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to conform to liberal customs and
civilized ways. People Of European
race would have less cause of
grievance in Asiatic competition
if such were raised to a grade
corresponding with their own
status OF social existence.
Asiatics in the country cannot be
got rid of without violent
measures that are not to be
dreamed of. Therefore, the best
way to mitigate the evil of Their
competition is to bring their com
petition up to civilized standard
They are capable of civilization,
as much so as were our remote
ancestors, and if civilized might
after oil make good neighbors
and helpful coadjutors in the
perfecting of the fabric of the
Hawaiian commonwealth.
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SINCE Captain Palmer's de-
parture it has been brought to
our knowledge that no need
for pecuniary return could
have iu the leass influenced
him in making his recent visit
to Hawaii. He has been here
twice as an ordinary press cor
respondent, asking no consider
alton and most certainly re-
ceiving none, working as
though his bread had depend
ed upon it. 1t is therefore to
our own surprise that we. dis
cover that his income in Bos-
ton, while absent, is double
the liberal salary paid by the
journals who have sent him
here. To be wealth is not in
the least to merit a respectful
hearing; to be poor in dollars
should lesson no persons right
to an opinion. Yet, when a
man whose credit is equally
good in London, in San Fran
cisco or in his native city es-
ponses an unpopular cause, he
must at least have the merit Of
sincerity.
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New! +!

ORDERS can be placed with
Fl. E. MCINTYRE & BRO, for
Fresh
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TIE INDEPENDENT.
THURSDAY, MAY g., 1896

The economy of the gov
ernment is rather beyond ordi-
nary comprehension. A while
agn an appropriation was
granted securing money for
extra guards in the custom
house. 1t was explained at
the time that the force was too
small to watch the many
wharves and seize the plenti-
full opium. The dope has
never been found but the
guards are now being reward
ed with vacations during which
they are supposed to pick up
and recover the eye-sight and
strength lost in looking for
contrabands. How the Castles
would have howled if this had
been done in "old days"
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School Reform.

If there is one thing that
Honolulu shows meanly in, it
is in the matter of public school
buildings. The large central
schools are eyesores IN archl-
lecture and battered and grimy
with age. Some new school
houses. have been erected at
outlying places within the city,
which are fairly snug in
appearance but yet bearing a
shanty look about them which
is not inviting. The Board of
Education did not have means
to put up any but the plainest
of structures. 1t is q great
pity that presentable looking
structures of stone or brick
could not have been erected
when it became necessary to
establish the Beretania-street
and the Kauluwela schools.
Both the Fort-street and the
Royal school buildings are
dingy and dilepidated. These
schools are so near together
that there is no reason of
convenience to population for
having two separate establish
ments when the Board shall
obtain power to rebuild them,
A structure that would be an
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Retrogressive.

The editorial in yesterdays
advertiser has helped to block
ade the road to peace and con-
ciliation, which the conserya-
tive elements of the communi-
ty have endeavored to establish.
The scurrilous insults offered
to Captain Palmer in yester-
days advertiser are not worthy
of consideration. An esteem
ed correspondent voices the
sentiment of the commun ity in
this regard in another column.
The editor of the advertiser
is, as a matter of course, res
ponsible for that most inexcus-
able product, but we do not
believe that he ever was the
author of it.
However, we are not deal
ing with Captain Palmer. He is
perfectly able to take care of
himself, and the .ungentleman-
ly slurs and filthy literature of
the writer to the advertiser
can not vex him or injure him.
What we desire to point out to
the men behind the official or
gan is the wanton insult offer
ed to the lady who once ruled
these islands, and who now is
in sore distress and helpless
"pilikia." The unprovoked
assaults on the ex-Queen do
not tend to further good will
and a friendly feeling between
the opposing factions. tits mean
and cowardly to ridicule the
fallen power. 1t is objection
able and distasteful to any de-
cent man, woman or child to
see a woman kicked who is
"down." But the advertiser
INDUCES in that sport and as
long as it continues to do SO,
the bridge of friendship be-
tween Hawaiians and haoles
will never be finished nor will
the hope and desire for revenge
ever become extinct. Let the
advertiser ridicule and make
fun of Captain Palmer, when
ever the men who control that
paper desire. But let those
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The Hawaiians AS Rulers

