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The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16
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8 week, until the article is paid
z for.
. The dollar which slips through
= the bottom of your pocket every
. week, without anything to show
3 for it, is the dollar we are after;
= guaranteeing safer investment
. than any other scheme that may
= be devised. There is nothing
= complicated about it; nothing
> which needs an explanation.
< There should be no cobwebs inn
, possible to see through, because
5 some one interested said so and
2 so. All that we ask is that you
) paw the One Dollar each week
< and we guarantee to deliver to
2 you an article which will be to
your lasting satisfaction.
I'll. T. NCHNAN
s WATCH CLUB.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16
Tournament Prizes.

The tennis boys of the city will be
glad to know that Wall Nichols Co.
have offered the pick of anything in
the tennis line in their store to the
winners of the doubles in the May
tournament Wall Nichols Co. is fol-
lowing the lead of the big sporting
goods houses in the States Their of
fer will place an additional interest in
the work of the tournament.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16

of this city on poor little inoffensive
newspaper boy. As soon as Deputy
Marshal Hitchcock read of il he made
an investigation, and later swore out
a warrant for the arrest OF J. w. Gibbs,
a former painter and bartender. Gibbs
was arrested, and upon being tried in
the Police Court yesterday morning.
plead guilty TO the charge of assault.
Fined SIS and costs
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16

Fancy being able to buy
in Honolulu a picture
framed handsomely in
white and gold moulding,
measuring 26x30 inches
outside, for
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16
TWO CLUBS DRAWING
CLUB No. J NEARLY
Full.

This is the result of only three
weeks work. Gould anything
be more convincing of its popu-
larity.
What are the reasons of this
popularity?
First and foremost is the fact
that we guarantee every article
you select to be your moneys
GOOrth IN fuU.
We guarantee the watches to
be Of a certain weight or above,
and we cover the movement
with our "money back" guaran-
tee, if not in every way salts
factory to you, or we will give
you the range of our show cases
to select from, anything you
may desire, and the cost to you
is only
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16
Fined For Assault.

In the Advertiser of Tuesday morn
ing there appeared an article telling
of certain cowardly assault by a man
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-04-16

California mountain trout were in
troduced on Kauai five years ago by
Messrs. Gay e Robinson, and are now
large enough for the table.-ED.
p. G.. Al
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Elassona, with an advance post at Eleu-
t~herokhori, on the boundary.
1t may be said, in general, that the Greek
position, were tho forces equal, would APP
pear the stronger. In order to hold Epirus
the Turks have to keep n part of their
troops west of the lofty Pindus ang where
Janina is an important point; while the
force at Grcvenn also has mountains on
either flank, communication apparently
not being very easy with the main camp at
Elassona, and, finally, this latter has rangcs
of mountains between it and the coast.
There is the offset that the Turkish TANKS
are secure and their ommunications with
their bases invulnerable. But the Greeks
nave their railroad nearer their camp in
Thessaly, the base at Volo Is nearer, and
the Thessalian plain allows easier conccn-
tration against some one OF the Turkish
commands. Beyond the Pindus range,
their extreme western post, at Arta, on
the coast, can have the aid of their naval
forces.
But the Greeks unfortunately cannot put
into the field as many troops as the Turks,
and the loss of Volo as their base, through
blockade Of the powers or otherwise, would
undermine their whole line. One impor-
tant road runs nearly duo south from La
rissa, It's junction with the road from Eleu-
t~herokhori and other Turkish points, as
we'll as from Trikkala, being at Pharsala.
Thence 1t crosses the Othrys Mountains to
LAMA and Th%ermopyl@, and so on to
Thcbes and Athens. Thus, in the contin-
gency spoken of, coupled with a Turkish
advance, or in that of the successful Turk.
ish occupation of Thessaly, there would
hardly be a rallying point north of Thebes.
However, as things now are, the advan-
tages of railway, roads, and short distance
from the coast base are with the Greeks.
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The uproar made over the amendments to
the Raines bill, which were passed by the
Senate yesterday, is due to the notion that
the liquor question is to be the great issue
in the Greater New York election next No.
vember. 1t was said when the original law
was under discussion that it would bring
disaster to those responsible for its adop-
tion, whereas the exact contrary has proved
to be the case. The law has proved satisfac-
tory in operation, 1t is a revenue getter, and
has relieved the burdens of taxation in all
parts of the State, while, at the same time,
reducing the cost of excise boards and min
imizing many of the evils incident to unre-
stricted liquor selling.
Actually the citizens of New York,
Brooklyn, and Long Island City will have
far more important questions than those
of clubs and liquor saloons under consider
alton next autumn.
In each of these cities there are more peo-
pie paying taxes on real and personal estate
han there are club and private liquor deal
ers. An increased tax, with greater ~restric-
lions as to the time of sales and a reduction
in the number of liquor saloons, may de.
prive the party responsible for such legisla-
ton of a few hundred votes; but, on the
other side, are possibly reduced taxes,
smaller expenditures for court and police
business, and better health, better order,
and less of the saloon in politics = and
these must be.regarded also.
Is it probable that the first election in the
Greater New York, with its more than
100000 inhabitants, 5OO,O 600 voters,
5000, 900 900 taxable property, and
500 square miles of territory, will turn
upon minor details as to the regulation of
the liquor traffic, or that the taxation of
club bars will produce a tremendous politi-
cal revolution' Every genuine club worthy
of existence can afford to pay n tax which
a lager beer ~saloonkeeper in the basement
of a building Is required to pay and public
sentiment will justify the removal of a dis
elimination in taxes in favor of the clubs.
Some local statesmen do not appear to
understand that the liquor question has be-
come a dead issue in New York. 1t has
been relegated to the obscurity of the "Sun-
day opening" issue, because other subjects
have superseded it in the popular regard
and concern. The menace of incendiary as
sault on the material interests of New York
is of far more serious Importance than the
opening or closing hours of beer saloons or
the tax on clubs. real or fraudulent.
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The Complete Letter Writer.

