The record-union., 1899-07-12

tiOn which, like the love of Christ, is
broad enough to embrace all peoples
so broad that all the races may find
prosperity under it's benign sway. Our
Hawaiian civilization should be based
upon broad charity and universal good
will. The civilization, which the active
race has developed, and in which it has
been trained, based upon an assump-
ton of universal selfishness, has pre-
cipitated a struggle in which the pas
Sive race is at great disadvantage.
1t is a melancholy fact that the in
f1uence of the white man and his civil
ization in contact with aboriginal races
is generally the influence of the tabled
Upas tree. From the time of the an
cient Hebrews, who shut out from the
blessings of their civilization practic-
ally all other peoples, down to the
time of the Americans, who have not
yet developed a civilization sufficiently
broad and sufficiently Christian to bless
the white man and the red comes the
same monotonous story.
Here the native Hawaiians were
born, and here they will die They
call for more than liberation. Who are
we that we should tolerate this rem
nant of the people to whom God gave
those fair isles fresh from his creative
hand, and who for nearly fifty gen
erations have known no other home
They are now Americans in spite of
themselves, and for these reasons their
silent appeal to their neighbors of the
active race is especially strong"
AT the closing session of the National
Council of Education held this morning
e.. r Q
elected President for the ensuing year;
Professor Elmer E. Brown of Cali
fornia, Vice President, and Miss Bette
A. Dutton of Cleveland, O., was re-
elected Secretary
The report on the relations of pub
lie libraries to public schools that had
been prepared by committee COM
posed of ]. c. Dana, F. A. Hutchins, c.
A. McMurray, Sherman Williams and
Miss M. Louise Jones, was presented
and read. The report consisted of a
series of carefully prepared papers by
the members of the committee, and it
will come up for discussion later in the
library department.
The annual meeting of the Board of
Directors of the National Educational
Association was called to order by
President Lyte at noon to-day, the fol-
lowing officers being present: First
Vice President, j. G. Greenwood, Kan
sas City; Treasurer, I. c.. Mcneil, West
Superior, Wis; Chairman Board of
Trustees, A. G. Lane, Chicago Of the
life directors there was also num-
Der present and the various divisions
were represented.
The Treasurer's report showed a total
amount of cash received during the
past year of SOS, 1861 10, including
cash balance of $2,2O1. The expendit-
ures amounted to $26,O1O.92, including
$4,000 transferred to the permanent
fund. The available cash on hand is
81, ,55616.
Treasurer Mcneil also reported that
between $4,000 and $4,000 in addition
would be available this year for trans
fer to the permanent fund, this de-
noting that the attendance at the pres
ent convention is very large, and that
the income from the membership fees
will net very comfortable sum.
The thirteenth annual report was
presented and read. 1t showed the as
sets to be $4,000 the total invest
ments on July 1, 1899, having been
$67, 800
BY unanimous vote, and amid ap-
plause, the Board of Directors passed a
resolution directing the President of the
National Educational Association to
cable to the United States delegates to
the Peace Conference at The Hague the