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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

conservatives half way with our present
law as the result. Has not the time
come to stop this pooling business, and
for every man among us who has regard
for property and life to join in demand
ing the total restriction Of the liquor
trafic2
THE RESTRICTIVE VIEW.
In the article above printed, we pre-
sent for the consideration of our
readers the views of an earnest contrib
utor on the question Of Hawaiian
temperance legislation. As we said
two weeks ago, the Press is unswerv
ngly on the side Of prohibition for all
classes kanaka, for haole and for
pake But we recognize the fact that
the community is not unit on the
subject. We cannot shut our eyes TO
the fact that many well-to do foreigners
English and Germans particularly
have all their lives been used to drink
wine at their meals and beer in the
evenings. All these people aoknow-
ledge the justice of regulating the
hquor traffic; but all of them are
equally clear in their own minds that
prohibition is not the way to regulate
it, All, or nearly all, Of these people
arc moderate drinkers" in the Hterai
meaning Of the phrase and they either
cannot or will not sec the danger which
turks in even the most moderate play
ing with alcoholic fire. Unless a heavy
majority Of public opinion be with you,
there is no Use trying to /o,te these
men to agree to prohibition, although,
sometime, you may be able to persuade
them to agree to it. On the other
hand they are quite ready to meet the
prohibitionists half way in agreement
upon any plan which will so regulate
the liquor traffic as to limit its power for
harm. All intelligent men know that
the power of alcoholic drinks TO do
harm is largely increased when liquors
are adulterated In nearly every
civilized country on the globe adultera-
ton has kept pace with civilization.
Indeed, as witty Frenchman once ex-
pItSStd IL, ~ tiIC IdtC 81 ldI HIS DtCI
neck and neck" But in England the
laws against adulteration go far towards
mitigating the worst evils of the traffic.
1t is bad that any one should become
drunk. But it is worse for the man
and worse for the community when he
gets drunk on adulterated liquor, with
fusil oil or crude alcohol in it. Cannot
the Temperance men of this town agree
upon some law to stop adulteration
If we cannot have prohibition let us
have strict regulation. If we cannot
prevent the native race from drinking
let it be settled that they shall not
drink bad ("cheap ") liquor at the
public bars. We fear the times are
not ripe for prohibition, But we are
sure they are ripe for regulation and
restriction. Let us then unite upon
some measure that may have reason
able assurance of passing the legis-
lature. If it pass, let there be organ
lied a law-and-order league to see
that it is enforced.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10
The Pail Road.

EDITOR SATURDAY PREss-Siy. The mem.
Der from Koolaupoko, Mr.. Kaula. has pre-.
senled a petition praying that $1,000 be
appropriated for the Pail road. We wonder
what public spirited and disisk<,sJf<d indivi-
dusls moved that worthy legislator in the
matter. In the month Of March. 1889, Mr..
w. N. Armstrong, then minister Of the in.
terror, ordered survey, to determine on the
best means Of improving the Pail road or, If
possible. find better route than the existing
one. The engineer employed surveyed and
located line which, with q Cut a, the lowest
point Of the summit OF IS feet, gave a uniform
grade Of fourteen fee, in one hundred, deeper
cut was not deemed advisable as the Sigh,
improvement Of the grade obtained thereby
would not warrant it, A plan and profile, to-
gciher with cross sections al every 90 feet, was
prepared and handed to the minister Of the
interior, together with oetailed estimates At
the amounts Of rock and earth excavation.
euNer'S paving. bridges, hand.railng. etc.
The estimated net cost Of construction was
$4,000, 10 which was added 5000 Coz con.
tingencies. Responsible men we're TO be
found to undertake the work for that amour,
and give guarantees for the proper execution
81 the same Wherefore the extra $3s,ooo
On hsahs QnLgIsr.
honolalu, May 9. 1854.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