The main point advanced by
the present regime and its follow
ers in defense OF the recent events
which established an oligarchy
in Hawaii, is to the effect that the
ex-Queen and her followers IN
tended to place the government
in the hands of Hawaiians alto
gether.
No greater Misrepresentation
could have been made, and we
doubt if the author of the fable
ever took any stock in it himself.
The Hawaiian rule, as such
was doomed in 1880, when Kala-
kaua tried to run the government
with a native cabinet and ma.
tive legislature.
Foreigners and Hawaiians alike
objected to that policy and the
Aholo- Kapena-Kanoa cabine found
no more sympathy among Ha-
walians than was granted it from
the ..haoles. The SO Legislature
was mainly constituted of Hawai-
ians, and there can be no denial
that Kalakaua held the majority
of them solid. and used them as
puppets in his funny doll-show.
The result of those circumstance
was 1887.
The Hawaiian or rather native
government was overturned, and
the haoles took the helm. They
did not do so through their own
resources. Oh, no. There were
numerous of the most influential
Hawaiians in the Reform ranks
at that time, and the power of the
government was equally distri-
buted. No sooner, though, were
the haoles in power through the
assistance of their Hawaiian friends
before they begau an easy and
crusade against the Hawaiians,
against whom they had a never
to to-be-forgotten grudge. How
Indifferent or dense the Hawai-
ians may be in ordinary business,
they very soon realized how
the land lay, and what the
feelings of their haole brother
we're towards them. Since 1887
the Hawaiians have drifted
away from the fold which once
held them throug hspromises,
brlbes and persuasions until TO-
day the haoles have the govern
ment--with scarcely one honest Ha
waiian back of them-a Hawaiian
who is not paid by an official
salary, but q Hawaiian whose
loyalty comes from the heart and
from uselfish motives.
Who is to blame?
Both parties are to blame and
selfshness and vanity and lust
for gain have led both parties
astray. Nobody has ever claimed
that the Hawaiian was fit to rule.
Nobody with any intelligence and
any interest in the welfare Of the
country ever asked to see q
pure" Hawaiian Government
No constitution was ever prepared
or proposed which could cause
such belief, and the assertion
CT the haoles to ktbat effect are
false OF based upon expressions
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men understand that if peace
is ever to reign in Hawaii, if
goodwill is to be created, the
unfortunate Liliuokalani must
be left alone and not used as
an object of indecent fun or
vulgar wit in the columns of a
paper for which President
Dole and his government are
virtually responsible.
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well replace both on the site of
the Royal school, which has
space for recreation ground
that the Fort-street school is
almost wholly without. The
Union school, as the combined
establishment might be called,
ought to have ain academic
department, free to all as the
grades below it should also be
made. In place of the Fort
street school that now is there
should be erected buildings for
a normal school with a model
school attached. Before all
these changes can be effected
it will perhaps be necessary to
have special legislation, which
would made a radical change
in the school system with re-
gard to Honolulu. The capital
should be erected into a
separate achool, district, with
it's schools taken out of the
immediate direction of the
Board of Education and placed
under a Board of School Com
missioners. City property
should pay special school tax
for the maintenance of a free
system of schools in addition to
a proper share of support from
the general fund of the Board
of Education. There can be
no reasonable objection to a
special school tax, because, if
the city is to have a school
system commensurate with its
dignity, it ought to be willing
to pay for it. Honolulu is
probably the lightest taxed
city in the world, having
absolutely no municipal taxes
to pay. 1t is true that it pays
direct taxes to the national
revenue in common with the
country districts, but these
taxes are light and only
correspond to the direct tax
alton levied by the counties
and the towns of other
countries that have few or no
direct taxes to contribute to
national revenues.
To make the property taxes
yield a stated proportion OF
revenue for the support of schools
might we'll be expected, more
over, to have a tendency to pro-
mote civilization among those
elements of our population which
as yet have evinced only an in
finitesimal disposition to assimi-
late themselves to occidental
civilization. When the Chinese
and Japanese knew that they were
paying for the education Eof the
children of other nationalities in
the English language, giving
them vast advantage over their
own children who are going to
live here all their days, the
Chinese and Japanese will be
likely to consider the matter and
have their children equipped with
an English education. 1t is be-
lieved by able observers through.
out the world that one of the
results of the war between Japan
and China will be the starting of
political and social revolution
in China which will place "the
howery kingdom in the race OF
enlightened progress along with
"the land of the rising sun. y
Internal development will be
likely to check if not stop the
emigration of Chinese to other
countries. AT the same time the
consummation devoutly wished
for in Hawaii, that the industries
of the country can be maintained
without degraded labor. would
make 1t eminently desirable that
the Asiatic clements remaining
in the country ehOuld ba brOuoht
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Eastern
Transplanted
Oysters

from John F. Colburn's Pond,
and delivery made on Tuesdays
and Saturdays of each week.
Try them, they excel the for
eign ones. my9
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will in policy aim to justify its 1t will be paper
for the People, and the organ of any Sect party or
clique BY fulfilling this purpose, it will answer the
objection that there too many newspapers in Homo
lulu.
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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
CLARKE WILL BE TRUSTEE
An Agreement Is Reached Which Will
Danhtlesa BE Formally Closed.

