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safe and fitting. Our foes are still here,
| defeated. but bitter, and hoping for fur
| ther opportunity. We are not at liberty
! to deal lightly with them.
At seaport like Honolulu, lying at the
| intersection of the great ocean routes.
| there are constantly drifting in numbers
of adventurers and tramps, reckless and
unprincipled, often violent and desperate
characters, troublesome in any community,
| but especially dangerous in one Of our
political contingencies. They are sure to
ally themselves with any disaffected party
| In the chance of promotion. OF this class
were the three men deported on the I'd In
| stant by the Warrimoo-Jehnstone Mueller
and Cranstoun-all of them worthless and
dangerous characters. Cranstoun's evil
| record has already been ventilated at Van
couver. I am not in possession of the pre-
else ground upon which our authorities
claimed the right to deport him without
| trial; but there is no doubt whatever that
| the forcible expulsion was a good thing
and he merits no sympathy. The purser
| was given $50 to hand to him upon arrival
in port which was kind and liberal pro-
! vision.
The Menace of Japan.
The wonderful skill. organization and at
tainment in the higher arts Of civilization
which have been so conspicuously demon
strated by the japanese nation in their
present war excite the highest admiration.
This evidence of their progress and sue
cess in adopting modern civilization is
most gratifying and hopeful. One must
rejoice to see such a nation range itself on
the side of civilization and enlightenment.
And yet every victory of Japan makes
her more terrible menace to little, un-
protected Hawaii. She is by far the most
powerful and formidable force in the
Pacific-and she is one of the nearest to
us. Twenty-Five thousand Of her people
are already here among us, a restless, de-
termined, shfty, excitable class. They
constitute In numbers one-fourth OF our
| Iy,11 fad hNy nfh fhar
powers, it would be simple matter for
Japan to take possession Of Hawaii. Our
only security against such an event lies in
protection from either the United States or
Great Britain The latter power would
gladly assume the task of protecting-and
owning-this outpost of civilization, lying
on the direct road between her great
colonies. She defers, however. to the
stronger claims of the United States To
the wonder and contempt of not only Eng
land, but of every other power, the United
States government trifies with the subject.
and refuses to perform Its natural and
obvious duty and. receive its only colony
into the Union. We lie out here nnpro-
tected. unsheltered. at the mercy of fill
busters or of Asiatic invaders.
United States Minister Willis. on the
18th, after the arrival Of his instructions
by the Alameda, had a long interview with
the minister of foreign affairs, F. NJ. Hatch.
with special reference to the case of John
F. Bowler. who had been sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and $500 fine. Mr..
Willis asked for full copy of the evidence
in Bowler's case, such as had been given
~ ~ mn a,,a ~ '1s tases VI HuoA anu seMaru, "a
leave the country. urging that his offense
was tess nellous snah Una. OF aholnsr per
sui " "mon .hat PrNuSse hau oeen
White, who had cast the shells for the
dynamite bombs filed by Walker. White
II nau iiot peen Irled. put II was IN evidence
INA that II naa oeeh representeo 10 nun tnat
!ne castinss were ior ornaments TO an
IRON renee mite anteceoents We're
1aVorapie as an honest nard,workins me-
Shanic. MI: Wills aiso urged tnat oo"ier
pe no. put INTO con'lct dress. but be
Bowler's Case.
Tha ,-,,,ar,n,an+ ,o,-,ra., p,,,,,.,
e"0e ."
an exceptionaiy heinous one. lie was the
person who undertook, with Nowlein, to
seize and hold the telephone office, thereby
emitting Off the eovernment,s commun,ca-
60. 81 s.sa.sa ~ -. q
.ion' wan me" ueienueis ne Is all ei-
flc'ent man and would doubtless have exc
cuted his task thoroughly. Bowler has
long been an active royaItst having nrof,ted
t,, In forr,ar va,rs h,, hi. narti..n
Shin With EaIaLaua ua b,,;I, tha ~,
naIpca for the Iinr costing IN oil ssSo n0C
and So;ne the 1,nrL woII Totar ;rSt ~
fore the change NJ const;tntion IN 1867
pnnIa- oh,afned a fat nnntraot e., 81
L;ny for tnnnoI.;na Sonth 20. iahnr.r nc
Tbe raforn, n,in;strS onnmIIad The cantreat
for which Rowisr Claimed hea,.w 6o,,,.o 90
aithoueh he had sustained no actual less
excent that of nrosnective nrofits Tbraa
wears later the reforn, ministrv losins
nower Fowler obtained from the .ntinras
form, legislatures NOT only the damages
claimed b,,t several thousand doiiars 81
ditioraI' which were divided among the
reedy legislators. His rova,,sm is we'll
known TO he a matter of hoodIe- and not
of sentiment He is now v,ear;n, The nrison
garb. aud waiting to he fastened To snit-
able hard labor. S
In his interview with Mr. Hatch Mr.
Willis took occasion to dwell unon The i'm
Dortance of the distinction in favor nf
..political,' prisoners Such a iistinction 10
of the highest importance in the case of
despot;c governments like that Of Russia
where the seyerest penalties are visiteS
upon mere expressions of opinion In favor
of liberal governments. and such seventies
are natural objects of reprobation ON the
other hand there Is little disnosi.ion To
censure the French republic for its severe
punishments in 1871 Of the Insurgents of
the commune, who, though raging anarch-
lists, were nevertheless animated by GER
onn,,et;nr 'A'1e" Ai''e 0iheu' poii'ieai
The Hawaiian monarchy had fallen into
dissolute and arbitrary courses, arrogating
to itself practical deSpotiSm, resting upon