The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-26

on tnelr lI-gOtTen gains Although
Senators and Representatives are will
ing to do rash things about Cuba, the
reserve force OF the nation is behind
the President.
Some day there will be a revelation
of the relations of the Japanese to the
rebellion in the PHILIPPINE Islands.
Long Before the outbreak, 1t was said
in Yokohama that the japanese were
not looking towards Hawaii, but TO-
wards the South Several predicted
that there would soon be trouble in the
Philippines. 1t came. The Govern
ment of Japan maintains a neutral at
titude, of course, but where there is a
public sentiment in favor of project
there Will always be found men to aid
it secretly. The revOlutiOniStS are we'll
supplied with guns and ammunition,
and the question is: Where did they
get them? The correspondent of the
New York Herald asserts that it is a
social and not a political revolution.
The funeral services over the bodies
Of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and her daugh-
ter, on the 14th, was an uncommon
event in this city. Mrs. Cooper was
one of the foremost philanthropists of
this State. She organized the kinder
gartens of the city, through which over
$4,000 children has passed. This was
q noble work and brought to her aid
many of the best women of the place.
Her daughter was her most valuable
assistant. Her husband, in fit of de-
preston, had taken his own life some
years ago. The daughter had shown
symptoms of insanity. Last Friday
she induced her mother to retire, and
when she was asleep, turned on the
gas jets without lighting them, and
both were found dead in the morn
ing. The insane girl wished to leave
and take her mother with her. One
recalls AT Cowper's Crave by Mrs.
Browning: "Oh, Christians, at your
cross of hope, hopeless hand was
clinging.' At the church, before a
great audience, the caskets of mother
and daughter lay side by side, covered
With wreaths of flowers, sent by those
who loved them. No state funeral
could command finer tribute. Mrs.
Cooper was a cousin of Col. Robert G.
Ingersoll. His words, spoken at his
brothers grave, we'll apply to her: IF
for every act of kindness a flower were
laid upon his grave, he would, indeed,
be buried in a wilderness of roses
She belonged 10 the order of Vital Phil
anthrOpy, and here it was recognized.
Mrs. DOminis is here, and declines
any public attention. She is reticent
as to her intentions. So the papers
az, sDeculating on her purposes. They
wouid t,e glad enough il she would give
them a sensational tip, but she says
nothing. 1t is thought by many that
she intends to hold up the annexa-
ton train and get the crown lands OUT
of the safe, but she would not disclose
her intention, if it is SO. She will find
little comfort in Washington. If she
approaches President Cleveland on the
subject she will tell her that Mr.. Me
Kinley is the man who will soon put
up his sign, and Mr.. Mckinley will do
what is right
Those who have been crying for an
neXation, during the last three years.
without urging, demanding, and insist
ing on the gradual assimilation of the
labOring class in Hawaii to that of the
United States, may read with profit the
language of the ArgOnaut of December
18th The report of the Labor Com
mission to the Hawaiian Legislature Of
1S9495, urgently stated the need of
such assimilation, but the report fell
fiat enough, and the friends of annex
alton were quite content to cry out:
Annexation, annexation like sailors
drifting from a vessel in distress, VINO
cry out: Save us, save us" but refuse
to put out an out or rig a sail A few
of those who earnestly desired anneXa-
ton, but saw the signs of the times,
detected the little black cloud of op-
position in the California sky. Now,
Senator Perkins, heretofore a friend OF
the cause, is modifying his views on
the subject, and the beet sugar men,
the farmers UP and down the State,
are asking if the sugar raised by Ash
attic labor shall be brought into COM
petition with the sugar raised by the
white labor of California. The ques-
ton is asked in whispers now. but the
voice is growing louder as time goes
on. This State now supplies one-thiTd
third of the demand. Has the Ameri-
can League or the Annexation Club ev-
er demanded of the Government that
it act promptly wisely and patiently
in making some inexpensive expert
ments in substituting white for yellow
labor?
The average citizen generally gets
mad when some one tells him bad
news or confronts him with cold facts,
especially if he is at fault himself. 1t
depresses his spirits if things don't 50
his own way He wants sunshine and
no rain The wheat shocks must fin
ally come to the fail, and the winnow-
ing be done But California is no1
the United States, and if she does rise
in opposition, it does not follow that
her voice will prevail 1t is a method
of good politics to foTestall opposi-
ton w n. ARMSTRONG