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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

them out with the biggest democratic vote
in the history of the country ! am sorry
we didn't win this time, but really DC
licve that giving the other fellows Tour
years more of It will be their undoing;
and will result in forming the biggest ana
hest democratic party organization We
have ever seen.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

R. a. Josey.-We have several things
to be thankful for in Texas anyway.
Houston should feel especially grateful
that Hon. Thomas Ball will again repre-
sent the FIRST district in congress. He
has always put forll every effort "a this
city's behalf, and will undoubtedly con-
tinue TO do so.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

n. f. MacGregor-As republican am
well satisfied with the National returns,
but we failed to do anything Il TeXas,
our loss OF the Tenth district and the
fact that we failed 10 re-elect Burns as
State senator, are two bal notes In the
cheerful music that was played for re-
publicane Tuesday
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

Captain Philip H. Fall, adjutant Dick
Bowling Camp, U. c. Wit was ar over
whelming defeat. | thought the race
would be close. and had no idea that the
victory would be as great as II was.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

Chief Clerk Forrest. police depart
ment--while my sympathies were wholly
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08

Ex- Congressman Miles Crowley--The
election OF Burgess in our district was a
foregone conclusion and he will be found
to be royal good fellow. AS TO Bryan's
defeat II Is hard to tell what caused the
people ia the North and East TO vote
against him.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
AT THE SEAT or WAR.

The surrender Of Cronje while d
mighty important event does not. ox.
oept in the person Of that brave com.
mander. materially reduce the Boor
hghting strength When his retreat
began General Crouje had 1000 men
The number that surrendered is var
iously estimated ut from 5000 to 1000
leaving from 5000 TO 1000 unaccounted
for. Some Of these were killed and
wounded but II appears that large
force got through French's lines and
made it's way towards Bloemfontein
where 10000 Beers are said to be as
sembling behind great system of
fsrts to await the arrival of Roberts
with the $4,000 men and 10 guns that
brought Cronje's little band of burghers
To grief.
The Free State capital promises to
be a place Of protracted fighting. Its
forts are strong and well-mounted; the
city itself is amply proyisoneu and its
garrison will be large. The chances
are that the British will have to be-
siege it, but they can do this and, out
OF their grand army of 2lS,0O0 men and
40 guns detach enough men to drive
the outlying Boer soldiers into their
forts. The rest will be matter of
siege and eventual triumph.
We cannot see that the war is very
near its end but all fear of further
British humiliations is practically over
providing Europe does not interfere.
Cronjes capture, however, makes the
latter contingency more and more re-
mote
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
ASlArlC FOODSIUfFs.

If fear of making the Asiatics of
these Islands sick by "depriving them
of their accustomed food" is the reason
why suspected Oriental provender is
not to be condemned and burned, we
invite the Board of Health to consider
these facts:
% That the foods which may
contain the germs of plague and which
it Is proposed to destroy are not the
staples, but the luxuries Asiatics can
live without the latter as we'll as for
eigners do without their own choice
tidbits. While rice, tea and vegetables
are to be had, with occasionally little
fish, beef, poultry and pork, the Asiat-
les will not suffer. They can wait
awhile for bamboo sprouts and i'm
ported birds nests without coming TO
any harm.
CID Thousands of Chinese and Jap
anese coolies employed on the
Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Nevada,
Utah and Arizona do not eat Oriental
food from one years end to the other
and they keep as good an average of
health as white people do.
CID Chinese and Japanese coolies
employed in the kitchens and yards of
Honolulu and in those of a hundred
cities and thousand towns and viii
lagos OF the Mainland make three
meals day of foreign food, and thrive
on them. They do not go to pieces on the
diet of the ordinary household, and, in
fact, seem to prefer 1t to the fare they
were accustomed to eat in their own
countries.
QV japanese and Chinese students
at Eastern American and European
schools do not taste their native
dishes during the years when they
are getting their educatlons. They eat
what the white people do. and build
up on 1t mentally and physically. Why
should the effect OF a similar regimen,
adhered to for few weeks or months,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
INTER ISLAND MAIL.

