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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-09-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS
$3.50.
Ho for the races.
Orpheum tonight.
No matinee this afternoon.
NEW SAILOR HATS at Sache.
The Doric sails at 4 o'clock this
afternoon.
THE PEOPLES PROVIDERS,
Sachs e. Co.
r and g CORSET are the best.
Sachs & Co., Agents.
Mrs. w. M. Kincaid returned by
the Doric last evening.
SPECIAL SALE of Ladies Mus
lin Underwear at Sachs.
ALL WOOL FRENCH CHAL-
LIES, on 25c yard at Sachs.
Business houses will close early to-
day on account Of the races.
Every article, a genuine bargain
at l.. b. Kerr's Departure Sale.
500 Dozen Towels, 75c a Dozen,
at L. B. Kerr's Departure Sale
At length the Waialua case has
been submitted to Judge Perry.
Hans the Boatman at the Opera
House this evening. Prices reduced
@. j. Falk has been elected Secre-
tary Of the Honolulu Sock Ex-
change.
Captain Gartenberg will entertain
Colonel and Mrs. Mills at luau
this evening.
Season ticket sale for the Boston
Lyrics opens on Monday next at
Wall, Nichols Co.
American Messenger Service,
Masonic Temple, Telephone 444
All night service.
The battle between Jefferies and
Sharkey is to be fought at Coney
Island on the 23d inst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Voss will re-
turn to town by the Claudine to-
morrow after a visit to Hawaii.
DR.. Posey, specialist for Eye, Ear
Throat and Nose diseases, and
Catarrh. Masonic Temple. to IL,
to 4.
The stowaways who arrived here
on a transport were shipped out of
the country by the Marshal on the
Doric.
The schooner Blanche and Ella
will leave for Hanalei and Kalihi-
wal, Kauai, on Monday evening, at
5 o'clock,
Captain Kanae drove a Chinese
wash wagon past our Office looking
every inch like Chinese, his uni
form being what give him away.
The Berkeley Ex-Students re-.
ceivej Ex-Presldent Kellogg on the
Doric last evening and are to-day
making his visit pleasant and en-
tertaining.
The fair and luau in connection
with the Sewing Society OF ST. An
drew's Cathedral will take place on
Saturday, September 30, afternoon
and evening.
The s. f. Call contains the first
batch OF interviews on the form OF
Government OF Hawaii. 1t occupies
two pages and the portraits are un-
ique. The agents have extras.
KentucBy's famous Jesse Moore
Whiskey, unequalled for it's purity
aud excellence. On sale at any OF
a II - O. ~
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-03

or in part. The German Empire owns
6,966 miles OF railway, and, although,
it cost them to acquire these roads from
the corporations that built them, the
enormous sum Of sIo7,o97 per mile, yet,
while they only charge an average of
.II7c per mile for passengers, and an
average for freight rates Of .oI47c per ton
mile, and while third class passenger
rates (which is about equal to our second
class rates is only one cent for every four
miles travelled, yet, notwithstanding this
immense cost Of acquiring the reads, the
German roads are paying into the gov
ernment's exchequer Of the German gov
ernment a. per cent per annum upon
their cost. In Austro-Eungaly, | will
give the report Of Vrooman in his work
on, Government Ownership" He says:
That 1889 will be noteworthy in the
history Of railroads in Hungary, as it
witnessed the introduction of the Zone
tariff en- all railways. The Zone system
allows tickets to be sold like postage
stamps, good for any distance within the
Zone or radius where issued Since the
introduction Of the new, cheap tariff, on
the first Of August, 1889, to the 3Ist Ct
December, 1889, the passenger trjfhc, in
creased by over three million persons, and
the gross receipts by over $4,000 pounds,
or about $4,000. As the total number
Of people annually carried by the Hun
gary railroads has not, hitherto, exceed
ed 800, 900 persons, the large increase
in five months is remarkable. II is said
that no extia expense has been incurred,
and, in fact, that economies have been
effected in ,he ticket issue department.
owing to the facilities now afforded for
obtaining tickets at postofice, stores and
other places in town. In real truth, the
Hungarians send themselves by stamps
Just as they and we do our letters. This
is a showing that merits the most careful
attention, and especially when il is re-
membered that the state railways Of Hun.
gary cover only s, 10 miles. The fare is
50 low that a ride of six miles costs only
one cent, moreover the wages Of railroad
men have been doubled since govern.
ment ownership began. Vrooman's re-
port of the German railroads are that the
government first assumed the ownership
Of the railways in IS43.
The cost to the end of 1892 has beer
10, 626, 246, GOO marks. Receipts for ISo.
on government roads were I,34S,S64, ,ooc
marks. Expenses, S77,o5Aooo marks
Profits, 472 $4,000 marks or A. cents.
The average passenger fare i OILY pc
mile and the average freight rate is Ola
per ton per mile. During the last tel
years the profits have increased 81 pc
cent and wages are 40 per cent highe
than under private ownership. The far
for third class travel (which is a larg
per cent Of all is only one cent for fou
miles. The state employed 54o553 per
sons on railways in 1890, and paid ther
4o4, 1855 marks about $50, 2o,ooo.
} There were $3.50 other persons employ
ed in shops on repairing, gas making, etc
There were 1876 employed for every y
: miles of road in 1890 There were :.
statious and 1906 signal s..,at;o,, "o'
In speed the law prescdbes q I;,,,;,
: so to IS miles per ,.loar for main line y.
: senger trains nth air brakes. The fas
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-03

