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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
AN ISLAND REPUBLIC.

The reprint article, under the
above heading, from the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, which appears in
our issue to-day, gives II much bet
ter view of social conditions and
opinions on these Islands than we
are accustomed to read in the
columns of our big foreign contem-
poraries. 1t is true that very large
contributions of money and laborers
have been made by the religious
bodies of the States for civilizing
and Christianizing the Islands, and
1t is no less true that the 81 lax ways
which have crept into the admins
tration'' would, if not vigorously
opposed, in very short time, undo
all the ChristianiziDg and ciyilizipg
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to have made such transparent bid
for favor IN q certain quarter, when
the religious fraternity in question
had themselves complained Of our
latitude TO correspondent who had
a grievance against them. 1t hap
pens that, upon n subject closely
related to our correspondents COM
plant, we have lately had occasion
TO publish an emphatic contradiction
by the Brothers of st. Louis College,
of statements offensive to them
appearing in an AdcertiSer report of
an event at that institution. Thus
il was itself our contemporary
should have accused of insulting
behavior TO the body in question.
Probably the offensive report was
published by our contemporary
through inadvertence, for nobody
would suspect it Of knowingly adj
hitting anything, legitimate or
otherwise, into its columns, which
might involve the displeasure of its
clique or the loss of patronage.
It's too great carefulness in that
respect is one of the reasons why
the 1dcertiser has not a particle of
influence in the community.
TO come back to the main ques-
ton, in conclusion, it is significant
fact that the 1doertiser has not q
word to say in defense of the native
candidates for the part they bore
in the proceedings attendant on
Mondays convention. The facts
given in our report of yesterday
showed them guilty of disrcputablc
conduct. Instead of being highly
colored, eye-witnesscs of the dis
graceful scenes there enacted can
be produced to prove that our ac-
count was very mildly drawn. And
those are the men who are asso-
ciated with Mr.. Hayselden as can
didates for the legislative represen-
tation of the capital of this kingdom |!
Really, the squirming, and wander
ing, and evasion of the AduertiSer
are not to be wondered at. The
shot of the Governments I" first
gun" killed voter; the recoil may
empty the garrison.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
The Mystery Solved.
Mr.. Daggett's Mission to
Washington, and
it's Failure!
TRUSTWORTHY ALTHOUGH NOT "BY
AUTHORITY"

A letter from Washington has
been shown TO us, which reveals the
burden of the mission of Mr.. Dag
gett, eX-Minister Resident of the
United States in Hawaii, from the
Government of this kingdom to the
United States Government, at the
close of his term here. The COM
mission entrusted to Mr.. Daggett
was simply in relation to an old
claim of this Government against
the American Government. At the
date of the letter referred to, Mr..
Daggett had left Washington for
San Francisco, having been authori-
tatively advised to abandon his
mission. From the extraordinary
course pursued by the Hawaiian
Government-that of sending re-
called foreign minister on a
delicate embassy to the Government
recalling him-this kingdom there
fore secures the not unusual privi-
lege of paying, dearly no doubt, for
an entirely unnecessary and, as it
proves, useless diplomatic mission.
1t is to he hoped the facts of the
case will be as extensively circu-
lated through the greav journals of
England, America and Australasia,
as the first sensational report of Mr..
Daggett having been commissioned to
treat for the sale of the Islands to
the Washington Government.
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has done this, and this law IL what
keeps United States gold out of
circulation, and which will even
tually drive il out of the country.
IL five millions of United States gold
were imported here, during the
next year, il would not stay in cir
culation alongside of an excess of
silver of S600,000. What is the
rcmcdyI 1t is simple one. The
law Of 1884 provided for it. Section
4 imposed the duty upon the Minis
ter of Finance, " whenever il should
appear that there is such an excess
of silver coin in circulation as dis
turbs the equilibrium between gold
and silver" to dispose of silver
coin and replace it with United
States gold. The law of 1884
needs no amendment. The Gov
ernment alone is responsible for its
failure. 1t has disobeycd the man
date of the law. But it is not too
late. 1t can he done now. The
prospects of the large crops for
1886 promise abundance of ex-
change. Let the Government now
ship to the mint of San Francisco
half n million of Hawaiian silver
and bring its proceeds back in
United States gold, and the law
would Immediately begin to work
like q charm.
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THEY DO CARE.

