The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-15

ritN OF the Chinese Us infused with
that of the Hawaiian. while he buoy
ant disposition of the latter is moul
fled, making medium combining sta
bility of character and the happy facul
ties to contend for success in the bust
ness and social world
The orien.al Elements.
The Chinese and Japanese ON these
islands tar outnumber the white pop.
uation and divide the commercial
business, outside banking and ship
ping. The whites own, almost ex
clusiyely the plantations. which com
PRISE rice, pineapple and sugar cane.
The Oriental races take decided
interest in sending their children to
the public schools and are fully awake
to the Importance of an educational
training in our language, and the laws
of our country The public and pri-
vate schools Of Honolulu are of a high
standard of efficiency; some of the
after being endowed with large be-
quests and donations of money by
philanthropiC persons who have made
large fortunes in sugar, as well as
some of the descendants of the royal
family, particularly the Cleghorn ana
Bishop branches, the latter adding
public museum to their gifts, of
great value-one feathered royal cloak
having alone cost over one Million
dollars, the feathers having been
plucked from the golden crest of al
bird of rare plumage which is now ex-
tinct. It took a half century to gather |
the feathers and to make this garment
that royalty wore on state occasions.
Mr., Bishop is yet living, at the eX-
IRENE age of ninety, in San Francisco
in the active business of banking.
The legacies left the school sys-
TEN of Honolulu have been the means
Of securing the best instructors for
its educational institutions. The early
to this country may be
credited with having first inspired
in this primitive people the import
lnce and necessity of education and
he Christian religion. Their noble
work in this respect has been perpet-
lated by their descendants and 9th
srs locating there. This is most
gratifying to the present civilization.
Doctor sun Vat Sen.
A notable object of their training
anne into public notice during my So
ourn the past winter in Honolulu. 1t
vas the elevation of one of its plain {
itzens, DR.. Sun Vat Sen, to the pro-
.isional presidency of the new Chi I
.ese Republic-a Christian gentleman ,
aving been his highest title thereto :
ore. This may not in itself be as {
as ours is a progressive age 3
md the educational policy of our :
ountry such as will develop the mind f
o its fullest limit. Perhaps it was |
nOSe JtutlSy llCulNuISu III bLAC JONNA- 6
III mind of DR.. Sun by his missionary 7
eachers, that expanded the brain OF I
inc mould which now dazzles the I
'orld with it's brilliancy and arousea I
great nation to a sense of its suf- /
ering wrongs. The rise of DR.. Sun, =
ON an obscure individual of yester- p
ay to a world character of today h
cling unanimously chosen by great /,
alton of four hundred million of peo- n
lie to be its president-seeT5 q mirac- II
Ious stride that has no parable in "
istory. This product of Honolulu, W
hen best Known, is a modest, unset O
sh, patriotic man; he is an over h
owering genius of lofty ideas, a h
nan, l venture to predict, mankind @
ill pronounce the greatest prodigy Of 6
ne age The fact that Hawaii was h
ne birthplace of this great man and e
honolulu the training school of his [
areer must arouse the price of her p
eople and inspire the youth of this
Ountry with patriotic fervor to imi- il
lte his example, for there is no coun- a
y but what would desire to appro- 81
riate such a character. This mar D
elous man sprang from humble birth, +
is father being a Cantonese coolie a
no emigrated to this country when ST
young man to avoid the oppressive Il
Tvs which his native land was suf- D
ring under, Hastily gathering his h
'anty outfit together, he boarded a a.
shing smack about to sail for the 0.
islands. After a long and D
'mpestuous voyage, he arrived in the il
arbor of Honolulu. Embarking with e.
Is little carry-all, he proceeded to the h
'rtile plain in the sha0ow of the al
-mous Pail, eight miles from Homo W
-Iu; there he erected grass thatch- in
shack for his future dwelling and W
egan to convert the virgin soil about lu
m into a rice paddy. The warm. IL
lnkiSsed vale responded to his la ir
'rs; the mountain slopes adjacent D,
hose thirst was ever quenched by in
'pious draughts Of liquid sunshine" Ii