The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-03-21

WALTER @. SMITH. EDITOR
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A. W. PEARSON.
Manager
FRIDAY. MARCH %
Perhaps the Judges viii wait unit
they are sent fur
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THE Hawaiian battle for good gov.
eminent Is now getting where 30 car
be fought out
About five minutes conversation with
Governor Dole will disabuse the Hr,sl-
dents mind ~ any wrong impressions
which Sewall and his friends have sed-
ulously tried to leave there.
Cloudbursts are always to be count
ed on in Hawaii. and people, In building
homes. nave lUik NAli'f l'tlA AlN'A ~ - ' 't'a
proximity to WaterCourses. The Hood
that came down Nuuanu yesterday
would almost have wrecked fort
Happily. the arrangements here 'for
dealing with floods are so good that no
sreat damage was done.
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The capture Of Methuen by the Boer
guerrillas Is unfortunate, but such
things often happen The narrowest
escape General Grant ever had IN the
civil war was one Of capture by Mos
by's men. Mosby did get General
.Stoughton and many others Of rank.
Methuen's trouble, like that of many
other British commanders in the Boer
war. seems due to the imperfections In
the scouting service.
The story of strained relations be-
tween Russia and Japan, and the i'm
minence Of war, is attributed IN the
kilograms to prince konOine.'' There
is no such prince I'm Japan, though "A
dignitary of the same title and similar
name, is probably the man referred 10.
We cannot say that lac is an authority
sn the high politics of the East as ms
extreme jingoism makes him an object
of distrust by the Cabinet ana even by
the Emperor.
Some of thr Eastern papers show
enough interest In the tua-tua expert
ments to compliment the local press on
its efforts to get "A trial of the leper
remedy at Molokai. This trial is now
supposed TO be going on, but no reports
have come from II. We hope that what
is being done is thorough and prac-
teal and that nothing will be permit
ted to interfere with an effort, the sue
cess of which would be of inestimable
advantage TO these Islands
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1t Is not necessary to handy words
over GearVille. The police raided the
place and the court sent the dlsorderly
inmates to Jail. They are there yet
although the owners are still at large
II the joint is running again and there
are other places like 1t, then the soon
er the police interfere the better. III
fact II might be a good plan To station
an officer at such resorts, as was done
in New York when Theodore Roosevelt
was police commissioner, as the mos
efficient means of destroying their busi-
ness and closing them up.
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Mr. Garter, so far as his public utter
ances GO is talking discreetly at WASH
iugton and making, it would seem, a
near Congress will be an aid to just
Hawaiian bills. The illness of Delegate
Wilcox has kept him at home when
things. were happening, and his non-at-
filiation with any American party has
initiated against his usefulness while
well &c. IL Congress does anything
at all for Hawaii at this session 1t Will
have to be at the instance OF men like
George Carter and William Haywood
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Thomas Fitch Is an expert on Terri
torial affairs in the West, and was pre-
pared, when he came here. to hnd ours
in the hands of scalawags. His sur
prise at the high ideals of Mr.. Dole
and of that part of the judiciary rep
resented by the Supreme Court has
found frequent expression in these col
umns To state such views has not
tended to give him popularity with the
men who counted upon his aid in max
ing Hawaii a good place in which Ia
do politics" but Mr.. Fitch and the
courage OF his convictions are twins.
There is no place in the United
states where Carnegie Library would
do more good than in Honolulu. In
the long waits between ocean mails
We have time and inclination TO read
books, and read them leisurely. Our
population is so varied and so much III
need of being infused with the knowl-
edge and spirit of American literature
that the work of our libraries becomes
more than in most other places, pow
erful agency of civilization. Andrew
Carnegie would make no mistake In
helping this city to strengthen and
widen its library facilities.
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with him to Washington a memorial
signed by some of the Circuit judges
accusing the Governor and the Adver
tiser of conspiring to defeat the ends
Of justice. Fortunately there are mel
who can meet this accusation on tn,
spot with facts and figures about tn,
course of Justice" in Hawaii that vii
open the Presidential eyes. Court
which thirty-seven out of forty-thre
lawyers of the Hawaiian Bar AssOCia