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The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16
Friday, March 18th, 1898
COMMENCING AT 8 A. NJ.

The Citizens Match will be continued
under the following conditions:
Oren to all comers, except members of
the Association who have made record
of over 50 per cent. at any general meet
ing OF the u. r. A.; any rife; five
rounds; distance, 200 yds; no hair or set
triggers or telescope sights allowed; en-
tries unlimited. Entrance fee ST..
Winners to take their choice according
to rank of the following number OF valua-
bic prizes:
King Bros, Lie size C'ayon Portrait of
Winner.
Castle & Cooke, Water Cooler.
w. S. Luce, Goods to amount of 81.
NJ. Goldberg, Dressing Case.
w. G.. Irwin & Co., I'd, = bbl. ID. G..
sugar.
III. j. Nolte, Box Cigars
M. McInerny, Silk Scarf.
Hawaiian News Co.
7. 81. Davies & Co.
Gonsalves q Co., Ham.
II. May & Co., Box Tea.
G. E. Williams, Chair.
III. Lewis & Co., Ham.
Egan & Gum, Photograph Album.
Hawaiian Hardware Co.
Wenner & Co., Fruit Dish.
Chas. Hustace, Box Sugar.
w. G. Peacock & Co., 5-gal. Keg Wine.
III. F. Wichman.
Hart & Co., Handsome Cake.
E. 0. Hall & Son, Jewel Casket.
w. F. Reynolds, Box Santa Claus
Blocks.
Hawn. Carriage Mig. Co., Pair Car
riage Lamps.
Benson, Smith & Co., Doz. Perfume.
Hawn. Gazette Co., 100 Visiting Cards.
Pacific Hardware Co., Picture and
Frame.
Hebron, Newman & Co.
All entries in the Citizens Match are
to be made at the Range on the day of
the match, etc.
Special invitation is extended to the
officers and men of the war ships in port
to take part in this match. Amy person
being a nonresident of the Island OF
Oahu may become an associate member
of the Association for the current year
upon paying the sum of $3, and shall
have the privilege of taking part in the
semi-annual matches.
Entries in the Association regular
matches, except the pool match, must be
made before 1 O'Clock, THURSDAY, the
10th inst.
Entries can be made at the Hawaiian
News Co.'s or to the Secretary.
JNO. 81. SOPER,
WALTER E. WALL, President.
Secretary. 3325.td
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16
M. s. Levy's Special Sale

5c A YARD-1,45O yards Hamburg Embroidery, to +
inches wide, neat PATTERN value 10c
Sc A YARD-i,200 yards Hamburg Embroidery to 9
inches wide actually worth l5c, yard
1Oc. YARD-200O yards Hamburg Embroidery, to 81
inches wide, beautiful Designs value zoe. yard
45c EAoHLades Muslin Chemises, Embroidery Trimmed:
value 75c. each.
7Oc EAoHLadies' Nightgowns Embroidery Trimmed;
value 81 25 each.
75c YARD Skirt Embroidery, 5 yards piece nice
pattern value ST so yard
HOSIERY A PAIR-Lades Fast Black Hose; value
SOC pair.
SOC PAIR-Lades' Fast Black Hose; value 65c. pair
NEW GINGHANfS-1Oc. A YARD-Fine Ginghams neat
pattern; value 15c yard.
2Oc YARDZephir Ginghams latest designs value 3Oc.
a yard.
M. S. LEVY rs Fort Street
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16
Wanted.

A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN TO
N take care OF children. Apply at the
office of 7. G.. ADVERTISER for address.
332l-6t -. -
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16

