The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-10-26


time the Bulletin wags its tail fee
bly, and says call mine-name and
ALL" "what's yours is mine, and
what's mine is my own" "and, faith,
I'll print it anyway" The journa-
listic amenities OF Honolulu are
about equal to those Of the town of
Red Dog, Kansas, where, though,
the editors had the courtesy to pull
their guns on each other, and hav-
ing caused each other to resemble
porous plaster, died-and left the
inhabitants in peace-till the next
batch lit on them.
What the Star alleges to know
about France and Madagascar is
derived from extended" cablegrams
in the S. f. papers. What the facts
are will be seen hereafter.
Neither the wool-raisers mot
growers), nor the wool-users in the
States have made any complaint
over the Wilson tariff. Some politi-
clans of the usual "raise row and
see who will be upper dog" style
have. But froth of that kind usually
subsidies when it comes to Congress
sional deliberation. The wooden
manufacturers OF the States and
their employees are too we'll satisfied
with the results of free wool to per-
NIT the item to be changed. And
the wool-raisers have found that by
admitting the classes of wool of
other countries free which they could
not produce, it has raised the prices
to them in outer markets for their
own special qualities.
Loebenstein on taxes and tax as
sessments is great. There was
time when he was tax assessor him
self. He ought to know about the
inequalities. But now the shoe
pinches at home and he squeals.
Yet, seriously, the matter is one de-
manding the attention Of our (so-
calied) Republican Government.
The inequality in assessment of
taxes is a notorious injustice to the
poor man.
How comical is juxtap osition
sometimes Take the following
from the Advertiser lady's column.
"What our neighbors say
"That bloomers can be bought
ready made in New York.
"That Queen Victoria is said to
have expressed approval of the bicy-
Gle for ladies'"
1t is now on the cards for some
one to say that the Queen will buy
her "ready made" bloomers in New
York. When you also think that
items quoted followed proposition
to have lulch down town, it is no
wonder the new woman loses her
head-we hope not her bloomers.
Government advertising in this
community is sore point with
the newspapers and the govern
ment officials. Each Of the latter
has his pet periodical which he
wishes to subsidize to gain its
goodwill and find in its columns
that Algernon Fitzclarence William
Montmorency Smith, or Mokukau-
oha Alapaki Farani Kauka Jones
has had his dogs hind-legs
scratched, or that his latest back
gate has been whitewashed, or
organized. Others again seem to
think that if we only advertise in
our supporters papers-never, of
course, the other side's-we sha
force the other side to read the
drivel which our inspired idiots
with pen attachment write because
they must take the paper to get
at our invaluable advertisements
and notices to the general public.
None of them seem to think that
the public has any rights in the
matter, and that everyone of what
ever shade, color, and opinion, has
right to see official notices to
public that may be given, in the
paper which he reads and not be
required to remain in ignorance of
it, or else read paper he objects to.
A humorous editorial reprinted
in another column from the N. Y.
Sun shows that the oyster does
not pass on its acquired bacteria
Why should our savants of the
medicine genus think that fish do,
when there is no proof that it is
so? 1t is possible that the tabu on
fishing is kept up to enable certain
persons to make a profit out of