The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-04-04

The expense of preparing text books for the
native schools is already great, and must
every year become more so as the number of
pure Hawaiians diminishes. That the Eng
lish language can be substituted for the Ha-
waiian in q generation cannot be doubted
when the experience of other lands is noted.
The Spanish invaders of Mexico not only gave
the aborigines new religion, but they gave
them new tongue. The Spanish language
is now used over the length and breadth of the
country in greater or less purity, while the
old barbarous dialects have disappeared.
There is no reason why well-directed and
vigorous efforts here should not in few years
accomplish similar results, and produce in
calculable blessings to the race, by opening
to it the priceless treasures of English litera-
ture.
PRESIDENT HAYES has at length, after
some time lost by an exhibition of disposition
on the part of the Senate to refuse to con-
firm his nomination, constituted a Cabinet
which, although it excites the ire of the ex-
in which the nation at large must feel the
fullest confidence. The President has aban-
doned the traditional policy Of the past, and
by his selection of the best men to be found,
regardless of their political creed. he has
shown himself worthy successor of the great
Washington. The new Cabinet is composed
wholly Of lawyers, all of them men of the
highest talent. With one exception they are
of unquestioned Republican record. William
NJ. Evarts, Secretary of State, is native of
Massachusetts, he is fifty-nine years of age,
and for the past fifteen years has been un-
deniably the foremost advocate and equity
lawyer at the American bar John Sherman,
Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Ohio,
and is fifty-four years old AS financier, he
has the confidence of the business classes.
For the past twenty years he has served IN
interrnptedly in Congress, where, for the past
fourteen years, he has been at the head of the
Senate Finance Committee
George W. McCreary, Secretary of War,
was born in Indiana, and is now forty-two
years of age. He is one of the ablest men in
the Cabinet, and his reputation is unsulIied.
Richard W. Thomson, Secretary of the
Navy, is native of Indiana, and is about
sixty years of age. AS jury lawyer he is
almost without peer in the West, while as
popular orator he is still great power.
Carl Schuz, the Secretary of the Interior,
is probably the most remarkable man in the
Cabinet. He is Prussian by nativity, and is
in his forty-seveDth year. In his own land,
before he had attained his majority, he had
been college professor, editor, soldier, re-
volutionary leader, and finally refugee He
came to the States in 1852, established law
practice, and as soon as he had mastered the
English language became an active Republi-
car. His ability is wonderful and his rise has
been rapid. During the war he performed
active service as Brigadier General of Yolun-
teers.
David NJ Key, the Postmaster General, is a
native of Tennessee, and is flfty-three years of
ago. He served through the entire war as a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confederate army,
and as Senator has distinguished himself by
broad and liberal views
Charles Devens, the Attorney General, is a
native of Massachusetts, and is about fifty
years of age. He is a man of generous cul-
ture, and of fine powers as lawyer and an
orator. During the war he served with great
engagements. He is thorough Republican.
THE Commission to develope the national
resources returned from Hawaii, via Maui, on
Saturday last, ON H. B. MS. s. Fantome
Capt. Maquay. No official report of the toul
will be published until after it has been laid
before His Majesty in Privy Council. We are
however at liberty to give an outline of the tour
The Commission left here on the goth of Feb
ruary, on the above ship, which, after touch
ing at Makena, Maui, to take on board Capt
James Makee, landed them at Mahukona,
Hawaii. Owing to the distance from this
place to the village, the Commission suggest
that the landing at Honoipu be improved,
which can readily be done by blasting SO as tc
make much better boat entrance than now
exists, A new road will be constructed il
the district, which the supervisors think car
be done with the ordinary receipts from the
road tax.
The journey overland from Kohala to Hilo
was extremely interesting, and the Commits
sion were enabled to gather many facts which
will prove valuable. At nine different points
sOundings and surveys were taken, but the
coast shore was found to be very PERCEPTIONS.