The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-12-11

great American Union. They can
formulate better laws for immigration
and restriction of the various races
who here now and desire TO come than
our legislative body in Washington,
few of whom have ever been here and
cannot understand the climatic, racial,
agricultural and commercial condi-
lions and requirements except by a
personal visit, not of few days,
stopping over from one steamer 10 take
the next, but of several weeks at least
to give them time to make fair and
comprehensive study. | would certain
| ly trust the voters here, who have in
safety weathered the storms of the last
| four years, TO initiate system OF suff-
rage sooner than confide this delicate
question to politicians or even states
| men who can only take a theoretical
view OF the case at distance Of from
two 10 five thousand miles away.
They can settle the tests and quail
/ fications in way that could be sat
isfactory and cause little or no fric-
ton. as they have already passed the
period of probation, and so know what
is needed from the good lesson of ex-
perience. AS a matter of fact today
the Government has tests or Yestric
tons for the right of suffrage. Every
voter in addition to being of certain
age, or, if foreigner by birth, Of hav-
ing resided here certain number of
years, is also subjected to an educa-
tional and property qualification This
lis as it should be, and will greatly sim
l,-Ii haS,
citizens"
rs Honolulu keeping closeup with
modern progress in comforts OF civil
Ilization, aids and helps in transacting
business?"
Among the American inventions
very much in use in Honolulu I should
put the telephone as first. I doubt if
there is any city in the world of its
population where it comes into play as
universally. This arises partly from
the fact that there is no city delivery
! of letters, and so the thousand and one
: Little questions of every day life are
asked and answered by the telephone.
If your clock has run down and you
! want TO know what time it is you do
: not hesitate to telephone some neigh
, in the city are great, and if a person
who may wish to pay an evening call
will ring you up to learn if you are
: at home. The connections with the
Central are made very quickly, and
: the wires are seldom out OF order
! There is even one to the U. S. Adams
riding at anchor in the harbor, a great
: convenience to the officers on board
CT ashore
Another American invention is here
J which is greatly to be regretted. and
: that is the overdrawn checkrein. which
! seems to have come as part of the
harness from the States, whereas it had
much better have been left behind.
) While almost always discomfort and
. frequently positive torture to a horse,
1t is especially out of place in this or
! any other tropical country where the
poor animals always need the free ex-
tension of their heads and neck to
J rub themselves and drive off flies and
other insects. But here as elsewhere,
, the bicycle is fast taking the place of
: the horse for riding, and you see plenty
of them rushing about the streets, at
} all hours of the day and evening, as
in any of our cities.
Honolulu, considering its popula-
} ton, is amply supplied with newspa-
pers. Besides those in the native Ka-
naka language, Japanese, Chinese and
Portuguese, there are four daily papers
in English. Three of them-the Star,
the Bulletin and the independent
pear in the afternoon, while the re-
naming one is the Pacific Commercial
Advertiser, and this you have in the
morning. How then, can I better con-
clude than by saying that it is pleas
ant beginning of the day here, and one
that carries you back to Boston, to
find that with your breakfast and cigar
you can have the good old Daily Adj
vertiser to read"