The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-06-30

YOU shall become q man without q
country;'' half-hearted Hawaiian, a
half-hearted American or European.
Plant the stake of your destiny some
where and fight it out. Stand for some
thing besides your own personal inter
ests. To every school boy would say:
Read EggleSton's story OF the Hoosier
schoolmaster and Join the Church OF
the Best Licks. -
How much better than you, you once
barefoot Punahou BOYS now, after years
OF struggle rich from your sugar planta-
tons or other business, will be your sons
who can without an effort go'to any Uni-
versity in the world9 They may fight
some battles as YOU have done to make
them men; we all must work for all
we're worth, while we live, in order to
save our own souls, to say nothing OF the
good OF others. The only hopeless ones
in the world are the lazy
The fourteen years boon from Ameri-
can reciprocity is broken and there is no
telling what the end will be. l would
rather come back when you are some
what tried, il such time must come,
than at the high time of money making.
People are apt to be thoughtful in the in
verse ratio OF their prosperity. Have
you not been thinking OF late as never
before, and has there not been shown in
the face OF your setback an enterprise
and creative energy-witness the Eva
railroad-that may make you stronger
for it all. read of new and bold private
schemes to develop your varied resources
and of recent public policy which built
roads and initiated general public i'm
| provement.
Has the moral progress of Hawaii kept
up with her great material progress in
recent years? Do men give more money
to good work when they make the most
or when they think the most? For
twenty-three years have worked for a
charity, through two national panics and
| through prosperous seasons, but the
times have made very little difference.
Nothing extra is to be expected for the
Lords work in '' flush - times, and a
certain fine spirit carries it through the
darkest days. As profits decrease and
the days darken, dodn't be afraid for
| your good work. Gas thy day is so shall
thy strength be-"
In 1850 they told me that practical
rather than profesSed infdelity was wide
spread; how IS it now? Has the good
gained on the evil or the reverse?
Have the followers OF Christ become
stronger or weaker? Whatever the fact,
now, II your economical revolution, is
the time for men and measures. There
! is in all men. in you here, . reserve force
that God calls out in emergency. That
/ that the routine OF your lives must ma
terially change, or that business should
/ be neglected. But you and l and every
| one can under pressure do more than he
has done; it is Tor each one 10 say what
his new work shall be. I can only in6i-
cate objective points OF public policy, to
which all can in some way be usefully
related, suggested by my own expert
ence in work upon problems in America
similar to your own.
1t IS interesting that Hawaii first OF
all the nations OF the earth faced the hard
questions OF the immediate emancipation
and enfranchiSement OF an undeveloped
tropical race. What the United States
has been doing from 1850 to 1891, you
have been working at since 1850, and the
| study of it is most instructive.
All agree that education is OF para
mount Importance, but no one-sided edu-
cation will answer. After trying for
many years the plan OF training hand,
head and heart with negroes and Indians
in America, l find myself believing in it
more than ever, and a wonderful growth
OF public sentiment in its favor. Educate
the whole man is the idea; fit the pupil
for the life ne IS likely 70 lead.
The ''Slater" and 90 Hand :" funds OF a
] r,,fllior, dollars zach or,rl,aI 70 tho
negro on these lines. Indian education
is pushed as never before in a practical
way; and in the chief cities OF the Amer
lean Udion, Technical Schools have
/ sprung up through extraordinary private
| bounty. Rich men are seeing the weak
ness OF the old system, the disadvantages
OF their own early lives, and wish 10
/ make education something more than ii
has been. The training OF the hand has
| been the neglected factor in our civiliZa-
! ton. In that OF the Jews it had its true
place. Ii is pushing its way into COM
mon and high schools, opposed, but sure
to spread. 1 wish that one of Miss Emily
Huntington's classes in kitchen garden
ing and in domestic science, stablished
in New York and elsewhere, were in
every school district in these islands;
they will be II you say SO.
Find the right apostle for these ideas
and they will spread; but you will get
no good without a sacrifice by some one.
Training is teaching and something
more. While the two should be one
there may be teaching, mere stuffing,
/ that viii show well only IL examinations.
l have for many years been preaching
that knowledge is not Power. Undigest-
ed knowledge produces a malady some
times called the ''big head"
Those with whom 1 have had 10 deal
have q remarkable capacity to acquire
knowledge, but little 70 assimilate it. a
weak mental digestion is the trouble
with the races we are called to help. The
power 10 learn is universal savages have
| good memories. 1 would risk the most
| benighted children OF Australia or Africa
in your class room; their lack OF power
to use their learning would be their
weakness. Gumption," perception,
| guiding instincts, rather than capacity to
learn, are the advantages OF our more ia
vored race.
Drill that develops thought and moral
force is the thing in school life. The
children of thinking parents will learn to
think in spite OF stupid teaching, but the
children OF thoughtless people, with the
finest facility in learning from books viii
get little good unless the right all around