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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
HAWAII AS A NEGRO COLONY
Efforts to Awaken Interest Among
Chicago COIOred People.
(From the Chicago


The question of emigration to Hawaii in
place of Liberia. which has been vainly
doomed as a home for the negro during
the past seventy years, is now agitating
the minds of the Chicago Afro-American
colony. Ernest Hogan, well-known COL
ored actor. has located in Hawaii, and IS
doing his best to induce his friends to
follow his example. while Frank Wheaton.
a lawyer of this city. is cooperating with
Mr. Hogan to the best of his ability.
1t was said today by several eolored men.
however. that the Hawaiian movement, 50
far as Chicago was concerned would hardly
materialiZe. THE only negroes who can
find room in the Sandwich Islands, said
colored attorney of Clark Street will be
those expert in the sugar business. do
not doubt that Louisiana negroes. trained
for years to the work of the cane planta.
tions. would be valuable settlers and could
find plenty of employment. For Chicago
negroes the question presents too many
barriers. Few colored men can raise the
money for the long trip to Honolulu. All
expenses considered. it would take $3.50
to land a man in Hawaii. and while not
many private citizens could afford that
amount 1t is certain that few contractors
would care to spend such sums in secur-
ing laborerS.
II do not doubt that Mr. Hogan and 9TH
ers who have settled in the Islands like
their new homes and would like to have
their friends join them there. Hawaii is
always spoken OF as an ideal place OF resi-
dcnce but what advantage would its beau
ties present 10 people who cannot raise
the money to get there? Nor could Any
society or cooperative scheme accomplish
much in the way of colonization-th dis
lance is too great and the expense too
bao
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
The Porto Ricnn Question.

The controversy between Mr.. Grosvenor
of Ohio and Mr. Quigg of New York is of
consequence because it raises an issue of
enormous Importance in the Presidential
campaign. II makes no difference whether
the one or the other contestant is right.
1t remains that the Philadelphia Conven-
ton ran away from the Porto Rican issue,
which the Democrats intend TO force to
the front.
According to Mr.. Grosvenor it was firm
ly intended to insert in the Republican
platform plank definitely and defantly
endorsing and defending the course of the
Administration in its departure from our
plain duty to Porto Rico" Mr.. Grosvenor
asserts that II was agreed that the follow
ing plank should be inserted in the plat
form:
Eve reassert The principle which was the watch
word of the Republican party in It's first great
battle of which Abraham Lincoln was the first
illusirious champion, aud on which he was elected
President. that Congress has fu legislative power
over territory belonging to the United States.
subject only to the fundamental safeguards OF
liberty, justice. and personal rights"
In other words, Mr.. Grosvenor declares
that it was the intention of the Admins
traton to declare that the trusts had de-
termined that the Constitution should not
go with the flag. or rather that it should
not go where they did. 1t is unimportant
how the dangerous topic was dropped. 1t
was dropped and the country will make Its
own deductions
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
CHINESE CRIMINAL LAW.
Shocking Methods Used in the Pro-
curement of Evidence.
(From the Saturday Review.)


In many points the similarity Of the
Chinese with English law is startlins-ths
classification Of crimes-homicide. Jar
ceny. robbery. burglary, enbezziement;
the definition of each. for example thu di-
visions Of homicide into justifiab,e and ex-
cusabie: the requisites for larceny,
or the entry by night FOR bGr-
glary. are such as every stude mt
at the Temple is familiar with; even
the advowson OF Chinese temple follow
ing the rule Of our own canon law. be-
longs to the founder. and one begins to
doubt whether the author has not some
what squared Eastern practic5 TO fit West
ern theory. On the ether hand obvious
differences abound-the use OF torture as
a method OF obtaining evidence. the con-
tempt of life and the frequency OF the
death sentence. the responsibility of the
family for the offences of all or any or
its members. would shock the Old Bailey
practitioner. The first, though not rec0g-
nized. is always used, and If a man has
been warmly questioned i. means he
has been beaten to jelly.
Family responsibility is a remarkable
feature of the Chinese system. and far
reaching in its effects; it works both
ways: not only are members of the fam
lily responsible for one another's crimes.
but injury to one member is aggravated
by injury to another. Ii person kill
three members of the same family, the
SLAYER himself will suffer the lingering
death. his property will be eonfiscated. and
his wife and children be involved in the
offence
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

are narrow-minded, fanatical, and inju-
dicious; but anyone who has been in
college or a community where there was
an outbreak of zeal in this cause must
have seen that its effect upon the people
thus stirred by an essentially generous
impulse was good. We need nowadays the
same uplifting OF ideals, the same enthu-
siasm for nations and peoples outside our
immediate sphere of action, but in the fu-
ture it must be more wisely guided than it
has been in the past. At present it should
be directed toward an object of whose
worthiness there is no possible doubt-the
relief of people who are in actual, mortal
need of food
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
AFFAIRS IN CUBA.
Considerable Discomfort Over the
Low Price of Tobacco.


