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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

however. that the ministers have not
formed a combination to have their pay
raised. According to DR.. Goodhue's ar
gument, it is a poor rule that doesn't
work both ways. Consequently the
preachers might form a combination
and maintain that the parish shall have
sermons as they pay for them. Five
minute speeches might be held at five
dollars; good, red-hot half-hour ser
mons at fifty dollars; old sermons from
the preachers barrel, twenty-five dol
lars; parish calls, three dollars each,
and SO Oh to the end of the chapter.
Since the new physician schedule was
made out it is hard for the common,
everyday citizen to make ont where the
business end begins and the labor for
humanity leaves off in a physicians
practice
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
NOTICE TO CORPORATIONS.

In conformity with Section 1441 of the
Civil Code, all Corporations are hereby
notified to make full and accurate ex-
hibition of their affairs to the Interior
Department ON or before the 31st day
of July next, the same being for the
year ending July LIST, 1896.
Blanks for this purpose will be fur
nished upon application to the Interior
Office.
Upon failure of any corporation to
present the exhibit within the time re-
quired, the Minister of the Interior will,
either himself or by one or more Com
missioners appointed by him, call for
the production of the books and papers
of the Corporation, and examine its Of
ficers touching its affairs under oath.
j. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior
Interior Office, May 81, 1896. 1761-3t
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a FRAUD.

The irrepressible Breckenridge sent
forward his usual crop of orders by
last mail. How much coin Breckenridge
has corralled ii is difficult to say; he
certainly must obtain small sums in
order to enable him to get about. This
paper has only heard of two instances
where he actually got coin, but there
are doubtless similar instances where
the sufferers have pocketed their loss
and said not word. But Bracken-
ridges method must give him good
deal of free feeding. Placing these big
bogus orders for machinery, hardware
and goodness knows what. naturally
leads him to be dined and wined and
generally to be taken round by his
dupes.
1t really is time that the Foreign Of
flee should notify its consuls in the
United States that this man is a fraud
and the eonsuls should get upon his
tracks and expose him.
The man has no status whatever. He
was discharged from the service of the
Board Of Education for immoral con-
duct He owns no property here. He
represents no firms here. If he is not
stopped he will some day make a big
strike and let some firm in for a big
pile of money. He has managed, during
his short residence here, to get hold of
the names of our most prominent firms
and to make himself acquainted with
the personal traits of those in charge
With a few letters and unbounded
cheek, he is just having as nice a time
as possible in the United States.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
THE AUSTRALIAN SUGAR
MARKET.

The prospects of the sugar industry
in New South Wales do not seem very
promising. The industry was started
twenty-six years ago and has grown to
such an extent that there are now in
the colony $4,000 acres under cane,
all of which are owned by 1000 farm
ers, while the cultivation and manufac-
ture employ some $500 men more.
These are all white men.
The Government has started to take
the duty of sugar gradually, and the
statement is made that it will be impos-
sible for the farmers to cultivate the
cane to pecuniary advantage unless a
duty of f3 per ton is kept up. The only
alternative, as stated in the Sydney
Herald is to employ colored labor to
cultivate the cane, and to employ SINH
lar labor in manufacturing it. Mr..
Knox, the president of the sugar REIN
cry at Sydney, says: This we win not
do White men can do all the work in
connection with cane in this COLONY.
but If the fiscal policy prevents their
We win face the destruc-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
MIR. billiard HAD A DOG.

