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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-11-26

\ Santa Claus steamer has never yet
been sent out by any government, but
the United States. mindful of its boys
in Far Manila, has sent them a Christ
mas ship. She will be received with
enthusiasm when she arrives and will
excite lively curiosity when she reach
es this port, either this evening or to-
morrow The ship carries the tender
remembrance of thousands of moth
ers. wives and sisters. She is probab-
ly the llindliest vessel ahoat just now,
and is doubly laden, for she bears the
weight of cargo, but a far greater
weight of love. God speed the gallant
shin
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-11-26
YOU AND YOUR WORK.

We are all the time hearing men,
and women, too, talk like this. My
work is too much for me; it worries
me and wears me out it upset5 me
so 1 can hardly eat, drink or sleeps"
and so on. Once in while, no doubt,
that is so; but, commonly, it is not,
their work that is too much for them,
but their poor health, their weakness.
They are out Of sorts in any one or
more Of a hundred ways. Condensed,
the idea is this: Bad Digestion, Thin
Blood, Loss Of Strength and, perhaps,
Flesh, Tendency to fret and worry
over small things, Lack Of Courage
to attend to details and face risks,
etc. In two words, loo Uitdlity. What
is needed is a short course of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-11-26

Chamberlain's speech before the
London Conservative Club has Great
ed almost more comment that Lord
Salisbury's. The French regard it as
a distinct threat against their African
policy. and are very wroth over the
expression dying nations" The
speech indicates thorough under
standing between the United States
and Great Britain.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-11-26
ALASKA REFRIGERATORS,

which admittedly have no
Superiors. They are here in
all sizes, from the small one
for the family Of two, up to
the large size suitable for
hotels and boarding houses.
There is one feature we desire
to call particular attention to
in the
Alaska Refrigerator.
1t is lined with mineral wool
and has an air chamber be-
tween this and the inside
lining, thus insuring economy
in the amount Of ice required
to such. an extent that the
saving in the cost Of ice will,
in a short time, pay for the
refrigerator.
THAT is ECONOr1Y.
For those who are satisfied
with a less fancy receptical,
but just as good, we have the
ALASKA ICE CHEST
in all sizes, from the very
small to one that holds five
hundred pounds Of ice.
HAWAIIAN HARDWARE &C
FORT ST, opp. Spreckels' Bank.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
THE ovERCRoWDED FAR WEST.
Seattle Filled With People for
Whom There II No Employ naent.

Seattle, May 12.-Business affairs in this
city cannot be considered as in any degree
so encoura ging at the present time as TO
invite wholesale emigration from any por-
tion of the country. The great rush that
animated every section OF the town and
of neighboring vicinities during last Fall' $
rage of the Klondike fever has fallen off
to n very sensible degree.
1t Is claimed by some here that recent
circulars from the chamber of commerce
inviting people from the Eastern section
to locate here are in a measure mislead-
ing and not in accord with prevailing con-
ditionS- Many of the merchants. il is true,
are meeting with 4 fair reward for their
various enterprises. but il cannot be said
that they are amassing any wealth. There
are many idle men in the city, willing and
anxious to work. but the demand for their
services is very slack. Wages are not
high, as can easily be shown from the fact
that skilled laborers in lumber yards, on
railroads and elsewhere can obtain only
about 81 or S2-59 per day.
Reports of the progress of the city have
brought thousands of persons here. and
the market for labor is overcr0wded. Sc
attic is not one whit better for working
mems advantages than any Eastern city.
of course. events are shaping themselves
toward future progress. but there are
more people here now than can possibly
fill the measure of any demand for work.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Miserable Unrendines..