HAVANA. June 23.-Complaints are still
being made by the country newspapers, es-
pecially those in the tobacco districts. that
the growers are still unable to sell theiI
crops, as the prices have fallen very low
In some places little work is to be had
owing to the fact that the crops which are
being sold are sent to one centre and there
sorted.
Generally speaking. however, there Is
very little money in circulation in the to-
bacco districts. Senior LaCoste, Secretary
of Agriculture, says the trouble is due to
the fact that buyers have formed two
large trusts. one of which is English ard
the other American. These syndicates are
holding back till the prices fall. Formerly
exporters of the leaf used to bid against
the local manufacturers, and in that way
created competition.
Senior Segrario. the Spanish Consul Cen
eral, asked leave of the mayor Of Havana
today that the Spanish band be permitted
to play in public places. The Consul
stated that the reasons given for the for
mer prohibition did not exist any longer.
The mayor acceded to the request. OF late
there has not been much. If any, openly ex-
pressed hostility on the part Of the Cubans
toward the Spaniards.
One possible reason for this is that the
Spaniards remained in the background DUR
ing the recent elections. Consul General
Segrario says this action was taken for
the purpose of harmonizing the relations of
the two races. This is the second request
of this kind which Sencr Segrario has made
within the last month. Il is understood
that an American infantry regiment viii
shortly leave che island for home
The "Diario de la Marina is greatly in
censed over what IL claims to know in
regard to this teaching of Cuban history
In the schools. The editor says that he
has heard children say. in answer to the
question, who was Maceo?' that Maceo
was a great Cuban who always defeated
the Spaniards and finally drove them from
the island.
The 'Diario'' says that this is pandering
TO the spirit of revolution, and that it is
pathetic that poor children should be
brought I'd to believe such preposterous
exaggeration.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
LETTERS LATE IN LONDON
Temporary Chaos in the City's Postal
Service.

LONDON. June 23.-The London postal
service. which. as rule. is the best of
any city in the world. has been completely
disorganized during the past week, owing
to insufficient room at st. Martin lie Grards
and the transfer of provincial postings to
the new buildings at Mount Pleasant, half
a mile farther from the city. Besides
causing the city to make the last posting
half an hour earlier. the moving caused
several days of chaos and tons of unsorted
mail have accumulated in wild disorder
The Queens letter bag on the first day
was several hours late, and was found only
after a feverish search. Letters for the
whole of England were late. Occasoning
an unparalleled cutlery from business men,
American mail was affected similarly
and moreover, there is discomfort over
making the latest hour on Wednesdays for
American mail . p m. instead OF I. This
causes delay of three days in answering
letters arriving by the North German
Lloyd steamers from New York.
a strange coincidence is that in Paris
a similar, or even worse condition exists.
1t seems a complete chance VIXEN If at all.
one gets mali in Paris.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
Circulation Statement.
Trust slavery the Real Issue.

II We were to allow the trust influences
which now dominate the country TO go On
it would not be a great while before
Americans would see that their cherishea
institutions had been subverted, and that
an oligarchy of wealth had replaced them.
The form of the Roman Republic was PEE
served long after the Hannas. the Platts,
and the Quays Of that day had made them
nothing but means TO their own ends.
AT the present day we have all the out
ward and visible signs of Republic; fut
are we not losing the real thing? One OK
our great political parties meets al Phil-
adelphia and acts as if it thought itseit
actually considering the nomination Oh
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent. In fact it does. and knows 1t dos,
nothing but the predetermined VIII OF
latter day Sylla with the suggestive name
of Marcus a. Hanna. And who is he but
the man who holds the mandate OF the
trusts and monopolies to control the Gov
ernment, through his autocratic power over
the Republican party machine?
1t is unnecessary to recall the evidences
which go to show the absolute power ard
direct nomination of the trusts over the
Mckinley Administration. They are no.
torious The trusts and projected monooo-
lies are again luridiy before the Amerir an
people in their determination to perpetuaie
a regime which has been SO fruitful, ard
the continuation of which is so neces sary
to their purposes. Do the voters of Amer
lea realize what another four years of this
trust rule would mean?
We must compliment the enemies of the
people upon their shrewd sense. and re-
gret that their opponents have not dis
played equal ability in meeting it. The
combination of political magnates with the
magnates of the trusts and monopolies has
not yet quite suh;ugated the country. An
other four years of Hannaism would make
the job complete.
What the Republican party, as repre-
sentative of the trusts and monopolies, is
seeking to secure is absolute power. 1t
does not have it today, because there is
danger in the Supreme Court OF the UrIteu
States and in the votes of the Southern
States.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
A Question in Domestic Ethics.

