The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-10-14
COURT NOTES.
SCHOOL QUESTION
is LOOMING Up

Editor Advertiser. At Republican
rally held at Kilauea yesterday, Mr..
Cox read, at the request of Mr.. w. II.
Rice Jr., chairman of the campaign
committee. plank of the Republican
platform adopted at Lihue on october
Sth by unanimous vote of the District
Committee as follows:
I'VE particularly endorse that part
of the Republican Territorial platform
that declares in favor of adequate sup
port of our public schools. We demand
provision for the accommodation in
school and for the efficient instruction
of every child of school age. And we
pledge our candidates to secure in the
next Legislature appropriations ade-
quate to maintain our schools at high
standard of efficiency"
He then said: The schools of Kauai
and in other parts of the Territory are
at the present time in deplorable con-
dition. You have been putting children
to school in rooms that are unfit for
human habitation and under conditions
that are disgrace to a progressive
people. The pay of your teachers, al
ways low and insufficient to attract
enough qualified teachers to supply all
| the schools, is now on basis of pow
erty that will be ruinous to your schools
and is discreditable to yourselves. In
| this year of our Lord One Thousand
| Nine Hundred and Four, in this very
district on Kauai, out of total of four
schools, two have been closed for con-
| siderable portions of the year, and one
| of them still remains closed, by reason
of the inability of qualified persons to
| accept employment at the meager
| wages offered. The election of the next
| Legislature marks an important crisis
| in the cause of education in this Ter
ritory.
Within the year we have found our
selves in the condition of being hard
up. We were out of pocket a good
many thousand dollars. And like a
good house keeper we knew that we had
got to make both ends meet. We had
| got TO make up the deficiency. And
we preferred to do it heroically and
quick But how to do? Make the rich
men of the Territory put up the money?
1t We're hardly fair, the fault was the
| fault of all. Assess the laborng men
for the amount? No. Take some dol
lars off the meager pay of policemen
| a
| farmer? That were injustice indeed.
| DO you suggest that the burden be
| shared evenly by all men or in proper
ton to their ability to pay? That might
not be unjust. But how did we dis
tribute the burden? OF the five or ten
| thousand men on Kauai how many men
are contributing to that deficiency fund?
| Eight! You can count them on the fin
gers of your two hands and still have
your thumbs left disengaged to stick in
to your f-Congratulatory suspenders
| Kauai men get off easy. Kauai men
get off easy.
But women? That is another story.
Your school teacher with her poor forty
dollars a month you have made to con-
tribute one hundred dollars toward that
deplorablc deficiency. Every school
mistress on Kauai and throughout the
Territory is giving of her hard-earned
| living "A hundred dollars or two hun
bred dollars To save her brethren pos
sessed with the franchise from the con-
sequences Of their own folly In the eN-
eruise of that right of franchise. Tax
! alton without representation may be
! tyrIuuy but IL has saved us, this one
| time. shall we require of the women 10
save MS again? The platforms OF the
| Republican party are uumistakable ON
| this question, The candidates uf the
! Republican party are pledged Ia om-
body these principles Ia effective legls-
latiou, ! appeal 60 your Justice and
J your Chytlry WIN you not render
/ rhlyalruus support tu your schools and
| "a measure ui lustlDr-tyru thuuEh IA bee
"a briy measure ~ Justice 90 your
! school -mirtrHssrs'
A MOORE