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THE MAUI NEWS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, J 906
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best quality for the money. We would not maku 1his
statement if we did not menu it
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BICYCLES AND
Naturalization Laws.
During the gast year evidence has
accumulated to confirm the expres
sions ci" n tained in my last two annual
Messages as to the importance of
revising by appropriate legislation
our system of naturalizing aliens. I
appointed last March a commission
to make a ea-eful examination of our
ituralizatiou laws, and to suggest
propria te measures to avoid the
.Lorious abuses resulting from the
improvident or unlawful granting of
citizenship. This commission, com
posid of an oflicer of the Department
of State, of the Department of Jus
tice, and of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, has discharged
the duty imposed upon it, and has
submitted a report, which will be
transmitted to the Congress for Us
consideration, and, J hope, for its
favoible action.
and Let Live Prices
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Honolulu
the Summer
nothing goes quite so well with a
meal as a glass of nice, cool b er.
It. refreshes, cheers and stimulates
that is if it's
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Lager
Other beer is just as wet but none
is just ns good. Try a ease if you
are unacquainted with its merits.
Choosing
a Kodak
Its easy here wherw there are so many
to choose from. We have every style of
the f unirus Eastman Kodaks, at prices
from $3 upward ami instruct purchasers
in the operating.
SUPPLY CO.,
FORT . .
STREET
Limited,
RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE
SPORTING GOODS
The distinguishing recommenda
lions of the Commission are:
First. A Federal bureau of natur
liz ition, to be established in the De
partmentof Commerce and Labor,
io supervise the administration of
the naturalization laws and to receive
returns of naturalizations (lending
and accomplished.
Second. Uniformity of natu'a
ligation certificates, fees to be charg
ed, and procedure.
Third. More exacting qualificat
ions for citizenship.
Fourth. The preliminary declara
tion f intention to be abolished and
no alien to be naturalized until at
least ninety days after the filing of
his petition.
Fifth. Jurisdiction to naturalize
aliens to be confined to United States
district courts and to such S'ate
courts as have jurisdiction in en
actions in wham tne amount in con
troversy is unlimited: In cities of ov3r
1(10.0 .0 inhabitants the United States
district courts to have exclusive
iurisdicaiion in the naturalization of
the alien residents of such cities.
&S0N,
ftlinngbulng on tlie Cliesnpenke.
The investigation of the death of
three longshoremen on an oyster
dredge near Deal Island, Md., under
eireuinstancis which indicate to news-
pr per observers that they had been
foully dealt with" by their masters,
hm brought to light the startling
fact that a veritable system of "white
salvcry" prevails in the oyster busi
ness it tl e upper "waters of Chesa
peake Hay. The newspapers, and
particularly the Philadelphia Press,
have adduced volumes of evidence
showing t hat t lie oyst er boat capt ains
have not only treated their men with
great brutality and injustice, tint that
that Ihev also rec uiv their crews by
"si angliaing," through unscrupulous
characters un.'er the guise of ship
pb'g agent?, the outcasls and unfor
tunates whn haunt the river fionts
'f Philadelphia and New York. This
nefarious trade and outrageoes prac
t;se are spoken of as having been
i.'oing on for a long time. The Phila
delphia Telegraph says that "the
tales of brutal coercion and even
mur der which are now being told are
simply repetitions of what has been
told for years." Gov. Kdwin War-
field, of Maryland, who is now taking
steps to put an end to the evil, speaks
of "the wholesales taking of life, and
inhuman and almost barbarous treat
ment of men regularly enrolled as
seamen aboard oyster-boats" as com
mon practice of long standing which
has cost, "more than three thousand
lives;" iind the Philadelphia Inquirer
remarks:
"there is really no' lung unique
about the stories of brutality that
come out of Chesapeake Bay. Seme
instances where men have been
shanghaied and driven to their deaths
on the Baltimore oyster-fruits have
just come to light in such a manner
as to hold the attention of the public,
that is all. As a matter of fact this
sort of thing has been going on for
many years. Outrageous treatment
of the men, cruelties almost beyond
belief, murders that have been com
mon enough this constitutes the
normal life aboard a Chesapeake
oyster dredger.
