The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-31

been heaped upon the Attorney General
and invidious comparisons regarding his
ability have been widely circulated.
1t all stimulated the acute feeling
toward the President on the part of the
general business and financial worlds.
Mr.. Bryan has been going up and down
the country preaching that a trust mag
nate be jailed and with that sentiment
there is much popular accord. It is not
unlikely that the President desired to
appropriate a little more of Mr.. Bry-
an s thunder. Mr.. Bonaparte recanted
his statement subsequently, which eased
the situation materially.
These and other things point to a
tremendous warfare between the Presi-
dent and commercial interests during
the next eight or ten months. The OPP
position to him on these scores is much
wider than the big trusts and the great
corporations that have been assailed by
his department of justice. It has per
meated the circles of the small business
men and small traders to some extent,
for they feel the pinch of tight money
and the inability to dispose of goods.
The well-to-do class of people find mon
ey less plentiful and grumble at the
semblance of approaching hard times.
A prominent physician of one of the
large cities stated here the other day
that he was having unusual difficulty
this summer in collecting bills from his
wealthy patients. sfThey are putting
me off till the late autumn, - he said,
SON the plea Of lack of funds. I would
rather have patient of the middle
class owing me 800 this summer than
patient in the fashionable residence
section owing me $780,
It has been widely advertised that
Secretary of the Navy Metealf will be
back at his desk in Washington Septem-
Der 8, by which time it is supposed
there viii be interesting doings in naval
affairs. He has been central figure
in the Navy, more than ever, since his
now famous Fourth of July announce
ment from his home in Oakland, Cali
fornia, that the battleships were to
be ordered to the Pacific Ocean and
that their rendezvous at San Francisco
would be as fine spectacle for the
people of Oakland and vicinity as had
ever been witnessed.
JAPANESE RELATIONS.
The estimates OF the various bureaus
of the department win be ready for
him on his return and the Secretary
will have the immediate task of shap-
ing these up for the consideration of
Congress. He will go to Oyster Bay
for talk with the President before
the latter starts on his western trip.
By reason of Mr.. Metcalf s long service
on the Naval Committee of the House.
while he was Representative in Con-
gress, he is unusually familiar with
naval matters on the Pacific Coast and
viii have some ideas of his own about
what should be done. He will bring
the President an important political
word about political conditions on the
Pacific Coast and about the japanese
situation. The President is very de-
termined to have treaty with Japan
that will exclude japanese coolies, as
the present provision in the immigra-
ton laws, Whereby japanese coolies can
come in only when they have a pass
port is not working satisfactorily. The
Japanese continue to pour in over the
Mexican and Canadian borders in spite
of all immigration inspectors can do.
This bodies more trouble with Califor-
MIA the coming winter, unless something
can be done to check the arrivals eff
feetually. The President feels that
if he can secure such a treaty he viii
have entrenched his administration in
favor on the Pacific Coast and eliminate
all possibilities of Democratic inroads
from that quarter during the next presi-
Dental campaign.
ERNEST G. WALKER.