Our friendly contemporary THE
Frien.i says, "That the natives of
most of those islands do not care u
bauble who governs them, so they
are left to follow their own ways, is
about as far from the truth, and
about as self-contradictory SEN
tence as could well be penned." As
we partly endorsed the opinion ex-
pressed in the above quotation from
the s. +. Bulletin, we are only too
glad to observe that so high an
authority on Hawaiian affairs as
Rev. A. o. Forbes, Editor of the
Mission department of THE Friend
is of the opinion that the natives are
not so indifferent to public interests
as they are generally supposed to
be. The more they care about such
matters, the better is the prospect
of needed local reforms being con-
summated.
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which have been accomplished and
the hcathen practices of past ages
would he restored. and TO them
would be superadded the more re-
fined depravity of the worst phases
of perverted civilization.
In the United States, and other
countries possessing complete con
stitutional systems, and healthy
tone of public opinion, an crratic
administration can be brought to
book, but in this Kingdom, large
number of the so-called representa-
tives are virtually the personal pro-
perty of the administration. being
civil service officials, and the tone
of public opinion is very well eX-
pressed by our trans-Paciiic name
sake. AS for the natives of most
of these islands, they do not care a
bauble who governs them, so they
are left to their ways" The Cab
met is therefore practically beyond
the reach of those corrective in
fuences which bear directly upon
governments in other countries.
The ideas advanced in the article
referred to, that a great Inter. Island
Republic may be formed here, either
independently or by annexation to
some other power, may be worth
taking into serious consideration at
some future day. AT present,
events are not ripe for transferring
the matter from the arena of jour
nalistic speculation to the field of
practical politics. The Inter-Island
Republic is something very pretty
for newspaper men to dream about,
but the present social structure OF
this Kingdom is OF too heterogeneous
a character to admit of any radical
changes in our autonomy or in oul
relations to other powers. The first
and greatest task before the states
men of Hawaii, if there are any, is
to secure for the Kingdom free and
Independent representative institu.
tions. When public opinion acquires
sufficient momentum to effect the
present much needed reforms, il
will have developed some of the
necessary qualifications for dispos.
ing of questions of great national
import.
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THE VICTIM OF GOVERNMENT Gin.

Naturally the advertiser makes
an effort to exculpate the "only
European on the Government
ticket from all responsibility for
the death of Kalalakoa, who was
started on fatal spree at Gov
ernment party convention last
Monday. 1t gives statement by
the gentleman himself, to the effect
that he was present only one hour
at the meeting where the disgraceful
proceedings occurred, and that he
did not order, or pay for, or dis
tribute drop of gin, or any other
drink" We have no desire to press
Mr.. Hayselden's responsibility fur
ther than his own admission. That
is bad enough. He was in the COM
pany of the unprincipled persons
who did not scruple to debauch hun
dreds of native electors with some
description of cheap and noXious
liquor. 1t will be time enough for
him to deny having paid his share
for the stuff, when the campaign
bills have been settled.
1t was a very natural thing to
"take for granted that an inquest
should have been held. AS matter
of fact, no less than member of
the Privy Council informed us in
the forenoon that an inquest was
being held, and reporter was
sent, as soon rs convenient, to as
certain the result, who returned
with DIR. Webb's report, under the
wrong impression that it was also
the verdict of coroner's jury. 1t
appears, however, that no inquest
was held. Why not? A man and
citizen had come to his death out
of the usual course, making an un-
doubted occasion for q searching
inqu'sition by the coroner. If there
was no reason for an inquest, there
was none for post mortem exami-
nation, that, under similar circum-
stances, in well-regulated communi.
ties, would only be performed by
request of coroner's jury. Why
there was no inquest will not be a
subject of wonder to the public,
when it is known that the victims
last spree was clearly traceable back
to the party convention.
Nothing more shows the difficulty
of the AdUertiser's task of defend
ing its political friends, than the
DEPRESSION it makes to accuse the
BULLETIN of having insulted a reli-
gious body in publishing a recent
communication. 1t would have been
time enough for our contemporary
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
TEACHERS CONVENTION.
MONDAY, Dec. 29th.