indeed. Declare to every man that no
Standard trust, no Sugar trust, no Meat
trust, no Coal combine shall have any
advantage that is not open to the lowest
citizen in the land. Re-establish the
equality of our people over the highways
of the republic. When you have done
this, three-fourths of the battle will have
been won. There will be no more coal
miners strikes. Soldiers and deputies
will not be called upon to shoot down
American citizens like dogs, for the rea-
son that then the miner can 90 to market
I with his car Of coal as cheaply as the hig-
gest coal company in the land. And the
coal miners, when dissatisfied, instead Of
striking for their rights, can get together,
form company Of their own, 90 over
and lease Tom Johnson's or Tim Moore's
farm, and open up coal mine Of their
own, and ship their coal, the product Of
their own labor, to the markets on even
terms with Mark Hanna or the Cleveland
Gas and Coal company. Now, this might
be pretty hard on the big coal companies,
but it would be justice and wise nation
al policy. Today, the letter of coal
miner goes to its destination with the
same speed, and at the same rate, as the
letter Of Rockefeller. Send his COAL the
prodrct of his labor, to market upon the
same basis, and from striker, citizen,
discontented and riotous, he will be
turned into a patriot, prompted by the
warmest feelings Of pride Of country and
devotion to the flag. From an element
of weakness, he will become a tower of
strength to the republic. And so it will
be along the whole line Of development,
from the forest, the farm and the mine,
to the finished product. Do this, and the
rule of the monopolies will end, and the
reign of the people will again begin.
How can this be done?
1t is easy. The public welfare demands
it. Under the eminent domain of TIE
state the power exists to condemn these
railways, Just as under the eminent do
main of the state private lands were con-
demned upon which to build these rail
WAYS. Pay these corporations for then
Just what they are truly worth.
But how could the people pay the in
terest on the immense public debt which
this purchase would create.
The answer is, that the people are tax
ed today by these corporations in exces
sive freight rates to pay all the interes
on the bonded debt of these roads, anC
. dividend that they pay, and in addition
they are taxed by these monopolies hun
, dreds of million annually for the benef
Of these monopolies, trusts and combines
The only difference is, that under gov
ernment control, the people are changing
the managers of their highways. Th
advantage Of government ownership i
that the bonded Indebtedness upon thes
: highways could be placed at from one an
one-half to two per cent lower interes
annually, than # is under this corpora
c ton ownership, we can shake off the gri
, of these monopolists from the throats q
S the people.
E Is national ownership Of railways prac
! ticable9
I The answer is, "Yes."
Z Fifty-four nations Of the world no
5 own and control these railways, who'll
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-03

