The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-04

And the new Royal School has been
erected by Republicans and the strength
of our Republic is such that we need
not fear mere name which carries
with it an historical memory. Other
Republics have, in their time, swept
away in their ardor every symbol and
memory if possible of their previous
rulers but the great Republic of which
we now form a part has no such feel
ing and the small portion that we
form of it has never found it necessary
to change historic names. We have
our King street, our Queen street, our
Kamehameha Schools ond our Lunalilo
Home. all commemorative and histori-
CAL So we have our Royal School, even
in the midst of a Republic.
Indelibly has been imprinted upon
the community the influence of this in
stitution commencing with Mr.. and
Mrs. Cook, and passing through the
hands of DR.. E. G. Beckwith (than
whom there never has been a better
educator in the country or one more
beloved), down to the present princi-
pal. Rev. Alexander Macintosh, who
has charge at this moment. A wire
less from DR.. Beckwith says, Con
gratulations to the Board of Education
and the New Royal School"
1t may be interesting to tell you that
Mr. Macintosh and myself landed on
these shores on the same day, Septem-
Der 6. 1869, and we left San Francisco
on the same day in the steamer Idaho.
1t took US twelve days to come down.
Great things have been done since
then. Tempt Passati. The old, old
times have gone. Everything has
changed, and a marked change in enc
of the Hawaiian great institutions oc-
ours today.
In this long career of 81 years the
Royal School has educated the chiefs
sons and daughters, all of whom, save
Mrs Pratt, have gone to rest. At the
present time it educates close on to
800 pupils of the many varying ma
tionalities of this Territory. What was
done at the outset gave to the islands
some very able administrators and
also able professional men. This it is
hoped that it will continue to do. But
not all of us can be administrators or
professional men, and there is as high
a dignity of manhood or womanhood in
those who have to labor with their
hands as in those who labor with their
brains.
one OIL the main opJtSeS VI Jul ONN
cational system at the present time IL
to teach the dignity of labor, the dig
nifty of hsnest work, and this 1 hope,
and I believe every good citizen of the
Territory hopes, will be fostered by
this Royal School. 1t must be also
hoped that the training of the hand
as well as the head will be and is fos-
tered in every corner of the Territory
TO oh school system
reaches.
There is an idea, or there certainly
has been on these islands, an idea that
mere mental culture is the aim of edu-
cation. L distinctly take stand
against such view. 1 believe it is
the duty of the state to supply as good
education to every man as it is possi-
BILE to give him so that his mind can
grasp the many questions which our
civilization calls for; but I do not be-
lieve that the mere head knowledge is
all that man should have Or a wo-
man should have. I believe in the
knowledge of the hand as we'll as the
knowledge of the mind. 1t has been
one of the mistakes of the past that
the hand has not been as well educat-
ed as the mind. The merely mentally
educated man or woman would prob
ably starve under some circumstances
and would like. at this formal OPEN
ing of the Royal School, to lay down
firmly the idea that we must have
hand training as we'll as head train
ing. For this purpose We desire to add
to this institution a thoroughly good
mechanical department. This will call
for funds which have not yet been pro-
vided but which L hope will be pro-
vided. Our aim and effort must al
ways be to rise higher and higher and
mistakes in the past must be wiped out
and regarded as the stepping stones to
the very best that our means can give.
knowledge is power" as a greater
thinker once wrote, but knowledge is
worthless and rotten staff to lean
On unless the knowledge be applied to
practical results. Labor" said Dr.
Johnson, lis the tabled Magician's
wand, the Philosophers stone and the
cap of Fortunatus." And another
great thinker. Carlyle, says Labor is
life. From the Utmost heart of the
worker rises his God-giv force: the
sacred celestial iife-essence breathed
into him by Almighty God"
Handsome no doubt is this building
and great are its opportunities but it
matters not how handsome building
may be it can only exist as an efficient
adjunct to those who will have it in
charge. Upon them and upon the De-
partment of Public instruction honor
ably rests the burden of rising upward
and onward. We have worked some
times under great difficulties and it has
been matter of line upon line and
precept upon precept but our oppor-
tunity must come and if we cannot or
do not take that opportunity We are
unworthy of the trust that has been
put upon US.
Far better for the human kind
Is giving work its place.
Work elevates, expands the mind
And thus uplifts the race.
REP. NAKUINA'S REMARKS.
Representative Nakuina began his