Mr.. EDITOR: Will you kindly
insert the following article, written
by Geo. E. Foster, Minister of
Finance for the Dominion of Can
ada? With little alteration in
the figures it exactly indicates the
financial benefits received from the
saloons in Honolulu.
H. w. PECK.
March 6, 1898.
HOW THE DRAM SHOPS PAY THE
TAXES.
Whenever in city, county or coun-
try, an attempt is made to close the
dram shops, the supporters and pro-
prietors of these institutions raise the
cry of revenue and taxation. In some
strange and unaccountable way the
idea has been impressed upon the
public mind that there is no better
way of raising municipal and provin-
cial revenues than by setting up dram
shops, placing men in them to collect
money for the drink sold, and then
compelling these men to pay over a
certain amount of their gross takings
into the public treasury. The liquor
sellers industriously nurse this idea,
and no cry is more ready to their lips
than this: "If you close the bars, you
will lose the revenues, and so have to
pay higher taxes"
1t needs but an exercise of average
common sense TO enable us to estimate
this cry at its proper worth, and to
arrive very speedily at few funda-
mental facts in the light of which we
may easily come to just conclusions.
/. The dram shops inevitably lessen
the amount of assessable property.
The property of a community is
what bears the taxes. The more pro-
perty there is to be assessed, the
tighter the tax rate will be. Suppose
an amount of $4,000 is to be raised by
q certain time. If the assessable value
of the town is 100000, the tax rate
will be mills; but if the assessable
value of the town is S1,0OO,000, the
tax rate will be only 3 mills to the
dollar. So we see that whatever in
creases the accumulation OF property
decreases the rate of taXation; what
ever decreases the accumulation of
property, increases the rate of taxa
ton. This is simple principle which
any one can see at glance, and it
only becomes necessary for us to con-
slider, in addition, the influence of the
dram shops upon the accumulation OF
property. In the first place, they are
enemies of thrift, the teachers OF
waste.
Day and night they stand open to
invite each passer by, In them the
workman spends his dimes, the youth
his dollars and the richer man his
hundreds. They are the waste banks
into which slip bit by bit, the small
surplus of the working man and the
spare change of the artisan. Every
week they gather in thousands of dol
lars which would Otherwise be de-
posted in savings banks or be spent
on home improvements and comforts.
Not only do the dram shops invite
to first waste, but they turn this occa-
sional spending into a fixed habit of
waste, and drag, by the chains of APP
petite, their victim into constantly in-
creasing expenditure for what is both
needless and harmful. And all the
while the earnings of the patrons of
the dram shops are not allowed to ac-
cumulate into property, and conse-
quently the assessable value of the
community is not increasing so far as
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16

Mr.. EDITOR Most honest men
in this country place country above
Office, but yet they see no way in
which to change the course of gov
ernment so as to produce better
results the evils are admitted but
the remedies they do not see. The
conservatism of really good, but
slow-going citizens is the saving
element in ordinary times, but
clear-sighted reformers grow impa-
tient with conservatism. There are
times when conservatism has its
place in government and the sta
bility Of all institutions depends
upon these plodding thinkers whose
very mental makeup breads a
change. Such men are not fools
they really do some thinking; they
can see that times are out of joint !;
they know business is dull when it
could be brisk. These fellows can
in due time be made to see things
if their prejudices are not aroused.
In an old established government
people may have patience to wait
for these old plodders, but can we
afford to wait until these clogs on
the wheels of progress see fit to
drop off? I imagine all thinking
men will unhesitatingly answer no.
In the language of President Cleve-
land it is condition and not a the
ory that confronts us, and it calls
for immediate action. Business is
at standstill. We cannot stand
the strain any longer. The condi-
tions surrounding US demand inn
mediate action, plodders and clogs
Notwithstanding. We must ask
ourselves wherein lies the path of
duty, for to man the support of
principles cannot be less than a
duty.
It is more it is not too much to
assert that right action in that
which affects ourselves, our coun-
try, our common brotherhood of
mankind and our posterity, is a
sacred obligation. The present de-
plorable condition of industry
leaves no choice but to act, and
that quickly. 1t is worse than idle
to shut our eyes to the conditions
we are called upon to meet and
overcome. There are two kinds of
clogs hanging to the wheels of pro-
gress, political demagogues who
have everything to gain and moth
ing to lose and have never done an
honest days work in their lives,
consequently industrial prosperity
does not enter into their calcu-
lations, and honest, but deluded,
men who think that if we starve
for a year or two that we will get
better conditions. Our cry must
be for prosperity first, and condi-
tions afterward.
Yours,
Jos. L. CARTER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16

Total loss to the city directly, S25O,OOO
Surely the time will speedily come
when the enlightened common sense
of the country will abolish such sys-
tenn of raising revenue, dismiss the
tax gatherers to earn an honest living
and save our communities from the
dreadful rapine and pillage of the rum
traffic
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16

The phonograph is drawing i'm
mense crowds daily at the Thomas
Block, on King street. Mr.. Stoe-
ckle has a large number of new
and popular songs recorded.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16
CORRESPONDENCE.

