The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-02


fahlrh A hundred iinestaaaHss N
ilfe iH which ths fnfntf d sdpl,otfd
% b. interested afc 10 tt placed apsa
the free ilsi ~ TIE senate follows tht
house IN voilnn this supplemental
mraaare through. DfuHed meat, agii.
cultural machinery, harness. boots and
shoes. nrmr lumber, cotton, barginr.
salt and many kindred articles are 10
come IN duty free, n tho bill becomes
law, and the Democratic theory 4 that
the prices Of all these articles will be
come lees 70 The farmer as we'll ~ 20
other consumers
Pineappies Threatened.
Representative Needham, Of Cali.
fornia q Republican member Of WAYS
and means, now declares that the
Democrats intend also 20 revise the
agricultural schedules, including pine.
apples, raisins, lemons oranges and 30
on, although il was supposed that those
articles would not be touched at this
session Of congress. At the senate end
Of the Capitol, however, one hears now
much talk Of the prospect that after
the Canadian Reciprocity bill has be.
come law and the senate has discussed
some Of the other pending tariff bills
for a while there will be a general dis.
position to adjourn.
ot course all the gossip in that con.
connection is quite unsatisfactory, be-
cause IL is indefinite. No one knows
yet just how tho senate will line up on
many Of these tariff matters and par.
tieularly how the insurgent senator's,
who hold the balance of power, will
rtNn L..
speculation on those subjects till after
the house has enacted its several tariff
bills. For the present there is Demo
cratic disposition TO delay action upon
the wool and woolen schedule, although
1t is expected that the house will re-
duce those duties and also the cotton
duties Thus far there is little or no
talk about touching the duties on sugar.
Because of the fact that sugar is a
splendid revenue producer, the Demo
Gratis will apparently be slow about
tinkering with that schedule.
War Scare overdone.
Japanese war talk at Washington
has stopped short, since the President
thwacked vigorously in the head, that
last story of secret treaty with
Mexico for coaling station on Magda-
lena Bay, There are some mysteries
about the administration g dealings
with Japan-mysteries that lot of
people would like to see cleared up
but these should not be confounded
with the war scare pure and simple,
which has been through some exceed
ingly vigorous stunts during the last
four or five months.
1t is now pretty generally accepted
in Washington that this latest Japanese
war scare, which Jared forth so hor.
ribly of recent morning, with many
details about Ambassador Wilson dis. |
covering the secret treaty between
Mexico and Japan, rushing to Washing
ton to acquaint President Taft and the
cabinet, and the immediate orders to
troops to proceed to the Mexican
border, was conceived and written
right here in Washington. Strangely
enough almost identical stories appear
ed in different papers with different
date lines. Some of the stories were
dated from Mexico City and others
from San Antonio. 1t is also known
that naval officer here in Washington
was trying to fill the heads of some of
his newspaper friends with just such a
story some days in advance of the
morning when it appeared.
Apart from the serious aspect of
Japanese problems, such as immigra-
tion and the prohibition of rights to
aliens to own lands in divers States,
the Japanese war scare business has
now been done so frequently and so
violently that it has been greatly over.
done and thus shas proven a boomerang
to its promoters. Since the last scare
was launched, a very businesslike senti
ment has developed here at Washing |
ton that such agitation is very close to
criminal. The country is coming to
understand it, too, and, of course, will |
not be impelled to large appropriations
for the army and the navy through
and such efforts to boost public senti-
ment in favor of larger armament.
The administration continues very
confident that the immigration question
will be regulated satisfactorily by the
Japanese authorities. The accuracy of
that view is, of course, to be demon.
strated. President Taft is constantly |
twanging the strings of the lutte which
sounds forth with international har-
mony, He wants to quiet agitation
that would stir up i'll feeling between
the two peoples and reasons that in no |
doing he is accomplishing much toward
the solution of the so-called japanese
problems.