The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-07
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. :
The ucrormatory Again:

BY publishing Mr.. Hyde's testimonials do the
Board of Education fondly imagine that they
have lOundered out Of their dilemma? Let them
first try the other horn of it, viz that they have
discharged, on short notice, a good and faithful
servant of the Government, whose conduct, TO use
their own words, = hassalways been satisfactory
to them, - To make way for the employment of an
interesting family, a member of which had the
good fortune 10 marry a FrepehmGn.
1t is an old saying that when a Scotchman gets
into Office his whole kith and kin soon fellow him.
1t has been pretty clearly demonstrated here that
this applies in even a greater degree to n French
man. The case of Mr.. Jarret, is still fresh
in the public memory. What concentrated nepOt-
ism may be looked for, when a Scotchman and
Frenchman meet on a public Board! What ut
ter disregard for the feelings and services of
others, so that their own petty experiments may
be tried. or some distant relative, or countryman
provided for,
In justice to Mr.. Hyde, it should be stated that
but one sentiment exists in the town among all
classes, and that is, that he has been very cruelty
and stability treated. Even a member of the
Board has been heard to express regret for their
hasty action. This will call to mind the pane
gyric bestowed by the Board on the late Mr..
Ingraiam after his death, which death, if the
testimony of his physicians and numerous friends
is to he believed, was caused by a similar case of
heartlessness and harsh conduct on the part Of
the Board in dismissing him at a week S notice,
for no fault, after thirteen years service.
1t would be well for every taxpayer to digest
the following R~elormatory facts Six thousand
dollars were first appropriated to purchase land,
&c, which land is not yet purchased a second
six thousand dollars for maintenance a larger
amount will be asked of the next Legislature
after which the whole affair wiH become a failure.
How can it be otherwise? Is there one person
in Honolulu who thinks otherwise? Do not the
Board themselves anticipate such a contingency?
And why? Because the said Board, no individual
of which (for their antecedents are well known)
has the least profession 10 experience an education
or educational niatters-have not the common fore
sight and discretion to retain the services of an
experienced master and matron, whose experience
has doubtless FLASHED with some of their own
crude and chaotic ideas but have substituted a
whole family, no member of which pretends 10
any experience or knowledge of the duties they
have undertaken. Their only qualifications ap-
pear 20 be that they, SIR in number, are poor.
Provision for the poor is doubtless one duty of
the State; but sacrifice for that purpose the salary
of some useless officer, such as the Minister of
Foreign Relation or the Minister of Finance, who
would never be missed, except it were their gaudy
uniforms-but not of an officer, who to quote
again from the government press, was the I" right
man III the right place" from whose works the
natives were to derive so much good, as if the
welfare of the nation ever crossed their minds.
Now, that the Board have got the matter of
Reformation in their own hands, and in that of
servants whose notions are more obtuse than
their own, had they not better obtain some useful
book on the subject? Pray let them consider
that it is a matter of some consequence if their
Rciormatory goes on or not. 1t is a matter of
some thousands of dollars of which they are
making ducks and brakes, with about rs much
rs Sam Weller says of n cur open
ing an oyster"