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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-02
WILL REPORT FAvORABLY.
The Senate Nicaragua Canal COMMITTEE
Wants the Work to Begin.

The Senate Nicaragua Canal committee
Wants the Work to Begin.
WASHINGTON, February 16-The
Senate Committee on the Nicaragua
Canal held meeting yesterday for an
exchange of views upon the eXpedi
ency of reporting bill for the con
s;ruction of the canal during the pres
ent session of Congress The commit
tee was somewhat Handicapped by
the fact that the report of the Com
mission which was sent to Central
America last summer for the inspec-
ton of the caual route had not been
printed.
This was the first meeting the COM
mittee has held since its creation, and
it was important in that it demon
strated a unanimous sentiment in ia
vOr of the construction OF the canal.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-02
Cartwright Block, Merchant St.
BRUCE CARTWRIGHT
THE HAWAIIAN SAFE DEPOSIT
And Investment Company

<2AS4 hNSSbAAASht
STOCKS HAVE BEGUN TO MOVE!
The favorable weather during the past
summer gives promise of a large crop for
1896, and with an estimated shortage of the
worlds production of One Million Tons of
Sugar, higher prices are looked for
ersons alive to the situation are begin
ming to purchase now. During the present
month we have made more sales of First
Glass Stocks than for the past twelve
months.
We are now buying and selling the fol-
lowing:
Hawaiian Sugar Company Stock,
Eva Plantation Company Stock
Haiku Sugar Company Stock,
Honomu Sugar Company Stock,
Hawaiian Agricultural Company Stock,
Paias Plantation Company Stock,
Mutual Telephone Stock,
Hawaiian Electric Company Stock.
Also Hawaiian Government Bonds, and
Plantation first Mortgage Bonds.
We have some very secure boxes in the
Safe Deposit Vaults to let by the month or
by the year at very reasonable rates.
For particulars apeiy to
TIE HB WAUAN SAFE DEPOSIT
And Investment Company,
A08 Fort Street. HonnInIn
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-02
FOR. LEASE.

NO. 5.-THAT DESIRABLE LOT ON
he West side OF Judd street, On the Walk
XII side of the. residence of c. Bolte, ESQ.
This affords one of the finest building sites
in the city. A long lease on moderate
terms TO desirable tenant.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-02

Besides the above have other desirable
property for sale and lease. For informa-
ton call at the office,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
MILE A MINUTE DY TROLLEY.
Electric Railroad to Connect BaIti-
more With Washington.
Philadelphia Press.

FnllaQelph1a Press.
Plans have been perfected for the over
mead work Of the electric railway between
Baltimore and Washington Owing to the
high speed at which trains are to be run the
ordinary trolley construction was deemed inn
practicable. The design adopted was per-
fected by DR.. Louis Duncan of the John
Hopkins university
1t Is radically different from any hereto
fore In use. 1t provides for center pole
construction. Poles of Georgia pine octa-
gonal in shape, thirty-four feet long. and
ley wire will be suspended eighteen feet above
the rails. Bracket arms of two and one
half-inch wrought iron pipe will extend
through the poles. The trolley wire will be
suspended from these arms by special T
castings and short length of pipe.
A smooth undermining service for the
trolley wheels Is secured. The wire is a safe
distance below the trolley arms, and in the
event OF the trolieys jumping they will not
strike anything.
AS the cars will go at a speed of sixty or
more miles an hour, serious accident might
result from the trolleys leaving the wire
II tnere were any surface which they could
strike. Two trolley arms, each having two
wheels, set in tandem, will be used on each
motor car. Bare feeders to supply the cleo
trlcal current will be located along the route
at an average distance Of every fifth pole
On up grades they will be placed about every
pole and on down grades at a greater dis
lance apart.
The copper trolley wire which will be used
Will De about three times heavier than that
ordinarily used. 1t Is roughly estimated that
over ooO, 0O0 pounds OF copper will be required
This form of construction will extend from
Columbia Road and Edmondson avenue in
Baltimore county, to Fourth street northeast
in Washington
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17