"All this has been known to the
authorities, and yet. nothing has been
done It is the shame jf Maryland-
The old sea tales it the period when
the oceans weie plowed by sailing
vessels and steamships were unknown
were always filled with the horrors
of life before the mast under brutal
captains, but even buccaneering days
could not furnish examples of cruel
ties more atrocious than to day ac
company the search for oysters in
the Chesapeake. So difficult has it
become to secure crews that men are
lured to Baltimore from Philadelphia;
that raw immigrants just landed on
the docks are drugged and thiown
aboard an oysterman and driven to
work under blows.
"This inhuman, this barbarous
system has never been broken up.
Under the noses of the authorities in
Baltimore shaghaing lias been going
on. The stories of cruelty brought
back by half starved and baalv bat
lered crews have gone for naught,
Baltimore lias been content to let
matters alone. The States of Mary
land can maintain an oyster navy to
drive boats from foroidden grounds
and to prevent Virginia dredgers
from encroaching on Maryland ter
ritory, but there is never any time
to search out the brutes who commit
crimes and carry on in s high-hand
eu a manner."
The oyster ureuging business is
now at its height; and Marshal Lang
hammer, of Baltimore, reports that
large numbers of impressed and ma!
1 reated seamen have escaped and
come to him asking for assistance,
lustice. and revei.ge. "The stories
I have heard from t.e lips of these
poor wretches," says- the marshal,
"have been heartrending;" and they
convince him that the rumors of
brutality aboard theoys'er fleet are
not exaggerated." The wrongs which
srem to be most commonly perpe
trated by these "iron hearted, hard
fisted sea wolves of the Chesapeake."
upon their employees are underfeed,
overwork, threaten, beat, and whip
them, and finally to cast ihrm ashore
without paying them the wages a
greed upon. The method resorted
to by the stopping agents to lure the
shangaied seamen aboard are graphi
cally illustrated by the following sto
ry related by a man named Grim, who
was" crimped" ly an agent in Phila
delphia. Says this victim, a s quoted
in The Press of that city:
"I was engaged by a runner m the
shipping office in Front Street, below
Walnut. There were about twelve
of us who were taken out to the Bal
timore & Ohio station. Before goin
there they gave us some rum -that
was the worst stuff I ever tasted. On
the way to Baltimore half the met,
were drunk. When we reached Bal
timore wc were hustled into a wagon
and taken to an office, where tin cups
of rum were again given u. Then
wo were taken aboard a small launch
and brought to the oys er boat. We
were nr sooner on tl e boat before
the cr.ptain and his two sons began
their brutal treatment. The captain
had a cha'ble-barreled shotgun, and
day after day he threatened to throw
us overboard. William Merz, who
came from this city, was on the boat,
and was sick from the first. He
would have died in the hold of the
vessel Two had not made a deter
mined stand to have him sent ashore.
They gave him water to drink in
which caobage had been boiled two
day before. Another man wassick,
whe:-. the captain dragged him across
a pile of oysters by the neck. He
declared that if he didn't slop play
ing sick he would send him where he
couldn't see daylight. A negro on
board was assaulted by the captain's
son and was brutally beattn aud
kicked."
The Pliila lelphia Press declares in
its report on the iHuation that it is
openly charged in Maryland that
political influence is largely responsi
ble for the long toleration of the
Chesapeake Bay outrages. "In many
instances," says The Press, "State
officials have shielded the guilty cap
tains." Other papers are also in
clined to tako this view, and further
moresetm t thiuk that on account
of the great political power which is
possessed by the mon engaged in the
oyster dredging business, the State
of Maryland will be unable single
handed to suppress tie trouble
Hence a call has been made upon the
federal Government for assistance,
which Government ' Warfi.'ld" has
heartily eudorsed in the following
words:
'As Governorof theState of Mary
land I will welcome an opportunity
to confer with Piesi.lent Roosevelt,
(Governor .fennypacker, and any
cthei State or Federal officials who
wish. to see eliminated a despicable
system, unparalleled for brutality."
Parts of the Presidents message.
Through the courtesy of Delgate
Kalanianaole we are in recept of the
presidents message parts of which
wo herewith give. To the Senate and
House of Representatives:
The people of the couutry continue
to enioyed great prosperity. Uu
doubtedly there will be ebb and
flow in such prosperity, and this ebb
aud flow will bo felt more or less by
all members of the community, both
by Ce deserving and the undeser
ving. Against the wrath of the
Lord the wisdom of man can not avail
in times of flood or drought human
Ingenuity cau but partially repair
the disaster. A general failure of
crops would hurt all of us. Again, if
the folly of man mars the general
well-being, theu those who are inno
cent of the folly will have to pay part
of the penalty incurred by those win
are guilty of the folly. A. panic
brought on by the npeeulative folly of
part of the business community would
hurt the whole business community,
But such stoppage of welfare, though
it might be severe, would not be last
irg. In the long run the one vital
factor in the permanent prosperity
of the country is the high individual
character of the average American
worker, the average American citi
zen, no matter whether his work be
mental or manual, whetner he be
farmer or wage-worker, business
man or professional man.'
