The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

maintained order III tue streets, the more ditncult
task remains, that Of securing order in ideas. and
which i not less essential. Confidence has to be
re-eStabiiSed, and the work Of qualification taken
n hand. S.eril agitatIons in parliament must
be discounteuauced The country wants repose,
facilities ioT work, laws 10 promote social WELL
being and not revisions of constitutions.
The outrage at London certainly fortified the
government here TO deal with the anarchists.
Opinion is unanimous, that since all states are a
prey to a common danger, they ought TO coalesce
and form 4 moral ZJllverein TO e~xtIrpate the crea-
lures Of destruction the moment they proceed
from oratory and writing. to acts. The expound-
ing of chimeras in the reunions, only cover their
professors with ridicule and have no effect on
opinion. Bat when the speakers of both sexes
proceed to march to gut baker shops and block
up streets, their arrest Is necessary, simply as
nuisances. The police have secured some of the
leading addle pates, who are more in need of
keepers than of goalers. Louise Michel who
daily boosted of her readiness TO rush in where
angels would fear to tread, has had to hide. The
police can have the cid gal when they please, but
compelling her to abscond serves their ends bet
ter, as covering her with ridicule. An eye is kept
on her iJr - madness in great ones should not
UNMATCHED GO
Th.re l. aIDFe 81 e INFUSION. mJgc of things be-
ing at SKIES and seyens IN France. than of the
situation helm. fundamentally out oi joint. Spe-
ciai organs and COMPROMISED %VartiSans naturally
see matters through tae glass darby. Bat pub
lie opinion in all the legislative and local elections
which continually take place, reveals no abandon
ment Of tie existing regime, despite blunders and
intolerance committed by its administration.
lis true tiere is nothing that the naked eye can
discern to replace the republic, save words,
words. wJgd-. And the mai1rI:v rally TO the
present lUfm Of government, u-t IN account Of
its name. but lrun the experienced conviction
that each citizen with his bulletin Of votes
has a wca pom more potent than a rifle. and which
keepSsoyereign power in the peoples own hands.
Thus there Is a kind OF mutual protection society
against being dragged into foreign wars. This
end achieved, home questions are viewed some
what as leather and prunello.
Now it is just the coming To the front of these
home questions that disturb the Paddy go-easy
mIlliO:,- IN France. We have the question of
taxation in II budget that has drilted into dis
organization. and Of labor in the general sense Of
production, in the most unsettled of conditions.
The annua! budEetary expenditure of France is
double that of England. Up to the present it
has been balanced, not by normal receipts, but
by exFedients. The nation has been living on
borrowed money, robbiug Peter to pay Paul.
Leon Say let the cat out of the bag, and his sub
lime warming happily has told. The truth is,
France has been voting millions upon millions
for schemes of public works of mixed utility
for scholastic Institutions whose want no one
questions. but whose immediate realization COM
mands prudence for new officials, whose SER
vices few can discover 10 be necessary, and that
each fresh ministry IN order to provide for it's
troop of hangers on has to pension off the noml-
nees of predecessors. To these categories must
be added, the ugly rush of deputies to obtain
subsidies Tor local schemes in the interest OF their
reelection. 1t is no wonder then that France at
last begins to feel, she is no longer rich enough to
pay for her gl0ries, and that the lTugality and
thrift Of her nard- working, sober inhabitants,
has a limit.
One million and a half Of francs. sixty million
III. ,,..t ho,dloI ~, lam, 20 Tho pnfin1oI
debt to balance tie budget. Since 1869, the
annual expenditure Of France has increased 80
per ceut-thc VAR 81 1870 cost u millions
since 1876, the expenditure has increased by half
Il million. The future of France depends on her
trade. At present Il restriction rather than a
stagnation of business exists. There is no actual
commercial crisis among the working classes,
Since deposits at the Savings Bank have in
creased, and Withdrawals diminished. The money
market is stiff, not that money is less abundant,
but that the wants Tor money are more imperious
and capital is timid, frightened by political spec
tres of all colors.
The export returns Of France are comparatively
bad, and tend to decrease. France has the air to
be dropping out of commercial calculations. Con-
nected with the future of the East, England,
Russia, Austria, are on all lips, never France.
At Constantinopie, where there is such a con-
sumption of French fancy goods, Vienna cuts out
Paris in artificial flowers. Germany tabrIcates
with perfected machinery, products destined for
the masses. Eherleld, rivals the products oil
Lyons. Hamburg firms have generally two part
ners, one who resides in Australia, Japan, &C.,
to sell what the other purchases at home. Paris
instead of seeking buyers abroad, waits till they
come hereto the capital of the weird according
to poets and sentimen;alists Strangers are hap
py to come here for pleasure and taste.
But taste is ephemeral; not many centuries ago
fashions came from Italy and Spain, and France
cannot build on an eternal monopoly. Germany
o,H Enrlop1 - troalinr IN hor HIhaG Schools
of design and technics are springing up Dres-
den has a college, Tor both sexes, of 374 students
devoted to the fashions. and it is to the Commit
tee of Ladies' Dress at London that the reigning
cJlors, olives aud Tussets, are due. France is not
asked to make good things bad, but interest
exacts she must produce cheaper not for the
educated, who are but sunshine clients and limit
ed, but for the million that form the backbone Of
trade. s. far is this necessary that French
manufacturers have sent out representatives. to
sell their wares in foreign countries, and had to
finish by selling English goods.
Raw materials are too heavily taxed in France
labor is too dear, so that Monsieur. is IN many
cases beaten out of his own market by the
foreigner. In the building trade of Paris, now
undergoing a check, contractors have been forced
to import ready-made window and door wood
work from Norway and iron requisites from Ger
many. Strikes ran up wages, and workmen lett
the provinces, to the injury Of agriculture, for
the % per cent. higher wages at the capital.
This explains why the artisans Of Paris have
doubled in number since 1876, and what a dan
gerous element that now is, when bOuse-building
is restricted. This restriction is due to the rush
to invest capital in mansions money could be
borrowed at 4 and IL per cent, and 70 invested,
yielded 6 per cent. But now there are more new
houses than tenants, for the rents are too high,
owing to the luxuriant character Of the c%onstruc-
ton: a fall Of 80, so to IS per cent. IN rent is
inevitable.
Palm Sunday was marked by very crowded at
tendance at the churches. and this is the more
gratifying, as it was the occasion of the first taste
of spring weather. Tie seventies of Holy Week
are apparent. Fasting is more extensively OBJ
served, and the Free Thinkers offend less by os-
tentatiously parading their bills Of fare. Easter
has come upon US 80 early as tp-Itsemble a sur
prise it will be necessary to gJ back to 1872 to
find a rcte equal in date, and that there is no
- oldest inhabitant " to remember, however.
=. Old Parr died aged al years, bequeathIng
only his pills.
The Ham Fair has opened on this occasion it
is remarkable for the number Of foreign lsraelites
to Judge by the few Hebrew letters on the sign
boards. l. this the result Of the German Anti
Semitic agitation? The marvels Of the Ginger