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The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

There are men in Chicago and New
York who deal in coffee by the millions
Of rounds. and can size up the value OF
ours. The judgments of these men have
value. The sooner we get rid Of the
experienced man who says Hawaiian
coffee is the finest in the world" the
better II will be. We need the opinion
of the trade. We have not got it. When
the Bulletin says that our coffees are
worth 5 cents per pound more than the
Brazilian. it gives its own guesses, and
not the opinions of the men who fix the
prices Of coffee. We hope our coffee is
worth 20 cents per pound more than
the Brazilian. Why does not the Bull
letin publish some accounts of sales
made by Folger & Company?
The coffee trade knows a good thing
when it sees it. The trade is not made
up Of fools
We took the trouble. last July. to
consult one of the largest wholesale
grocery houses of New Yory City, on a
proposition to introduce Hawaiian COT
fee to the retail trade of the Atlantic
States. The comments made by men
who handle more coffee Of all kinds in
one day. than have been produced in
these Islands from the beginning. do
not quite agree with those of the Bull
letin.
The prices of coffee are unusually
depressed, and will recover. But what
We need, and should have had long ago,
is not the boom" opinions of the ever
present experienced" man, but the
cold judgments of the coffee trade it
self. VIII the Bulletin publish some of
the sales accounts returned by Folger
& Company. San Francisco, to some of
our coffee shippers? We suggest that
the Bulletin ask H Hackfeld & Com
pany. Limited. about the large Euro
pean markets for our coffee. We have
not the least intimation of what their
reply would be.
The Advertiser calls for the "pessf-
mistic'' bottom facts. nothing more.
The coffee industry must not be trifed
with.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
XII" LISTER. ="

TIE use n common, by the Star and
he Independent o. the phrase Kings
Jester in scornfuI derision of the Ad-
verliser. reminds Us of the early days
when TWO natives would purchase in
common one pair Of trousers, and wear
hem On alternate days, more as an
ornament than as necessity.
The Star and Independent have, we
suspect, fraudulently obtained the pair
Of trousers On which was labelled
Kings Jester" and was owned and
hab.CualIy exhibited by the poor dead
Ia Leo newspaper, during its brief ex-
t5tence.
We observe now with curiosity, that
the Ssar wears them one day, and the
Independent is naked of wit. The next
day the Independent wears them and
he Star goes naked Of wit.
This practice violates public decen-
ey. Would it not be wiser plan for
he Star to wear one leg Of the trousers
With Kings" embroidered on it in
large letters, and the Independent to
wear the other leg with Jester" on it,
n an equally conspicuous place?
There is no reason why on the ar
wal or departure of every foreign
steamer, the editors of these TWO pa
pers, each wearing his single leg part
Of the trousers, should not stand side
by side on the dock, facing the noun
tains of course, and in such an atti-
tude that the raptured tourists, looking
from the deck of the vessel should read
plainly across the twin exposures, the
words Kings JESTER and exclaim:
What a climatel What witt
Besides, it should be a source of re-
venue, for no educated tourist would
refuse to put in the hat some substan-
tial testimonial to the joint services OF
the two papers that are preserving the
only real wit these Islands have ever
produced.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
THE Dl TY on SAKE.

The japanese petition the Legisla-
ture asking for reduction of the duty
on sake, on the ground that it is ex-
cessive, and unfair and, as it is a ne
cessary part of the Japanese diet,
greatly increases the expense of living.
The practical though not perhaps,
legal, discrimination against sake
seems to be extremely foolish. If made
in many European countries, where
wine is part of the daily diet, it would
create serious trouble Strapped as the
United States are. for income, they
dare not put any consideration tax on
beer.
But we, with uncommon want OF
foresight and OF common sense, have
chosen to enrage, and make enemies of
a population that outnumber our white
poulation. four to one If the Devil
himself were our adviser. he could sug-
gest nothing better as racial mis-
chief maker. II tends TO produce a
similar effect to a law raising the
prices of tea and coffee to 81 per pound.
These articles are not necessities" OF
course. But how long would the Anglo,
Saxon stand such treatment?
We earnestly believe in settling these
Islands, with the Teutonic race, if it is
practicable TO do. But we regard it as
stupid, short-sighted, unstatsman-
like policy and political tomfoolery to
test the patience of a people who are
today making the sugar upon which
we all live.
When the seeds of the wind are bu-
ried they often lie dormant for many
days. But in the end they breed the
whirlwind. 1t always comes. Hardly
an American in 1860 believed that a
whirlwind was rising. 1t came. Thirty
three years afterwards a pension roll
of s15O, 900 900 tells us what its force
was.
We claim the right, and the japanese
do not dispute it, to make this an An
glo-Saxon center, if we can But we are
bound to exhibit only justice and fail
play to those whom we have invited to
/ Invade" us.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
THE PORTUGUESE ExAMPLE.

