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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-11

their opinions are that it cannot be done.
Both these gentlemen have had ample eX-
perience in this department of Govern
ment service, and their opinions were
worthy of consideration. The Minister of
Finance cannot, although he were the
Angel Gabriel, attend to these duties. In
1878, he had brought bill into the LegiS-
lature to compel Ministers to make a tour
twice in each year through the country to
ascertain its wants and to see how things
were going on. He had also the opinion
of the Hon S. CT. Wilder that good Gov
ernOr on each island is an Invaluable aid
to the Ministry Mr.. Wilder, too, has had
large experience in Government matters.
The tendency now seems to be to the cen
tralizatiOn of government in Honolulu,
letting the island districts take care of
themselves. If any one in the outer districts
is assessed too high, we soon hear of it.
But we never hear from those assessed too
low or not assessed at all. In this depart
ment alone, money would be saved in hav-
ing good Governor on each island. He does
not blame the Ministry for the inefficiency
on the part of Tax Collectors and Assess
OrS, or for irregularities in the doings of
Road Boards and other officials. Road
Boards require supervision. These bodies
are invested with large powers, and corrup-
ton is alleged to exist among them. An
other important reason why the office of
Governor should be retained is that many
of the minor offices of Government are
held by Hawaiians, and it is we'll known
that they require guidance and super
vision otherwise they fall into lax
habits and even into dishonesty.
They need the eye of the right
kind of man over them. 1t would be about
as wise for plantation company to dis
charge the manager as for the Govern
ment to abolish the Office of Governor
The Clerk OF the Supreme Court was un-
able to compile reliable statistics of the
work performed IN inferior Courts, owing
to the want of proper supervision over the
Judges. Government physicians need
supervision. Persons having grievances
against them are afraid to report the same,
as they might suffer from the consequence
of mourning their displeasure.
Noon recess, one hour.
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As THE session grows further advanced
the foolish petitioners seem to increase
and multiply. The right of petition has
always been a popular favorite. Most of
these petitions might be referred to the
Committee on Public Lands and Internal
Improvements without any substantial
injustice resulting therefrom, but of
course there is an occasional real griev-
ance at the bottom of some of them.
The most frequent of all the petitions are
those for the removal of the President of
the Board of Health, and these are full
of significance, for they testify most di-
rectly to the efficiency of that officer,
and tell all the story of the zeal
with which the present Governm ent
is attacking the leprosy problem, and
enforcing the law of segregation. We
never heard of any petitions for the re-
moval of His Excellency w. M. Gibson
from that office, and the reason is not far
to seek.
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The Cathedral Entertainment.

