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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
PROMINENCE TO LEADING IN
DUSTRY.

The growing importance of manu-
facturers' interests in the United
States has led to a strong move
ment to create a new department Of
the Government, to be known as
the Department of Commerce and
Manufacture, the head of which is
to be a member of the Presidents
Cabinet. Although it is hardly
probable that the new department
will be created during the present
Administration, it is only a matter
of time when the manufacturers
will gain the desired recognition.
The agricultural interests have
gained place in the Cabinet, and
it is highly proper that the manu-
facturers should be placed on the
same level in the personnel OF the
Government.
In the matter of allowing the
leading industries a special repre-
sentative in the Executive, our own
country would do well to follow a
good example by giving our agri-
cultural industries a more pro-
minent place. The life blood OF
Hawaii's prosperity has been,
and probably ever will be,
drawn from the cultivation of
the soil, and yet, in our govern
mental machinery, the department
of agriculture is relegated to prac-
teal insignifcance. The commits
sion of agriculture receives a mere
pitance and by the liberal CO.
operation of the planters is given
one assistant. These men are do
ing splendid work, but they are
sorely handicapped by the second
airy position they hold when it
comes to dealing ont funds for
them to work with. In the equip
ment of its agricultural department
Hawaii is fully twenty-five years
behind the times. The advan-
tages for experiments in the field
and IN the labratory are decidedly
crude and entirely inadequate to
properly carry on investigations,
which the development of new
lines of agricultural industry de-
mands. The economy that puts
this department aside till a more
convenient season viii some day be
proved to be false economy.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17

United States and Hawaii they
would accomplish something worth
talking about. Furthermore, before
making assertions about our pro-
posed laws, they should look into
the question more closely to see if,
on the whole, California will be the
sufferer from increased tariffs.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17

WHEN the Germans celebrated
the twenty-ffth anniversary OF
their union in a strong empire, the
principal Socialist organ of Berlin
characterized the history of the last
twenty-five years as follows: q.
A twenty years Kulturkampf
against the Catholics. Exceptional
laws against third OF the popula-
ton. 2. Twenty-Five years of per-
secution OF, and twelve years ex-
ceptional laws against, a party
comprising a quarter Of the nation,
3. Thousands OF years imprison-
ment inflicted upon the advocates
of the peoples rights. 4. Taxes
doubled and tripled. 5. Army
doubled, police tripled. 6. The
poor mans thousand millions of
marks spent for barracks, rifles,
guns and swords. 7. Eight thou
sand millions in the shape of pro-
tective duties and other privileges
given to a ruling minority from the
pockets of the people. s. The press
gagged. 9. The peoples confidence
in justice shaken. 10. The uni
versal suffrage endangered" Many
of these sentiments would do JUS
tice the Opposition party of this
There seems to be no
end to the terrible pictures some
classes can draw-and at the same
time the Government they berate
continues to live and prosper.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
FILTERS.

The report of the execu-
tive officer of the Board of
Health relative to the
condition of the Nuuanu
reservoirs is suggestive of
something dangerous to
health. 1t also suggests fill
tiers, good filters, something
that will effectually separate
the water from mud and filth.
Nature has done much
toward providing the people
with neceSSarieS; it has also
done a little toward securing
for the people, luxuries- In
some localities a filter is a
luxury, in others, Honolulu
for instance, it is a necessity,
but the natural filters that are
sold have been much i'm
proved by the ingenuity of
man.
Charcoal is admitted to be
the most thorough purifying
agent known, consequently
MaSSrS Slack n RrOWnlOW Sc
lected it for use in the manu-
facture of their filters. And
we are the agents for this
particular brand of filter in
Honolulu, a sufficient guaran-
tee, by the way, of the
character OF. the article.
The latest invoices show
three different, styles of the
S. & B. Filters and these we
have in stock, just opened
them, in fact, and we
want your attention.
No 1, 1--WE will call it No.,
y is fitted with a movable
plate, so that when neceS-
sary, the carbon may be taken
out and washed. 1t has also
a movable lining allow
ing access to every part
of the interior, which
may be kept perfectly sweet
and clean.
No. 2 and 3 are provided
with the same Conveniences
for cleaning as the other, but
they have the important ad-
dition that every part, in
Guiding the pure water
chamber, is accessible, Civ
ing them allthe requirements
of a Perfect Filter"
The price of the S. & B.
filter is below the others.
You should have one, be-
cause it is a necessity.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
RECORDS OF MARRIAGES.

