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THURSDAY, MAY J 1895
The economy of tho government,
is rather- beyond ordinary
comprehension. A
agn an appropriation was
granted securing monoy for
oxtra guards in tho custom
house. It was explained at
tbo time that tho forco was too
small to watch the many
wharves and seize the plentiful
opium. Tho dope has
never been found but the
guards are now being rewarded
with vacations during which
they aro supposed to pick up
and recover tho eye-sight and
strength lost -in looking for
contrabands. How tho Castles
would uyd howled if this had
been done in "old days."
Singe Captain Palmer's departure
it has been brought to
our knowledge that no need
for pecuniary return could
havo iu the leass influenced
him in making his recent visit
to Hawaii. He has been hero
twice as an ordinary press correspondent,
asking no consideration
and most certainly receiving
none, working as
though his bread had depended
upon it. It is therefore "to
our own surpriso that wo. discover
that his iucomo in Boston,
Jwhilo absent, is double
the liberal salary paid by the
journals who havei sent him
here. To bo wealth is not in
tho least to merit a respectful
hearing; to be poor in dollars
should lesson no person's right
to an opinion. Yet, when a
man whose credit is equally
good in London, in San Fran
cisco or in his native city
an unpopular cause, ho
must at least have the morib of
sincerity.
Sohool Reform.
If there is ono thjng that
Honolulu shows meanly in, it
is in tho matter of public school
buildings. The largo central
schools arc ej'esores in architecture
and battered and grimy
with age. Some now school
houses, havo been erected at
outlying places within the city,
which aro fairly snug in
appearance but yet bearing a
shanty look about tlienv which
is not inviting. The Board of
Education did not havo means
to" put up any but tho plainest
of structures. It is a great
pity that presentable looking
structures 'of stono or brick
could not havo been erected
when it becamo necessary to
establish tho
and tho Kauluwola schools.
Both tho Fort-street and tho
Royal school buildings aro
dingy and dilapidated. These
schools aro so near together
that thoro is no reason of
convenience to population for
having two soparato establishments
when tho Board shall
obtain pdwer to rebuild them,
A structure that would bo an
TEI.EPHONEilia .
ornament to the town might
well roplaco both on tho sito of
tho Royal school, which has
spoco for recreation ground
that , tho Fort-street school is.
almost wholly without. Tho
Union school, as tho combined
establishment might be called,
ought to have an- academic
department, free to all as tho
grades below it should also be
made. In place of tho Fort-street
school that now is there
should bo erected buildings for
a" normal school with a mode
school attached. Befor
those changes can bo cfi'ected
it will perhaps bo necessary to
havo special legislation, which
would mado a radical change
in tho school system with regard
to Honolulu. Tho capital
snoum ue erected into a
separate .achool, district, with
its schools taken out of the
immediate direction of the
Board of Education and placed
under a Board of School Commissioners.'
City , property
should pay a special school tax
for tho. maintenance of a free
systenv.of schools in addition to
a proper share of support from
tho general fund of tho Board
of Education. There can be
no reasonable objection to a
special school tax, because, if
tho city is to havo a School
, system commensurato with its
dignity, it ought'' to be willing
to pay for it. Honolulu is
probably' the lightest taxed
city in the world, having
absolutely no municipal taxes
to pay. It is true that it pays
direct taxes to tho national
revenue in common with tho
country districts, but these
taxes aro light and only
correspond to the direct taxation
levied by tho counties
and tho . towns of other
countries that have few or no
direct taxes to contribute to
national revenues.'
To mako tbo ,proporty taxes
viclcl a stated proportion of
revenue for tbo support of schools
might well bo expected, more
over, to havo a teudenoy to
civilization among those
cloinonts of .our population which
ns yet havo ovinced only an in-
finitosiraal disposition to assimi
late thomselves to ocoidontal
civilization. When tho Gbinose
and Japaneso know that thoy were
paying for the education (of tbo
childron of other nationalities in
mo liaiglisu languago, giving
them a vast ndvantago over thoir
own children who aro going to
livo hero all thoir days, tho
Chinese and Japaneso will bo
likely to oonsiilor tbo matter and
havo their childron equipped with
nn English education. It is
by ablo obsorvors throughout
tho world that ono of tho
rosnlts of tho war botweon Japan
and China will he tho starting of
a politioal and sooial revolution
in China which will placo "tho
ilowory' kingdom1' in tho raco of
oulightoned progross along with
"the land of tbo rising sun."
Intornal dovolopmont will bo
likolv to check if not stop tho
emigration of Cbineso to otbor
countries, At tbo same timo tbo
consummation dovoutly wished
for in Zlawaii, that the industries
of tho country can bo maintained
without degraded labor, would
make it eminently- dosirablo that
tho Asiatic olomonts romaining
in tho country should ho brought
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civilizod ways'. Pboplo of European
raco would havo loss causo of
grioYanoo in Asiatic competition
if such wero raisbd to a crado'
oorrospopding with their' own
status of social oxistonco.
Aaiatics in tbo country cannot bo
got rid of without violent
monBuros that aro not 'to bo
droamod of. Thereforo, tbo best
way to mitigate tho ovil of thoir
competition ib to bring their competition
up to a olvilizod standard.
Thoy aro capiiblo of civilization,
as inuoh so as wero our rotnoto
aucoators, and if civilizod might
after all mako good noighbors
and helpful coadjutors in tbo
perfecting of tho fabric of tho
Hnwaiian commonwealth.
The Hawaiians As Rulers.
