The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-27

ment is for the present reserved.
RoRERT BLEAnK, prominent
wooden manufacturer of Boston,
Is writing powerful letters in
favor of tariff reduction He is will
ing to have the duties cut down en-
manufactured goods as well as de-
sirous of having them reduced on the
raw material.
SLEEPING matches are among the
latest sporting freaks in New York.
1t does not appear that the police
force is invited to compete. As pc
hcemen are generally represented as
only sleeping while on duty, it might
be supposed that none of them would
get much backing for long snooze.
TaE San Francisco Nelrs-Letter is
giving itself unnecessary concern
about the Hawaiian Constitution
That document Is at present in as
safe a position as anything this side
Of the cyclone belt. When in season
for amending it, too. there will be no
call for assistance from the authors
of the malignancy to which the NJ.
has given admission.
A MASSACHUSETTS lady wrote let
ter cordially thanking the members
of the State Legislature who voted,
as she puts it, to protect women in
their right to freedom from political
duties. She referred to the defeat
by the Senate of proposition to
give women a vote on the question of
local prohibition. Among those who
voted against the provision were a
number of Senators who supported
the prohibitory bill itself.
SILK culture bids fair to be salts
factorily tested in the United States.
A supply of the best varieties of silk
worm eggs procurable in France and
Italy is stored in the alternating
refrigerator of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington The
eggs viii be distributed to applicants
at the proper time for rearing the
worms. Improved failures are being
put in at the experimental station,
and the Department buys all the
coeOons offered by raisers.
A CORRESPONDENT sends the follow
ing. as something that seems to him
pretty good" which was uttered by
zone of HiIo's bright minds :" "Our
new Constitution in a certain sense
is very much like the Bible; you can
prove anything you please by it, pro
vided you are biased when you start
in" Upon which we would only re-
mark that if there were no religious
or political bias, there would be no
need of Interpretation of either Bible
or Constitution.
II, as appears to be the case, the
Ai1eTtiser does not see the point of
our remark the other day upon its
course, We are content to leave the
matter with the more discerning
public The question is not the APP
propriateness or otherwise of our con
temporary's discussion of existing
public issues. 1t is the propriety of
that papers publication Of attacks OF
the integrity of the Constitution,
during certain pending relations be-
tween its reputed controlling propri
etary and the constituted authorities.
THE Law and Order League lately
had a national convention in Phila-
delphia. Social reformers in yarious
lines compose its membership. Its
purpose Is not IN having new laws
passed for the calculating of its
members theories, but to secure the
enforcement of useful laws already
IN existence against crimes and mis-
demeanors. In other words, what
has hitherto been everybody's bust
ness, with nobody to do it, is made
the function Of a well-organized vol
unteer body of respectable citizens.
The taking of those Chinese women
off the steamer San Pablo at this port
under a writ of habeas corpus is
likely, according to San Francisco
paper, to be made an international
case. 1t is claimed that an American
vessel is part of the State in which
its home port is situated, and that
seizure on board an American vessel
is tantamount to seizure on Ameri-
can soil. It is stated that Chinese
Consul Bee at San Francisco is col
Letting material, with the view when
he has all he requires of asking an
explanation of the incident from the
Hawaiian Consul.
some Australian laws sail very
close in the wind toward what would
be called class Legislation. A young
immigrant got four months imprison-
ment at Brisbane for trying to leave