All persons having in their pos
session the Marriage Records kept by
any person authorized to Solemnise
Marriage in these Islands, who may
have deceased or have left the COun-
try, are hereby requested, in ac-
cordance with the requirements Of
Section of the Act approved Decem-
Der 3Oth. 1854, to deposit the same at
the Interior Office.
X ~. -~--,. 49,. J. A. KING,
Minister Of the Interior.
Interior Office, March 18th, 1895.
174l st
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17

would call attention to the law o
the land as laid down in the tai
law of 1892, under which the tal
department is now acting. III
Section 4 of this Act the following
appears;
at shall be the duty of each
assessor to gather and tabulatt
under appropriate heads in proper
books all information necessary OF
proper for the ascertaining o.
values of property in their respec-
tive divisions; such information
and all maps and records obtained
or received by such assessor shall
be public records" y "Such
information, maps and records
connected with the assessment and
collection OF taxes shall during all
business hours be open to the in
spection of the public"
1t will be noted that there is
no qualification in the wording
of this law; that the pub
licity of certain features of the
records of assessment and col
lection of taxes does not depend
upon the judgment of any officer Of
any department of the Govern
ment The wording of the law
leaves nothing to the discretion of
any official so far as the freedom of
any person or persons to know the
contents of the lists is concerned.
Our legislators should note well
the spirit of this law that reads
"all maps and records obtained or
received by such assessor shall be
public records" and that such
records, shall, during all business
hours, be open to the inspection
of the public" According to
statutes, there is no alternative
left to any executive officer in
the matter of making tax re-
cords public. Of course it is pos
;ible by tacit consent to make this
section of the law a dead letter, but
f such a principle is carried out
he country is losing one of the
distinctive features of popular gov
'rnment. Taxation is in a sense
title more than a big partnership,
n which each person pays his pro-
portion of the governmental ex-
oenses ; consequently each person
las right to know whether his
partners are paying the proper
mount into the treasury.
Not only have the members of
he Legislature a right to call for
of the taxes paid by any
person or persons, but at the pres
mt time they are in duty bound to
place the detailed figures, setting
orth the taxes paid by corpora
ions and private individuals, be-
ore their constituents. 1t should
lot be forgotten, that this new tax
aw is being made under a con-
ititution that does away with all
orms of personal government, and
hat enacting laws behind a wall of
ecrecy is not classed as pre-
ogative of a democratic form of
government.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
Scotch Whisky.

AN OLD ESTABLISHED FIRM OF
Scotch Whisky distillers and merchants
want . firm of good standing as sole buy
ing agents for the Hawaiian Islands, for
their finest quality, eighty ear. old whisky
in case. Must be able to correspond IN
English. References given and requised.
AcAuRTRIEs' ADVERTISING OyrIcss,
42sl-6t Box 30, Glasgow, Scotland
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17

THE present crop OF prospective
matrimonial affairs in the society
circles gives promise that the last
leap year for eight years to come"
will be a memorable one.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
THE LAW REQUIRES PUBLICITY

Apropos of a correspondents de-
sire for further discussion of the
question of giving the details of
the tax returns to the public, we
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-17
BY AUTHORITY.

HONOLULU, II. l., March Is, 1896.
The regular Easter vacation Of the
public schools for the Republic Of
Hawaii will begin Friday, April Sd,
and continue until Monday, April 10,
1896.
BY order of the Board of Education.
JOHN +. SCOTT,
Secretary.
4252-3t l742-2t
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
4 8IsMARcK.s ADVICE.
10 II Unprecedented and Can We Afford
n. to FOLLOW 1t?