Let us fondiy hope that never again
will this country find itself in as de-
pIorably defenseless condition as it
was six months ago. Think of it! A
nation of seventy-four million people,
competing actively and relentlessly
with military nations for the worlds
markets, and taking the bread out of
the mouths of European millions in
the struggle, to be almost without
navy, and entirely without an army.
while rival states were fortifying all
around our coasts and continually in
creasing their fleets in our waters!
We saw all these things plainly
enough, and yet ignorant provincialism
or something worse prevailed to pre-
vent us from the least preparation for
a scme-day inevitable struggle for our
rights and the dignity of our flag.
With more than ten million fighting.
men in the Union, We did not have
arms and equipments for twenty thou
sand. outside of the obsolete arms with
which the uniformed militia was and
is furnished. Today a gallant volun-
teer army is gathering to invade Cuba,
and good share of it is likely to start
without uniforms.
These things should never happen
| again. The lesson of this small war
ought to sink deep in the minds of the
people and their legislators. America
must never be caught sleeping on guard
in the future. We cannot hold our
place as an aggressive industrial and
commercial nation without the means
and facilities of defense. II We would
live and enjoy our legitimate share of
the worlds trade. We must maintain
an adequate Navy, and, although we
may not need a large standing Army
during the present generation, at least
we need nc. earn the contempt of Eu-
rope as a totally unarmed nation.
We have needed exactly the waking
up that the present situation is giving
us,
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Our Voice for Peace.

The Administration can hardly read
the newspaper accounts which come
from Spain without appreciating the
fact that it would only require some
little thing like the capture and oc-
cupation of Cuba and Porto RICO to
bring matters to head in the king
dom, and reconcile the Spanish gov
eminent and people to the idea OF
peace without possessions. 1t Is evi-
dent enough to outsiders that the pop
ulace of Spain will not go on starving
for many days longer without breaking
into open revolution. and that another
defeat to their national arms within the
next week would make matters all the
more grim and CORY
Mr.. Mckinley must know that the
Spanish people are simply thirstins
for a paralyzing stroke of some kind
that will knock them silly and salts
fy their honor This national aspira-
ton ought to be satisfied. Sagasta al
ways did everything he was asked to;
then why cannot the President return
his courtesy by giving the Knockout
blow that will relieve the premier of all
his present embarIassments and re-
sponsibilities?
Cuba and Porto Rico under the Stars
and Stripes would do this. and seizure
of the Canaries would finish the job.
Then Spain would hardly be able to
hide her emotions of joy over Hhe
| achievements of her army and navy,
and would retire to within the confines
of her fruitful peninsula, there to in
dulse in perpetuity in the national past
times of rape and murder on strictly
domestic basis. forgetting forever the
existence of an exterior world.
Wherefore, We beseech ye. men and
brethren of the Administration. to arise
in your might and do something, il only
to keep Dewey from feeling lonesome.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
A Zig Navy and Peace.
Frnm the R;cbmond Disn,tch

NFIoHi ttit nitiiiHOilu
A retired British vice admiral is quoted
as saying that nothing can detract from
the dash and vigor of the American ex-
plot at Manila. or dim the glory which
Dewey has shed upon the American
Navy. But. he added. it may be bad for
the world. for assuredly the American
Navy will never accept a subordinate
place after this exhibition of what it can
do.
Assuredly the American Navy will not
accept subordinate position hereafter
Our experience in getting ready for the
present war will be certain TO tend to
more liberaiity in the matter of naval ap-
propriations. and a consequent extension
of our commerce. But there Is no rea-
son why our becoming a first-cIass naval
power should be bad for the world. unless
It emboldens us to walk around with a
chip on our shoulder. and mix up in Eu-
ropean politics.
We want a formidable Navy as a guar
antee to those who venture upon devel-
opment of commercial enterprise, and in
order that there may be no misunder-
standing as to our ability and determina-
ton to enforce our time-honored policy.
There Is no reason why big American
Navy should not prove good for the
world by stimulating and expanding the
trade of the world. and making. as does
the tremendous naval power Of Great
Britain, for the worlds peace. There is
hardly a question that had we at the be-
ginning of our complications with Spain
over the Cuban question ranked as a first
class naval power, that question would
have been settled without bloodshed long
ago.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
The American hoy.