In our industrial and social system
the interests of all men are so closely
intertwined that in the immense ma
jontof cases a straight dealing man
who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity
and industry, benefits himself must
also benefit "Others. Normally the
man of great productive capacity
who becomes rich by guiding the
lubor of many oilier men does so by
enabling them to produce more than
they could produce without his g;id
ance; end both he and they share in
the benefit, which comes also to the
public at large. The superficial fact
that the sharing may be unequal
must never blind us to the underlying
fact that there is this bharing, and
that the benefit comes iu some degree
to each man concerned. Normally
the wage worker, the man of small
means, and the average consumer
as well as the average producer, are
all alike helped by making conditions
BY AUTHORITY
Important.
On ai.d after December first, The
First National Bank of VVailuku will
sell money orders on all points in the
main land at 30 cents per hundred
dollars. Money orders on Honolulu
at 20 cents per hundred dollars.
Owing to the marked increase in the
bank's busim ss during the past year
it is enabled to reduce Its exchange
rate all along the line. Patronize
your home bank and you will always
receive prompt and courteous treat
ment.
NOTICE.
The regular quarterly meeting of
stockholders of the Maui Wine &
Liquor Co. Ltd. will be held at the
office of the Company, on Wednes
day, January 17th, 1906, at 7.30 P.
M.
The rcgulir annual meeting of
stockholders of the Maui Wine fc
Liquor Co. Ltd. will be held at tlu'
office of the Company, on Wednesday,
January 24th, 1906, at 7.30 P. M.
J. Garcia,
Secretary Maui Wine & Liquor Co.
Ltd.
Dec. 30, Jan. 6, 13. 20.
such that the man of exceptional
business ability receives an except
ional reward for his ability. Some
thing can be done by legislation to
help the general prosperity; but no
such help of a permanently beneficial
character can be given to the less
able and less fortunate, save as the
results of a policy which hall mure
to the advange of ah irdustrious and
efficient people who act decently;
and this is only another way of say
ing that any benefit which comes to
the less able and less fortunate must
of necessity come even more to the
more able more fortunate. If, there
fore, the less fortunate man is moved
by envy of his more fortunate brother
to strike at '.he conditions under
which they have both, though ua
equally, prospered, the result will
assuredly be that while damage may
come to the one struck at, it will visit
with an even heavier load the one
who strikes the blow. Taken as a
whole we must all go up or go down
together.
Hawaii
In my judgment immediate steps
should be taken for the fortification
of Hawaii. This Is the most import
ant point in the Pacific to fortify in
order to concerve the interests-, of
this country. It would be hard to
overstato the importance of this
need. Hawaii is too heavily taxed
Laws should be enacted setting
aside for a period of, say, twenty
years 75 per cent of the internal re
venue and customs receipts from
Hawaii as a special fund to be ex
ponded in the islands for educational
and public buildings, and for harbor
improvements and military and na
val defenses. It can not be too often
repeated that our aim must be to
develop the Territory of Hawaii on
traditional American lines. That
Territory has serious commercial
and industrial problems to reckon
with; but no measure of relief can be
considered which looks to legislation
admitting Chinese and restricting
them by statue to field labor aud do
mestic sevice. The status 04 servi
lity can never again be tolerated on
American soil. We can not concede
that the proper solution of its pre
bicms is special legislation admitt
ing to Hawaii a class of laborers de
nied admission to the other States
and Territories. There are obstacles
and great obstacles, in the way of
building up a representative Ameri
can community in the Hawaiian
Islands; but U- is not in the American
character to give up in the face of
difficulty. Many an American Coin
monweal'h has been built up against
odds equal to thoso that new con
front Hawaii.