In spite of President McKinley's Ur-
gent appeal for contributions in aid Of
the Cuban sufferers, in spite OF the pro-
fit we have made out OF the Cuban in
surrecdon, in spite of the fact that the
Government over which Mr.. Mckinley
presides. has been richly generous TO
us in past years, the only public re-
Spouse on these Islands. to that appeal,
has been made by the members Of the
Portuguese church, of which Rev. A. V.
Soares is pastor. Their contribution
last Sunday was sS7.05.
We do know that the subject has
been fully presented to the public here.
We do know that several generous and
benevolent ladies have waited for eth
er action in response by q responsible
body of men, or by the Legislature.
Nothing has been done by the men who
hold the wealth of the country. unless
it has been done privately. Our people
are generous at home They do per-
haps an unusual amount of charity
But it is a common experience that
prosperity creates many new wants,
and breeds selfishnesS.
The Portuguese rather put us to
shame. The spirit of the pastor and Of
the people is admirable OF their little
they have given what they could.
The truth about the general attitude
of the public is, that on this occasion,
no one has taken the lead. If one had.
the response would have been prompt
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

thing Senator McCandless, standing
alone in the Senate calls the investiga-
tons Junketing trips" We wonder
thar the women and the babies Of the
town don't mob him when ne ridieules
the means taken TO guard these Islands
from the vast disease breeding areas OF
the Orient,
Then an officer Of the United States
Government comes here, and in the in
terests OF the American people desires
10 the see the Leprosy Settlement. He
is taken there at the cost Of q few dol
lars. II is called one Of the junketing
trips by the Senator. The United
States has given TO US two score Of mil
lions Of dollars in "bounties" And
when our officials give one Of its health
officers a cheap trip TO obtain impor-
tant information, the Senator shakes
his fist in the face of the great Amer
lean gift horse. What an excellent and
generous annexationist!
When Minister Cooper pays an off,
cial visit to the American warships,
and hands the boat boys some change,
and enters it as q disbursement, ought
not the Senator to rise and wildly shout
at such 'junketing trips?'' Why can't
the Minister take a punt and seull him
self TO the warship?
The blackguards Of the morning pa
per" as the Senator calls them, are
just beginning to get mad with the
Senator. and if provoked. will make
few remarks on behalf OF the public.
As It is they will content themselves
just now with rejecting on maxim OF
Mr. Josh Billings, which is applicable
to this Give" Senator.
The live man Is not alwus a deep
thinker: he jumps at conclusions, just
as a frog duz. and don't alwus land at
the spot he Is looking at.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
SECRETARY LONGS REMARK.

The excitement in Washington, and
throughout the country over the re-
mark made by Secretary OF the Navy,
Long, indicates the critical situation
of the American and Spanish rela-
lions. Mr.. Long, conservative man,
and as well informed on the subject as
any man, remarked that Spain had no
connection with the Maine disaster.
What the Jingoes desired was that he
should show hostility to Spain. They
hate Spain, and expect Mr.. Long, not
only to hate Spain, but intimate clear
" that Spain is the cause Of the terri
Bile disaster. Mr.. Long, as an adviser
of President Mckinley keeps cool and
SAYS that there is no evidence to sup
port such a charge One member Of the
House of Representatives threatens, it
is reported TO institute proceedings for
impeaching him. These little gusts of
indignation die out. President McKin-
ley holds the helm steadily.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and
the Rev. C. H. Parkhurst Of New York
have delivered eloquent sermons on
the need of moderation in public opin-
ion and praise the President. They
make for peace and not for war.
officers and men throughout the coun-
try offer to fight the Spaniards. There
seems to be a growing feeling among
the peaceable, and conservative mer-
camille men that only war with Spain
will settle the matter.
Heretofore these men, holding the
money power, have hoped for peace
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
FOR The SCHOOLS
Meeting Of National Com
missioners of Education.
Changes In the List OF Teachers
An Ice Plant and List-The
Appropriation Sill.

