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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04
EMPIRE HAS STRONG
PROGRAM OF PLAYERS

The Empire this week is presenting
an exceedingly attractive program, in
GLIDING the very popular little Glad
stone Sisters, acrobats, singers and
dancers. Their acrobltic work has a
charm which is seldom equallcI by
other professional performers. The
Musical Bentleys are making a repu-
tation with their Hawaiian melodies
their latest being Like No Like"
which they will play tonight on the
beautifully-toned NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Tho film service is unusually good
this week at the Empire, as it is in
all the theatres of the amusement
company.
There VII be the usual matinee
this afternoon AMI performance to-
night and change of bill on Monday.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04
BAN JOHNSON FOOLED
BY THE ATHLTICS

Back in the East where Ban john
son is either decidedly popular or cor
daily hated. they are telling a story on
the head of the American League with
considerable gusto.
1t was just before the Athletics had
made up their minds whether they
would take the trip to Cuba John
son was opposed to the scheme, lie
said that some Of the stars would not
make the trip, and that if the cham
pions of the world were defeated it
would not reflect much credit on his
league.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04
THIS Is THE PARKS
LAST PERFORMING E

With the conclusion of tonight's
performance the PARK Theatre will
become dark for several weeks while
improvements are being carried on,
The little theatre should be packed
tonight to see the final performance
for the Park has been in the running
the longest of any theatre in the city.
Winnie Baldwin with songs, Hard
ing and WATSON with songs and
dances, and the lie Marest Brothers
with their topsy-turvy piano playing
are on the program, while there will
be good films.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04
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!: RESERVATIONS
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BIJ0U TO HAVE
NEW ENTERTAINERS

The arrival of the Makua from
Canada adds to the list OF the attrac-
tons at The Biiou theatre. for COM
cdy team of acrobats arrived an will
make their initial appearance on
Monday night. These talented play
ers are well recommended and arc
said to be whole show in them
selves, and they will grea ly strength
en- the program.
The amateurs last ght provided
an immense lot of fun for the thea
tres patrons and every Friday II ght
can be depended upon to AL the thea
tire. The remainder Of tie players
arc pu ting on some excellent oTer-
ings this week, and the MOVING pic
ture part of the sh2w is one of the
best ever. s"'
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04

Austria for the last few years, has just
been operated on for appendicitis in
the New York hospital. He is reported
to be making excellent recovery He
will spend Il month convalescing at his
old ONE in Oklahoma, where he is an
extensive land owner Shaw viii re-
turn East late in February and shortly
after will leave to resume his work in
Vienna.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04

TIE FLORAL PARADE benefits In
Il broad way. BE broad yourself, and
help all Won can.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04
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NEW YORK, Jan. Willie Shaw.
tie wcll-known American jockey, who
has been riding for Baron Oppcnheim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-24
AND INTERNATIONAL WAR-By George Ea