est trains in the world, taking average
speed. are on the Berlin & Hamburg line
OF I7S miles, where the rates for through
passenger srains average 4S9 miles per
hour.
Now then you will note that the aver
age rate on freight is .oI47 cents per ton
mile. The study of this per ton mile
rate on freight is an interesting study.
hold in my hand receipted freight bill
for the freight charges on a car load of
oil well supplies shipped from Harmony,
Pa, to Unity, Pa, distance of 4e miles;
the cNst was 1860 for the car load of I6
tons, or S2.9I per ton for the 49 miles, or
5.93 cents per ton mile. Here have an
: other freight bill that shows that paid
4.32 cents per ton mile. Both Of these
shipments were Of the fifth and sixth
class, and | take il that these bills are
about the average freight rates that the
people pay on the transportation Of their
products, but the statistics show that the
average Of all the freight shipments of
the United States is only IS Of cent per
ton mile. These facts convict the rail-
road managers of a great crime. For
these freight bills here show that the pub
lie is being robbed for the benefit of the
-stockholder, while the statistics show
that the stockholders are being robbed
for the benefit OF the trusts, monopolies
and favored shippers. Here is a problem.
If the average cost for freight in America
is only SIS Of l cent per ton mile, and the
public is obliged to pay from 4.32 to 5.e3
per ton mile, then in order to bring the
average freight rate Of the country down
to IS OF one cent per ton mile, what
must the monopolies and favored shippers
pay' The answer to this question would
answer every occurring question: Why
J are 50 many Of our railroads in the hands
OF receivers? The facts are that many Of
these bankrupt roads have been robbed
for the benefit Of the favored shippers,
just as the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad was.
In the United States, under corporate
ownership, in 1892, the railways carried
575,77o,ooo passengers, and killed 7,o47
passengers, and injured 81, ,I64 including
employees. Under government ownership,
in Germany, in 1892, the German rail-
roads carried 494,oI3,o 900 passengers, kill
ed 726 passengers and injured 2,sl2 pas
sengers. The figures show that the per-
sons killed under corporate ownership III
the United States, are nearly one thous-
and per cent greater that they ar. under
government ownership, in Germany. and
that the people injured under corporate
ownership IS nearly SIX hundred per ce-
greater than they are under Cove II
ownership. The figures speai .GN;i'
and present them to you volumes
est consideration. or z,as earl
In conclusion let
er Of the ten bill, 90 - 'Ne pe'
in the highwar ms nif NY tnat L.
by the biz yaof th " caPitai org
trusts orpani' rrGn' of the mononorios rD1s, oae,
o prodp.a 70 from the people the 'Ons %r..
r. ced by them, is power I tbs, %f,' !. 81 !
ths = away the control of governmen, f.o,, 81.
,,,., ne intelligent rule of the masses ah IRON On
m must shake loose these fetters ,So, ana i ",
u.s., us, Or American Liberties are a' Ios. olnS ns
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-03

produced by the people, may be transfer
red into the pockets of the favored class
es. Who is it in these United States OF
America, that have created classes? Who
is it that has driven the coal miners into
revolt, and then ordered the deputies,
and sheriffs, and soldiers, to shoot them
down like dogs? Who is it that has de-
stroyed TIE great right OF equality upon
which the foundation stones of our re-
public were builded? And the answer IS:
The men who control the highways of
the republic. Aye, my fellow citizens
and just as long as the corporations con-
troll these highways, just so long will
they be used for the benefit Of the few,
and against the est interest Of the mass
es. Under this system one set OF men
are built up, and all other men are put
down. There is no longer an equal show
in the contest for wealth. With the high
ways closed against you on equal terms,
YOU are forced back into obscurity. you
are HELPLESS. You are chained to the
rock with the vulture of injustice feed
ing upon your vitals. This great wrong
is undermining and destroying the
strength of the republic. The rumblings
of discomfort are heard upon every hand.
The soldiers, under the flag, marching to
force the people to submit to some unjust
demand of the monopolists, makes that
dear old flag look like an emblem ofop-
preston, and yet, if you make any pro.
test against this cordition of things, you
are ostracised as an anarchist.
Nv fellow citizens, what is the remedy'
The equal rights of our people cannot bt
re-established 50 long as the highways Of
the republic ar. in the hands of these
corporations. Corruption of legislators
senators, congressman and judges viii
continue as long as there is SIC, 5o6,2S5,
D 40 of corporate capital on one side, anC
only human justice upon the other
. Justice will triumph in the end, butit car
not triumph as long as ten billions o
z dollars are in the hands of corrupt ant
o corrupting lobbyists and legislativ,
bribers. What is the remedy? They pu
=. ND a few millions for can:paign fund
on condition that they may continue t,
/, plunder the people; and the. poorer .sn'
d poorer the people become the more sub
a servient they are to the demands OF cor
p porate power.
What is the remedy?
Take these railways, these highways o
: the republic, away from these great cor
porations. Make them public property
: Let the government own and run them
Make them what they should be, publ
II highways for the people upon which ever
g man can 90 to market on even term
d with every other man. Do this, and tn
:, monor,olies that now oppress US wi
wither away when they meet the homes
/ competition which will rise up on eyer
g hand. Make these highways, highSay
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
R0-TO.BAC sisss s q d gqaEfH aoSs6 e. II na asss-