In the death OF DR.. C. I. Mills, pre-
sident of the seminary which appropri.
ately bears his name, near Oakland, on
the 18th ultimo, the educational inter
est, not only OF the Pacific slope but Of
these islands, have lost staunch
friend. President and Mrs. Mills was
well-known to very many at these
Islands. having succeeded Rev. L. G.
Beckwith in the charge of Oahu
College from 1860 to 1865. During
these years their impress was well
iaunded upon what, perhaps, was
Punahou's palmiest days. The majority
of its then pupils are in the battle Of
life to-day, many of them prosperous
ahd well-,odo planters, merchants, or
following some profession, but all ex-
employing the benefits of well
founded Christian education. The
Pacific OF April 9th gives an excellen,
account of the unostentatious labors of
DE- Mills, and showing that he has
done more and given more for the
cause OF education than any of Cali.
iosnlas millionalres
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The report contains the budget,
which falls below the appropriation bill
of last year and appears on the surf ce
to pressage an economical tendency
in cabinet councils. A brief analysis
of the report shows the estimated
income for the biennial period ending
March 81, 1886 to be $3336,S7o.42.
The budget calls for only $a,s7I,843. "a
during the same period. If the income
should prove to equal the ministers ex-
pectations, and the expenditures be
kept within the estimates, the country
will have Sos, ,oa7.o8 in the treasury
two years from the 3rst of last March.
But the experience of the past two
years does not encourage the expecta-
ton that such very literal economy
would be possible under the continued
power Of the present administration
The budget, although commercially
economical in its total, is unprogressively
go in many of its details, and extrava-
SAINT in many OF its demands. 1t sins
of omission just as clearly Indicate
faulty judgment or desire to mislead,
as its overestimates suggests sud
denly-suppressed tendency to injudi-
cious or improper expenditure. 1t is
well defined belief among lndepen-
dents that there is no sincerity in the
economy outlined by the reduced
budget and that if this years appro-
priation bill is to be made less than last
years it must be SO by altogether
different procedure. BY careful con
TO carry on necessary public works,
many Of which are not even mentioned
in the budget.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10
THE FTNINCE OFFICE REPORT.

As we implied last week, the report
of the minister of finance is faulty and
foolish in its discussion of the topics on
which it ventures an opinion. The
more one reads it the more one is COM
PEELED to deplore the kings choice of
a finance minister The Office is by
no means the most important in the
cabinet but it ought at least to have
at its head good accountant The
office loses muck of its dignity and
nearly all its value as a constitutional
safeguard by being in the hands of a
man who is either incompetent or weak.
The present minister of finance is both.
Whether he is or is not worse, investi-
cation ought to show
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

Apropos Of the temperance articles
in another column, gentleman of
standing in the community and an
ardent prohibitionist advocates-as the
best immediate means to the desired
end--that the government take charge
of the liquor traffic to the extent of i'm
porting all the liquor brought into
country. This liquor must be tested
by competent officials; and sold, when
possible, only from original packages !;
the penalty for adulteration being fixed
at so heavy figure that its enforcement
would not only punish but effectually
restrain. After a definite time had
elapsed, all liquor not imported by the
government must be either shipped out
OF the country or destroyed. OF course
such law could not be enforced except
by vigilant executive, backed by a strong
public sentiment. The gentleman
whose idea this is believes public
opinion would unite in enforcing such a
law,
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

Many legislative topics demand at
tention this week. We unqualifiedly
oppose the opium bill. The article in
another column is an eloquent descrip-
ton Of the evils wrought by the drug
in China, written by an eyewitness
now in Honolulu. The Sunday law
as it now stands-regulated in its oper-
tion by the common sense of the COM
munity-is good enough and ought not
to be repealed Ii amended at all, it
ought to be done in way that will give
no indulgence to Sunday carousals.
Liquor legislation, opium legislation,
e"y.' '--'-i-s;ar will hear close scru-
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10
TrupgRaycg lrGrsLtTroN.
mo pRoHInIrIvE Wv