ness which is assigned to the laborer. wherever that portion becomes excessive the industry will die. It will be unable to stand the strain of International com petition Even this experiment in Eng
 land towards establishing a more just scale of hours of work and compensation, by tying up the whole industry of the land has thrown many orders to Ger many, so far to the loss of British work CTS
 Iris excellent to have giant S strength; but tyrannous to use it like a giant
 Under the sole power of middle class exploitation the English working man might we'll have quoted those familiar lines. Now it is the turn of the bour- geois employer to do the quoting. It is to be hoped that at last the British toiler may not only get a fairer proportion of the profits, but also a larger acquaint- ance with the pleasures and higher values of life. Like Lazarus, he received his "evil things" for a long while. But now he is comforted and Dives is tor mented. Pangs are foreign to Dives.
 There is another element at work, how ever, a potent force to develop itself alongside of syndicalism: I mean the in- ternational socialism that has appeared during the course of the recent strikes. It has brought, more vividly than ever before, into the arena of practical diplo- macy the possibilities of a national strike against war. The federation of all labor unions is really international in scope. The old national narrowness is being ed ucated out of existence. Frenchman is now less inclined to shoot a German than in 1870 at the bidding of his nation s temporary chief. So with the German.
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They both call themselves "wage slaves,
 and look nearer home for foes.
 Whole regiments of working men may
 any day apply the organized forces of their syndical heads to defeat the war like intentions of the national goVern- ment For the trades unionst in Ger
 many, France, England Holland, Ameri- ca. is at last learning to call every for eign toiler his brother. He finds 1t
 easier than to call the prosperous em- ployer or the yacht-owning palace dwell Ter of his own people his brother. He finds earthly possessions make for class differences and he Is more sensitive of this fact than is he who has won the place of wealth.
 So when German and French and En- glsh workmen are dressed in soldiers uniforms and bidden shoot each other, they may conceivably prefer to insist, to the wrath of the interests, that they are brothers in truth It will play havoc with old traditions when the millions of tho worlds tolers discover that the eth ics of Jesus are sublimated common sense. For such a consummation the eXtremest domestic discord is a small
 pii ice to pay. Meantime things move rap idly, and we catch our breath with a
 gasp to find how near we are all com ing in industrial nations to the passing of
 the sword of state into the hands of the
 Ben Tillets and Harry Goslings and Tom Manns, who have the confidence alike of skilled and unskiled toilers. Is it con-
 ceiv able that when they rule everywhere tEey will still dilute their doctrine of brotherhood, as against yellow men. for instance, to something less than per cent of the standard established by Jesus
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after all best that you should go care fully, weigh and consider"
 I suppose we could as well dispense with policemen of the fiesh-and-blood, soft-drink-stand variety as with these little uniformed chaps that police the thoroughfares of books, teaching obtuse readers the resting places and the long paths. and how best to get over the rocky roads. Though I have never noted an appreciable increase in crime after the police force of a municipality was de- creased, nor have I noted any mental degeneracy evidenced in those readers who treat. as if they did not exist, the all too many policemen that we set on literary pathways; though I see no espe- cial good resulting from their appear ance, at oft-drink-stands or in bound volumes that I read. I see no great harm that they can do. l merely deplore that we employ many of them, when we could easily dispense with 50 per cent of both types. Mind you, there is still some work in the world for policemen to do, just as there is for commas. For some years to come or until such time as all of our cities are honeycombed with subways, a certain number of courteous, muscular men will be needed to con duct wheezy. aged persons at crowded city crossings. And until such time we learn to read literary folk will ppomiseu- ously use commadashes to get stum-
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bilty. There had been formed and test ed a Federation of Transport Workers, with Harry Gosling as it's secretary, a man of 50 years or so. When the seamen struck work, two months ago, they led the way for general movement which at last involved the entire railroad and shipping interests of the country. In the present case every union refused to re- turr to work till all the federated unions were satisfied.
 What Frenchmen had done a little earlier these I1nglshmen now proposed to do, namely, to paralyze the whole commerce of the land and thus compel attention and relief.
 But it must be evident to the most needless person in the world that what has just been done with the sympathy of at least half the country and the prompt response of the most radical gov ernment which ever held power in Eng land, can easily be done again. The re- sources of the working man have now been demonstrated. He has his weapon, the general strike. It is a weapon not merely of trades unionism, but of social revolution. One knows not what limits may be considered sane by possible fu- ture leaders. heated with the strong wine of rapid and easy success. The porters at Billingsgate Market, for instance, went out and in few minutes succeeded in doubling their wages.
 But 1t is equally clear that the health of trade will require the recognition by la bor leaders of certain other factors beside the physical welfare of their fol- lowers It may be that co-operative profits will be forced to the region of practical things. But whatever be the right term for that share of the profits of busl-
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OF MR. POLICEMAN COMMA-By A. B. Bealle

