The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The woman's rights propaganda is max
ing itself felt in Europe, as we'll as in the
United States. It has been the habit to
laugh at "strOng-minded women,'' but
the chances are that they will yet carry
the day. In Washington Territory the
right to vote by women has been exer-
cised most benefcially to the community.
The women displayed great political sa-
gacity and power q organization. Where
ever female suffrage prevails the liquor
traffic is doomed. Women and children
are the greatest sufferers from the abuse
of intoxicants, and it is but natural that
traffic in commodity which Injuries their
sex most of all. French women are more
| pronounced in their opinions on social
| questions than the bulk of English and
American women, as the following from
our Paris correspondent will show: 1.-The
Woman's League has voted n. Dumas an
| address of gratitude for his late drama
| Denise, where seduced girls and their
babies find admiring husbands and So
| ciety ready to receive them with open
arms. One lady objected to the address,
because in a former play the same author
preached the doctrine that the only way
to punish an unchaste women was to kill
her. Finally, the ladies agreed to pardon
Dumas, because he predicted before ten
years women would be electors similar to
men,
"For ways that are dark and for tricks
that are vain, the heather Chinee is Pc
culiar." They don't think it at all neces-
sary to fight fair, and are almost on as
low plane in this respect as O'DOnovan
Rosa and the dynamiters. Recent diplo-
matte correspondence between the British
Minister at Picking and the Chinese Gov
eminent contains protest from the
British Minister against the proclamation
of the Government at Canton exhorting
Cinnamon to poison the French in Ton
quin, Saigon, Singapore and Penang.
The British Minister constrained the
Tsung-li- Yamen to annul the proclamation
and apologize for mention of the Chinese
at Singapore and Penang, who are sub
jects of Great Britain. The Tsung-i-
Yamen is the Bureau of Foreign Affairs.
A paragraph has been going the rounds
of the American press to the effect that
Jim Keene has paid all his obligations
and is ''solid'' on Wal1-street in the "bull'
interest. Friends of "Knightly Jim" on
+boeo ;sIor5o op5 4Laro ora voovr of fI,aro
will be pleased at this. He was bold
Spectator and q sterling "good fellow"
But he is far too mercurial to compete
successfully with the t'Kings of WALL
street." Jay Gould, Russell Sage, w. III.
Vanderbilt, Cyrus w. Field and D. o.
Mills have no more not blood in their
veins than a toad has. Utterly lacking
in human sympathy, calculating and un-
scrupulous in their plans, the dashing
methods of Keene made him an easy VIC
tim of these men, just as Henry Wizards
Bohemian nature made him pigeon for
these vultures of finance. Keene's financial
recovery must have been rapid and unex-
pected. Early in January his last horse
his last share in large apartment house
in New York marked his total collapse.
He went to New York with about So, 000,-
900 coin, besides having valuable prop
erty in San Francisco. In 1880 he
might have cleaned up with some $15,-
100000 to his credit. He adventured
still more largely, qUarreled with Gould,
traversed the lines of Sage, Mills and
Vanderbilt, and came to grief. There is
no chance for any man with a drop of
warm blood in his body in a struggle for
spoils with the syndicate of thieves which |
controls Wall-street.
In our editorial columns to-day the |
policy of promoting the consumption of |
California wines is advocated. To more |
fully inform wine-lnakers on the Coast of |
the condition of this market, we here |
with print so much of the Tariff as ap-
plies to their staple product: Wines, |
over 10 and under 80 proof, 81 per gal |
lon under Is proof, 40 cents per dozen |
quarts ditto, per dozen pints, 20 ce nts. |
California brandy would come under the |
general provision of the tariff of SO per |
gallon for spirits of strength running be- !
tween 80 and so proof.
The San Francisco Commercial Her. |
aid, recognized authority, in its inan-
cial article on the 18th ultimo, says
"The silver question is the great ques-
ton Of fha hOur An advance all along
the line is being made by those who desire |
to practically demonetize the white metal |
for the proposal to suspend its coinage
is nothing less. It does not seem as if
great success would attend the efforts of
the dsmonetizers, but they are active and
vigilant, in season and out of season.
The Government Of the United States has