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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
BONDS FOR COUNTY OFFICERS.

From all indications millionaires
alone will be eligible to the position of
County Assessor.-Bulletin.
The Bulletin and Independent attack
on the Supervisors for fixing the Home
Rule Assessors bond as provided by
law might almost be designated as
suspicious. The Independent adds to
the Bulletins cry about making the Of
flee one which only a millionaire can
hold, that as there was no county this
year, the assessors bond should not
be more than $4,000. The law was in
tended as a protection to the people,
not as n loophole through which a pos
sible embeZZler might escape The fact
that the County Act refers the great
est amount Of money shown by the
books of the county to have been in the
hands of the officer at one time during
the preceding year." means just what
it says. But as the county was not in
existence the past year, the officer who
performed the same duties for the Ter
ritory is considered AS much as
$4,000 passed through the hands of
Oahu's assessor in one day during this
year and the county assessor will ham
die just as much money. Any other
construction of the law is subterfuge.
The law works a hardship on no
honest man however suspicious 1t may
be of the spotted skirt variety. The
assessor who is trustworthy will have
no trouble in getting a bond. Surety
companies are doing business in Ha-
wall for that purpose. And the coun-
ty pays the bill
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
NO SALOON PRlzeFIGHTs.

The Advertiser hopes that If the
Sheriff has issued any permits fol-
saloon prizefights he will withdraw
them in the interests of the sailors as
well as the public.
Against such boxing matches as are
held at the Orpheum the Advertiser has
never said word. 1t regards them
somewhat as it does football. But a
boxing match or prizefight in saloon
where the object simply is to induce a
crowd of men to get drunk, is SOME
thing that Honolulu is not prepared to
look upon with favor. At such place
the fighting will not be confined to the
roped arena; and as a result good
many sailors and others will go to the
hospital and some to Jail. That is not
the sort of sport for the High Sheriff
to encourage.
Open the Orpheum every night, if you
please, to boxing bouts, but keep them
out of saloons.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

1t is with establishment we learn, on
the authority of Mr.. Hatch, that Con-
gress has seen fit to neglect the inter-
ests of Oahu county. The question
arises: What is Congress for? Did the
people Of the United States elect that
body of men to waste its time and
theirs on insignificant matters such as
a canal at Panama, capital and labor,
postal and naturalization frauds, i'm
migration, arbitration, relations with
China, the Philippine tariff and the
financial situation, and utterly over
look the fact that Oahu wants
to be erected into the status of a Fed
eral county? What If a Federal
county is not known to the Constitu-
ton? What is the Constitution be-
tween friends? The Advertiser does
not counsel anything violent, but it
certainly seems that our Board of Su-
pervisors should take Congress to task
and be unsparing in its exposure of
the delinquencies of that much over
rated institution.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

The Board of Public Works has been
requested in u communication signed
by Judge Sanford b. Dole, Samuel
Parker, II. Holmes and Henry L.
Highton, to place three lights on the
road winding around Diamond Head
on the Waikiki side of the terminus
OF the Rapid Transit line. The neces-
sity for this meager provision for the
numerous residents in that neighbor-
hood is and has SO long been obvious
that 1t Is surprising that the applica-
ton is necessary. The road is so ut
terly dark at night, as almost to shut
off these residents from any commune
cation with Honolulu, Many hospi-
talities to visiting tourists have to be
foregone, on account of the difficulty
of ingress and egress. Gentlemen
and ladies can scarcely be invited TO
dine or spend evenings in places which
are inaccessible except through thick
DUST and equally thick blackness. The
fact is that this important part of our
suburbs has been entirely disregarded
and unprotected, and business men and
their families, who like the pure air
ana the fine scenic effects about Dia-
mond Head, and who have spent many
thousands Of dollars in improvements
might as we'll live on the mountains
beyond Tantalus. The absence OF lights
Is most unjust to citizens and notice.
able by strangers.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

1t matters little in the Jones case
whether the fault of acquittal is with
the jury the judge or the jury system,
except as it may show the exact spot
upon which to place a remedial finger
That the acquittal of Jones was a mis-
carriage of justice, provocation to
crime and an encouragement to lynch
law, is plain statement of fact. The
man is a beast of prey and his proper
place is either on the gallows, in prison
for life or in the insane asylum, We
don't know which. But one thing we
do know and the community knows
Jones has no right to be free-so far
as the Parmenter charge is concerned
with a certificate of innocence and
moral health. 1t needs no special ac-
quaintance with "old Father Antic, the
law" to recognize the guilt of Jones
and the danger to society of letting him
loose.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
A MUNICIPAL SCHEME.