/ to Follow 1t?
Mr.. Bryan appears to set great store
by the letter which Gov. Culberson, OF
Texas, has received from Prince Bis
marck. The peoples friend" is willing
to receive advice from the MAN of
Blood and Iron," and the champion
of the American farmer" listens to
that famous friend of American agri-
culture who shut the German ports to
American pork in 1884 and to American
potatoes in 1885, and who would gladly
have united all central Europe in a
customs league aimed directly against
all American produce. Bismarck's
rather diplomatic letter is taken by Mr..
Bryan in his recent speeches to favor
the free coinage of silver by the United
States, The devotion of Chancellor Bis
marck to the cause of silver may be
seen in the following historical fact,
which appears tc have escaped general
notice:
the empire and minister of commerce
for Prussia the equivalent of 1885,
100000 marks lover $270, O00,000) in sill
yer was demonetized between the years
1874 and 1881, and over $160,O00,00O
worth of the bullion into which these
were melted had been sold by 1879. In
that year, finding that the price of sill
yer was becoming demoralized, so that
his remaining $109,OOO,Oo0 was depre-
ciating, he stopped sales by decree
issued in May, 1870. These points were
frankly stated by his delegation to the
monetary conference of
1851, when Germany likewise offered
to suspend sales for time in order
that the price might not be further
depressed. With these assurances be- |
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16

exchange for, or it may declare that
412A grains of silver shall be dollar,
in which case one dollar will be worth
only what 412Ks grains OF silver will ex-
change for. the same to-day as 500 cents
IN gold, or, giving the debtor the OPP
ton as to what dollar he shall use
with which to pay his debts, it may de-
clare that each of these three shall be a
dollar, in which case one dollar will be-
worth just as much as the least valuable
OF the three, which under present con-
dltlons would be the brick.-L. Carroll
Root
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
fore the monetary powers and with the

fore the monetary powers and with the
decree of 1879 still in force, Bismarck
saw an opportunity of dumping some
German silver on the sly and proceeded
to do SO. In 1885 the Egyptian govern
ment decided to change its coinage and
invited bids for contracts to coin its
silver piasters. The German mint Sc
cured the contract to make the coin and
incidentally furnished $3,1S9,6OO of sill
Yer bullion to Egypt. The matter was
kept very quiet or escaped general no.
tice. Reference to it will be found,
however, in the London Economist of
December 4, 1886, which saw in it
proof of Bismarck's lack of faith in
silver.
With all his faults, Bismarck is
sturdy patriot. To help the German
distiller he was willing to see trichine
in every American pig, and to protect
the German farmer he smelled bugs on
every American potato. Germany has
to-day $1o7,00O,OOO worth of silver
whose value is declining. If the United
States could be induced to follow the
example of Egypt and give Germany |
chance to do some more unloading.
where is the harm, from the ex-chan-
cellor's point of view, in writing a let
ter of not entirely disinterested adyicep |
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
SILVER IN "a NUTSHELL.
Free Coinage of Bricks Would Not Ksfse
Their Price.

I es44 Thalr Price. 58sE
Did you ever stop to think what would
be the result il the government should
by legislation determine that ordinary
building bricks two by four by eight
inches in size should be legal tsnder in
any amount for one dollar each and
should arrange to have them SO stamped
in any quantity free of cost to the per-
sons presenting them?
Under such circumstances the price
of building bricks would at once adj
vance to $1,000 thousand, for IL they
could be coined" without cost the
bricks ''uncoined" would be worth just
as much as the coined" bricks--one
dollar each. But did it ever occur to
you that it would not be an advance in
the value of the bricks, but a decrease
in the value of the dollars, which would
thus establish new 'parity between
money and property" that under such
system $1,000 would be worth only
1000 bricks; that that 1000 bricks
would exchange for no more commodi-
ties or labor than it does to-day, and
consequently that $1,000 would mean
no more to us than 1000 bricks do now?
In other words, our government can
determine by legislation what COM
modify and what amount of that COM
modify one dollar shall be, but it must
leave it to the laws of comparative sup
ply and demand, cost of production,
ETC., to determine what the Value of that
commodity shall be. 1t may declare
that brick shall be Il dollar, in which
case one dollar will be worth whatever
A brick will exchange for. 1t may de-
clare that 25.S grains of gold shall be
dollar, in which case one dollar will be
worth whatever 25.S grains of gold will
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
Nothing in 1t for wase-Earner..

