The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-06-24

reyolre around him., approve the measure or
regret it? TIL these questions are satisfactorily
answered. tie Board shall, in public estimation,
be held accountable for all the mischief which
must result from Carrying out the narrow and
s-ectarian notions Of the Bishop. Following his
lead, they have thus far succeeded IN making
themselves sufficiently obnoxious by their gross
mismanagement Of the school system, which they
have constantly marred all the while they have
been making such pompous pretensions Of their
purpose 10 mend il.
But we did not intend TO occupy so much
space and type in the vain effort to induce some
shadow of shame in men who are maniiestly
incapable of that feeling nor would We add one
word 10 make them more odious than they have
succeeded in making themselves. We have no
words Of warning or Of advice to urge upon q
body who are bent upon using their " little brief
authority with so little regard for the Interests
of the people, which are by consequence the
true interests Of the crown. We only lament
that, in their efforts TO show their petty spite
towards all American or Americo-Hawaiian
teachers and schools, they are all the while
working damage TO the natives by leaving them
without any equivalent for what they are dis
posed 10 deprive them Of.
Il is q great hardship moreover for the great
majority of foreign resident taxpayers in Homo
lulu 10 see the public school revenues used, by
hook or by crook, to sustain the incompetent
teachers foisted upon the government patronage
by the most Insignificant Of all the sects estab-
lished here while these same taxpayers must,
at their own expense, provide proper English
day-schools for their children.
As to the discharged teachers themselves, who
may suffer temporary hardships from losing en-
Ployment, We have no fear that they will be
long left out in the cold. 1t is a short lane that
has no turn in it: and, in any irrepressible con-
fict between the pedagogues and the demagogues,
the latter are pretty sure TO get the worst of it4
- Our item regarding Booth, who escaped
in the SnyrniOte. drew down upon US from
some person, q coarse, ill-natured communion
ton in the Gazette, signed :" Fair Play" which
is beneath our notice, as from the .enor and
warmth of its diction, we suppose its author
TO have been an associate, if not a bosom friend
of the miserable fellow. With the leader on
the subject in the Gazette we have some excep-
tions to take. The Gazette says in substance
that having been 5ailed by the proper Judge,
he had q legal right TO 60 anywhere he liked
in the kingdom, and that no police officer had
any right TO interfere with his movements;
but as it was generally known on the corner
Booth intended leaving in the !Smyrni9te,
a complaint should have been made to the Off
GERS and he would have been re-arrested. We
would ask, what the Attorney General was APP
pointed for? We had supposed that it was his
duty to be active in detecting and prosecuting
criminals, and having an able and efficient force
under him, that 4 small portion of his valuable
time might be devoted to the rights of the pub
lie without materially injuring his private in
%terests, more especially as he draws a Minister'S
If the official in question had less pri-
waite business to care for, the public would doubt
less be better served. What with a plantation 10
manage on the other side of the island, and innu-
lnerable agencies, &c, criminals may escape with