The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-24


Of 200 thhi We arc gathered isla ane
uotn almost within tho shadow 81 uld
knWaiahan. NE blflhplats 81 Chtisilhn
lty on ihla island. ihf center Of chris
ian Influence Tor many years iu Che
prevail rcfftufy Ninety years ago
thia MONTH che missionary fathers ~
dieaici their htt graas thatehet chafch.
laying The cornerstone for Tho ciyilisa
tion that IL here and thanking God ia
their ceremony that the king had allow.
cd them their building site then on the
outskirts Of the village Of Honolulu.
The cornerstone Of the cdiice eiviliEa.
tion they laid The result Of their of.
forts 10 apparent on every hand. Thooe
mission fathers laid their cornerstone
pi1mh, and square and true aud cement
Cd Il into place with their very heart q
blood. Today We lay the eorneratonc
of a sign Of that civilization our pre-.
deccssors brought to this land Of dark.
ness.
"Today's ceremony should carry our
minds back 10 that other of Kawaia-
hno. We should today ask ourselves
| If We have lived true to the obligations
imposed upon us by those early mis-
| sionaries; IL we have carried ont the
| trust bequeathcd to us. They came to
| Hawaii to better the moral and the
material conditions of the land. Have
we in orr day bettered the moral and
the material conditionS
/ " Materially we have done much
morally we have done great deal
Our church spires rise to heaven in
many places throughout the Territory,
overlapping the spire of Kawaiahao;
our philapthropies are broad; men come
here to study orr plantation condi.
tions and learn; they come to study
our progress in irrigation, that the rest
of the world may benefit from our ex-
ample. We boast of the largest fruit
cannery in the world. The figures of
our per capita wealth are quoted en-.
viously in other lands.
''ln the great things we have sue.
ceeded, upholding best traditions of
lands from which we come. How about
those things called lesseri Have we
in our desire for the great overlooked
the many things of the little, which
help 10 make permanent the CREATE In
erecting our great monument to our
selves, have we paid so much attention
to the shaft that we have overlooked
the r1bble from which the founda-
tion is made3 In planning our great
industrial structure, have we schemed
on beautiful skyline and forgotten
the bedrock, upon the solidity of which
the whole must stand or fall7 In guard
ing our property rights by careful leg
islation, have we not in desire not
to be trespassed against enacted laws
that overlap, charging the right of
property until the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness of Others
has been lnfringed upon7 The law that
/ guards our property also gives the
/ tenement builder the right to create
conditions that should never exist in
d this land of the great outdoors. To
help on the progress of oar wealth get
ting we have many laws and many in
stitutions, but not one law that APP
propriaties money for the upbrilging
of the orphan, not one institution in
this Territory supported by the public
where an honest woman and Virtnous
girl may find a temporary refuge.
'There are those who believe that
it is every man g own business to find
his own happiness. The founders of
Kawaiahao did not no believe. II they
had they would have stayed in New
England.
Libraries as Educators.
ANDREW Carnegie helps libraries
because he believes that libraries are
great educational institutions. He
gained a great part of his own early
education from reading borrowed
books. This Library of Hawaii we
may regard therefore as a part of the
public educational system of Hawaii.
l want to say few things about our
public schools. A great many of you
know very little about the public
schools, except when the teachers tell
tales out of school. Your children are
sent to the splendid private schools Of
the city. 1t may be that some of you
share in the belief that the children of
the poor in Hawaii get altogether too
much education. Some people in Ha-
waii think, although they do not say
so out loud, that the less education the
children of the poor have, the better
in the future for the children of the
better-off.
"T The last Legislature appropriated
about 100000 for the public schools
for the current year. This seems lot
of money to spend on other people 8
/ ne ytdE DtiOIt Tue scHOOl
authorities spent $75O,OOO on the
schools. That also looks like big
sum, Int when we know that in Hawaii
last year we spent for tobacco alone
three-quarters of million dollars, the
educational expense does not appear so
alarming. Last year our bill for wines,
spirits and beers was over one million
dollars. In Hawaii we have thou.
sand automobiles and more than twenty
thousand children, yet last year for
automobiles and for gasoline to run
them we spent a million and a quarter
dollars. We have almost as many
chauifeurs for our nine hundred ma.
chimes as we have teachers for our
twenty thousand children.
Our schools are growing better with
each term, but I do not believe that we
may say that the cornerstone Of this
Territory and by that ] mean the in
telligenea Of the eleetOTate--is laid
plumb and square and true until We
spend At least as much upon the public