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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18
FRIDAY. SEPT. lS, 1896
THE CHRONIC pREvARIcAToR

The tuneful Tyre, the Advertiser,
says: "The opposition is trying very
hard to make its followers believe
that the Minister of Foreign Affairs
has not received a letter from Kaiu-
lani accepting the pension voted her
by the Legislature. The malcontents
are disseminating, as usual, what
they know to be untrus2
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

guards besides furnishing $1,000
bond are prohibited from sitting
down, smoking or conversing during
business hours /. g. from a. IN. to
5 p. IN. Is His Excellency getting
dyspeptic2
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18
HONOLULU RARB0R,

/. YACHT RACE: First Glass. First
prize, purse, $50; second, S25.
2. FOUR-OARED SHELL RACE:
Purse, $50.
3. TUB RACE: Purse, SIS.
A. SWIMMING RACE: Purse, SIS.
5. STEAMER BOAT RACE: First
prizA, $25; second, S15; third, $40.
6. SIX PADDLE CANOE RACE:
First prize, $40; second, b5.
z, FOUR DARED SLIDING SEAT
BARGE RACE: Purse, $25.
s. TUG-OF-WAR: Purse, SIS.
8. YACHT RACE. Second Glass:
First prize, $40; second, $50.
10. SIX-OARED SLIDING SEAT
BARGE RACE: Purse, $40.
IL. DIVING CONTEST. Distance:
Purse, SIS.
II. CANOE SAILING RACE:
Purse, SO; second, $5.
13. FlVE-OARED WHALE BOAT
RACE; First prize, $40; second,
$40.
IA. TWO-OARED SHOREBOA
Pure, $40.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

No, the Opposition knows that the
Princess accepted the pension, but
they also know that the Advertiser
lied, as usual, when it sought to
give the impression that the accept
auce hinged upon conditions i'm
posed by Mr.. Dole. The Advertisers S
purpose was to lead the Hawaians
to believe that the Princess recog-
nized the Republic; possibly that
she had taken the oath
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

From the S. f. Bulletins bond r.
port we extract the following: :-"Tbe
Comptroller of Brooklyn IN. Y } has
awarded S2,000O00 in percent gold
tax certificates at 100 to 1907 Bos-
ton has recently borrowed 100000,
at percent in anticipation OF pay
ment of taxes. 1t yet needs ST. ,2000,-
600 to Sl,500000 more on the same
account. 1t is found to be imprac-
ticable to offer bonds at present, and
Corporations, municipalities and
towns, desiring to borrow money on
bonds are postponing dates for re-
ceiving proposals until the condi-
tions are more favorable" When
Boston must postpone dates for
proposals to buy its five percent
bonds, President Dole's commits
soner will fud some difficulties in
the way Of Hawaiian percent bonds
The first day of November is the
commissioner limit. Postpone it.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

This is what the Advertiser stated
for the purpose Of misleading the
people: "a letter was received at
the Foreign Office from Princess
Ksiulani not long ago in which she
accepts the appropriation made in
her favor by th- last Legislature and
states that she will endeavor as best
she knows how to follow out the
suggestions made by the Govern
ment in the same letter which told
her OF her appropriations. Sac names
Messrs Theo. FL, Davies & Co. as her
agents to collect the money"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

When it was announced by The
INDEPENDENT that our army had been
enjoined from speaking to Captain
Good the Advertiser was prompt to
deny it and our imported Colonel
denied the statement over his sigma
ture. Now comes the Advertiser
and says the injunction has been re-
moved as to two OF the companies.
How this world is given TO lying
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

We have heretofore had good
reason to believe that Minister
Damon was friendly to the Hawai-
iaus aud at all times ready to pro-
mote the interests of the coming
generation. His recent action in re-
gard to officials in the Custom
House indicates that we are mist AIKEN.
For unknown reasons the guards
have been placed under bonds OF
$1,000 each. This precaution vir-
| tually shuts out ali the Hawaiians
as hardly any Of them eau raise such
a bond III the guards were hand
ling public moneys we would not
have word to say against the
measure of the Minister. The bonds
now demanded are an absurdi,y and
seem to be directed simply as blow
against the poor Hawaiians who
heretofore have done good aud Ell
cient service on the docks. Minister
Damon is sufficiently well posted to
kuow that a bond like that now de
manded has no sta)diug in law and
that the Government will never bs
able to fall back on the bondsm.n.
If Custom House guard commits a
misdemeanor or a crime the laws
are there to punish him. II he neg
lects his duties his superior has the
right to give him the grand bounce.
Under no circumstances can the
bondsman be made responsible. 1t
would have bsen fairer and more
mauly if thu Minister had told
the native guards that he desired
to replace them With some of
his pets rather than to force
them to resign through the pow
erty of their friends. His Excel
lency has also taken sudden in
terest inthe "details OF the Custom
House works and the unfortunate
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

