davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25
The San Francisco Argonaut says

The San Francisco Argonaut says :
In the trial OF Adolph Spreckels fo' the
assassination OF NJ. II. de Young, the law has
again been violated and justice has again mis-.
carried. pablic opinion has been debauehed
by journalistic Jealousy, and the right of
assassination has been sold for coin to the
criminal and cowardly. \ man Of thirty yeas
OF age, OF sound mind, after opportunity for
months OF deliberation, walks into the Office OF
newspaper proprietor, calls him by name,
shoots him as he Turns, and shoots him again
as he falls The assaulted man was unarmed
between the two men there was not even {
speaking acquaintance. After many delays 1
trial was had the bes, counsel were employee
on either side. For the defense, the plea 0
selfdefense was SET up. II Was false plea
Insanity was also pleaded; it, too, was a falls
plea, and only made to afford the defense al
opportunity lo'read from the Chronicle wha
had been wri,,en against sugar'manuiaeturinl
ealerprise, colonization scheme, and con
psction with foreign government, eonducie'
by company Of which Mr., Claus Spreckel
was president and leading capitalist.
The rest OF the article is equal,
good reading, II would be real enterprl
sing Of the "great paper" to publish il
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25
SATURDAY PRESS
ma INTz

The world moves even in Hawaii
Ir nr Mondays Bulletin appear two
articles An editorial and a commit
ni,atI9u from Mr. Marques each to
tine point each in accord with the
posi,loaor this journal on the topic
discussed ON February 9th ofIastyear-
the Saturday following the election for
representatives. this paper said "Ihe
'hrst best thing is to organize tor the
protection OF every Hawaiian interest
that is better than sectional or transient;
to organize for the free and courteous
consideration OF all important public
questions, local, national and interna-
uonaI to organize for the promotion OF
better feeling, a better understanding
and more catholic tolcration between
races, between classes, between man
and man From that position we have
not sweryed, and we have repeated the
warming so many times and with such
clcarncss that no intelligent reader in
the land ought to be unaware OF the
need Of organization Within the past
few months the Bulletin has done good
work in the same direction. Its present
editor has given its editorial opinions
an earncstncss, a degree OF thought and
freedom from hippancy and boyish
swagger that it did not possess, and it
well deserves the attention and respect
Gifts many readers The cooperation
Of Mr. Marques is timely He has
told the community some welcome
truths and the sneers of Hcssians in Mr.
Spreckels great paper recoil harmless
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

The frst-page article on The Con
flict of Labor and Capital is reprinted
from the Oberlin Review through the
courtesy Of Hon. S, N. Castle. 1t is
a thoughtful article, and deserves the
attention of thoughtful readers. On
this page is an article by Mr. A, Mar
ques, appreciative of our last weeks
article on a branch Of the same topic.
That is the topic about which the world
is thinking most to-day. Right reasoning
and right action upon it will make the
world better and happier wrong rea-
soning and wrong action must make the
world worse and more full Of misery
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

Last Saturday the schooner Jeannie
Walker sailed for Fannings Island.
Last Monday the schooner Ke Au Hou
sailed ior Jaluit Neither vessel took
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

We trust the Japanese Commission
will understand why so few represent
ative citizens attended the reception at
Minister Gibson's. Many strained
their consciences and went, out Of COM
pliment to Japan. But the absence of
SO many Of those whose culture and
character make Honolulu what ii is
must have told its story too plainly to
be mistaken. Prince Oscar of Sweden
was not slow to take in the situation.
We are sure the japanese Commissioner
will not be less ready. The tone of
the community towards the person who
gave the party is one Of open detesta-
sion and undisguised disgust.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

