The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-02

ate classes OF children Of every blood
and color known from Greenland's icy
mountain TO midas coral strand are
datly drilled In exercises that sound
Ike popping firecrackers South Sea Is
ianders and Nloiossans from Russia join
with the japanese and Chinese In sing
ing our dear old ridiculous New En-
gland anthem:
Land where my fathers died
Land Of the Pilgrims PRIDE" etc.
Then they all with appropriate
gestures. salute the stars and stripes
and swear I'VE give our hands. cur
heads and our hearts 10 our country
One country. one language one nag."
Then there comes the shorter catechtsm
OF the True Faith. What Is our
country- THE United states OF
America What Is our ianguager-
English" what Is our dag" The
stars and stripes, Hip. Hip. Hurrahs-
HAS our nag ever been conquered In
war; "Never,'' what Is the great
est country in the woride" "our coun-
try. the United States of America
IN what is II the greatests IN free
dom. wealth and happiness" Why is
II the greatssts" Because its people
are generally Industrious, weil-behav-
ed and weil-educated." How are they
educateds" In good schools. both
public and private" what is taught
IN these schools-' Know edge OF
books. useful hand-word. good morals
and good citizenship Then they all
sing .,Hurrah for the schools OF Ha-
wall" with a rousing chorus;
Then hurrah for the schools of our
dear native land.
For the free public schools of Hawaii
All honor we Will pay, 20 the noble
patriot band
Who founded the schools Of HswaIi"
This is a sample OF what is done In
one small. public school. Exercises OF
similar spirit and import are held in
all the schools. Americanism is drilled
into the children day after day. along
with the English language. But three
per cent. of the pupils in the public
schools Of the Territory are Americans
Many schools have not a single Ameri-
can child But the great majority OF
the teachers are Americans and those
who are not American by birth are
thoroughly nature liked in sentiment
What the results of this systematic
training in patriotism will be in ten
years from now no one may say, but
there can be no doubt that the general
effect will be good The docile native
Hawaiians. while retaining their local
pride. adopt the American patriotism
as their own. The Portuguese and
Spanish children do so naturally, just
as European children do all over the
United States. The Chinese have
never known the feeling of patriotism
and perhaps cannot understand II
But to some extent even the Chinese
become enthusiastic over the stars
and Stripes. The Japanese.-but thae
is another story. They are as earnest
AT their patriotic exercises as may be
and salute the flag with manifest
pride and devotion But to even the
tiniest of them the one country on
earth is Japan. and he knows that ne
owes supreme allegiance TO the sacred
Emperor yOnder in Toxic
.sOne country. one language, one
fagl" That is the doctrine OF Amen
csnism which has been successfully
taught to the millions who have come
To our shores from Europe since the
great tide of immigration set IN in lS1e
For ninety years the army OF Euro
peans has been steadily increasing oue
the American influences have been
strong enough to swallow them anu
assimilate them II is one country
one language. one flag. But always
these foreigners went 10 places where
there were Americans all around them
and about them. always in the major
fty. In Hawaii there is but plt-
full minority which is seeking to ac-
complish this task But the work goes
on. American the Hawaiian Islands
are. and American they must remain
- - the Hawaii which wiz