From the Cleveland Plain Dcalcr.)
There were many touching and many
pleasing incidents connected with the de-
parture of the local companies for the
State camp. Everybody was out to do
them honor. All ages were represented in
the crowd that cheered them on. and
every face that was not tear stained held
a smile for the departing guardsmen-
Those staIwart young fellows were sud-
denly lifted above the level Of mere uni
formed paraders, they were heroes going
forth to battle for their country's honor.
In the dense throng that filed the ap-
proaches to the railway station was a
boy. He was not comely boy. His
clothes were ragged. his face grimy. He
crowded to the front to see the troops
go by. and his shriH voice roared high
above the others in the cheering. As
the men tramped onward the boy darted
after them. Undeterred by police threats
he followed into the railway station. He
watched the soldiers file into the cars.
fresh cries of approval rising at intervals
from his hoarse throat.
Finally when all were aboard the boy
pushed forward to the last car. A soldier
was standing on the rear platform. The
boy lightly swung himself on the steps
as the train slowly gathered headway.
He looked at the soldier with shining
eyes.
Mister" he asked ':do you smoke? ?"
The young fellow In uniform turned to
the grimy urchin.
YES" he smilingly answered.
"Then here's a nickel for you!' cried
the boy and thrusting the coin into the
soldiers hand, he IeaDed from the car
and, with a farewell yell, disappeared In
the crowd.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Sampson and the PhiIi.tines.

Our Sampson has gone out after the
Philistines from Cape Verde. and, if he
could only find them, he would
straightway smite them under the fifth
rib that they die. Unhappiiy, he not
only cannot find them in the great will
deTness of Atlantic waters, but neither
he nor anyone else in this country has
any definite idea where to look for
them. If We might believe Spanish and
other European reports We would know
that Villamil's squadron was riding at
anchor in the harbor of Cadiz. But the
more we excogitate those stories. the
less probable they appear. Certainty,
at the Navy Department, has given
place to doubt, and now it is UNDER
stood, that vigilance is to be redoubIed
until the secret service can furnish
some accurate information or our fleet
actually encounter the lost armada.
1t is characteristic game Of hide
and seek that our friends the enemy
are playing, with the obvious intention
of befogging the Washington Govern
ment and delaying its operations
against Cuba and Porto Rico The
Spaniards have an unkind conception
Of Mr.. Mckinley. They religiously be-
lieve that as long as they can keep him
puzzled with regard to what they in
tend to do, he will never allow his own
people to do a thing.
We feel sure that they are counting
without their host in this. Whatever
may be said as to past inertia and
vacillation, the Presidents friends now
say that he is full of pluck and de-
termination, and is even often uninfiu-
enced by the representations which
Mark Hanna pCurs into his ears when
he makes his bi-diurnal descents upon
the White House. In short. Mr.. Nc
Kinley is represented as having his
dander up, and about to do thiags
which will compel the Spaniards to
take our late place as the dodger and
guesser of Christendom.
With this pious purpose in view. It Is
allA9ad that Mr.. Mckinley will "buckls
The evening times., 1898-05-12

on his armor and be marching along.
as the Sunday school room ballad puts
it. He will raze the proud defenses Of
Havana, and elevate Jehannum with
these of Porto Rico. He will do 1t
now. He is represented as that mad
that he can hardly wait for yesterday
to wreak his just vengeance upon the
vile horde who are still actively engag-
ed in their regular avocation of starva-
tion. outrage. torture and butchery in
the Antilles. So. the punitive expedi-
ton will start from Tampa, Key West.
Mobile and New Orleans Immediately.
If not sooner. and. unless the President
should change his mind, there will be
a combined sea and land attack upon
Blanco's stronghold within a few days.
In the meantime. the country hopes
to hear that Sampson has occupied his
leisure, while waiting for the Cape
Verde squadron, in ripping up the for
tifications of San Juan and in occu-
pying the island of Porto Rico for I'm
Gle Sam His ability to do that with
out interfering with his other purposes
is undoubted. There is probably coal
enough in San Juan to repay the ex-
pense of what ammunition he will have
to waste to take it Admiral Viilamtl
may not need it, as We presume the
French government has sent a supply
to the island of Martinique.
1t is down around that neighborhood
that the Spaniards are likely to be
hiding, if they are on this side of the
world at all. and the Oregon may come
up with them before anyone else does.
There is also a horrible suspicion that
they propose to repay the friendship of
Thomas b. Reed and Dupuy de Hale
by making a sudden and sanguinary
attack upon Machias. Maine. All is
darkness and doubt.
Mr. Mckinley should tighten and re-
lieve the situation by a quick act of
war, which will give US. and the Span
iards. something new and lively to
think about.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
The Rattle on Cardenas.