So ar we are all agreed But our
kindly critic and our editorial friend
have been hasty in objecting to our
announcement OF last week, that
"seyera Independents of tried char
actcr have consented to run next year. "
They have not so consented in answer
TO the request of national convention
OF national committee of Independents
simply because there is neither
national convention nor rational com.
mlttee. "But there ought to be U
Yes, there ought to he. You have said
so Before you said so, we said So
Before either of us said so, some OIL
the best and shrewdest citizens in the
land said so. But thinking so anC
wishing so and hoping it might be sc
have not made it so We seem to be
quite as far away from having it SO a'
we were 4 year and three months ago
But, fellow laborers, is not half a loa
better than no bread E? II we canno
have full reform WfM organization, is i
not something that we may have partia
reform 1OikR0W it2 If we may not hav,
a mayo7U OF Independents in the mex
legislature, is it not something that w
may have a miH0Uy2 There can b,
no doubt that the Legislature of 1888.
did far less harm, was in many thing
conservative, was curbed and helC
closer to an acknowledgements of de
cency, than if the Imposition ha'
"scooped' the Opposition. We be
lieve that organization among homes
men of all races, classes and creed
could return an Independent majorlt
to the next legislature, We hold thai
neglecting to organize, the lndepenc
ents will deserve defeat. But we Sha
be none the less thankful if even ie'
Independents sit in the next house.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

Mr.. f. ii. Hayselden, a son-in-law;
Maj John I. Baker, warrior; Hon.
James Keau, a poi merchant; and Mr..
sam Nowlein, bar keeper, are re-
ported to be the distinguished quartette
to whom the electors Of Honolulu will
be asked to give their votes next Feb
ruary. They will not be so asked by
reformers, however
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25


''",' ''','' '',' ~ Gus "'''u'l o'''''
~ '''- '''o'o ''''''
that Capital holds the whip hand w
49,
" Alas i'r the rarity Of human charity "
Men build asylums for the lame, the
halt and the blind, homes for the in
giye 10 alleviate the distress. that au
peals 10 them at home. and with scarcely
less liberality to cnli,hten the heathcn.
"Tf | might chose my century" said the
Reverend uemphill 81 would be born
in the Nineteenth the century of
foreipn missions. of Sundav.Srhnol en-
dcavor. of temperance reform. of
systemized and worldwide ameIiora.
ton" But we hope the Twentieth
century will learn-if the lesson be vet
unlearned by the Nineteenth that the
most glorious garb of human charity is
the mantle of exact Justice betwixt man
and man.
49,
~ % iO' D"Pi'"' io'u'''S "o"' 10
'o' % 'o'is' '''e "i''P manu- 10 'e'o'
''''' ''u''' '''s' W i'se'' t'leii W haoo''
"e "o'.o NUS N''o''eu p'oO'e'h VIII
u''''eo WHICH ''''' leS'o' % 'e"'''eu'
,
ot;..,;.. - up..,.,,
,...,, ..;.. -. ", .1..;,
,h,. toh.z... LII; ~ l..... ,a-
~ -. -. -. 49,.
h;,hor,.a,,a. ,,.o,,,,,,,,,,,..,,,,,,a,,a
plantations. You admit that the Iaborer
has too often no higher object in his
work than to try and get the highest
obtalnable price tor the smallest give
backa-ble amount OF 1t" Yes, we
admit all that. But we are not prepared
to admit that one small swallow makes
4 summer, that one feather makes a
bed of down, that one favorable set OF
industrial conditions makes labor pros
porous or ought to make 1t content
ha ennloved 60 that every Industrious
frugal, honest and reasonably intell
rent worker in the land has fair
chance to live decentlv, TO educate his
children and to Law aside something for
his declinina veors-nntil then labor
and carital will continne TO be at odds
in Uawoii-nai and nernanent prosucrity
imnossible
-
we nave Sfna'' patience 'or 'ne VIII
tulIy Dlihoed ego''Stn 'ha' can measure
or by the success of the Commercial.
class-or of any class. Says Elkins in
the speech quoted from above: "To find
o,,,,,Io,.ar all .,,r,,,.a can he ,,1e
tho game and fair d,y;s;on he made
of what they Jointly produce. would
I,roe,y aid tbe solution -
4x.
This does not mean that the nation
a can be prosperous merely because oul
out put of sugar is enormous and pro
duced at a cost that pays dividends
which permit our capitalists to invest
in California ranches or foreign securi
ties, or to enjoy unstintcd luxury. Il
y ors or,v when the worthy unskiller
). l,horor ;s oett;ro ON tyoto, Hoyat,Iy q,
n e,st &c ,b, r,,,ooor or ooe,, or s,nck
c holder who er,nIoys HIM
& r*4
e We believe that prosperity can b(
o best obtained by well considered
n general scheme of cooperation.
II *%*
e cooperation as a scheme mas hau II
n failures ana It's successes 1t can sue
" ing between the capitalist class anC
is the polyglot labor class. If rightl
,f prosecuted it would do much to d.
70 away with class distinctions. 1t woul,
,e make majority of the nation capital
" ists and would divide mere wage Garner
m into two ranks; the shiftless (the viciou
,e or incompeten0 and capitalists in EN-
n, bryo Chose who save in order to invest.
Axs
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