A fair-sized audience attended at St.
Andrews Cathedral schoolroom Tues
day evening to the literary and musi-
cal entertainment. After a piano and
violen duet by Miss Won Holt and Prof.
Yarndley, and a vocal solo by Miss
Dora Dowsett, Rev. Geo. Wallace made
brief Introductory remarks, concluding
with pleasurable expression of recog-
milton of the part women bore in the
literature of the Victorian Era.
Mrs. Williams began her lecture on
"The Literature of the Victorian Era"
with a commentary on the beneficent in
huence of the era's literature. The
popularization of science and the inter-
naturalization of literature she eloquent
ly depicted. History written in the era
might be less brilliant but compared
favorably with that produced in former
periods, yet what it might lack in lustre
was perhaps compensated for by the
grand history made this century. A
notable feature of contemporaneous lit
erature was the inspiration it drew from
ancestral dawnings of truth, great stress
being laid by the lecturer upon the devel-
opment of sublime truths out of the Morse
literature, born in Icelandic cold, dark
ness and misery, which she illustrated
with a quotation from a poem of Lewis
Morris. Swinburne was exalted as a
master of stately verse, his E'Litany"
being drawn upon in illustration Sew
eral authors were indicated in different
departments as brilliant examples of
leadership in ennobling thought. Ten
nyson and Browning were admiringly re-
ferred to and their inspiring muses. illus
trated, in a novel but very agreeable
way, with select outbursts of song rem
dered, to piano accompaniment, sever
ally by Misses Won Holt, Dowsett, Mist
and Rhodes, with such musical power as
to elicit hearty applause. The lecture
closed with reference to the elevation
of woman to higher intellectual plane
during the Victorian era, and the reflex
influence for good this was destined to
have upon the race.
The audience was dispersed with the
singing OF Good Save the Queen"
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If THE Committee of the Whole only
had about twenty chairmen instead of
one, progress in the House would be
lightning-ike in it's rapidity. Unfortun
ately, however, the gag can only be APP
piled to one mouth at time. Mr..
Kalaukoa has had the fortune to be the
most frequent recipient of this somewhat
equivOcal compliment.
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Mrs. WILLIAMS fourth regular even
ing lecture will be given tomorrow
evening at Harmony Hall, at the usual
hour The subject, Marcus Aurelius,
promises to prove an interesting one.
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THE Act to regulate the keeping of
books of account by wholesale and re-
tail licensees, was last Monday favor
ably reported on by the committee to
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European powers, anu aIneuuIHeHI5 Cal
culated to obviate this difficulty will OF
course be introduced.
This is a kind of anti Chinese legislation
very different from many measures that
are often proposed, and it admits OF being
judged from very different point of view.
When it is proposed to annul the con-
stitution, so as to make class legislation
possible with the particular object Of
excluding the Chinese from certain
branches of useful and honorable en-
plOyment, we say at once this is very
extreme measure, and we wish to take
no such headlOng step until we are
thoroughly convinced that it is wise and
just. 1t is not thereby implied that we
trust it and deplore it's necessity. The
step proposed by the bill now under
consideration is of another kind. Is
there any injustice in compelling
emigrants who desire to live in a
foreign country, to bring themselves
into harmony with it's commercial sys-
tenn and its laws. The presence in any
country of large class who are and re-
main permanently strangers to it's
customs, it's ideas, it's government,
it's religion, is an important evil,
and may be q menace. The
Chinese constitute such a class, and
because they do they are in so far an
evil. They are invaders, not the less
such because they do not knock at our
gates with the thunder of cannon. They
come processing "peace; peace, where
there is no peace, undermining or threat.
ening to undermine the vigor and life of
country by methods more insidious, but
not less fatal than those of open war.
Now, this state of facts does not in any
way relieve us from the necessity of
dealing justly with the Chinese.
What it does is to put us to calm and
rational consideration OF the whole prob
lem, with a view to discovering what
course, without interfering with any
vested rights, is going to cOnduce to the
general welfare, and hell to perpetuate
in this country the civilization and ideas
which We desire to SEE perpetuated The
bill under discussion is a measure of
this kind. 1t may be only makeshift,
but it will at least remedy the evils
springing at present from the fact that
the books of a large commercial class
are Except in language incomprehensi-
BILE to the rest of the community. This
state OF things opens the door to frauds
of every description. 1t embarrasses or
prevents altogether the administration
OF justice in about every case in which
the books of Chinaman are involved.
When it comes to the overhauling of
accounts in equity, the Court and the
are equally at sea. Doubtless,
also, it facilitates perjury, and multi
plies the inducements to it. The pres
ent bill should do away with much of
this, and it requires nothing, in our
opinion, either unreasonable or unjust
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The Moscow Gazette, commenting no
the recent scare over the condition of
England's defences, says: England,
being a ruin, must be content to play
the part of peaceful commercial state.
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whom the bill was referred. The bill,
which the committee recommend be
passed, provides that all books of &C
count shall be kept in the English or
Hawaiian language. The Minister of
the Interior or his representative is
given authority to inspect the books
with sufficient thoroughness to ascer-
tain whether the provision is being COM
piled with, and a failure SO to do is
made misdemeanor punishable by fine
and by forfeiture of the license. The
bill, while making no mention OF the
Chinese, is of course aimed directly at
them, and we believe no other class will
be affected by it. The limitation to
English and Hawaiian is inconsistent
with our treaty relations with some
European powers, and amendments cal
culated to obviate this difficulty will of
course be introduced.
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THE DAILY
Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

