The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-17

cal stump speaker and that the
morale of his school has suffered i'll
consequence, needs no further com.
ment than that it is exactly what
the public has expected the BalletiH
would ultimately drift to since it
begun keeping editorial company
with the HoiomRa and Ia Lee,
That the three are boon political
companions, we'll met, none will
now deny. Since Our formerly
respected afternoon contempt
rary short time since bid
farewell to its personal
self-respect, it is perfectly natural,
it should lead its Royalist COM
panions on the downward iourn-
alistic grade. As matter of fact
! it is proving itself worthy of its
cause and by its actions is rapidly
alternating that remainder of pub
lie courtesy and respect which
events have already proved it un-
worthy of retaining.
THE whole Board of Education
is now a nest Of incompetence, in
tolerance and bigotry,' alleges the
BNiietiN with an enthusiasm in
direct conflict with the fact that
the personnel of both Board and
teaching fraternity hereunder is
substantially as it was under the
monarchy. AS a matter of fact,
politics has less to do with the Board
of Education than before its reorgan-
zation under the Republic and under
its present management political
orthodoxy as mentioned by Our
Royalist contemporary, cuts abso-
lutely no figure. In addition to
this the Board has eliminated all
chances of making politics factor
in its consultations and has turned
its energies to raising the standard
of requirements in teachers, and
generally improving the tone of the
system, which had become evil
IDENTIFY lowered during the latter
days of the monarchy.
The Bulletin in a fit Of seemingly
artifcially produced political en-
thusiasm, alleges with more spleen
than candor that the Board pays
high salaries to illiterate boobies in
the country who cannot construct
a sentence of English, - etc, and
offers to furnish the proof Of its
statement at any time, The STAR
takes this occasion to demand that
the Bulletin furnish itimized proof
of this bald statement or pub
lish a correction thereof. This de-
mand is made in the interests of the
two hundred and fifty teachers
in the schools of the Islands whom
the Bulletin characterizes as
cattle"
Without becoming prophet, for
fear honor will fail us, we will ven
ture the assertion that if the
Bulletin succeeds in producing
case of any teacher in the English
schools Of Hawaii who cannot
write as good English as daily APP
pears i'll its own columns, that
teacher will prove to be a native
Hawaiian, and therefore, to all ex-
tent, excusable for not being pro-
fcient in foreign language. The
circumstances, however which at
present surround the development
of the public school system here
make it desirable to retain native
teachers in some of the districts,
even where they may not come up
to all the requirements demanded of
English teachers.
AS far as the personal fling that
some of the correspondents of this
paper are school teachers is con-
cerned our Royalist contemporary
is misinformed. 1t probably so
knew when it added the misstate-
ment to its ungentlemanly attack,
in the hope of giving political color
to a piece Of editorial handiwork,
whose despicable character was
probably not fully realized by the
writer until his political enthusiasm
began to wear off as he neared the
end of his TRADE.