Mr.. Bryan has claimed that the freq
coinage of silver would benefit the work.
ing people. How they would secure
anything from the free coinage of sill
yer he does not say, perhaps because he
does not know. 1t is certainly deem
mystery. In no way that the probable
course of events can be forecasted can
any advantage for the working people
be reasonably shown.
Everything that man buys for com
sumption in the household would be
raised in price. Would wages be in
creased in proportion? 1t is not proba-
bic that you would for years, if ever.
AS soon as it became apparent that the
Tree coinage of silver would be under
taken prices would be advanced. b,e
wages would remain stationary until
employers could ascertain how they
would be affected. With the beayy
losses that many concerns would he
compelled TO meet through the payment
OF outstanding accounts and notes in
deprecated dollars, it is very probable
that the workingman would have to
wait long time for his wages to be
raised. In the interval he would have
ample opportunity to realize the stn-
'endous folly of the United States coin
ng silver dollars at the ratio of sixteen
o one and debasing its money, the life
,iood Oh commerce. Trads
Journal,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
Demonetization of SILVER.

Silver was not demonetized by a con
spiracy nor clandestinely; neither have
the results been as they are claimed by
the free silver men.
Silver was demonetized, by Great
Britain 100 years ago because it fiuctu-
ated, because two yardsticks of un-
equal length or two bushels of chang
ing quantity is an absurdity, an OBJ
stacle to business and commerce,
All the civilized nations have tried
the same experiment with the double
standard. have found it delusion and
snare and have come to the single
gold standard as better thing.
The civilized world is now using
more silver, has sounder money and
lower interest than ever before in the
history of mankind.
The attempt to return to the double
is reactionary, illogical and
irrational and will not succeed. Reyo-
utions go forward, not backward
Madison (Ind.) Courier.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
The Declaration of Indepena.nc.

Was written by the man who said.
Just principles win lead us to disre-
gard legal proportions altogether. to
inquire into the market price of gold i'm
the several countries with which we
Shall principally be connected in COM
merce and to take an average from
tnem." But w. j. Bryan says it is dis.
graceful to talk about adjusting on.
currency to the currencies of the world.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16

Would you have any more wheat, or
could you buy any more food, clothes
or implements with the proceeds of your
crop than you do now?
II so cents were a dollar, would your
crops bring you any more of the things
that you need than you get now7
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16

All the cyclers seem to be wheeling
into line for MeKinley.-Chicago Trib.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
THEY FOLLOW IN THE WAKE.

The managers of the Bryan-Sewall CHEAP
dollar combination are proving to the coun-
try that they are a weak lot, to put it
mildly. Without any originality whatever
they seem to consider that. their strategic
"best holt is to follow In Hanna's wake.
No sooner does Hanna ask the sound
money people of the country to hoist the
national flag on the last day of October
as an evidence of the faith that is in
them than Chairman Jones does the same.
Whenever Hanna gives out a bulletin as
to the progress of the campaign, Jones
bulletins also. If Hanna claims thirty
states for Mckinley, the next day Jones
rushes into print with a claim of thirty
states for Bryan. And so it goes from
day to day. The Popocrat managers evil
IDENTIFY act on the supposition that it is
absolutely necessary for them to say
something every time Chairman Hanna
does or everything is lost.
The insincerity of Mr. Campau's claim is
shown in the assertion that Bryan will
carry New York by 5O,OoO when the facts
are that the Empire state has long ago
been abandoned by the Democratic man.
ayers. lHeTe is Tree silver campaign
in progress there whatever and the state
is almost unanimous for sound money. The
assumption by Campau that Ohio is doubt
full is also entirely gratuitous. There is no
more doubt about Ohio giving Mckinley
a tremendous plurality than that South
Carolina will vote for Bryan and all the
Bryan leaders know it. If the Bryanites
are really laying the fiattering JUNCTION to
their souls that Illinois, Michigan, Iowa
and Indiana are for Reputation they are
going to be greatly disappointed next Tues
day.
In the meantime the Republican CAM
paisn, under its able manager. goes brave
ly on to victory. When Mark Hanna puts
a state down in his memorandum book as
safe for Mckinley. the pool rooms all over
the country show there is no betting that
Bryan will carry that particular common
wealth.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
NEW YORK "EARMERs..