The main point advancod by
tbo presont regime and its follow
ers in defonso of tborooont ovouts
whioh established an oligarchy
in Hawaii, is to tbo effect thai tho
ox'Quoen and hor followorB intended
to place tho governmont
in tho bauds of HawauanB altogether.
, No greater misrepresentation
could havo beon mado, and wo
doubt if tbo author of tbo fablo
ovor took any sttiok in it himself.
Tho Hawaiian rulo, as such,
was doomod in 1880, whon
tried to run tbo govornmont
with a nalivo cabinet and a
legislature.
Foreigners and Ilnwaiiansaliko
objected to that policy and tbo
no moro sympathy among
than was grantod it from
tbo 'haoles. The 8G legislature
was mainly constituted of
and thoro can bo no denial
that Kolakaua hold tho majority
of thorn solid, and used them as
puppots in his funny doll-show.
Tlio rnoiill rvf flinan nirnimisrminrt
was 1887.
Tbo Hawaiian or ratbor native
govornmont was overturned, .and
tho haolos took tbo holm. Tboy
did not do so through thoir own
resources. Oh, no! Thoro wore
numorous of tbo most influential
Hawaiians in tho Reform ranks
at that timo, and tho powor of tho
governmont was equally distributed.
No soonor, though, woro
tho haoles in powor through tbo
assistancoofthoirHawaiian friends
boforo they bogau an oa'&y and
crusade against tho Hawaiians,
against whom thoy had a
grudge. How
indifforent or douso tho Hawaiians
may bo in drdinarybusinoss,
thoy vory soon realized how
tho laud lay, and what tbo
feoliug8 of their haolc brother
woro towards thorn. Since 1887
tho Hn'waiians havo drifted
away from the fold whioh once
'hold them throug hf promises,
bribes and porsimsions until today
tho haolos havo tbo government
with scarcely onohonostHa
waiian back of them a Hawaiian
who is not paid by an official
salary, but a Hawaiian whoso
loyalty comos from tbo heart and
from usolfi9h motives.
Who is to blame?
Both .parties are to blame and
selfishness and vanity and lust
for gain havo lod both parties
astray. Nobody has ovor claimed
Jhat tho Hawaiian was fit to rulo.
Nobody with any intolligenco and
any interest in tho wolfaro of tho
country ovor askod to soo a
"puro" Hawaiian Govornmont.
No constitution was oyor preparod
or proposed which could causo
Quob a boliof, and tbo assortion
cf, tho haolos to that effect aro
false or based upon expressions
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used by irrosponsiblo
of tbo stripo that injuros
frionds and foes and UiomsolvoB
nliko.
Tbo Hawaiian possesses many
good qualities', Ho is a fair typo of
tbo son of tho tropica
and ho lacks tho vicos and
ousnoss of his olvilizod Southorn
brothor inAEttropo and Amorica.
But ho is not built for minis-
torial positions.
Tho Hawaiian is. shrewd and
eloquent. But Lib amiable
to honesty and otbor
convonioncos of public life makes
him a poor specimoh for a legislator.
Tho Hawaiian is full of conrago
,and by naturo ho is a most
alrous creation. But giu with or
without strychnine muddles him,
and ho is a failuro ns a revolutionist.
But placo tho Hawaiian
on his proper lovol. Don't make
him tbo solo "boss" of tho con-corn.
Don't try him an a warrior.
Don't lot him experiment as
tho rulor of a nation.
Lot him bo tho equal of tho
avorago hnolo. Lot class and
color distinction disappoar and
lotvall tbo kamauiuas brown or
whito join in forwarding tbo good
of Hawaii, Ignoring jealousy and
solfisbnoss. Thon tbero will bo
no quostion of nativo or hnolo
rulo. It will simply be ono thing
pitriotic govornmont.
Retrogressive.
The editorial- in yesterday's
Advertiser has helped to block-ado
the road to peace and conciliation,
which the conservative
elements of tho community
have endeavored to establish.
Tho scurrilous insults offered
to Captain Palmer in yesterday's
Advertiser are not worthy
of consideration. An esteem
ed correspondent voices the
Bontiment of the community in
this regard in another column.
Tho editor of the Advertiser
is, as a matter of course, responsible
for that niost inexcusable
product, but we do not
believe that he oyer was the
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author of it.
However, wo are not dealing
with Captain Palmer. Ho is
porfectly able to take care of
himself, and
slurs and filthy literature of
the writer to the Advertiser
can not vex him or injure him.
What wo desire to point out to
the men behind tho official organ
is tho wanton insult offered
to tho lady who once ruled
these islands, and who now is
in sore distress and helpless
"pilikia." The unprovoked
assaults on the ox-Queen do
not tend to further good will
and a friendly feeling betwoen
tho opposing factions. Itis mean,
and cowardly to ridicule tho
fallea power. It is
and distasteful to any decent
man, woman or child to
seo a woman kicked who is
"down." But the Advertiser
indulges in that sport and as
long as it continues to do so,
the bridge of , friendship between
Hawaiians and haoles
will never bo finished nor will
the hope and desire for revenge
ever becomo extinct. Let tho
Advertiser ridicule and make
fun of Captain Palmer, whenever
tho men who control that
paper desire. But let those
SPREOKELS BLOCK
men understand that if peace
is over to reign in Hawaii, if
goodwill is to bo created, tho
unfortunate Liliuokalani must
bo loft alono and not used as
an object of indecent fun or
vulgar wit in tho columns of a
paper for which President
Dole and his government are
virtually responsible.
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