The annual convention of the
Teachers Association opened in
the Y. M. G. A. hall, this morning
at 10 o'clock. The meeting was
called to order by the President,
Mr.. II. S. Townsend. Prayer was
offered by Rev. Mr.. Oleson. The
president opened the business of
the meeting with an able address,
discussing the work of the teacher,
and the methods by which the indi-
viduality of the scholar is to be met
and the powers of mind and soul
properly developed. 1t is neces-
sary on the part Of the teacher to
know what the powers of the human
soul are, how they are to be de-
veloped fully and simultaneously,
so that they may attain sufficient
power always to act efficiently and
spontaneously.
Minutes of last meeting were read
by the Secretary, Miss l.. L. Moore,
and approved.
The election of officers was then
proceeded with. Mr.. w. r. Hitch
cock was elected President; Mrs.
f. b. G. Wallace, President
Mr.. l.. l.. Van Slyke, Secretary
and Treasurer.
A discussion took place on the
relative strength, as regards num-
bers, of the Hawaiian and English
schools in the kingdom. Reference
to the Inspector-Generals report
elected the statement that about 68
percent of all the children in the
kingdom are in the English schools;
but Mr.. M. M. Scott gave it as his
oplmon that, at the present time,
the number is from 75 to 80 per-
cent.
Professor Merritt suggested that
the reason for conducting the Gov
ernment schools in English instead
of Hawaiian may have been that the
business and commerce of the King
dom is carried on through the
medium of the English language,
and that native parents generally
prefer to have their children schooled
IN English from the fact that they
know it will be of more practical
value to them than their own
tongue.
Principal Scott considered the
English education that begins
with Hawaiian at the age of IL
and ends at 15, to be all but useless.
To make English valuable to the
native, 1t must begin at The age OF
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
The CURRENCY QUESTION.

One million dollars IN silver COIN
is in circulation in this kingdom.
These are all Hawaiian coins and are
therefore non-exportable except at
great loss. They are current in no
country but this. With them no
debt can be paid to our foreign Gre
ditors. Their value in the worlds
market is their bullion value, which
at the present price of silver is
about 70 cents for the dollar pieces,
and less for the halves, quarters
and dimes. Our population of
$4,000 requires about S. per capita
in silver coin-to be used as sub
sidiary coin, for convenience in
making change-with gold as the
principal currency. This is con-
siderably more silver per capita
than experience has found neces-
sary in other countries where the
gold standard obtains. At this
high estimate, however, $4,000 in
silver is all that would be required
for change, if the gold law were
enforced. 1t is this excess of
100000 of silver that is making all
the trouble in our currency at
present. The struggle between
debtor and creditor is constant
warfare. No one now pays out
gold if he can help it. Every one
pays out silver if he can possibly
make his creditors take it. Every
one in position not liable to suffer
from retaliation exacts gold in pay
ment. This warfare is directly
traceable not to the law of 1884,
which is good law, but to the fact
that there is glut of silver here.
If this was an elastic" currency,
that is, one that would flow abroad,
we would have no difficulty. But
it still remains here. The coasting
steamers carry the silver in bags to
the plantations and then bring it
back again to the Government trea-
sury 1t is the most expensive
metallic currency that n country
can have.
Liberal importations of gold make
no impression. Half million of
United States gold imported by
Bishop & Co. alone, since the 1st
Dec, 1884, makes gold no more
fluent. The excess of our exports
over our imports has no effect to
make gold less shy. Hawaiian
silver has driven the American
silver all out of circulation. 1t re-
quired no act of the Hawaiian
Legislature, to start it out of the
country. The inexorable law that,
"Am inferior money so Tong as il
circulates at oNinoataJly drices
I superior money out Of circulahon,"
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
the FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE.

