The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-10-13
Commercial Advertiser.
The pabIie school Question.

lrN pufpurt- 10 Ne u JfN'N VI l''iI 'H N'i'i
mon schools adopted by the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association. at it, recent meeting in Honolulu.
4 frauk aud honorable review of that report.
bv any member of the Board of Education. Is just
the artcIe that would have been particularly graf
ifving D. a large body Of Protestants in tLe-..
I-Ilnds Instead OF such a review, however,
which the report fairly cbaiicused-we have q
most inconcIusive series Of nisstatements, evasioGs
and special pleadings. which. instead of cOnyinc-
inc, one that though several charges in the report
were. based ON Insufficient grounds or downright
eyntr1ths a. the review asserts leaves with fresh
convictions that the atcmcnts put forth are ire
frasably 'fur-
The eleventh count, howcvcr-regqrd,,J TIE sale
Of certrit school hoUses-is to- be excepted from
the imputation Of evasion. Doubtless those who
certified the facts upon which that item Of the re-
mort was based. will have = word to say in reply
10 the. Boards fat denial.
In what NAV be replied to the review. otherwise.
If. own order Of arrangement will be followed.
I The report charges it IS one Of the causes
Of dissatisfaction with the present management of
our educational Interests and of solictude for the
prosperity Of the common schools. that tU pre-
pare the way for the system Of public educa-
ton the former school laws We're repealed. and
the Office Of Inspector General cIeated-giving to
the person filling it EXCLUSIVE POwEE To SELECT
AProISr OR REMOVE ALI. THE TEACHERS or ALL THE
scHooIs-i. e. IeqUiy ont entirely parental 'riSLes
as tS,-1rtdy a moments co,sideratio,.-i,. t'set
Of no more account Ds conducting The educational in
terests of TIE HniioH Halt ,,o,d hare been the uoce
of South Clro,aa slares IN Southern education. fire
years ago.
This Is the simple damaging FACT which the re-
mort sets down against the Board And to this,
the review deigns this reply For the conception
Iof this odice1 the Board Of Education are not
pSnsible-. The report alleges q measure of des-
potism worthy Of dccrepit spain and unspeakabiy
degrading to the Hawaiian people. and the Board
saws it Is not chargrIbie with the Office that exc
cu..s its behestsI No marvel that the review
styIes the report singular document for surely
it would have been singular and something more,
had the assembled Evangelical Professionalism Of
these Islands opened its mouth to take exception
TO the legislative creation of useful and proper
> an Office as that Of the Inspector General Of tie
SrhOoIs But with Official review opening III
~this manner. with mature deIberation too. what
are we not to expect i'll it, onward movement?
2 by their objection to the incumbent of the
Inspector Generals Office personally, the Com
mittee virtually destroy whatever force there
might have been in their previous argument No.
l" SIC!
But then is this official sOberness2 one wants to
ask Verify. in reading the remarks ON the first
OF the report more llsiu ntll suspect
ed that the Board ficetOUsly inclinedl yet,
let that pass since the point of the second specit-
cation i fairly reached. - The report objects To
the person and not the Office" Precisely So 1t
most decidedly objects, and righuuliy too, To the
apooiutment To 50 responsible and influential
ofhee that Of superintendent OF our common
schools of one Of the most thoroughly determined
and noted enemies OF Evangelical Professionalism
In the. uaw aiian Islands. and that because the
lection of such a for the office Is itself the
elearest evidence that the Board deliberately pur-
poses to trample rights under foot, and there
l. avoiding this cOncluslOn- AIR professions
and smooth words only To be accepted for
their par value when they are backed by CORES
p0RdiHg acts. And this We have hoped to see
done as an Indication of honorable Intentions
But We have looked in vain. On the contrary
have seen the Inspector General started on one OF
the most positive and urgent anti missionary cru
sades ever undertaken on these Islands And now
because We cannot stuItify ourselves and trust
men who are zeaiOuSly IcOTkiEg towards a sinister
end whilst they talk towards another and a more
laudabIe end, the Board charges us with hostility
to nOn-sectarian schools which they desire to Sus-
tin The impUtatiOn II not true Not one word
from any Missionary against the establishment Oi
such schools has ever met my eye. IL the Board
has ever seen anything of the sort they can tell.
Not a Protestant the Islands. venture to say,
would have any objection. against such schools.
We had supposed saeh schools bad been sustained
BY ia. GOyrrnmelt lOs many years past bHt our
Judgment las probably been warped by irOteS
tant bigotry for n Reformed Catholic Board
and it, Inspector General tell er CATHEDRAL that
there have been any -tlCl stuopi> aiming us
/ 2 such uou-Sectarian schools of course they
are getting into OPeratiOn-and To tell the truth,
rather think that no such nOn-sectarlIn schools
ever have existed on the Islands We hope not
. Certainly.
Further we are fully of the opinion that not one
Sord would have been uttered against the lnspec-
tor Observation-Disclosures he could not but be- To
Evangelical PTute-t.Ints for his long avOwed hos
tty-lIad not his first official tour forced upon Us
the conviction that he prCstEuting his othcia!
authority To wage a dI-rePutable war upon ITO
Al FfVuat Utfsrfsf
that he i sustained in all these official dongs by
the Board Of Education
Possibly there. i not perfect unauimity in the
Board this subject. and that may perhaps account
for the fact that prOitati0ns against such proceed
ings on th,. part ~. their executive officer. have
been hOaurabIy received by certain members
whilst promises Of 4 remedy are Yet To be- verified
Eut not 20 dwell longer upon this topic We >houid
like in all rankucSs 20 ask the Board Of Education
if, in their rebound from stigmatized Evangelism
there was NO possible holding up in their appoint
ments of officers. till they landed IN the abyss of
the drest hostility: Or was this ultra antagonisn
better st,itei 10 The e,dS they had iH rseir
>. The JrisLeS cf the parents are utterly dtSrs-
ggre i the selectiOH cf TO instruct tier chill
dres-' saws the report The official review does
not pretend 10 deny It. Its special pleading ana
evasion Is simply humiiating and unworthy oi any
public body ~i;h an honest purpose IN hand and
to pretend they do. that under the former laws
.;ac parents had nothing 10 say IN the matter Is
either ignorantiy or purPosely, gross miSs'ate-
ment.
T. e II is si5rofac.d that al religious influences
sbaH hereafter be ercI,,l,d from the schools
This item charged in the report the Board deny
We had not supposed they would venture quite 50
Tar that in the face of accumulated iacts Not
to speak of foreigners who heard repeated time
and again the inJunct0us OF the Inspector General
there are hundreds Of intelligent witnesses. teachers
and parents. who have ever insisted that all Telt-
gjO,ls Influences were prohibited on pain OF dlsmis-
sal from the teachers post Not even a remark
upon any part Prrcept of the Bib!e-and - Tar
vas this stringency exercised that IN reply 10
Of
absolutely prohibited either in school or ont oi
school ds tsrcL~rs from saying word 70 get "A
child into sabbath school meeting OF course
The underscOrrd wOrI- the ~capr goat But III
The Imnerlt-Ee tnr. and rn.-ilI.n ni LL ALr--l!-u-