ed to Justice Gummere in Mercer Court of
Quarter Sessions. Contrary to rumor,
there was no disagreement in the Grand
Jury, and ne prese1tment was made in
the Industrial School.
The. Industrial School case and Mrs. Ey-
Ter, which, it is we'll known, " been
the bones of contention In the Grand Jury,
were the main topics Of conversation at
the Grand Jury banquet. One of the
foremost member of the Grand Jury ex-
pressed the opinion that Mrs. Eyler has
outlived her usefulness at the Industrial
School and should resign. Her rule, he
said, has been one of error.
Another said that While there is no
doubt in his mind that extreme measures
of cruelty nave been used at the Indus
trial School, yet no evidence was brought
before the Grand Jury upon which an in
dictment could be found.
1t was the common consent that the
Grand Jury was a unit in all it's delib-
e~rations with the exception of the Eyler
case.
The following were the members of the
Grand jury
William H. Skirm, DR.. Charles P. Brit
ton. George Holconbe. DIR. A. I'll. Dey.
P. Logan, ]. Henry Klein, Charles Len
nox, Joseph w. Mackenzie, Frank w.
Thropp. Edgar Maple. John Hess. James
F. Dale, William G. RoupD, Charles
Smith, D. Hart Cunningham, Amos Dey,
Ammi R. Schanck, w. Harrison Muir
held, Allison E. Hutchinson, Martin West.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
Use OF the Chinese Umbrel1a.

It Is no new thing to hear that China was
ahead Of the rest Of the world in invention.
Even the umbrella owes its existence, we are
told, TO the genius Of the Chinese or Japanese.
1t is said to have been copied from a shade
giving tree. and at first received the same
generation accorded to the tree of which it was
a copy.
Great dignities were allowed to appear in
public seated under umbrella c~anopfes, and
later these canopies were made portable until
a regular series of court regulations for the
carriage Of umbrellas became necessary. By
the umbrella a Chinese gentleman is allowed to
carry, one VINO is initiated can tell his rank.
The common people may use an umbrella If it
is not made Of cloth or silk, but only Of paper.
II in China one sees a procession headed by
two enormous silk umbrellas. he may be as
sured that a Governor-G General Of a province
or a military officer of the first rank is coming
behind them. The grandeur of the royal pro-
cessfon or religious demonstration Is denoted by
the number Of umbrellas which are carried.
It Is said that formerly, when the Emperor
went hunting, he had to be preceded by twenty
four umbrshas.-zouth's companioa.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
The Land of WindmiIls.

Great Tapping sails all over the land
make Holland look as If a flock of huge
sea birds were just settling upon it. There
are said to be at least 10000 of these
windmills in Holland. They are employed
in saving timber, beating hemp, grinding
corn and many other kinds of work; but
their principal use is for pumping water
from the lowlands into the canals and for
guarding against the inland freshets that
so often deluge the country. Many Of the
windmills are quite simple affairs. but
some of the new ones are admirable. They
are so constructed that by an ingenious
continuance they present their g n or
wings to the wind in precisely the right
direction to work with the requisite
power. In other words. the miller may in
dulge in q quiet sleep and leave his
mill to study the winds and make the
most of them without this assistance.
If there is only a little wine every sail
will spread itself to make the most of it;
but IL a big elbow should come, they
will all shrink UP and give it only half a
chance OF move them. If you want to see
windmills in all their glory. you must pay
a visit to the land of windmills.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
SERGEANT BuCKBEE SURPRISED.
The Officers and Patrolmen of His
Old Precinct Give Him g Banquet.