Rarely has Minister Damon shown
as much foresight as he did when
he in the last Legislature he advo
Gated the bill allowing light Cali
fornia wines to be imported free Of
duty. He stated at the time that
the dreaded saki was simply fad,
and that its consumption would
soon diminish materially. He also
said that to educate the Hawaiians
and others TO drink beer aud wine
instead OF hard stuff was the first
and best step in the cause of tenn
perance. A careful canvass among
our liquor dealers proves that the
Minister was correct. There are not
many calls for saki in the saloons
now. The natives use almost exclu.
sively California wine. The beer
trade has increased immensely and
the demand for hard liquor has de-
crea ed in proportion. OF the
several best known brands OF beer,
Paost Milwaukee, Seattle and En-
terprise, the importation by each
steamer exceeds 1000 gallons of
each brand Men who heretofore
took their cocktails or hard liquor
in other forms now drink beer, and
I'VE claim with Minister Damon that
an important step in the cause Of
temperance has been made.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

Can any man construe the above
tiraie OF the Advertiser otherwise
than indicative OF special conditions
having been made by Mr.. Dole and
accepted by the Princess? The truth
is that the only Suggestion" in the
letter to the Princess from the Ha-
waiian Government was that she
should appoint some one to collect
the money due her. She acted upon
that suggestion and named Theo. a..
Davies q Co. as her financial agents.
The Advertisers Influence in Gov
ernment circles ought to enable it
to persuade Minister Cooper to pub
lish the correspondence in re- Kaiu-
lani's pension. That would settle
all disputes in regard to the matter
a1d put a quielus on the constant
prevarications of the official organ.
Speaking OF taking the oath, an
item appeared the other day stating
that the Ka Oiaio, newspaper, had
been discontinued. The editor of
that paper states that his paper had
subscription list which represented
every island OF this group, number
ing 1900, until some person started
the story that the editor had taken
the oath to Mr. Dole's Republic,
when the list OF subscribers fell off
until the paper ceased to pay. And
yet Mr.. Dole and his frendsSay upon
any and all oecasions that the Ha-
waiians have accepted the situation.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Per Month, anywhere in the Ha-
waiian Islands. ..............,.....S 30
Per Year Observation-Disclosures. co
Per Year. postpaid 10 Foreign Ooun-
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-18

EDMUND NoRRIE. = Editor.
f. j. TESLA, Manager.
Residing in Honolulu
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
DEATH NOTICES.

BROWN-In this city, Oct. l3, Esther A.
NJ, widow OF John n. Brown, aged
"a years.
Funeral services Thursday, Oct. 10, at
p. m., from as Transit street. Relatives
and friends are invited TO attend.
BURKE-In this city, Oct. 13, Catherine,
wife of Dennis Burke, aged rs years.
Funeral will take place from ner late
residence, SS Douglas avenue, THURSDAY,
Oct. 10, at $3.50. Relatives and friends
are invited TO attend.
BATES-In this city Oct. 13, Laban
Bates, aged SO years.
Funeral at st. Johns Church on Fri
day, Oct. IS. ut noon. Relatives and
friends are invited TO attend.
CANNING-In this city, Oct. i3, Charles
Canning, aged 81 years.
Funeral from his late residence, 80 Will
lard avenue, Thursday, Oct. Is, at $3.50
a. m. Relatives and friends are invited
10 attend.
woonsocket papers please copy.
DARLING-October II, at New Haven,
Conn.,, suddenly, samuel Darling of
this city, in his s2d year.
Funeral from his late residence, 53>
Wesleyan avenue, Friday, Oct. 10, at 2
o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited
to attend. Burial later.
HIGGINS-In this city. Oct. 13, Jane
Higgins.
Funeral from the residence OF her
neice, Miss Drury, 2l2 Waterman street,
Johnston, Thursday, Oct. 10, at $3.50
q. IN. Relatives ana friends are invited
10 attend.
McGRATH-In this city, Oct.13, Ellen,
wife of The late Paul McGrath.
Funeral Friday morning, Oct. 10, at
$3.50 o'clock, from her late residence, 30S
Williams street. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend.
MCCARTHY-In this city, Oct. 13, Katie
NJ, wife of William j. Mccarthy,
ana daughter OF the late John j. and
Eliza Burns, aged 26 years.
Funeral Thursday morning. Oct. 10, at
$3.50 o'clock, fr )m her late residence, 219
Swan street. Relatives and friends are
invited to attend.
RICHARDS-In this city, Oct. i3, Charles
l.. Richards, aged 6S years, 4 months,
1S days.
Funeral at his late residence, 603 Angel
street, on Friday, Oct. IS, at z O'Clock
p. m. Relatives and friends are invited
10 attend.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
Germany Has silver to Sell.