At meeting Of the Commissioners
Of Education held yesterday afternoon.
there were present the following
President Cooper. Mrs. Dillingham;
Mrs. Jordan. Prof. Alexander. W. a
Bowen, II. Won Holt. the Inspector
General and his deputy.
The Teachers Committee recon-
mended the following;
l. That leave OF absence until the
end of the year be granted Mss Clara
Thurston OF Papaikou. Miss Thurstou
will so to the States Adopted
,. That the resignation OF Mss Pal
lar of Pepeekeo BE- accepted 10 take
effect at the end OF the present term
and that Miss Percy Dillon be appoint
ed principal in her place. Also that
Mrs. E. Deacon be put in Miss Dilion's
place. Adopted.
3. That Mrs. Ray be appointed as
sistant at Papaikou school and that her
salary be left TO the nspectOr-GeneraL
Adopted.
t. That Mrs. Crook OF Paia school
Maui. be granted a leave o. absence
with the .proviso that she furnish
substitute suitable to the Boar5 Re
commentator adopted.
n. NJ. Cope was appointed 20 the
position of teacher in the PahOa
school. Hawaii, on the Recommendation
of the nspector-General
The InSpector-General read a letter
from c. E. Rosecrans OF Lahainaluna
school in which he made answer 20
questions asked him in regard 20 the
ice plant at the school He stated that
the money received 50 far from the
ice plant had been expended in the
interests of the school and this prac-
tiee would be continued. The plant
brings in about Sos each month. clear
of all expenses. OF this amount $40
is paid each month for the machinery
and plant The remainder is used for
the maintenance of an electric light
plant. When the machinery and plant
have been paid for the surplus viii b.
spent in improving the school and
surroundings. The Board granted
FIVE years lease to Mr.. ROsecrans o. the
land upon which the ice plant house
stands in order that the place may BE-
insured
The Beard voted that the Deputy
Inspector General and Mr.. Edgar Wood
be added 10 the Examination Board.
A communication from Principal J.
F. Scott of the Waimea. Kauai sclool
announced that Miss Winnie, MS as
sistant had been doing too much WORK
and, on that account. he had employ
ed Miss Hart to assist her. The action
of Mr.. Scott was favored by the Board
Minister Cooper reported favOrably
upon the appropriation for the work OF
the Board of Education. The Legisla-
ture was doing the right thing.
Kauhimahu, school teacher az Wal
luku and W. o. Atwater OF this city
sent in applications for permission TO
grant marriage licenses. The Board
voted to recommend 10 the Minister OF
the Interior that these men be granted
their petition.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

prosperity Of the planters. On the con-
trary. nearly every man, woman and
child in the Islands lives on sugar, d.
rectly or indirectly.
The question, therefore, of the i'm
mediate abolition of the penal system
is most serious. We feel the moral
necessity of abolishing it, but feel also,
that if it is done without extreme eau
ton it might involve serious eonse>
quences.
The Government has strangely neg
Iected its political duties in this re-
spect, if it has any such duties to per-
form. As for the planters, they do not
feel called upon TO think out and decide
racial and other troublesome questions
They do not like TO mix up political,
social, or general economic questions
with business affairs. They keep no
books for such purposes. If called upon
to act, they do so, when driven TO the
wall. That has been the case IN all
countries. When driven TO the wall,
many get badly hurt, and are ruined.
\ few escape. Others take their places,
But there is a considerable number
here of valuable citizens and mechanics
who are now being driven TO the wall,
through the labor complications.
That the situation is grave one is
quite certain. But We have had so
many grave questions, they seem to
lose their gravity. Perhaps calamity
alone will drive us into some common
understanding.
A failure of the planting interest,
and of the other industrial interests
to come to some agreement may create
the calamity which will bring all into
one line.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
SENATOR N'CAEDLESS HEADERS