/ Has the habit OF doing public work
in secret at Washington become so
deeply lodged in the Hawaiian political
system as to lead any influential per-
sons to endeavor, through a Congress
sional enactment, to secure for Ho-
nolulu and Hilo municipal legislation
on the. sly which failed to secure en-
actment here last winter in the open?
The appearances are that way. 1t is
known that the old municipal bill has
gone to Washington; 1t is reported that
of inducing Congress to burden the
taxpayers here with the expense of an
eighth government, there now being an
arrangement for seven where one was
ample a year ago. In the seven are
included the "leper county" controlled
by the Board Of Health. A municipal
government for Honolulu would make
eight; one for Hilo nine, and after that
the professional Purchasers will prob
ably shrek for townships. Mark
Twain once said that the Hawaiian
government was the machinery Of an
ocean steamship packed in q sardine
box; but we are now proposing to force
in the machinery of whole fleet.
The genesis of the thing is greed
the excuse is "Americanism." But
y, hn Uni TO foe Vol
sparsely settled it did not multiply
governments; it took inhabited areas
In the State of New York, for example,
as large as Hawaii, and attached them
to fairly populous counties, which were
carried on with as few ofiice-holders
as possible. Then when the popula-
ton grew into hundreds of thousands,
more counties were set off. Nothing
was forced the county was a growth,
not a graft, and as for municipalities
they were not heard of in any place
of small white population. Here we
are urged, on the basis of a smaller
body of electors than they have in
city of the third class in New York, to
pay for nine governments, with
chance of getting still more. Such
is not what America stood
for when it had similar need with
Hawaii to simplify government and
keep down expenses; and If it stands
for it now it is because the task of
governing it's vast population requires
a minute subdivision of responsibility.
Good government on the populous
mainland requires State, county, mu-
nicipal, ward, township and school dis
trict administration; here five men at
the capitol acting as commission or in
any other controlling capacity could
give Hawaii all the government it
needs and all it can afford to pay for.
For several years this method has
worked we'll in the Philippines; and it
would work we'll here. But we won't
get it or try to get it, we must devote
ourselves instead to the creation of as
a system of government,
and a much more costly one proper
.ionately to the number of Inhabitants,
as sufiices for the Empire State with
about 100000 of white inhabitants.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
2. W. o. A. spe cial. Today.

The Christmas lunch today will be
especially tempting, and gentlemen
will be admitted. At 1890 the Christ
mas song service will be held in the
front rooms. Mrs. Otis and Mrs. Whit
ney will sing a duet. Miss Hartnagle
and Miss Coolidge will sing solos and
Mrs. Frank C. Atherton will accom-
pany them. Mrs. Atherton has charge
of the service.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
Died by Hanging.

Annie. colored woman. wife of Joe
Everett, colored man, hanged her
self yesterday morning in a bath room
in the Winston block on Hotel street.
The woman had thrown a rope over a
rafter and kicked box from under
her feet. She was found dead early
in the morning. A verdict OF suicide
was rendered by a coroner's jury
which sat yesterday at noon.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

Pennies are coming into general cir
culation in San Francisco and else
where on the coast, a result Of depart
ment stores which sell in fractions of
money and make exact change; of East
ern tourists and settlers, who insist on
their right to use any of the currency
or the nation; OF the postoffice, which
makes change of pennies, and OF the
refusal OF the poor to give n nickel for
Two cents worth. 1t will not be long
before antipathy to the copper will be
left to Hawaii where, OF all places, the
little coin ought to flourish best, the
vast majority of the people domiciled
here-native and Asiatic-being in
close financial circumstances.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
THE FINAL FLEET
HOSPITALITIES

The Alexander Young Hotel will give
an entertainment for the officers of the
fleet two nights before the ships leave
II the decision should be to sail
Wednesday, the hotel will entertain
them Monday. Probably, however, the
departure viii take place at later
period and the hotel arrangements will
be made accordingly. on that point
further notice will be given.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
Hoods Jdrsdpdrili1
and pills

Eradicate it, positively and absolute
ly. This statement is based on the
thousands Of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
my daughter had scrofula, with eleven
sores on her neck and about her ears. Hoods
sarsaparilla was highly recommended and
she took It and was cured. She is now in
good health" MRS. ]. II. JONES. Parker
City, Ind.
Hoods Sarsapartiia promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
More Whitewash.

