Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-19

supply, to extravaganza Of fever.
ish generation and to almost every
thing else but the tariff.
MIR. Hamilton Is chairman of the
Territories committee OF the House
and his speech is likely TO figure
conspicuously In the next Republi-
can national campaign propaganda.
He favored the creation of bureau
In the Department of Commerce and
Labor to permanently carry on the
work now being done by the tariff
board, experimenting II with corps
Of foreign speaking experts, the re-
ports of whose Investigations Of SELL
ing prices and labor costs at home
and abroad would furnish standard
of measure Of conflicting claims in
the framing ora tarln law.
He contended that the tariff plank
in the Republican platform provided
both upward and downward limits
and that 'by so much as you raise
duties above the difference in cost
OF production at home and abroad.
o'NNi uu' dlIo""itt lol Nh' tlbh
custom of selling goods cheaper
abroad than at home, by so much
you permit domestic monopolies to
overcharge domesti, consumers"
"A few years ago. said Mr.. Ham
ilton, boys wore ont their fathers
old clothes made over according to
a neighborhood pattern; now they
have to have store clothes and socks
TO match their neckties and col
lege yell. A man was considered
well of II he kept horse and
buggy now he has to have an auto
mobile II he has TO mortgage the
place to- get 1t. The average busi-
ness man does business with a tele-
phone at one ear. stenographer at
each elbow. telegraph Office next
door, n wireless station within easy
reach, an automobile at the door
and before many years he will want
flying machine TO avoid the crush
In the street below.
I'VE now have 100000 factories,
employing 100000 people, keeping
time TO the demands Of 10000, 900
folks. The protection policy has
built up an annual factory output of
$4,000. 200, 200. paying out $1,000,
100000 In wages, and has kept the
machinery of protection in motion
until It has developed horsepower
equivalent TO 90,000.000 men. The
country never was more prosperous.
THE farmer has been caricatured
by cheap city humorists, preyed on
sharks, and misled by predatory pol
! iticians. Now he has come into his
own, and am glad OF H. He is one
of the safest, soundest, cleanest ele-
ments in our civilization. The city
would have dried up, rotted or ex-
ploded but for the country that
came into town day before yester-
day. Too much of the country has
been coming into town, though. Tine
farmer is receiving only fair price,
but middlemen are charging too
much for handling and trying to
attribute the responsibility to the
farmer The time has gone by,
however, when thrifty gentlemen
can take toll of the farmer and out
OF the consumer, and fool both dt
the same time 20
Mr.. Hamilton charged the cheap
politician with singing one song in
the city and another, OF a different
tune, in the country. He describel
the situation as filled with contra
dlctions, everybody pickering to To-
Icate the blame for high prices
bills, anti-meat societies, commits
sions, anti-egg societies. anti-food
trusts and vegetarian organizations
are rampant, and In the midst of It
the Democratic gentlemen. after
time honored custom, are diligently
Trying to convert discomfort into
Votes. tT y
I'VE are getting farther away
from the old fundamental human re-
lations that sustain and console
folks. We are always going some
where and going very fast and gem
orally go our ways separately, al
though we jostle one another on the
sidewalk. II is an age of steam en-
ginism. We run the machine and
1.-THE machine runs US. The talk on