeared,
or at least diminished.
The circumstances and condition
of the town and country were never
such as to warrant the high rates
asked and obtained at the tirze re
ferred to, and up extraordinary prc
science was icquircd to predjpt that
a reaptjop would follow. Mpney
was abundant and Joosey lipid.
High rents were paid, new puslnes-
'Atoite
scss started, lands purchased, nhd
houses built; and all largely with
borrowed capital. Everything was
overdone. There was no back coun
try behind the little city to sustain
the business which was established
or to maintain the great expecta
tions excited. Gradually, for two
years and moic past, values, or
more correctly, prices, have been
depreciating and coining to their
normal level.
Of course, landlords and real es
tate owners have been slow to real
ise that they must accept lower
rents and lower prices when selling,
or nothing. As thoy in many cases,
paid dear for their property, they
therefore considered everyone else en
titled to the same disadvantage,
from tho time of their purchase to
eternity. Although proprietors na
turally look with disfavor upon the
condition of things which compels
the acceptance of lower rents and
spelling rates, this condition must be
admitted to be healthier, safer and
more stable, because more normal.
PERSONALITIES.
The "Advertiser" is averse to
personal journalism ; and so is the
Bulletin. It is not pleasant, and
we never rcsoi t to that kind of prac
tice unless forced into it by the
other side.
Our contemporary is hint by a
personal allusion to its own staff
which appeared in this paper yester
day evening, and with a complexion
of injured innocence attempts to
create the impiession that the
Bulletin alone was personal,
when as a matter of fact our pei
sonal allusion was a mild rejoinder
to its own personal insinuation in
leference to the editor of this paper,
in its issue of the same day. The
"Advertiser" was the aggressor, but
our friend winces when paid back in
his own coin.
This was not the first offence. The
"Adveitiser" initiated its "per
sonal" course more than a month
ago by a taproom-slang article,
headed ''a horrid fiction" and wi it
ten by the Minister of Interior,
which biistled all over with false
hood, vulgarity, and personalities.
Among its untruthful personalities
was the assertion that "Old Hill,"
editor of the Bulletin, wrote most
of the communications appearing in
his paper. And yet that same paper
has the bare-faced audacity to say
in to-day's issue, "As public journ
alists, wo are dealing witli the Bul
lltin, and not with any particular
writer therein."
The "Advertiser's" allusion to its
editor as a gentleman whom the
Bulletin "assumes to be connected
with the editorial department of
that paper" is disingenuous. There
is no assumption about it. That
the editorship of that paper has for
a good many weeks past been in the
hands of a public servant, who
draws a salary from the State treas
ury as physician to the jail, is a
public fact. Can the "Advertiser"
deny it? What is positively known
has not to be "assumed." It may
be added that the editing of a politi
cal paper Involves "taking part in
politics," which tho ciiculars of the
Minister of Interior and the Attorney-General
prohibit all employees
in their Department from doing. A
Government physician who writes
political articles violates the regu
lations of the service.
WORKMEN AND WAGES.
In connection with the discussion
of tho troublesome Chinese question
we have frequently heajd Buch ex
pressions as these: "Tho white
mechanic and white laborer are ex
oibltant in their demands; thoy ask
too much for their sei vices; they
would have to accept less in other
countries, or starve. Wages arc too
high here. If these people want
employment, let thorn accept it at
tho prices asked by Asiatics. Low
wages would secure them steady
work, and tend to mako tho town
prosperous."
Let it bo understood that these
Utterances do not express the senti
ments of al, or a majority of, em
ployers of jabor in this community.
MtotmHttSSttM: &?
ffaftl
These gentlemen, ns n rule, wo be
lieve, and have gpod reasons for be
lieving, practically endorse, as far
as tho returns from their undertak
ings will admit, Paul the tentmak
er's ipse dixit, that f,the workman
is worthy of his hire." Those who
form exceptions to the rulo talk in
the strain above qbotcd. They are
dissenters from Paul's teaching.
Perhaps the authority is not suffi
ciently respectable for their accept
ance. What could a poor fellow
who worked for his living know
about such abstruse subjects? Paul,
they would say, if you want woik,
go to tho plantations, and you'll get
S15 a month and grub. Or go and
woik for the Government; thoy
want such useful fellows as you,
and will give you Chinamen's wages;
3'ou can live on rice and bird's nests.
