The record-union., 1897-07-13
HOW FILIBUsTERS BUILD.


| waiian annexation that "a few filibus-
ters" from the United States have gone
over to the islands and captured the
offices; that by political trickery they
have usurped the powers of the natives,
and now, being on shaky foundations.
seek TO turn the 'so-called Republic of
Hawaii over to the United States.
If this was truth there would be rea-
son for Withdrawing sympathy from
| these "filibusters" But the fact is,
that the men who established the Re
public of Hawaii, We're and are citizens
of Hawaii, either by birth from Ameri-
can parents naturalized, or by their
own naturalization; or they are native
| Hawaiians
| They were and are so far from being
! filibusters, that most of them have liv-
/ ed in Hawaii from early youth, and
| some of them all their lives Many of
them filled positions under Kalakaua,
and all of them have property interests
in the islands. There their children
have been born, there their dead are
| buried. In fact, all that can attach
men to a soil fixes them there.
/ They are citizens of Hawaii as fully
as are our naturalized citizens who
were born in Ireland, England, Ger
many or other European country.
They have bunded we'll in Hawaii.
They have given to that country an ex-
cellent judicial system, now of nearly
forty years standing. They have given
Hawaii an able press. They have
brought the natives up from savagery
| to civilization. They secured to the
people a constitutional form of govern
ment and a representative system even
under the monarchy
| It is not to be omitted that in all this
work Germans, Englishmen and
Frenchmen aided, and many of them
| became subjects and now are citizens
| of Hawaii. Yet these men are de-
nounced as "filibusters," and as having
| cheated the people out of their heritage.
| The fact is that the revolution changed
title to no land except crown lands; it
disturbed no mans right upon or to any
property. 1t violated no contract, i'm
| paired no obligation and invaded no
privilege Heretofore existing.
In short, they made Hawaii what it
is; without this new and progressive
blood the islands would still be semi
barbarous or wholly so. But the
crowning achievement Of these ''filibus-
ters," was the establishment of a spIen-
did common school system many years
| ago, concerning which we make single
extract from a paper by Daniel Logan,
in the North American Review" 1t
throws light upon the methods and
aims of these "filibusters" and carpet
baggers," though not before have any
who built so we'll been thus stigmatized.
Mr.. Logan says of the matter:
The Hawaiian public school system is
essentially American. It employs
American textbooks almost exclusive
ly, which, of course, include for the
higher grades the cream of English
classics The only exceptions are Ha-
waiian geography and history. More
than one-third of the teachers in all
schools, public and independent, are
| American. It is no slight testimony to
the efficiency of the system that Ha-
waiian and part Hawaiian teachers
come next in number to American, and
| form but a little under One-third Of the
entire teaching staff. This is a happy
result of the policy of training teachers
at home, as these are acquainted from
the first with the peculiar difficulties of
conducting a school of mixed races.
For many years hOme-trained teachers
had to do their best to earn certificates
| by working upon the furnished sylla~
bus of periodical examinations, but
within the past few years there has
/ been established at Honolulu normal
school with practice school attached.
From this institution constant supply
| of scientifically trained teachers is as
sured, which, it is hoped, will soon
overtake or, at least, approach the de-
mand. An admirable feature of the
system is the virtually permanent ten
ure of the teachers office. Teachers
are employed during the year. Schools
y
districts. for forty weeks of the fifty
| two. Once employed, teachers are priv
| ileged to remain in the service until
they resign or are removed for cause.
| Removals are rare. Within a few
years past a splendid esprit de corps
| has developed among the teachers.
They have formed associations in the
different islands for mutual improve
ment in the profession, and they hold
! a national summer school with the
same purpose each year in Honolulu.
Eminent educators from the United
States are induced to become the prin-
| cipal lecturers before the summer
/ schools. The Inspector General. who
! Is chief executive officer under the
Board of School Commissioners, is in
nothing more jealous than in stimulat-
/ ing the teachers to effort in this line of
mutual improvement