The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-22

Fresno Republican. whose style is COL
ioquial, says:
well. dog my cats. if ole Bill Mar
shall isn't fuller of luck than a fee dog
is of feas. Only last Sunday. 1 was
saying how his new planting of Vol
cano' seed had begun to shoot up the
tender sprout on March Sth in Manila
after having been transported thither
from Honolulu, and transplanted in the
teeming and turbulent soil of the Phil
ippine Islands. and pictured William on
the highway to fame and fortune in his
effort to girdle the world with volca-
noes of his own private make. And
now comes a cable dispatch-to be
found in another column-that the Vol
cano, with its eruptive and super
abundant flow of super-heated lava. got
TO be so Internally hot that it had to be
quenched by the courts. ole Bill is
now the happiest man in Manila-gets
free lodging in burglar proof-three
rectangular eQuilaterals' a day. and
sure of the same tomorrow-gets his
paper advertised for nothing-is safe
from the duns of creditors and stands a
chance to be deported as a 6isturbant
element and thereafter to pose as a
martyr in the cause of the liberty of d
dethroned press. Bits in Jail. Perhaps
he will have to go to China where they
cast type with a handsaw-set 'em up
with chop-sticks and lock up the forms ,
by mailing the type fast to a board. |
If so. the next issue of the Volcano
may be in blast at Hong Kong, with q
motto line from Confucius. or Claus
Spreckels, done in scholarly Chinese |
text, championing the cause of race fu- |
sion" |
Perhaps the editor of the Sacramento |
Bee is really responsible for Marshalrs |
writing and publishing the article
which got him into jail. If one be-
lieves in mental telegraphy, there is
foundation for this. as in |
an editorial in the Bee. Marshali's at
tention is called to an incident, Cor
on which few days later,
he Is new in the bastile.
The Bee says:
civilian H. Marshall, for some years
on the Bees staff. has inaugurated the
Volcano at Manila. Marshall is a brigh.
and forcible writer. man of convic
ions and of conscience. He is intensely |
American, SO much so in fact that he
forgets those things which
are at his very doors. For instance he
refers to his country as A land which
recognizes individual sovereignty, ac-
cords to every man the right to Worship
God according to the dictates of his
fosters free schools, holds
nviolate free speech, and is the sponsor
IF a free press
THAT may be all right here rIar-
1T 4, liz
spreading those blessings where you
ire.
Among the laws now in force in the
Philippine Islands. enacted by the
Philippine Commission and by au-
.hority of the President of the United
States is a statute providing that any |.
person who shall belong to any secret
society having for its object the pro-
of any political opinion or
policy shall be fined 800 and impris-
med one year. There is also another |,
statute in those laws that any person
Who advocates. orally or in writing, or
printing, or by like methods, the indie
,endence of the Philippine Islands. |,
whether by peaceable or forcible
neans.' shall be fined $4,000 and impris- c
med one year.
This dispatch came over the wires
My the other day:
&" MANILA, April 4.-Senor Valdez,
he editor of a Spanish weekly paper.
Tho has been convicted of libeling two n
'ilipino members of the Philippinel
commission, Benito Lagarda and DIR.
'ardo De Tavera, former President of =
he Liberal party. has been fined 1000
esetas. The Judge said that the offer r
D prove the truth of the assertions
My aggravated the original offense.
THAT is a free press with ven
eance, is it not, Marshall? :
IF Tweed regime were inaugurated d
the Philippines, and you We're tot
xpose it, you would undoubtedly find
Ourself in jail. And if you had forth
ed yourself with proofs of the guilt VI
the scOundrels and offered to es- "
iblish that guilt in open court, you =
ould probably invite an addition to ID
lur sentence for you would thereby
Ave only aggravated the original Of
nse.
You should be proud of your coun- -
V, Marshall.
AT the same time, there are some IT
ings being done in the Philippines
lder the sanction of this Government =
HIGH should bring the blush of shame
the cheek of every American citi-
n FREDERICK O'BRIEN.
-~f III