1t is reported on good authority that
the Territorial grand jury has refused
to take action on the matter of the
House voucher revelations, by major
ity Of one.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

If the sheriff does not care to stop
saloon prizefights, the officers of the
fleet would commend themselves by
refusing to let their men participate
In them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

The Hearst boom for President is
growing. Hitherto 1t has been con-
fined to the New York American, Chi
cago American and San Francisco Ex-
aminer. Now 1t is to gain fresh
supporter In the Los Angeles Exam
liner, the newest of Mr.. Hearst's news
paper family.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

Governor Carter has deferred his trip
to Hawaii until after Governor Taft
of the Philippines has passed through
Honolulu. r...
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

SALES BETWEEN BOARDS.
Ten Kihei, $3.50; 60 Hawaiian Elec-
trio, 800; 179 Eva, $40; IL Honolulu
r. T. & l.. Co., $3.50.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

Perhaps there would not be so much
enthusiasm for war In Colombia IL
Admiral Glass fleet should take a
little trip along the coast-line.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

AS under the Torrens Act new COR
porations must register titles, the Ave
new water license corporations OF Maui
are about to file petitions In the Land
Registration Court.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
KEPO|KA|
MUST PAY
Auditor Advises That
he Won't Pay
Fee.

Auditor Fisher yesterday sent to
Treasurer Kepokai letter returning
the voucher for $3.50 counsel fee to
Kinney, McClanahan & Cooper, and adj
vising him that it could not be paid.
In his letter Mr.. Fisher quoted the fol-
lowing opinion from the Attorney Cen
eral respecting the fee:
Honolulu, T. H., Dec. 20, 1903
Hon. J. II. Fisher, Auditor, Territory
of Hawaii.
Sir: In answer to your inquiry as to
whether you should issue a warrant for
voucher charged to incidentals, Treas
urer's Office, for the sum of $4,000, the
memoranda on said voucher being:
Retainer fee, case, A. N. Ke-
poikai, Treasurer, Territory
OF Hawaii, VS.. c. S. Hollo-
way, Supt. of Public Works,
Relative Water Works ques-
ton. . ................. $3.50 90
To deposit for costs. .......... 800
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25
Scrofuld
1T is commonly inherited.

Few are entirely free from it.
Pale, weak, puny children are
afflicted with it in nine cases out Of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are punches in
the neck, assesses, cutaneous, erup-
tons, infamed eyelids, sore ears,
ricketts,, catarrh, wasting, and general
deh;litv
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

$2S7 90
l would say, that know of no law of
the Territory of Hawaii, whereby Ter
ritorial Official can hire counsel to rep
resent him in any case which he might
bring against other officials of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, especially when the
matter has not been brought to the at
tention of the Attorney General. Such
a practice would result in an abuse of
the incidental appropriations, and if al
lowed, could be carried to an absurdity.
The Attorney General, under our stat
utes is the law officer OF the Territory,
and it is his duty to represent the vari-
GUS Departments in necessary litigation.
This suit, as it turns out, is a private
matter, which Mr.. Kepoikai, as Treas
urer, has brought, without consulting
the Attorney Generals Department, or
requesting his aid Under the circum-
stances, | advise you not to pay the
claim.
Yours truly,
LORRIN ANDREWS,
Attorney General.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

HONOLULU IRON WORKS COMA.
order.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

r. A. SCHAEFER & CO.-ImportePs
and Commission Merchants, Honolu.
lu, Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-25

LEVERS & COOKE.-(Robert LewerA
y. j. Lowrey, G. N. Cooke.)-Import-
ers and dealers in lumber and build-
Ing materials. Office, Al Fort st.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29
PHOENIX. ARIZONA, OCT. 20. 1903.
Graham County Performs a Public
DUTY.