1t is al ancient custom of the Hon.
THOMAS GAsKELL SHEARMAS, o or for
merly of Brooklyn, to write letters about
free trade, politics, and miscellaneous re-
forms to such newspapers as dote upon an
cient custom. Mr.. SHEARMAN honored the
English Birmingham by making his posi-
lively first appearance in it some sixty
years ago, and he continues faithful to Bir-
mingham economies. The habit of express
ing his views by means of letters he
acquired in Brooklyn before transportation
and postal facilities had become so great.
Thoughts accumulated in him, and he dill
gently set them down upon his tablets, anx-
ious not to dcfraud the world of instruc-
ton. Thus he has been able to relieve him
self, from time to time, of quick clustering
thoughts by issuing frequent bulletins of
his economic condition. lie has pointed
many warning fingers at the monster of
protection. lie has predicted, with a bold
ness only exceeded by that of the late Rob-
n b. THOMAS, Of happy meteorological
memory. In that invaluable publication,
1.-The Old Farmers Almanac" Mr.. THOMAS
used to spread the prophecy "About this
time look out for snow" over his whole
calendar OF winter months. So has the
Hon. THOMAS GAsKELL SHEARMAN spread
the warming about this time look out
for trouble on account of protection over
many pages and many years.
1t is refreshing to the soul to find Mr..
SHEARMAN still unwearied, prophecy on
his lips, the pen In his hand. In the Nc,c
York Times of last Monday he had a little
note, less than a column long, in which he
showed his accustomed grasp of the present
and even more than his accustomed power
of looking into the seeds of time. He be-
gan by saying that "there is small credit
to be gained now for foresight in predicting
a terrific defeat for the Republican party
in 1893 and 1900" For Mr.. SHEARMAN
has constantly predicted Republican
defeat, both in 1893 and 1000, ever since
the night of the election in 1894" He
knew in 1894, and many years before, that
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The pretencc of the Republican party that
it favors the examination system as the
basis of appointments and promotions in
the civil service of this State. begins to look
very much like a s%candalous political sham.
We have never approved that system
when carried to the extent of the Mug
wump and the doctrinairc. We thought
the provisions on the subject in the Consti-
tuition of 1894 wen too far. The Republi-
can Constitutional Convention, however,
insisted upon putting them in the people
ratified them by an enormous majority
they constitute n part of the fundamental
law of the State and this being the case
they should be observed and obeyed and
enforced by all public officers, from the
Governor down, in letter and in spirit.
Are they thus observed and obeyed and
enforced9 And what is the prospect for
the futurei What is the meaning of the
announcement from Albany that Governor
BLACK has sanctioned the bill ~intrusted
to Senator LEXow, which would change
the system of examinations so rs to rem
der it capable of the most fragrant abuse,
and enable the appointing power to evade
the mandate of the Constitution with the
utmost facility
We were opposed to the adoption of the
constitutional amendment concerning the
civil service; but 80 long as 1t continues to
be n part of the Constitution, we are equal
ly opposed to any attempt by the Legisla-
ture, the Executive, or anybody else to null
lify IL.
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or between New South Wales and West
Australia, thar there was in 1888 between
Virginia and Delaware, or between Mnssa-
chusetts and Rhode Island. Moreover, IL
we recall the history of the Australian col
onics, we shall see no reason to assume That
the large States would be politically
grouped on one side, n the small States
on the other. Victoria and New South
Wales are far more likely to take opposite
sides than to cooperate, and their division
would redress the inequalities of popula-
ton. 1t is the difference In the political
aims and in the political temperaments of
these two large provinces that Is mainly re-
sponsible for the Illustration of Australasian
federation up to the present time.
When the resolutions of the Quebec Con-
ference had been accepted by the Legis.
latures of Canada, New Brunswick, and
Nova Scotia they were incorporated in an
act of the British Parliament. In like
manner it is provided that when the Con-
stitution, framed at Adelaide, shall have
been accepted by the people of three of the
Australasian colonies 1t shall be presented
for imperial Endorsement. A union, never
thcless, of South Australia, West Australia,
and Tasmania would scarcely answer any
of the ends contemplated by the Federation
lists. From the viewpoint Of federal reve-
nue., the inclusion of both of the two richest
and most populous colonies, Victoria and
New South Wales, seems Indispensable.
We repeat, however, that one or both of
them may reject the Constitution, II the
three smaller colonies represented at Ade-
laide should insist upon equality of repre-
sentation in the Federal Senate. Should
all of the five colonies agree upon u scheme,
n federal government would be promptly
established by the British Parliament, and,
after it became operative, it is probable that
Queensland and New Zealand would not de-
sire to remain outside Of the union, although
they have declined to send delegates to the
present convention. 1t will be remem-
bered that neither Prince Edward Island
nor British Columbia could long resist the
impulse toward Canadian unification, al
though Newfoundland has withstood 1t to
this day. The centripetal tendency also
proved too strong for North Carolina and
Rhode Island after our Federal Govern.
ment had been organized.
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The Persistcncy OF Organism.

