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THE MAUI NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911
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SATURDAY.
SEPTEMBER 9, 1911
Roosevelt and the Canal.
THE digging of the Panama canal is making wonderful progress
and the interesting thing is that the pace of the work steadily ac.
celerates as it proceeds. Month after month records for active
work are broken. Now comes the statement that the actual digging in
the canal will be finished next year, yet this record of material progress
is not the proudest boost that may justly be made in this connection.
As the New York Tribune puts it:
"Great, however, as are these material achievements, we should give
still higher rank to others upon which the visiting engineers laid much
stress. The reproach of the Lesseps regime was not that it did not do
much work, for it did; but rather that it was unable to avoid a state
of affairs which was scarcely exaggerated by Froude when he said that
in all the world there was perhaps not concentrated in any other spot
"so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous
dungheap of moral and physical abomination." Our administration
has been efficient from the engineering point of view, but, more than
that, it has been morally and physically clean. Yellow fever and pecu
lation, malaria and debauchery, have alike been eliminated from the
isthmus, or so suppressed and held in check as to be nejrligible. That
is the real greatness of the achievement."
Roosevelt set this thing going. As he said himself some overparti
cular people are still finding fault with him because he began the work
and stopped talking about it. These critics did not exactly like the
way Roosevelt did things and would have much preferred to go on
talking. Indeed, they are still talking, but the work goes on, and
Colonel Goethals says that the canal will be open for business on Janu
ary 1, 1914.
It is the biggest thing ever done in the history of the world, and it
will be Roosevelt's monument.
Honolulu News Letter.
The clean appearance of the streets of Wailuku in comparison with
those of Honolulu and Hilo, has been favorably commented upon more
than once by tourists. We have to thank our efficient district overseer
for this, and it is something every citizen should take a pride in.
According to all accounts the price of wood should take a slump.
If the predictions of some people come true the market will be gutted.
Those in need of firewood may iret it for the asking if they hold off
long enough.
Thrift.
(By Marguerite Ogden Bigelow.)
HRIFT is the latest born of all the Virtues, the daughter
of Prudence.
She had no share in the primitive life of our early pro
genitors; for they lived near to Nature, and Nature is
ever extravagant.
Her sisters are Temperance and Self Control; and while she
is still young, she must depend upon them for support.
Yet she is very strong and powerful, and soon we shall all
be obliged to depend on her.
Thrift is the plainest of the Virtues. She is not lovable,
because she demands too much.
But though she may let us suffer today, she is certain to
provide for tomorrow,
She looks forward for a long, long way, and safeguards' chil
dren yet to be.
She lays her heaviest burdens on the young; and those who
do not know her in their youth may fail to win her
sternly conditioned prizes.
She is none too generous, but she has no quarrel with Gen
erosity. She merely conserves what the other Virtues
will spend.
She is enamored of Health, and presides over the continent
heart and mind, the reserved energies.
She will be honored of all nations in the days that are to
come.
Verily she is the latest born and the plainest of all the Vir
tues; but she shall bear two beautiful children, whose
names are Security and Peace.
(Continued froln page I.)
something that will pay lictter. I
don't believe Wakefield had any
thing against Tripp. McStocker,
another of the high and mighty,
may have had because he was active
in the overthrow of the Queen when
Tripp was let out of his job in the
jail and he occupied an important
place in the custom house when he
was let out there- It is a coinci
dence that he should be in two dif
ferent places when an old tinier
like Tripp should be thrown out of
a job. Tripp needs no charitable
sympathy. lie lias lands and houses,
lie has alwas been economical and
was void in composition of many of
the characteristics of the sailor for
he could have a dollar in his. pocket
at any time and pass a saloon with
out spending. It is said of hini
that he wears today a suit of clothes
that was made for him when he was
warden of the jail; that the cloth
did not cost him anything and the
making was done by a tailor who
was serving a term. I don't believe
it.
