The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-17

There are to-day considerable
number OF young men about the
country, well settled with large and
prosperous families, who have reg
ular and constant employment at
various trades, who are products of
the Reform School. The Board of
Education has permitted boys to be
apprenticed to learn trades, and the
beneficial result thus appears. Had
it not been for the restraining intlu-
ence of this school it is probable
that these sober, industrious and
useful citizens would have been
worthless vagabonds--a charge upon
the community and a curse to them
selves. 1t has been suggested that
shops might be erected on the
premises and various trades taught
there, but in view of the very large
expense attending this for the con
struction of buildings, equipping
them with machinery, and then run
ming them, it does not seem expedi-
ent Mt present to change the present
system, and with this very brief
view the committee recommend the
Assembly pass the items as follows:
Support of Reform School...... SIS 600
Buildings and repairs to same. 1000
2. With respect to the several
items, amounting to S25, 900, pro-
posed to be inserted in the Appro-
priation Bill for private schools, the
committee consider it is the duty of
the Government to provide educa-
ton for the people so far as posi-.
BILE. In fulfillment of that duty, we
find an efficient and well equipped
school system extending throughout
the Islands, under the care and
supervision of the Board of Educa-
ton, and conducted at the public
expense, furnishing means of educa-
ton in the Hawaiian and English
languages from the elementary
branches to the higher departments.
the upper grades of schools in the
cities and towns and Lahainaluna
offering exceptional advantages,
only surpassed, perhaps, by Oahu
College. Such being the case, it
would be contrary to sound policy
to encourage and assist private
schools, which present nearly the
same course of training as offered
by the Government schools. That
these schools injure the public sys-
TEN, is shown in Honolulu, Waikiki,
Hilo and elsewhere, where such
institutions as st. Louis College, st.
Adams and Mr.. Atkinson's school
and others, the schools conducted
by the Catholic Brothers in Wailuku
and Hllo, draw off the pupils from
the regular public schools, making
the proportionate expense of educa-
ton considerably greater without
any specially increased advantages.
No doubt the instructions in the
several educational institutions re-
ferred to are of high class, but the
means and methods of instruction
are no better, perhaps not so good,
as those furnished by the regular
school system.
In view of the foregoing brief re-
marks, the committee cannot recon-
mend the insertion of any direct APP
preparation in aid of any private
school which offers the same or sim
liar advantages to those furnished
by the Government schools. If aid
is furnished to any such schools, it
certainly should be confined to
assistance on the capitation plan.
These remarks also apply to Hilo
Boys Boarding School, although it
has been suggested that this school
stands upon a wholly different basis
from that presented by the other
schools, either public or private.
This school has this year completed
fifty years of faithful service. 1t
has the important feature of COM
bining manual labor training with
its course of mental development.
In years past, and even to the pre-
sent day, the Government has
drawn from its graduates some of
their most efficient teachers, but no
sufficient reason appears why it
should receive any special grant
contrary to the principle therein
laid down. The whole system of
making direct appropriations and
grants to individuals when the pub
lie is not directly benefited in some
way not obtainable from public
sources is bad, and should be dis
couraged, and the committee so re-
commend. But the female board
ing schools present a wholly different
case. Here we find system of
education and training which the
Government does not attempt or
pretend to supply. 1t is of the
greatest Importance to the future of
the nation that its mothers should be
well and carefully nurtured in do
nestle duties and obligations. The
work done by such schools at st.
Andrews Priory, the Sisters of the
Sacred Heart, Kawaiahao and Ma
kawao female seminaries is of meal
culable benefit to the country. 1t
would indeed be national calamity
to have them discontinued and the
system dropped. The chairman of
the committee has visited these
schools in Honolulu and m, OIL,