Has not the time come for the total
prohibition OF the liquor traffic? We
have tried partial or class prohibition
and found it unsatisfactory in that 1t
indirectly engcndered race jealousics.
We have had a high license law for
two years, and its operation has con
vinced every unprcjudiced observer OF
It's disastrous effects on the native race.
Has not the time come for total pro
hibtion2 There are strong arguments
in favor Of prohibtory legislation,
drawn rom our own recent history.
Two years ago the planters in their
annual meeting put themselves on
record as in favor OF prohibition. They
were unit in the convictions that the
liquor traffic ought to be forbidden by
law No motive Of sentiment led to
this action Of the planters, but it was
the dictate of hard business sense. 1t
was a matter OF dollars and cents, The
liquor traffic subtracts from property
values and adds 10 the taxes 1t di-
mnishes the labor value of plantation
hands, and compcls the planter TO pay
a dollar for seventy-fve cents worth of
labor If liquor is TO be had, Monday
morning finds the plantation laborer
exhausted by his Sunday spree, and of
ten ugly and ready for a quarrel. The
planter has a right to claim rest and
recreation for his laborers that they
may begin the weeks work refreshed
In urging prohibitory legislation, they
were but asserting their right to the
protection of their property interests at
the hands Of the government twenty
five cents worth OF labor is as much as
twenty-five cents worth of anything.
1t is all very well to cry sumptuary
legislation but there is property in
terest that has n valid claim on govern
mental protection, and it is as fair and
lust that that claim should be respected
when the liquor traffic robs planter of
contracted labor, as when some sneak
thief steals bag Of sugar. The tenn
perance agitation Of the last few years,
and the remarkable nature of the pet-
tions to both king and legislature, are
an index of the popular mind on this
great subject High license is un-
doubtedly the most feasible restriction
of the liquor traffic where the popular
sentiment is not very decidedly on the
side of prohibition. But where the
popular sentiment is emphatically on
the side of total prohibition, then the
government is not Of " the people, or for
the people, or by the people unless it
totally suppresses the liquor trade.
Community rights are paramount. In
dividual rights must everywhere so to
the wall if they conflict with the rights
of the community. The cry Of
"sumptuary legislation" OF individual
prerogatives could not be heard in
Iowa when her voters struck the watch
word: "A schoolhouse on every hill,
and no saloon in the valley" Here in
Hawaii it has been abundantly proved
that the people heartily endorse pro
hibition. Could they poll their vote
on this important question, and have
their vote respected and needed as
their petitions have not been, the liquor
traffic would soon receive its quietus
1t is fair to say that in this matter the
peoples will has been ignored. Is it
not time that it should be respected
and obeyed'
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The absence from the appropriation
Dill OF the amount yet outstanding of
coronation accounts suggests to careful
members, and Others, that perhaps the
father of the project has fathered all
deficits.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

Our island civilization is singularly
constituted We have a large class of
unintelligent and impressionable peo
pie, who are largely dominated in social
habits and convictions by compare
lively small class of white foreigners
The responsibilities of the white for
eigners to the bulk of our population is
in direct ratio to their supremacy in
matters Of education and self-control
Ii is the relation of the stronger to the
weaker, and the extinction of the liquor
traffic is question OF the present duty
of the strong among us toward the
weak. The story of the decadence of
the native race is one that stirs the
sympathy of the whole world But il
is only we on the ground who can
accomplish any real protection for the
race against the scourge of intemper-
ance. Sometimes men will do for the
sake of more helpless ones than them
selves what they would not feel the
necessity of doing for their own per
sonal necessities. Ii is very grave
question for moderate drinkers among
us to consider whether they will not
voluntarily iorego their wines, for the
sake of lessening the misery among
those who already have misery enough
in their history and life without the
addsa lhaane, of intemperance. 1t is
more latent leprosy, and more radically
vltiated the native constitution, than
anything else in the history of the
native race for the last quarter century.
Has not the time come for the more
conservative men in our midst to Join
hands with the employers of labor,
the believers IN more strict TEN.
perance legislation, and the better class
OF natives, and urge on the legislature
the passage of a strictly prohibtory
law ? The example furnished by one of
our former wholesale liquor dealers, in
voluntarily Withdrawing from the bust
ness, was one that ought to have be.
come contagious. There is large
money interes, in the business, and the
traffic can never be stopped except at a
money sacrifice. As measure for the
welfare of the whole island community
1t may prove wise and efiicacious
ioi the government to supplement
possible prohibitory legislation by pur-
chasing all liquors in bond and by emp
tying them outside the reef The ma
lorily of citizens would not murmur a,
the increased taxation thus necessi,ated
provided the parties who were reim-
harsed he put under heavy bonds never
10 sell liquor in any form until the law
again countenanced the liquor traffic.
IL would be wiser more humane and
more economical for Hawaii to accom-
pllsh prohibition by buying out the
liquor business, than it was FOR England
10 supplement her emancipation decree
by reimbursIng the West Indian slave.
holder ior their consequent loss lie,
every thoughtful man give due weigh,
10 the consldeIatiens that cali for total
prohibition We have ''pooled" our
convictions on the temperance question
hitherto, and the radicals have met the |
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