blers past chaotic, wordy crossings. But the forces need reducing even now, Lord a mercy,
 I have believed that these commas were q sort of perennial literary thistle; and I have believed that writer chaps carried them to their couches, in order that the sting of them, felt through fine frenzied tossings, might prod some uni- versal poem or new school of literature into birth.
 And while reading some otherwise thor ouRhly good passage. shot through and through with semi-colons, l have thought that these signs were no more than care less scratches of pen. done by the SC ribe as relief from the monotony of his own writings You see, we cannot take all mems commas seriously.
 Books appear too, at times. whose entire subject matter is aberrated, while the punctuation is excellent, being scant. These you must cleave to as you would to Wisdom herself Books whose sub ject matter is distinctly aberrated can work you no lasting harm. Perfect lit er5 lures, studiously and painfully punct- uated, will not only give you headache but will create a distaste for the classics greedly fling it's covers wide-all in q breath. I do not hold the outworn the ory that in so doing you may injure the binding, but I somehow fear those commas that turk beneath its pages; they
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A PRINCE AND A CHIEFTAIN-By Savoyard

Hampshire and Rhode Island sent solid democratic delegations to Congress. Only one republican game from Connecticut, and the Massachusetts delegation con-
 tained a majority of two to one of dem- ocrats. Thus for the first time in the history of the democratic party ma jority of congressman from New England were democrats. The democrats having 16 and the republicans II. And there is not the slightest doubt that the repub- lcans would have had the majority If Mills Had not stumped New England.
 In that Congress, the Fifty-second, the democrats had the biggest majority any party ever had in that body. and Mills was the logical candidate for speaker, and speaker he would have been If he had allowed them to elect him. He was a candidate and his whole heart was in it, not for any personal vanity, but be- cause he believed he incarnated a great issue. When the caucus was in session the first evening, Carlisle, a senator, and Harrison, an ex-member, were in Mills room Mills was prosertate on a lounge and they thought him asleep. Sam Donel- son rushed in and said that certain member, p, would vote for Mills if he got a place on rivers and harbors. "All right" exclaimed Carlisle and Nor
 rison, tell him he shall have it.' Whats trat?' yelled Mills, "Tell him no such thing. I absolutely refuse to have any slate" It was magnificent, but it wasn't politics. It was Roger Q. Mills from crown to heel from skin to marrow.
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The great Texan was a disciple of Thomas Jefferson. He saturated him self with the philosophies of the sage of Monticello as Thacaeray did with the history, the traditions, the letters and the manners of the golden age of Queen Anne's time Turn him to any cause or policy treated of by our pro- foundest political thinker and Mills could elucidate the spirit of it fla miliar as his garter" He put that test to every political creed and plan, was memorable in the application of 1t There was no compromise in him. He was a good hater, proud as Lucifer, brave as Hector and stood four square to every wind that blew.
 He entered public life at this cap ital, December 1, 1873, as member Of the Fortythird Congress @and simul- taneously with the re-entry upon that theatre of Alexander H. Stevens Lu- cius Q. C. Lamar. and John Young Brown. Ben Hill. Dave Culberson and Joe Blackburn appeared two years later and John G. Carlisle, Thomas E. Reed and William Mckinley came four years later. At that time the G. O. P. marched under the bloody shirt and loyalty purged from all Legislative cor ruption, cleansed from all political sin. It was the era of Credit-Mobilier, San born Contracts, Lect and Stocking, General Average, Freedma $ Bureau and all and singular other knaveries that plagued the body polite and were on constant expedition for an appropri- ation.
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time for abstract investigation with those cunning tools always being handled. The name of the god that watches over all literatures and all letters to critical friends is written somewhat after this fashion: (?,:;,+-). You may not attempt to pronounce it, for so much rising in 1ection, subdued thunder, prolonged pausing, casual hesitation. etc, is in- volved in its pronouncement that your family would find you at the days end in state of some exhaustion.
