Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-02
POLICY OF CALUMNY AGAINST
BRITISH LABORERS AND UNION

everybody in this slow going old coun-
| try needs to do is to wake up" Too
general here has been what the papers
call "the policy of drift" If this is not
| exchanged soon for new policy of
| thrift, enterprise taking the place OF
complaccncy. England win soon be out
of the running. both as a military pow
| er and as a competitor with other ma
! lions for the worlds trade. This is
what Englishmen themselves are say
| ing, and to every thoughtful visitor ii
. is a conclusion to which he is driven by
| everything he sees and hears.
This brings up once more the letter
quoted from in my first paragraph. The
writer represents himself as one OF
| five thousand labOrers employed in the
Army Ordnance Department. The
country. he says, would naturally as
sumo that labOrers in a department
| which has given such signal satisIac-
| ton during the war would be well pas
! and contented. But what are the facts,
he asks; then giving, as a fair sample,
| the facts in his own case. For Il
weeks work" he says, Il am paid q
shillngs. OF this sum five and six
pence week has to go for rent, leav-
ing fifteen and siXpence to provide all
the necessaries of life for a family Of
five. Needless to say" he adds. the
necessaries of life cannot be provided
out Of this meagre sum-
The further story of this servant of
the British Government is most pathe-
tic. Neither my wife nor have been
out of doors on a Sunday for years
we have no respectable clothing. Our
children vainly cry to us for small eN-
tras. They often say-'Youll buy It,
me when you get money, won't you, da-
da? and that's enough to drive one
mad. My wife laments her fate
curse mine From Monday to Friday |
feel myself deeply wrOnged. On Sat
urday. when | take the weekly guinea
feel like a whipped eur, and on Sun
day must needs hide myself in my
kennel" This is the personal part Of
the mans story. Is he telling the truth.
one wonders, in making it apply to five
thousand others? This he does at any
rate. "Analyze my thoughts. my feel
ings, II you can" he says, land multi
ply 1t 5OO0 and you have a fair est
mate Of the measure of contentmen,
prevailing among the laborers directly
employed by the Government in the
heart of this glorious empire"
His closing lament is that 1.-The press
is dumb and the pulpit is dumb"
which reminds the writer of what Hall
Game. the novelist, said recently In
opening an industrial bazaar at Man
chester He characterized the labor
program as, in principle profoundly
religious and Christian. If it were
true, as some said, that the leaders Of
the labor party were mostly on the side
Of unbcliof. It was the fault Of the
churches Let economic and social re-
demptiOn come through the churches,
and the irrolgI0Is and goddess, IL
there were such among the people,
would disappear-HE TUCKLEY.
in Brooklyn standardization.
.F2FRFarlFlEar8 Flr4r8
ton made OF it in any of the articles
that have come under my notice. 1t Is
this. Prior to the last revolution in
| Cuba, which led up to our war with
Spain and which paralyzed all the in.
dustries of the island, the sugar in
dustry of Cuba was in highly pros
porous state, as evidenced by steady
incrGGse in the amount Of its prOduC-
ton. which arose from an average Of
about 100000 tons 20 years ago to over
100000 tons in 1894.
This result was obtained in spite Of
d crushing load Of debt and taxation
fastened uron the island by the Span
lsh Government. II was also obtained
while paying the full amount of import
duties on Cuban sugar into the Unit
ed States where - per cent of the
Cuban crop was marketed,
Il mention this latter figure as ii dis
poses Of The argument falsely advanced
that we owe q reduction in duties to
Cuba hcoauao she has been deprived
of the Spanish market Spain always
levied duties against Cuban sugar in
order to foster her own home industry
Both beet ard cane are cultivated in
Spain, and the home industry practi-
callv suDnlies the entire home market,
I'VE have now relieved Cuba of the
entire load of the Spanish debt and .
the crushing burden Of Spanish taxa .
ton Imrosed to pay the cost of the
soldiers that Sanin maintained there to
garrison the island. And yet this in
dustry which, as have shown, was