Graham county iuries have convicted.
and Judge Fletcher NJ. Doan of the
Second judicial district has sentenced
to the penitentiory at Yuma. the ring
leaders who were responsible for the
Clifton Morenci riots of last June.
Thus it has been established in a SAUL
tary way that il is lawful to strike in
Arizona but it is not lawful to riot.
The convicted men. Salacido. Laus-
tanno. Palombo, Saluni and Pupi, will
find that there is not nearly 50 much
glory in marching in the lock-step at
Yuma as in marching at the head of a
frenzied mobs at Morenci and threaten
ing the destruction of life and property.
The lesson is q severe one. but none
too severe. Had there been faltering
ON the part Of the citizens who COM
posed the trial juries or had there
been weakness in the fiber OF Judge
Doan, these criminals might have es-
capped punishment. And had they gone
free Arizona would have paid severe
nenalty Failure to punish would have
been construed as an invitation to an
archists to work their own Will at the
next opportunity.
Only those who were on the ground
at Morenci during the disturbances Of
last June were able to realize fully the
extent to which murder and arson were
prevented by the timely arrival of the
troops and the firm handling of the
situation by the military. A strike at
the leading copper mines and smelters
had been declared. and $500 men were
in an angry mood. Several hundred
were ready to commit any crime Of VIC
lence and were awaiting merely the or
ders from their leaders. A great ma
iority of all the strikers was made up
Of foreigners, who were both ignorant
and contemDtuous of American laws.
The freedom they enjoyed had been il
terpreted by them as license and as an
Indication Of the weakness of the au-
men now in the penitentiary-arran
a programme that meant the destruc-
ton of the mines and mills at Morenci
and the murder Of everybody that OPP
posed the mob. Thanks to the energy
of Secretary Stoddard. then acting
governor, and to General Baldwin.
commander of the department of the
Colorado, and thanks to the prompt
ness Of Col. McClintock of the national
guard and CO.. Lebo of the regulars,
troops were rushed to the scene Of
trouble so rapidly and in such numbers
that the rioters were overawed. With
arrested the leaders in the rioting and
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29
The Public Responsibility for Child
Labor.

The evils of child labor in the fac
tories of Illinois and some of the
eastern states and in the cotton fac
tories Of the south have aroused a feel
ing of horror wherever they have been
described, out 1t has not been made
clear to everybody how the people Of
the whole country can take a hand in
libe!ating the little white slaves. 1t is
to the credit of the labor unions that
they have led the way in devising
partial remedy. By their initiative
Consumers League has been organic
ed, the members of which are pledged
not to use stitched goods that are the
product of child labor. or Of the swca:
shops. 1t would seem practicable I"
extend the system to embrace all the
hands of little children in the south.
also.
Discussing this subject in the World
To-Day for November, Mrs. Florence
Kelley holds that the people of the
north cannot avoid responsibility for
the slavery of children in the cotton
factories of the south. The work of
these southern children. Mrs. Kelley
says. is a matter of national concern
not alone because the children are the
future republic, and because they are
underwriting the standard of life of
the northern workers. making it in
creasingly difficult to maintain good
wages and necessary restrictions upon
the hours of work in competing mills
in northern states-their work is a
matter of national concern because the
whole country is responsible for ii.
Northern employers do in the south
what the laws of their own states do
not permit them to do at home; and
they actively prevent the enactment of
restrictive legislation in the south.
Many southern mills are owned by
northern capital; and every northern
investor in southern mill property
shares the responsibility for the EN-
ployment OF the children who toll in
those mills. Mrs. Kelley insists that
PuASheASCA VI
the responsibility by encouraging the
maintenance of existing conditions.
1t is no longer true that the product
of the southern mills is cheap stuff for
the China trade. The writer says that
she has seen excellent corduroy and
denim. as we'll as shifting and sheet
ing, in progress Of production in Geor-
gia in a mill which employed puny.
putty-faCed. barefoot children who
We're sadly stunted if they were really
ten years old. Our cotton undercloth-
ing worn by day and our bedding by
night may be wrought by young chill
dren. and we have as yet no effective
way of selecting that which is spur
and woven under better conditions
But this is only n question of time.
Mrs. Kelley points out that what the
Consumers League is doing for stitch
ed goods. by the use OF its label, to
guarantee good conditions in the fac
tories in which garments are stitched,
can be extended to the textile trades
whenever the public conscience grows
as sensitive concerning the children in
the mill-villages as it already is about
the sweating system in the great
cities.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29
Mckinley at Antictsn.

