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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
ANOTHER PESSIMIST.

Senator Morgan of Alabama,
whose opinion on the certainty of
annexation is quoted by our friends
here, is, after all, only a degraded
pessinist. Read his remarks in the
closing hours of the Senate, as re-
ported by telegram to San Francis
co on July "a: Senator Morgan
asked the Senate to take up annex
alton and suggested that events of
Importance might transpire before
another session of Congress, which
would cause the Senate to regret
its action"
If the Senator had been in close
communication with our friends
here, he would never have made
such a distressingly pessimistic re-
mark. But he is coming to see us,
and we shall all be Alabamians in
our welcome of him. He will soon
be put right on the annexation
question by our friends. In telling
the Senators that something dread
full would happen if they didn't
annex at once, he made things look
very black. No one seconded his
suggestion, the telegram says. He
had that nervous, pessimistic rattle
which is best cured by ten drops of
"foregone conclusion" medicine
Perhaps, as our genial cotem-
porary would suggest, he has been
eating too many good dinners at
Chamberlain's, in Washington, but
when he comes out to this land of
very plain living, and is chained
down for few weeks to fish and
poi, he will begin to see how grie-
vously he has misunderstood the
situation in Washington.
The Senator is an ever-faithful
friend, with large, wholesome
working faith in annexation. But
he does not spend much time in
building, as Josh Billings says,
"the mansards of idle prophecy"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
BICYCLES IN EUROPE.

The American Consul, de Kay,
in Berlin writes to the Bureau of
Statistics, that American wheels
retail from 500 to $107. He says,
ct is not because they are foreign
wheels, that they sell rapidly at
highest prices, but because they are
the strongest, highest, soundest
and most elegant in shape. They
have quite taken the field from
Belgian, Austrian and British
wheels. There is a panic in bicycle
shares on the Birmingham market.
The business of manufacturing is
over done for the present.
The German Government will
probably shut the American wheel
out of the German markets by fix
ing very high tariff rates on the
importation. "Protection" cuts
all around. The American wants
it. but when the German wants it,
the American gets mad, and asks
his Government to "teach these
Dutchmen a lesson"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

through it slavery would be carried
into the Islands. The Tri6une's
editorial on the subject is printed
In full, with these documents.
Here is an extract from an edi-
torial in the New York Herald of
June 3, 1854, forty-three years
ago: ''The information received at
the State Department from the
Sandwich Islands will arrest pub
lie attention. 1t seems King ka
mehameha is impatient to become
annexed to the United States, and
has applied to our Consul at Homo
lulu, urging the speedy adoption
of measures to effect that object.
This subject has occupied the at
tention of the Press and the people
of this country for years, and yet
we find that the present admins
tration has not taken even the first
preliminary step towards carrying
out an object of such vast import
ance, both politically and com
mercially, to our citizens"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

Populist Legislature, by a single
act, swept away a lot of old laws,
without careful examination. Tn
fortunately, it swept away the judi
cial districts, and left business in
confusion. The Populist Chief
and his associates, now de-
clares the law unconstitutional. He
turns in his own tracts and swallows
his own wild words This Is the
result of responsibility.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
A VALUABLE PAPER.

Professor Alexander contributes
to the Historical Society a most
valuable account of the uncom-
pleted treaty of annexation be-
tween the United States of Amer
lea and the Hawaiian Kingdom,
negotiated in 1854"
1t is a full and detailed history
of the event. In addition, there is
published all of the correspondence
on the subject, SO that any student
or person interested in the growth
of annexation sentiment may see
the active working of causes in
1854, which resulted in the pro-
posed annexation treaty of '93 and
the present treaty of '97.
The paper is a most valuable
monograph, and is written in the
clear and attractive style which
Professor Alexander always COM
nands.
We feel like saying that it will
be a crime if many thousand copies
Of this paper are not circulated in
the States. 1t Is more valuable
han a thousand editorials" in
this remote place, crammed up
with our opinions of the import
ance of annexation. Here is a
clear statement of what Americans
did. There are many thousands of
old-fashioned Democrats IN the
States who do not know that a
Democratic administration urged
treaty of annexation many years
ago. Many Democratic members
of the Senate and the House do not
know it. 1t is of the utmost i'm
portance that these men should be,
at the right time, in possession of
this authentic history of a Demo
cratic measure. It contains facts,
not opinions. Within three months
a leading Democratic Senator said:
'I have always believed that an
nexation was, on the whole, a Re
publican measure" Here is the
clear proof that it is not
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Americans PAIRED Out.

