Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 261, 13 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

'Ye cannof understand why th« Star no suddenly haa given up booming the Puukapu hoine3tead lots in Waimea. After all the w*ete of space and ink whieh the anneialion organ blew in on that boomeratig, we should have suppoeed tbat it would have kept up the fight until the proverbial young man from Honolulu had invested bis savings and sent his Jap up to look after them on the Waimea plaina. But the great oracle is as dumb as an oyster alid the “homeatead8 ! * stand aa empty and deeerted aa ever. Riee oo oh I Star! and eiolain—or ahall we do it? lt ia the aame with the homeetaade now promieed at Pauahi in the Waimea DistricL Here the government offere the people a beautiful ehanee to get one or two (no more) loU on whieh there «ill be ample room to build a houee and ample space for a few goaU to

oIay around. That th« “£arixiar” who is supp>ta«d to taka ap the bomesteada will haee to do consid«rable f«ncing i« not worthy of notice. That the exp«n»e of getting «ufficient Iumber and wire ftir hou«e-boildiug and fencing up to the Pauahi Iots will amount to more in treight and cartage than the lota are worth or ever will be worth is of *mall moment. That there is no water on the land, i» a fact of minor conaideration and that notbing ever will grow among the r»cks and bouider« whieh c<jn■titute th« Pauahi land, ia a matter whieh nobody mentions — at least not until the hotnesteads have been taken up on paner and the unfortunate would be settler comes around. The fact is though that the young man from Honolulu wiih his Jap and savings did not get tempted at all by the prospectus published (by request) in the Star. Whenever a young man in Honolulu has any savings, he generally knows how to take care of them and it takes a very large amount of persuasion to induce him either to invest his hard learned money in 110 shares in the Star or in any homestead enterprise advocaled by that sheet. The truth was that ■ome speculative spirit l«Jcated somewhere in the Waimea District was ambitious become the proud po8sessor of a home and tried all possible manipu!ations to obtain his end The invitation now extended to him by the government through the Star to ohiain his very own soil in Puukapu or Pauahi does not suit him and after having succeede«l in making the Star £ditor look more ridiculous and more foolish than even i« tbe custom when he branches out in geography the restle8s spirit of th« Waimea phiine subsides and has no more to «ay until lome other eeheme is hatcbed iu his fertile brains. In a former issue we called the attention of the government of ihe mistake whieh it makes, by giving the offices of tax-asses8or and collector to men whose private bu«iness demands all tiieir time, and the nature ot whieh impairs their otherwise good qualification for such office. The circumstances are not mueh diff rent when the offices are given to men who bold other po«itions under the governm«nt whieh shou)d demand their l'ull attention. We do not anyway believe in combioing different offices in oue mau. We find in Wain£a on Hawaii a eehool teacher who now holds tbe office of taz-asaes8or. and we receive frequent complaints at the neglect of bis duties as a teacher. Such neglect it seems does not always arise from attention to the tax-of-fice, but it seems that this indu«trious protege of the B<>ard of £ducation aieo runs an extensive dray-business himself, and absents himself from his school whenever a steamer with freight arrives. lt i« generaliy understood that he at the «ame time is a candidate fur the office of deputy-sheriff,and if his pull on the eluh and the Star, ia »ufficieut, he may be ahle to add that office to hia oth«r numeroua oeeapaliona. By smootbing th« lat«Iy gatbered wnnklee on the maj«etic brow of the Chief Jaatioc, i and by inveeting ten centa in a . Urg» pieee of blue ribbon h« may > aucceed in alao obtaining the i jodgeahip for that moat jnteresting i di«trict, and th«n he woald hav« hia i own way indeed —alwaya wilh the

exception of a homeetead. Joking apa*rt tbough we beli«ve that th« Board of Educatioo occasionally sbonld wake up and «hake off ita inbereut lethargy, and th«n it ehould tell ita *mploye«9 that the office of acbool-teacber ia her« eonsidered of great importance, and that Ihe Board expecU that ev«ry teacher ot the o»ming generation emplovtd bv it shall devote hi« energy and time to guin the object of the Board and not mertlv eonsider such office as a matter of eonvenience as f.ir as it furn;shes him with aufficient 8alary to live on or eimply a ha!f-way station from where he ean look out f»r 8«>mething better to turn up. If the Board eannol imhue its teachera with such ideas. the B >ard has b-t-ter shut up and g » iiUo thc »rray business.