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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
A small banu Of Texans went to Mex

A small band of Texans went to Mex
leo not long ago seeking a location.
Th 5 incident mas grown to such pro-
portions as the news travelled east W.
find in Boston paper the statement
toat 600 Texas families have gone to
Mexico and more are TO follow. The
eastern paper draw an excellent de-
duc5iOn, however, and give these
imaginary cOlOnists some good ad Vie.
They tell them that any part of Texas
will suit them be ter in the long run
than Mexico. and they should stay
with a good thing when they have it.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
THE HERALD is fully prepared to do all
the latest styles. Work perfectly and
promptly done.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

Linen typewriter paper, 500 sheets
lie gal size at 81 20 al HERALD Job Office
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
Or. A. r.

Emmett Crawford 9ost. No. ie, q. a. e.
Meets 1st Sunday Of each month at 2:3O D IN
Hall on San Antonio street. All comrades u
good standing invited to VISIT the post.
GEO NJ. NcCONAuGHEY, Commander
i. Z. TUSTEN, Ad1utant
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
a, o, v. NJ,

Meets In G. A. K. hall on the first anc
third Tuesdays In each mouth. Victims
brothers cordially invited.
FRED WIDMAN. NJ. ".
O. @ Kstra as;lrdst.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
Eira Qeonrkn1enf.

Board of Fire Directors meets every secon
Wednesday. General department meeting
second Wednesday in March. June, septem-
h-,- and December ] J JTLIAS. President.
J Payne, J Con iors, Chief
SECRETARY NJ MtllsptuAh, Asst Chief
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
Foresters of America.

COURT ROBIN HOOD mol
Meets first and third Wednesday night OF
each month in odd Fellows nall.
VIM. Rhelnheimer, G. L.
II ColiiandeF, Secretary.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

Home cooking at Smiths Creamery.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23
Santa Fe Route Excursions.

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIoN,-
WASHINGTON, d. c., March t. Rate
S04.5O 10 Washington and return.
Tickets on sale February 9th and 18th,
good II return until March 10Th.
Daily service of Pullman palace re-
Ginning chair cars, Pullman tourist
sleepers and Pullman palace sleeping
cars.
Full information cheerfully given on
application to,
E. COPELAND, A. w. REEVES,
Gen. agent City ticket agent.
w. B. TRULL, Depot agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

The little daughter of Mr.. Fred Web
Der, Holland, Mass, had a very bad
cold and cough which he had not been
able to cure with any thing. L gave
him % cent bottle of mberlain's
Cough Remedy, says w. p. Holden,
merchant and postmaster at West
Brimtield, and the next time | saw him
he said it worked like a charm. This
remedy is intended especially for acute
throat and lung diseases such as colds,
Group and whoOping cough, and it is
famous for its cures. There is no
danger in giving it to children for it
contains nothing injurious. For sale
by all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

ua,lec 6rosherh1ca CT Carpsnters ana JON
.i Faso.
Eests every SUNDAY at IL a. ~ at Labor
Gta-.. VISITING LnetoGer welcome.
LrD - AIDASBLCk, sec. and sec
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

Cnm'l. Agent. El Pa=o. Tex
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-23

WoadyTisn OF the world.
Goruilio Danny, No, AZ.
nieets every second ana fourth Tuesday
each month At JnsIF forest u. a. IL. nGIl, y.
IL, shErp. SGVere.gns anu strangers cordially
SiS,I. T.. Il. hGLAlI COinnEhoSS.
IEakY PRAIRIE, Clesg.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
LAW REPORTS.

