The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-27

| ability to represent them, but it is the
poor man or the man of small means
who cannot afford to employ one OF
these masters in the profession and who
| is put in general jeopardy if he does not
have learned, strong, independent and
ineorruptible judge upon the bench.
them in making citizens of the genuine
American pattern.
| Hopeless as the task of intoxicating
| American ideals into Oriental minds
may seem, Hawaii accepts the chal-
lenge Of centuries and is trying man.
fully to accomplish what is all but i'm
possible. Churches and schools bear
! the burden of this work. The church
missionaries have all but forsaken the
| work among the native Hawaiians,
who are all nominally Christians or
Mormons, and are devoting their ener-
| gies to extending the Christian faith
among the japanese, Chinese and Ko-
reans. With religion these missionaries
preach the doctrines of Western civili-
cation and American ideals. They are
making progress, as such things go,
but it is Sow, slow, slow.
The school teacher in Hawaii is a
perennial Fourth of July grafton. Even
the New York public schools, where
thousands and thousands of European
children are annually transmitted into
Americans, have no notion of the work.
aday patriotism of the public schools
of these faraway islands Conglomer-
ate classes of children of every blood
and color known from Greenland's icy
mountain to India's coral strand are
daily drilled in exercises that sound
like popping f1recrackers. South Sea is
landers and Molokans 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 1--WE give our hands, our
heads and our hearts to our country.
One country, one language, one flag"
Then there comes the shorter catechism
of the True Faith. what is our
country?' 1.-The United States of
America What is our language?"
English What is our fiag?" THE
Stars and Stripes! Hip, Hip, Hurrah!"
HAS our flag ever been conquered in
WARP" "Never!" what is the great
est country in the world?' Our coun- |
try, the United States of America"
In what is it the greatest?' in free
dom, wealth and happiness" Why is |
it the greatest?" Because its people |
are generally Industrious, well-behav-
ed and Well-educated' How are they !,
I'm good schools, both |
public and private What is taught !
in these schools?' knowledge 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, to the noble
patriot band
Who founded the schools of Hawaii"
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
naturalized 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
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 capnot understand IL
But to some extent even the Chinese
become enthusiastic over the Stars
and Stripes. The Japanese,-but that
: another story. They are as earnest
1t their patriotic exercises as may be
and salute the flag with manifest
bride and devotion. But to even the
.iniest of them the one country on
,arth is Japan. and he knows that ne
yves supreme allegiance TO the sacred
Emperor yonder in Toxic.
lone country. one language. one
iag!" That is the doctrine of Amerl-
,anism which has been successfully
aught to the millions who have come
o our shores from Europe since the
treat tide Of immigration set in in 1920.
Tor ninety years the army of Euro
,eans has been steadily. increasing but
he American influences have been I
trong enough to swallow them and
.ssimiIate them. 1t is one country, /
ne language, one flag. But always {
hese foreigners went to places where
here were Americans all around them
nd about them. always in the major !
". In Hawaii there is but pitt !
nj minority which is seeking to &C 5
omplish this task. But the work goes
N American the Hawaiian Islands /
re. and American they must remain. :
OF INTEREST TO PINKHAM. t