A recent cable gram received from the
coast says that Mr.. Hilliard-artistiC
Hilliard-had a dog. Naturally, learn
ing this news, we feel called upon to of
fer a most humble apology. Mr.. Hill
lizard did have dog, ''more's the pity.
Not a common everyday beast of the
street was that billiard dog, but a
beautiful, intellectual, artistic, pie
faced Japanese pug that loved its mas
ter dearly. One day the dog fell of
the second story veranda of the Ha-
waiian Hotel, and, according to the
story of the artist, was Knocked clean
out of its head Mr. billiards re-
marks on the occasion expressed COM
bination of wrath and wrath
because the hotel verandas were built
so that dog could jump off the dizzy
brink, and sorrow on account of the
apparent fatal results to the quadru-
ped. His first thought was to go to Min
lister Willis and bring suit for dam
ages against the Hawaiian Government,
but having heard CT julius Palmer
escapade with the ROSTERS, he desisted
and sent for doctor.
Under the influence of wise look
from the physician, 1.-THE dog-re-
gained what little sense it ever had.
When the dear creature" began to
show signs of life, Mr.. Hilliard took it
in his arms, whereupon the coy, artistic
pug placed its fore paws about it's mas
ter's neck, and tears, great salt tears
of gratitude and beastly affection, fell
in torrents from the dogs eyes and
were mopped up in the shirt front of the
artist. At this point the doctor depart
ed and the curtain fell with appropri-
ate red lights and soft music.
There seems to be no doubt that Mr..
Hilliard had a dog, consequently we
may have been too harsh in our criti-
cism. Possibly Mr.. billiards nerves
were so thoroughly torn to shreds by
the calamity that befell the beast of his
heart that he really did think that the
natives were attempting to capture the
animal. Possibly the fear grew upon
him to such an extent that he left the
country to save the life of his dog. Pos
sibly he got to thinking so much of his
dog that he forgot the volcano picture.
Possibly when the Denver News repre-
sentative saw Mr.. Hilliard his thoughts
were on the dog and he didn't know
what he was talking about. Who can
tell? Mr.. Hilliard knows, but it is
doubtful if he says anything about it.
Peace be to the memory of Artistic Hill
liard-and his dog.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
PASS TT,

When a measure is thoroughly popu-
lar it is wise for the legislative body to
pass it, otherwise the people and the
legislative body get at logger heads,
and that is not good condition of af-
fairs-for the legislative body.
Today will come up for discussion in
the Senate the income tax bill. 1t is a
measure thoroughly approved by the
lower house, it is endorsed by the Min
lister of Finance, it is most popular with
the people. To block it will be blocking
what the people desire, and legislators,
be they Representatives or be they Sen
ators, are placed in their positions by
the people to do the will of the people.
The income tax bill in its present
form is, after all, purely experimental,
but ii is but bare justice that the ex-
pertinent should be tried. We have no
fear of the result. No minister of fin
ance or chancellor of an exchequer,
once he has tried an income tax meas
ure as a means of raising revenue, will
ever willingly relinquish it; no sensible
man who takes the trouble to inform
himself both on theoretical and practi-
cal taxation can deny the equity of this
method of taxation.
We have urged the income tax in
these columns with what power was in
US. we have shown the history of it, we
have shown its workings, and we have
shown that it, of all taxes, is the fairest
and most equitable, and that it lays the
burdens on the shoulders most able to
bear them.
With an income tax measure expert
mented on, the Minister of Finance can
in 1898 bring forward such a reform in
our system of taxation as will enable
him to relieve the men of small in
comes from the undue burden which is
now laid upon them. Mr.. Gladstone
struggled for a free breakfast table,"
we would struggle for an income of
two hundred dollars being entirely ex-
empt from taxation
The question is before the Senate to-
day. May their action be in the line of
progress.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
WHY STRIKES FAIL.

Eugene ". Debs Says 1t is Ques.
ton of Contest of Stomachs.
CINCINNATI, May 81
consider strikes a failure" said
Eugene V. Debs today. "That is,
l consider them fairure under
existing conditions. A strike in
these days is almost lost as soon
as it is begun. 1t is question of
the endurance of a mans stom-
ach. On the one side you have
the man or men who can eat three
meals day for an indefinite time.
He can afford to lose little trade
that he may retain his hold upon
the man who labors. But with
the man who works for wages it
soon becomes the fight of his
stomach against the man who eats
three meals day, and a mans
stomach is limited. This is why /
say a strike is a failure as soon
as it begins"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

