The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-12-29
GIVES HISIVIEWS
Mr.. Armstrong Pouches on I'm
p0Ftant Points.
TARIFF To Be CONSERVATIVE
CALIFORNIA; Opposition to
Annexation.
What Might Have Been - Japan
and Philippine Re-
belllon.
TARIFF TO Be CONSERVATIVE

not coming with leaps and bounds.
There is no sudden outbreak of good
things. Congress is in session and the
statesmen are making up their minds,
or in other words, are trying to find
out what their constituents are think
ing about. In the early days the states
men did the thinking. Now the peo-
pie do it. Seventy millions of people
of all sorts and conditions do not
think rapidly, and come to all sorts of
conclusions
The analysis of the late political bat
tie is continued by the political writ
ers. 1t shows up some very awkward
situations. Mr.. Henry Watterson's
talk on the situation is attracting much
attention. Though a gold" man, he
says that the rich people of the East
are lording it over the poor Western
ers, and making them feel bad Mr.
Nordhoff writes to the Herald that
Watterson should try to bring the
East and the South together. Mr. Wat
terson says that the people have been
spoilt and pampered by Government
coddling. He claims that the theory of
the protective tariff is, that the man
ufacturer and workmen should be pro
tected," so now all classes are coming
forward and asking to be protected
too; that is, why should not the poor
man get rich by law, by free coinage
law, or any other law. The people,
when in trouble, are in the habit of
looking not to themselves, but to the
Government to get them out of the
scrape. The New York Times says
that Mr.. Mckinley and the Republicans
voted for the coinage of that vast
amount of silver which lies in the
vaults, and brought on the financial
troubles; that both parties were afraid
to do right and did wrong, hoping that
they would not be caught at it; that
it is an awful and solemn lesson on
the evils of trimming in politics. The
campaign was not altogether honest.
Too much was said to the farmers
about bimetallism, and some positive
promises were made that it would be
settled by Republican Congress. This
keeps the money question alive. Con-
gress is now acting on the subject.
1t is already clear that tariff legisla-
ton will be very conservative; an any
event, Mr.. Mckinley did not approve
of much in his own tariff bill Che be-
ing only one of the committee which
reported it,, and he seems now dis
posed to get men of both parties to
agree on something permanent, so that
business men may not be disturbed
The New England men are not as
earnestly in favor of high tariffs rs
they were formerly, as they find that
high duties give the South and West
some advantages. Moreover there has
been an astonishing increase of ex-
ports of manufactured goods since the
Wilson bill went into operation. The
question is asked: Has this tariff any
thing to do with it? These considera-
tions induce waiting policy.
The Cuban rebellion is evidently TAX
ing a new shape, since the death Of
Maceo, who was probably killed in
battle, and was not trapped into death.
Members of Congress are disturbing
the Executive by war cries, but the
conservative men, including Mckinley,
are willing to follow President Cleve
land. The cry of war against Spain
recalls the Trent affair and the cap
ture of Mason and Slidell, in 1862.
When England demanded their release
the country went mad with rage, and
shouted: Never, neveri" Congress
went mad, too. Lincoln and Seward
kept their heads cool, and released
them on the very ground that the Unit
ed States had always stood on, and for
which it went to war in 1912. | recall
that at that time syndicate of very
briefless young lawyers in New York,
having nothing else to do, tackled the
question of international law, and
came to the conclusion that the Con-
federates would be released, and there
upon made bets of hats, clothes, din
ners, cigars, in every direction, to that
effect, which were eagerly taken up by
the excited brokers and angry men. On
the release of the Confederates the syn
dictate lived in luxury for many days,
on their ill-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 it 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 a project
there will always be found men to aid
it secretly. The revolutionists are well
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-