Had Marx Twain been present at
The meeting of the legislature on Fri-
day to note the deliberations of that
body upon the proposition for an
$1,000, 900 loan for raiifoad and ,ele
graph lines, and propositions for other
mnnllicent outlays, he would doubtless
concluded that kalakaua's ten,acre
Kingdom was OF some Importance af.
ter all.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

A Honolulute recently remarked
that the Press was ''too toney" for GER
tain class of news items, admitting that
the purity OF material it published rem
dered it admissible to every home.
We ask in return that every home in
the land subscribe thereto, and show
still more unanimous appreciation of
an honest effort to give the readers Of
Hawaii hOme paper.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

There may possibly be more than a
mere ooincident connection between
the Introduction Of Mr.. Kaulukou's
eight-milllon-loan bill and the following
brief dispatch from New York, dated
April asnd; "Signor Celso Cesar
Moreno arrived yesterday on the steam
ship Washington from Italy for the
purpose OF obtaining from the govern
ment an extension Of his charter for
the transporting cable from California
to to the Sandwich Islands, Japan and
Late News lsit.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

A reporter Of the Saturday Press was sent to
interview RI. Rev. Bishop Hermann, concern
Ing the possibility Of the pope leaving Rome.
The interview was as follows:
Rspo,her--Is there any foundation for the
report that the pope is about to leave Rome3
BiSAep-There may be, as the present state
Of affairs in Italy is in very unsettled condi.
lion, and the pope may be compelled to go
but he will remain as long as ii is possible for
him to do SO consistently with his essential
duties.
R.-What causes led to such state of
affairs
B.-The united efforts OF the radical revou-
tionary party in Italy, who oppose the pope's
temporal authority and the atheistic secret
societies, a member Of which, in large
assembly, recently responded TO the toast,
"The devil against God,' and in a most
basphemous poem set forth that there had
been contest between the devil and God,
and that the devil conquered, sending his rival
to the lowest hell. These parties are attack
ing the pope's liberty and dignity.
R.-Have you had an intimation Of any one
Of the cardinals iavoring the pope's leaving
Rome?
B.--None whatever. or about seventy
cardinals appointed by Plus IN. and Leo
KILL, but one, Cardinal Hoenbeaugh, has
publicly expressed an opinion upon this sub
ject There never was such cordial unity in
the church as there is now, and the church as
unit stands with the pope. II he leaves
Rome il will not be to abdicate, but tempo
rarRily aqa dHadsbdR%Eo'ssss' IS ;..s ....,,,-...
pope's leaving Rome'
Bit would not be serious, though /,
might lead to new difficulties, incur erea,
expense and give iconoclasts an opportunity Ia
deiame the Vatican and destroy many time.
honored relics and pictures; yet It would no,
interfere with his power. Other popes have
been compelled to leave the Vatican. Plus tx.
fled from Rome by night and went to Goatea.
where under protection Of the king Of Naples,
he remained Two years or more In 1871
Plus VII was taken prisoner by Napoleon
L., because he would not close his ports
against the English. In 1900 Plus vi. was
taken prisoner by French revolutionists and
treated as . malefactor, and other popes have
either Ned or been taken prisoner |; but the
church did not suffer except Temporarily.
R-where would the pope 60 II he should
leave2
B.-should he be compelled to leave Rome
ne might 60 TO Austria, as Francis Joseph is
his most cordial supporter, but mos, likely he
would go TO Malta, as the English would most
gladly receive him and consider il a great
honor.
As there any likelihood OF hi. coming to
American
None whatever, as il is too far from the
seat Of government. the mass OF majority Of
Catholics arc IN Europe.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

There is, unfortunately, no forseeing
the elimination of this sort of thing
1t might end in some one speaking of
the reputed editorial writer of the
Bulletin as ga hatchet faced orang ou-
tang" That would be unjust. For one
cannot judge with certainty from APP
DearanCes.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The owners Of the casino scalpel
love best to dlssect personal peculiarly
face form, apparel, accidental
deformity Ill-educated folk call this
playful vivisection "brutal vulgarity."
That is wrong. 1t is merely fun" +"
having but one unpleasant feature--its
DOssible consequences
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The Am. bk'ne ". q. Irwin. arrived ~
Tuesday evening, ~ days isos, san tfanciu<o.
hs'ns'ng siehi days later news. snd > era~sai
cases = sseschAndi>s. wkiek ~ : diAck~siae
y ~ f>pAass1ls. appa>iss ~ cun<on llcnss.
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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The Hosslsls Letter is crowded out.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