Owing to retrenchment the Post
Office, as well as the Custom House, Is
getting short of men, and when the
Postoffice finds itself in that condition
the public soon has reason to COM
plain.
Early yesterday morning the Alice
Kimball came in from Maui with the
email. 1t was O'Clock in the afternoon
before the Postotiice was able to take
official cognizance of the matter, and
then the mail was sent over to Quar-
antine Island to be fumigated. Up to
a late hour last night It had not made
its appearance in the Postofiice boxes.
At this writing no one in Honolulu
ters, possibly appertaining to the
plague, are covered by the quarantined
mail. If the Postoffice had been able
10 attend to the Maui letters promptly
in the morning they might have been
out of quarantine by late afternoon.
Perhaps when the mail finally comes to
hand the Health authorities will re-
greet the delay and the people of Maui
more than they.
Would it not be we'll in these days
of plague to consider the prompt de-
livery of the inter-island mails as a
public matter of urgency-one closely
connected with the safeguarding of
the public health? If so, then it would
be in order to ask the Council of State
to make an appropriation for it,
Certainly some way should be found
to expedite the inter-island postal de-
livery
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
A rnANaE FoR nd MnnsE.

% is 10 be- hoped that the Conference
. Committee Of the Senate and House
viii see the unwisdom ~ the Senate
| Committee on Territories did not, Of
removing from the Cullom Bill the
clause which makes the Hawaiian
courts the judges Of elections to the
| Territorial Legislature. and vests that
| responsibility In the Legislature Itself.
The reference OF such matters 20 the
Judiciary has been the rule In Hawaii
since 1887 and is acceptable, we be-
lieye. TO all classes Prior to 1887 dis
putcd elections to the Legislature were
nearly always settled on a partisan ba
sis 1t mattered nothing II cdndi-
date had been elected and could prove
it,, for If his appeal went before Leg
islature composed of his political an
haps it would be safe to say that he in
variably lost it. At any rate, scandals
were so common that the law was
changed, making the Supreme Court
the judge of elections, and since then
there has been no trouble Elections
since 1887 have been fair, and 1t is
highly desirable that they should re-
main so.
The system having worked well here,
being supported as it Is by all classes,
and having justified itself in the En-
glish colonies, why should it not be re-
tanned? If 1t is not American" 1t had
better be, for anything calculated, by
sober and lawful process, to do away
with such scandalous perversons of
justice toward elected officials as that
shown by the Democratic Kentucky
Legislature now in session, is surely
an aid to good government.
1t is not too much to ask of Con-
sress that 1t leave intact the time
tried safeguards Hawaii has erected |
around the purity of its elections and |
not try to supplant them with sys-
TEN which could not work well here
and does not always secure fair play
on the Mainland
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS.
President Mckinley Will Supply
Data to the Senate.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-(Afternoon
Service) "A special to the Herald from
Washington says:
President Mckinley will send to the
Senate today (Tuesday) his answer to
the Hoar resolution asking for prac-
tically all the information in the pos
session of the Government, relative to
the Philippine islands not already be-
fore that body.
Some reports from General Otis and
correspondence he has had with Aguin-
aldo will be new, though the officials
say they throw little light on the affairs
of the archipelago. This, it is stated,
is particularly true with reference to
the aid and comfort the insuI gents have
received from persons in the United
States.
In one of the reports made by Gen
Otis he asserts that after the destruc-
ton of the Spanish fleet and undoubt-
eddy with the aid and consent of the
agents of the United States" small
band of men, natives of Luzon, re-
turned to the vicinity of Manila. They
were doubtless encouraged by citizens
of the United States and oilers acting
without authority.
General Otis declares, ito attempt
the organization of what they were
pleased to denominate an independent
government for the Philippine people,
they themselves became its controlling
element. Aguinaldo and his assistants
landed from American vessels in Ca
vite, supplied by United States agents
with arms and ammunition in small
quantities for the purpose of raising Il
native force to assist the American
troops to keep back from the shore or
Manila bay, the scattered Spanish
troops giving annoyance in that yicin-
ity"
General Otis report will also repeat
the cause of the beginning of the revo-
luton. He will declare the insurgents
did everything in their power to bring
on the conflict. On the night OF Feb
ruary 4, after a demonstration was
made on one of our small outposts.
which occupied a retired position, at
least $50 yards within the line which
had been mutually agreed upon, he
says: "An insurgent approached the
picket and refused to halt or answer
when challenged. The result was that
our picket discharged his gun, when
the insurgent troops near Santa Mora
opened n spirited fire on our troops
stationed there"
One of the reports dated just before
the outbreak contains this statement;
Il am of the opinion that some of our
worst foes are those of our own house
hold. include an article cut from the
Singapore Free Press, which the insur-
gents declare was written by United
States Consul Pratt. The better class
of insurgents have complained OF this
article, as it has had quite an exciting
effect upon their people. The active
of other consuls has also
given us considerable trouble"
The article which Consul Pratt is al
legged to have written, speaks of the
yacillation of the President over the
and of the stupidity OF the
refusal of the United States to recog
nZe the Filipino Government
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