BE just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim st at be
Thy Country's, thy Gods, and Truths.
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The report was adopted.
Rep. +. Brown reported bill printed
Rep. Paris read his minority report of
the Finance Committee on the bill to
amend Chapter KILL, session laws of
1882, obllging teachers, clergymen and
paid soldiers to pay personal taxes. In
answer to the main argument of the ma
jOrity of committee, the minority thinks
that teachers, clergymen and soldiers are
better able to pay personal taxes than
large portion of the labOring classes of our
population. Nor is it just that these men
with regular salaries to depend on should
be exempt, while the poor labOrer, who is
out of work or whose crop has failed, is
compelled to pay his taxes or work them
out at the rate of % cents per day
(Signed) J. D. PARIS, in
Laid on the table, to be considered with
the ajority report and the bill.
NOTICES OF NEW BILLS.
Minister Green gave notice of bill: to
amend and regulate the law relating to the
appointment and tenure of office of Tax
Assessors and Tax Collectors, and the as
sessment and collection of taxes.
Noble Hitchcock gave notice of bills:
To amend Chapter LVI. of the Penal
Code, entitled an Act to prevent married
persons from deserving one another
Relating to the passport system.
To abolish the Act making foreigners
entering the Kingdom pay two dollars tor
hospital tax.
MINISTER ANSWERS QU ESTIONS.
Minister Green reported on the resolu-
ton of Noble Widemann, adopted on Mon
day, relative to Ministerial instructions to
tax assessors, bankers and others
l beg to state that [ have given no
special instructions to the above named
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-24

Yet I know a good many better farm.
ers than I am, with much better lands,
who are all the time handicapped with
the troubles that SO much "depress"
the farming world.
They say "farming don't pay-agri-
culture is depressed" They say truly.
Farming does not pay them. There
is a reason for it. Every effect must
have a ause. What then is the prime
cause Of agricultural and all industrial
depression =?
I think [ discovered the secret
twenty years ago. have persistently
acted upon it ever since, and there has
never been a day, during that time,
that there was not meal in the barrel,
and oil in the cruise. There has been
no lack, but on the contrary, a steady
increase Of "corn and wine and OIL"
Of that secret, to which [ am in
debted for entire immunity from all
depression" mental as we'll as agri-
cultural, more amor
April I'd, 1888.
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COMMON SENSE AND ENSILAGE

Prof. Whitcher, of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College, is getting
the ensilage question down to nearly
where it belongs. He says:
[ had an idea once that it was tons
that counted. Now I believe that we
may have Is tons of ensilage from
one acre that will produce nor beef
or milk from Is tons from another
acre. [ have seen tons of ensllage
that vary ten per cent. in the amount
Of water contained. Only about half
the properties of the ensilage go to
benefit the COW. Albuminoides cost
four and one-third per pound, and
carbohydrates 10 cents. We must be
as economical as we can with albu-
minoides. No man in New Hampshire
or Vermont can afford to feed in the
ratio of l to 5. Pasture grass has l
to 4; good herds grass l to s; ensilage
l to Z. [ believe every time you buy
food down to l to 5 you raise the cost
of butter, and can't afford to do it. [
think corn can be put into the silo
whole and come out in good condition.
Whole ensilage will change a little in
color, becoming brown. Big Southern
corn will yield 20 tons to the acre and
Northern l6 tons. The latter is the
most valuable in feeding properties.
In this corn I get the ratio of l to 7.
Twenty-four and one-tenth pounds Of
milk make a pound of butter, feeding
Northern corn ensilage. Feeding
Southern there was a shrinkage of
lO.l per cent. There was also a diff
ference in the quality of the milk.
Don't believe in planting corn that
will not fully ripen in the ear when at
maturity. Adapt the corn to the
climate. If any farmer is holding
back from putting in a silo on account
of expenses attending the buying of
machinery, he need not wait, because
he can never feed over two quarts of
cotton seed meal. I don't think it is
necessary to feed anything with gluten
meal.
W. M. Davis, of Bellows Falls, VT,
a member Of the State Board of Agri-
culture, says: ave are being driven
to the wall in Vermont by feeding too
much corn. Bulletins from expert
ment stations will inform us what
feeds contain. Ensilage is l to IL.
Cotton seed must bolster up animals.
Ensilage is all right because it is a
.succulent food, but it must be sup
by cotton seed. We are
too apt to give too constipating food.
Ensilage makes all food more palatable.
1t has a place, but the man who can
raise from two to four tons of hay to
the acre better let it alone. Others,
not so well located, on sandy, light
soils, can raise ensilage and compete
the hay raiser.
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Tor THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
WHAT SAY THE "BOSSES3"

L see in your paper of March goth
some plain talk from u. P. NJ" in
regard to having a farmer for u
next Governor. Now 1 wish to put a
question or S % to Bro. J. P. M. Nv
friends, have you consulted the bosses
on this subject If not, it may be
you are wasting time, if things are to
run as it has been for the last fifty
years or more. You wish to know if
any n was old enough to tell how
long it has been since a farmer was
elected Governor of North Carolina.
Well, my friend J. P. NJ, I will say
In the year 1885 we had a constitu-
tlonal convention which gave the selec-
ton OF Governor to the people. Up to
that time the legislature elected our
Governors, and the first election for
Governor after 1885 elected Dudley.
who vas a farmer, and that has been
tfty-one or two years ago, and as we'll
as my memory r me no farmer
has been elected Governor since. Now
my friend, you see the Importance of
consulting the Bosses on this great
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-24
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

10 the Editors of The Cotton Plant:
1t has been the fashion for some
years, in all quarters, to pirate about
the depression of farming in the
South" as if there was no depression
anywhere else, or any other business.
The truth is, an equal degree of de-
preston prevails in all industries, all
over the civilized world. In the great
Northwest, a very large percentage of
farmers are under mortgages, the in
terest on which they can scarcely meet
from year to year. So it is all over
the North. All that saves them from
ruin, and enables them to scufae
along, is the tremendous tide of i'm.
migration constantly pouring in upon
them, and the immense market for
their products in the South. If the
farmers OF the South had sense enough
to raise all the corn, bacon, wheat. hav-
&C., necessary for home consumption'
you would soon see the currents of
immigration that flow so steadily
westward, defect to the South.
That the farmers of the South can
ralse all these necessary supplies, I
know o my own experience. do
not claim to be much of a farmer, but
l a and do raise corn at a cost of
less than twenty cents per bushel, oats
less than fifteen cents, wheat at
twenty-five cents, cotton at three to
[our cents, and "other things accord
Ing." This I have done for twenty
years, and on a billy, rocky and rather
poor plantation at that. During all
'hese years have never failed, whether
ne seasons were wet or dry, or cold
hot, to have some of these things to
'ell, and so far from buying hay, I
gavem away many and manv a
DAD OF "long forage" L do not know
single farm, upon which the same or
greater results could not be obtained
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WAKE, April IA, 1888.


PROGRESSIVE FARMER will YOU
please answer a few questions for we
slow farmers, questions which many
others are interested in as we'll as my
self? Please ascertain and give us
as nearly as possible the amount of
expense to the public for Superior
Courts per week, salaries, fees, per
diem, &C., (not what clients pay to
attorneys); what is average cost of
trying and conveying a man to the
penitentiary What the expense to
the public, for the penitentiary per an
mum, I over and above earnings;
salaries of employees, board of direct
ors, overseers, physicians and all ?
Expenses of insane asylum; salaries of
all employees and how many; how
many inmates? Expenses Of deaf,
dumb and blind; salaries of all en-
ployees, and number in board of
directors, and physician fees, &C.?
Expense of county work hands over
and above earnings; expense of trying
and conveying them, and employees,
physician fees, &C.? I see in the Stone
Hearn case, Stone is to pay the cost.
Does that mean all the cost of the
court? If not, how much at public
expense, that is, for Judge, jury,
clerks, sheriffs and deputies, witnesses,
crier, door keeper, water toters and
all other servants, &C., &C.? When
plaintiff or defendant are insolvent
and saddled with cost, then who pays?
L am aware it will require time,
patience and perseverance, but please
consider those who have to foot the
bills. II. N. PARKER.
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PAW CREEK, N. O., April 10, 49,.

OnH1h, ~. w., Apill III, 90.
DEAR BRoTHER:-It is time you
should hear something of Long Branch
Alliance, No. 34s. We organized, as
you know, only a short time ago with
rs members, and at our last regular
meeting we could count SO as good
faces in our hall as you can find in
any community. They are not only
good citizens and mean to do well,
they are well-to do. We have an ex.
cellent President and Secretary. to
whom the Alliance owes much for
jealous work; 348 is awake as to it's
duties for the good of the order. and
would be glad to see the State so
thoroughly organized by fall that we
could say "fraternally yours to every
worthy farmer in it. We take The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER and are much
pleased with it. Every member of
our Alliance has an opportunity to
read or have it read.
The next meeting of the County
Alliance will be held at our place on
the first Friday in July, next.
Please say to the Secretary of Elm
wood Alliance that in the last issue Of
HE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, under the
heading valuable Thoughts from a
Thinking Farmer" ue found backbone
ruth, and that, in as few words as any
Southerner needs to make
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invited to take dinner with Bro. John
Marshborn, President of Cathrlne
Lake Alliance, and after taking din
ner with him returned to Bro. Thos.
Jarman's, where we stayed all night
and met Bro. Will. Jarman, Secretary
of the County Alliance. Thanks for
kindness at their hands.
On the 10th of March [ visited
Southwest Alliance and lectured one
and one-half hsurs to an appreciative
audience. Some applications-frults;
others to come. Met the Alliance IN
secret session, exemplifed the unwrlt-
ten work, with some words of encour-
agement. They are fully alive to the
work.
On the 18th l visited and made a
public lecture to Pollard Alliance. L
organized them with Is members on
Goth of January, and now they num-
Der over 40 members; initiated five
members and balloted on four other
applicants that day. I don't believe
in organizing an Alliance, and then
leaving them alone, [ think all deputies
should visit every Alliance organized
by him and instruct them over and
not allow them to grow cold and in
different on account of proper instruc-
ton. On the same evening [ visited
and lectured publicly at Sneed's Ferry
Alliance with some good results.
On Saturday, March Sd, [ organized
Dixons' School House Alliance, in
Onslow county, with II members. w.
@. Allen, President; R. j. Williams,
Secretary; Secretary's postofice,
Aman's Store.
On April Sd, I organized North
east Alliance, with Is members. John
Scott, President; Isaac F. Gillett,
Secretary; Secretary's p~ostofice is
Wards Mills, Onslow county.
The order in Onslow is in a flourish
ing condition, considering the con-
dition we found ourselves in when
first organized.
Fraternally,
H.. E. KING, Organizer.
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question. 1t is true, in my judgment,
S. B Alexander would make us a
splendid Governor, but what say the
Bosses? We want a good man that
will help US to regulate a great many
things, such as railroad and steamboat
fare and freight on a live-and-let live
principle.
The legislature must be looked after
on this subject. We wish to run the
country instead of party, if I under
stand the Farmers Alliance, on equit-
able justice.
OLD CUMBERLAND.