The latest actual war news, as far as
this side of the world is concerned
came this morning in a dispatch from
Key West. which stated that the Gov
ernment ship Hudson had just arrived
with the bodies of Ensign Bagley and
four of the crew of the torpedo boat
Wfnslow, who had been killed in an
attack upon Cardenas. 1t seems that
the Winslow and three or four other
vessels participated in the lombard
ment, and that the former was struck
five times. one shell exploding inboard,
killing five persons and wounding five
or six others. including the command
ing officer, Lieutenant Bernadou.
At the time of writing, the details of
the fight are too meager for discussion,
but they probably will be found in full
in our news columns. One thing is evil
dent. and that is that the harvest OF
death sown by our pacific blockade pol
icy is beginning to be garnered. While
our ships have tossed idly ofs the
waves off the Cuban coast, the Span
iards have been diligently Strengthening
their defenses. mounting new and mod
ern guns. and smuggling in trained
gunners from foreign countries. The
result viii be that the reduction of
the works in Cuba will cost a hundred
lives, where one would have been the
mortality three weeks ago.
We hope that Mr.. Mckinley will
take this sad lesson to heart, COM
mence shooting all along the line and
never let up until the last Spaniard on
the American side of the Atlantic is
killed or a prisoner. and until we have
seized the last colonial possession of
perfidious Spain.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
FOUGHT AN ARMED RoBBER.

The Driver of the strge Saves III.
Coach.
Redding. Cal. May 12-Just at dawn to-
day an attempt was made to hold up the
stage running from Alturas to this place.
When about three miles from town the
driver. William Connery. became aware
that someone was climbing on his stage
from behind. As ethe driver turned the
would-be robber fired revolver point
blank in his face. the bullet passing
through his cheek and carrying away sew
eral teeth and portion Of the roof of his
mouth.
hand-to-hand contest occurred, the
driver using his heavy whip. while the
robber shot three, times more at his in
tended victim. A second bullet grazed
Connery's face. and . third shot powder
burned his neck. The fourth bullet flew
wild. :.
Connery finally succeeded in forcing the
robber to the ground and the stage horses
dashed away, carrying the plucky driver
out Of harms reach. He Is in precarious
condition from his wounds.
The evening times., 1898-05-12

sidered reasonable IL an individual
were to circulate false reports of what
Is being done in this country and in
Cuba and Spain. SO that the action Of
Congress and the President, tending to
the honor and welfare of our country.
would be hampered; but 1t is not found
that this has been done. Every piece
Of news which could have an effect
upon the war temper of the country
has been printed in substantially the
same shape. sooner or later. by all
the papers in the country. and has
been admitted by the whole people. 1t
has sometimes appeared in the Jingo
papers, been hooted at by the Admin
istration press, and afterward printed
by that same press; but the facts are
there all the same. The condition of
the reconcentrados in Cuba was for
more than year ignored by the Ad-
ministration press. which affected to
consider the reports of destitution and
misery there grossly exaggerated.
Then Senator Proctor. acting in behalf
of the Administration. went to Cuba
and brought back a report which was
every bit as sensational as the worst
Of the sensational accounts. For
several weeks the idea that the Maine
could have been destroyed by anything
but an internal explosion was indig-
nantly denied by Tory newspapers; 1t
is now admitted by every one of them
that the disaster was due to Spanish
malevolence. The facts are all there
of the Tory press-the only difference
is in the deductions drawn from them.
This is a free country, and every man
has a right to his own opinion. If.
from things which are admitted to be
true, one party draws the inference
that the Administration is wise and
high-minded and patriotic. and an
other party comes to the conclusion
that it is weak and needs some bolster
ing, the independent man can take his
choice. This talk of treason Is bald
nonsense.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Treason.