The following interesting problem is pre-
scented for solution by n perplexed CORE
spondent:
1.-TWO eminently respectable and harmonious
families, A and Is, become acquainted through
the friendship OF AS son for rs daughter which
rapidly ripens into love and unopposed mar
rage. Shortly before this event, however, Bis
daughter cspriciously develops a strong antagon-
ism toward her own father which infeots her lover
also. No parent is present At the ceremony. A
wedding and at home notice is sent to Mrs b.
the couple residing with the AS. Now, what sort
OF relations can exist between the A and the b
householder Can Mrs. d with due respect to her
own husband and family visit her daughter even
at the AS? l.. H."
This is truly.a tangled situation, and it
is no wonder that the unhappy Mrs. B.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
A Gagged Convention.


There no more independent freedom OF
speecb than in an assembly OF Germans, Russians.
or Turks Such National Convention never
before known in America. Twelve years ago it
would have been the death OF any party submit
ting to it; Perhaps it will be now. II may be
mat there are vet some sparks of living independ
ence in the Republican party, that it is not a
moribund organization composed wholly OF dicta.
tors and crayens. There is more hope of the M
TONS purity and safety in the angrest free fight
OF a party caucus or convention such as ben but
ler and Fred Williams have given samples Of in
this vicinity, than in such convention as has
been held this week in Philadelphia. having re
gard TO the unreieved acquiescence in the tyranny
Of its control and its emptiness OF any genuinely
popular character. ~
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

Perhaps it is significant that the semi
official ''Novoe Vremya" of st. Petersburg
asserts that the Pekin Government is only
inimical to the missionary powers and does
not regard Russia as an enemy! The mis-
sionary powers" may have been wrong in
permitting their missionaries to settle in
China, but they will have TO take care of
them for the present, and there is reason
missionary trouble at the end of the I'M
dertaking. Having conquered the common
foe, there may be eventualities not pleas
ant TO predict
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

There is a great deal Of sense in the
policy of our friends, the trusts. that
should not escape admiration. Although
they hate Theodore Roosevelt, they are
willing to support him as a candidate for
the Vice Presidency, on the strength Of
his antitrust record in New York. That,
they think. will help him to shut the
eyes Of the people. In exactly the same
way, four years ago, they took up William
Mckinley, because he had a record as a
free silver man. That time, the laugh
was on the people. We do not know how
it Is TO be in November, 1900.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

II would be unconventional to make any
complaint because the Administration does
not allow the country to know how many
troops it has ordered from Manila TO Taku.
At the same time it would please the
American people to be informed that even
as many as ten thousand soldiers could be
spared from the Philippines for emergency
service in China. Our pastors and masters
must be aware that some persons have
accepted as true their declaration that the
instruction in the archipelago has been
thoroughly crushed. II that be not SO, why
did the Government spend one hundred
thousand dollars to give Otis an ovation
in Rochester?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
uounni,m the weakness.

Z
One serious weakness OF che Administration Is
found in the prominence OF Hannaism since Me-
KinIey's iarcuration. and the assurance that
second term means the continuance of the same
influences Tor four years longer. Hanna is TO he
again The leader OF the Republican eampaign. as
he was in 1895, and his air OF proprietorship OF
the party is in itself offensive. Still more so Is
thel evidence, that what he stands for always
cop1ts for a great deal with the Administration
tie favor to- such schemes as that OF the Ship
Subsidy biii tho evident influence with him and
The President o. those great property Interests
which hope to use the Government TO promote
their own ends ..(
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
Modern I'm migration.
tFrom the Philadelphia Ledger,

II comes from the degenerate nations, from
those that have never been wholly reclaimed from
barbarism, or who, having attained the pinnacle
of civilization, relapsing into the semi saw.
agcry Of their ancestors. THIS deplorable aces
sion to our population is dou5ly grievance be
cause it declines 10 settle in the farm lands oi
the West and South and assist in the exploita-
ton Of the virgin fields and the wilderness, and
persists in budding in the s'Iualid slu'ns OF the
great cities, there to spread the contagion OF Its
filthy methods Of living ami its piiful acceptance
al uatper wage.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
Nomination.. and Elections.
(From the Boston Globe.)


Experience has shown that 1t is one thing to
renominate President, but quite another thing
to re-elect him. The campaign on such an &C.
casion too often partakes OF the same letha'gy
and listlessncss which marked most OF the trans
actions at the Philadelphia Convention. The
party in power, gorged with spoils, weakened by
indulgence, and blind with that conservatism
which is born Of plenty, loes its native sersi-
tiveness TO the rights and needs of the plain peo
pie, whom 1t would drive rather than lead.
Furthermore the charm of novelty has forsaken
alike its purposes and its candidates
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
A GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY.
Preparations to Establish the First
National Bank of Hawaii.