If you don't get paid, go and smoke
your pipe at the comer like other
discontented vagabonds. But cease
bothering us with your gammon.
The workman may be worthy of his
hire, but that is against our piinci
ple. We are for hiring a3 low as
possible, and the lower tho better.
To Jericho with what the workman
is worthy of. We accept the low
est tender, and allow the workman
to get his hire how he can, or go
without if he can't.
Now, we are staunchly iu favor
of Brother Paul's doctrine, and
therefoi e qppobed to those who assert
that wages are too high. To say
that low wages tend to prosperity,
is advancing a proposition which
our experience in several countries
flatly contradicts. Low wages tend
to make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer ; but that is not pros
perity, only for the fortune-favored
few. The prospeiity of the masses
is the prosperity to be desired, and
nnv fool can .flea iiiciy ""B1"1 nro
not helpful to this end.
The assertion that mechanics and
laborers work for less in other coun
tries, is admitted, to the extent that
iii some other countries they do,
although in some others they get
more. We would ask those gentle
men who argue fiom this fact that
the wages of the same classes are too
high here, what rate of pay would
our great men, ministers, and other
high dignitaries, concerning whose
remuneration for services rendered
there is no objection, command in
those same countries? Would all
their intelligence put in a lump get
them bread and cheese, unless they
returned to their original avoca
tions? Let this one fact be eycr borne in
mind: The working man is the
honey-producing bee of the Slate
hive, and the honey-maker should in
all reason be amply rewarded for
his services. The rights of property
and of the rich have been clearly de
fined and very carefully preserved.
Their duties have been sadly neg
lected. One of the first of these is
to regard the wants, and ameliorate
the condition of those who have
been less favored by fortune. Every
law should bo made with an intent
to protect and encourage those who
live by labor, Restrictions, im
posts, penalties, and liabilities
should be so regulated as to throw
as nearly as possible their whole
weight upon those who are best able
to meet the demands of the State ;
and every fair and wise means
should be adopted to Increase the
daily earnings of tho workmen, by
throwing open every outlet for pro
fitable employment.
1 " .in i
"HARD" AND "FAIR."
"We expect to hit hard, but wo
also piopose to hit fair," saya our
friend, the "Adverttserr." One of
those "hard hits" was dealt this
morning right out from the shoul
der powerful enough to knock over
an infant six days old. Good gra
cious l We feel as if a ton of feath
ers had fallen on us.
The "fairness" is manifested by
tho "Advertiser's" usual method,
viz: a perversion of the truth, in the
insinuation that we had averred that
the medical gentleman of that paper
"inaugurated a personal warfare
with tho editor of the Bulletin more
thau a month ago, or at any other
,! im . Aii JtttfflOti ..
time." Wo did say, "Tho "Adver
User" initiated it personal course,
etc.," and indicated tho author as
tho Minister of Interior. Our con
temporary's idea of "hitting fair"
appears to be, to wjlfully misrepre
sent and pervert the plain words of
an antagonist.
Perhaps the expression, "mild
rejoinder," wa3 a little -"ridiculous;"
at least, it was intended to
be. Judging from the effect it pro
duced,, probably it would not bo
"an abuse of language so gross as
to encroach upon the region of tho
ridiculous" to call it "a hard hit."
The words of the "lcjoinder" to the
''personal insinuation" were few,
simple, and harmless in and of them
selves, but they were bo true, so
just, and so well-deserved that
their effect was unexpectedly great.
The "Advertiser" i3 "quite con
tent that the public should judge of
the comparative taste and temper
displayed." So is the Bulletin,
which is confident of a yerdict in its
favor.
Our contemporary declines "either
to acknowledge or deny any charges
or insinuations" respecting the au
thorship of "any particular article,"
etc. appearing in its columns. Cer
tainly ; that is what we expected. ' ' Ac
knowledge," of course, it tcill not ;
"deny," it cannot. We have
simply charged that a Government
physician has held the editorship of
the Advertiser for a good many
weeks past, and that the Minister of
Interior was the author of the arti
cle ''a horrid fiction," which ap
peared in its columns more than a
month ago. There is no "ludicrous
mistake'' here. Our "hard-hitting"
neighbor cannot, cannot deny the
charges.
THE PAHAMA CANAL.
Tne"gigautnj ?i.ud ... .
ing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
by means of a canal through which
the largest Bhips may pass, is of in
terest to the entire civilized world.