At a meeting of the Young Democracy"
last week In thisc city the Hon. FRANCIS NJ.
B1xBY declared that we don't intend to
Let the 5000 gold Democrats in New York
dictate to the 1916, 900 Democrats who voted
for free silver last fall" Senator BIXBY
was referring to the coming municipal am
paign, and, presumably, to the proposition
that Tammany Hall should nominate a
gold Democrat, Governor FLOWER, for in
stance, for Mayor of the Greater New York.
At the same meeting the Hon. CHARLES
A. TowNE of Minnesota, one of the most
eloquent of Bryanite orators, declared
that the free coinage of silver must be
the dominant issue In every large city and
State election - and his words were re-
ceived with much applause. The Chicago
campaign, according to Mr.. TowNE, "SSas
waged on the money ISSUE"
AT the meeting of the Progressive Dem
ocratic League" last Sunday, the purpose
of the organization was explained to be
"to keep Tammany in line for the Chicago
platform and for free-silver candidates"
A resolution was adopted cong%ratulating
the Chicago Democracy on the result of the
recent municipal election, and the speak
ers supporting it celebrated MR.. CARTER
HARRISON as ga representative Bryan
man." which undoubtedly he is.
These meetings, it seems, are the begin
ming of n vigorous and continuous cam
paign in behalf of Organism, which is to be
conducted in the Greater New York from
this time forth.
The chief Bryan newspaper organ of this
city declares that Senator HILL sis out of
the Democratic party, and if it has ordinary
wisdom it will keep him OUT adding that
1.-THE men who fought the battle for the
Democracy when the campaign was ON, are
the proper ones to advise it and shape it's
policies now"
These are interesting political symptoms
and developments; and they suggest that
the movement to bring about the nomina-
tion of n gold Democrat by Tammany Hall
for Mayor is encountering ominous resis-
lance at its very start. If the Bryanite
hatred of Senator HILL is so implacable,
is it likely to be any less bitter against
Governor FLOWER or any other of the gold
Democrats recommended for nomination
by Tammanyi
Moreover, the opponents of the movement
of the gold Democracy to capture Tammany
assert that they nave the sanction of Sena-
tor JONES, the Chairman of the National
Committee, in their determined efforts to
make Tammany adhere to the Chicago plat
form and reaffirm 1t. The celebration of
~JEFFERsoN's birthday yesterday brought
other expressions of Bryanite sentiment
which are likely to produce anxiety among
the politicians, both Democratic and Re-
publican, who are trying to prevent Bryan
ism from becoming the dominant issue of
the municipal campaign which, apparently,
1t is sure to be. No matter how painful the
efforts, the prospect of displacing it with
any other seems to be hopeless.
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The Mayor and His Commissioners