The New York Tribune calls atten-
tion to tho fact that Prince Bisnarck's
predilection for silver has been costly
thing for the German government. 1t
says:
after the laws of 1871 and 1878,
placing Germany on gold basis. the
government began to sell its store Of
silver. IL continued to do so until 1877,
when Bismarck stopped ii. Germany at
that time had about 800, 600, 600 in
the white metal. This amount she still
has ready for market. The chancellor
was condemned by all the wisost iinan-
ciers of the fatherland for his action,
as it was predicted at the time that tho
price of silver would continue TO fall
and Germany would lose money by re-
tanning the metal. The prediction
proved true. The price Of silver has
fallen even moro than its greatest en-
emy could have wished, and tie market
value of the 800, 600. 600 today is lit
tie more than half its value in 1877
Bismarck is. of course, patriot and
wishes To promote the success of Ger
many rather than Of the United States
II the United States adopt free coinage
of silver at the rate of tG 90 !, Germany
would have a market for hsr 800, 000,-
600 Of silver, and Bismarck's critics
might forget the evil which he had
done In 1877. The name of Bismarck,
at any rate, is not one for the Popocrats
20 conjure with.
Germany is not the only nation which
has disused silver 10 throw on the mar
ket the moment market shall be of
fered. AL the members of the LstiE
union, who were years ago forced to
stop silver coinage in order 90 protect
themselves from silver monometallism.
arc ready TO send us silAr by tho ton.
-Philadelphia Record.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
WILLIAM III. COVELL.

The Hon. WILLIAM III. CovBLL, Repub-
Iicsn candidate for Mayor, serve1 his
constituents and the city in the Com
mon Council, as Councilman from Ward
10, as far back as 1888, and again for six
consecutive years, from 1888 to 1893 inciu-
sive. He was, of course, elected by Dem
ocratic votes, because irrespective OF pol
itics his partizan neig h bors esteemed him,
and returned him for q number OF years
from a ward the prevailing politics Of
which was strongly against him. He
was a valuable member of the Council,
and served the city on its more important
committees. lie has served with equal
efficiency on the school committee, and is
now a valuable mem Der of the Genera
Assembly in the lower branch of which
he has had a seat for five terms.
His public record commonds him to
the suffrages of his fellow-citizens for
the Office for which he is now a csndi-
date.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
What Is the Matter?

The great trouble in this country is
that we have not enough to do for our
people. We had every man employed in
this country in 1892 at the best wages
that had ever been paid 10 any working
man in the world. What is the matter
now? IL is the same corntry and the
same splendid population, the same fac
tories, the same energy and enterprise
and skill that we had four years ago.
What's the matter with the country,
commercial mon Of CiucinnatiY IL is
the lack Of confidence, y,u all cry with
one voice. And why this lack of conf
dencc? I ask you, commercial men OF
Cincinnati. What we want in this first
instance is n restoration Of confidence
you are right about tha;-and the only
way 10 have confidence in the govern
ment and among the people Is for the
government to adops revenue policy
that will supply enough money to pay
'ts EXPENSES. w William Mckinley.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
BRYAN frankly tells MIN would be
worth only half as much?"