TORONTO, Ont, August 6.-Canada
has begun TO take means TO enforce
the alien labor law against Americans
Commissioner McCreary is here on
business in connection with work on
the Crows Nest Pass Railway through
the Rocky Mountains, and he informed
the Canadian Pacific Railway authori-
ties that any American laborers en-
gagged for that work would be deported
to their own country again. McCreary
has instructions from the Canadian
Government to strictly enforce the new
law
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

We have always had an abiding
faith in the gradual growth of on
nexation sentiment in America.
Some of the advanced men saw its
Importance years ago, but 1t has
taken nearly half century for the
roots of annexation to run down
deep into the soil of popular opin-
ion. They are in it now. But when
we said that the growth was not
that of banana tree, some of our
good annexation friends intimated,
with some temper, that we knew
about ''growths."
Reading Professor Alexander's
valuable paper will be very instruc-
tive, even if it does show how back
ward the American people are look
ing out for the main chance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

Responsibility sobers men up.
A Kansas politician, a Populist,
was in the habit of denouncing the
Courts, and the way they defeated
the will of the people, and multi
fled laws. He was lately elected
Chief Justice of the State. The
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Another SILVER slump.

NEW YORK, August Gable dis
patches from London report a further
weakness in the silver market there.
The local market was sympathetically
affected, with quotations declining to
new Iow-record figures.
The parity of the commercial bar
silver on the basis of this quotation
was 551a cents an ounce, but owing to
tho existence of a moderate short in
terest in the market, which was COW
ering at the decline, the rate for actual
business here was about 5534 cents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

We have, for some years,
thought more or less on this fact
that the people of the United
States have been told persistently
for over forty years that annexa-
ton was supremely important, but
they have failed to realize it.
Why? Are they not intelligent
enough? Are they really stupid
people, who can't see a good thing
when it is before them!
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Headline

2 Hundreds of remedies have been in
troduced and used for the treatment
and cure of this widespread ailment,
but in most cases only temporary re-
lief was obtained Headline has
proven to be the only infallible and
harmless preventative and cure yet in
troduced. It's effect is positive-it con-
tains nothing but of a purely vegetable
nature
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Natures

1t is free from OPIUM or NARCOT-
les. Children can take it with safety.
No sufferer from this distressing ma
lady can afford to neglect giving it a
trial.
The proof of the pudding is in the
eating.
Skeptics cease to exist after giving it
a trial
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
TOPICS
AUGUST 10, 1907.

AUGUST 10, 1897.
IF a Man Were to offer
A =" HA"n $40 gold pieces
for sale at a dime each he
would be voted either a fool
or a knave. Though we are
not exactly doing this kind
of business we are offering
Schoenberger'S SOFT STEEL
horse shoes at the same price
as you can get ordinary iron
shoes for. This brand Of
horse shoes is universally
admitted to be unrivalled
in every respect. The extra
fine material, and superior
workmanship recommend
them to evey farrier who
prides himself on his work.
The general shape of the
shoe fulfils the latest and
most approved ideas of prac-
tical horseshoers. They are
smooth and uniform, the
concave is made to conform
to the horses hoof; the
creasing neat, punching clean
and properly done, and they
are in short, the finest and
best shaped and cheapest
shoes on the market.
In the matter of nails, you
can have a choice of Putnam
Champlain or Lighth l,g
brands. The last named is
quite a new brand. but has
quickly worked its way to
the front, through pure
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Headaches
Completely
Conquered

All beings are alike when it comes to
suffering from this universal complaint
termed HEADACHE. The literary
man, the business man, the laborer, the
over-taxed mother, the society belle are
victims alike in this respect.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
J hey All

"Ihere are lads in medicine as well as
IN other things" said busy druggist.
s@but the most remarkable thing about
Hoods Sarsaparilla Is that customers V no
try other remedies all come back 20
Hoods, and this Is why the enormous
sales of this medicine keep up " nile others
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

Curiously enough, the New
York Tribune, in 1854, opposed
annexation on the ground that
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and in short time go out of sight en-
tirely, to be heard from no more"
why is it?" go, simply because
Hoods Sarsaparilla has more real curative
merit than any medicine I ever sold''
This Is OF daily occurrence in almost
every drug store. Hoods SarsaparilIa is
the standard remedy which has cured
more sickness, relieved more distress and
made more happiness by bringing people
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

Gazette (seri-weekly) will be is
sued this morning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Blessing

We are giving away free to our pat
rons a sample package of HEADLINE,
and if you try it, you will be convinced
of it's paralizing effect on sore heads.
Put up in packages, containing six
powders, at 25 cents.
The advocate., 1897-09-01
Work for Idle Hands.

