The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-10-25
NEw YORK, Sept 2lsi, 1854.

Now, the system is Americanized; and a vas
amount Of ingenuity is expended in making
| them comfortable. The latest erection viii
cost nearly $4,000, 900, and will cover fit,
families. The interior arrangements are mos
| ingenious. Every good method is adopted t,
secure quiet transit, and the distribution of tn
material needed by so many. There are owe
20 "lifts" in it, and the building will be
stories high. On the roof will be a garden, 81
that during the hot summer nights, the inhab-
itants can take the breeze from the south at {
great elevation and amidst the perfume Of
shrubs and flowers. There is also u method
| of building these apartments SO that person
may own the fee simple 10 bis apartment, and
may sell it whenever he chooses There is
also new departure in steam heating. Two
companies are at work ripping up the streets
and putting in insulated steam pipes, which
run through the streets and connect with the
buildings. This will do away with the thou
sands of boilers now used to make steam for
mechanical purposes for heating and driving
the elevators. At one point, all the steam VIII
lie made. By encasing the pipes in lamp
black, the cover will be excluded. The cost
of these enterprises is enormous. In the
largest 6 sshem, Mr.. WIN. Andrews, Hawaii
hei, has an important office. He has become
noted as skillful steam filter, and has great
success in persuading conservative property
owners TO use the steam brought to their
doors.
The political campaign is now in full blast.
The election of Governors, Legislatures and
members Of Congress, is near at hand. This
is the time when politicians are alive to the
dreadful consequences Of permitting the other
side to get control of affairs. The newspapers
aud tho orafnru ara dravyipr- Irr;J ,;cF,r,- Is
the irreparable ruin which must follow the
success of any one set of men. New York is
generally considered the pivoted State in the
Presidential election, and the old Garfield
Conkling quarrel is not ended The President
is trying to keep on the fence, but the boys
jerk him of, and insist on his taking sides. He
got out of the scrape as well as he could by
getting onto the deck of the steamer Despatch
and steaming off to New York. The anti-mo-
nopolists, who breathed fire at the Reciprocity
Treaty, are making noise, and hope for a
dividend when the offices are divided. Their
principles, generally, are correct, but the
movement is a cloak under which some shrewd
men hope to get political advancement. The
next issue, in general politics, will be civil
service reform; and after that will come the
tariff. Many members of Congress will lose
their seats, for the next two years, for voting
in favor of the River and Harbor Bill, which
appropriated Sl9,000,O00 for all sorts of fool
ish things. l was in the car with Attorney
General Brewster the other day, on the rail-
way to New York, when we passed stream
80 feet wide, in Connecticut, on which a canoe
could hardly float. For the widening and
deepening of this, $4,000 had been appropri-
ated. 1t was said, as we passed over it, that
Congress was about to dig some new rivers, as
there were not enough OH this Continent. The
people are getting mad at this work, and many
men will fail of reelection. The safety of
American institutions lies in the fact that there
is vast, rugged, but dormant sense of right
with the people, and when that is aroused, it
is cyclone in strength Men don't like TO do
political duty; but if they see danger, they
spring into line, and 1000 men will ask why
Trelawny shall die Politics is duty bust
ness, and men of refinement keep out of it.
The philanthropist, W. E. Dodge, tried it here
several years ago, and he came to the conclu-
sion that the parrot and the monkey didn't
have such a bad time after all 1t was
" middle passage" in politics, and he will
never try it again. Still, and after all, matters
get better every year, and not worse There is
a leveling up process in slow operation A
few politicians, who know Just what they
want, and work together, will control the
masses. But when the masses, once in awhile,
know just what they want, the politicians are
tossed up as dogs toss up rats. In all this
political business, no one cares or knows any
thing about the Reciprocity Treaty. Its
opponents are resting, and the public take no
interest in it at present. 1t is not a subject
which men study; at the same time it is not
lost sight Of by those who are in active poll
tics, inasmuch as " thunder may be gotten
out it in some way. At the University Club
the other night, / asked dozen lawyers and
merchants what they thought about the Reel
procIty Treaty. No one knew much about it,
but there was general impression that it had
turned out fat thing for some people, but the
merits Of the case were unknown. City men
are very busy and don't have time 20 think
They pay no attention to general questions IN
til they become prominent. OF these dozen
educated men there were perhaps three who
said they had read something about it, and re.
membered that there was some sort of COM
plant about slavery the rest had forgotten
what they had read. Every one, however,
yentured the statement that this court costume
of Hawaii was 9 collar and pair of boots"
This irreverent idea is in the head Of all Amer
leans. Your issue Of August 2Gth is at hand
The speeches at the Comfy dinner make lively
reading, and will not be neglected in the de-
bate on Hawaiian matters in the next Congress,
of this you may be assured. The Hawaiian
Legislature can't see the handwriting on the
wall. The Government must follow the ka-
naka in order to lead him. The "late admin
istration" had to do this in spite of itself until
1t stepped out, nor could any administration
hold that did not do it. The Reciprocity
Treaty will 20 behind the Hawaiian. America
will deal only with character and intelligence
The Government Of the United States must
know who they are dealing with, and the Ha-
waiian will be the least factor in the problem.
The bridge between America and Hawaii must
rest on an Anglo-Ssxon abutment at both ends.
The military preparations in Honolulu will,
Of course, cause intense excitement in the
United States. II is hardly fair for the Ha-
waiian Government to arm itself at time
when Republic is destitute Of a navy or army.
However, blood is thicker than water, and
Great Britain may rally to the aid of the
Republic, when the Pele lands division of
troops in San Francisco, and General Preston,
mailed policeman-warTiors, take the Presidio.
After all, yo1r government may be wise in
taking threatening attitude. 1t will be i'm
possible to refuse a treaty at the lannon's
mouth.
In the disorganized condition of American
politics lies the danger and the safety Of the
treaty. Administration of affairs turns on Office
holding. The coming men are on the look
put for schemes which will make themselves
popular, and secure nominations and elections. |
If the politicians bring the treaty into party |
politics, it will have to stand or fall with the
party which advocates it. An anomalous fea- |
lure Of il Is, that it was generally favored by /
"a \
he doctrine of protecting American industries, |
including Louisiana sugar, while the treaty |
a foreign production Of sugar. The |
democratic party, on the other hand, is rather /
n favor Of free trade. The explanation is that /
t was believed that the sugar trade would 4
lot amount to much in any event, and it was
bought that some political" results would
oIIow. One thing is certain, the friendly dis
osition towards the islands which existed in
SIS does not exist in 1882, in Congress- At
be same time, there is no great issue IN
be business, and the fate OF the treaty may
epeDd upon a very ill-considered considera-
ion Of the subject. There are many wheels
rithin wheels, in political matters, and no one
an predict wisely. Your planters never IN
erstood, nor do they nov realize the wonder
u luck that came to them in the conclusion
the treaty. AT the last moment, Just as the
nemies lines come out Of the woods, ihey are
eginning TO look around Here, and with
on certain results are accomplished politics,
ieasures are passed and other measures de-
,ated, which the looksr-on believes to be
after Of course, but which are the results Of
re patient, careful work Of industrious,
Hrewd, faT-seeing men, who have studied the
inject we'll, and make no mistakes.
So far in American politics the politicians
sat the "reformers" because the latter arc
lily militiamen, and their loose tactics ara
orthless arainsf trained rnrulara knnrr a |