 When a sentence is hopelessly involved one needs but to toss in a few commas, dashes, etc., and the mass becomes in telligible. "I will not only write book for your guidance" the book men seem to say, "'but l will insert in their re- spective places certain symbols that shall instruct you how the book shall be read. And l charge you to watch these sym- bols, for to you they shall be as signs set in the labyrinths of heaven" Or, they seem to say to the reading world Little boy, you will never be able to get heads or tails of this stately stuff of mine unless I subdivide it--unless I make it choppy and patchy to your lit tie souled measure. And so l pass you divers small symbols (?!;,F) which will be for you teachers and preachers and from many precpices: and though you can stride no more-though you must walk lockstep through my book-it is
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Mills had been not only a stout sol dier but brilliant in the field and was where valiant men were found, both in the Army or Northern Virginia led by Lee and in the Army of Tennessee, led by Johnston and Hood. A native of Kentcky, he went to Texas when he was yet a youth and was a capable and successful lawyer when the caI to arms came. An exceptionally hand some man, he was as eloquent as he was brave and as dashsng in the forum as he was splendid in battle.
 And now Mills was an actor on a thea ter for which he was bounteously en- dowed by nature and formidably equipped by study. With a powerful understand ing he combined deep and fierce sense of justice, vigilant and fanatic hon esty, copious and a dramatic eloquence. and courage that was at once defyins and flawless.
 After the most famous and grandly fought fillibuster the House ever knew had defeated Ben Buffers infamous force bill, Mills joined the majority faction led by Morrison in the Forty-fourth Con gress, which would have given the coun- try tariff reform if the dispute over the Presidential succession and the death Of Speaker Kerr had not displaced the tariff as the paramount. In that contest Mills played brilliant part, seconding Proctor Knott in opposition to the eight to seven electoral commission. There was no great CT constitutional lawyer in the land than Knott He saw the situation clearly and said: "Why throw away A victory you
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two interlacing factors which may well give the jingoes pause, and even cause the sinews to shrink upon the thigh of doughtiest patriotism, when patriotism is blind with watching in the dark. These two I purpose here to set forth.
 The first of these is the federated char aoter of the whole labor conflict which began immediately after the coronation ceremonies. Leaders like Ben Tilett, Tom Mann and Harry Gosling have evi- dently been studying what is called ''syndiealism the method proposed by French labor leaders to bring about rapid crisis and an industrial revolution.
 Now 1t is easy for a friend of things as they are. obsessed with the idea that this is already the best of all possible worlds. to rail at the English seamen, docl>ers. coalers, porters, railway ser wants and others. because they made common cause and promptly tied up all EEgland's vast import and export bus mess, threatened numberless persons with starvation, inflicted a terrible blow on the country's business interests, and vast actual loss upon many innocent traders. Most unpatriotic, Certainly. But it should be remembered that toilers of his stamp in England had never vet won recognition of their human rights in the primary matters of eating and homes and raiment. If they have turned traitors to their country, at least they have been loyal to their wives and chill dren. And it is poor management when any citizen has to choose between con- ficting duties so nearly akin.
 I think it is daily becoming more evil dent in the processes of human evolu- tion that a country must hold it's inhabi- tants by right laws and common well
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~ NCE and again in the course of
 this hurly-burly gleam of san O ity flashes across the chaos and we pluck up faith once more. Such is the case with the recent exhibition of industrial chaos in England. With ap- proximately 20000 men immediately con cerned in the strike, all the people with In a few days of starvation, shploads Of provisions rotting on the Thames. but no grocer knowing where he could re- new his stock, 45,O00,o00 of people abso- lutely at the mercy of the 100000 trans port employees, the 200,00O merely asking for prompt consideration of complaints, for recognition of their unions, or for a few cents increase in their daily wages with the employers obdurate, the mili- tary bivouacing in the great parks, Lon dor hardly seemed to justify the title of capital of "Merrie England"
 Liverpool Hull, Bristol, the lrsh Scotch, Welsh ports were hardly better off Freight and cargoes were bewitched, parayzed, docks deserted, cranes and wheels and cars standing idle. while per ishable things perished and people longed ir vain for ice to cool parched tongues.
