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f W Bfv W 11' ML. &-v s TpE IffPEpEWDEMT. TUESDAY, MAY 7, .1895. j TELEW1QNE 02 it' Political- Prisoners. V Wo have in a former issue pointed out to tho government that the soro spot in the Hawaiian's heart to-day is . tho political prisoner, : and tho treatment that .is dealt -to him by tho authorities. Cho Independent desires to teH tho truth. Nothing sensational will he found in its columns poses' or help to continue tho ill fdCling iipw existing and daily being promoted. Tho Makaainana, a leading Hawaiian newspaper, publishes in its issue to-day an alleged report of the treatment of the prisoner's now kept at Kahalii; Onorhea. Hawaii. A letter lias been. Tccelvecl,it is claimed by a relation of ono of the prisoners now in Hilo, in which it is staled that the eransr sent to Hawaii are not. treated as' they should beror, : as yo are assured, tho desires them to be treated. They claim that they hardly overtasto poi, their main and natural food. - They claim that half-cooked rice is 'their staple food. The Hawaiians in Hilo- it, is stated, have' offer; cd to furnish the prisoners with all -necessary-poi. "VThd offer, was declined, although no 'charges for the food to be fur nished were exacted, ix, . is claimed that the' men, ..have to work 10 hours a day in damp and wet w'cathor, and that thev feel broken dqWn in health" and spirit. They say theyconiplain acids are used1' as punishment' dn their bodies or poisons administered to them.' : . ' ' J , . So far the - Truth or n.o.truth these tales of woo and cruelty will bo re-? peateel and the co'nctliatiqn for which all conservative patriots work be frustrated. It will be well for tho .government' to-in vestigato.' tho ' . complaints al though thoy may not Have been officially received,.and if ' any ono in office is to blame, and there is oho scintilla of truth ' jn - the ' statements, to promptly punish tho offender, and replace him with a res. ponsible roan'who wi,l work in tho true of, Mr. Woje's .cabinet. As a reverse to the gloomy picturo portrayed by tho Maka ainana, w.o publish a fow items colony is in charge of Mrs. Kekonn Pilipo, and tho pooplo cypress themselves, fis highly satisfied. ',V'Tho government jtheivand granted two for the protection of' tho women . '. v and .' it smlurcn .. now placed auiong a promiscuous population of foreigners, Japanese and rooms on the promises. Tho wife of Kaimimoku, a political prisoner, on Sunday. Tho bereaved husband was immediately permitted to proceed to his hohic, and thero weep over his. dead wife. Tho guard who, as a that might sor.vo political matter of course, escorted tho i 1 1 p 11 i prisoner cwvo. Jinn tno iuucsc liberty V'itliin the bounds of his duty',, arid wo'.may add that the prisoner appeared in his own clothes and. attended tho funeral yesterday. A collection was 'taken up a short whilo ago for .the bene fit of the .destitute, families of tha 'politjcal prisoners. Tho individual r members of the government subscribed liberally, and the sum of 1109.70 was collected witnm . iour. weeks. The nionoy sb collect ed, has beci carefully distributed and much relief has" been -given. ' Abalanc& of 777.40 is. now injthe hands of tho .Mr. Abr. Fernandez, and it is safe to say that our charitable community w.ill not, lose liight ofhis deserving mqvemont which it necessarywe hope continue, for With these circumstances before us, it is difficult to believe? the 'report ifrbm Hilo, but it will bo 'wise for tho to show that' the treatment of prisonmont and oxilo by tho --? i ;. : ... tt .;, . .! p ii. tt..... :. n.. v.Vin nnhtical prisoners ,m llo nolulu leavos no roproach .o"rt tho government, . and that everything., has been done to. ameliorate the unfortunate condition of the prisoners, as we'll as tho. hardships . now incumbent on their -families' The' government has givon 10 rooms at tho old Depot' to families -of the - .....' -. - mi. i:n.i political prisoners Tho little lUinaS OI tUO XLUWUUUU crnmont. Tho question of tho damages done to the said gontlomeq..fnvfinancial as well as 'personal regards y.as'dwjelt on at length, and tho Minister of. Foreign Affairs promised to .causo an immediate investiga tion and, as thoro was no Greek Oonsul in Hawaii, to pursuo said investigatipri .'through tho Greek Minister to London. HE. McINTYRE & BRO. ANI1 DEALEU ' t r. o, li.ox us, - rU4' ;Grbcerie, .Prpyisipns & Feed':; TSow Gooils Keco'.yeiTliy Every FaAkct from tlio EAstcra Stfttfl oncl Eurpio; - 1 7 ' ' ' . ' .' . I- , .HI" '"? ' CALIFOltNIA r BY- EYEltY - S'JCEAMEIt; ; ' iill' " '' " v:.