The most conflicting reports con
cerning progress already made bjr
M. do Lesseps and the possibilities,
or otherwise, of the work being com
pleted, appear from timo to time in
the European and American news
papers. The latest advices to hand
arc to the effect that M. du Lesseps
has publicly announced that the
canal will certainly be open for
traffic some time during 1890.
Opinions have been expressed by
many that this promise, like others
made at different times by the same
gentleman, is but a subterfuge for
the purpose of inspiring doubting
share and bond holders with re
newed confidence in the ultimate
success of this great undertaking ;
and also to gain the time necessary
for maturing new Schemes for rais
ing additional capital so sorely
needed.
The original estimate of the entire
sum required to complete tho work,
falls far very far shoat of that
already expended, and upon which
enormous sums for interest are an
nually paid. The time also, in
which the canal was to have been
completed, has been extended again
and again, until at last suspicion is
becoming engendered in the minds
of those immediately interested, as
to the reliability of this last assur
ance that 1890 will witness the open
ing of the canal.
To M. de Lesseps, the successful
completion of the gigantic task he
has undertaken is a roost important
matter, Tho vast sums of money
already expended, were obtained
largely from tho middle nnd poorer
classes of the French people, on the
assurance of M. de Lesseps that
profitable returns would bo made
upon their investment. Failure,
from any cause, to completo the
canal, is an eventuality that M. do
Lesseps dare not face, and hence
tho somewhat desperate measures
to which he has recently been com
pelled to resort, such, for instance
as the Lottery bchome, for tho pur
pose of raising money enough to
pay off large sums of accumulated
interest, and to prevent the work
from coming to a standstill, Still,
After what M. de Lesseps has suc
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ceeded in accomplishing at Suez, in
face of great or position nnd pro
phecies of failure by eminent scien
tists, who, after careful surveys and
calculations pronounced tho work to
bo an impossibility, who can assert
with confidence that he will not, in
tho end, be equally successful at
Panama?
Should, however, M. do Lesseps
be so unfortunate, for want of money
or other causes, as to bo compelled,
after all, to abandon, yet unfinished,
his cherished enterprise, tho canal
would nevertheless go through. Tho
progress of this great work is care
fully watched in all its dotails, by
representatives of men of capital,
if not of Governments, ready when
the lime comes if ever it does to
complete what yet remained to be
done. But the French government,
rather than sec the canal pass into
other hands, would possibly come to
the rescue,and, for the sake of nation
al honor, let the Panama canal take
its place in history, side by side with
that colossal undertaking, tho Suez
canal, cut through more than 40
miles of sandy desert between the
Red Sea and Mediterranean, as
monuments of French skill and
French enterprise.
a gooFanTnoWwoman
GONE.
"Speak well of the dead," is an
nphorism which receives pretty gen
eial recognition iu our time, and
serves in some degree to offset the
strong tendency of tho age to speak
harshly of the living. Men and
women whose positions arc public or
semi-public, whether in the State,
the Church, or Society, though good
and noble, "pure as ice and chaste
as snow," seldom, perhaps never
entirely, escape calumny. When
they are gone irom life's stage, the
. wouatiy-m sr Deuer numor
towards them, and speak well of
them, extolling their virtues and
extenuating their frailties. Indeed,
the dead often have a measure of
praise bestowed them which their
lives never merited, and not unfre
queutly the living sinner becomes a
departed saint.
A good and noble woman, one of
our own people, Mrs. Laura Dick
son, who had gone to California in,
quest of health, lately passed from
this visible world into the land un-(
seen. Around tho inanimate body
of the dear departed gathered many
old friends, while the Rev. J. A.
Cruzan pronounced a eulogy upon
her whese spirit had winged its
flight, the substance of which has
been published in tho "P. C. Adver
tiser." Tho Reverend gentleman
had been for six years pastor of tho
church in Honolulu of which Mrs,
Dickson was a member; and, there
fore, know well her life aud char
acter, which he panegyrized in wordB
of eloquent fervor.
Tho object of this brief article is
to testify that, in the opinion of the
wiiter, Mr. Cruzan's panegyric con
tains not one untrue, not one un
moiited word. Mrs. Dickson was
all, all that her late pastor claims.
