The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-02
BOOK CONTRACT AGAIN.. La.

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nit a better proposal thah lhe y vs. e
Ia r,ade and to discuss the general
subject OF an open book market. Ines
a.reed TO call meeting of the COM
roissioners for that purpose and hxeo d
dav for the hearing; but for some rea-
60, SUGGESTING an odd coincidence,
| tbav postponed the meeting until the
fdav on which the antitrust agent was
hooked to leave for California Inc
steamer did not, however, arrive from
| Australia and the agent was apie " '-
lon hand. He was, however, Eept III tiiS
arte-room until fifteen minutes OF %
before the tire for the Colnnlssioi'>.'
tc adjourn and thus got no chaliee
.s,.osa,+ his plan in full: and what ittie
time he had was subject to the ireuue'is
lirterr,,ptions of the Superintendent oL
Public Instruction. IN the eou' .
tho proceedings, when MI. AthAieo"
thought his own views faVorauie " ~
trust might not be sustained ny
C,o,,,,oissioners. he threatened to re-
sign: and this move seems 10
+a7nnorarily numbed the independence
49, If those who had before re-
aI,1ed that a Commissioners OF Fuoiio
Iat,.,,otion is a free agent and not
necessarily a clerk or ieooi
4b;,,t-
yrbv apy disinterested person tnl1ihs
that II would be wiser TO renew a con
+raot which has filled the schools WITH
ou+-of-date books than it would De u
omen the market to all bidders anu si.s
Z the schools chance to get the pest aiie'
n --latest educational works, we leave tiie
wav clear for him to explain. IL IL Is
o because of the willingness OF the trusl
r 70 take certain unsold stock OH the
9 hands of the Department at gwen
q nrice then all we need say is that
o others who ask merely for an open
g market pIedge themselves to do as Wei.
y If il is for the sake of the discount on
n purchases offered by Lobbyist Guhh'
n then we may remark that better uls
,r count can be had outside the trust anu
a has already been proffered III IL Is De
20 cause of the idea of letting well
90 enough" alone, then we shall let the
j., facts speak for themselves.
g The American Book Company, other
;, wise the trust, got its now expiring
r contract at secret meeting OF tht
NJ BOARD of Education in 1895. The result
70 was to give the trust the right to un
:, load its unstable books upon the 'un
n eoualed'' schools of Hawaii If on
IN wants proof of this charge let him ente
~ the stock room of the Board of Educa
ot ton and note the copyright dates ol
&c the books there collected. He will fin'
ey this exhibit
ne Swinton Language Lessons .......... lS
he lSwinton Grammar and Composition. IS
ng ISwinton Word Book ......-......... 10,
.se lSwinton Readers .,..........-.'''.' 10
~ FickIin National Arithmetic .....-.. Is
Cornell Primary Geography ....... Is
Montieth Independent Geography -. Is
American
History .-.....-..-.. -. ......'''''' 30
Eggleston United States History @ Is
ION Barnes General History .....-..-.. Is
m Smith Physiology .......---.'.--' l! 10
to Sheldon Lessons in Objects ........- IL
be Steele's Physiology ...............
alb Robinson First BOOK IN al :, &c
&c School and Family Primer .....-.--
rho We venture TO say that none of the
and hooks except Eggleston's histories a
to now to be found in American scnoo
lip Some of them bear imprints of hous
and not now in existence; others OF nous
this which! like A. S. Barnes & Co., we
,m- swallowed up by the trust in 1Ss9. v
ave are told chat the American Book Cor
out pany does not offer these works in cor
ken petition with antitrust houses an
ply where on the Mainland. They
ate dumped here and in the Colonies. Eve
Nth up-to-date teacher in Hawaii kno'
lose that these books are next to worthle:
has tho advance of knowledge having Il
ing thorn far behind. Yet il is serious
IN proposed-for what reason We cam
re- surmise-to pledge Hawaiian schools
OPP use whatever the trust may furnish
'sy- another five years.
as Having got the 1895 contract |
are trust presumed upon it as it mig
are again One of its glaring irnpertinene
u a was to add a chapter to Prof. Alexa
that ders history, without his knowledge
line consent, in which events in Island a
acle nails then recent were deliberately fai
ant fed That unscrupulous act ale
VIZ should have been enough TO condei
Is. the trust in the eyes of all who n
per- and have the welfare of our schools
mas heart.
g to When Lobbyist Gum was here so
sla- months ago to work for the renewal
is a his contract. his efforts were frustr
use ed by the Attorney General and
Mrs. Advertiser. Gum was then told to
reat away and await the session of
likes Legislature, and was, as the papers s
due at the time, assured by Superintend
king Atkinson that he might expect re
the from that body. Since then, we p
with sumo, measures have been secretly t
lcoln en- to fool the 1aw-making body i
Mrs amending the statutes so that so
rphy friend or friends of the trust may mi
the book contracts at pleasure.
ago Against such piece of indiscret
nues every honest man in the Legislat
lever should set his face; and every hon
lVate teacher and every honest citizen,
.ylng we'll. There is but one fair course
leo take and that is to refuse any and ev
GER proffer of contract and to open
sIac schools of Hawaii to whatever bot
the by whomsoever published, that cont
the latest knowledge useful in
MIS- sphere of school work. Then and c
'nieh then can we have schools that are
MT to date.
the
Following the invitation of the TIE
Democrats to Bryan's enemy, david
:. Pc Pr. HILL to address them on their flu
political duties, we have another
81 of the passing of the Bryan prestig
-. the choice, as chairman of the Hi
Democratic State Committee, of a {
Democrat. These are evidences. no