sNi i0 d. 1trfef IL ihf haf4ff rsft
ani wFef nFhiIna 10 tspfua.i
uHInH f1 fhH ltatlus ~ al Heuf
WHf iht German cavalry arm sII he
increased Hud mass fhafFHs bf rafairF
tiIi Dol eliminated from The tactics
be- departure 90 l.umadoha iioHat
tom Carutia Tot s0nih africa va d
brilliant event Nktfny Cuffon and
his American wife hade hem farewell
lhr feeling in official circles at Iro
tura borders on CONSERVATION gen
ora. Louis Boiha and President steyn
are both urging President krueref io
sue Tor peace
Amelia kussnef. miniature painter
returned from kimberley where she
painted Rhodes picture She says he
ls a type OF warrior. and the opposite
Of Russlas Car
Six OF Roberts men were wounded
by hOllOw-nOsed Mauser bullets The
nickel cases on striking spit with four
Sits, making q projectiie of the most
dangerous nature.
King Mene.ek is In a peaceful mood
Lying stories that he would take ad
vantage OF Britain's difficulties i'm
South Africa to make move toward
the Nile are set at rest.
Belief is strong In London that
France will sooner or later be war
ring with England. This feeling is
strengthened by taunts in French pa
pers of English weakness.
George w. Van Siclen, president OF
the American Boer Council, has for
warded $1,000 for Boer widows and or
phans to the Afrikander committee of
the Legislature at Cape Colony.
Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky
introduced a resolution in Congress
instructing the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to investigate charges made by
former Consul Macrum, of his mail be
ing censored by the British authori-
ties at Durham.
Lady Symons. widow of General Sill
William Symons married a subaltern
within six weeks of her husbands
tragic death at Glencoe. She and the
General had been separated. Queen
Victoria Is indignant, as she had secur
ed Lady Symons an extra pension.
The Due d'Orleans has aroused
British sentiment by his congratula
tons to the artist who made the scan
dalous pictures of the Queen in the
Paris paper lie Rire. Orleans was well
treated by royalty in England, but his
insults and filthy words have made him
despised.
Cecil Rhodes, presiding at n meet
ing of the De Beers Company in Kim
berley, made a remarkable speech. Re
that the years profits from
the diamond mines had been 10000
900, he declared the Beers were tools
of a mercenary gang whose sole aim
was to divide the wealth of the Eng
lish in South Africa, and that the
Dutch Governments were not republics
but oligarchies.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
COL. MILLS AND THE PLAGUE.


me boston Transcript Oh feoruary
wv" puo'''neS " ie''ei from f'ono'ui"
:" ""''" '"e io'''" '"s passage o'-
'"''
An American here VINO gave his ser
10 -, ~ nsns'ns .ne plasue anu "no
fected district saws. ~ was very
much surprised by an article In one of
the san francisco papers, which stated
az 'a'' tne 1oai'ih ~ WIN uohe III
the limited States ARMY Corns Iocoted
in this city. AS matter of fact the
small portion OF the United States
81 ~! inoneu ne t"' io. liaue I'seil
disease hrGka nut II hoe nstahIisbod
rigid quarantine around it's own camp
and absolutely refused to aid the com
ihuhlty even III guarding some OF the
and T. ~ p' ,ot NTH Ne do,, t,,,t T,d
natown was burned that Colonel Mills
the commanding officer allowed a few
ot ms precious solulers TO guard the
had 70 take hetwnaS TWO and tbree
thousand of people from Chinatown"
This criticism of colorot uils u,biIo
nerbans not Intentionally uriust do
sarves q rew words of corractio, aud
rebul,e The laws of tbo Irpitod st.tas
enacted we he,iave whom tho nemo-
crafts first got control Of Congress after
the Civil War prohibit the use of Fod-
erol troo,s for tha moi,ta,opca os ar
der in municipalities or in the further
ance of municipal concerns the excen-
tions being when insurrection against
the authority of the United States in
vasion or RIOTS are imminent or in
.nropress and only in tho I,ttar casa
nj tho call of the civil outhorities On
January 2Otb Colonel Nuls tort his
men in comp until he received a mes
sage from presidant Dole asking him
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
TRANSVAAL NOTES.
The Minor News of the South African
War.

