The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-12
FINE NEW HIGH
SCHOOL.
CONTINUED from Page one

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the dedieatory prayer.
Quoting Garfield to the effect that
the ideal college might consist of Pres.
ldent 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.
Iii 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.
1T is the ideal of ali modern civil
ization, and especially it is the Amer
lean ideal, to give society such eco.
nomic, political and industrial fluidity
and mobility that the heaviest icon
trary to the law of physies) may rise
to the top. And though all who make
the effort may not succeed, the effort
itself isl 4orious.
In elokng, Principal Scott paid a
pleasing tribute to Superintendent Bah
bitt s 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 s iewel-box," Gov
ernor Carter began. s'Into it He has
placed every natural gem. He has
given an ideal climate and 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 creature here equal
to this perfect environment Tn this
problem undoubtedly one of the great
est elements is education. As citizens
and taxpayers it Ii our duty to see
that free and abundant opportunity is
given to every child to secure the
advantages of education. / believe il
IS fundamental in American thought
that every child shall have such ad-
.yantages.
cit seems to me that here in Ha-
waii, with our cosmopolitan popula-
ton, we have been given the opportu-
nifty to perform some great service to
the United States and the world. Tt
has been given us to show that citi-
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 a British subject, American |
LOYALTY would have recoiled 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.
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tined to perform some great service |
to the United States. The annexation |
of these Islands is without precise |
in history. Our littleness,
our isolation. our comparatively small |
white population, the absence of mid |
die class, and the scantiness of shall |
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 |
on questions and problems |
may illuminate the position great ma
tions should assume.
Are we keeping our magnificent
destiny in views This is Hawaii IS OPP
portunity. Let us so educate our
youth, so impress them with the char
acter we would have them have, that
wherever they may be they will be
as from Hawaii. -
Rev. Kong Vim Tet, speaking for
The Chinese part of the community,
said that China was athirst for West
ern learning. She had put aside her
1000 years of history and her ages
Of study of her great sage. The Chi
nese of this Territory were for the
most part poor, but they valued edu
cation and sought to give it to their
children. Ancient prejudice still exist
I'd against educating women, but, new
this was being overcome. In
he High School class of 1908, the first
girl of pure Chinese blood to be grad
lated from the school had been sent
,ut, and was now at university on
the Coast with the ambition to estab
ish an institution to give Western
earning TO Chinese women in China.
IF ten Chinese youth graduated from
he Honolulu High School, six were in
positions in Honolulu and
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