The Justices of the Supreme
Court have sent as it is stated else
where, a number of the volumes of
the Hawaiian Reports to the Court
and Bar libraries of the States, and
they are received with favor. The
common law applied to, as grated
on the unwritten Polynesian law,
by our Courts, excites great interest
among law students. Whenever
these Islands become part of the
States, the decisions contained In
these reports will have the same
value and the same authority as the
decisions of the State and Territori-
al Courts. The laymen never appre-
ciate the value of complete law
libraries, and the judges and law
yers usually make a hard fight for
appropriations. If R. /. Steven
son. wrote law books, and compiled
Reports, the laymen would read
them, for as he has himself said,
"the most influential, and the
truest in their influence, are works.
of fiction" But the dry stuff,
called Reports are only roman
tic, and enhancing to that singular
class of serious, and self denying
men that Providence has kindly
drafted off from the rest of the
community, and labelled, 'Attor-
neys and Counsellors at Law"
Indirectly the laymen get the
benefits of a good library, and
therefore should generously sustain
it, through the Legislature.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

annoying attorneys who delight in
"cross-examinations."
The really interesting part of our
social and industrial development,
Tourist" will see, covers the rela-
tons of many "inharmonious"
races, who have, so far, dwelt to-
gether in general peace, and, under
certain conditions will continue to
do so. The story about the points
of contact, would make, as. Horace
Greely said, mighty interesting
reading" for the political student.
But the fascinating story of the
early days, whether true or partial
ly true, the story that commanded
the love and support of Americans
from the Senate to the cabin is
ended. And the other story
not vet told. Here then, is the rea-
son why ''the first and only colony
is almost without human interest
to the parent country"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
A CURE FOR DROUTH.


DR.. Harris, National Commits
sioner of Education, in Washing
ton, D. G., recently showed to US,
the translation of decree issued
by an Alcalde in San Salvador,
which was secured by correspond
ent of the Smithsonian. 1t may
interest the people of Hawaii,
whose crops are suffering from the
drouth. The proclamation shows
that the ignorant Spanish authori-
ties in some parts of South Ameri-
ca, and the Chinese take the same
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

The Industrial period began,
after the passage of the Reciprocity
treaty. The planters, and the for
eign community behind them,
grappled with the difficult problems
Of sugar making. Instead of rely
ing upon the limited and uncertain
native labor, they made the perilous
venture Of developing the sugar in
dustry with great energy, and be
gan the importation of alien labor
ers of three or more races, without
taking into account the fact that a
human being Is unit" in any po-
liical system, and sooner or later
the units" fall into line and make
startling figures. There is a mar
Vellous development of the indus
trial period. But its history, like
the history of nearly all CONNER
cial and industrial developments,
has Its hard side. Trade looks
steadily at the North Star of the
dollar, not towards the East, to the
sign Of the Cross. As it is else
where, 50 it is here. The true his
tory Of the industrial period, up tc
the present, should be full of rich
material for the political student
but 1t VIII not interest the general
reader.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

curious views regarding the rela-
tons of man to the supernatural
world, and the power Of man to
control events.
We abbreviate some portions OF
the decree:
Whereas, There has been no rain
in this province of Caciquas for over
two years, and "the Supreme Crea-
tor has been behaving badly to-
wards our people," we now decree:
1st. That if no rain falls within
eight days, no one will be permit
ted to go to mass.
I'd. If no rain falls within eight
days after that time, the furniture
of the churches shall be broken up.
3rd. If no rain falls within eight
days after that, some of the priests
and nuns will be beheaded.
4th. Until rain falls, no one
shall be punished for any crime.
We do this ''in order to show the
Supreme Creator what sort of peo-
pie he is dealing with
Abundant rain fell within four
days, and the faith of the ignorant
people in the power of the Alcalde
is now unlimited.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

of the barriers, and contrivances,
which the superior race" has con-
structed to keep them back. In
the end, the distractions or con-
trivances fail, and the masses break
the barrier. That is, they then
rule. Who are the masses" here9
It is curious question.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
A TOURISTS LETTER.