October mail has reached Kimber.
ley.
Native runners report the relief ID
Mafeking.
The main body of Beers has gone
from the Tugela.
Captain De Montmorency was killed
near Sterkstroom.
Fighting continues around Petrus-
burg and Kimberley.
The Beers have formally annexed
Prieska to the Free State.
Four hundred Missouri mules have
been shipped to South Africa.
London financiers look for an end
ing of the war within three weeks.
Winston Churchill criticizes the
amount of baggage carried by Buffers
army.
On February 81 large number OF
Beers forced F'rench's lines and es-
capped
English residents OF San Francisco
have sent a trained nurse TO South
Africa.
Complaint is made of the delay in
utilizing the Marconi system in South
Africa.
The losses of the Beers at Paarde-
berg from the British bombardment
were appalling.
The country west of the railway
from Cape Town to Kimberley is grad
ually settling down.
Telegraph wires between Cronje's
camp and Bloemfontein were severed
before the surrender.
Fifty per cent of the men in Bra
bant's Horse, volunteer organization.
have taken their discharges.
Cecil Rhodes says that not half
enough has been made of the splendid
galantry of the mounted troops.
The Canadian transport Pomeranian
arrived at Cape Town from Halifax
January % with Canadian troops.
The Transvaal Government has e5,-
100000 in bullion at Pretoria and is
coming $4,000 sovereigns month
Premier Salisbury justifies the soiz-
ure of the ship Sabine, and declares
American interests were not injured
Rands stocks have almost reached
their former figure. Cronje's surren-
der has doomed the market greatly.
An electric plant and dynamo bear
ing the mark of an Ipswich, England,
maker, were found in Boer trench
The Brussels Daily Mail says the
Afrikander Bund is promoting rebel
lion against England throughout the
colony.
The Lord Mayor of London has ac-
knowledged receiving $1,l06 from
British residents in California for re-
lief funds.
First Lord of the Admiralty Goschen
asks for $3.50, 100000 for naval expendi-
ture for the year, but decries the mo-
bilization of the fleet.
Professor Thomas Bacon of the Uni
versity of California says that England
will get off cheaply at any price if
Chamberlain Is forced out.
The British are within two miles of
touch with Ladysmith, but the ground
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

Senator Tillman attacks the Ha-
waiian Bill on the novel ground that il
gives the Island whites protection not
vouchsafed to the people of the South.
If Senator Tillman believes such a
safeguard essential 20 good govern
ment in his own section one might
suppose that he would not try to de-
priye another section of its benefits.
No statesman would But the act
seems natural enough for TIllman.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

M INN ~ lHf iWiFU
me iiusioa Herald whose hst 81
iumplnf or conclusions about egrft
ihinF beyond The borders u Nov Enr
land w. have remarked before n1v
declares against Fiylne Territorial.
dignity 10 Tho new island possession
oi The tnlted stHtos on the sfound
that the tropical climate ia such no 10
practically exclude white men from
residence. thus leaving The grave BUSH
ness " American government In the
hands Of natives
What does the Boston Herald know
or want to know about distant cli-
mates? II Is true that summers are
cooler at San Diego. in the southwest
ern corner OF the United States Main
land than they are In the northeastern
Weather Bureau would not make the
editor OF the Boston Herald compre-
hcnd and remember that important
fact We know this because Il has
been tried. Il is also true that the win
tcrs Of juneau, Alaska. are milder than
those of Boston--yet the Herald prob
ably never heard of that fact, and
would not believe It anyway So far
as the climates of tradewind tropical
islands go, white people born under
them are not only as successful bust
poae r,np no tbair couoing ng ,h, Nart1,
Temperate zone, but their sons and
grandsons take scholastic and athletic
honors in American universities
Probably the editor Of the Herald has
seen proofs of this statement a score
of times and in a score Of ways. for
they have appeared often enough in
print, but he never condescends to let
them get between his bigoted provin-
cialism and the receptivity of his read
ers.
Nevertheless we should like to ask
whether the political and commercial
OF the white men OF Hawaii
prove them to have degenerated from
the parent stock, and If so in what
way? How is it that the Dutch have
thrived 50 well in Java? What signs
of degeneracy are there among the
English of India, taking Lord Roberts
and Rudyard Kipling as types of men
who were born there? Has the Latin
race gained or lost ground by it's mi |
grafton to the tropical and semi-trop-
ical regions of America? Is 1t not |
more virile there than it is at home? |
Why has the death rate among Brit
ish regiments in India steadily decreas-
ed as their acclimation progressed? |
Why is 1t that the birth rate among the |
French of Algeria exceeds that of
France itself while the rate of longev-
ity is normal?
We should like to get an intelligent
answer to these questions from the
Herald, but can hardly entertain the
hope that it's editor will do anything
else than choose instead to keep on
the absurdities which he takes |
for granted.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

