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KJU! THE HONOLULU SEPUBLXGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 31 1901.
lis future-- development This deputation
constated of the Rev. Dr. Beard,
motor secretary of the association.
and the Rev. E. S. Tead, a member of
'the executive committee. That part
of Utelr report referring directly to
tire educational conditions says:
The education of the people is re
ceiving the careful consideration of
Up authorities. Dr. Brumbaugh, the
eoamissioner of education, is wor
toe night and jl&y on this pressing
problem. At present 40.000 children
are in the public schools, but 300,000
remain as yet unprovided for. Thoro
are S00 teachers, about ninety of
wliom are from the United States.
'Both Spanish and English are taught
and th children arp aulck and eagir
to learn. There is no high, normal,
industrial school or college in the
Usand. though Fajardo has raised $20,-09- 0
for a normal school. Sixteen
school inspectors are in the saddle
visiting the different sections of the
Island, and their services arc much
needed to keep the native teachers to
their tasks, which, sometimes, they
are disposed to shirk.
Religion is not allowed a place on
the curriculum for reasons which are
satisfactory to the authorities. There
to a widespread desire to learn English
and at Lares the clerks in the
stores meet Professor Scott In the
night school that he has opened to
study the language.
The Presbyterian mission under the
wise generalship of Rev. Dr. John M.
Green, the Methodist mission, led by
Rev. Dr. Drees; the Baptist and Episcopal
missions, conducted respectively
by Rev. Drs. McCormlck and Van
Bursa, are doing excellent service in
educational and evangelistic lines.
Their Sunday and week day services
are crowded with curious and Interested
listeners.
The Congregationalists, through the
American Association, havo two excellent
schools at Santurce and Lares,
and are doing as thorough work in education
as is done by any schools on
the island. There Is a distinct and emphatic
call for a large central boarding
school of the higher grade, with
normal and Industrial departments.
and the Concregationalists. with their
record of college and university build
ing In the United States, seem to be
the denomination to lead in this new
field. They are also conducting evan
gelistic work under Rev. Dr. Edwards
in Fajardo and Humncao. cities in the
eastern part of the island.
The outlook for industrial, educa
tional and religious quickening Is encouraging.
During the past two $.ears
great advances have been made. The
people. In spite of the present disturbances,
are expectant of changes
for the better. The hope of that fair
land is In the children. By their
ready assimilation of American ideas
they constitute the ground work of a
new civil and moral ordor. That
such regeneration is to come Is the
confident expectation of those who
know Porto Rico best.
The hope of Porto Rico Is In the
children, say those investigators.
What Is true of Porto Rico is true
of ll&wali and particularly so of the
Porto Rlcans in Hawaii. Reared in
abject poverty and Ignorance for
many generations the hope of theso
people is in their children. They
want their children educated. One of
the chief inducoments for them to
come to Hawaii is the promise offree
schools for their children. And yet
a Honolulu newspaper that 1s known
as tfao official organ of the Territorial
administration opposes schools and
public education for the Porto Rlcan
children upon the ground that it is
not good policy.
Rich folk of San Francisco who own
palatial homes on the hill are tendering
the use of these homes, servants
and all. to distinguished delegates to.
the Episcopal general convention,
which meets there in October. The
magnificent Crocker mansion has been
offered to Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, cf
New' York, and has been accepted by
him. Mrs. "William H. Crocker has
tendered her mansion to Bishop Pot-to- r,
of Now York, and it Is stated that
mansions have been tendered to Bishop
McLaron, of Chicago, and Bishop
Lawrence, of Massachusetts. These
distinguished delegates will nave par
ties of friends with them and will occupy
these mansions during the convention,
a period of thre or four
vreeks. Mr. Pierpont Morgan, al--
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though bis Uss is worth somethingIf
less than a Billion a alniite, always J j
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EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH. ated, following the civil war. the day
was known as Decoration Day. It
President McKinleys reception In was at first observed, by the lately
the South was all that could have returned soldiers who wished to honor
been wished lor. No other Repub- the memory of their fallen comrades
without any special organization. I
lican President was ever awarded do not remember how old I was when
such a hearty and spontaneous "we- I witnessed the first Decoration Day.