No merelv half-hearted eiTort to
meet its problems as other American
communities have met theirs can be
accepted as filial. Hawaii shall never
become a Territory in which a govern
ing class of rich planters exists by
means of cool'e labor. Even if the
rate of growth of the Territory i
thereby rendered slower, the growth
mustoniy take place by the admis
sion of immigrants fit in thn end
to assume the duties and burdens of
full American citizenship. Our aim
must be to develop the Territory on
the samo basis of stable citizenship
as exists 011 this continent.
BY AUTHORITY
IN T II K CI KC LI I f CO U RT OF THE
SECOND CIRCUIT, TERRITORY
OF HAWAII, IN PKOBATK.
IN TH E M ATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF WILLIAM PATTULLO L.
BETT, DEO F. ASIC D,
Pursuant to proper proceedings in
probate heretofore had in that be
half in te Estate of William Pn Hullo
Belt, the undersigned, Jessie
Brockie Belt, on tne 8lh day of Jan
uary, A. v. iuuu, was ouiy appoint
ed Administrator, qualified as such,
and on the same day had issued to
her Letters if Administration re
said Estate.
All Creditors of said William Pat-
tullo L. Bett, deceased, and of said
Estate, are hereby notified to pre
seut their claims, duly authenticat
ed, and with the proper vouchers if
iny exist, even if the claim is secured
by mortgage upon real estate; to
the undersigned either at her resi
dence or place of business, in Wailuku,
County of Maui, Territoty of Hawaii,
or to D. H. Case, in said Wailuku,
within SIX MONT dS from the date
of this notice; (said date being the
date of the first publication of said
notice) otherwise su3h claim, if any,
will bo forever barred.
Dated at Wailuku, Maui,
January 13, 190(i.
JESSIE BROCKIE BETT,
Administrator of the Estate of
WILLIAM P. L. BETT, DECEAS
ED. . ,
D. H. CASE,
Attorney for Administrator.
Jan. 13-20-27 Feb. 3-1906.
NOTICE.
W. C. PEACOCK & CO. Ltd.., of-
fer the following STANDARD
BRANDS of FINE WINES and LI
QUORS all of which are fully GUA
RANTEED. POMMERY & G RENO
Champagne KUINART FILS Cham
pagne SPARKLING HOCK and
MOSELLES.
MARTE BRIZARD & ROGER'S
FINE COGNAC BRANDIES ACME
RYE WHISKEY PEACOCK'S OLD
Private stock BOURBON WHIS
KEY.
ANDREW USHER SPECIAL
RESERVE SCOTCH WHISKEY
the celebrated BLACK & WHITE
SCOTCH WHISKEY.
The ONLY "FREEBOOTER"
GIN, BOORDS LONDON DRY GIN.
"PABST" EXPORT & BLUE
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(the "KING OF ALL BOTTLED
BEERS.
COMMENDADOR PORT & EM-
PERADOR SHEl-tRY, BACCHUS
BRAND OF CALIFORNIA WINES. -
WHITE ROCK WATER and GIN
GER ALE.
If your local dealer does not carry
these goods, write to us direct and
we will supply thm.
W. C. PEACOCK & CO. Ltd.
Jan. 6-13-20-27.
NOTICE.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF
THE KAUPAKALUA WINE AND
LIQUOR COMPANY LIMITED.
At a Special meeting gf the Stock
holders of the Kaupakalua Wine and
Liquor Co. Ltd. held at Makawao,
Maui on the 31st. day of December
1905, the following named persons
were confirmed as the duly elected
officers of said Company to hold office
until the first Saturday after the
4th day of July 1906:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
J. M. Vivas President.
A. S. Medeiros Secretary
A. F'
Tavares Treasurer
AUDITORS
Macicl, Manuel Jose and J. R.
J. V.
Sousa.
Makawao, Maui, January 2nd. 1906.
A. S. Medeiros Secre
tary Kaupakaluo Wine and Liquor
Company Ltd.
Jan. 6-13-20.
NOTICE.
The regular Annual meeting of
stockholders of the Kahului Whole
sale Liquor Company Limited will bo
held at Kahului Maui in the office ol
said company on Wednesday January
24, 1906 at 7 o'clock P. M.
II. HAYASIII
Secretary Kahului Wholesale
Liquor Company Limited.
January 13-20.
FOR SALE.
International Encyclopedia
(17
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Pony Premo Camera No. 5.(Plates
4x5).
Black Walnut Bedroom Suite, Sin
ger Sewing Machine, Child's White
Enamelled Iron Crib, Glascock Baby
Jumper.
MRS. BETT.
Puunene,
Maui,
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