The san Francisco Arguuaut IS cut
with a powerful article showing that
the sugar trust is breaking up the re
bellion in Cuba. The Argonaut claims
that Gomez is no Cuban, but a native
OF san Domingo. a soldier of fortune,
whose sword has been for hire by
whomsoever paid him well, and that at
the present inc he is hired by the sugar
trust II further charges that the same
corporation furnishes bogus informa-
ton 10 the various press associations,
and lastly that some of the large dailies
in the cities are subsidized for the same
purpose. The Argonaut may have hit
the nail on the head, but then again it
may not Its politics. it must be re-
membered, are Numerically opposed
TO those OF the trust
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
PUBLIC LANDS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing lots of Government Land will
be open for application at or after 8
o'clock a. m, June 1, 1896, under the
provisions of the Land Act, 1885, for
right of Purchase Leases and Cash
Freeholds.
Twenty-seven lots in Ponahawai,
Hilo, Hawaii, of from 20 to 100 acres
each.
These lots are at a distance of from
three to, five miles from the town of
Hilo, and are principally first-class ag
ricultural lands, suited to coffee, etc.
The Government reserves the right to
a fifty-feet strip across any of these
lots if the same is required for the
purpose of public road, such strip to
be located at the option of the Govern
ment, and to be taken without compen-
sation if across unimproved land.
Appraised value of above lots from
81 to $40 per acre.
Fifteen lots in Waikaumalo, etc.,
Hilo, Hawaii, of from thirty to eighty
acres each of first-elass agricultural
land.
These lots are about 31z miles from
Hakalau plantation mill, on the road to
Laupahoehoe.
Appraised value of Waikaumalo lots,
from 81 to $40 per acre.
Olaa Lots.-Remaining lots in the
Olaa Section may also be applied for
under provisions of the Land Act re-
ferred to. These lots have areas of
about fifty acres each, and are of gen.
eral quality of Olaa lands already
planted in coffee.
Appraised value, Sc to $40 per acre.
according to location.
All applications for any of the above
lots must be made to E. D. Baldwin.
sub-agent, Hilo, Hawaii, at or after 9
a. m, June /, 1896.
Full particulars as to necessary quail
lfications of applicants, methods of ap-
plying, etc., may be obtained from the
sub-agent in Hilo. or at the Public
Lands Office, in Honolulu.
J. F. BROWN,
Agent of Public Lands.
Honolulu, May Is, 1896.
1760-4t
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ARTISTIC MIR. billiard.

Another freak has broken loose in ths
United States and aspires to make
himself famous by airing his opinion:
on Hawaiian affairs. We refer to Mr.
billiard, the artist who came to Homo.
lulu ostensibly to paint picture of the
volcano for ]. D.. Spreckels. Mr.. Hill
lizard was interviewed by representa-
tive of the Denver News, and as a result
we have the beautiful collection of art
istic lies given in another column. II
the Denver publication quoted Mr. Hill
lard correctly, he started in with lie
and wound up with fabrications, there
by showing his intense gratitude for the
kindly reception given him by Honolulu
people and the Hawaiian money squan-
dered for his works of art.
Mr.. Hilliard came to Honolulu with
the advance advertising dodger that he
was commissioned to paint a picture of
the volcano for ]. D. Spreckels. The
dodger worked and Mr.. Hilliard got
what he Notwithstanding. When
Rudolph Spreckels came to town short
ly after Mr.. billiards arrival, nothing
was heard of the wonderful volcano pic
ture. Mr.. billiard came, sold a few pic
lures, painted few pictures and then
left the country, but if he painted any
picture for the Spreckels' he did his
work in the witching hours of midnight
when no one could see him. Possibly
he was like the little boy in the song,
who didn't saw the wood-because he
couldn't if he would. Unless Mr.. Hill
lizard copied one of Howard Hitchcock's
pictures while going up on the steamer,
we will give the Denver newspaper men
a valuable premium if they will locate
the billiard volcano picture that is now
the property of the sugar magnate."
Then Mr.. Hilliard turned his atten-
ton to politics. What he wants people
10 think he knows has filed column in
4 Denver paper. What he doesn't know
would fill the Denver paper for every
day during the next year. If the artist |
left Honolulu for fear of rebellion, it |
was pending rebellion among the low
srs of art. who had treated him very
If he saw political trouble |
pending, he saw more than anyone else
had been able to discover. But in the
ace Of the statements about the volcano
picture we anticipate he could see most
anything in his minds eye and then
make himself believe it. J
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