Mckinley monument is the finest
on the field. The inscription struck
me as most touching. fitting and truth
full: ITO the memory Of William Nc
Kinley, commissary sergeant OF the
Twenty-third Ohio volunteer Infantry,
who had. under fire. served coffee to
his comrades at the front on the even
ing Of the battle. September II. 1862.
Not President Mckinley, not Major
Mckinley. not Governor Mckinley, not
Congressman Mckinley but simply
william McKinley"-that's how it
reads. and fer once the truth, and the
whole truth, and nothing but the
truth. is told in memorial marble and
bronze and grapite.-Private Dalzell in
Washington Post.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29
Senators as Matrimonial Prizes.

The Junior senator from New York,
the Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew,
was the first to prove, year CT so ago,
that q frisky senator OF SIS or so can
compete in the matrimonial market
and win out against any young man
who does not wear a senatorial toga-
Then few days ago, the senior sena-
tor from New York, the Hon. Thomas
Collier Plat demonstrated that a sena-
tor Of 20 suffers no handicap when a
contest is on for the affections of
either widows or young ladies in the
departments at Washington. But the
everlasting ability of a United States
senator to knock out all rivals was
shown by Nevada's youthful senate
the Hon. William NJ. Stewart, on Mon
day OF this week, when, at the age of
&c he led to the altar a blushing, "slen-
der. dark-haired. dark-eyed widow OF
the labyrinthine corridors and hooks
which lie under the national capital
there is the fountain of perpetual
youth for which the Spanish discover
ers sought in vain.
1t may be. however. that there is an
explanation less mysterious. It is sug-
gested in the answer which a Kansas
editor made the other day to one of his
subscribers. Have men become so
scarce" the subscriber asked. that old
Tom Platt Is a matrimonial prize ?'
Men are not scarce, was the reply,
but eligible United States senators are
not numerous"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29
What American Democracy Means.

The poor understanding which our
English friends have Of American in
stitutions is illustrated by an incident
which happened in Washington the
other day Members of the Mosley
Educational Commission of England
had been investigating the educational
system in the United States, and they
thought they had learned all about it
until treated to a surprise at the ma
tional capital. The superintendent Of
the public schools of the District of
Columbia had the distinguished visi-
tors in tow. and he happened to men
ton in his talk on the educational sys-
tenn Of the district that Quentin Roose-
velt the presidents son, was a pupil in
one of the schools. The educational
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29

Major Screws, proprietor of the
Montgomery Advertiser, has been tell
there has been a surprising change in
the POLITICAL sentiment of Alabama
democrats. A few years ago. when
William J. Bryan was the democratic
lands name was sufficient to provoke
hostile outburst. Now, however.
Major Screws tells US. great majority
of the democrats of his state are for
Grover Cleveland for the democratic
nomination next year. Which goes to
prove that an Alabama democrat s
principles" don't last like his appetite
for Office.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29

experts looked puzzled for awhile and
then one of them asked:
But, how is it possible under the
American plan to keep this particular
public school select and TO see that only
children Of approved character and ex-
ceEtional social standing are brought
into contact wiah the son OF the presi-
dent of the United Ststes?"
The visitors were astounded when as
sured that there was no attempt at
exclusiveness at the school attended by
Quentin Roosevelt, and they had to re-
adjust their ideas. One of them re-
marked, I'VE now have a better idea
Of the meaning of American democ-
racy.''
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-29

Governor Peabody and the militia
court-martial have discovered at this
late day that The Republican was
speaking with authority several weeks
ago when it was suggested that Adult
ant-General Bell was not big enough
for his office. Bells sole qualification
for the high post, so far as the public
could see, was that he had served with
honor in the Spanish war. Governor
Peabody has learned that impulse and
sentiment are poor substitutes for criti-
cal judgment in the selection of men
to fill public office.