We consider the opening argument
of the Conflict of Labor and Capital,
printed on our first page, unsound in rs
far as it relates to the Trench Revolu-
ton, for the following reason The
French Revolution is classed as an
extreme movement resulting from
reactions. 1t is then promised that
"extremes can never solve a problem" !"
and the conclusion is drawn that the
French Revolution resulted sin the
union of individual liberty and social
restraint Otherwise the argument
appears hawless
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

The seltishness OF corporation stock.
holders has passed into proverb
Humanity is selfish. Nature is selfish,
Only He ON whom all the Christian
world believe is unselfsh, 1t would
be too much to expect of Hawaiian
stockholders to expect them to he free
from the most dominant OF human
traits, And yet we believe that Ha-
waiian sugar planters Using the word
to mean actual planters and mill men,
agents and stockholders are among
the least selfish of men, And fact,
support the assertion that no where on
the globe has unskilled labor an eaSiel
time than on these islands and it i,
equally true that no where else is simi
lar labor better paid.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

Stephen b. Elkins delivered an ad.
dress before the alumni of the Mis-
souri State University at Columbus on
the 5rd Of June. In its course he
used these words "rhere is no natural
antagonism between labor and capital.
These Two forces must act together OF
not at all. The antagonism is between
employev and employed, and comes ol
error on both sides. The one seeks tc
get as much labor as he can for the
smallest wages the other to do the
smallest amount OF work ior the mos
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

A combination of misiortunes Tor
sometimes one, sometimes the
other, sometimes both) has Saddled
many plantations with debts too heavy
to be met by ordinary economies
Those plantations are an incubus upon
the common prosperity. They are
wasting good money and impoverishing
good land 1t would be better for the
nation il every one Of them should go
into liquidation tomorrow begin
again with a foundation of sounder
business management, and with the
common experience of the Hawaiian
sugar industry to guide them. But they
still struggle on, throwing good money
after bad, hoping against hope, 1t is
such plantations that force the wages.tt
unskilled labor to minimum and keel
them there. We know whereof we
speak when we say that there are many
plantation managers and plantation
stockholders who would gladly see the
wages of unskilled labor on their plan
tations advanced but who hesitate tc
make such advance because they be
lieve it would injure less prosperous
plantations by forcing them to pa,
higher wages than they can afford tc
Ipay.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25
THE LstBOR QUESTION.

On a certain island of A certain
Polynesian Kingdom there is a certain
sugar plantation. Its management
employs a monthly average of 100 ur-
skilled laborers at an average monthly
wage Of Sl8. The unskilled labor OF
that plantation cost 1900 a month or
b2I,6oo year. The machinery OF
that plantation was not in existence
when kamehameha conquered Oahu.
But it seems not unlikely that it was
made soon after 1t crushes cane with
about the celerity and something more
than the force of a one horse power
treadmill and obtains Sirty PER ant 81
He Imce 1t ought to obtain seventy.
five per cent. of the juice. Its crop
this year was 1000 tons. Let us say
that it sold for five cents per pound OF
$Ioo a ton. The gross income was
SIoo, 900. If the fifteen per cent. o.
juice lost in the crushing had beer
saved, the gain to the plantation woulc
have been $4,000. If the 100 un
skilled laborers had been paid each SIC
month more than was paid, the
yearly increase of wages would have
been only $ra, 1000 or $1,000 less thar
the loss by poor crushing.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

