The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-12
PROF. Z. CHARLIER'S VIEWS or HA-
WAII AED CALIFORNIA

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who spent six months in travelling
around this group. They contain
some well-expressed sentiments on
local affairs, and as expressing the
views Of gentleman Of wide ex-
perience and liberal sentiments,
will be read with interest.-E DI-
TOR.
AS / expected before leaving Homo
lulu, your political situation remains
| as it was then. President Cleveland
| is bound to wait for the re-assembling
of congress, and Mr. Blount is in no
| hurry to come to conclusion. All
| that was in the order of human events
| Unless the United States government
| has lost common sense it is bound to
| accept the Hawaiian islands under one
form or another; and in the meantime
do not see that you are any worse off
| than you were before. Your only
great industry is sugar, and every
thing connected with it goes on as
usual. / do not pity much the plant
| ers if they make only 10 per cent. in
stead of % per cent. They will have
! time to consider the labor question
OF course when profits were enormous
expenses were lavish, and fictitious
boom was created. Every felt
rich, and now everybody feels poor,
as the millionaire who loses half his
millions, and declares that lie is
ruined.
Even if the United States does not
accept the Hawaiian islands, the Pro
visiOnal government is perfectly able
to remain master of the situation. If
pushed to the wall, the eX-queen may
be put on a steamer and sent abroad
with few of her most ardent support
ers. Let the first practical ugitatOr
be tried anu shot, the others will not
move. But / would allow full free
speech and a free press. 1t is better
to let people evapOrate their ideas
than to confine them in holes. 1t is
better to know what our adversaries
are doing than to have to discover
their plans.
And, finally, if the United States
refuses absolutely the Hawaiian re-
public, England is ready to take hold
of it, and, under its rule, the labor
question would present no difficulty;
peace and stability would exist. L
have seen its rule in India, and especi-
ally in Ceylon, with inferior races,
and L consider the English as the
best rulers Of Eastern nations.
So, altogether, | feel little or no
anxiety about the future of your Ha-
waiian islands, and, if / live, L may
decide to go and end my days under
your glorious climate, in spite of your
mosquitoes, south Winds and other
drawbacks. BY that time a cable may
have been laid between Hawaii and
the coast, and, if so, it would remove
my greatest objection to living in the
center of the Pacific ocean.
We spent two weeks in the YOse-
mite valley and its surroundings. 1t
is a long, fatiguing, rough, dusty
journey. The valley itself is geologi-
calIy remarkable. A massive granite
mountain was thousands or mil
lions of years ago split by
an earthquake; the result is
hole six miles long, two miles wide,
surrounded by rocky walls 5000 feet
high. The MERGED torrent, which in
old times came down from the highest
SUBMITS mounts Whitney, Lyell,
etc. of the Sierra Nevada, by sue
cession of rapids and small falls, now
tumbles down the valley by two big
falls of 700 and $50 feet. Once at the
bottom of the valley it is a peaceful,
Insignificant stream which receives q
number of torrents that tumble down
on all sides and form falls of great
height. In May, when the snow
melts, the streams are full and the
waterfalls more attractive, especially
at sunset, when the rays of the sun
strike almost horizontally the spray,
and form the finest rainbows which /
have yet seen out of the sky.
The highest or longest of those falls
is the Yosemite (GriZZly Bear which
tumbles down 1900 feet in it's upper
part, $500 feet in all before reaching
the Merced but the impression made
on the mind is not great and does not
compare with the grandeur of Ma
CARA.
OF course, we bring back many
pleasant memories from that trip.
On the SUBMITS | found the wonder
full snow plant (sarcodes sanguinea)
which comes out of the snow like a
huge red asparagus, and developes
number of small flowers like those of
n hyacinth, surrounded by most deli
cate leaves tinted with white. The
bloody red color of the whole is its
most remarkable feature.
The big trees of Mariposa (sequoia
gigantica) are another feature of that
region. They are ugly, and, sur
rounded by other very tall trees, do
not surprise the eye by their heights,
Japan. 1t is necessary to study them,
and we spent many hours amongst
them. The "GriZZly Bear is 260 feet
high, over 80 feet in circumference.
The "Wawonah' (big tree) is % feet
in diameter. a passage 10 by 10 has
been cut through it for road. The
photographs usually represent il with
a carriage in it. \ volume could be
written on those trees, their history,
etc.
\ company of United States cavalry
was camping in the Yosemite reserva-
ton TO protect it against camp fires
and destroying humans. On the top
of Signal Peak (used for surveying
we found two officers trying 10 kill
eagles. They were gentlemen, West
Pointers, and knew the country, we
divided with them our lunch, in
vited them to dine and we were mu-
tually satisfied with each other.
On our way up, we had the mishap
to meet party of Raymond tourists.
Individually each one may be an an
gel; collectively they are like the
Egypt grasshoppers, an unmitigated
nuisance. The result was that we had
to drive in an open wagon, with a
snow storm in the afternoon, which
lasted two hours. Luckily the road
Superintendent. with q buggy, came