chicken and the manager IL cents for
sugar. rs cents a dozen for eggs, 60
cents a pound for imported and 80
cents for native bacon. The engineer
pays from $40 to $12 for pair OF
trousers that he could get for $3.50 in
Chattanooga, and 81 for felt hat
that at home would cost from 80 cents
to dollar. while board costs $40 a
month that cost SIG at home. After
the latter has received his 'cheap
money" wages and wishes to send
pay $214 to get 81 to them. But all
men cannot be either engineers or
railway managers there any more than
here. The wages of the carpenters
and masons and the unskilled workers
are the real test. These range at from
81 to 81 a day, lower for the unskilled
and about the same for the skilled as
here, while the money received buys
less than half what 1t does here. AS
division superintendent are paid $3.50
a month we suppose the energy and
ability" required for manager COM
mands better wage still, and Mr..
Temples complacency is easily ac-
counted for 1t would be interesting
to hear from the So a day carpenters
and masons and the dollar day men.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
WAGES AND SILVER.

Intimately connected with this cues
ton of gold or silver standards is the
matter of wages, both absolutely and
relatively, both the amount paid per
day, week or month, and what the
money will buy. What the condition
here Is all know out Of their daily
lives; what 1T will be if the change
to silver standard is made, no one
knows, although assertions pro and
con are freely made. The goldite pre-
diets both an absolute and a relative
decrease, while the silverite as con-
ndently assures the wage earners that
when there is more and cheaper
money, their wages must rise, remain
ing prudently silent on the other side
of the case-what the money will then
BUY. Naturally, men turn to those
countries that are on silver basis to
find what, so far as monetary condi-
tons are a factor, the effect has been
there. Were this whole question not
in politics one might expect to find a
tolerable uniformity in the reports.
but being in politics one finds the most
contradictory statements, and which
one to believe is difficult to learn.
Mexico, our nearest neighbor. is the
most often cited by either side. We
have received a copy of a letter
from A. v. Temple, manager of the
Mexican Central railway, in which he
sets forth the advantages of Mexico
quite in as glowing terms as did Min
lister Romero in a recent magazine ar
ticle. One can understand that banks
make profits Of IA to 1877 per cent
for the price of foreign exchange
makes a lucrative business. We
can accept his statement of
the wages paid railway en-
ployes, conductors, $3.50 to 5000
his statement of the wages paid rail-
way employees, conductors, $3.50 to 5000
month, and engineers from s175 to
$500. Carpenters, he says, earn from 81
to So day, and masons from 81 to 81.
while farm laborers, representing the
unskilled classes, get from So to 45
cents a day and found We are the
more inclined to accept this statement
because it accords with those made by
an engineer in a letter to the Chatta-
nooga Times. but while the railway
manager thinks Mexico the only
country on the face Of the earth
where energy. ability and capital will
produce as great results the engineer
urges his friends to do all they can to
prevent the Naturalization of our cur
rency, and presents the other and
more material side Of the case-what
win these wages buy?
Butter, according to both, costs from
% cents to 81 pound, and cows bring
from $50 to $50 for good natives. The
engineer pays rs cents to 81 for q
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
LIKE CAUSES PRODUCE LIKE EFF
iifnr nf Tho n1aAa

To the Editor of the Globe
1t is claimed that the silver dollar was
oemonetized In 1873 because no silver dollars
were then, and had not been for some time
prior, in circulation, having left the coun
try or driven to hiding by reason OF their
i neing worth S1:03 each, and that none were
OF three cents each. Now if such was the
result prior and up to 1873 what would be
the result now, should the free coinage of
silver. as then, be resumed? Would t6e ef
rect be the same? That is would the silver
bullion be coined, and the dollars already in
circulation be driven to hiding, or are the
would be the case? p MoInt;ra
Houston. Mimi, Aug. IA, 1896
Coin metals obey the laws Of trade in
common with other commodities. I'm
der the generalization at the mint of sill
yer from 1892 to 1884 gold went abroad.
Under the differentiation Of silver
after the act of 1884 silver went
abroad. Ex-Speaker Crisp accurateIv
stated the facts and the causes of
these movements, when he said that
under the Is to ratio sill
yer went where it could get
the most for itself" and under
that Of 16 to 1 gold did the same
like results will flow from like causes.
II a difference of about 6 per cent
sent gold away at one time and silver
at another, difference Of so per
cent would expedite the movement.
The resumption of coinage Of silver
On the basis of sixteen ounces being
worth an ounce of gold when, on the
markets, it takes thirty-one, would
certainly drive gold out of the cur
rency. 1t would go where it could get
the most for ITSELF" If it is the silver
dollars our correspondent refers to.
they would remain as they were
coined at the 16 to ratio and consti-
tute our only metallic money. The
power of both the old and new silver
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
About Opening Lette =.

