The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-15

nv few braves I could Kill them all
and regain our huHttng grounds. but !
have travelled over the country and
seen the cities and the work of the /
white man. After this my heart Vas
ready to burst. knew the race of the |
Indian was run. In few years the
Indians will be heard OF no more cS-
Cept in the white u.1n's books. / ap-
prove OF Government educating the In
dian. but when the Government takes
our children and etucatcS them. u
should give them something to do and
| not turn them Loose to run wild upon
the agency. Until that time comes cd
uCating the Indian IS throwing money
away. What can IN educated Indian
do out in the saEejrush and cactus
| DT. Franklin. writing about theory a.
against real knowledge. Observed n
tendency ~ the NcN England peasant
sending ut least ono of his children to
Harvard. I observed n great many aft
or graduation lived as poor as church
mice. being unable tn dig. ashamed tn
beg. and tn live Iy iuCiT Wits was i'm
possible"
SiNty-tWu years after this WIS writ
ten in q little account uf the American
Indian. Franklin told y Story evident
IS intended to- illustrate his avcrmcut
that Most of the learning i'm us" Is uf
no great usr.' and to show the differ
enCc bCtewcu buok-kHowledEs and real
knowledge. At an Indian treaty TN
l7ii hC relates: after The principal
business was settled. the Commission
ers from Virginia acquainted the In
, dams by n speech that ;hcgc was NJ
. williamsburg n college. with a fund for
educating Indian yuuth: and that 10 ia"
Six Nations would send down half y
! dozen Of their young lads tn that col
, llegc the Government would take care
. that they should ~ well provided for.
and instructed in all the learning at the
white people. The Indians replied:
: We have had some experience of your
education: several IT our young people
: were formerly brought up mt the col
y legeS Of the North .s.uVtuC~s: they wers
= instructed in all your sciences. hut
y when they came hgCN to us tnCy wcr'
: bad runners ignorant uf every means
i OF living in the woods. unable tn heal
; cold ar hunger. knew neither how q
. build a cabin. take \ deer. nor Kill at
) lcncmy. spoke our language tmpcTtcCtly
- were therefore neither 1T for hunters
"a warriors. nor councillors. They wcT'
N totally good for nothing.
IL Professor John Cochran. said tn b
; one OF Great Britain's leading cduCa
IN tors. says: II haze seen many an cd
m uCated man who could not tell an al
h. verb from a proveTJ. u green root fror
. an cllipsis. and have seen men VIII
ir had taken all the 'Vcrsity degrees =
n profoundly ignorant that n Digger In
. dian might pity them.
r From the above citations IL Is see
e. that white people. s.s well rs Hawaii
M ans and Indians. believe IL n cruel mis
NJ take to- educate the young in book-th'
rv DRY at the expense of a live. practice
4. physical education. which should az
NJ company IL. They should be taugi
In both. No individual will ever amour
% to- much who possesses only one
,k these important qualifications.
ma Education Is to prepare for life. an
ht as the principal object OF life - worl
do education Is to- teach men how to woE
nj in some way-with brain or Drawn {
,Is both.
'Iv Education needs to- 10 acquired b
no cause IL enliEhtelS. diEnifisS. Tendc
n stronger and wiser every man who n
ITO quires 81. IL Is rot only TO assist
nv making = living. but doing u in
on grand way. so whatever be tho si
ne roundinEs. we be masters OF them =
to ucation should not make dudes. b
ar men. to occupy positions in the churc
the State and in tie fields Of prodSi
NC ton and other business.
n9 JNo. VI. HoRNER.