An Agreement Is Reached Which Will
Doubtless Re Formally Closed.
MINNEAPOLIS, June I'm. P. Clarke
and his creditors have at last come to
an agreement that is looked upon with
favor by all parties concerned. The
big lumberman has made an offer to
settle all the claims against him on the
basis of 80 per cent of the total amount,
30 cents to be secured and to be paid in
4. and 10 months, and the balance Of
20 cents to be paid in notes running 1,
Q and 3 years. The acceptance of
this proposition implies that Mr.. Clarke
will be given charge of the estate of
the insolvent N. P. Clarke & Co., and
and Assignee Kells will be dismissed.
All the creditors have confidence in the
ability of Mr.. Clarke to manage the
property to better advantage than
could be done through the courts, and
the court will readily name him as
trustee when the creditors make a
unanimous request for it. Everybody
is pleased over the outcome of the con-
ference between Mr.. Clarke and the
creditors committee, for, had the as
signment taken the usual course, an in
terminable litigation and a small divi-
dend would have been the inevitable
result.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
IT DIDN'T WORK.
A Lone Robber Tries to Hold
Up a Bank at Butte,
Montana.
The CLERK SCARES RUNAWAY,
And He Is Captured After a
Sharp Battle With
Officers.

BUTTE, Mont, June IA man who
refused to give his name entered the
Silver Bow National bank here at noon
and demanded money from w. O.
Thomas, who was in charge. The de-
mand was backed by gun, which
was thrust through the paying teller's
window Thomas jumped behind the
counter, grabbed a gun and fired six
shots into the ceiling to attract the
people in the street. The robber ran
out of the building and with his gun
ordered people out Of the way. A
policeman heard the shooting and met
the man running away. A battle took
place between the two and was kept
up for block, both emptying their
guns at each other. A part Of the Of.
ficer's coat was carried away by bull
let's, but otherwise no damage was
DONE The robber was captured by the
deputy sheriff. He is a stranger here,
having arrived 10 days ago along with
q gang of safe blowers. He secured no
money. The officers Of the bank gave
the policeman and deputy sheriff 500
each for their work. The bankers here
heard that an attempt was to be made
to rob them, but paid little attention to
the warning.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
LOST Q; THEIR TITLE I:
The Recent Decision In the
Wisconsin Land Case
Is Disastrous ~ s
TO THE SETTLERS or 1890.
Federal Government Com
mences Suit to Recover
Michigan Lands. ..

MILWAUKEE, June lathe full pur-
port of the decisions handed down by
the United States supreme court on
June 8, in two Wisconsin Central land
cases, did not appear from the brief
dispatches announcing the reversal OF
Judgment against the Wisconsin Cen
trail company. AS a result of this de-
cision scores of people who stood in
line at the Ashland land Office in 1890,
when portions of the lands in contro.
versy were thrown open to settlement
under mistaken ruling of the in
terror department., lost their title to the
property on which they filed at that
time. The land is located within a
short distance of Ashland snd has been
claimed for years past by the Wiscon-
sin Central Railroad company, under a
congressional grant of lands made to
the state in aid of its railroads.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
THE FREE SILVER CONVENTION.
Memphis Rapidly Filling With Delegates
and Visitors.

Memphis Rapidly Filling With Delegates
and Visitors.
MEMPRTs, June 12.-By moderate
stretch Of imagination a visitor III
Memphis might fancy himself in the
national capital on the eve OF the as
sembling Of congress, or in the midst
Of national political convention. The
political element Of the free silver
hosts has preceded the radical element
in the arrivals for the great white
metal conference, which have been
numerous and have included many
men of national reputation.
The town is rapidly filling up with
the 1000 or 1850 delegates, who, it is
expected, will face President Brown OF
the local Bimetallic league when he
calls the convention TO order at IL
o'clock. They come by scores from the
neighboring towns in Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Tennessee, the
extreme Northwest and from Florida.
They represent about 20 states, lying
principally west Of the Mississippi and
south of the Ohio river. The general
sentiment favors Senator Turpie of In.
diana for presiding officer of the con-
vention, with Senator Jones OF Arkan-
sas as chairman Of the committee on
resolutions.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
SUPREME LODGE IN SESSION.
A. O. U. w. Delegates Meet ut Chicago.
Supreme Masters Report

