The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-15

honest man Of capacity was eligible 10 any oihce.
without regard TO his creed or profession We
regret that the late remarkable Legislative assem-
bly,. which met under the new Constitution. should
have departed from the established uSagcS OF the
land. and have entered. in one instance at least.
upon the devious path Of class legislation. We
find it enacted in the law 10 regulate the Bureau Of
Public Instruction. that no person in holy orders.
or a minister OF religion. shall be appointed 10 MI
the office of President of the Board of Education.
y farmer. a butcher. . merchant, a governor. might
ill the Office. but q clergyman never. We say.
away with class legislation.
Have you heard, Mr.. Editor. of the school agents
lately appointed by the Board Of Education: Some
of them doubtless are gentlemen. and worthy OF
the trust. while some of them are characters OF
very bad SAVIOR in the districts in which they live.
Whether their appointment Is due 10 Bishop NtaIey
or not, we can not tell whether 1t proves the
well known incapacity of ecclesiastics for the
work OF government, We Will leave for Others 10
say. but upon the Board Of Education rests the
responsibility of setting such men to control the
education of the youth OF the land. We would
respectfully suggest 70 the Board of Education the
issuing OF a Pastoral Address 10 the school chill
dren in certain districts in regard to their newly
appointed superIntententS the school agents. which
might read as follows The ScribeS and the Pharl-
sees sit in Moses seat: All therefore Whatsoever
they bid You observe. that observe and do, but 90
not yc after their works"
Such men as old father Alexander up at Wal
luku, though they have done more for the educa-
ton of the nation than all the rest of the world.
stand little chance now to be appointed school
agents.
ON page IS. Bishop Staley questions DR.. Ander-
sons good taste in assuring his readers that
the missionary children are nearly all hopefully
pious!' Quite likely it never entered the old
doctors mind that any missionary children could
be ashamed to be called pious. Whether they are
or not | cannot say.-but l am of the opinion that
they would as lief be called pious by DR.. Ander-
son, as TO be published among Bishop Staley,s
pious folks and think DR.. Anderson's good
taste will compare very favorably with that of
Bishop Staley in publishing a list of dignitaries
connected with The :" church. in which he names
first and foremost his own Right Reverend self.
\ rumOr has Just reached us down here in the
country, that hereafter the morals or lack of morals
in n person are not TO be taken into account as in
any way affecting his eligibility for the Office of a
school teacher also that hereafter a teacher of a
government school is not to be allowed to open his
school with prayer. Surely the world moves! Is
this Introduction of e%Xtempore prayer 10 be laid on,
to make room for the Introduction OF a printed
form of prayer to be coined by the Bishop? And
is this to be the stepping stone TO the further intro
ductiOn Of 4 state church? Wait Il little. and we
shall see.
Was the abrogation of the Constitution of 1852
in any measure due to the presence in the land of
an Anglican Bishop? From the tenor of pages So
and Sc of the pamphlet he has published. it is fair
in the land, it was eXerted towards the overthrow
of the rights enjoyed by the masses under that in
strument.
The ends of the Bishop and of the ministry could
only be accomplished by d~epriving the masses of
the power they possessed in the election of Repre-
sentatives, and by placing that power in the hands
of the few.
The Bishop has commenced throwing stones.
Stones are plenty in the land. Such games are
catching among the boys. Those who live III glass
houses. must take the consequences.
Mr.. Editor. L am ever yours, KEAwE.