plain United Mates which everyone
n the ear understood. It is said
the arresting officer treats! his pris
oner badly and it may lie that he
d but I am a witness to the fact
that when the soldier left the car
fter the rumpus lie was blood from
his head to his heels and I'll swear
the policeman had nothing to do
with it. A newspaper had an ac
count of the affair and volunteered
the information that there were
three U. S. A. officers on the car
ho refused the appeal of the ollieer
for aid in getting the man off the
car. this was not quite correct as
Major Timborlake made plain aftor-
anl in a statement that conveyed
le information that if an officer
lad been there the men would have
been lined up on the -sidewalk and
marched to jail. An investigation
into the affair by the officers at the
post ended with putting four of the
men coi.cerned in the uard house.
Since then a sergeant with side arms
has lieeif on guard on tins line of the
lVn tania Street cars, getting on at
the barn and leaving at the Pawaa
junction. Talk about respect for
the uniform.
Chamber of Commerce Meets
The Chamber of Commerce met
Friday afternoon. The Board of Trus
tees unanimously elected Mr. F. F.
Baldwin president. After the trustees
adjourned, the chamber took up
the several matters of importance
which were to come before it.
The first matter to come before
the Chamber was the McGregor's or
Kihei landing.
The discussion was general, and
it was the opinion of every member
present that what Maui wanted
was a steamer landing. The great
difference of opinion was where this
ships landing should be.
A motion was offered that the
$9,000 be expended at Kihei, pro
vided future appropriations could
be spent with a view to finally
building a ship's wharf. Motion
lost.
It was then moved that the matter
be deferred till the next meeting in
October, and that the Inter Island
company be asked for their opinion
on the subject. Motion carried-
Regarding the protection of the
Wailuku-Kahului water works,
committee was appointed to invest!
gate the intake of the waterworks in
lao Valley and report at the next
meeting.
A request from Alexander Hume
Ford for an advertisement for the
Mid-Pacific magazine to cost $25
per month, was not granted by the
Chamber.
Proposed Excursion.
It is proposed to run an excur
sion to Honolulu regatta day. Th
Inter Island people have agreed to
send h special boat to Kahului
leaving here Friday evening and re
turning Sunday, providing one hun
dred people signify their intention
to go. Anyone wishing to take ad
vantage of this excursion shoul
communicate with Mr. Walker, at
the Puunene Store, at the earliest
possible moment, so he can notify
me inter isianu now many are
going.
Airs. i. f. cook, ana me ennaren re
turned to Honolulu Tuesday. They have
been on Maui for several months.
In looking over some of the sta
tistics of the census I find that
Oahu in general and Honolulu in
particular still have a right to lord
it over Hawaii in general and Ililo,
lso in particular. The occasional
visitor to Ililo remarks the prepon-
erence of Orientals. Almost from
the moment of his leaving the
steamer he butts into a Japanese
village and remains in it until com
fortably fixed in the Hilo Hotel.