-;," -- '. --;' AH Orders fnHlifully Attended Qoods Dellvonl,to nny ItAKI Oiideiw pouciEi .' . SAxisrario.x.auAnANKED ;l, JSABT COltNEU AND KJNO BTltEETJj UCC iiftaHKvW.li" l(' Gambling. Now that Bports are in full J blast and nthlotics,. baseball, 'boating" and' horse races 'are tho topics of tlio dayv.it is' well to throw put a warning against tho gambling spirit. which during past years has pervaded this community and nearly succeeded in killing-' all true sports. Mr. Richards who is a gonuino and honest and tfho has done mdeh to bring baseball in tho Ka- mchamoha schools to tho high standard of to-day, made a forcible appeal ju favor of "clean" sport a short while ago in .a local journal. Tho following articlo from tho Forum con-, densed for Public Opinion will help tb show that the battle against "gambling" is' not alone waged in missionary Ha waii but finds a powerful echo all over tho world. We may- yet to-day be able to read Rev.' Newman Smyths article and striking .our 'breast oxclajra. "Thanks" that wo are not like these." But if effort 'is not made; if things arc allowed to go along as they naw do in these fair isles, tho day is hot distant when we must admit 'our guilt .and bond pur heads to every word said by tho preacher in tho Forum, For the gambling spirit is rampant in. this town. . The writer says as follows: . At prosont tbo lino o. most. popular nnd consequently "most of gambling nro tho botting on atholot g.amoa, tho policy-shop, and the whero tho ''rAces aro played." With regard to tlio former comparatively mdro inuocorit practice of botling m connootion government to have a fairand witU UMo. Bf,oli8' ?nyon0 7 . v1., . ',- -' . -, ' r caros'toroad tho coiumns of.tuo impartial invesugauon, aim a clqso examination of tho pr'iS' oners npw confined at Onomea. Whatover tho report, will be the lNDErKNDENT will always be ready to publish it, and tho Makaainana will not bo behind jn doing ,jujBtW jvhoro justice is due. More Comingi - It seems that every country in Europo has a' bone, to 'pick with Hawaii. In tho A tlantes, a Greek paper publisliediriNew York', appears la report in which it is stated that tho Greek Senate in .compliance with art interrogation of a pro minoiit senator, has' taken1? up the treatment of Messrs. Cam- ariqos and Xiycurgus, Greek subjects who' recently have been subjected to illegal lm- lottery papers for somo d:yS before a grout foot-ball game may form an idea not ouly of tho manner in which tho higher education in this country is running to tho spectacular, but also of tho extent to whifch college games aro bocomine mirvovors rto tho' public of tho vulgarizing habit of botting. Oollogo -athletics aro tbroatonod in this country with tho 'same poril which js said tq have contributed to tho .decline of tho groat games inQrooce, thoy doclinojl as they becamo mercenary. Tho second prevalent mothod of g'onorating a. taste for betting and educating tho people into gamblers is tho poculiar institution known as tlfo policy shop. It rofiuiros but Jittlo apparatus foiTits businoss; and tho most simple-minded can ploy. it. It consists' simply in hotting up:-on numbers, or combinations of numbors, to bd drawnon givon' sorios of figures. Policy playing is tho thriving offspring of tho In it tho' poorest may wagor their piUauco, and largo odds may bo offered thorn, Somo idoa of tho monoy takon by. these gamblers, mostly from tho pooror olassos, may bo gained from tho faot that a slnglo in Now Haven, n bno of tho loss favorable locations for his business, overy wook --- f from four hundred' to soven to tho policy head quarters in that city. Only nflor two yoars of dotormiuod tiloit in NowHavon has the. way into the jail boon opened for some of thoso '''.' robbora of tho wages, of the poo' plo; but tho success which such ofl'ort is now mooting ;in that city may sorvb ' as an oncouragoraont for a needed persistent orusado aguiustina evil in other citios. . NA third form of popular has lately bepn brought to publip'attolition. by