The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-22
HONOLULU TO BE
BASE FOR LARGE
PART OF FLEET
The Advertisers Washington Correspondent
Predicts Expenditure of Several
Millions Here.

! longer throb and thrill in bearing
| momentous messages to the outside
world.
| In fact the only intelligence from
| Oyster Bay and Sycamore Hill this
| summer that could greatly interest the
world has been the fake stories OF
the strange and picturesque doings of
| its quaint citizens.
All this pleases the residents of
Washington city, who have become a
little jealous of the summer promi-
| nence of Oyster Bay. It seemed that
President Roosevelt preferred to do
stunts of world interest from his sum-
mer home and thus add historical as
sociations to Oyster Bay that properly
belongs to Washington. the federal
city He has done more than any other
President to make washington live
town in winter and also more than
any other President to make 1t a dead
town in summer.
Now oyster Bay seems to have laps
ed into it's ll-the-year-round dullness.
The President has no opportunity for
declaring a peace between warning
powers this summer, as he did from
Oyster Bay two years ago. There is
no opportunity for a great review Of
the battle fleets in Long Island, adj
jacent to his summer home, where the
New York populace could look on in
open eyed wonderment at the specta-
Gle. The battleship fleets haye been
ordered to the Pacific ocean and that
order, which stirred both hemispheres
profoundly, is all the President has
DONE or promises to do to compel the
attention of the grandstand.
Therefore Washington is accepting
the midsummer dullness with more
than usual philosophy. There Is no
cabinet officer in town and the depart
ments are in charge OF dead ones"
who are -sweitering in the terrific heat.
About as many people are registering
at the hotels as might crowd into Oys-
ter Bay on rush day, only Washing
ton has accommodations for keeping
them over night and Oyster Bay
hasn't. The officials and clerks in
town care about as much what be-
comes of the government business as
do the bar room loafers at the village
OF oyster Bay.
HARD TIMES THREATENED.
AS the President is keeping so quiet.
the public spirited citizens of Wash
ington care little because he is outside
the District of Columbia. This quie-
tude on the Presidents part causes
many to marvel, although he had
shown some symptoms of it before he
departed this city in June. At the
bottom of it all is believed to be the
Presidents fear that the country is
lowering on the brink of serious COM
mercial and business depression, which !
may mar the last twelve or fifteen
months of his administration. He is
in as good physical and mental condi- |
tion as ever and it can hardly be for |
any personal reasons that he has sub
sided.
The reports from big business CEN
ters continue to be unsatisfactory. 1t
IS more difficult than ever to borrow
money for new enterprises, in fact, 1t
S next to impossible to secure money
,or such purposes. Merchants find in
creased difficulty in disposing Of their
stocks of goods and are appealing to
he banks for money to carry them
,ver the depression period.
IT is not believed that any threat
# hard times will deter the President
rom enforcing his legislative program
Il the coming session OF Congress, but
+ NAV have some influence with him.
-he Republican leaders are more
frafd of business depression as fac
mr. in the next Presidential election
han of any other one thing. 1t would I
q a terrible boomerang to the party
hat claims to have created prosperity,
yhen the All Wise one on high could :
ot have contended with and over
ome the calamity tendencies Of q /
administration.
LAW ENTANGLEMENTs
The President has been ve.y calm !
1rfng the agitation over the Standard '
il fine and the uprising in Southern =
+ates against federal interference
ith laws prescribing passenger tares. Y
9TH have become tne important fed t
al questions of the hour, for the gov 4
.nment is piltng up indictments
yafnst the standard Oil Trust. so that A
1es aggregating not $50, 100000 as inn "
,sed by District Judge Lands, but
,greeatfng hundred million dollars
more are looming up as POSSIBLE
Y. Then the right of the federal
urts 70 interfere and enJoln state =,
ithorities and state courts from en- u
rcing low rates Of passenger fare IN &
terstate traffic is bound to become v
verv nomentous question in connec- d.
IN with railroad problems.
A ttorney General Bonaparte, VINO IS "
ending his summer at Lenox, Mass u
g been over to oyster Pay for a con- 81
b with the President on legal ques- ol
ms. The President keeps close TAP to
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