For several years the members of
the Board of Charities have been en-
deavOring to devise some plan which
would afford work for the boys in the
Reform School. The State has many
acres of timber land on the grounds
and the board now proposes to employ
the time Of the boys in clearing this
land and converting it into a pasture.
Speaking of the matter, Senator Jum-
per, who is one of the members of the
board, said; "By spring we expect to
have the ground all cleared and sowed
to grass. There is a herd of cows on
the States grounds, but the pasture is
limited and the State is paying for
pasturing cows to furnish milk at the
school. The worst trouble we have
found has been that in all the State in
stitutiOns-some are worse than others,
Of course-there has been too much of
making the front look fine and letting
the back yard take care of itself. A
little work is good thing for the boys,
and unless they are taught to work,
life in a reform institution isn't going
to do them much good. We can't teach
these boys trades as we intended to,
owing to the fact that the bill provid
ing for such department did not pass,
but we can teach them to work and at
least not encourage idleness. There
will be plenty OF work for them for
some months clearing OFF that timber.
The advocate., 1897-09-01

The allied silver forces in Ohio have
announced a monster Campmeeting at
Springfield September 10 to rs. Mr.
Bryan is expected to be present one
day at least, and among the other
speakers announced as having been
engaged may be mentioned Senator
Jones Of Arkansas, Senator Teller of
Colorado, Senator Butler Of North Car
olina, Governor Taylor of Tennessee,
Governor Matthews of Indiana, Presi-
dent Andrews of Brown university,
John Clark Ridpath, the historian,
George Fred Williams Of Massachu-
setts, James H. Teller of Illinois, eX-
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, ex-
Governor st. John Of Kansas, Mrs.
Helen M. GOuger of Indiana, Horace
L. Chapman Of Ohio and the Rev. Sam
w. Small of Georgia. The meeting is
projected by the National Bimetallic
League, which is understood to be fur
nishing the financial backing neces-
sary, in which respect it will endeavor
to recoup through the sale Of privileges.
men of Springfield have sub
scribed literally and the statement is
made that all the money necessary to
make the enterprise a decided success
is at the command of it's promoters.
Railroad fare is announced as one fare
for the round trip.
The advocate., 1897-09-01
Mine Owners Pay Scrip.

Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson
has been investigating miners condi-
tlOns in southeast Kansas. He says:
"The scrip system is clearly in viO-
latiOn of law and is carried on to a
very large extent, but 1t is next to i'm
possible to secure prosecutions. The
miners will tell me the facts, but they
do not dare to go before an officer and
swear to a complaint They would be
blaCklisted out of the State if they did.
A man who would institute proceed
ings against one of these mining COM
panies would never get another job
digging coal in that district. The big
companies issue scrip of various kinds,
some of 1t transferable and some Of it
in book form not to be transferred
1t is good at the company stores. A
miner Is not compelled to take it, but
the miners have found out that the way
to get steady work is to draw so or so
per cent. Of their pay in this scrip
during each month. All that is due
miner at the end Of the month is
paid him in cash, but the men know
that it is very easy for the superin-
tendent to find some reason for laying
them of.
"a sample was told me a. few days
ago. A miner bought five kegs of pow
der paying cash for it, thereby saving
80 cents a keg as compared with what
he paid when he bought powder from
the company. At the end of the month
he was Laid off and told that perhaps
he could get job where he got his
powder. After losing considerable time
he got back to work but not until he
knew where to buy powder Hints of
that sort are more effective than COM
pulsiOn. The small companies that do
not have stores buy the scrip at 65 to
80 cents on the dollar from the compa-
MES that issue it and pay it out to their
men. When a man draws scrip and
needs money he can sell it for 60 to rs
per cent. of it's face value, but he loses
that much on his work. l shall confer
with the Attorney General about it,
but the difficulties in the way of break
ing up the practice come chiefly from
the miners themselves. They would
not consent to go into court and tell
their experiences. l have seen stores
recently in which If you ask the price
OF an article the clerk, before answer
ing, will find out whether you intend
to pay in cash or scrip"
The advocate., 1897-09-01