BRYAN frankly tells MIN would be
worth only half as much?"
All these are very plain questions. They
can be answered very easily. But the
silver advocates who undert ook 10 an
swer them, and at the same time make
the answers appear favorable to this
workingman's interests, failed utterly
as they could not help falling.
In word, these questions cannot be
answered In way TO make ii justify any
sensible workingman in casting his vote
for BRYAN aud 50-cent dollar. They
can be lodged. "Coin" HARVEY ard
BILLY BRYAN may juggle with the fig
ures and enshroud the questions in fog
OF sophistry. But the only possible an
swers to them would set every working
mans vote against the policy that they
advocate. The questions probe the Chi
cago proposition deeply and expose the
inherent weakness of a false cause.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
Here's to the Glass Of NIFTY Nit
The sun.

The sun.
The first working solution of a col
lege riddle which has been
more and more actively pondered with
the approach os the twentieth century,
has come TO US from Princeton. The
question has been what to call the class
OF 1900, which begins it's first academ ic
year this fall. The class OF '97 will gradu-
ate next year, '9S the year after, and then
the class OF 80 to which the luck of allit-
Grafton will give peculiar permsnence in
the memory; and after that will come
the class OF 1900. The years of the first
three, like their predecessors, for many
decades are easily abbreviated to the con-
venient and erdearing curtness that
habitually marks friendships nick
names. They match the now generally
adopted college cneer. Hut how the
l nj lue 1900 students were to be known,
exceIt In the long drawn out formslity
OF four figures, nobody has known until
they assembled within college borders.
OF course such common place inventions
as the class Of "Naughty -naught," or of
the "Double Zero" have been suggested
in plenty, but the wit OF New Jersey
and the genius Of the time have happily
christoned Princeton's class of 1900 ss the
class OF NIFTY Nit.
Nit is a product OF the fin de steele. We
can recommend nothing better than the
above title for the Identification OF the
unnum bered classes whose college records
will close with the nineteenth century.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
FIVE CENT DOLLAR.
HOW IT MAY FOLLOW THE PRESENT
FREE SILVER COINAGE CRAZE.

After the Silver Mine Owners Had Re-
ceived Their Big Profits They Might he
Taken from Them by the Fiat Money
Some Cheap Money People Desire.
An appeal for extra contributions TO
the Popocratic cause has been made to
the members of the Silver trust They
arc urged to dig down deep again into
their pockets and to keep on digging
down deep in order TO elect to the presi-
dency Mr.. William Jennings Bryan.
The appeal is pointed with the reminder
that by the adoption Of free silver the
silver kings will be assured clear profit
of GA cents an ounce on the G0,000, 600
ounces Of silver mined annually.
These mine owners have reason TO ex-
pect undoubtedly that the enactment OF
free coinage law will be followed by
q rise in the price Of silver, such as oc-
Cured when the Sherman law was en-
acted in 1890. The passage of free
coinage law would be sure to cause
some advance in the white metal at the
beginning When the price, therefore,
went up, these big owners Of silver
could dispose at big profit Of all the
bullion they might have on hand at the
time and all that could be miued within
a reasonable time thereafter.
But they must know also that after
the first splurge the price of silver would
sink back again to about the present
price and the big profits cease But
while the boom was on, while silver
enjoyed its temporary initiation, the
money would roll into the Golfers Of the
silver kings. and tho immense sums
realized would be invested and loaned
out and otherwise disposed Of so as to
bring in an annual return in interest.
In working for this FOOLS paradise.
however. day Of reckoning for even
the silver kings would follow in the
wake Of free coinage. All these fellows
who are shouting for cheap money and
debt Reputation do not expect to stop
at so cent dollars. Free coinage Of so
cent dollars would be Only the first STEP
The inevitable second step would be to
institute q fiat money, scrip currency,
10 or or no cent dollar. And after
the silver kings and satellites had raked
in their gains and loaned them out
through the medium of the 80 cent dol
lar law, this complementary cent dol
lar law would come along, the nation
would fall again from 80 cent dollar
basis to 8 cent dollar basis, and the
silver kings with the rest would he
forced to accept these or even no cent
dollars in payment for the 80 cent dol
lars they had invested.
The law for which they are fighting
rapaciously now to substitute 80 cents
for dollar in their interests would then
be changed so that even the pretense of
an intrinsic money standard would be
abandoned, and their interests with the
rest would suffer accordingly. They
would get liberal dose of their own
medicine and perhaps then would be
able to realize what they are blind to
now--that honesty is the best policy.
This is u case where it would he far
better not to have loved free silver and
lost than never to have loved at all. -
| Chicago Tribune.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14

liz only The men, women and children OF
his district In whose behalf Congressman
MELVILLE BULL has exerted himself In
Washington were to vote for him in
Novem Der, he would receive a hstteringly
large vote. But there ere Others who APP
preciate his record in large and small
particulars and his majority will be the
biggest ever accorded Rhode Island
congressional candidate.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14