The proceedings of the New York Farm
ers'' have just been published and a copy
has been received at this office 1t is
type and has altogether an air of luxury
strangely at variance with the down-trod-
den condition of the tillers of the soil
whose views are therein expressed The
New York Farmers" is club composed
of such noted and sterling agriculturalists
as Chauncey NJ. Depew, Editor Dana, of
the Sun: William Rockefeller, J. Pierpont
Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Theodore
A. Havemeyer and other well known crop
growers. They meet at stated intervals
to compare crop notes at the Metropolitan
Club rooms and to discuss plans for ele-
waiting the standard of agriculture in New
York.
In the volume under consideration some
very interesting matters are exploited by
these horny-handed sons of toll Tubercu-
losis, cowpeas and green manuring seem
to be the favorite topics of discussion, al
though other branches of the science are
frequently touched upon. Mr.. Theodore
A. Havemeyer Is vice president of the
club, and when the subject of green
manuring was up for discussion recently
he frankly admitted that he did not know
what this branch of farming was. He had
frequently been called upon by his hired
man for greenbacks to run the farm and
was under the impression that this had
some relation to the topic in hand. He
was sure he had furnished enough green.
backs to make very efficient fertilizer
and thought he could see some good re.
suits. His turnips, for instance had cost
him about as much apiece as pineapples
Farmer Depew had been experimentine
In small way in growing finecut, and he
gave it as his experience that it was best
not to strip the tinfoil from the pods until
after the first heavy frost. Quite num-
ber of the farmers agreed with Mr.. DepeR
and it was voted that such procedure
should have the official Endorsement of the
club and that the same be recommended
to Secretary j. Sterling Morton for adop.
tion in the agricultural department Of the
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

country place very near to the heart.
By millions of Republicans he Is beloved
as Blaine was. The striking and peculiar
feature Of Mr.. Reeds case Is that since
his failure at st. Louis to achieve the OBJ
ject OF his natural and laudable ambition.
he not only has strengthened his hold upon
his own party, but has also gained, to an
almost equal degree In the esteem and adj
miration Of those whose political opponent
he has been. and Is yet. In the ordinary d.
visions of partisanship.
When the Republicans passed over Speak
er Reed and chose Major Mckinley. the
speaker went to work cheerfully and gen.
erously, like the man he Is, to promote the
latters election. II there was any trace OF
disappointment in Tom Reeds wide soul
1t was not manifest to the public. The en-
largement Of the issue to one OF patriot
ism and national security dignifed his ap-
pesrance On the stump. He became at
once the champion Of ideas and interests
which belong to honest Republicans and
honest Democrats In common. They have
had no more vigorous and efncient cham-
pion during the weeks which the speaker
has spent in many states. East and West,
delivering to throngs of enthusiastic au-
ditcrs speeches characterized by breadth OF
view, statesmanlike tolerance. and COM
manding rhetoric. This remarkable series
o: campaign addresses was Interrupted FOR
a few days by physical disability, but We
observe that the speaker is at work again,
stating to the people of Missouri the case
for honest money and honest government
with such directness. force and wit as few
political orators now living can rival.
For his distinguished services to the COM
mon cause, the gratitude Of every honest
money Democrat is due to the Hon. Thomas
Brackett Reed: particularly so because he
was one of the first Republicans Of emf
nence to recognize the fact that partisan
nomenclature means little this year. and to
extend to his Democratic allies and CO.
lahorers a welcome that WAS as hearty in
spirit as it was graceful in phrase.