lcome in the Southern States. Notable but I could not have been more than
in this connection was the increase ten or twelve. It was in a little town
in the State of Ohio wrhere
in the Interest and Importance of the
the people
had been Intensely In earnest daring
raalL President's speeches as he progress- the civil war. The town, or towned
in his journey. He very soon dropship, did not contain a population of
ped the courteous and conciliatory over 2,500 In 1560, and yet In the four
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years of
generalities that characterized his
the war that little town sent.
all told, more than three hundred men
Per Xeatk, by Carrier
$ .75 first addresses, and went into the to the front. As an instance of the
Oh Tear, by Hall
S.00 questions of the hour with unexpect feeling of rue people I remember one
Six Moots, by ikall 4.00 ed freedom. This change of policy family named Livingston, one of those
Tbrce Month, by Mall or Carrier 2.00
was doubtless due to the extraordin-
old pioneer families with many children.
Upon the occasion of a public
ary welcome he received at the hanls meeting during the Presidential cam-
of the Southern people, and more espaign of 1864 the mother arose and
HONOLULU, H. T., MAY 31, 1901
pecially to the undisguised and even said shp had sent eleven sons to bat-
enthusiastic expression? of expan tle for their country, four of whom
had at that time given up
THE PORTO RICANS AND EDUCA-TION- . sion sentiment upoir several great
their lives
oc- and her greatest regret was that sae
casions.
did not have eleven more sons to
In Memphis one of the most vigor offer upon her country's altar.
MU-rfamr- y
Early In April the American
ous rounds of applause came upon . a
the
AeaoctaUon sent a deputation
President's indirect reference to the
Among my earliest recollections as
con-tffclo- n
Porto Rico to investigate the a child was a soldier's burial, accord-
extension of the markets for Southern ed to
of aimtonary and educational
an uncle, who had been
cotton. At VIcksburg the Chief Ex-
work Una far established there by
ecutive and his party passed under an
AMCrtc&ss, and the opportunities for
arch made of cotton bales, key-bal- the e
fur-lough-
then brighten op as tfcocgh they had
just been gives sosie wonderful elixir
of life. And how the old boys did
cheer "Uncle Billy" as they called
that old grixsled soldier. Sherman.
Some of them would caB oat to him:
"I was vritb yon on the march to the
sea." or "I was with yoa at Resaca."
or 1 was with you at Atlanta. much
to the delight of the General, and
more than once did he doff his hat
to the men in the ranks who would
call out some familiar greeting like
this.
that he might die at home.
There were enough discharged men
and those on furlough to make up a
little firing squad, and I will never forget
the impression upon my childish
mind as the squad fired the three volleys
over the grave of their departed
comrade. , It created in my mind a
feeling that it "was noble and grand
to die for one's country. That above
all else in this world were our country
and our flag.
of which bore the word "Expansion."
From that time forward the
President did not hesitate to discuss
the subject openly and frankly, and
his remarks at Vicksburg, Jackson
and New Orleans may be said to have
been based mainly upon this topic.
Everywhere" there were unmistakable
evidences of expansion sentiment. In
New Orleans the President was espe
cially happy in his allusions to this
question, using both the demands of
the cotton raisers and the glory ot
the Louisiana Purchase in his presentation
of the case. A particularly
interesting phase of the unanimous
and hearty responses of the Southern
people is that they have been given
in spite of political alignment against
the issue an alignment that must be,
and evidently Is, regretted by every
progressive man of those states.
It should now be . more apparent
than ever before that one of the greatest
mistakes of the Democratic party
In recent years was made In taking
a position against expansion. This
error in judgment was mainly due to
the long observed, but wholly unsafe,
rule of negation. If the Republican
party had led off against expansion
the Democratic leaders would have
landed on the right side of the issue
by automatic impulse, just as they
took the wrong side after the Republican
party was committed to the
right. The national Democracy never
before tried the loyalty of the South
as it was tested on this issue. The
great Industry of these states demands
the' largest possible markets.
The Oriental field Is especially inviting.