SAYS the Indianapolis Sentinel, a
Democratic BRYAN and free silver paper: /:
"The Sentinel has held that free coinage
would produce .ilver monometsllism
and still holds to that view" or course
II would. BILLY BRYAN knows IL would
and he does not seriously attempt to
deny that 1t would. The Chicago plat
form, however, declares that: "we are
unslteraoly opposed to monometallism, Z"
before II goes on to oenounce specif-
rally gold monometallism.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14

THAT gallant old sailor, Admiral
GEORGE K. BELKNAP, United States
Navy, retired, wrote to friend: 81 am
ombatting the heresies OF free silver
coinage and the abominations of the
Chicago platform. AS an old A No ],
live-oak, copper fastened Democrat
shall vote the Republican ticket this
year for the first time in my life" And
there are no end OF Others.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
Bryan's attitude toward the

Bryan's attitude toward the
banks is well explained by the
statement of the dcfunct Ger
man National bank of Lincoln,
Neb. When the bank failed, Will
liam j. Bryan had $73.O3 on de-
pOsit and owed the bank y 1 900
on n note which is still unpaid.
Bryan Is one of the debtor class.
He would like to pay 100 cent
debts with 53 cent dollars.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
WAGES RISE SLOWLY.
Free Silver and How 1t Would Hurt tho
WorldngIypn.

Free Silver and How II Would Hurt tho
WoriingIgpn.
II is claimed by the champions OF
free silver coinage that the effect or
stamping so cents worth of silver metal
as 81 and compelling everybody in the
United States to accept it as full pay
ment for 81 worth of goods would be
to largely advance the price of all com-
modities. This is doubtless the fact, but
no free silver advocate has yet explained
why the workingman should desire to
haye this take place.
What good would il do the American
wage Garner if free silver coinage should
be fully as successful as its promoters
desire in doubling the prices Of all the
articles Of necessary daily consumption
in the workingman's home? How is it
possible that he himself, his wife, or
his children should be made any richer
or any happier by forcing up the prices
at all the stores where their daily food,
clothing and supplies are purchased?
There is only one way in which the riot
of high prices which free silver is ex-
pected to inaugurate cAnld even leave
the workingman as we'll off as he is at
present, and that is by raising bis wages
just as fast as the prices are raised on
all the things which he has to go to the
market and buy.
But the experience of all imitation
periods has been that while wages have
eventually risen as well as other things,
they have not risen nearly as quickly
nor as high. In other words, the price
of labor has been the last thing to feel
the lift Of currency imitation move
ment. Thus, for example, in our civil
war days the result Of the initiation Of
the currency by the repeated issues OF
greenbacks was that tho prices of all the
necessaries of life rose to very high fig
ures, exactly as the free silver coinage
people expect and desire to raise them
now.
Taking prices Of commodities and
wages in 1860, just before the war be-
gan, as at a normal level, the record
shows that by 1865 tho prices Of food
and clothing and general family sup
plies had been multiplied 2la times
But the record also shows that the aver
age of all wages had only increased by
one half. So that, while the nominal
rate of wages at the close OF the war.
compared with the rate of wages before
the war, was about as $50 is to 100,
yet the net purchasing power of wages,
allowing for the higher prices Of every
thing, had declined in the Same time
from 100 to 60.
In short, the spectators, contractors
and middlemen had take all the cream
off the milk of imitation and left the
unfortunate workingman the skim
milk of nominally larger wages. which,
in reality, would not buy him nearly as
many of the necessities and comforts OF
life as he used to be able to buy with
the lower wages that he had before the
war And as it was it would be again
if we tried the experiment Of fiat silver
money. The workingmen of this coun-
try will not permit the experiment to
! be tried. New York Recorder
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
A Point For Renudiafors.

There is whole volume of ethics
bound up in the simple Latin phrase
which we translate by the word "debt. l"
The phrase is os alienum, meaning An
others money. People who imagine
there is a hardship in the demand for
the full payment of debt seem in need
Of reminder that what they have is
another's money and not their own. no
matter how long they have had it,
Mobile Daily Register (Dem.).