The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-28

dure them; their comforts, who would
accept them: their laws, what does the
average student know of them or care
wars. awful murders for personal am
bitionc their monuments, the new dam
on the Nile river is a greater; their
agricultural methods, we should starve
kings said and did, that had better be
left unlearned. No. We live in the
present. Let US teach Of present needs,
of present conditions, and how to inn
prove our conditions. There should be
an extension of school life. The present
proposition that children can be train
ed to be good citizens by the time they
are IA years old is too absurd to talk
about. There is a prophecy of good
time coming when every human being
shall be trained along useful lines till
at least 20 years of age. Such train
ing would mean something's hori-
ION broadened, the intellectual powers
alive, the habits formed. the ambition
AS to public officials. 1t is seldom
that a high official fails in integrity.
The failure comes with the lower and
intermediate officials. Why? The men
occupying the higher places have been
trained. Many in college. All. SOME
where. The only solution ever offered
under our present conditions for get
ting honest and courageous officials is
to have them trained as men are train
ed at West Point or at Annapolis; then
have them give their lives to public
service. Men trained at West Point or
at Annapolis are both honest and
courageous. You cannot buy them
You cannot brighten them. During the
past so years only one of these men
has proved dishonest. They have re-
verted to savagery. But they do not
stoop to dishonesty. Why? 1t is their
training. True they are picked men.
But they are not the only men that
could be selected throughout the coun-
try. Where one is chosen and trained.
you could find a thousand made of
just as good stuff.
1t would be expensive to establish |
such schools and to maintain them. |
But not so expensive as the present
system. And If you would know what |
changes such men would bring to con-
read what changes such men
have brought about in the Philippines
and in Cuba
Lastly, as to work for all.
There are $4,000 tramps in the United
States. and they cost s11. 100000 a year
Who feeds them, for they do eat. There
are other thousands who cannot get
work to do. Who feeds them, for they
also do eat. Then there are many
in alms-houses and in pris-
ons. Who feeds these people, for they
200 do eat. Those who work, feed all
who eat I hope to live TO hear the
government say to all who are idle and
n need, Here is work. do it," For
hose who accept the work and do it,
he problem is solved. Those who do
lot accept the work should be corral
ed. 1 don't care whether they work or
lot. But they should not be allowed
o mingle with the industrious. And
hey should not be allowed to repro
luce their kind. 1t would be expensive
or single generation. After that, re-
ief would come to all who work
Could the government afford to find
york for all who are idle? Yes. for it
eeds them all now and gets no return.
I is cheaper to hire men than to keep
hem in prison or idle. Sooner or later
lature exacts the indemnity, and the
,eople must pay the bills. There is no
scape. There should be no escape.
BY employing thousands of men i'm
rowing roads and streets, in filing in
in making parks, in plant
ng forests. the whole country would