If the Hon. WILLIAM L. STRONG had re-
Elected impartially on himself for a while,
before visiting Albany to plead with Gov
crnor BLACK for the ~latter's concurrence in
removing Police Commissioner PARKER, he
might have saved himself the journey.
While the Mayor would appear as a stickler
for official regularity, and as though filled
with Indignation at Mr.. PARKER, for
breaches of official propriety which are
strenuously denied, his Honor Is deliber-
ately tolerating maladministration on the
part of Commissioner MCMILLAN of the
Park Department. concerning which no dis
pute can exist, and for which, If the Mayor
really wished to purge his administration
Of misconduct, he could cause Mr.. Nc
MILAN to be removed.
Mr.. MCMILLAN has, on his own authority,
nullifed n resolution of the Park Board by
making n bicycle path out of n footpath on
the Riverside Drive. The public entitled
to the use of this path had not even a
chance to be "heard." Thu Mayor is not
concerned with the intrinsic Importance of
the fault, or with the question whether
the bicyclists or the pedestrians ought
really to ave the path. He has plain
before him an offence on the part of a sub
ordinate, which, so long as it continues,
turns his administration of the public bust
ness into n farce, and makes his efforts to
get rid of Commissioner PARKER seem a
cranky piece of craftsmanship, much belowt the
notice of the Governor of the Empire State.
Mr.. MCN1ILLAN's colleagues might have
been expected to have some understanding
of the situation; but their failure to under
stand it doesn't absolvc Mayor STRONG
from the duty of bringing Mr.. MCMILLAN
up with a round turn.
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moderation Is impossible to protection
lists" Now he knows that "the very GER
tainty which all protectiohist managers
now feel of defeat in 1900, impcls them to
excessive impositions.' If they were sure of
being in power for twenty years they
would be content with n moro moderate
amount of eNtortion." 1t will be observed
that, although protectionists cannot be
moderate, Mr.. S~HEARMAN can, especially
in his language. For one" he cries, joy
fully, 81 do not regret in the least thisp pro-
digious scheme of public plumber for pri-
vate benefit. The cause of FREQ trade will
take abundant care of itself"
1t is very fortunate for free trade that 1t
can take care of itself, for nobody else, ex-
ccpt Mr.. ~SHEARMAN, seems to have been
taking much care OF It in the last four
years. There is a Democratic protective
tariff in force now. There will be a ltepub-
lican protective tariff In force before long.
The great Democratic constitutional prin-
ciplc of 1894 of n tariff for revenue only
seems to have wilted. The Popocrats of
1896 sl~ightingly postponed the tariff to the
currency. Some of the Popocrats of 1897
are frank protectionists, for the benefit of
tnclT own ottteS. Quiz MI. cEifAthAN,
faithful among the faithless and the false,
sees by the light of his tlre.tipped pen the
funeral of protection.
Yet in 1000 the country Is going to be
"swept over the silver precipice." The
million gold Democrats who voted the Re.
publican ticket in 1896, knowing that an
other protective tariff would be made, IL the
Republicans succeeded, are going to join the
silver men to punish the Republicans for
making such n tariff. So says Mr.. SHEAR
MAN. and adds that "thc probability is that
by 1900 New York and New Jersey will be
ready to vote for any Democratic ticket in
preference to any Republican" What can
be improbable if the victory of free trade is
assured T. Not even Mr.. SHEARMAN.
Thu path to free trade not only leads
through the silver mines but through the
Populist asylum. "The Democratic party
will certainly be united in 1900 in favor Of
some kin of income tax" that tax will be
laid upon business earnings, and will be
