The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-06-10

| Committee see no reason why they should
not be made more productive.
The school in connection with the insti-
tuition appears to have competent native
teacher; but the room in which they are
taught is miserably ventilated, and. on
hot day. resembles an oven, as does also
the Enclosure surrounded by high, close
board fence.
Your Committee are favorably disposed
towards Reformatory School, well con-
Quoted but they do not think sufficient
interest has been displayed in placing the
present institution upon the right basis.
The law providing for correctional de-
partment does not seem to have been car
ried out, as all the boys appear to sleep,
eat, study. recreate and work in common.
/ Your Committee do not consider trHdncy
a sufficient reason for consigning child to
this institution. They would recommend
that the practice be discontinued. The
laws provide sufficient penalty for truancy,
and where the child is of such tender
age as some of those confined in the Re-
fOrmatory School. it holds the parents re-
sponsible for the non-attendance at school.
At present, there appears to be no dis
tinction made in the treatment Of the
classes of offenders sent to the institution,
and, in the opinion of your Committee,
unless a distinction can be made, and a
broad one, too, between thieves and tru-
ants, the object of reform can not be met,
and the present institution will be an in
cubus.
The class of offenders at present gath
cred in the Reformatory School, are no
worse than can be found in any common
school in the land and. unless the princl
piles of reform can be brought to bear upon
them in greater degree than can be done
in the common schools. they had better all
be discharged, to be held accountable to
the common law, and thus save the Gov
eminent and the people an expense greatly
exceeding the expense of the first educa-
tional institution in the land: that Of La
hainaluna. In the opinion Of your Com
mittee the institution should have strictly
penal character None bu offenders against
the penal laws of the land should be adj
mitted within its precincts. The discipline
should be such as would make the offenders
feel that they are prisoners, and have
transgressed the laws; while, at the same
time, the road to reform should be clearly
shown to them, and they be encouraged
to walk therein. The commitments should
be for a stated time, as provided in the
laws for all offenses. There should be no
commitments during minority as such
punishment would greatly exceed the of
fepse, and is contrary to the principles Of
true justice, which proportions the punish
ment to the offense. If. after serving out
one term. an offender should be remanded,
and eventually prove hardened reprobate,
let him be transferred to the common chain
gang, where, undoubtedly. he belongs. Let
the head of the Reformatory School be an
educated man. Of sterling principle, in SYM
pathy with children, and one who can COM
mand their respect and obedience one who
has executive ability, and who can place
such an institution on the high road to
reform. and keep it there. For such an
institution, your Committee stand ready
to recommend an appropriation.
HAWAIIAN FEMALE BOARDING SCHOOLS.
Your Committee would congratulate the
Honorable House upon the great interest
which at present obtains among the friends
Of the nation in regard to the improve
ment and elevation of its future mothers,
the present rising generation Of Hawaiian
females. Ii is a healthy sign of the times,
when we see phllanthropists, without respect
to creed, earnestly devoting themselves to
the cause of female education. All honor
to them Your Committee are disposed
to extend helping hand to all such schools,
by recommending to the Honorable House
to place liberal amount Of funds in the
hands of the Board of Education to be de-
voted to their maintenance.
Whilst your Committee deem the educa-
ton of the future mothers OF the nation
to be of the highest Importance, to an
equal degree do they hold to the opinion
that the future fathers should not be over
looked. Equally are they in favor of as
sisting the boarding schools for boys,
and of encouraging the establishment Of
new schools of that class. Let the
sexes be educated in proportion so that
a balance may always be maintained.
When that is done, and the young men of
Hawaii see that they have no cause to
plnme themselves on their superior knowl-
edge over their countrywomen, and when
the young women shall realize that their
own countrynen are equal in intelligence
and enterprise to the class of foreigners to
whom they appear TO be SO willing to ally
then we may hope that the
divorce calendar Of our courts will be great
" abridged, and the rapid diminution of
our aboriginal population cease.
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Your Committee consider that these
when well conducted, are of very
great importance to the nation inasmuch
Is they prepare the Hawaiian mind to come
N contact with the outer world. 1t is
needless to point out the good already
lone through their instrumentalty. Your
Committee favor liberal assistance to the
schools Of this class.
FOREIGN SELECT SCHOOLS.
Your Committee are not forgetful of the
act that thrifty young growth Of the for
,ign element is in our midst. The parents
md guardians of these children are amongst
,ur most respectable citizens, and are tax
payers to the government. They consti-
nte our mercantile community, and help,
perhaps more than any other class, the
Of our institutions. Your
Committee see no reason why the children
If this class should be excluded from the
benefits of assistance from the Board of
Education. On the contrary. your Com
nittee are in favor of such an appropria-
ion of money by the Honorable House to
he Board of Education, as shall free that
,ody from any embarrassment which might
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