Glorious and not impossible future
in which every man and every We
man in this favored cline who has in
telligence and vim and strength and
the power of self denial may have a
chance to work, to live decently,
to enjoy the beauty Of sky and sea and
landscape, to improve his mind and
expand his nature by reading and by
worthy companionship- and 10 PIT b
Somsthing 10, a rainy day,
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

We have watched with eager at
tention the by-authority columns Of
Mr.. Spreckels' great paper, hoping tsa'
the genial, talented and pubhc-spirited
minister of finance would answer oul
respectful query about rice. But VT
are panied TO note grim, an almos
forboding silence. As they say il
Sanscrit "Lsf hsra nigg eyinM eu.
0dp.ls =
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25
appears fawless

"rhe Unambitious Cynic' Of the
Bulletin, says; 81 confess to be with
out brains, ability and experience. !"
But there was no need of the conies-
sion, dear citizen; your letter PER Sc
is proof absolute. You had better
leave sarcasm alone and rent a taro
patch.' So saith super-senstive cor
respondent But we can forgive the
seliscourging writer of the Bulletin for
the grain olwheat among his chaf
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

"rbat is all very fine" object, a
planter but how about the interest on
the cost OF your improved machinery p
The exception is well taken, But one
must not lose sight Of the fact that the
improved machinery means an increase
OF gross income exceeding the increase
of gross outlay in wages that would fol
low an advance of even one third over
existing rates and, if the round num-
bers used as the basis OF the foregoing
calculation are so proportionate as not
to destroy the argument, then the
$1,000 would pay interest and principal
Of the debt occasioned by putting in :
SIS, plant in not longer than five
years.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

You answer that We paint Utopia,
You say that inequality has always ex-
isted, that vice and crime and poverty
have always been and must always be,
We admit your repy-in part. 1t is
Utopia that we paint-the Utopia OF
intelligent unssldshness, the brother
hood of fellow workers, unblinded by
egotism, undeaiened by jealously. Not
a Utopia OF equality it colud neye'
be Utopia OF intelligence if it were
But it will be better Utopia than
More's, better Arcadia than Plato's
In il there will be neither vice, not
crime, nor misery. 1t will be the Nil
lenium.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

And it is for you, Messrs Capitalists
whip handlers, leaders, peers OF the
industrial realm, to join hands with
those in whom morality is habit ant
religion reality, and decide whether
you will have the Utopia we hav,
painted or whether you will have al
Hawaii over which YOU shall weep tear
OF unavailing bitterness in Heaven
you ever get there. gentlemen
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

Cooperation as scheme has had its
failures and its successes. 1t can sue
ceed here only by perfect understand
ing between the capitalist class and
the polyglot labor class If rightly
prosecuted it would do much to do
away with class distinctions 1t would
make majority of the nation capital
ists and would divide mere wage earners
into two ranks; the shiftless (the vicious
or incompeten0 and capitalists in en-
bryo Chose who save in order to invest
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-25

1t is for Capital--holding now, as
for 50 long, the "whip hand'--to teach
that truth-frst to itself, then to Labor.
'The worlds most knotted problem will
united when that lesson is learned
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27
mo. SO.

verge of war. A merchant naturally
said to himself, 4 will not advance
to q planter in this uncertainty.
Forty days in the whole of the
| United States. you may say, in which
no money was advanced, was suffi-
cient in itself to create large sur
plus. The people did without ad-
vances-better for them-and now,
that this cloud has passed away
there is no reason to redouble the
advances.
Glow about New York sufplus 2"
'The same reason applies there,
and mainly in railroad securities
which are bad. The railroad bust
ness is rotten. When dividends are
declared they issue bonds to pay
with. the very worst kind of water
ing. Besides, all railroad stocks,
once inflated are slowly sinking down
to a true value. regulated by their
par value and interest to be realized
from earnings. There is no railroad
business now. Look at them carry
ing wheat from Chicago to New York
for six cents bushel by rail- There
is no profit in that"
There is, then. call for money!
Certainly; do not a people who
are poor. when there is no business
need money? All, yes. there are
plenty calls for money. but just now
there are no gilt-edged securities for
banks to lend money on when they
may be called upon to make these
temporary deposits good, at very
short notice or without any at ALL"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27