The letter from Tourist
published elsewhere. shows the IN
terest taken in Us by the people
the Fatherland. Charmed as he
Is with the soil, and air, and hos
pitahty, he naturally infers that
pretty much everything Is charm
ing here, or ought to be, and he
suggests that the interesting details
of our social and political evolution,
should be more widely published IN
the States. He refers to the deep IN
terest formerly taken in US, by the
good people" of the United States,
and observes that now the first
and only colony Is almost without
human interest to the parent coun-
try" BE Justly comments on the
singular honesty and intelligence in
the administration of public affairs,
and believes it is equal to that of
anv community IN the States. He
notices the gradual Improvement.
In the contract system of labor. But
he is rather surprised that we do
not make known TO our American
friends. the interesting details Of
our curious social and political evo-
luton.
Tourist makes a score of points
which cover broad ground. Since
1920, there have been two periods
of Hawaiian history. The first
mainly the contact of the
missionary with the native. 1t was
regarded by the people of New
and of some other States
as the most successful gospel work
of the early part of the century.
Its history even fascinated the
children. In 1868, the dominance
Of the American Mission, voluntar-
ily ended, and for reasons which
need not now be given, there was
after that a tendency on the part of
the natives TO revert to heathenism.
The Roman Catholic Church made
great advances, and now embraces
q majority of them. But the story
is no longer fascinating or romantic
30 the New Highlander.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

The testimony of all successful men
of business is the same. Industry, tenn
perance, strict adherence to duty and
a willingness to "help out" if necessary
after the whistle blows or the bell rings
in the evening will bring position and
probably fortune The Golden Rule,
along with thrift, industry and tenn
perance, is an unbeaten combination
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
AN EXCLUSION" FARCE.

The American Congress, during
the last Winters session, passed
an immigration law, which Presi-
dent Cleveland vetoed. 1t provid.
ed, among other things, that Can
adian laborers should not be allow.
ed to enter the United States, un-
der certain conditions. 1t struck
at the many Canadian farmers liv-
ing near the border line, who live
at home and work, during the Sum
mer months in the States. Con
gress believed that it did clever
thing. 1t did not want any ''bro-
therhood of man. principles, but
simply business principles" to
infest the long strip of border
land. The proposed law would
have made great distress among
thousands of honest laborers, if
that unhappy victim of remorse,
President Cleveland, had not had
the wisdom to veto it.
Suddenly the marvellous gold
fields of Klondyke are discovered
on Canadian territory. The Cana
dams too have an immigration law.
But Brother Jonathan wants to get
at the gold. He softens at once to-
wards the Canadian. He politely
calls on him, puts his hat on the
floor, wipes his brow, asks his Cana
dian neighbor if he and his family
are toPable well, and proceeds, Il
guess | was a leetle previous in
histing that air immigration bill
through Congress. | didn't mean
no harm, but them boys called the
Labor Unions kinder hustled me
too fast. / don't take much stock in
that Cleveland Teller, but | guess
he was about right in stoppin' that
law. | haint always as | mighten
to be. Hope will be neighborly,
and not bother the boys when they
run over and scratch for leetle
gold on your farm. Times is sort
of hard"
And the Canadian in a friendly
sort of British way replies, "Come
over neighbor and bring the boys.
| know you wanted to help your
self by making many thousands OF
my poor neighbors poorer than
they are. You wanted to build up
a Chinese wall and divide off the
Anglo-Saxon race on this cont
nent. The "fat prophet as the
N. Y. Sun calls him, stopped you.
It is all right. Bring the boys
over"
Uncle Sammy puts on his hat,
shakes hands, walks out very meek
ly, and whispers to himself, 81
came near being left in that DEAL
The moral of it is, as Bre'r Rab
bit said to Bre'r Fox, ''before you
build up high fence, look ovel
and see if there are any fat chicken:
in your neighbor's roost."
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE?