Owing TO the wild charges made by
Senator McCandless against the Gov
eminent, through It's Board Of Health,
the tine OF the Senate was taken up
with the explanations made by the At
torney General, as President of the
Board
These Islands lie close to the great
pest breeding countries of the world.
A steady stream Of travel and immigra-
ton flows in from those countries. Our
port cannot be closed to this trade and
immigration, for reasons which are ap-
parent enough. We have once been
caught by the cholera, in spite Of our
vigilance. We have learned the value
of obtaining the best Information
which will enable US to fight these dis
eases. The cost OF obtaining most val
liable information was an insignificant
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
Notice to Ship CAPTAINS.

U. S. Branch photographic Office,
San Francisco, Cal.
BY communicating with the Branch
photographic Office in San Francisco
captains of vessels who will cooper
ate with the photographic Office by
recording the meteorological observa-
tons suggested by the Office, can have
forwarded to them at any desired port
and free Of expense, the monthly pilot
charts of the North Pacific Ocean and
the latest information regarding the
dangers TO navigation in the waters
which they frequent.
Mariners are requested to report IL
the Office dangers discovered, or any
other information which can be uti
liked for correcting charts or sailing
directions, or in the publication Of thu
pilot charts Of the North Pacific.
w. s. HUGHES,
Lieutenant, United States Navy.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
SCROFULA
II is Foul Blood's Advertise
ment
But 1t is Soon Cured by Hoods
SarsaparIlIa.


Yes, Scrofuls, il anything, may be called
the advertisement of foul blood. 1t Is the
scourge of the world offensive, painful,
facilitating, stubborn and well nigh
uncomfortable.
Outward applications do not cure, they
only drive the difficulty to new quarters
Emollients may paIIiate, they cannot
abolish the evil. There is but one sure
way out, and that is TO eliminate the
faint from the blood.
There is one remedy that can effect this,
and it is the only one that, so far as we
know, has almost invariably succeeded -
even where the system has been poisoned
by long years OF faint, and the ravages to
be repaired are tremendous. That remedy
is Hoods SarsapariIla. Read this:
"My daughter was afflicted with i'm
pure blood. There were running sores
all over her body and they caused her
much suffering. We tried medicines that
were recommended as blood purifiers,
but could not see that they did any good
A friend told me about Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and began giving the girl this med
icine. The result was that she was per-
fectly cured after taking a few bottles.
She has had no symptoms Of scrofula
sores since that time" MARIETTA n.
SMITH, South Middleboro, Mass.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
PENAL CONTRACT LAWS.

Considered as an abstract PROPOSE
ton, the penal contract labor system is
not tolerated by the civilized races.
The special and pressing reasons for
abolishing the system here, aside from
the reasons in the abstract, are the in
tense opposition of the powerful labor
ing classes and indeed of all classes in
the United States to it, and our depend
ence on the States for prosperity. The
existence of the penal system is club
in the hands of the enemies of reel,
procity, with which to crush our pros
perity.
On the other hand change in our
labor system may involve the serious
injury of the entire white and native
population. Should the abolition of the
penal system result in the Gripping OF
the plantations. the very first to feel it
will be the mechanics, storekeepers.
clerks, lawyers, doctors, school teach
ers and general laborers.
Necessary as the change is, it in
wolves risks, Notwithstanding the sue.
cess of the share system. But it is a
serious business to try sudden expert
ments with the one single industry on
which the community lives.
We are between the Devil and the
deep sea. So far, we have been con-
tented to stand still, and see whether
the Devil would clutch us, or the sea
swallow US. They move up slowly, and
we shall be forced to jump before long.
A solution of the labor question has
been thought of in vague, general
way, through the Introduction of Ann
erican laborers. But the planters, as a
body, do not believe in it. They have
not made any serious trials of it. The
Government has not paid any attention
to it, The dominant political party, if
there is one, has made several pro-
carnations on the subject. Five years
have passed since we, the Anglo
Saxons took possession, and there is
not in existence body of American
laborers on the sugar plantations, nor
has any serious attempt been made to
secure one.
There are some German Iaborers
however, forced in by our compulsory
immigration laws.
However much men have been
thinking" on the subject, nothing ha.
been done, since we, the Anglo-Saxons
have had it our own way. We may
therefore expect that nothing will be
seriously done on that line.
There seems to be an opposition tc
any further immigration of Portuguese
on account of its expense and for Other
reasons.
Having failed to hedge" on the lab
or question, by failing to make ever
one single experiment with an Ameri
can colony Of laborers, we must fac
. the fact that We are dependent on tn
Asiatics entirely. 1t is the deep sea
on one side. If the penal system is alb
, olished, what will happen? If it raise
: the price Of wages, it will force furthe
: Asiatic immigration. That puts il
peril the livelihood Of the whites, VIII
? do not live on dividends. If the aboli
3 ton of the penal system does not rails
the price Of labor the livelihood an
prosperity Of the whites may be con
> tinued so long as reciprocity holds.
Inconsiderate people seem to thin
: that the penal system involves only tn
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

