The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-09-15

tors arrived that the inspection came
first and the exercises afterwards. The
assembly room was entirely filed and
many others were present who could
not get in. Superintendent Babbitt
Ecalled the gathering to order and called
on Rev. DR.. Doremus Scudder to make
the dedicatory prayer.
Quoting Garfield to the effect that
the ideal college might consist Of Pres
ident Mark Hopkins sitting on one end
of log and a student sitting on the
other, Mr.. Babbitt said that to those
who knew the very humble beginnings
of the Honolulu High School it could
readily be believed that "Daddy"
Scott in any kind of an old building,
with anxious students, could make
high school. 1t was with unbounded
confidence, therefore, that he handed
to Principal Scott the key to this the
new building, and with it the building
for high school purposes.
In accepting the key, Principal Scott
said: "This key is typical and sym.
bolic of an unlocked open door to
equal opportunity to manhood and
womanhood, to all without regard to
race or color.
''It is the ideal of all modern civil
ization, and especially it is the Amer.
lean ideal, to give society such eco.
nomic, political and industrial fuidity
and mobility that the heaviest icon.
trary to the law of physics) may rise
to the top. And though all who make
the effort may not succeed, the effort
itself is glorious.
In closing, Principal Scott paid a
pleasing tribute to Superintendent Bah.
bits indefatigable effort and deter.
mination to get the building and to
get the best possible building for the
money.
Speaking of the important part Gov.
ernor Carter had in securing the
building, Principal Scott introduced
the former Governor.
Hawaii is God IS jewel box" Gov
ernor Carter began. "Into it He has
placed every natural gem. He has
given an ideal climate and a fertility
of soil equal to the production of any.
thing. And then He placed this jewel
box of nature within the grandest
ocean of the globe.
"With these gifts the problem is,
Can man produce a creature here equal
to this perfect environments In this
problem undoubtedly one of the great.
est elements is education. As. citizens
and taxpayers it is our duty to see
that free and abundant opportunity is
given to every child to secure the
) advantages of education. / believe it
is fundamental in American thought
that every child shall have such ad-
vantages.
"1t seems to me that here in Ha-
| waii, with our cosmopolitan popula-
tion, we have been given the opportu-
nifty to perform some great service to
the United States and the world. 1t
has been given us to show that citi.
j zens can be made out of any kind of
human being, whatever the color, and
that our civilization is superior to any
other and need not shrink from CON
tact or competition with any other,
not even the Oldest
"There is no danger from an alien
voting population except such as we
create ourselves by suggestion, and by
expression of contempt or of hatred
Had Great Britain at the close of the
Revolution decreed by constitutional
enactment that no American nor de.
scendant of an American could ever
become British subject, American
loyalty would have recoled on itself,
and as Americans we would have been
more devotedly loyal than ever to
America, and no self-respecting -Ameri.
can would ever have become a British
subject. If we are true to our ideals
we need fear nothing.
81 sometimes think Hawaii is des-
tined to perform some great service
to the United States. The annexation
of these Islands is without precise
duplication in history. Our littleness,
our isolation, our comparatively small
white population, the absence of mid
die class, and the scantiness of small
holdings of land, is apparent to every
visitor. But the tide of great battles
is sometimes turned by the struggle
about some fence corner, or around
some insignificant mound where the
numbers engaged are small. So we
may be educating now some man.
white or brown or yellow, who shall
show the world some great ideal. Our
, attitude on questions and problems
may illuminate the position great ma.
tions should assume.
1 !" Are We keeping our magnificent
3 destiny in view7 This is Hawaii IS op
a portunity. Let us so educate ouI
youth, SO impress them with the char
acter we would have them have, that
: wherever they may be they will bt
o recognized as from Hawaii.'
: Rev. Kong YIN Tet, speaking fol-
the Chinese part of the community
! said that China was athirst for West
: fern learning She had put aside he
/ 1000 years of history and her age
of study of her great sage. The Chi
nese of this Territory were for tn,
y most part poor, but they valued edu
cation and sought to give it to thei
- children. Ancient prejudice still exist
. ed against educating women, but, new
I. ertheless, this was being overcome. i
\. the High School class of 1908, the frs
Ie girl of pure Chinese blood to be grad
- uated from the school had been sen
> out, and was now at a university OF
the Coast with the ambition to estat
% lish an institution to give Wester
learning to Chinese women in China