We 10 not hold ourselves responsible for the
statements made or opinions expressed by our
correspc adents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-16

Entries can be made at the Hawaiian
News Co.'s or to the Secretary.
JNO. 81. SOPER,
WALTER E. WALL, President.
Secretary 3325.td
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28

THE G. A. r. at indianapolis studir
ously avoided to name the republican
party IN resolutions of condemnation,
as II should have done. By indirection
1t severely criticised the Harrison ad-
ministration. For the four years 1T
lasted the G. A. R. had endeavored to
have the law carried out which gives
preference to union soldiers in appoint
ment to Offices by the national govern
msnt. 1t has been a dead letter on the
statute books. The truth Is, the repub-
loan party has no use for the @. A. l..
organization, except as it can make
capital out of ii to aid in carrying cleo
tions. When an officer of the general
government is to be traduced for con-
scientious effort to honestly execute
the laws relating to pensions, then the
republican party stirs up the G. A. r.
into bitter action. But, when it comes
to recognizing an old soldier for office,
he is pushed aside to give place to some
active young republican, who has the
ability and experience necessary to Of
fectively work primaries for the advan'
tage of the appointing power. The re'
publican leaders know "hawk from a
henshaw."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28

THE following vigorous vivisection
of Senator Voorhees, appears in the Lin
coin Herald, from the pen of that vete-
ran Nebraska Democratic Editor John
John d. Calhoun:
"There was time when the name of
Daniel w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, was
synonymous with Defender of the peo-
pie. Through all the dark and distress
full days of the war, amid every trying
ordeal of the reconstruction era,
through the 1873 crusade of the
money changers, in every assault upon
the citadel Of human rights, against
all force-bill usurpations, on every
occasion until now, Dan Voorhees, has
been honored, trusted and faithful
champion of the common masses. No
one was too poor and friendIess to COM
mand his services, no one so great and
powerful as to escape his righteous
wrath. He had grown into
the hearts of the poor and the
weak and the lowly as had no other
man in the nation. And now
at a moment when his party has been
placed In full control of the government
because of the records and professions
of him and men like him-he undoes
the work and cancels the influence of q
lifetime by enlisting under the banner
of the money power in contest beside
those in which he was previously en-
gagged fade into insigniiicance. This is
the most saddening incident of modern
politics. Above all suspicion of being
influenced by improper motives, the al
teration in the attitude of Mr.. voorhees,
must be attributed to change In his
convictions. He and all of us have
heretofore been wrong. Government,
instead of flowing upward from the
people to their representatives, must be
handed down to them by their direct
ors, or masters, as one chooses to des.
ignate the agents of this newly found
ruling authority. Mr.. Voorhees, has
been wrong his whole life, or he IL
wrong now. is melancholy an6
disheartening contemplation, viewed
from whatever SIDE"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28

THE Republican party Is unalterably
pledged TO double standard. The DEM
ocrat knows this. Butmay be Grover has
not passed the offices around satisfaction
ily.-Canton Repository.
This reads like the tales OF Sinbad
the Sailor, that nobody believes, be-
cause the writer made the tale so ex-
traordinary bad that no one was ex-
pected to believe 1t. Let us see: The
almost solid vote of the House Repub
licans has just been cast to demonetize
silver, and the Republicans in the SEN
ate have been tumbling over each other
in anxiety and desperation, to vote to
demonetize silver. The g. o. p. organs,
from Bangor to Omaha, are frantically
clamoring for a gold standard. The
Governor of Ohio, whose home Is very
near the Rep. Office, has just swallowed
himself in Akron, in adeplorable effort,
asking for the repeal OF the only law
recognizing silver on our statute books
and still the Rep. has the gall to say
"the Republican party is unalterably
pledged to q double standard" The
champion liar of this campaign is evil
IDENTITY not far away.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
TRYING TO DODGE THE ISSUE.