China buys enormous quantities
of cotton goods. "With the establishment
of cotton mills near the points
of raw production, and with the opening
of the Isthmian canal, the outlook
for the grower of cotton and the manufacturer
of cotton goods will be- -
come as bright as Industrial prospects
can be made.
McCord, who is now
editor of the Phoenix, Ariz., Gazette,
and who knows how it is himself,
says:
"Territorial governors as a rule
have a difficult time to retain their
positions. Governor Barnes of Oklahoma
was turned down. The legisla
ture of Honolulu asks for Governor
Dole's removal and several New Mex
ico delegations are after Governor
Otero's official scalp. All in all, the
life of a Territorial executive is not
a bed of roses."
The civil service authorities in Manila
say that the Filipino women are
intensely interested over the prospect
of holding government offices,
and that there are some 500 in toe
one city of Manila who want to take
the civil service examination as soon
as possible. It has not taken hem
long to contract the office holding
fever.
The Grand Army veterans were
fortunate in securing the Hon. Thomas
Fitch to deliver the Memorial Day
oration. Mr. Fitch Is one of the most
polished and brilliant orators in the
country and has enjoyed a national
reputation as such for fully thirty
years, His address yesterday was
not only brilliant but a gem of oratory.
A London ship owner declares that
many vessels are lost each year because
they put to sea in ballast, or In
other words underloaded, and suggests
as a remedy that an underload
line be established in addition to the
present loadllne. The suggestion is
worthy of consideration the world
over.
If all the coffee consumed in the
United States can be grown In the
Islands "which have been acquired
since the beginning of the Spanish
war. as the officials at Washington
declare, about 160.000.000 will be distributed
annually among the residents
of Uncle Sam's new possessions.
A
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The soldiers who returned home in
1SG5--6 were mostly young men, the
great majority being under 28 years
of age. But how weak and tottering
and bent the most of them are now.
I could not but moralize over this
fact as I watched the Grand Army
veterans riding back to their hall
yesterday from the exercises in Nuu-an- u
cemetery. There were few, if
any, in the carriages who could have
stood It to have marched back to thair
hall. Of course they would not admit
it, if asked to perform the task, but
the "boys" are no longer filled with
the energy and exuberance of youth.
"It will be forty years this fall since
I enlisted in the army," said one of the
'boys' to me in the street car as we
were riding down town just before the
parade started. "I ofttimes think I
would like to go back to the old Massachusetts
town where we enlisted
and particularly to be there when the
regimental reunion is held. But there
isn't many of the boys left," he added
with a .sigh. "We went out in 1SG1
over a thousand strong and there
were 225 men left in the regiment
when we were discharged four years
later. How many there are now I do
not know but surely not many." And
the .veteran was thinking of the old
days and seeing, in his mind's eye,
the boys as they bid each other good-b- y
back In the old Bay State.
Some one blundered yesterday In
compelling the guardsmen to march
too fast Whether It was the fault
of the Marshal of the Day or of Captain
Berger, I do not know, but whoever
had charge should have seen to
It that slower music was played than
was. The day was insufferably hot
and sultry and yet the band played
fast quicksteps both marching out to
the cemetery and coming back to
town. Some of the guardsmen were
completely exhausted when they
reached the cemetery from their rapid
march up Nuuanu avenue hill. On
such a sultry day as yesterday 90
steps to the minute would have been
fast time, but instead of that they
were swung along at a rate of 120
to 130 steps to the minute, and it was
awful on the men. It was the same
way coming back and I noticed a number
of men, when the regiment stopped
on Fort street, looking as though
they were ready to drop from exhaustion.
Such rapid marching would do
In a colder country, but it is out of
place In Honolulu, particularly on
such a sultry day as yesterday was.
There was a peculiar thing occurred
as the National Guard and the Grand
Army veterans were returning down
Hotel and King, and lined up along
the west side of the street, together
with the band while the Grand Army
veterans drove by. As the carriages
bearing the veterans reached the left
of the line at Hotel street the band
struck up "Way Down South in Dixie."