| To the meditative mind it seems
rather queer that. Just at this particu-
lar point in our history, there should
be people bowling loudly for the
punishment Of treason" and that
their cries should be directed against
the most Jealous advocates of the
Cuban cause. In the first place, a
little careful thought leads one to see
clearly that treason, in the United
States, is committed not against one
person. or set of persons, but against
a whole people. Benedict Arnold was
a traitor, not because he interfered
with plans of Gen. Washington, but
because he was in collusiOn with the
foes against whom the country was
struggling. Had he used violent lam
guage against Washington, and striv-
en- to undermine his influence in the
country, he would have been con-
zen; he would haYe been thrown out
of the army. but he would not have
been condemned to death as a traitor.
One of the safeguards of a free gov
ernment is free speech, and this in
cludes criticism Of any person or fnsti-
tuition in the country which may seem
to need criticism.
No sane man will accept an argu-
ment unsupported by facts. II facts
are given, the arguer has a right to
draw his own conclusions, whether
they be complimentary to persons in
power. or otherwise. Treason, In a re-
public, consists only Of such action as
giving aid to the enemies Of the coun-
try-in the present case they would
dermining the constitutional authority
of the Government by action contrary
to it's principles. True, it was said in
the heat of the Civil War that the
Southern States were guilty Of treason
because 1t was alleged that they were
acting contrary to the Constitution;
and there was a certain censorship of
because certain newspapers In New
York were thought to support the
Southern cause-that is, the cause con-
trary to that Of the Government of the
United States. An attempt upon the
life Of q Government official might
also be considered reasonable. But
none OF these situations can be con-
sidered analogous to the present one.
1t should be perfectly plain to any
body with a mind that the way for q
man to commit treason just at pres
ent would be to become an alder and
abettor Of the Spanish government. d.
rectiy or indirectly. This. Of course,
1t would be absurd to aIleee that the
Cuban 5unta or the Cuban sympathix-
ara can possibly be. It might be con- |
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Lesncies Must Pay Taxes.

Newburg. N Y. May l2-The appellate
court. second depar tment. has just de-
cided in the case of the Kill of Miss
S. Marietta Thran. that legacieS to mu-
nicipal corporations are liable to taxa
ton under the taxable franchise act of
this State.
Miss Thrall gave in her will to the city
of Middletown So. 900. for the construo-
tion of library Surrogate Howell. of
Orange County. held that this legacy
was not taxable. on the ground that the
property of municipal corporations Is
exempt The comptroller of the State
appealed from the decision. with the re-
suit that the appellate court says that
Iegacies to municipal corporations are
taxable This is the first decision under
the present law.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
spaui.h Lie. at Home.

1From the ST. Paul Pioneer Press1
1t. is impossible to suppress feeling OF
pity for the Spanish people. who are be-
ing duped by the government and the
correspondents of their own papers into
such curious beliefs concerning the kind
of antagonist against whom they are
waging war. These are some of the
things that have been given them for
facts since hostilities were first in sight:
The bombariment of American coast
cities is imminent; an American warsh'p
has run aground. the bombardment o.
Matanzas was an obvious reDulse for
the Americans: the Americans are afraid
to fight: all but one of the American
powder mills have been blown up: they
have no powder fit to use in modern
guns: the volunteers are refusing to
serve; Indian uprisings are threatened
all over the country. and especially in
Ohio and Illinois O: the Government has
no way of getting the 50. 100000 voted.
except by borrowing it. and hnally-thi5
from the incorrigible Liberal of Madrid
ION the American side are hodgepodge.
brag. buster. hypocrisy and funk" How
can a people led to believe such things
so hopelessly at variance with the facts
be expected to understand what the wa.
which they are represented as insisting
upon means?
The Inevitable consequence of this lying
will come home to those that have in
duIged in 1t when. beaten and utterly
ruined by a conflict horribly unequal.
they turn home to face a people mad
dened by such treatment. 1t hardly
seems as II the whole nation weakened
and depressed, as We are told that it Is.
could accept such a wrong without re-
sentiment. Imagine the howl that would
go up in this country If the Government
were caught blinking a single fact. or
even withholding news which the people
have a right to know. 1t is probably
about the last thing that an American
President would dare to do That Is be-
ing done systematically in Spain today.
Is one of the many proofs of the na-
tiOnal rottenness.