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CAREY Main St. near Market, Wailuku, Maui 1 Read the MAUI NEWS. Jefferson's Commercial Policy. In these iiii'tr times (if dual TaritTs, forcijrn airtrressions and ayrceinrnts, executive nullilieatwn anil nmhitiniis political effort to ot tain office through the reduction of prosperity, ii is refreshing to review tlie triuls of our early statesmen, and o gain courasre from ihcir course. Tl .oinas Jefferson was our first Secretary of State, and that Depart mer.t had charge of commerce and navigation. Afterward these in terests were placed with the Trea sury Department. Congress called for an investigation as to the "Pri vileges and Restrictions" of foreign countries affecting our commerce and navigation, which was made by Mr. Jefferson in 1)3. Alexander Hamilton had previously made his fainaus report on "Manufactures," as the head of the Treasury Depart merit. Each of these reports was weighty and influential, and so will continue to the end of time. Mr. Jefferson had a theory of "free commerce," which he thought would be advantageous for all nations to carry out, but as this seemed impos sible of accomplishment, he had the wisdem to favor full Protection for American coinmi ree and navigation. He detested especially the rapacious policy of Great Britain for its unfair ness toward his country. Said he in his sagacious paper: If particular nations grasp at undue shares, and more particularly if they seize on the means of the United Stales to convert them into aliment for their own strength End withdraw them entirely from the support of those to whom they belong, dofensire and protecting measures become necessary on the part of the nation whose marine resources are thus in vaded, or it will be disarmed of its defer.se, its productions will lie at the mercy of the nation which has possessed itself exclusively of the means of carrying them, and its policy may be influenced by those who command its commerce as it is the case to day. The carrying of its own commodities, if once established in another channel, caunot be resum ed in the moment we desire If we lose the seamen and artists mechanic whom it now occupies, we lose the present means of marine defense, and time will be requiste to raise up others when disgrace or losses shall bring to our feelings the error of hav ing abandoned them. Mr. Jefferson recommended as fol lows: 1. Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions or prohi bits them ultotether it may be pro per for us to do the same by, theirs; first burdening these productions which they bring hero in competition with our own of the same kind, selecting, next, such manufactures as we take from them in greatest quantity and which at the same time we could the soonest furnish to our selves or obtain from other countries; imposing on them duties lighter at first, but heavier and heavier after ward, as other channels of supply open. Such duties having the effect of indiret encouragement to domestic manufactures of the same kind, may induce the manufacturer to come himse'f into the States, where a cheaper subsistence, equal laws and avrnt for his wares, free of duty. may insure him the highest profits from his skill and industry. . . The oppressions on our agriculture in for eign ports would thus be made the occasion of relieving it from a depen dence on the counsels and conduct of others, and of promoting art, manu factures and population at home. 2. Where a nation refuses per irission to our merchants and factors to reside within certain parts of their dominions, we may, if it should be thought expedient, refuse residence to theirs in any and every part of ours or modify their transactions. 3. Where a nation refuses to re Cf ive, in our vessels, any productions but our own, we may refuse to re ceive in theirs any but their own pro ductions. 4. Where a nation refuses to con sider any vessel as ours which has not been built within our territory, we should refuse to consider theirs any vessel not built within their ter ritories. 5. Where a nation refuses to our vessels the carriage even of our own productions to certain countries un iler their dominion, we mignt refuse to theirs of every description the carriage of the same productions to the same countries. The establishment of some of these principles. by Great Britain alone has already lost us in our coinifieico with thit country find its possessions be tween eight And n,liie hundred vessels of near 4O.0U0 tons' burden, aceonliiig to tlie statements from official sources m which they have confidence. This involves a proportional loss of sea men, shipwrights and shipbuilding, and is too serious a loss to i droit fur' ther forbearance of some act u d re medy. It is true we must, expect some in convience in practice from the estab lishment of discriminating duties. But in this, as in so many other cases, we are left to choose between two evil-i. These inconveniences are nothing when weighted against the loss of wealth and loss of force which will follow our perseverance in the plan of indiscrimination. When or.ee it shall be perceived that we are either in the system or in '.he habit of giving equal advantages to those who extintruisVi our commerce and navigation by duties and prohibitions as to those who treat both with liberality and justice, liberality and iustice will be converted by ali into duties and prohibitions. It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to look for fair and equal access to market with our produc tions, or for our due share in the transportation of them, but to our own means of independence and the firm will to use thein. Nor do the inconveniences of discrimination me rit consideration. Not one of the rations before mentioned, perhaps not a commercial nation on earth, is without them. In the time of Jefferson Ire ogre in American fancy was the British King. In the imagination of the men now rattling around in the shoes of Jefferson and Hamilton it i the Ger man Emperor, a ruler who has yachts built and launched on Staten Island, but who sports a very fierce mus tache. It is believed we never be fore had an admlnisti atinn whose fear caused a nullification of law, b fore the decks of our enemy were cleared for action. Our citizens should review the times when our country was your.g and feeble, and take account of the courage then animating