When General Weyler said that he
would resign unless the American fill
busters captured on the Competitor
were put 10 death, the United States
Consul General informed the Spanish
hirelings that if the Americans were
executed he should close the consulate
and demand his passports. This put a
different phase on the matter and the
American prisoners are still alive.
Meanwhile other flibustering ships are
being sent. from American ports, and
more American money is being given to
aid the Cuban insurgents. Slowly but
surely the Cubans are gaining ground,
and il is only a matter of time before
they viii force General Weyler to with
draw. and SPANS iron hand will be
thrown on forever.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

The statement about the Portuguese
dislike for President Dole is lie pure
and simple. Whatever grievance the
Portuguese may have, they respect and
honor the President of the Republic.
The Portuguese have never asked for
higher wages, consequently the Presi-
dent has never been Obliged to grant"
a demand. If the Portuguese are as
sisted by the Chinese and Japanese, Mr..
billiard is the first to make it known.
Should any one be laboring under such
an Authorization, we would suggest that
they talk five minutes with the first
Portuguese citizen that can be found.
Strawberries, poi and dog constitute
the national diet-so says Hilliard. To
all appearance the strawberries he ate
went to his head. billiards pet dog,
which the natives tried to capture, was
never seen in Honolulu. He probably
kept the beast in the same box with the
volcano picture. 1t is impossible to re-
ply to every misstatement by the art
istic Mr. Hilliard, since there is hardly
a line of the purported interview that
does not contain a Misrepresentation
but for the benefit of our Denver friends
it seems proper to state that Artist Hill
lard is seeking in Denver what he
sought in Honolulu-advertisi This
time at the expense of the Honolulu
nI1b1ic
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

1t is currently reported that the scale
of prices adopted by the Medical As
ISOLATION is TO be forwarded TO the va
rious medical centers. Wherever the
prices are seen there will be an immi
grafton Of medicos ready to 1lIt rates
and prove that competition IS he lie
of trade. We can imagine a halcyon
time when we shall have advertise
ments as follows: DIR. Jones. post
mortems a speciality, only S. piece
come one, come all" or, DR.. Robin
son cures coughs and colds AZ 30 cents
a piece and the medicine thrown in; no
cure, no pay. Beats DR.. Smiths dollar
all hollow" Seriously. there is more
truth than poetry in the above. Doctors
are constantly writing out 10 get infor-
nation about this place, AMI many men
would be quite willing TO come and
work for far less incomes Shun most OF
our physicians are pocketing. 1t looks
very much as if the Medical Association
made bite and now finds 1t hard work
II chew it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

The possession Of Delagoa Bay. in
South Africa. is as likely as anything
else 10 set fire to the powder magazine
down there. The Moscow Journal
points out the danger TO other European
powers interested in African affairs if
Great Britain is allowed to get posses
sion The proposal is made that con-
gress should be summoned which
should declare the Portuguese province
OF Lorenzo Marquee 10 be neutral terri
tory. This might very well come from
either France or Germany. The chances
are. however. that diplomacy will not
be in il" The whole of Europe and At
rica is really spelling for a fight
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29
DIR. WHITE ON CRIME.

Fortunately we have very few crimes
of violence on these Islands. But DR..
Andrew d. White, late president of
Cornell University and now member
of the Venezuela Commission, has made
a great sensation with an address upon
The Problem of High Crime in the
United States" He showed in his ad-
number of criminals. In 1850 there were
800 prisoners for every million of in
habitants; in 1860, over 600; in 1870.
nearly 900, and in 1850 over 1000. The
number of homicides in the States for
period of seven years ending with last
year was Il, 469. The homicides for 1895
were 10000. The point made by DR..
White was the extreme lenity of the
law and the fact that the execution fol-
lows so long after. the commission of the
crime that the deterrent effect of the
sentence is wholly lost.
DR.. White said it had got to that pitch
in the United States that the idea had
taken root that society and not the in
dividual was the criminal. and that
finally this had taken the form of the
assertion that society had no right TO
punish the criminal, only to reform him.
To remedy this state of things he rec
commended more elementary teaching
Of morals in schools, more practical
preaching from the pulpits, and prompt
of crime.
The address has met varied comment.
1t is claimed that DR.. Whites statistics
are wrong, and that of the 1O. 500 homi-
eides reported for 1895 some of the pris-
oners will be proved to be innocent. and
that the same may be true of prisoners
for other crimes. This line of argument
does not seem to initiate strongly
against DR.. Whites thesis. He has put
his hand upon plague spot and called
attention to a state of things that is no
credit to any nation, and he has very
forcibly shown how wrong is the morbid
Sentimentality over criminals condemn
ed for crimes of violence We may con-
slider ourselves lucky here that no such
feelings exist among us, or if they dc
that they are not expressed.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