mot only the inevitable, but the
best power this side of the ocean is the
unfettered common sense of the
masses. Institutions, as we are accus-
toned to call them, are but paste board
and intended to be, against the
thought OF the street. Statutes are
mere mile-stones, telling how far yes
terday's thought had travelled; and the
talk of the sidewalk of today is the law
of the land. You may regret this; but
the fact stands; and if our fathers fore
saw the full effect of their principles,
they must have planned and expected
it. With us, law is nothing, unless be-
hind it stands a warm, living public
opinion. Let that die or grow indif-
ferent, and statutes are waste paper
lack all executive force. You may
frame them, as strong as language can
make them: but once change public
feeling, and through them or over
them ride the real wishes of the peo-
pie. The good sense and conscience of
the masses are our only title-deeds
and police force"
These are the words of a great
American orator, who predicted the
fall of Slavery and was laughed at
for it. The South, secure in the
control of the government, smiled
and defed him. The Northern
Democracy with business interests
behind it, the old Wing party
now the Republican party, said,
"what rawlings, what an impracti-
cable man" He, standing on the
hill top, saw the silent gathering
of the masses" and the bayonet
glittering among the wheat blades.
Who then make up the masses,
in any State or community? Are
they the selected few, who by supe-
rior energy, contrivance or even
force, manage to rule? Not in a
democracy, for its pendulum of
opinion swings from the perfect
man if there is one, to the most ig
norant. In America the most de-
PRAYED, ignorant, fetish worship
ping negro, living like a muskrat
on the banks of the Mississippi,
makes up, in common with Presi-
dent Mckinley or John W. Foster
the "mass" of American citizen
ship.
What statesman here, during
the last thirty years, believing in
this simple axiom of wisdom, pro
claimed the truth that. here, the
masses, however made up, must in
the end, rule the country? That
in the end, nationality or color or
religion do not count, and that
Limitations" and "expedients"
and provisions" must, in the long
run, even though it be a century,
go down before the masses? Did
he forsee that the immigrants of
every nationality bound by contract
labor, would be the law makers of
the future?
The Present, looking only for
gain, sees peace and prosperity and
is contented. The old farmer,
watching his mill dam, and the
peaceful pent up waters said,
''there is no danger, it has stood for
years" But the water had, for a
quarter of century, been sending
out its rills, like silk threads,
through the crevices, and these
piloted the great volume through
the barrier, and it gave way. The
farm changed hands,"
The masses" here, like the
peaceful pond, quietly and uncon.
sciously sends our little rills of poll
tical Thought +hro,,rh +bo o,,o,-;;,o.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

A great dry goods house, with
the best reputation suddenly failed,
in one of the American cities, some
years ago. "What is the matter"
asked one man. "The man who
did the thinking for it and nothing
else, died two years ago." said a
merchant neighbor, "and the men
who run it now are only selling
goods" Corporations, nations,
and individual CONCERNS, are con
Quoted on the same principles. Go
into John Wanamakers great store
and you will not find him touching
detail. His thinking" is very
successful.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

scientific journals of the United
States and other countries.
The fact that there is such COM
bustion is admitted, but the cause
is unknown. Prof. Crawley takes
the fact that great heat exists in the
molasses, under certain conditions,
and by series of admirable chemi-
cal tests tries to arrive at the solu-
ton of the mystery. He says, re-
garding his experiments, whatever
may be the initial cause of the heat,
whether fermentation or decompo-
sition due to treatment, there can
be no doubt that there was violent
manifestation of heat most destruc-
tive in its effects"
Mr.. Whitney, in the Planters
Monthly for August, repeats the
story, published years ago, which
we print elsewhere, that at Ulu-
palakua, Maui, molasses escaping
from the sugar mill, gradually ac-
cumulated in the crevices of the
rocks. 1t finally burst out in flames,
and the natives believed that Hale
akala had again resumed business
at the old stand. This was, prob
ably, case of spontaneous combus-
ton.
Here is a new field for geological
and scientific work. The pre-histor
ic man, millions of years ago, may
have cultivated sugar cane in these
Islands, and the waste molasses
may have been the material which
was elected from the caverns below
and built up the sun-it Islands.
The recent lava flows have a de-
cided similarity to molasses candy
after it has cooled off and becomes
black, through atmospheric action.
As the "carboniferous age" was
omitted, through some mistake, in
the construction of this group, it is
possible that it was intended that
the molasses age should take its
place. Many able biologists pre-
sent conflicting theories regarding
the origin of volcanic action. They
have looked for remote causes, as
theorists usually do. The true
cause may be right before them.
We have the right to reason back
wards from the valuable data of the
Maui combustion. At the same
time, it must be admitted that the
taste of molten lava in Halemau-
mau, is rather more sulphury than
saccharine. Have any of our
tasted itl This fact would
seem to be fatal to our theory. But
Nature does as she pleases, and
boxes the ears of impairment
Phenomena and Laws when they
are in her way. Scientists are too
confident of their final conclusions.
This new and startling theory of
Spontaneous Combustion teaches
them not to shut the door of knowl-
edge with bang.
Should this startling theory pro-
woke discussion, we trust that our
scientists will avoid the use of
abusive language, which usually
mars such controversies. On the
eve of annexation, we should give
the world an example of courteous
debate. We can let loose on each
other when some moral question
arises.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