The sympathy of the people OF Ho-
nolulu and Hawaii will be with Sena-
tor Henry Waterhouse and his family
in their sad aiiliction. The news of the
death of son who was away on his
wedding journey and who, so far as
his father knew before yesterday S
steamer arrived, was enjoying Euro
pean travel, came like bolt from the
blue. To the father and the wild
ow words can give small consolation
at this time, though the widespread
sympathy they stand for may help the
suffering ones to bear their burden.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

Today is the first anniversary Of the
death of Princess Kaiulani, than
whom no member of the late Hawaiian
dynasty better deserved a long life and
happy one. The story of this young
girl, reared in expectation of a throne
and deprived of it by no fault of her
own; nurtured with most loving care
and yet dying on the brink of woman
hood, is full of the kind of pathos
which lives in history, song and ro-
nance.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

The cleaning of the town has had an
important effect on the general health.
February showed death rate of 26. SO
per thousand, which has been exceed
ed in months when no pestllence pre-
vailed. In January there We're sixteen
deaths from fevers; last month there
were but four, The plague deaths fell
20 nine, Except for consumption
which carried away sixteen people, all
the ordinary prevailing diseases had
fewer victims to show than is common
ly the case at this time Of year.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

be- necessarily harmful 'o ihelf com
patriots bsfsf
There BE- absolutely h1,hinE in che
idea that ihs Afluis viii sIgken and
de ior want " their fancy groceries,
bot thsfc De- rreai Deal in the su'pi-
zion that tbey WILL under present cir.
rumsnnces in Hawaii Heken and Die
ba.RBao of them
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06

Some time ago Bob Wilcox wrote
back, with almost human intelligence,
that there was no chance to restore the
Queen. 1t is a pity his opinion about
the Governorship should be so much
less convincing.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
HAWAII, Porto Rico, the Canal ana
Deweys Lawsuit.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24,-Through-
out the session today the Senate had
under consideration the Hawaiian Gov
eminent bill. The discussion took
wide range, but the basis of il was an
amendment by Plat of Connecticut as
to the appointment and tenure OF Off
GERS OF the courts of the Hawaiian
Government. Tillman of South Caro-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-06
will Net End tho war

NEW YORK Feb montague
white. American representative of the
BOers. says
II Cronle ana his men are captured
10 will not end tho war It will be a
tremendous blow. but not mortal
one. The war VIII not end until Pre-
toria falls, and when the British reach
the Transvsal capital many thousands
Of lives will be lost. The Beers be-
lleye Pretoria is impregnable and there
is good reason for their confidence As
to Intervention. the outlook Is not
p easing. ! see no hope in Europe, un-
less Russia should take action, and
that does not appear likely. | believe
Emperor William would like TO stop
the war, but he does not exactly know
how to go about 1t.
The only hope is in the United
States. No other power can mediate
and the Administration appears to be
lukewarm. Public opinion in the
United States seems to count for lit
tie, SO far as its influence upon the
Administration is concerned. All these
meetings throughout the country, the
direct evidence that the sentiment of
the people of the United States favors
mediation, count for nothing with the
Administration. Those placed in pow
er are safe for four years.
In England such an outburst would
overturn Ministry in a single week.
1t would force the Government to do
its will. When / was in Washington
1t was made plain to me that the Ad-
feels secure. 1t is
bound to remain in Office for a certain
length of time.