Every man among the October guests
at a Maine woods hotel knows better
than every other man there how to
make the big open fire burn. When
they have all got through scientifically
poking and arranging it an old guide
comes along and carelessly kicks the
logs once or twice, and the fire starts
up for the first time into rudy blaze.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

able solution. They appear TO be Civ
ing up that hope. But the President
has won their confidence. without re-
gard TO party allegiance. II he finally
determines 10 act with force. these
men will cordially sustain him.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

As the Senate has taken a view fiat
ly opposite to that of the House on
its power to pass resolutions advising
and directing other Departments of
the Government, We presume the Senate
shares with the morning journal"
the guilt of uttering "balder dash" as
it is charged by the House organ. The
Senate will take care of itself. 1t has
replied to the three little maids from
school" The reason they refuse to
agree with the House if we understand
the statement of the House organ, is
that the editor of the Advertiser has
failed to run an oyster farm" On
the whole those three little maids"
from Legislative Kindergartens are
improving. The close reasoning, as ex-
pressed by their organ shows it. What
the failure of the editor of the Adver-
tiser in his oyster farm has to do with
it, or what the failure of the late In
spector-G General of Schools has to do
with it, We can see. We will look up
the matter.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the Stock
Subscription List Of W. W. Dim0nd <
Co., Limited, is now ready for sigma
lures at our place Of business OF King
Street.
No subscription will be received for
more than ten shares
The Incorporation viii go into effect
April 1sr, 1898.
w. w. DIMOND & co.
Honolulu, March 18th. 1898.
Gs63-3t 1951-3t q
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
A FEW QUESTIONS.

Representative Loebenstein really
failed to present the most searching
questions to the Attorney General, re-
garding President Dole's recent visit to
the United States. We suggest one or
two which will do him credit.
In travelling from San Francisco to
Washington did Mr.. Dole travel in an
Easterly or Westerly direction? And
if not. why not?"
Did Mr.. Dole travel first-class or
second-class? If not, why not?"
Did Mr.. Dole drink wine at Presi-
dent McKinley's dinner? If not. why
not?"
Did Mr.. Dole confidentially inform
the President that three constant
inquirers' of the coming Legislature of
Hawaii would be Representatives
R, A. and L? or did he tell
him that they were only three little
maids from school in legislative mat
tiers? If not, why not? Answer with
out prevarication."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18

The remarks made in the House on
Tuesday by Representatives Loeben-
stein and Atkinson, were not of the in
tensely mutual admiration kind. In
fact it looks as if the nest of kittens
was breaking up. Having tried their
dear little claws on the Ministers, they
will now try them on each other. Bless
youI Dear little pussiesi
The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-18
A~~A9~ Sarsa-
MHOOO = parilla

Is the Dest-in faettne One True BLOOD Purifier.
Insist upon HOOPS; take no substitute
iiOOu . Il iiAS Hoods sarsapariila.
HoBRON DRUG COMPANY.
Wholesale Agents.