The Government has admirably,
honestly, and intelligently done its
administrative work, under the cir
cumstances. 1t has done great ser
vice in the perilous days of politi-
cal change. 1t is entitled to the
gratitude, the loyalty, the firm sup
port of the people. But the very
excellence of its municipal admin
istration, has, we believe, prevented
it from making that close and ne
cessary study of larger questions, so
urgently needed in a transition
condition. You cannot play chess
when you are walking over eggs.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31
IRREPRESsIBLE MOLASsEs.

An article on the spontaneous
of molasses by Prof. ].
L Crawley of this city was publish
ed in the Journal of the American
Chemical Society on July 4th, and
attracts much attention in the
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

The last census is a chart show
ing the shoals we are in. 1t is also
full Of interrogation points; of very
ugly questions regarding our own
patriotism. We do not wish them
asked, but the people o., the United
States are asking them, ike the
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

Nor viii the general reader be
interested in that uneventful his
tory Of our Independent Judiciary,
which has been our chief mainstay,
and the rock against which the
waves of popular ignorance have
broken and died. Here the polti-
cal students will find curious and
valuable material.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-31

lines of thought. IF one thinks
that no training is needed, let him
read Senator Hoar's recent address
in the Clarke University, on the
great need of men educated care
fully in the science of politics and
diplomacy. Thrown back ON oul
''home talent" we must do the best
we can with it. Deficiencies in ex-
perience and long training are only
made up by the closest study.
Our arrangement of official work
has resulted in depriving these men
of the time needed for thought and
study, and driven them into de
tailed work. No one denies the
high order of that work. 1t is adj
mirable. But the State loses by
it in the grand totals, and in the
neglect of more vital work.
The Ministers themselves will
on Sundays, admit that they are
miserable worms of the dust
worthy only to be snapped up by
passing mynah birds, but they are
just a little prone, on week days, to
abandon this delightful theory of
humility and recent criticism.
For instance, the question of the
registration of foreign built ships,
has been discussed for three years.
The statute permitting it is, prob
ably, mandatory. This statute,
during the session of the last Legis-
lature, could have been repealed or
in day. 1t was not done,
and the "China" case is here to en-
barrass us. 1t was the business of
course of the law makers to change
the law. But the less that is said
of that Legislature kindergarten
the better. Had the Ministers time
for study, and investigation, the
of the matter would
have been pressed upon them.
The Japanese muddle involves
the same points. Its history is yet
to be written. The immigration
so vitality important in
every way, is turned over by the
Legislature to Commission, and
its hands are tied up. Yet it is
always before the Cabinet, and de-
mands of it a policy. A deal of
thinking" is to be done in this
affair. The vital matter of annex
alton demanded, several years ago,
certain work by the Government,
in order to anticipate the comment
made in the States; ''the people are
ignorant about the Islands," a com
ment repeated to us, by every mail.
The work remains undone, and it
is left to Mr.. Thurston to scatter
leaflets, just as the battle is ON.
We concede frankly, that it is a
question whether or not, the Gov
eminent should take any active
part, so far as the propaganda in
the States is concerned.