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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04
THE DREAM OF
CECIL RHODES

LONDON. May 21.-The Standard
this morning says that among the as
pirations mentioned in the will of the
late Cecil Rhodes, to which Earl Grey,
Governor-General OF Canada, referred
in his speech at the National Arbitra-
ton and Peace Congress banquet in
New York, on April II. were the ulti-
mate recovery Of the United States by
Great Britain. British occupation of
the whole of Africa and South America,
and of the seaboard of China and
JaDaD
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04
AND LEIS
FOR DEPARTING
CONGRESSMAN

the Congressional delegation do
hereby express appreciation hoptabe reception the
guests unusual opportunities
afforded studying problems their material
Federal needs.
appreciate Honorable A. Atkinson
the official representatives Of the
Territory, o visit pleasant and successful.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04
HONOLULU RELIEF FOR
CHINESE FAMINE VICTIMS

All who have 20 kindly contributed
to help the starving people In China.
will be glad 10 know OF how the money
was received. and to learn OF the good
missionaries gave up the great privilege
OF attending the Missionary Conference
at Shanghai. to go into the famine dis
tricts and aid In the relief work. APP
peais were made during the conference.
for more volunteer workers. as the
need was so great. and some left in the
midst OF the interesting meetings to go
and aid in the distribution OF food
Conditions continued very bad up to
the middle of May. On the last day
OF the conference, May Sth. a telegram
was read by the chairman from the
famine district stating Condition Of
people desperate in the extreme; thou
sands starving, greatest need now"
On the same day. DR.. Wood, who had
just returned from the famine area,
called for more volunteers. nine mis-
sionaries volunteered and eleven more
were needed.
DR.. Fitch announced the receipt of a
telegram from the Presbyterian Board
announcing a second donation of 49,
900 gold, making $4,000. in aid OF the
famine fund
The following letters. acknowledging
funds from Honolulu have been re-
ceived
Shanghai, March 4, 1907.
My Dear Mr.. Thwing: Good for Ho-
nolulu. Your last two letters, one con-
tanning draft for Mex. $3.50 and one for
Mex. sS5O.70, came to hand by the same
mail, and were a most glad and well
come surprise. I will make enquiries
and find where they are most needed
and devote them to that field. The
Chinkiang committee is the Mission
airy Committee" and I shall send it to
them, unless / find that our own mis-
sion, at Hwaiyuen, is in special need
as know they are distributing money.
etc, and gold $500 which was intended
for them has been sent to another
place. However. 1t will be all right.
You ask for some further account of
the famine. / accordingly enclose a
cutting from Saturday nights paper,
from DR.. Bradley, who is one of the
most energetic and successful distrib-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04
Shanghai, March 20, 1907.


My Dear Mr.. Thwing: Many thanks
again for another remittance for the
famine, $217.30, which / shall have
much pleasure in forwarding to the
treasurer as before. Surely your peo-
pie are doing nobly. About 100000 have
now been raised by the two committees.
and 5000 tons of foodstuffs are on the
way from the Christian Herald which
should be here about the end of April.
1t is taxing our missionaries to the
utmost to manage so much food and
money but they are calling for and
getting volunteers. And, as you know,
it is only the missionaries that can and
will do this work.
1t may be that this will pass you on
the way out. Hope to see you soon.
Yours very truly,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04

licity. 1t is only necessary to have
the truth about this place known and
you will have thousands coming here
for their holidays in place of the few
who come now. AS an old friend of
Hawaii. / am proud of the impression
you have made upon my colleagues in
this party, although 1 am in no way
surprised at 1t. / told them all how it
would be and since they have seen for
themselves several of them have said
to me that the half had not been
told"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04