The average man would consider, I
fancy, that he was in Tokio. Ha
waii is a big island and Hilo a
growing Uriental city but tor an
that I find that Oahu has 222 more
Japanese than will be found on the
sland of Hawaii. Of Chinese we
have C.21G majority while of foreign
born residents of all sorts we have
Hawaii beat to a pulp with a ma
jority of 9,510. The advent of a
hui of uniondocklaborers who swear
by the great God of their forefathers
that no blooming horny handed son
of toil shall become a member of
the organization there will be an
exodus of good labor from that isl
ind and the men who are trying to
help Ililo grow will be the losers
You may recall my remarks of i
few weeks ago relative to the Wash
ington Society for the Encourage
ment of Respect for the Uniform of
a United States Soldier and a sug
gestion that the encouragement be
gin in the forts and camps of the
regiments. I had an occular de
monstration of the correctness of
my suggestion last Friday night on
my way home in a late car. There
were as passengers a number of sol
die'rs from Fort Ruger, a few civi
Hans and one or two belated women
Most of the soldiers had been look
nig upon the dago when it was reu
and one became insultingly obscene
and was remonstrated 'with. But
the wine had him in its clutches
and he resented any interference
with the freedom which all Amer
icans are supposed to enjoy. He
wanted a scrap and got what he was
looking for. By the time the car
reached the McKinley High School
there was an incipient riot and
curses and blows fell simultaneously
on the midnight air. The crew of
the car was attacked for daring in
terference and the motorman lost
most of his front teeth in the affray
In some way the police were com
municated with and thirty-fiv
minutes afterward the patrol wagon
with one lone Hawaiian appeared
Johnny Colburn was on the street
having been attracted by the shout
ing and while under the impression
that one of his sons might have got
into a row he came down to help
him out. When the Hawaiian ofli
cer arrived Colburn swelled up an
told the policeman something
Hawaiian winch no one on the car
understood but it was suspecte
there wa3 something of an admoni
tion not to spare the haole when he
got him away from the crowd. One
sergeant in citizen clothing pieke
out the main offender and told tl
officer to lock him up after request
The lecture delivered by Dr. Mc-
Connack was most interesting to the
three physicians and a large number
of laymen anil women present. He
pointed the way for sanitation and
larniony and the world stands still
waiting for the time when the So
ciety for the Alleviation of the Dis
cord among Allopaths shall get in
its deadly work. He told, of his ex
periences in towns throughout the
United States where every man he
questioned said the only physician
the county worthy of trust was
in
the one he had in his family. I
cannot say that the same condition
exists here but I can and do say
that we have here in Honolulu the
nest bunch of hammer wielders
among the physicians that can be
ound in any section of the world.
The first meeting of the S F. T. A.
O. D. A. A. was held in the office
of a specialist Sunday afternoon
when my prophesy came true- Dr.
Raymond called for harmony in
the fraternity and he wants it so
much that he is willing to bring in
all of the Japanese physicians who
are just now on the edge. Appar
ently the doctors are willing to affi
liate with the little brown men in
spite of the Dillingham bill. It's a
cinch that there is going to be a
bond among the doctors that will
conic as near being a trust as any
thing tho Standard Oil Company
ever put on the public.
I am amused at the utterances of
Editor Sheba in a recent issue of
the Advertiser. Sheba is surely a
leader among some of his people but
there are some he cannot pull with
a team of mules and among them I
find about seven-eighths of the army
of field laborers. Sheba lost his
grip on them when he helptid the
planters in their fight against higher
wage. You and I will agree that he
was quite right. If you do not I
agree with him anyhow because I
do not toil in the fields trying to
make three stools grow where none
grew before, however. The chances
for the Japanese leaving Hawaii on
account of their relatives being shut
out are remote. I will ask any one
who disagrees with me to tell me
the name of the Japanese laborer
who prefers to go back home and
load coal at Nagasaki at fifteen Ben
a day, to working hero in Pa nidi se
at twenty dollars and upward a
month. "Why this shiver of Shcha's
is laughable. The Japanese have
greater privileges in free America
than in their own homes in the far
East. The argument Sheba put up
is intended to scare tho very people
who has made 'residence in the isl
ands possible for him the planters.
I would like to ask him what rights
or privileges an American has in
Japan. I would like to ask hMi.v
how much real property a citizen of
the United States can hold in Japan
in his own name. Up to dsue the
treaty with Japan is too one sided
to suit the average American and it
seems preposterous to me" that any
Japanese in the island should have
the nerve to advance such things as
Sheba speaks of. . I will not sell
any of my sugar stock in fear of the
Japanese leaving the fields and going
back to Nagasaki; Formosa will not
accommodate enough for them to
put our industry in jeopardy.
(Continued oil pnge 6.)
NOTICE.
The postponed annual meeting of the
Haleakala Ranch Co., will be held at
the Maui Agricultural Co.'s office in
Paia, Maui, at 3 p. m. , on Monday, Sept.
a.1). 19".
STANLEY RICHARDSON,
Secretary
Sept. 9, 16, 23.
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