The "new hand with evident pre-
ference for the "rapier" of wit which
the editorial writer's of the Press so gen.
orally employ-was pleased recently TO
deplore our "bludgeon Of invective.
1t took upon itself, in consequence,
gently to Jab the docile Press with the
cheese knife of bufioonery.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10
WISE IND OTHERWTSF.
And thus runs the talk " the town:
There a Rovel O) in Walters side,
A Dole (fuD kink in his pride;
For the blacksmith Of fate
Pounds hard on his pate,
And threatens 10 do him Brown"

The "talk of the town" shifts oftener
than the wind. Yesterday it was talk
ing about exchange to-day it is talking
of currency; tomorrow { let us hope }
it will be about religion. The jump
will be longer than the dividing line
between two days, however
The town has talked a good deal
about the new paper during the ten
DAYS past. 1t has been well received.
The public can afford to wait until the
new paper proves its right TO be. Not
one of us but is-in the language of
the lamented widow Bedott's deacon
"apoor, lost critter;" not even the "omni-
potent Press" as Crowquil was pleased
to call it. From the nil ddmiraT stand
point there is, of course, much to criti-
else in the new paper. There is also
much to admire. We do not think it
will be possible for the new paper to
remain neutral The issues are too
clear, the lines too tightly drawn. We
hope the proprietor and editor of the
Hawaiian may come to agree fully with
those who are working for Hawaii's
best good not only as to principles,
but as to methods.
A great many are trying TO settle in
their own minds the important question
to owners of whether three daily
papers will pay The survival of the
iittes, will settle that question.
The town has also been talking about
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
Kansas City ProGuCe Market.
Kansas City, July 26, I8S.
The Daily Indicator reports

The Daily Indicator reports
WHFAT-Market steady. No. red, cash. sales
at 7Oh97 &c; August 7u1.c bid, TIC asked; Sep
TENDER sales at 72@72Hc. No. soft, cash, sales
at TIC.
COKN-Market lower. No. mixed cash, sales
at 1910; August, 40 C bid, 4t1sc asked; Septem-
Der, 41c the year, o2c bid, $50 asked.
No. white mixed corn, cash. 4Sl<c bid, no
offerings; July, 48 C; August 4sc bid, 48c asked;
September, no bids nor offerings.
pATS-NO. Z, cash and August. nominal; Sep
TENDER, 19c biz.
KYk-NO. cash, nominal.
EGGS-Unchanged. sc p dozen.
BU1TER-Unchanged.
Quotations: Choice creamery, 15c; good do, lac.
dne dairy, in single package lots, 1275c; store
packed, good, in round lots, SC.
FLOUR-Fine, % LOU Ds soc superhner 95@91 90;
extra, GOAL 8; Xxx, 10(01 I5: Xxx, 25(11 s.;
family so al 60 choice, l 80 90 90; fancy, 2 159
2 25 patent, Q 65d2 rs.
CORN MEAL O0(01 10.
DRY SALT T s 62zc; clear sidea
sc; long clear sides, 85Zc; clear rib sides. SIG.
SMOKED MEATS-ShOulders, .775a; lone clear
sides, 94c rib sides, SIC; clear rib sides. 101c.
HAMS-Suger cured, 143.
BREAKFAST BACON-32Ac.
DRIED BEEF-171c.
BARREL MEATS-Pork. boneless S22 90; clear
pork, q 90; mess pork, II 30.
LARD-Tierce, 8 90.
CHEEsE-Fu1 cream, 1870; fats partly skim
med, 10c; Young America, 12e.
BRAN-621Sc p 100 bs.
FLAX SEED-Sl 25. on basis OF pune
BROOM CORE-21l85c g u.
aAY-Fancy small baled. 90; large bsle0
Z 50; new, 9 90.
WOOL-Missouri and Kansas, fine 12GD1Se Q 4,
medium, 18@2lc; coarse, 14l916c; tue washed, q
@30; Colorado and New Mexico, 126l14c. Black
uurr or spotted, 1Oc less