money but they are calling for and
getting volunteers. And, as you know.
1t is only the missionaries that can and
will do this work.
1t may be that this will pass you on
the way out. Hope to see you soon.
Yours very truly,
G. f. FITCH.
/ personally met the secretary and
treasurer of the Relief Committee at
Shanghai, who expressed most grateful
thanks to the generous givers in Ha-
wall. who have done so much to help
in this time of great need for China.
The following letter, from DR.. ]. w
Bradley, was received by the chairman
of the Relief Committee in Shanghai,
just at the time when the later con-
tributions from Honolulu reached Chi
ma, and shows how great was the need
at that time:
Il have been out in the country for
several days giving out flour tickets,
and the condition beggars description.
There are So "tu-fen" (townships) in
Suchen hsien county, and the aver
age will be something like 1000 homes
in each "tu-fen," or nearly 100000
A most conservative estimate
would be that 100000 of these are with
out grain at this time. 100000 of the
have a little grain to mix
with their potato leaves, and the re-
100000 will be pinched. When
we think of Pichou on the north. Hal
chou and Shuyang on the east, An
tung and Tsingkiangpu with Taoyuen
on the west all of which are in about
the same desperate condition, we stand
appalled, at the outlook and wonder |
what will be the result.
Last Thursday / was out to the |
country and went to one village which |
might be taken as an average. The |
place contained 154 homes by actual
count. / found 1876 of these homes were
a absolutely in a desperate condition; of
the remaining 10 at least eight had only
enough grain to last them one month.
Of the 1879 destitute homes about 100
lad still enough potato and willow
caves to last them two or three weeks.
There were nine homes that did not
awe anything, and said that, except as
hey would beg little. had had moth
ng to eat for several days. Dogs, cows,
ionkeys and horses are dying from
and the people are eating
hat the Shanghai committee has
will just about keep the peo-
lie alive in one of the 81 "tu-fen" in
'uchien district. What about the other
l "tu-fen?" The little village that l
ave just told about. | myself visited
nd made the count. / can vouch for
he exact accuracy of my figures. and
While 1t may be little worse than
ONE other places on higher ground, I
oubt II It is as bad as others, and can
G taken as n fair sample"
The cable received on May oath from I
would indicate that con-
itions are now greatly improved. and ,
nat the new crops are coming on.
his is matter OF rejoicing and !
Although the Red Cross /
ociety say that they need no further
yet their relief work does
Of cover the whole famine district,
hlch Is very wide. and there must j
, many places where the distress IL i
III very aceute. All aid that has been 4
mt. and that may be yet on the way.
III no doubt be greatly needed In '
me districts, and viii prevent much u
Ifferlng, u. w. r.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04
A SMALL FAEI ADVOCATE.

A SMALL FAEcI ADVOCATE.
Il want to say that am thoroughly
in sympathy with the small farm
here by men we have met like Mr..
Thurston and Mr.. Castle" said Rep
resentative Ralph ID. Cole, the
youngest member of the delegation and
one who has made himself most pop
ular wherever he has gone in the Ter
ritory.
Il do not recognize any antagonism
between the great sugar interests here
and the small farm interests. There
should be the greatest harmony be-
tween the two, for the growth of one
will help the other. The immense
strides taken by the sugar interests
are revelations to us and much that
had at first sight seemed anomalous in
the labor situation here was cleared up
as we journeyed through the group and
met the men behind these great enter
prises. And nowhere did We find the
sugar planters opposed to this idea OF
domiciling white settlers on the is
lands. on the other hand, many of
those we have met surprised us agree
ably by the interest they were taking
in the introduction of white laborers
and the schemes they proposed to hold
the white laborers here.
1.-The patriotism OF the people of these
Stands towards the Republic was
equally gratifying. Here you seem to
be solving questions that we have been
attempting to solve in vain on the
You may say for me that for Ha-
vail and Hawaiians l have now an
aloha that will last during life and
hat when any question comes up again
n the House, such as the Refund bill, |
or which l did my best, that l will |
light the harder and the better because |
have been here and learned to know |
'ou.'
BEST SCHOOL SYSTEM.
What has interested me most in
hese Islands and been perhaps the
Ireatest revelation OF all Is the admir-
bic public school system you have
uilt up said Judge Norris, OF Me-
raska. 1T has been a revelation to
ONE here. thousands OF miles away
rom the westernmost shores of Amer
"a, to a country which many of the
eople of the mainland still regard as
arbaric and find a school system. In
early every respect equal to the best
'e have at home and in some respects
etter. And the lesson that these
,hools are teaching the world, that
hildren OF almost every nationality
nder the sun can be handled and
aimed side by side with the very best
results TO each one Of them Is some
ling that Will be carried back with
5 and told TO our own people at home.
his Is one OF the marvels OF Hawaii.
irpassing even the great natural Won
srs OF mountain, plain and sea that
I'VE been shown u.s."
COFFEE CULTURE. '
Outside Of the matters pertaining 10 >
e work Of the Lighthouse committee, ;
which | am "A member the appeals
AIDE TO Us by the coffee growers OF
avail have interested mo most" said
preventative Brick, OF Indiana. my
sws on the needs 81 these Islands b,
: more and better lighthouses have
en- told al length ana l have only 10
y now that the needs ~ the coffee d
overs VIII receive earnest attention, 81
far AS ! am personally concerned IA
q say thai the coffee growers should m
a.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
VOTING MACHINE INSTRUCTION.