There is reason for grave suspi-
cion that the Oceanic Steamship
Company is wilfully imposing upon
this kingdom in regard to the mail
service between here and the Coast.
On the first trip of the 5. S. st.
Paul there was great deal of COM
plant heard in business circles that
her return trip was so timed as to
be of no value TO correspondents or
shippers. She left here just in
advance of the Oceanic-Union line
steamship from the Colonies for San
Francisco. 1t was urged on behalf
of the Oceanic Company, then, that,
owing to the peculiar position in
which it had been placed by the
unexpected turn in the arrangements
for carrying out the Colonial mail
contract, time was required to en-
able the Company to resume the
regular fortnightly service to and
from the Coast, by getting steamer
in between the monthly trip of the
Colonial liners. This plea induced
us to refrain from expressing the
dissatisfied opinion that was very
prevalent. However, the lapse of
time discloses no effort making to
fulfil the mail engagement with this
kingdom, but rather a deliberate
scheme of frustrating the conditions
of the subsidy granted by our Le-
gislature, and, it really appears, of
running opposition with the combin-
alton line, preferring the whole, so
far as it can be gained, to a share of
the freight receipts. We should be
very glad TO have another eXplana-
ton of the fact that next month, as
the present one, the supplementary
steamship sails just in advance OF
the through vessel from the Colo
nies-the st. Paul being advertised
to leave here on the 10Th and the
Alameda on the 10th of January.
Possibly the fortnightly service has
proved Improbable to the Company
even with the good round subsidy
paid by this kingdom. If that is
the reason for the default in keeping
it up, nobody but the directors OF
the Company should have right to
complain. At the same time the
public, in that event, should be
taken into the confidence of the
company, as, then, without expect.
alton of fortnightly service there
would not be the disappointment
and Inconvenience at present exist.
ing. If, on the other hand, the
interruption in the service is due tc
decision of the Company in {
! question merely of greater or less
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Sir William Robinson, Governor
of South Australia, has been charged
in the Legislature with "scandalous
intrusion of vicc-regal influence into
current politics." simply because in
II jocular way, during an aftcr-din-
ner speech, he had favored the pas
sage of the federation bill. Evi-
IDENTIFY democracy lifts It's horn on
high among the colonists, and none
may say boo to it.
The division on the want of con-
fidence motion, in the New South
Wales Legislature, was reached at
half-past twelve OH the morning of
the third inst, resulting in there
being 90 for the Government and 56
against. Mr. Want, Attorncy-Gen-
eral and new member of the re-
constructed Cabinet, made the great
speech of the debate. In fact, he
filled felt acant in debating power
on both sides of the house.
A private letter from Washing
ton states that the charge of Ha-
waiian affairs, during Hon. Mr..
Carter's absence on a mission to
Europe, has been left in the hands
of the Peruvian Minister. Our in
formant, the recipient of the letter,
regards this as peculiar act on the
part of the Government, when Hon.
DIR. Smith, a gentleman thoroughly
conversant with Hawaiian interests
as well as devoted to them, is in
Washington, it is supposed, on Gov
ernment business. Particularly is
it desirable that the Kingdom should
be represented effectively at the
present time, when Congress is sit
ting and action may be taken pre-
judicial to the Treaty at any mo-
ment.
A special despatch to the Provi-
dence Journal from London states
that a portion of Sir John Mac
donald, the Canadian Premier's,
business in the metropolis is to con-
fer with Lord John Manners, the
Imperial Postmaster General, at the
latter's desire, on the subject of
subsidizing the Canadian Pacific
Railway for conveying the British
mails to India, China and Australia.
This looks promising for Honolulu
becoming port of call, in the near
future, for another very important
line of steamships, accompanied,
perhaps, with measure of reci-
procity providing for free exchange
of Hawaiian products with at least
the coal and lumber of the Dominion
of Canada.
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selfish advantage, the Government
will be guilty of inGdelity to public
interests il it does not insist upon
the full execution of the contract.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.
sunnated.

