The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-20

cheering and hopeful enterprise Oh all.
For | have this advantage over "Old
Rip" though you may not think it. L
have not been asleep all the time have
been away from here. And have had
unusual opportunities for seeing the
working and actual results OF various In
dustrial schools, and for many years
have been actively connected with one
which has achieved high reputation,
not only at home but all over the civil
lized world. And this famous school, to
which educators come from all parts of
the United States and even from Europe,
to study its methods, was established by |
native born Hawaiian, son OF an |
American missionary, who went into the
service of the King, and organized the
system of schools here as Minister OF |
Public instruction.
When l lived here, one OF the most
prominent landmaI 1s of Honolulu was
the Bethel Church, of which that good
and universally beloved man, DIR. Dam
| on, was pastor. At that time it was the
only church having English services, and
the church-going foreigners attended It,
FoRTY-Two YEARS AGO
| I had a Sunday-school class in that
church, of boys of seven and eight years
| of age. One of the most restless and
| mischievous of these little boys was Sam
Armstrong, who, after attending school
| at the ROYAL School and Oahu College,
finished his education at Williams Col
| lege in the United States, entered the
service in our war of the rebellion as
soon as he graduated, rose by his gal
lantry and distinguished services to be
Brigadier- General in command of colored
troops, and was assigned to important
and responsible duties, after the war, in
the Southern States. Believing with the
famous war governor of Massachusetts,
Andrew, that the next duty after the
vigorous prosecution of the war was can
equally vigorous prosecution of the
peace" and being greatly interested in
the freedmen of the South, of whom four
millions had been emancipated by the
war, he determined to devote himself to
the establishment of school in Virginia
for their proper training and education,
where they might be fitted for the duties
! and responsibilities of American citizen
ship, so suddenly thrown upon them.
He felt that the ordinary system of
school instruction would not suffice
and that no method would be successful,
= which did not train the head, the heart,
, and the hand alike.
GEN. ARMSTRONG
carried out his plan, and now its wisdom
! is acknowledged by all, and industrial
l education is now demanded for both
white and colored schools, and they are
!. being multiplied all over the United
States. The head is trained in the usual
:. way in the large and airy class rooms
. such as you have here. The hand on
the farm or in workshops like yours also
= airy and large, where great variety Of
trades are taught, all the furniture, the
buildings, are made from lumber sawed
on the school grounds. The bricks are
: also made on the premises, as we'll al
the wagons, carts, tools, etc. The har
ness on Mr.. Bishops span of horses was
' made by the Indian and negro pupils
who successfully compete in oper
market, for Government contracts fol
Indian supplies. In addition to these
: shops and factories, where the students
can learn regular trades, we have what
), are called technical shops, where every
student, boy or girl, is required to at
. tend, and learn the ordinary use of ordi
:, nary tools. Here all the students art
= taught how to make a plain box, o.
bench, or desk, shelf or a picture
. frame, how to paint them, how to SCI
window-glass, etc., all which helps 81
: much to make home convenient and
n attractive, or supply the needs of {
8 schoolhouse. Among the eight hundred
q graduates who have gone out from the
}, school during the twenty-one years of its
J, existence, are doctors, lawyers, prech
d ers and teachers, some of whom are
q eminent in their professions and whose
success is largely owing to the habits o
q industry in which they are trained
, And now, my dear young friends of the
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS,
n having told you something of the meth
n DDS of this Hampton school in Virginia
r founded by son of Hawaii, who ha
b given to it his very life blood, you ma,
e easily believe how, with my faith in the
efficiency of those methods, and my grea
: aloha for the Hawaiian people, rejoic,
i in the establishment of this admirabl,
a school, with its ample accommodations
y its industrial training, and its devoted
and accomplished teachers. 1t gives m,
4 new hope for the race. May the train
y ing you receive here give you strength
q and courage for the struggle for existence
7 in which the native Hawaiian is now en-
i gagged. By the knowledge you will &C
n quire here, by the habits OF industry
" thrift, temperance and economy il
n WulCn yOu Will AICIC OC CidIuOO, yOu VII
3 be better fitted than the Hawaiian ha
r hitherto been for the sharp competition
= of other races, with which you must in
r. evitably contend. / trust you will ap
n preciate the great opportunities befor
n you, and that you will gratefully cherish
the memory of her whose last thought
were for the welfare of her people, ant
who has given such grand exemplica
= ton of her earnest wishes in their be
u half. I hope and believe that you, boys @
u Kamehameha school, will also establish
!. HIGH STANDARD
e of character, and help each other to liv
&c up TO it molly and firmly in spite of al
Is temptations to swerve from it. The wea
l. or woe of the native Hawaiian race, ma
d their very existence as a people, rest
l. almost wholly with the boys and girl
d who are now in the schools of the islands
y Make yourselves familiar with the his
10 tory of the benefactors of your race
10 whether of native or foreign birth, AM
/. strive to emulate their example, by you
- own unselfsh efforts for the good of you
is fellow men, however humble may b
Of your sphere of duty. Cherish the mem
# DRY of the good King Kauikeaouli (Kame
l. hameha ILL, whose magnificent renun
q citation of arbitrary power, in giving
/ his people their kuleanas and constitu
II tional rights, is one of the grandee
n events in your history. OF his faithful