In accordance with instructions by
Secretary of State Dickinson, municipal
clerks are to set up the voting ma
chimes before the election, 50 as to af-
ford opportunity to voters to take les
sons in operating the machines. 1t can
be imagined how many voters will
crowd to the place of instruction to
take a lesson in mechanics. If an i'm
portant special election cannot bring
out more than 10 per cent. of the voters,
what superior attraction will be found
in a lesson or two on a complicated
voting machine?
Last veal one of these machines was
set up in the State House at Trenton
for the benefit of the Rochester con
tractors, and the State Voting Machine
Commission paid the bill. including the
services of an instructor. The novelty
of the thing interested a few idlers in
the State House lobby, and that was
all. A few oilers will kill time at the
voting machines in Newark and that
will be all.
But the utter a%bsurdity of it, That
sapient body, now deceased, the State
Voting Machine Commission, in it's an
nual report, calmly proposed h a reg
ular schools for instruction in the use
of the voting machine be established.
with instructors. The expense of this
popular education was to be borne by
the municipalities, in addition to the
other expenses incurred. And, of
course, nobody would attend the SEES
sions. 1t is hard enough to get people
out to vote on election day.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
REGISTRY DAY.

Tomorrow will be the last day for
registration in Newark for the No
vember election. The number regis
tered on the first and second registry
days is considerably less than the num-
Der registered at this time last year,
but the total registration, when COM
pleted tomorrow, may equal the figure
of last year. Tomorrow the party
workers will get in their work, and
many hundreds of names will be sworn
in for those who may not be able to
appear at the registry places or who
forget hat duty.
{ A light registry is usually inter
preted to be to Democratic advantage,
and the completed registry lists are
eagerly scanned for indications of the
probable vote. There will be special
interest this year in the registration
in the county outside of Newark as
showing how much interest the COM
muter voter takes in the election. The
last registry day for the county is next
Tuesday, and then a clearer idea can
be obtained as to how Essex will go
on November 5.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
A NEW MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

Contrary to expectation, the board OF
managers of the State Hospital for the
Insane has gone out of the State to Sc
lect a successor to Medical Director DR..
Ward, dismissed by the board. DR..
Hicks, the able alienist at the Essex
County Hospital, was the logical candi-
date. and the belief had existed that the
board would appoint him, but evidently
influences operated powerfully the
other way with the managers. Now
that there is a new deal in the
offices of warden and medical director,
a new deal is demanded in the man.
agerial board, which is wholly respon-
sible for the condition of affairs re-
yealed by the Hahn Investigation.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21

