The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-21

drunkards, fools, rowdies and beggars
| need not tell you that you come to
this school, not to learn civilization
to be thus misused, not to learn
skilled labor for these base ends. Does
the busy bee make the delicious
honey to be turned into vinegar AND
the bitterness of NORWOOD and Of
gall? To assert that would be tc
SANDER that beautiful creature of in
dustry, which scorns drones, anC
would no sooner build and support
liquor and gambling saloons among
its busy cells than it would seek
honey in a pest house, or the sweet
delicacy and aroma of flowers in the
| filthy abOdes of swine. In these school,
rooms, with your books, in the fine
workshops where you are training
your hands, aided by your faithful
teachers, you will learn to shun the
meanest places of resort which the
meanest civilized men have created to
entice boys and men into to spend
their money, their time, for what
can do them only evil,a and one of the
very lowest and most debasing OF
these resorts is liquor saloon. Shun
it as you would den of unclaimed
wild beasts. Better take your chance
among the sharks that visit your
shores than in these resorts. Indeed,
the sharks are more merciful and less
fatal than those who will get their
victims drunk on gin or whisky for
the few cents profit which they re-
ceive for their crime. Learn in your
boyhood to shun these resorts, the
curse and the slayers of your race.
Yes, my dear boys, you are greatly
favored in being admitted to this
school, which is the pride and the
honor of your beautiful island coun-
try. 1t was created and is generously
supported for the benefit of the Ha-
waiian race. This is one reason why
it so much interests me, and why | so
earnestly pray for its prosperity, and
that you should receive the greatest
possible advantages from it. You are
greatly favored to be here to learn
from books and from charts and maps,
that which may be so useful to you in
the future, provided you try your best
to use the opportunity afforded you.
You are here to learn to build houses,
to work iron, to set type, to cultivate
the soil to make fine gardens, to make
the fields, orchards and vineyards
bring forth good fruit. And what
rare opportunity there will be before
you when you shall have completed
your task at this school. You are
native Hawaiians. No where is
labor better paid than here in
these Islands. No where is there
a better opportunity to make labor
bring you the rewards which render
life worth living. These beautiful
islands in mid-ocean need the indus
try of your hands. They are only
partially developed. The riches on
their plains, mountain sides, in their
valleys, in their bays and around
their shores are yet to be unlocked
and improved by the busy hands of
labor. Nature smiles on the places of
your birth with q bright sunshine
and gives an atmosphere which few
other lands can equal. You need to
train your hands SO as to help turn
these lands into gardens and to help
create ten comfortable and happy
homes where there now is but one.
When you shall have finished your
time at this school, you do not mean
to hang idle about the wharves, the
saloons and the street corners. You
can set type, build houses, work at
iron, drive machinery, in the city;
but this should be done for, the pur-
pose of earning and saving money
enough to build you house, to pos
sess a homestead, a garden, a Vine
yard, or farm of your own. I want |
you fully to consider what blessing
you shaVe within your reach, if you
will grasp it. 1t will not come to |
you. You must wrestle for it. You
must earn it with the sweat of the |
brow This hlocc;ro.
your reach, if you will but learn to
a piece of land, a house, a
Do you realize what is
)ne of the most beautiful possessions
n all this wide world-far more beau
iful than diamonds, fine clothes, the
,ilded houses of the rich, or than
kings palaces? Roam the seas and
5ravel in foreign lands, and nothing
,an be found SURPRISING this wonder
ul treasure which is within your
;rasp, if health and life are continued
o you. What is this wonderful prize
or which [ ask you to cOntend-to
ook forward to with eager hope and
determination, of which I
SIX you to think in your dreams by
light, and to keep always before you
n your waking hours? This boon /
lrge every Hawaiian to seek as the
My means to give him independence,
elf-reliance and true manIiness.
What is this inestimable boon of citi-
enship? 1t is homestead of your
wn. 1t is house reared on the soil
which you have the legal title,
lean, healthful, surrounded by trees
nd flowers, on whose petals and I'M ,
'ldings you can see the smiles of
our Heavenly Father, morning and
vening, and where the greetings of
and love can always make
fe agreeable and happy. No-there
no creation or achievement of man
lore beautiful than a cottage home,
weet with the scent of vines, fruit,
overs, making good more than the J
lngly claim, that "a mans house is r
is CASTLE" 1t is more-it is the
'rtress of his citizenship, and should
e made the surest gateway to
eaven. All of you, boys, who grow
p to mature manhood, can have !
len a possession as this, if 7
on will. Labor will bring it. +
atient work well paid and a
lie spare money placed Gin the '
wings bank, will bring you the
,autiful cottage nome. Dismiss for il
7er all idea that there is any other p
ay to this beautiful citadel of home a.
.cept through the paths of honestin- i'
lstry and saving. If you can learn a,
pm the foreigner the better how to
compiish this, very well. Don't