As a political figure our Governor
Mckinley presents singular specta-
Gle. He is appealing for votes for Gov.
ernor Of Ohio and a Republican legis-
lature, and no one would even suspect
anything like this, to hear him talk.
He fails to get down to the business
in hand, even for five minutes during
the entire hour and half of his job
lot Of played-out tariff platitudes.
Everybody who knows enough to
vote, knows that the tariff issue has
been twice decided by the American
people-in 1890 and 1892-and both
times by tremendous majOrities, and
everybody knows that Mckinley has
long since parted with his tariff max
ing power, and that no officer elected
this November will have any more to
do with the tariff than the Grand
Llama of Goose Lake. Still Mckinley,
utterly ignoring his own administra-
tion and that Of his odious legislature,
ia perambulating the State with his old
Protection speech revamped, and with
a pathetic assortment of calamity
howls over the money panic, trying to
convince the voters that IL he is not
elected Governor again there will never
be any revival of business.
That Mckinley has done much to add
to the panic goes without saying.
There are plenty Of Republican busi-
ness men, who concede his damaging
business; but man who never had any
business of his own except the business
| of feeding at the public crib at the ex-
pense of the tax payers, is not caring
anything about business.
1t is very generally conceded that the
last legislature was the most extrava-
giant, venal and corrupt in the entire
history of Ohio. Local taxation was
enormously increased,
1t is also well known that Ohio
never had Governor who paid so little
attention to the duties of his Office as
Governor Mckinley. He has not
averaged one day out of ten in Colum-
bus since his Inauguration.
Now Ohio is a great state. 1t con-
tains more population than the entire
thirteen colonies did at the close of the
Revolutionary war. Ohio is large
enough to have Governor who will at
tend to the duties of the Office.
The Democratic party presents a
| candidate in the person of Lawrence
Il. Neal, who thinks Ohio is big enough
l for his ambition. He is candidate
| for Governor of Ohio, and Is not pro-
posing to tax the people of Ohio $8, ,00O
per year for his living, with the addi-
ton of dress parade staff of military
dudes, costing the State four times as
much more, merelyto pose as spectacu.
lGr figures, while underpaid supernu-
meraries do the business of the State,
and corrupt, venal legislature, bank
rupt our State treasury and impose
onerous and unnecessary taxation upon
| our people.
1t is vital to every taxpayer and
voter to remember the issue.
1t Is local self government.
at present our State government is
wabbling, weak and Unsatisfactory
| AS an executive man Gov. Mckinley is
wanting in force, decision of character
and application to duty.
If he wants to train for 1896, let him
l train at the expense Of his hackers, and
not at the expense of the tax payers.
Ohio wants Governor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
STATE, NOT NATIONAL ISSUES,

McKinley's national campaign for q
state Office seems to meet many serious
rebuffs, up in the Maumee country.
For instance, the Toledo Daily News,
an independent paper, with strong
labor union proclivitles, supported Nc
Kinley two years ago; now it opposes
him. The Toledo Critic, edited by O
talented Republican, who was Labor
Commissioner under Gov. Foraker, is
now red hot against Mckinley. 1t
scores his inefficient state administra-
tion in the most terrific manner.
And now comes the Toledo Journal,
edited by Republican and formerly
independent, and hits Mckinley hard,
as follows,
"IF Governor Mckinley would kind
ly descend from his high horse of pro-
tection, and advise the voters Of Ohio
what he knows about state government
he would confer q great boon on his
fellow citizens. 1t would seem that 80
great a state as Ohio Is Of sufficient inn
PORTAGE, at least to her inhabitants, to
warrant careful study of her finances;
her tax system; her system of laws; her
public institutions and her general gov
ernments. Instead of this we find our
oClNC5 III bhO Va q Al
which not word is said by the domi-
nant party regarding any of these mat.
ters. We hear much about the McKin-
ley tariff act but nothing of the McKin.
ley ilasco as governor; much of Demo
cratic national control, but nothing OF
Republican state control. We are
regaled with stories of the establish
| ment of tin plate factories in remote
sections, but hear no explation of the
| Pocock scandal. There is much verbos
| ity touching the advantages of re-
pressing foreign trade, and making the
! foreigner pay the tax, but never worC
| is said of how our asylums are run
| The great issue of state direction anC
control are wholly ignored, and nationa
issues made the sum and substance o,
the campaign
There is also deep trouble for tn,
Major in Cleveland, in GAINESVILLE, il
Columbus, (where many leading Re
publicans are openly opposing him) ant
the deepest kind of trouble in Cincin
natl AT present the tide seems agains
the Major.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
A BOGUS CAM PAlGN.
From the Toledo News, independently.