Time was when the "New York Sun was the most causic.
and scornful casdgator of yellow journalism. Now it is out
doing the yel1owest, of them all in its insane shriekings about
the coming war with Japan. 1t has stated boldly that Presi
dent Roosevelt is bent on war with Japan. On this topic all
the variations are being played, including detailed information of
the warlike preparations. With the kindly idea of pushing along
the game of making trouble, our English cousins print these
pipe-dreams and give to them all the importance possible. If
the rulers and people of japan ar not well balanced and well
informed as to the real status of "The Sun" and its animus,
the result may be the development of friction which would make
var between the two countries an easy matter.
At the present moment there is no reason for believing that
nThe Sum has the remotest idea of ever seeing war between
this country and Japan, and even with the evidence already
before is it would be doing that newspaper an injustice to
assume that it actually desires to bring about such a criminal
catastrophe. 1t is fainr to assume that all its talk is for the
purpose of soaring business men and turning them against Presi-
dent Roosevelt The Wall Street brigands and the Trusts have
done, and ire doing, their share in the conspiracy to Under
mine the President, but their efforts re making friends instead
of enemies for him. The manufacturers and business men oil
the provincial cities of the country who have no Wall Street
a Affiliations are for President Roosevelt and his. policies, but if
they could be persuaded that he was trying to plunge the
country into a wal which would paralyze the industries of the
country, they would naturally turn against him. But it is
reflection on their intelligence to imagine that they don't under
that is little less than treason to the Republic, j. N,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
VIEWS OF EDITOR ;.
nrooLlrn,s Los. Jerseys Cain

While Messrs. Belmont and Shonts are
haggling with the Public Service Commits
sion about when they can promise a tuil-
mel service to Brooklyn, the McAdoo COM
pany announces that it's tunnel from Chris
topher street, Manhattan, to Hoboken VIII
be opened for business on December !.
That is at least a fortnight, and prob
oblv n month. earlier than the Brooklyn
tunnel will be ready. This tunnel to New
Jersey will offer the first relief to over
crowded Manhattan, and 1t may be ex-
pected to carry n steady stream OF New
Workers. who will transform themselves
into suburban Jerseymen under the stimu-
lus of the easy access to their business in
this city which the tunnel will give. They
would rather come to Brooklyn, where
they could vote and pay taxes in the city
and State where their business interests
lie; but, thanks to the delays and blunders
of MIR. Belmont's company. they are not
able to get here. A man will hesitate long
before he subjects himself or his family to
the terrors of the bridge crush, and MIR.
Belmont has allowed his relief from that
danger to dangle along in Its completion
far beyond the time that it's contracts cali
for.
The neglect of Brooklyn was serious
enough from the first, but will be empha-
SiNGo ny u OpSAihS VI ~ COAhpOhANAOh VI
New Jersey with this borough for the
overlooking population of Manhattan. Not
merely will Brooklyn suffer by this adj
vantage of New Jersey in making its
earlier bid for homeseekers, but the city
and State of New York will suffer the loss
of prospective additions to its taxable
values and to its voting and taxpaying
population. The Public Service Commits
sion represents the State of New York.
1t should do what can be done, at this late
day, to stay this outflow Of wealth and
population from this city and State int
foreign territory. After two or three an
nual reports showing the rapid increase
in taxable values in adjoining New Jer-
sey counties, the people of Manhattan VIII
perhaps awaken to the injury which the
neglect of Brooklyn by a city government
dominated by Manhattan influences has
wrought to the entire city. Then a remedy
will be too late. What Is done to counter
net the impending exodus to New Jersey
must be lone at once, and 1t rust be lone
through the Public Service Commission
Brooklyn Eagle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
SECRETARY TAFT IN THE EAST.

Our robust Secretary of War has made
a deep impression on the Oriental mind.
In Japan his frank u~tterances were re-
ceived with pleasure. and they had all
the effect that could be desired. His
most notable u~tterance. however, was
in China. which accepted in its broad
est sense his assurance of the support
of this government to the open door"
and of the determination of the United
States to retain the Philippines, which.
under American control, will be a
buckler for China against foreign ag-
gression. At Manila the secretary inn
presses the native mind anew with a
sense of the power as well as the good
intentions of the American nation.
The visit by Secretary Taft to the
Orient has been of immense benefit to
our interests in that quarter. He has
restored good feeling in Japan made
new ties between the United States and
China n placed the new
Legislature on its feet. Our policy in
the Far East is as YET in s formative
state. Planted in the Philippines, we
are now an Oriental power. and Il
government must adapt its policies TO
the situation. The great objective is
the trade of the four hundred millions
in China. That gresLand expanding
market is absolutely essential TO us.
and at every hazard we must keep open
the doors of trade in China. Secretary
Taft has firmly stated nj policy in
the Orient, and it will be maintained
as resolutely as the Monroe Doctrine
that protects our own continent with
out infringing on the rights of any
other nation.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
VOLUME LxxvI.--No. ESQ.
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1907.
PARTY RECORD AND ISSUES.