O4A X 4GOAAA0t LAW IA "a 4PNt
The officers and patrolmen of the Oak
land avenue station house. rendered a
farewell supper, last night, at the Avenue
House, to former Sergeant William
Buckbee. Sergeant Buckbee resigned last
month and was retired on half pay, hay
ing completed twenty years continuous
service in the department. He was ap-
pointed to the police force in 1879 and was
at the time of his retirement the senior
sergeant in the department.
The banquet was a surprise. Sergeant
Buckbee was presented with a handsome
crayon portrait of himself. the gift of the
men of the Third Precinct. Policeman
William Buckbee, Jr., of the Second Pre-
cinct, was given the task of bringing his
father and he did so by telling his father
that Sergeant Reardon wished to see him
at the station house. When Buckbee, ST.,
arrived there Reardon kept him waiting
until midnight. Together they went to
the Avenue House, where the men of the
off platoon of the Third and visiting
policemen from other precincts were in
waiting. A large table was set and before
Buckbee had an opportunity to ask an ex-
PLANTATION the men had seated themselves.
Sergeant William Duffy, senior sergeant
of the Third Precinct, said:-"Sergeant
Buckbee, I have been requested by the
men of the Third Precinct to say some
thing to you tonight. The men of that
and other precincts who have served UNI
der you in your twenty years Of service
all feel satisfied that you were a faithful
and conscientious officer to the city and
they want to show that they hold you in
hig esteem. We thought the best way
was to have you here this evening and
present to you a portrait of yourself"
AS he finished speaking Patrolman
George Murphy pulled an American flag,
which was draped about the picture and
revealed a very fine likeness of Sergeant
Buckbee in full uniform. The crayon was
in a handsome frame and mounted on
an easel. Sergeant Buckbee gazed at it
for some time in complete surprise and
then Said
81 am not a speaker, but will say that
this was a complete surprise to me. !
thank you from the bottom of my heart
for what you nave done for me-" Three
cheers were proposed and given with a
will for the departing officer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
MANY GRIEVANCES AIRED.
Building Trades Council Hears Pro-
test ON a Number OF Jobs.

Delegates from the recently organized
| Painters Local No. 60, Of Bayonne and
| Carpenters No. 564 of Hudson City, were
seated at last nights meeting of the Hud-
! son Building Trades Council at its hall,
| No. II Hoboken avenue, Jersey City
| Heights. The principal business of the
session was the presentation Of grievances
by the different delegates. h plumbers
entered a grievance against the Amalga-
mated Plumbers of New York working in
Jersey City. The Union Hill plumbers en-
tered a grievance against the employment
of non-union plumbers on the Hamilton
Wheelmen's Clubhouse on Liberty street.
that section also presented a grievance
against the same job.
Grievances against Jobs located as fol-
lows were presented by the painters
Elm street, Dodd street. Smith street and
Malone near Spring streets, West Hobo
ken; Kossuth street, Liberty street and
Palisade avenue and Franklin street.
Union Hill. The carpenters entered a
grievances against a job on Carlton av-
enue near the Boulevard. Jersey City
Heights.
The plasterers presented a grievance
against non-union men employed at a job
in West Hoboken. The Business Agent
made a statement in connection with the
case and the grievance was withdrawn.
The others were referred to the Business
Agent for settlement.
The action of the Business Agent of the
trainers union of New York in summarily
ordering Jersey City trainers off a job in
that city caused considerable discussion
and was finally referred to the Business
Agent with Instructions to appear before
the Building Trades Council of New York
and enter a formal protest.
A Communication from District Assem-
bly, No. 1877, Knights of Labor, requested
the appointment Of a committee OF the
Council to consider the standing of the
painters and varnishers employed in the
different breweries of the county. The
committee was appointed.
Chairman Westlake instructed the Boari
of Auditors to present a detailed report at
the next meeting.