Hor departure is a loss, a great loss,
to tho enliro community. Sho was
a good woman, a truly good woman,
whose goodness was manifested by
good works, that did good to others,
to tho stranger, to the friendless, to
tho needy. Her death creates a
blank, n, palpable blank, that is felt,
and will long be felt. Tho writer
feels it a pleasing duty to use ths
opportunity to testify to that nobo
woman's great strength of character
and equally great kindness of heart,
of which ho had personal and prac
tical proof sixteen years ago, when
a visitor and a stranger in Honolulu.
Sho came voluntarily to the defence
of tho falsely accused stranger. As
long as memory endures tho remeni
branco of that act will bo gratefully
cherished,
A HALF HOLIDAY SUGGESTED,
A correspondent, whose angle of
observation is that of tho Honolulu
merchant, speaks approvingly in
this issue of the recent change In
the steamer Kinau's time-table,
Our Hilo notes, which appeared yes-
1 terday, aro against the change. Or
rather, the notes Bay that dissatis
faction is expressed by the people
of Hilo. It is natural enough, that
any change which lessens ho num
ber of times per month of steam
communication with the capital
should be viewed with disfavor by
the people of that port. But we
think with our correspondent, that
the chango is decidedly in the lino
of advance, and is for the benefit of
the greater number. Our commu
nication with tho windward islands
has been decidedly too "bunchy,"
the steamers mostly all leavinir to
gether. Tho new arrangement tends
in the direction of spreading com
munication over tho week, instead
of jamming it all into one end there
of, and is therefore beneficial to
the general public, both of tho capi
tal city and of the other islands. It
also helps to lighten the work of the
Honolulu merchants and their em
ployees, by extending it over the.
week. By tho old arrangement it
was a hurried rush for one or two
days, and comparative idleness dur
ing tho balance of the week.
Our corrcipondent suggests that
the next "reform" should be tho in
auguration of a weekly half holiday.
We are on hand to back up the sug
gestion. We never could see and
cannot see now any good reason why
all our business establishments
should not close at noon Saturdays,
retailers opening perhaps an hour
or two in the evenings. We were
hopeful when the question was agi
tated two or three years ago that the
half holiday was surely near at
hand, but our hopes were doomed
to disappointment. We would fain
hope that the business people may
be now induced to adopt our corres
pondent's suggestion. There is not
SUch 0, larxrn nmmmt nf hiioinoa
done that the merchants and shop
keepers cannot spare a half. day in
the six, and if all would close no one
could take the customers of the oth
ers. Many largo and busy cities
that could be named find no diffi
culty in shutting up a half day every
week, and there would be no diffi
culty in Honolulu if those concerned
were inclined.
A SHORT SERMON ON A LIVE
SUBJECT.
Our friend Lillie suggests a. "ser
mon" from "Old Hill" on the text,
"a half-day a week for baseball,
y achtlng, picnics, etc., is well earn
ed at the close of a hard week's
work by merchant, mechanic, and
clerk." Well, here coes.
The Bentimcnt of our text is op
posed by some people at the outset
with the argument that one day's
rest in seven is sufficient, and there
fore an extra half day is super
fluous. Hero is a fundamental crrpr,
which must be corrected. The text
does not ask for a half-day's rest,
but for a half-day's recreation and
amusement. Sunday is a rest day,
not a recreation day. The law is
agajnst baseball, etc., on that day,
so tho base ball people who cams
hero a few Sundays ago were in
formed. People are required to
rest on that day.
To bo sure, the exertion of going
to church in the broiling buu is not
tabued. Jtn faot, if a man wishes ta
maintain a reputation for respect
ability he had better do it. It is
net against tho law to stay homo,
but it tells against n man's position
in society, If be is rich, never mind ;
but if he is poor, he cannot afford
it. Neither is forbidden on the
Sabbath tho hardest of all, bard
work to some people, viz. : to listen
to a drawling discourse which may
embody a wearisome expression of
want of ideas, a monotonous repeti
tion of the litany, or tho ejacyilatioa
of an extempore prayer inwhichthe
Lord is given the news of the .week.
Thlsktud of work, we aay, hard
and irksome though it be, is. not
against the law. Nor is It enjoined
by tho law, although ita, jnn would
bo thought well of and, enjoy, th
confidence of good peppift ie ha4
better go to church twice on S,ua
day and look as interested and de
vout aa be knows how. eywUie-
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