our public men, and com pare it with the timidity of the pre sent, when we have a population of eltfhty-five millions and all the ability to compel justice in commerce and navigation that any reasonable nation should wish to have. Our "Elephant" is not so large as a "Dinotherium," who sometimes perished because when he "laid down" he could not get up, but our beast is really becoming tco large to make his bed in the dust before any monarch of Europe. American Economist. Literary in Truth. Two or three generations ego Dr. Samuel Reed was one of the prominent physicians of Uoston. His large practise included many patients out side of the city limits, and these he visited in his buggy. One day he brought a new horse, with which lie wasmuch pleased null he Discovered that the animal had an insurmountable objection to bridges of all kinds and could not be made to cross one. As, at this period, it was necessary to cross some bridges in order to reach any one of the sur rounding towns, the doctor decided to sell the horse. He did not think it necessary to me tion the animal's peculiarity, but was much too honest to misro present him, and, after some thought, produced the following advertise ment which he inserted in a local paper. For Sale. A bay horse, warrant ed sound and kind. The only reasoa for selling is because the owner is obliged to leave li ston.--Lippin c ill's Magazine. Public Land Laws. President Roosevelt, 011 October 22, 1903, appointed a Public Lands Commission to report upon the con dition, operation, and effect of the present land laws, and to recommend such changes as are needed to effect the largest practicable disposition uf the the public lands to actual settlers who will build permanent homes upon them, and to secure in permanence the fullest and most effective u.-e of the resources of the public lauds. The Commission was composed of W. A. Richards, F. II. Newell and Gif- ford Pinchot. 1 1 has made two partial report,, from I he s-'cond of which tli" foljoiving extracts are made a they semi applicable to Hawaii, though t he conclusions were l eiiehi d aft''r an exa rnina ii.n into ceiidilioes on the Mainland and without reference to Hi'.waii. The iinportar.ee of the lau questions hi re, as will as it..-, present prominence, gives them local interest Thus: "The commutation clause of the homestead act is found on examma tion to work bad v. Three year's actual residence srould be required before commutation. "The desert land law is foutid to lead to land mononoly in many cases The area of a desert entry should be reduced to not exceeding 1(0 acres. Actual resiuV:ice for not less- than two years should be required, with the actual production of a valuable crop on one fourth tlie area and proof of an adequate water supply. "After thorough investigation of the graz'iv problem your Commission is opposed to the immediate appli cation of any rigid system to all graz ing lands, but recommends the follow ing flexible plan. "Authority should be givi n to the President to set aside grazing dis tricts by proclamation. "Authority should bp given the Secretary of Agriculture to classify and appraise the grazing value of lands in these districts; to appoint; such officers as the care of each dis trict may require; to charge and collect a moderate fee for grazing permits, and to make and apply ap propriate regulations to each dis trict, with the special object of bring ing about the largest permanent occupation of the country by actual settlers and home seekes. "The fundamental fact that charac terizes the situation under the prei sent public land law is this, that the number of patents issued is increas ing out of all proportion to tlie uunn her of new homes. "It is of the first importance to save the remaining public domain for actual home builders to the utmost limit of future possibilities and not to mortgage the future by any dispos ition of tlie public lands under which home making will not keep step with disposal. To that end your Commis sion recommends a method of range control under which present re sourcs may be used to the full withi out endangering future settlement. After the agricultural possibilities of the public lands have been ascer tained with reasonable certainty, provision should be made for dividing them into areas sufficiently largo to support a family, and no larger, and to permit settlement on such areas. It is obvious that any attempt to accomplish this end without a care ful classification of the public land t must necessarily fail. Attempts of this kind are being made from time to time, and legislation of this character is now, pending, modeled on the Nebraska tilO acre homestead law, which was passed as an experi ment to meet a certa'n restricted local condition. This act (33 Stat 547) permits the entry of (140 acre homesteads in the.sand hill region of that Slate. Whether in practice the operation of this law will result in put t ing any considerable number of settlers on the land is not yet deter mined. "You'- Commission is of opinion, after careful consideration, that geu enl provisions of this kind should not be extended until after thorough study of the public lands has been made in each particular case, because to do so controverts the fundamental pr inciple of saving the public lands for the home maker. Each locality should be dealt with on its own mer its. Even if it should ultimately appear that this law has worked beneficially in Nebraska it would by no means follow that such a law might be safely applied to other regions different in topography, soil, and climate. No arbitrary rule should be followed, but in each case the area of the homestead should be deter, mined by the acreage which may be necessary to support a family upon tlie land, either by agriculture, or by grazing if agriculture is impractic able. Until such acreage is deter mined for each locality, any new general law providing a method of obtaining title to the public lands would, in the opinion of your Com mission, be decidedly unsafe." Do not throw mvay your old books. Send them to the Maui Publishing Co., Printers and Hook-binders. Dealers in Adalina Patti,Wm. Perm, The Hawaii an, Roughrider, and Doctor Cigars Fitzpatrick Bros. CORNER HOTEL and FORT STS. I:op itale by KAIIULLI STORE, KAHLLUI. PAIA STORE, PA1A. SINGER SEWING MACHINES. 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