A. O. U. w. Delegates Meet at Chicago.
Supreme Masters Repo
CHICAGO, June 12.-The sunreme
lodge of the Ancient Order Of United
Work1nen is in session here. The
mornings work was given up to re-
ceiving the delegates and in showing
their credentials. The chief report OF
the day was submitted by Supreme
Master Workman L. L. Troy, i'll which
he recommended a system Of graded
assessments, the raising of an emerg-
ency fund and the issuing of $1,000
beneficiary certificate. He also sub
mitted his annual report for the year.
which states that the total number OF
lodges was 1878, net increase for the
year Of 81. The total membership OF
the order was 341,371, an increase OF
10, 545, s. sos members having died dur
ing the year The total income had
been $7,644, 974 and the disbursements
81, 678, 800. The balance of the day was
taken up with routine masters.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
IS FIFTY YEARS OLD.
University Of Notre Dame, Ind, Cels-
brates Its Golden Jubilee.

. q.
University Of Notre Dame, Ind, Ce,s-
brates Its Golden Jubilee.
NoTRE DAME, Ind. June 12.-The
celebration Of the 50th anniversary
of the University of Notre Dame
makes an epoch in the history Of edu-
cational work in the West. The 600
acre tract upon which the institution
stands was purchased from the govern
ment in 1880 at $225 an acre. Father
Sorin, priest of the Holy Cross, found
ed the university. The buildings
which have since been erected are eight
in number, arranged in q half circle.
the center of the group being the main
building, five stories in height and sur
mounted by dome whose apex is 200
feet above the ground. The commem-
orative exercises which were inaugur-
ated during the morning will continue
for three days. Among the
Hundreds of Prominent Guests
who have responded to the invitations
to participate are Is archbishops and
bishops OF the United States and Can
ada, over 200 priests and numerous DEL
egations Of alumni and other friends of
the institution. The exercises Of the
day were commenced with the cele-
bration Of high mass in the chapel at 9
a. IN. by Archbishop Elder of Cincin-
natl. The sermon was delivered by
Archbishop Ireland Of st. Paul. The
afternoon was devoted to an inspection
Of the various courses and departments
Of the university and in the evening
the exercises of the alumni were held
in Washington hall.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
WHITNEY SAYS NO.
Tho Ex-Secretnry Of tho Navy Not
Candidate for President.

Tho Ex-Secretnry of tho Navy Not IL
Candidate for President.
BOSTON, June l1.-Ex-Secretary of
the Navy Whitney was interviewed at
the home of his mother i'll Brookline
Sunday. He said:
II am not, and will not be a presi-
Dental candidate. If the silver men
should carry the next Democratic con-
vention it would split tho party right
in two. The Democrats must stand
for sound money. There are good
many sound money men in the West
and South, and the Memphis conven-
ton, l think, has helped the cause
along. Carlisle's speech at the conven-
ton was IN excellent one and deserves
to be widely read. 1t has undoubtedly
had an influence in the South.
II think the people will eventually
treat this question the same as they
did the greenback question. They
want sound money now, just as much
as they did Them
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
UNCLE SAM SUES.
A Michigan Railroad Made Defendant in n
Large Land Case.

A Michigan Railroad Made Defendant in n
Large Land Case.
BAY CITY, Mich, June 12.-The
federal government has begun suit in
the United States court to recover COM
pensation from tho Flint and Pore
Marquette Railroad company for the
sale Of lands by the company, which it
is claimed were reserved by the gov.
eminent when the railroad company
accepted certain lands under arrange
ment in 1866. Over 800 persons are
made party defendants, most of them
having been purchasers of the said
lands. 1t is also asked that the de-
PENDANTS be restrained from removing
timber from the lands in question dur
ing pendancy of the suit. The amount
sued for is not stated, but it is expected
will reach an enormous sum.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
Town CrOD Bulletin.

DIES MONIES, June l2.-The weather
crop bulletin just issued says: Warm,
growing weather prevailed during the
past week. The average daily temper
allure was about two deg. above normal.
The rain fall was generally light until
Sunday, on which day heavy showers
passed through the central districts
from southwest to northeast, giving
ample rainfall for present needs to ut
least three -fourths Of the state. In
some localities the showers were phe-
nomenally largo and possibly occasioned
some damage to crops by washing and
covering, but the rains on the whole
have been highly beneficial to all crops.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-14
Wnnt the Benefits. Too.

CLEVELAND, June l2.-Auother con-
ference is soon to be held by commit
tees Oath Amalgamated Association
OF Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the
manufacturers of the Mahoning and
Shenango valleys concerning the scale
OF wages drafted by the former at the
recent convention in this city. The
puddlers will go into that conference
organized for war. The scale fixes
their wages at 81 per ton and they will
demand IS, though they will be willing
to accept 81 so as a compromise. They
claim that they are as much entitled to
the benefits of the better times as the
manufacturers.