"twice as heavy rs that Of 1894, because
the loss of the tax on rents and investments
must be made up" Mr.. SHEARMAN does
not approve of the prospect Except so far
as an increased measure of freedom of trade
is involved" Presumably he believes that
after free silver and an income tax, free
trade will seem n gilt-edgcd boon. After all,
it continues to he n hopeful sign that lie
the diligent use of ink.
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A glance Mt the relative positions occu-
pied by the Ottoman and Greek forces on
the Macedonian frontier leads to some in
tcresting conclusions.
The Turkish bases in Macedonia may be
regarded as Salonica, at the head of the
gulf of that name, and Monastir, a con-
siderable distance northwest. These two
points are connected by rail, and there is
no other railroad till the Greek side of the
frontier is reached. There a railroad starts
from the Greek base at Volo, on the Gulf of
Volo, the shorter branch running up to
Larissa, the well-known Greek camp, and
the longer going westerly to Trikkala, an
other Greek position of importance, and
thence nearer the frontier, to K~alabaka.
On all the roads and passes between
these two railroads, which may be roughly
put as from sixty to ninety miles apart, in
their windings, there are camps or detached
posts. The region Is mountainous, the
Pindus chain forming the backbone of the
peninsula, and ranges thence diverging to
the Kgean Sea, with Others up and down
the coast or at various angles thereto.
The Turks have posts or outposts on the
coast, south of Salonica, at Kara, Katerina,
and several minor points, notably at Plata
mona, close to the boundary line. In the
interior many points are occupied, the
main camp Of EDHEM PashR being at
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A Few Word for Judge peclh,m.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: Mr.. Guthrfe,,
luminous article on the Fifth Amendment and the
sherman act does not cite the case which evidently
was In the mind, II not mentioned in the opinion. OF
the Supreme Court.
The Fifth Amendment was adopted before the rail.
road crushed out the pack horse and wagon business
before the steamboat did away with the ferryman
and his rowboat, before the engine banished the hand
loom used by tho mothers OF 80 many Of our indl
vidual units.
The Fifth Amendment must therefore be construed
in the light Of tho facts as they existed at the time OF
It's adoption.
SO long as the Individual unit leads his own pack
horse. rows his own boat, and wears homespun, our
liberties are safe; but the very moment he becomes q
hirelins-captain OF a ship, engineer of a locomotive,
manager of a department in a big store-then liberty
stands in jeopardy every hour.
The pregnant phrase. {" individual unit" ID no,
originally judicial.
But 10 revert to our leading case:
II occurs in Hans Andersen's Reports, and IA IN.
titled, '1n Re the Fairy Goloshes."
1t may be familiar TO some readers, and Others will
DO pleased to know. that a learned professor a, an
evening party bemoaned the evil times in which Ia
lived. yearned for those OF good King John, and. hav.
ing unwittingly slipped on the fairy goloshes while
uttering this wish, was forthwith waited back 200
years and found himself up to his knees in mud, in an
unlit lane; instead of a bridge. a villainous ruflan in
a rowboat. and so on.
This is the leading case.
Give US back our Individual unit Reanimate our
crushed liberty Away with mills. railroads, and
canals Restore our Continental currency
Combination is conspiracy, and enterprise Ia but
another name for fraud
once again let our Judges ride circuit. each with his
individual saddle bags; and let the Pullman car b
~relegated to tyrannical and despotic countries.
Kansas forever! Suppress the Emporia Garettel
NEW YORK. April IL. CHARLES WINTHROP.