How incongruous It seemed to
one raised where "Dixie" would hardly
have been allowed to be played
thirty years ago or even twenty years
ago. But the bitterness of the civil
war is, thank God, a thing of the past
and the old "boys" swung their hats
to "Dixie" as blithely as though the
band had been playing "Marching
Through Georgia."
And speaking of this latter piece
of music what a favorite with the old
soldiers it has always been. There
is a rhythm and swing to it that
makes the old, and decrepit, and Infirm
feel like swinging into line In
the march again. I attended the national
reunion of the Grand Army at
Columbus, Ohio, In 1S79, I think it
was. President Hayes was there I
know, as was General Sherman, General
Howard and a. number of others
of the men who had helped to make
history in the days of '61 to '65. In
the grand parade, including the veterans,
militia and regulars, there were
said to be 75,000 men in line, and
surely there must have been. There
was no playing of "Dixie" by any of
the bands there that day, and there
were dozens of bands "Star Spangled
Banner," "Columbia, Gem of the
Ocean," and other "patriotic aira were
played, but chief of all the music was
"Marching Throagh Georgia,' There
were men la llae hardly able to walk
but when the band woal-- strike np
that good oM xa&rch yon could see
But speaking of "Dixie," I believe
it will in time become the greatest
favorite of the people as the national
air of America. There is a swagger
and a swing to it that none of th
other of the so-call- national airs
have. "Marching Through Georgia."
while a great marching piece, brings
back too many bitter memories to the
Southern man to render him capable
of ever learning to like the selection.
"Dixie" has not this objection. It
brings no unpleasantness to the Northern
man. In fact it was first played
and sung in the North before the war
and "was taken np as the national air
of the South after the civil war began.
Through the efforts of two or three
other newspaper men and myself we
arranged with the band at the National
Republican convention at St
Louis In 1896 that It should play "Dixie"
on the second morning of the convention,
while the crowd was assem
bling. Later the leader weakened, be
ing afraid of It. "Dixie" had never
been played in a National Republican
convention, and it was feared that
it might be hissed. I entreated with
the leader that morning telling him
that St. Louis was a Southern city,
that the majority of the spectators
were residents of that city, and once
he started playing "Dixie" it would
bring forth such a round of applause
that it would become contagious and
before the band could finish playing
the crowd would be cheering. Still
the leader hesltated,Nand I went down
stairs to get some of the other cor-
respondents to join me In again
urging band-leade- the r to play "Dix-
ie." As I started down stairs the
band began to play "Marching
Through Georgia." and the crowd began
to cheer. Hurrying over to Mc-Bryof
the Cincinnati Enquirer I
asked him to go up to the music gallery
with me to try to get the band
to play "Dixie." We reached the
gallery just as the band stopped playing
"Marching Through Georgia," and
rushing over to the leader I exclaimed:
"Now play 'Dixie. The crowd has
cheered itself almost hoarse over
'Marching through Georgia and if you
give them 'Dixie' now right on top of
it, it will make a great hit."
The leader seemed to think there
was some truth in what I said and ordered
the band to play "Dixie." The
sweet strains had hardly reached the
outermost walls of that great convention
hall before the applause began,
swelling larger and larger, until cheers
began and in less than two minutes
men were standing on chairs all over j
the hall swinging their hats and
shouting at the top of their voices. It
was a great stroke. Every one recognized
the force of it and the effect was
like bringing about a reunion of a family
that has been estranged. It seemed
to put every one in a good humor
and comment ran around the convention
hall about the band playing "Dixie."
And more than once in that campaign
of 1896 I saw bands marching in
Republican procession in the north
playing "Dixie" as though it had belonged
to them of right ever since it
was composed. Later the Spanish war
settled it that "Dixie" was a national
air and it is probably played as freely
in the northern states today as in the
southern.
But I am disgressing. There is something
ennobling and inspiring in the
observation of Memorial Day. I trust
the time will never come when It will
be observed simply as a holiday; a
day for races and games and for amusement.
How sweet to retain one
day in all the .year for honoring the
dead; for holding sweet memories, for
thinking of those gone before. Holding
no bitterness in life, but uniting
with our fellows In honoring men who
fought for their country, to
"Cover them over with beautiful
flowers.
Cover them over, these heroes of
ours."
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