The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-29

AS will be seen from this letter,
clergyman was found to favor the Ii
cense. There are ministers enough t
advocate any cause that may come up
| even the liquor sellers'-as shown by
! Dr.. Crosby's attitude. Senator Nc
! Candless quotes DR.. Hyde as saying
| that it was unjust 10 tax a man who
! had invested $500 in a farm and not tC
! tax the man who had invested the same
amount in an education. If Dr. Hyde
! said this, | am sorry, for it shows as
little consideration Of actual truth as
| some sermons do. The farm is an in
vestment worth so much to any man in
any market. The man who paid $500
for an education may have $500 farm
as well, the latter worth what he paid
for it, the education worth nil. What is
spent upon education is spent to de-
velop possibility, not to create value,
but to bring it out. A mans intellectual
stock in trade is sui-generis; it may be
worth thousands of dollars and it may
not be worth anything, but it is his, and
given to him.
1t seems to me that man who was
student long enough to fit himself to
preach something new ought to remem-
his education cost? Can he approx
mate in value the cost of educating
such men as Huxley or Spencer? Where
viii he begin to tax education? Joseph
Cook had a tutor until he was quite a
boy, went to college, then to seminary,
went to Canada to learn French, to
Greece to study history-got through
when he was twenty-five. and rackons
We hear the Senator remark that the
tax is only on the business education.
What is that, pray? Most of the medical
school acquire bachelor of arts degree
before naturalization. All require liter
airy and other qualities which are the
result of a long and labOrious educa-
tiCnaI process.
l know man who spent SO 200 on an
aducation and never could get a degree
Of any kind. What was the money
value of his education, although, like
the farmer, he invested. The value de-
Ponds upon what there is in man to
bring out, absolutely. Putting q license
upon that is wrong, and the only con
sistent way would be to tax ability
get tape measure and grade skulls,
charging so much an inch. A second
Culver might pay q big license. Be
sides, il we are to tax education, it
would be manifestIy wrong TO leave
ont ministers Of the gospel, who are
we'll educated and get dollars and cents
for it.
think that our legislators are doing
too much. They are charged with sur !
plus energy 10 be worked eff some way. |
An active child is affected in the same |
manner, and when it has done q gO0d |
hing it straightWay goes and does q /
bad one. Revenue is q necessary thing |
-Tr governments IS we'll as doctors, but /
money may not be revenue in the true
sense. Economy is desirable, but re-
reuchment may be the r. verse; and so
perhaps a little more stirring Of the
natter may send a sediment to the bot
ON and give our well intentiOned leg
slators a chance to filter this whole
question.
Your new citizens are proud of the
Republic, and almost inclined to make
}dious comparisons to their American
cousins. Yet, how shall we answer
when they write:
DO you license prostitution
DO you tax the liberal professions?
DO you license the sale of opium?'
Are you republican enough to re-
luire registration of your citiz ns?''
DR.. Macarthur says your Government
5 the one Christian Government and
-our laws are the nearest to righteous
avs of any made"
E. S. GOODHUE.
KOhala, May "a 1896.