Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-08
|GOELHO'S THOUGHT
| ON AGRICULTURE
Associates ,Coolie Labor
With School Teaching
| Proposal


Editor Evening Bul in:
In reply to your request for an ex-
preston concerning Hon. 8. M. Da-
mons Interview in your paper Of the
Attn instant, l would say that, in the
main, he is correct -
The idea of interesting children In
agriculture is excellent. but the at
tempt to make them laborers instead
Of training them to be Independent
citizens, earning their livelihood out
OF their own toll and out OF the soil
they cultivate is abominable.
The natural tendencies OF chill
dren to drift into varied vacations are
SO evident that to inculcate into the
young minds the principle which is
now being advocated to be pressed
into the public school system of Ha-
wall, will not produce the result de-
sired, and the efforts in that direc-
tion would be dasted. What parent
Ia willing to have his child educated
to be cane-stripper or irrigator or
any other kind of field work, for
which the highest wage is 65 cents
to 81 per day, working from IL to
Ia hours per day, and nothing for
any overtime? And whose children
are to be trained to be plantation
field laborers," and whose to be train
ed for the "white-shirt professions" !?
It is very evident in Hawaii today
that 1t is the purpose OF those who
have become wealthy out OF the ka-
nakas' land to force them out of all
lchances of becoming Independent cit
liens and drive them to the fields. In
Honolulu today, see in most Offices
strange faces--most OF them John
ny-come-lately" taking the place of
the young people of Hawaii.
The best men the world has pro-
duced-the most learned and the best
demonstrators OF mans ingenuity in
all departments, whether political,
commercial, financial scientific, me-
chanical, or agricultural, were men
who were born of parents of poor cir
cumstances-sons of good, honest
toilers.
| Congress. when It passed the Nor
riil Act ibid not intend to train the
rising American youths-those of one
class to be "white-shirt professors
land those of another to be laborerS
on the cotton. sugar. and tobacco
farms of the South. No. Decidedly
NO. 1t was the intention of Con
gress to give the children Of thos'
who could not AFFORD II. every nos
sible opportunity of learning how t.
produce from the soil the means b,
which they Gould become INDEPEN
DENT CITIZENS OF the United
States; and, to those who show ev
ery mark of fitness for other voca
tons. every encouragement and as
sistance is given to acquire ful
knowledge in such arts to which the,
apply themselves.
Now, why should the children o
the poor of Hawaii be forced to tn,
fields as coolies? That Is exactl.
what is meant by Superintendent
: Rabbits sympathy In the movemen
Q to keep the children OF the publ
g schools interested in agriculture.
e think, and strongly too. Babbitt an,
s his Board ought ought to begin RICH
now to fire every married womal
j teaching under the Department o
Q Education whose husband can sup
u port her as well as himself, except Il
g the case of localities where It woul
g be impossible to secure teachers, a
n in many places in the outer district
j. on Oahu, Kauai. Maui, and Hawai-
q The policy of the Board should hav
e been. THAT where the husband rt
u ceives sufficient salary to supper
Is himself and wife, he alone should h
l. employed, the wife should not b
made to Rob another lady OF equal,
not OF more ability, who depends fc
her support upon her own tolls. Di
A erection should have been used In tn
. matter. What is the use of havin
Il a Normal School here, when Marie
! women are kept on in the servic
who can not pass competitive exam
u nation II they were made to underi
y It? Let Babbitt and his Board
~ rect that 1t shall be part of Il
50 necessary instruction in the publ
NJ schools that the elementaries whit
ie would admit advanced pupils in
10 the College OF Hawaii be taught.
10 The College OF Hawaii Is govern,