The record-union., 1897-09-16


tion, then will it have the goodness to
state what is to be gained to the City
Of San Francisco by the proposed
change?
The effort will not succeed. The peo-
pie of the State will not submit to as
sessment except at the hands of those
who are elected by themselves. They
will net submit to that highest process
Of assessment known as equalization
at the hands of a board whose members
were elected by the concentrated vote
of San Francisco in State conventions
and 1T State elections. That would
be a tyranny of selfshness wholly un-
endurable.
The ex-Queen of Hawaii is in San
Francisco awaiting the arrival of her
niece from England who claims to be
the heir apparent TO the PROSTATE
kalani has not abandoned hope of re-
storation. But she might just as well
do so. The people of the Republic of
Hawaii who have intelligence sufficient
to maintain any sort of orderly Govern
ment, will not consent to make the
change from independent citizens to de-
odd that so many monarchists Of the
dusky order are drifting towards Ha-
waii just now. Not only do the ex-
Queen and ex-Princess announce their
intention to be to take up residence in
Honolulu, but there is quite a group Of
royaEst hangers-On and retainers who
are moving in the same direction.
Palmer, the Lord High Executioner
and general royal funkey to Liliuokala-
nj and Chamberlain to her pretentious
highness KaiuIani, the would-be Prin-
go before the Treasury Department and
ask the suspension of the revenue laws
that the girl may bring into the coun-
try more baggage loaded with dutiable
goods than the revenue Act permits to
come in free of duty. Palmer was
told bluntly that his request could not
be granted; that if Princes, unrecog-
nized as the representatives of estab-
lished governments, choose to visit the
United States they must pay duty on
excess of baggage just as other people
do. and Palmer went away despon-
dent. The Princess" will now have 10
pack her luggage in a grip sack and
ship her goods to Honolulu as freight
passing outside the doors of our custom
houses. And why not? This Prin-
cess is admitted to be very pleasant
young woman, half-breed who has
been well educated and cultured in re-
fined Surroundings. No one has the
least feeling against her She is sim
ply puppet in the hands of politicians
who esteem themselves astute She
never dreamed of wheedling the Unit
ed States Government into a quasi rec
ognition of the claims made in her be-
half, by the admission of her baggage
free on the ground that she is a real
simon pure Hawaiian blue blood Tt
was Palmer's idea and it did not work
Austria Hungary, it is reported, will
demand of the United States indemnity
for the Hungarian strikers killed in the
Hazleton conflict by the lawless against
the representatives of the law Aus
Hungary should be taught in
words strong, sharp and underestimate
bit that aliens in this land must obey
the command of the laws whether they
esteem them to be right or wrong
That it is their duty to obey and not
unlawfully resist, and that if they do
not like the laws they have the privi-
/ lege of leaving the country. This idea
that aliens can flock over to the United
States. defy authority, resist peace Off
/ GERS and then secure damages for the
trouncing they get, is simply absurd.
| It is not probable that the yellow
! fever outbreak in the South will result
/ in any exteisive spread of the plague,
nor in any large harvest by death in
/ the afflicted cities. We base this opin-
ion upon the fact that medical science
now so much better undertands how to
successfully quarantine, because the
people themselves no longer resist
quarantine and sanitary regulations,
and because for some years the South
ern cities have been more cleanly kept
than formerly. Ignorance and defiance
of sanitary laws had more than any
thing else in the past to do with epi-
denies of yellow fever.
Walter Wellman announces that he is
about to start on a voyage for the dis
covery of the North Pole. Well, Mr..
weIIman. the world of mankind is per-
fectly willing TO have you go. There
are fools who viii never accept advice,
and the North Pole locality is the pre-
else spot for all such fools. The people
of this generation are wofully weary
/ Of these Arctic explorations.
Week before last the cash reserve in
the New York banks decreased no less
than S5,00o.O0o. Thus is indicated the
flow of money TO the great West to move
the abundant crops pushing on to the
seaboard-