The last year of Democratic control
in the State government was 1898. From
that time forward to 1907 the Republic
a party was supreme in the State,
and for several years the Democrats in
the Legislature looked like a corporal's
guard. In 1895. out of eighty-one Sem
ators and Assemblymen, eleven were
Democrats. In 1897 the number of
Democrats was seven and last year
again the number was seven. For the
first time since 1898 the Democrats Sc
cured a majority of the House this
year and had an equal part in the MAX
ing of the laws.
State legislation for thirteen years, up
to the present year was the product of
Republican rule. The legislation for
that period was on the whole very i'm
portant, n the best of it was crowded
in the period of 1905 and 1906, when the
railroad tax laws were passed. In
thirteen years the States income, most
ly from corporations, automatically in
creased. and the State expenditures in
creased at about the same ratio. There
were good and bad enactments. A long
lease of power is always attended by
some abuses, and indisposes a majority
to the adoption of necessary reforms.
Political parties are not, however, al
way judged strictly by their records.
Issues arise that have no relevancy to
the past or that totally obscure all
other and more important questions.
The excise issue this year is an ex-
ample. To thousands of voters it is the
only question in the election campaign,
and to them everything else is lost sight
of. In a State election the interpola-
ting issue may be the deciding factor. in
which case there is no popular verdict
on the real questions Of the hour. And
yet, the result of the election may de-
termine State policies, may put off or
kill great public benefits and indefinite
~ postpone reforms. The voice of the
people expressed in majorities is not
always the voice of reason or the ver-
dict of common sense.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21

President sets a wholesome and neces-
sary example for the youth of the land
in his diversions, an example that
teaches democratic manliness. Too
many young men and men in middle
life seek more doubtful diversions and
become enervated. AS the embodiment
of vigor and energy. the President
also, whether at work or at play. ideal
ICES the male American character.
Young men in colleges aa1 in daily life
cannot fail to be infected by an exam
pie SO conspicuous and so we'll admired.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

Tomorrow a popular convention will
meet in Michigan to revise the State
Constitution. The convention is to re-
main in session until February 1, next
year. Michigan was admitted into the
Union in 1885. and in 1850 the Constitu-
ton was revised for the last time. The
present instrument is, therefore, six
years younger than the New Jersey
Constitution It contains a prohibition
of all public aid or ownership of inter-
nj improvements, and this has been
construed by the courts to neal that
municipalities cannot own their own
public utilities. This prohibition has
led to the present revision, and there
will be numerous political doctors on
hand with all kinds of constitutional
specifics for the ills and ailments of
the State.
The propositions already formulated
are formidable in number. They in
clude prohibition, female suffrage, the
initiative and referendum. municipal
home rule, direct election of United
States Senators, restriction of the
power to commit for contempt, a re-
call system for public officials, direct
primary nominations. franchises foi
determinate periods and the public
saIe of the same, compulsory educa-
ton, juvenile courts, n fixed standard
day for labor, strict regulation of pub
lie utilities. employers liability, free
pass abolition, providing punishment
by imprisonment alone for acts il
restraint of trade, authorizing mum
cipal ownership. State pensions TO
teachers and judges, authorizing Stat,
life insurance, extending the civil serv.
ice laws. compulsory arbitration, void
ing all stock issued not for actua
value. and specific State a%ppropria
tons.
No doubt there will be scores of othe
amendments proposed while the con
vcntion is sitting, but there seems t
be work enough cut out already I
keep the delegates occupied for at leas
six months.