Ex-senator Washburn, of Minnesota,
is denOuncing the section of the Ding
ley bill which is said ito levy 10 per
cent. discriminating duty on foreign
goods imported by way of Canada. He
says in my opinion the conference
committee was buncoed. l believe the
clause was put in by one outside the
committee with the idea that it might
be construed in a different way from
the general impression Of it's intent in
Congress. The clause is right in line
with a speech made by Senator Elkins
during the session Of Congress just
closed. He and Senator Frye were
foremost in their endeavOrs to get the
provision concerning foreign ships in
troduced. 1t does not seem possible
to me that Senator Frye could be
guilty of such move, which is clearly
against the interests of his own State
of Maine and all Of New England. But
these gentlemen, I understand from
Senator Allison, wanted this 10 per
cent. extended to goods on the free list.
The conference committee would not
hear of such wholesale discrimina-
tiOn. But no one on the conference
committee seems to be guilty of in
PRODUCING the clause, and it is my Opin-
ion that they we're buncoed by some
one on the outside"
The advocate., 1897-09-01

too large, and that this is especially
true with reference to the horse and
mule market. Judge Clark finds that
the rate bill was regularly and legally
passed. No estimate is placed on the
good will of the company, although 1t
is found that it's stock sells for from 40
to 141 per share.
The report is regarded as very fair
one Both parties will, however, file
exceptions to some of the conclusions,
which number fOrty-eight. Arguments
on these exceptions will be heard Sep
tember 6, and Judge Foster will likely
decide the case in October. 1t is prob
able that the case will finally go to the
United States Supreme court, no mat
ter what the decision may be.
The advocate., 1897-09-01
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice, hav.
ing had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formula OF o simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure Of
COnsump ption, Bronchitis, Cstarrh, Asthma,
and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a
positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility
and all Nervous Complaints, after having
tested its wonderful curative powers in thou
sands Of cases, has felt 1t his duty to make IL
known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by,
this motive and desire to relieve human sut-
HerinR, will SEND free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, In German, French or
English, with full directions for preparing
ana using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper. w. A. MOVES, $50
POlgers Block Rochester, ". Y.
The advocate., 1897-09-01

braska or Iowa. Reports from fifty
eight correspondents indicate an aver
age yield Of 81 bushels per acre, Is
per cent. of which, as estimated, will
be fed. An interesting feature is the
showing made in reply TO the question
whether farmers generally are selling
or holding their wheat and oats. Each
reply received applies to the entire
body of farmers in the market district,
and the reports covering Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas show that
272 are holding and 252 selling wheat,
and 27S are holding and eighty-one
selling oats. This showing should be
modified by the statement that nearly
every correspondent who reported the
farmer as selling his wheat or oats
qualified it with such note as part
OF it, only little enough to pay ex-
penses or debts, etc"
The advocate., 1897-09-01

The London Times publishes two
column special article reviewing the
effects of closing the Indian mints, in
connection with the visit Of the Amer
lean Bimetallic Commission. The arti-
Gle comments ON the characteristic
crudeness and bOldness of American
diplomacy in sending a bimetallic COM
mission to ask for the reopening of the
Indian mints, while at the same time
dealing the worst possible blow at
British commerce by passing the Ding
ley tariff. 1t is clearly impossible" says
the writer, to treat seriously a COM
mission which argues that unless we
do something for silver in the next
election the United States will send
Mr.. Bryan to the White House, to the
lasting injury of British interests. It
is not certain that Mr.. Bryan will be
elected. 1t is not even certain that II
he were elected we would suffer more
than we should with a new Mckinley
and another Mckinley act"
The advocate., 1897-09-01

The Corn Belt, paper issued by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company, in it's September crop report
contains the following: "The actual
facts, so far as Nebraska is concerned,
warrant the assertion that the hereto
fore estimated wheat product of 40,-
900 900 bushels for the State Is, If any
thing, too high. The average of 1859
reports received shows yield of 22.21
bushels per acre. The estimated yield
of corn per acre in Iowa averages S5
bushels. Half Of the crop, 1t is esti-
mated, will be fed to cattle, hogs and
sheep. The stand of corn in northern
Missouri ranges from fair to good.
The harvest will be earlier than In Me-
The advocate., 1897-09-01
Now is Your Chance to Get Farm.

Harvest excursions on the Great
Rock Island Route to the Oklahoma
district, also to Kansas and Texas.
There are six excursions arranged for.
Ticket rate, one fare for round trip
plus 50. Dates are August and II,
September and q, and October and
10. Inquire Of any ticket agent OF the
Rock Island system, or address John
Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago.