The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Chronicle says that Congress
will sit down on Mills tariff bill with
dull thud."
FRAUDULENT wines are largely sold
in New York as the California pro-
duct, and dealers in the genuine
article find it necessary to take action
for the suppression of the spurious
connections.
An advance synopsis of the leading
features of MIR. Randall's tariff bill
confirms the previous intimation that
the sugar duties are not to be dis
turbed by it. And as between it and
any other bill before Congress there
is reason to believe that Mr.. Ran
dall's stands the best chance of pass
ing.
The Western Paper Makers Asso
citation, in caucus at Chicago, agreed
on the formation of trust to limit
production and enhance profits. This
will bring the trust business directly
home to the press, and then will
come the tug of war between the
people and this new phase of mono
polistic tyranny.
The Eastern eye is getting opened,
according to the following observa-
ton from the New York Tribune: "a
little experience with a degraded
class of foreigners hostile to our
institutions. and unwilling to unite
with us is said to have brought the
rest of the country more into sym
pathy with the efforts Of the Pacific
Coast to check the tide of undesirable
immigration, large proportion of
which is of the vilest character"
A LETTER has appeared from Homo
lulu in the Boston Globe, contradict
ing some Of the evil reports set afoat
concerning these Islands. The letter
is misdated July instead of Jany.
oath, tending to give an impression
that Hawaii is situated on another
planet. One good point the writer
makes is that the treaty is as bene-
fetal to the United States as to Ha-
wall, besides which three-fourths of
all that is realized from our crops
goes, directly or indirectly, into the
hands Of Americans"
VENEZUELAN affairs were reported
to be seriously alarming by Rev. DR..
j. Wheaton Smith, who arrived at
Philadelphia on March 5th. Even
the United States Consul was de-
tered from communicating with a
ship in the roadstead. Factions were
arming and opponents of the adj
ministration being sent ont of the
country. The term of President
Blanco expired on February Goth, but
the convention to elect his successor
was adjourning from day to day, on
the pretext of having no quorum. 1t
was probable that Blanco would be
recalled from Paris as Dictator.
A CRANK signing himself "Citizen,"
in letter to the Bulletin, flies into
fury with the Attorney General for
not having offered reward for the
detection of the murderer of Kuk
Yuk, although that officer has no
funds available for that purpose. If
the Attorney General should take the
advice of "Citizen," and, without legal
warrant, pledge the credit of the
Government for such purpose, no
doubt this same Citizen" would give
us a duplicate exhibition of his pecu-
liar logic, in further attack on the
Acknowledgement for having acted
upon such advice, the acceptance of
which would doubtless be good cause
for eensure, and its rejection is to be
commended.
The International Peace and Lib
erty League has secured the sigma
lures of over three hundred members
of the French Chamber of Deputies
to petition for a permanent arbitra-
ton treaty between France and the
United States. That looks promising
for peaceful arbitrament of disputes,
but the difficulty is that one kind of
treaty is no more potent than an
other, for holding the dogs of war in
leash, when there is either an official
or popular clamor for warlike ven
geance, with prodigious ornaments
and forces to back it. The Powers
must do some heavy disarming be-
fore the hope of peace can be conf
IDENTIFY entertained.
CALIFORNIA can throw no stones at
this little Kingdom, while the admin
istration of justice in the former
country is in the condition repre-
sented by its press. An article from
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