London Graphic.
Perhaps it is little bit late to make the
discovery. but | find from time immemorial
we have been directing all our letters on the
wrong side. The direction ought to be on the
back instead of what is now called the front
OF the envelope. There would be much
fewer mistakes about opening letters belong
ing to others If this were the case-in fact.
1t would be well-nigh impossible for It Ia
occur People with large amount of CORE
spondence frequently put all their letters
race downward and then proceed to snip the
envelopes; then they go through them again
ana take the letters out and Sometimes find
tney nave shipped an envelope belonging 70
some one else. All this might be avoided If
we wrote the address on the side the enyeope
Is Iastened; 1t would also have another adj
vantage; the stamp would be ABSOLUTELY
Cancelled by being torn across when the letter
was opened. This would effectually nut an
end TO the nefarious machinations Of those
people VINO are said to be able to remove
1ne ofhcial obliteration in order that tbe
stamps may be used again. l do not suppose
my suggestion will Immediately change fhe
use uses OF century. but fancy there are NOT 4
lew lew OF my readers who may be inclined to
think that the idea is worth trying. -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
Put ON tha retired List.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-During the last week
the army retiring board lin this city heard,
or partly heard, six of the ten cases which
examiners, Drs. Forwood and Wiste, have
Just passed upon severah cases and submitted
the following Recommendations, which, 1t liz
firmly believed, will be Endorsed by the full
board: Lieut.. Col. J.. H. Bradford, Seven
teenth U. s. infantry, retirement, incapac-
itated. Maj John G. Turnbull, First u. S.
artillery, retirement; incapacitated for service
by deafness. Capt. Hdorfce B. Sarson, Sec
ond u. 8. infantry, retirement; incapacitated
for service by age. Capt. John B. Haden,
Eighth U. s. infantry. retirement; incapaci-
tated for service by defective sight.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
dollars TO buy would be greatly dimin-
ished, probably about one half.
OBJECTIONS MANIFOLD.

To the Editor of the Globe.
VIII you kindly Inform your readers in
Mondays issue what your objection would be
The United States will pay bearer ----
dollars in .Ape@can products at their mar
Would this not be sound money. and prevent
A Reader.
The objections 10 such a plan are
$40 many that one does not know
where to begin 9stating them. The
woods are simply full of objections.
We will state few, without going
into further explanations, which can
be supplied from the articles appear
ing in our columns daily.
1t is not the business of the govern
ment, properly speaking, to furnish
money 1t should coin gold and silver
brought to it's minis, certify to the
weight and fineness Of the pieces, and
there leave the matter, without acts
of legal tender
The United States has now out all
the promissory notes that it can take
care of, without issuing more.
A promise to pay "a dollars worth
of products" would not touch the con-
tention as to what constitutes a
dollar
The United States is not a producer
OF American products, and has no
stock of them on hand, as far as we
are aware. wherewith to redeem any
due bills
The issue Of the greenbacks seems
10 nave introduced an almost hope
less confusion into the popular mind
as 10 evidences of indebtedness, prom
1ses to repay a forced loan, and real
money. representative of value. The
proposition stated above is that the
United States borrow something.
Perhaps these objections may be
sufflc1ent to cover the ground.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
BLACK BURGLARS BULLET
Ends the Life of an Ex-soIdier-
Talk of Lynching.

