Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-11-18

anu ounudy htDt
on breaking 1t. Finally ! gave up fix.
ing 1t. Miss Paris. the Sunday school
teacher and school agent. never told
me word about that gate. But she
wrote out severe charges to the Board
against me. The Board wrote back
and gave me Hail Columbia"
was letting the school premises go
to rack and ruin. ! was commanded
to fix that gate Immediately. wrote
and asked the agent for tools and ma.
terial to repair it; ! told her that al
though | had repaired 1t three times
I'd fix II again II she would kindly tell
the Sunday school children to keep
away from II. She never gave me ma
terial nor tools.
The cottage set apart for my pur.
pose was entirely inadequate for a
family like mine-one kitchen, one
dining-room, one sleeping.room and q
vestibule for nine persons; not lock
nor key to the house. When I got
there the house was barricaded from
the inside. ! had to wait seven
months for new locks and keys. !
left the place though. as far as living
was concerned. I was obliged to hire
a house and lot five miles away from
my school. and am paying s1lO a year
for 1t. Although | informed the Board
oil my condition, no cognizance was
taken OF II. The school agent would
not give me any tools to clean up the
yard, SO as to enable her to find fault
with the premises. When asked for
four brooms for my three rooms she
gave me but two. taught school a
year mere without CLOCK. Now that
! am discharged, my successor has
1our new brooms, three clocks. q
WneeiDarrow ana a shovel.
why did that Sunday school teach.
er Try 80 very hard to handicap my
work! Because my school had fallen
way below par in Biblical questions
ana songs OF the SOUL Such was
the report OF the Sunday school last
March. ergo that flimsy gate charge
what on earth do missionaries mean
by saying that public schools should
be non-sectarian? During my fifteen
years OF work In our schools I have
round that that term. especially here
IN kona, means RELlGIOUSLY PRO.
TESTANT. I'll prove II before | ge.
through. In South kona you will in.
VariaDiy see a Government school neXt
uoor TO Protestant church.
What business had Mr.. Baldwin tho
normal instructor, to ask me whether
was catholic. That was the oues.
tion and the only one he had IN ash
when he got to Napoopoo. He had M
suggestions to make. nor fault IN And
while he was with my school. When
he got to the next one CHonaunanI
where live and where have a daupb.
ter attending school. he had n yrea,
deal to say about INV school The neo.
pie OF Honaunau are nearly ali Cath.
olics. while those of Napoopoo, where
| taught school, are all Presbyterians
Now am witness to the fact that the
people of Honaunau had to, for one
whole year. put up with a lot of in
suits. These Catholic children had 70
submit for half an hour daily to Pres
byterian catechising. The Bible was
daily read and expounded by tho
principal, ID. X. Baker Our protests
to the Board were ignored in every
instance. Receipt of the petition was
not even acknowledged. Now when
Baldwin got to this (Honaunau)
school, / followed him, for | am very
much interested in the religion nv
daughter is to follow in after life.
was sick and tired of the Calyinistic
rot my little girl was bringing home
every evening. The parents congre
gated near the school house wher
Baldwin got there. But he tired then
out and made them wait until afte,
o'clock: OF course. most of them
went home. Some few, however. re
NAMED. among others. What did the
man do. but turn me out doors. He
would listen to no complaints. WHY
not? or course, because the plaintiffs
were Catholics. What right have We
Catholics to fair hearing? But wher
the Rev. Manase Of Molokai and his
church people had their innings, how
carefully everything was sirted out
And again when the Rev. Nuuhiwa, ths
ex-judge and the pardoned murderer
had me convicted and evicted, why
the inspector came down to Koolar
three times. and the last time he stale
three days there and had the truanI
officer corral every Tom, Dick ant
Harry and fetch them to the schoo
house. Every one was given a chance
to speak, except the policeman, be
cause, unfortunately, he had a goot
word for me. He was told to sit down
Tie was a Catholic; so am ID
Mr.. Editor two months ago / paid {
visit to my old stamping grounds a
Hauula. Why, l literally had tina
reverend SIR and the murderer on theil
knees begging me to excuse their con
duct and asking me to come bacl
again. The ex-judge was beyond re
demption that time; he was in &
shooting scrape. They told me tina,
the $50 and the demijohns of okoIo