The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-03-13

Iicentious intrigues Few men would choos
such life as that Of Fisk was, with the eudin
! it had.
IMMUNITY OF CRIME.
The assassin Stokes Is said to have little az
/ prehension of any serious result to himself fror
his act of murder, and judging by other cases
there seems little cause for fear on his part
Things have come to such pass in New Yorb
that it is well nigh impossible to execute the la'
for murder, even where the crime is Of the mos
strocious character and clearly proved If th
criminal has wealth and friends Of standing, thes
influences will manage TO obstruct justice. If b,
is one Of the roughs," the politicians have al
interest 10 shielding servceable friend from tht
inconvenience of being hanged. There are saiC
to have been nearly two hundred murders com
mitted in New York during the past year. while
not one of the offenders has suffered the penalty
of the law. 1t is no wonder that men shoot one
another on the street, in travelling conveyances
and even in the presence of courts Of justice.
woNASs RIGHTS
But this evil and hundred others will be cor.
rected we are told, when woman gains her rights
at the balot-box. Legislation is to be purified
courts reformed, and the regulations Of society
conformed to virtue. "'Tis consummation de.
voutly to be wished" but the certainty of gain
ing it in the way proposed is far less clear than
the desirability. However, the petticoat reform
ers and their masculine allies are persistently
urging on the movement for the emancipation
of woman" Female orators perambuate the
land bowling defiance at the tyrant man con-
yentions are held, where, along with some indi-
viduas of high character and superior intell-
gence, there gathered all strange specimens of
humanity with wonderful theories for setting
right this disjointed world. just now the doors
Of Congress are beset by clamoring throng, who
force their way into committee rooms in spite of
guardians, and oyerwhelm members with alternate
Wheedling and threats. If the cause has any
merit, certainly it is very unfortunate in some of
its champions. One of its conspicuous female
advocates is he notorious Woodruff, whG un-
blushingly advocates the most licentous theories,
while its chief spokesman in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes is the demagogue Butler, man who
wins no respect for any cause be may espouse.
A much more tolerable recognition of the move
ment is the paragraph in the recent message of
the Governor of Massachusetts, in which, with
many interrogations and confessed misgivings as
to the whole matter, he suggests that by way Of
experiment women might be admitted to a vote
in certain questions directly relating to the NOR
ais of society. The most sensible conclusion
seems to be that when the great body of women
in the country want to receive the duties aud
responsibilities of citizens, they are welcome to
them
CHINESE LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND.
Much interest is felt throughout New England
in the result of an experiment which has now
been in progress more than year in Western
Massachusetts. 1t will be remembered that the
proprietor of an extensive shoe mandatory,
becoming weary of the arbitrary demands Of his
workmen, who were all banded together in the
Society of Crispins," sent to San francisco
and obtained several score of Cinnamon to take
prising readiness, and have now been success
fully working at it for many months The stad
people of the Puritan Commonwealth were much |
excited by the advent among them of the "Hea-
then Chinee." But they have found in him un |
expected virtues and, what is more convincing
he prospect of gain. As laborers these celestial
ihoemakers are found industrious aud orderly.
They lose far less time than their predecessors at
he workbench, in dissipation. They condense
INTO one holiday, their New Years, the indul-
FENCES of the year. Being content with lower
wages than white men, they have brought to
heir employer an increase of profit in his bust
less which is said to have balanced the large out
ay in their transportation and instruction. A
imilar experiment in New Jersey, where the
,wner of large laundry has introduced Chinese
abor, has yielded results equally satisfactory.
These facts are not unlikely to lead to the more
extensive use of this kind of labor. Competition
S so intense that men will eagerly seize upon
promising chance to enlarge little the scanty
margin of profit. Besides this, the tyrannical
demands OF workmen incte the large proprietors
o seek some means for making themselves indie
,endent of their combinations
THE JAPANESE EMBASSY.
The arrival upon our shores of special ambas-
adors from Japan, Is an event of uncommon in
crest. The Secretary of State has already sent
is official welcome flashing along the telegraphic
ire, aud the popular demonstrations made in
IAN Francisco are only the faint beginning of the
how of curiosity and interest that will attend
be Embassy through its entire progress. 1t is
D be hoped that the grave and dgni6ed repre-
entatves of the Island Empire will not be dis
listed with the uproarious attentions which the
american people insist on bestOwing upon every
stranger. New York will line
Broadway with her citizen soldery and bring out
be steam fre-engnes to thunder past their as
onished Exeellencies. Boston, which is nothing
not literary, will set her orators to polishing
egant sentences, while Lowell meditates new
uns and Holmes fabricates fireworks of wit.
he coming of six young ladies, daughters of
apanese mobiles, to be educated in one of our
male semiuaries, marks notable victory which
lie awakened spirit of progress has gained over
lcient prejudice. The three hundred youth in
purse of instruction in this country, will carry
ack to Japan enough American ideas and spirit {