SPARTANBURG, s. c., Aug. 16-
Capt. John II. Blassingame, one of the
Oldest and most respected citizens of
this city and state, was shot and killed
this afternoon by Chris Cannon, ne
gro boy. Capt. Blassingame was alone
at his sisters home, and Cannon en-
tered the house for the purpose of rob
berry. Pistol shots were heard, and the
negro was seen running from the
house. Capt. Blassingame was found
dead, shot twice through the heart.
The negro was tracked to a house half
a mile distant, where he was found
shot through the chest Two empty
pistols found in the room indicate that
both parties engaged in the shooting.
Inc negro was taken to JAIL His
wound is not thought to be fatal. There
is some talk of lynching, but the law
Will probably take it's course Capt.
Blassingame was a member of one of
the most prominent families in the
state, and man respected and hon
ored by all. He was gallant Confed-
crate soldier, and before the war was
colonel in the United States army.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
The PeriIs of Curiosity.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It's the innocent bystander who generally
stops the bullets and gets the clubbings,"
said an old citizen, 'the innocent bystander.
who walks miles to see the fun and get in
the way and add his voice to the catcall
chorus. Oh. the innocent bystander is real
nice institution. His presence gives aid and
comfort to the lawbreakers and makes the
work Of the authorities just so much the
harder. But If the poor innocent happens
to get hurt what hue and cry is raised!
OF course, in a police charge the officers are
expected to pick out the Tbs and carefully
thrust them aside. That's easy, Of course.
Innocent bystanders carry their business in
their faces, and only very stupid policeman
could mistake them for naughty fellows.
Now, l don't care to pose in any such char
acter. I should expect to wear badge
foot square IL tried it. On 1t l would paint
in huge letters
This is an
INNOCENT BYSTANDER.
PLEASE DON'T HURT HIM.
He hasn't sense enough to mind his own
business, but he is quite harmlessi
There, l guess that might save me, IL any
thing could. But I'm not going to put it to
the test
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17

is the party emergency so dire that
Republican paper, claiming, if not
aiming to be reputable and candid.
must persist in asserting that the
treasury, under Mr.. Harrison's ad-
mlnlstration and the effects of the act
OF go, entitled sto reduce revenue"
was not alarmed at the shrinking rev.
enues and the drain on gold, and was
not urging congress to authorize bond
issues and was not preparing plates on
which to print them? What is the use
of denying facts that are of record :?
What is to be gained by repeating the
stale old story about Democratic tar
ifs for deficiency only?" Who is to
be won to the cause of sound money
by it? What unbeliever will be con-
WINGED by arguments against his
belief, if the same persons use
arguments on another matter
which he knows to be fallacious
and make assertions of fact that he
knows to be false? Candor is better aid
than is deceit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
DARkEsr BEFORE THE DAWN.

The Star-Eyed Goddess of Reform
who was coming to us with beaming
eye and smiling lips only four short
years ago, bearing in her hands the
implements to remove the Shackles
from our International trade, seems
her flight, foiled and disappointed.
With her free trade seems to have gone
glimmering. 1t looks as if it had been
but another iridiscent dream, beauti-
full, enchanting, which, in our walk
ening, we recall and dwell on and sigh
that it was but a dream. Even the
poor old tariff, they tell US, has ceased
to be an issue.
And it looks as if they were right.
Everything that was upright and
seemed stable is topsy-turvy. The po-
litical ideas Of men all run crisscross.
White is become black and black
white. What a motley crowd each
party is. What strange bedfellows
men are finding. What contradictions
meet one at every turn. 1t is confu-
sion worse confounded and "chaos is
come again" Politics is a veritable
crazy-quilt. Here are Republicans
fighting protection and Democrats
joining them, and there are Demo-
Gratis fighting protection and Repub-
licans rushing to their aid Here is a
Democratic national ticket with an
n OF
old Democratic protectionist at the tail.
The country appears to have gone
protection mad. The peculiar from of
this insanity is that Republicans do
not know that they are opposing and
the Democrats that they are advocat-
ing protection, and the Republicans in
sist that they are simon-pure protec-
tlonists, and the Democrats hotly as
severate that they are free traders.
No wonder Watterson, amid the Alps.
tells Dana that he is going to stay
away and "let the fools and the
frauds fight it out"
But it is always darkest lust before
the dawn. Mckinley may be elected.
out Mckinleyism got its death blow
in lS9o-92, and is only lingering, a help
less, hopeless invalid, nursed by few
of the faithful, trundled about for an
airing now and then, when the air Is
warm, by detected attendants, and even
now In state of suspended animation.
Now and then some Republican editor
or spellbinder lapses into "Reminiscences
or memories of the days when the old
scarecrows of pauper labor and En-
gnsh free trade did valiant service in
frightening the timid and inexperi-
enced, but their words fall on dull
ears or under Indifferent eyes. and thew
return to their opposition Of protection
to silver. No party ever survived re-
pudiation Of the logic of its principles.
The free coinage of silver at a ratio
twice that of the market is as logical
ly protective as a bounty on sugar or
100 per cent tax on other manufactures.
The latter has only been given by the
aid of those who now demand protec
ton to their product Refused. thew
will reinforce those who demand no
protection for any. Decisions pass:
facts and principles remain. After this
dust storm subsidies. 1t will be seen
that its force was opposition to the
use Of the power Of the government
to bestow special privileges on a few
at the cost of the many. That force
will remain and work out it's mission.
McKinleyism is moribund.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
Ethics of Wife Beating !, E,


