Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-19

1t Is the fashion nowadays to bewail
poverty as an evil. to pity the young
man who is not born with a silver
spoon in his mouth; but heartily sub
scribe to President Garfeld's doctrine,
that the richest heritage a young
man can be born to is poverty" ]
make no idle prediction when say
that it is from that class from whom
the good and the great will spring. II
Is not from the sons of teachers, its
martyrs. its inventors, its statesmen,
its poets. or even its men of affairs. II
is from the cottage of the poor that all
these spring. We can scarcely read
one among the few immortal names
that were not born to die" or who has
rendered exceptional service to our
race. who had not the advantage Of be
ing Graded nursed. and reared in the
stimulating school of poverty. There
is nothing so enervating, nothing SO
deadly in its effects upon the qualities
which lead to the highest achievement
moral or intellectual. as hereditary
wealth. And II there be among you a
young man who feels that he is not
compelled to exert himself in order to
earn and live from his own efforts. ]
tender him my profound sympathy.
Should such one prove an exception
to his fellows and become a citizen
/ living a fife creditable to himself and
useful to the state instead Of my pro.
found sympathy bow before him with
profound reverence; for one who over
comes the seductive temptations which
surround hereditary wealth is of tho
salt Of the earth" and entitled 10
| double honor
The bees of a hive do not destroy
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on the period of his detention. The
lad sentenced during his minority has
all the way from five to ten years be.
| fore him. There is little or nothing to
awaken an ambition for good behavior
except a fear of beiug punished,
To Offset this jail and prison feat,
ure. the more progressive States pro,
vide that the sentence OF all boys sent
to the reformatory shall be Tor the
term OF their minority, provided. how
ever, that any inmate may. by good be
I havioT. secure release at the end OF
two years. officials of the reformato.
| ries establish a merit and dement, sys'
TEN whereby the boy has it entirely in
his own power to determine whether
he leaves the institution at the end OF
two years or by continued misbehavior
serves the full term of his minority
Continued good behavior secures re
lease on probation. II for a year fol
lowing his release the boys record Il
good, he obtains a final discharge
should he go back to his old ways, h,
is returned to the school to serve thu
remainder of his sentence.
This system gives the boy chance
If he has any ambition to reform, tha
ambition is rewarded. If he prove:
thoroughly bad, he remains in Gus
tody where he ought to be. A boy II
not always to be judged by the serious
ness of the crime or misdemeanor fo
which he appears before the court. In
stances are not wanting where youths
sentenced to reform schools for man
slaughter have by their good behavio
secured reelase within three years ant
become law-ablding citizens, while 9th
ers sentenced for truancy have provet
themselves incapable of reformation
served the full term OF their minorit.
and finally landed in prison.
1t will be a happy day for THIS Terri
tory and its hayward youth, when thu
laws governing our reIormatory ar
such that the Reform School is con
Quoted on intelligent lines.
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