The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-10-29
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER %.


aBrains and Business Training"
On our fourth page will b. found an admira-
BILE Aticle, which we wish al our readers, par
ticularly our young people, Souid Peruse- 1t IS
as applicable to our own coD"nunity and people
IA % that Of which il was written. Brains and
talents are always in demand the world over.
But these qualities are rage, and are only
acquired by the most perssvering study and
application. A young man of poor circum-
stances and Of very moderate natural abilities
may by diligent study rise IL a position OF trust
' and honor ar above another who enjoys much
better advantages. It Is Knowledge that pro-
duces brains, and knowledge never comes by
chance. but IL the result hf diligent labor.
You can generally tell on a brief conversation
wba,bsr a stranger ia a : = white washed mummy
or an intelligent man. On whatever subject the
conversation may turn,-be It the manufacture
Of a Din or the overturning. of u Republic--it
will not take long % discover whether he is an
ignoramus or a well-read man of liberal ideas.
Our young men are growing up rapidly
around US. and in some instances with a lack
of - brains and business training" arising from
an naturalization of the necessity OF education.
The idea ia too common thst 10 know how 70
read and write and calculate the rate OF interest
is all that is required 10 make a successfui nusi-
ness man, and when these are acquired Il person
is prepared to- set up on his own nook. But
80 far from this, the old rule of a long term of
service or instruction. whether in school or IN
any branch of business, that prevails In European
countries. is the only correct one.
New plantations are sprinsing up every year,
creating a demand for practical men men of
education-men of brains, capable Of conducting
"A business that annually counts its tens of
Thousands of produce,-men with qualifications
fitting them to govern successfully the commu-
mites of 100 to 500 persons attached to such
plantations. An ignoramus is not fit for such a
position. Ii needs a practical man with knowl-
edge. tact, and talent-the More the better. It
is not necessary for such y one that he be
possessed of capital. Capitil will How IN from
other countries, provided We can produce men
among us capable of skilf3lly managing these
Investments, and the better o1aiIfed our business
men are, the more successfur our various enter
prises are, tie more rapidly s,sill foreign capital
be enticed hither. and permo~ently fixed here.
With these growing plantations, will spring
up machine shops, blacksIsiCh shops, factories
and mills, in all of which intelligent business
men will be required to conduct them,-the
more intelligent they are the better. So long
rs our Young men think lightly of education
and of thorough business instruction and habits,
so long as thew show n desire only for the
lasso and the idle life of 4 ~raqnero, and are
taught to believe that a bJIlock-hunter is the
acme of all human ambition, So long Will our
various industrial branches be compelled to send
abroad for managers and workmen, or have to
put up with such inferior and third-rate men as
can be obtained here. There is too much dis
position to- despise honest labor, and this IS
fostered, too, by parents
Not many years ago, not many thousand miles
from Honolulu, a machinist advertised for an
apprentice. About the same time, i young man
living in the place was seeking employment, and
was recommended TO apply aud fill the advertised
situation. But his parents scOrned the idea of
his learning a trade-they'd rather he'd be a
beggar." Years passed by, and we heard of him
as having been :. set up i'll business as a mer-
chant. Not long after he failed. probably from
a lack of the proper education required for his
business-in other words, Il lack of brains. We
next heard Of him holding an important public
trust, but even there he failed to give satisfac-
ton, and was compelled to relinquish it, having
lost the confluence Oh Ills COliiiiuhhS M YIN
lived. He would probably have made an expert
had he been early trained to respect
labor, and to know the value of education,
but then his parents would rather he would be a
and such may yet be the case.
The value of n solid education should not be
underrated. 1t is Il lever that Will help a man
through life, in any position that he may oc-
cupy. The more knowledge a man has, the bet
ter qualified he is for any trust or business
required of him, whether it be a tradesman, a
merchant or a politician. Education and knowl-
edge are not gained simply in the school-room
OF in the university hall The brightest intel
lects and the wisest philosophers that the world
has ever had. never entered a university. They
obtained their knowledge. where every one is
privileged to obtain it, and where our young
men, farmers and artisans can obtain 1t, from
the standard literature OF the age, acquired only
by years of persevering research and study
Too PRoMPT-on Tuesday afternoon. the Post