May beat my wife? During d,scussion
IN me mouse Of lords on the definition Of legal
G rue as applying to the Russell diverse case
LORD watson mentioned the old Scotch de
cision that any ordinary husband was en-
.tieo 10 administer moderate castigatio
.nousn tnat aid not apply to ladies of high
rank Lord Shand, however, was Of opinion
mat this decision was out Of date whi1a
M. Murphy declared that there was no such
law IN England or ireland. Scotland. pre-
sumaDiy is more civilized. The lord chan
ceiior, on the other hand, remembered an IN
reported case in which very learned English
3 nsa i stidr it down that husband might
p pse az, SUCK no bigger than his thumb to
MS wire; Portia might reply that the heat
ing ing would be endurable If the stick literally
q = not exceed these martial dimensions: bnt
Loro Morris still had a doggerel rhyme IN tbe
husbands side. about "a spaniel, wife and
walnut tree" The point was not aetus1Iv
at issue, and perhaps their lordships will not
s IN it necessary to define the precise state
10 law 'n 81 law so on this important matter. No
WlIe to beat her husband. There raaIIw
ought TO be some reciprocity in these tb; H,ry
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
WHERE ARE THEY AT !?

According to our way of thinking the two
old parties have Just died violent and hor-
rible death; that they have been sacrificed
upon the altar of plutocracy, and in their
stead two new political children are raised
up as candidates for public favor, and they
have irregularly taken the names of their
deceased parents instead of the names which
should apply to them which would be
either Gold and Silver or Plutocracy and
Populists. Just as you like it; it's all the
80 no matter what the name.-Cass County
Pioneer.
With John Lind as the Demopop candidate
publican ticket, the non Republican voters
will hardly know where they are at. Lind
we believe. claims to still be Republican,
and is a strong protectionist, so a Repub-
lican can surely be elected to- fill the gov
ernors chair. Strange that neither the DEM
ocratic or Populist parties could furnish tim
Der suitable to the ofice.-Redwood Reveille
No doubt Lieut.. Gov. Frank A. Day is of
the impression that every man who does not
vote for him should be shot. If this is to
be the case. there will be great demands for
the undertaken in his congressional district.
Perhaps Mr.. Day desires to form an under
takers trust--Duluth News-Tribune.
This is year when mo Democrat need
apply All the good places are wanted for
old-time Republicans.-St. Cloud Journal
Press.
Lind has record of lifetime without a.
single blot upon it. In congress he was al
ways on the side of the masses and the labor
ing men of Minnesota will flock to his sup
port and rebuke the open support given Dave
Clough by the large corporations who can use
him.-West Superior Forum.
Over in Minnesota John Lind is Warrington
his cross.-Sargent County Teller.
John Lind is notrentitled to the vote of a
single laboring man In the state of Mime
sofa. He had many opportunities to vote for
silver when he was in congress- but he voted
for gold every time. He did not become a
free silver advocate until after he had be-
come an investor in the stock of some silver
mines.-Duluth News-Tribune.
The Democrat who has served his party
faithfully for 10 these many years. must
be happy to see John Lind (who was sent
to congress three terms by Republicans) as
their candidate for governor; Frank Day
(who has been kept in the state senate by
the Republicans for the past ten years. as
their candidate for congress in the Second
district, and C. A. Towne (who still says he
is a Republican, the Democratic nominee in
the Sixth district. Nots0ne Of the candidates
for any prominent efficeswill be Democrat
st. Cloud Journal-Press.
At the Democratic state convention at Min
neapolis last week the delegates RELOCATED the
brainy Tom Lawler to the rear and set up
John Lind, Republican. Good Lord, how
John used to give it to these same Demo
Gratis in years gone BY Yet they kissed the
hand that smote them.-Spring Valley Sun.
Dan Lawler died like thorough gentle
man. He fell inside the breastworks and
with his boots on.-Duluth News-Tribune.