NEW YORK, June 23.-The First Ma
lean Bank of Hawaii, at Honolulu. will
hereafter be known. is to be the United
States depository for the Hawaiian ISL
ands. This bank was organized by the
Seligmans, OF this country and England,
who are also interested in the Anglo
American Bank of San Francisco
Colonel MacFnrlane and Mr. MacLennan,
of the Treasury Department, sailed on the
steamship Chino on Friday with 1000
in United States coin, which will be used
in buying Hawaiian bonds, and this money
will be the first deposit of the United
States funds in the new institution.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
Principles. Not Men.


The Republicans, being OF the opinion that they
have strong ticket, are like,, TO depend greatly
on that fact for success. Voters, however, will
not be influenced, much, 10y the men who com
pose the tickets. They will be Controlled in cas-;
ing their ballots by the principles and ideas for
which these men stand. Indications are cropping
out that public sentiment is running strongly in
the direction Of the principles for which the
Democratic nominees for President and Vice
President will stand.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

tFrom the Portland Argus.
II there was any lingering doubt in any mind
as to the main issue in this campaign the nomi-
nation OF Roosevelt has swept the last shred OF it
away. The strenuous Rough Rider is imperialism
incarnatc, and his personality will dominate the
Republican ticket. With him a central figure in
the campaign there can be no inistaking or isnor-
ing its main issue.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
No Money I'm IL Nnw.


The Southern delegates attended the Philadel-
phia Convention to discover that there is no
longer any competition In the bidding for dele
gates. 1.ie Southern delegate industry is thing
OF the past.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

Democratic Candidafes-It lie
| thought that there will be a bigger list
of Vice Presidential possibilities at Kansas
City than there was at Philadelphia. A
dozen or more favurite sons are being en-
ergetically doomed by their respective
State delegations. and it seems likely that
the names Of all of these will figure with
more or less prominence in the gossip if
not in the proceedings, OF the Convention.
Among the names most frequently heard
now when the subject of Mr. Bryan's rum
ming mate is under discussion are David b.
Hill. Elliot Danforth. Alton b. Parker. and
William Sulzer Of New York; Benjamin
shively, of Indiana Carter Harrison. of
illinois,; Cen -Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia;
James d. Phelan, of California; W. J.
Stone of Missouri; Charles A. Towne of
Minnesota; George Fred Williams, of Mas
sachusetts, and gAdmrals Dewey and
Schley. Admiral Dewey already has de-
clared himself completely out of politics,
and Admiral Schley has written a letter
to Col. A. X. Mcclure, of Philadelphia. set
ting forth In the most unmistakable man
ner his firm determination not to permit
the use of his name at Kansas City, even
going 80 far as to declare that he would
refuse the nomination If 1t should be Of
fered TO him. Ex-Governor Pattison,
of PENNSYLVANIA, is being much discussed
in all parts of the country since the latest
exhibition Of his loyalty to Bryan and of
his confidence in the ability of the Ne
braskan to lead the party to victory. 1t is
suspected that the Pennsylvania is an ac-
tive candidate. and if this proves to be the
case ii is considered probable that he may
develop great strength before the Conven-
tlon meets. At the same time, the consensus
of expert opinion seems to be that the logic
OF the situation demands either a New
Yorker or an Indianan for Mr. Bryans run
ming mate. III view OF this, there is q
great deal moro earnest talk of Hill and
Shiyely than OF anybody else.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-25
LUCAS MAKES sluNosa-
serds HE Election Report Sealed Up
IN Z Ballet Box

sends hss Election Report Sealed up
ia . Ballet Box
W. r. Lucas. election inspector for
one Of the tardy precincts on Hawaii
sent his o@cial returns TO Secretary
Cooper yesterday. tightly sealed in the
ballot box along with the Married bal
lots Weary Of waiting for the OF
fetal returns Of the election Secretary
Cooper wrote the tardy inspectors the
arst of the ~eek- urging them to sead
in the Official count II once
Mr.. Lucas sent hack reply stating
that the returns from his precinS'
would De found in the box sealed II
With the ballots.
Here ~as q pretty state Of Affairs
The Law foroiis breaking the seals OF
the bailo, boxes Yet without the Of
fetal returns no certificate could issue
to Delegate Wilcox. who is ready tc
start for Washington on the first boat
The way out OF the dilemma was a:
follows: Mr. Cooper took the hallo
box before Judge Perry Of the supren'
court The inspectors signed count O
the ballots was taken ont and the bal
lot box resealed-
There are three precincts yet Il
hear from and it is not known whethe
the inspectors of these precincts com
mitted the same blunder as Mr.. Luea:
or not