 When ship owners sent their vessels to continental docks for unloading they were still within the enchanted region for Belgian and French lockers were quite as unwilling as any British docker to help them coerce their brethren. The French and German workmen sent sym pathetic delegations rather to London and cheered the strikers with practical prccfs that their cause was one and the same cause.
 Many phases of the situation have been instructively dwelt upon, but there are
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ren ind me of malignant bacilli, alive and venomous. To open the pages of a strange book that contains an average of, sey, 57 commas and semi-colons to the page, all scattered at good fighting ill., tervals, Is hazardous. to say the least. All commas that l have met seem for ever couchant. And it is not a pleasant experience to meet groups of these little imps that look as If they would spring at my throat if they were F points bigger.
 And yet there Is something dynamic in the sound of the word comma" like "cosmic," or dynamite" or ''power.' Sc vast the sound of it is, that I am loath to believe it's influence is malig- nant I dislike to see 1t cheapened and prostituted by the mere word tinker a sort of straw to cling to, or thistle 90 prod himself with, against the birth of his great sentences that will ring to heaven.
 Through the sentences We write we ste tion about 80 per cent too many punc- tuation marks-marks that necessarily clamor for haltings, pauses of forma- ton that oftentimes asks only to be left alone seeing that it is going bravely and well. When we lose wheezi- ness and short breath-when we are left alone and allowed to get the sense of a printed page without being challenged at every byway and hedge by the god of books as they are (?,:;,'9 we will perhaps learn the fine art of reading.
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But when the Forty eighth Congress was organized Carlisle beat Randall for speaker in the democratic causas, yet Randall was powerful enough to beat the Morrison bill of that Congress and he also defeated the Morrison bill of the Forty ninth Congress. Morrison was defeated for reelection in 1886 and Mills became chair man of ways and means of the Fiftieth Congress. He brought in a bill provid- ing for free raw materials and tariff for revenue only on the finished product ready for the ultimate consumer and passed it though Randall mustered nearly two-score democrats in opposition.
 When Mills brought in the bill and took the floor to discuss it Mckinley was rec ognized and hoped that the republican side would allow the chairman of the ways and means committee to make his speech without interruption. T invite interruption" roared the Rupert from Texas, and he always did. When Harri- son was elected President Mckinley sup planted Mills as chairman of the ways and means and brought in bill revising the tariff up, an inveterate republican habit.
 The country repudiated the Mckinley tariff in 1890 even more emphaticallY than
 it subsequently, condemned the Payne tariff in 1910 Mills made tour of New England, pleading for free raw materials and tariff for revenue only on the fin ished products with the result that New
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fare. and not hope to hold them chiefly by sentimental considerable of patri- otism. A mans best beloved land will be the land of the full stomach and with large opportunities for increasing pros perty Nothing can, for instance, de- stroy the love of Americans for America. but the surrender to a few schemers of those vast inheritances of natural power and wealth which belong to the whole nation. As we may see any day, Canada seems to many Americans a better Amer ca, and on these gross. selfish materi- alistic grounds alone. Ireland is land greatly beloved of her sons; Ireland, I suppose, may and will get home rule: but Ireland will never hold the Irish for the reason that there are far more alluring homes elsewhere We are on the way to quite conquer the helm weh' bacillus, along with those of typhoid and small pox. It dies in healthy gastric juices. Man is always seeking "a better coun- try" Nor Is 1t enough to say that this tra6uces the hearts of patriots, islanders human nature. and does infinite injustice to the sons of veterans. We shall never get away from the physiological fact that man is primarily a stomach. endowed with intelligence and adaptibiity. Add to persistent hunger the suspicion of in justice, and patriotism will wither in that soil.
 In any event. Ben Tllett, the secre- tary of the Docker's union, was master of England in mid-August, 1911. In spite of the hoodlum element the strikers kept wonderful order. One proof of it Is that the hospitals were supplied with lee and milk The weather was hot, but the strikers marched. listened to their lead CTS and rested on their unity and sta