Sydney was polled for and against
granting licenses to sell liquor, on
Dec. 1st, with the result that most
of the wards went prohibition. This
will be interesting news to our cor
respondent "Nota Bene."
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02

Sydney was polled for and against
granting licenses to sell liquor, on
Dec. 1st, with the result that most
of the wards went prohibition. This
will be interesting news to our cor
respondent "Nota Bene."
The latest news from the Orient
states that the japanese Govern
ment is about to enter into an agree
ment with the Hawaiian Govern
ment for postal service, in view of
the gradual increase of japanese
immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands.
Our foreign news summary con-
tains an account of a dastardly act
of piracy by Chinese passengers on
q British ship. Doubtless the secret
societies of Chinese, whose murder
Gus structure and regulations were
exposed by eX-Marshal Parke, har-
Dor many such human tigers as per-
petrated the atrocities on board the
Greyhound. Sensible people can
therefore only regard as criminal the
efforts made in this country to i'm
pede the making and execution of
laws designed to root these danger
Gus institutions out of the land.
The Bolivian Government is said
to be sending cadets to the military
colleges of Germany and Italy. If
the military college to be erected on
Punchbowl after the Kingdom is
sold out, had been there now, the
nation would be ready to be in
creased with Bolivian accessions.
A party of japanese immigrants
is promised early in the year, to
sail from Yokohama by the City of
Peking on the 2Sth of January.
Forty percent of women is pro-
missed, but past experience compels
the suspension of congratulations on
that score until the event justifes
them.
A Sunday night service was held,
a short time ago, near Adams,
Oregon. 1t consisted of the hang
ing of an alleged horse-thief by q
party of vigilantes. The observa-
tion made by the S. F. Post on the
event, that the influx of Eastern
people was winning the State re-
putation for outlawry, must have
been meant as piece of grim
humor, as the influx of Eastern men
and the efilux of horse thieves be-
long to about the same periods of
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time IN the pioneer history Of all
States.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-17
rhe Pavement Question

EDITOR Misunderstanding the late
continued rains the great thoroughfare
Of our beautiful city presented the ap-
pearapce Of sea of mud, which seems
to me as well as the business men OF this
city. should by all means be obvisted be-
fore next fall. The question Of street
paving has been discussed pro and con
without arriving at any definite plan or
material to be used. / think we have
the material in our midst in an abund-
ance that will make beautiful and last
ing pavement and at q nominal cost.
Suppose the streets were excavated, say
eighteen inches, then layer OF gravel,
say three inches, rolled hard, and upon
this use redwood blocks. four by four,
twelve inches long. set on end, and sat
urate these blocks thoroughly with pitch
and cover with a layer Of pitch and
gravel three inches deep and, in my
opinion, we would have a good street
and one that the city would be proud
of. | notice that San Antonio and Dali
las, Texas, have had their streets SINH
larly paved recently and they are de-
lighted with them. II is certainly evil
dent that we need our streets paved
With something to avoid the slush in the
rainy season, and now is the time to do
the work. Respectfully,
IMPROVEMENT
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-17
ID. pn.r,c,r,. nax.

The Society Of the A. o. II. Of thii
city will celebrate st. Patrick's Day By
\. .ocession and afterwards by pro
pramme Of exercises at Turnveie Hall
on Spring street. The line Of marci
will be from Downey block. at l;30 P
NJ. down Main street to Oivere, dowr
Oivera to Alameda, thence along Ala
media to Aliso, ~ Also to Los Angeles
along Los Angeles to Commercial, vi
Commercial to Main. down Main ts
Third, up Third to Spring, up Spring 4
Turnverein Hall, where the exercises o
the dav will take place.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-17
CAPITAL.
Amount of Capital stock. paid NJ. go -
In Cash h..-...44.-...... -........ 500, GOO 90
LIABILITIES.

Total Assets w
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-17
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