The political campaign may now be
considered wide open in Ohio. So far
as the state is concerned, it is unique
All state issues are brushed aside by
Governor Mckinley. He devotes his
entire time to the discussion of ques-
ti0ns that he has no more to do with
as governor of Ohio than the man In
the moon. Governor Mckinley cannot
be blamed much for that in this age of
bunco Doodle politics. Were he to dis
cuss state issues and attempt to defend
his record, the majority piled up
against him would have to be written
with six figures. Mckinley is q good
enough lawyer to know the danger OF
attempting an explanation or defense
where no defense can be made. 1t ie
an old rule of criminal law that man
is not bound to answer questions that
would disgrace or criminate himself
Mac is no doubt availing himself OF
that rule, hoping that his silence will
not be interpreted against him.
Every monopolistic interest of the
state is backing him. Ia all his ap-
pointments he implicitly 0beyed the
corporations. With Governor McKin
ley at the helm and subservien,
Doodle legislature up stairs, the trusts
and corporate combines of monopoly
will feel safe. This is the state cam
paign in a nutshell,
COMMENTS:
This from a paper that supported
Mckinley for Governor, two years ago
Is quite significant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
TRYING TO SHIFT AGAIN.

The Republicans are now getting
alarmed over the damage their orators
have done In howls of calamity and are
now charging that the tariff agitation
caused the money panic. OF course
none of the array from Dan to Belize
bub ever thought of this before the
panic came, but as they find them
selves damaged by this calamity howl
business they are determined to fall
back on the lost cause.-the tariff.
Well, the tariff has been an issue in
this country, off and on, most of the
time, for about 100 years, and every
time the American people got chance
to decide 1t, by their votes, they have
decided it on the Democratic side, land
they are still of the same opinion, by a
largely increased majority,
We welcome the issue.
However, just at this time, in Ohio,
the issue is, shall we have a safe, hon.
est, economic administration of the
affairs of the great state Of Ohio, ..or
shall we endorse the most lax ana care
less State administration and,the most
venal and corrupt legislature the State
has ever known, in its entire hundred
years of Dfe?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28

Mr.. DOLL is making, what is known
in Stark county, as a money campaign
for sheriff. Mr.. Shanafelt made that
kind of campaign some four years
ago, which he has very much regretted
ever since. A money campaign, with
heelers hired by the day, with
a liberal allowance for spending
money, always looks roseate
before the election, because the
heelers, when they ask for more Doodle
make glowing reports to the candidate.
Mr.. Shanafelt had himself elected that
way by almost a thousand majority,
just before the election, but Shanafelt'S 5
fortune was absorbed by the blood
suckers and he was left stranded and
disconsolate, when the early frosts of
November nipped the celery leaflets in
the Greentown bottoms. History is
liable to repeat herself.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
ovERWoRKlNe HIS BOOM.
Shameful Prostitution of Ohio Day st the
worlds Fair.
From the MassillonIan.

Fr0m tno mhbtliOnihns
tits a notorious fact that Ohio Day
at Chicago Fair was basely prostituted
for partisan purposes by the ambitious
Governor of Ohio. The whole manage
ment was in the hands of his hench-
men, Dan Ryan, Gen. Howe, Mack
Taylor and the Civil and Military Sher-
man. Mckinley Republicans, aided by
9. w, +. Dick, chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee. Thousands of
dollars of the peoples money was di-
verted from the original purpose of
making this an Ohio celebration, and
used for advertising and booming the
presidential aspirations of Major Nc
Kinley. His heelers and strikers, all
drawing salaries from the people of
Ohio, were everywhere chanting the
praises of the Tin God, and there was
no concealment of their object. Not
only the peoples time and money, but
precious human life was willfully risk
ed as an Offering at the altar of bis am
bition. Against the advice and under
protest of many the 1900 youthful
soldiers of the Sd and 14th Regiments
%. N G., were subjected to
hardship, abuse and danger
that only the necessities Of actual
warfare would have justified, for
the sole purpose of making the McKin'
ley Pageant more impressive. They
were by the plans and at the bidding OF
McKinley's managers compelled to
march for nine hours In merciless
heat and that in heavy marching order
with all arms, knapsacks, blankets and
overcoats. Scores fell by the wayside
Frustrated by heat and exposure. II
was an ordeal that would have tried
veterans.
1t was cruel and uncslled for, these
young soldiers, composed mostly OF
clerks and mechanics were unused, as
their COMMANDMENTS Governor
Mckinley knew, to such exposure and
exertion. The hospitals of the White
City were filled with the suffering SOL
diers of our state, who fell, not in an
honest effort to do honor to their state
but victims of the political ambition
of their Commander-in-ch Governor
Mckinley. 1t is said that to one Of his
managers it was suggested that unless
relieved they would lose votes by death
among the guards on parade, and the
answer came promptly, we will have
enough left for this fall, we are looking
ahead to '96.