A good example of the high standard
Of San Francisco journalism is given in
the reports of DR.. Dille's lecture on the
Islands, as printed respectively by the
Examiner, Call and Bulletin. The Elk
aminer says DR.. Ollie was pleased and
predicted political and financial pros
perity for the Islands. According to the
Call. Dr. Ollie believes a revolution is
the next thing on the taps, and the
Government is resting on the ragged
edge OF political discomfort. Again the
Bulletin credits DR.. Ollie with saying
that every important political Office is
held by the son of missionary. To
find out from the San Francisco papers
what Dr. Ollie really did say is harder
than mastering a Chinese puzzle A
good motto for majority of the San
Francisco papers would be, If you
don't see what you want, ask for it g"
In the report of DR.. Dille's remarks the
iron hand of the managing editor, who
shapes the policy of the paper, is dis
played with more prominence than Dr.
Dille's ideas.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

The beautiful tribute paid the mem
ory Of Kate Field by our correspondent,
NJ W c.. viii touch a responsive chord
in the hearts Of those in Hawaii who
had the pleasure of acquaintance with
the noted newspaper woman. The peo-
pie OF Hawaii knew Kate Field as a
bright. active newspaper writer, and il
Is pleasing indeed to obtain a short
sketch OF her early life and the associ-
atoms that did so much toward shaping
her strong womanly character.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

The coronation of the Car of Russia
is filling the space of large number OF
papers. 1t is hard to make people I'M
derstand what folly and even more,
what a crime such an exhibition is.
With a country whose provinces are
impoverished, whose officials are I'M
derpaid, with a population that is in
some parts bordering on starvation,
with undeveloped lands, to take the
millions that are going to be spent and
shower them upon what is, after all,
only an exalted circus procession, is
not, at this stage of the worlds pro-
gress. only folly but deep wrong to the
proletariat. 1t is wonderful how such
follies hang on. Years ago it was con-
sidered an honor for a great statesman
TO carve a wing of fowl for king. or
for high bred and cultivated lady to
hand a queen her shift. Since those
days good many kings have had to
carve their own fowls, if they had the
luck to have them, and there have been
queens who have been glad to have a
shift at all. The philosophy of the
above is that it seems absurd to give
as much space to the Russian pageant
~ as is being given. and that the world
likes such stuff and is not very much
advanced after all.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

There seems TO be very little doubt
that the income tax bin viii pass the
Senate The measure is intensely popu-
lar and viii be used at the next election
as one Of the strong planks. There is
every hope that with a graded income
tax the burdens Of the poor may be con-
siderabiy relieved. What must be got
nd Of is the poll tax, and there seems
quite a probability of being able to
reduce the road and school tax dollar
each. thus reducing the direct tax of
the working man TO two dollars per
snnum. and that is what it should be.
This crude method of taxation of the
past should give way TO scientific meth
DDS. We may not reach ideal taxation,
for that would be mo taxation accord
ing to some. but We can get the bur
dens properly adjusted, and that is
what statesmen are for.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

No less conservative journal than
Bradstreet's Journal Of Finance speaks
Of the plan for the reorganization of the
san Francisco and St. Louis Railway
Company as The Frisco Reorganiza-
ton" Il is apparent that Bradstreets
isn't looking for patronage in San Fran
cisco. Some subscribers may be gained,
however. in Oakland.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-29

When the New York World telegraph
ed Major Wm. Mckinley to ask his po-
sition on the money question, the reply
was Give the World my compliments
and say ] have nothing 10 say" The
san Francisco Examiner put the same
question and got no reply. According
10 the old German proverb-'speech is
silver. silence is golden Mckinley
must be q gold standard candidate.