Among the evils most threatening
to the welfare of the citizen, the
crime OF highway robbery may be
reckoned the chief, for it not only
contemplates the robbery of the in
dividual and a brutal invasion OF his
peace and quiet, but it also includes
probable attempt by the robber to
deprive him of his life, whether he
resist the attempt to rob him or
quietly suffer the wrong. When to
this offence is added the use, or the
carrying by the criminal, of SO deadly
q weapon as the ''slungshot," the
outrage becomes tenfold more revolt
ing. Public necessity and every law
OF humanity demand that the garro-
ter and the man who is found carry
ing a "slungshot" should be made to
suffer the full penalty--the one for
the crime that he has in view to COM
NIT, the other for the crime that he
has already committed. IN. o Com
mercial Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27

Last week in Alexandria, four lit
tie boys aged from 8 to 10 years,
disobeyed their parents and went
swimming in bayou Rapides. While
bathing one of the little fellows, Ellis
White. got in deep water and was
drowned before help could be got to
him. His companions became fright
ened and hid the hat and clothes of
the dead boy to keep anybody from
knowing what had happened. An
alarm was raised at the absence of
little Ellis, and after close question
ing one of his companions was pre-
vailed upon to point out where he
went under. In a short while the
lifeless body was fisbed out Of water
ten feet deep. 0a'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27
The Bank Surplus.
IN. o. States.I

Yesterday, rs reporter of the
States was on HE way to Carrollton,
y prominent member of both the
Produce and Cotton Exchanges, who
modestly withholds his name, gave
some valuable information, viz:
II see the States has lately been
canvsssing the subject of the surplus
OF money in the bsnks, and has in
terviewed bankers, fnanciers, specu-
lators, aud the mercantile community
generally, to arrive ut the popular
opinion Of the cause. have read
every theory advanced, but in my
opinion the true reason of the snr-
plus has not yet been given to the
public. !"
Here was chance not to be pass
cd by. The gentleman is sound
business man of large experience,
and something new ever has AN mex
pressible charm for newspaper mau.
So the gentleman was at once inpor-
tuned to give his opinion. q
The real reason think is, said
the gentleman, chat the banks in
looking over their deposits find them
to be Of y character that is not to be
classed as idle capital. There is, all
over the country. general deprss-
sion, and q consequent distrust for
investments. A large firm, wishing
10 go slow, and be on the safe side,
have quite q sum of unencumbered
money. 1t may be needed in q
month, so it is not invested. 1t is
deposited in bank ready to be call
ed for at any moment. The banks
in looking over their deposits. find
their surplus is largely composed of
this class OF money. To lend such
money, liable to be checked against
at any moment, would be deemed
lmprudent unless the securities offer
ed could be instantly realized upon
IN case the loan was not paid"
what securities would be natu-
rally offered ?"
I'VE have none which are good
outside of the city. Real estate
could not be turned into money red
ily, and city securities, bonds, etc.,
have no market outside Of the CITY,"
"Tbe surplus OF temporarily idle
capital. however, is unusually large;
how do you account for that, for this
Ut all other years?' asked the re-
porter.
Remember. that for forty days
Russia and England were on the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27
Brilliant Crsp Prospects.
IN. O. Picayune.J


A9vices from all parts Of the lower
Mississippi valley concerning the
growing crops are Of the most cheer
ing character. The season, all things
considered, has been the finest for
several years. and prospects for mag
ni6cent results of the years agricult-
ural work were never better. Plant
ers and laborers are in excellent
spirits, working with q will, and more
independent Of their merchants tDan
usual. Should no untoward event
mar present prospects there will be q
business boom this fall that will be
felt in every branch of trade. Good
cotton, corn. rice and sugar crops
will pour money into this section and
revive confidence on all sides.
And the world can stand q large
cotton crop now without depressing
the market. Surplus stocks have
run down the past two years, and
million of additional bales above last
years growth is needed to FIJI the
gap. Sugar has advanced consider
ably, and is now at a price that
affords a margin of profit to the
Louisiana producer. While the rice
crop of the State promises to be by
far the largest ever grown, the sur
plus is 80 small part of the worlds
supply that it is not likely to break
values to an Improbable point. AL
together, then, there is reason to look
forward hopefully to the future.