tho Agitation against it;.nBovoral States; ?Tbo pool-rooms in which tho "races: aro' -.played," or tho protonded ooirirnission"hoiisu8 which transmit bots to tho races, havo lately bocomo a flourishing ngonoy for gambling,. .., with liousos dan urancii omuos at tno c&ntors on ponula'tibn, and runuors'and phono connections reaching out for tho country fradd . Oar oitios cannot po'rmit pool-soiling 'nil tho. yoar round 'bn tHo rooipR of horses, without sowing a crop of dishonesty and defalcations among clerics and loyoes in positions of trust. I'lioso States which luvo hot .amondod end sharponod Hioir'gehoral gambling statutes to moot this poculiar kind of betting, will noocl to tuko vigilaut action, or tho managers ot these rooms, driven from' Now York, Connoctiout, and oven Now Jersey, by rooont legislation will transfer tlioir operations-, races, pool-rooms, ' tolegraph and all to thoso Statos whoro tho laws offer to. them, tlio least resistanco.' form and ndequato legislation is nooded all over the country in ordor to wrostfrom this gambling grood tho spoils of tho wagos of tho people; which ii" gathors in largo, quantitios whorovpr it is purmittod to show itB rapne'ous hand. Au intorstato law, forbidding under heavy ponulties tho uso of telegraphic fucilitios for this purpose or running by companies of wiros inti kuowii gambling ronms, might cut off with ono blow Uib main artery of this body, of, corruption. Observations . After tho basoball gamo. the oxtra cars bn Borota.niu street woro hold, crowded with more than a quarter of an hour to nwalt tho pjssngo of tho regular car from town. toudont l'aiu ought to put in, a switch about Alapai streotto annoyanco' to patrons of tho tramways. All the mnohinory of a contest-ed olootiojv whs put in operation yostorday, -at groat expenao.to the country, although there was rtTilir t bug.onij; iMidato. Tho pur Solon a of tlio past two and a quarter years do not know it all. It is to bo' hoped that the first oloctod Legislature sinco tho monarchy will not loavo this flaw in tho law uncorrected Itis fbi'tunato that Mr. Eobort son should' have seeurod tho nomination of tho only organized, party iu oxistonoo on this island. His proved "capacity for public nffura makes lii'm vory much nocdod amongst tho almost ex clusively inexperionood thotfgh intelligent and honest men constituting tho House of Yot it is not certainly a matter for public congratulation that thoi'o should bo olootions without oontosts. Election campaigns nro uncxcollod for obtaining expressions of tho will of tlio pooplo on matters nlFdoting their wolfaro. Thoy aro also ihvaluablo in their oducative offoct upon tho popplo thouisoivesT It is to bo hoped tho.presontoloction will bo tho laBt of jug'hand.lod politics in this country; Trusts. In yostorday'a issue wo dallcd attontion to tho Oil trust which' for tho second timo dominates our looal marko't, and foroos tho pooplo to pay for korosono oil any exorbitant figure which tho trust may sco fitto placo on that necessary artialo. Tho bnttlo against tho gigantic trusts iu tho United States. continues unabated, but tho diflioultios and ohstaolos which tho pooplo moot soom insurmountable if m(flt radical measures aro nt ndo'ptod Tho following paragiaph from tho S. h Wave gives an idoa of tho sontimont in tho Stntos: Our attontion has booh directed to recont Vloolsion of tho United States Supr6mo Court whi"h, while not holding tho 'Sherman Anti Trust'Aot" to bo Unconstitutional, doos dcolaro that it can havo no application to combinations such ' as tho Sugar Trust: Tho prevailing opinion of tho Court holds that that institution is ongagad primarily iu manu facturing, and only secondarily hi soiling, and, thoroforo, cannot bo considered us a combination in restrain of falling -within tho of Congress. This dcoision, our rospondont concludes, summarily 'knocks out all hopo of ovor rog ulating tho operations of tho Oil Trust by Congressional enactment. Tho decision, it is truo, practically nullifies tho act, so far as its oporations boar upon combinations similar to tho sugar trust; but it settles tho law and defines tho limit beyond which Congress cannot go, nnd thib'is something. If the pooplo really Hosiro to bring thoso oonimeroial giants under tho regulating in- of Congress, thoy may easily dtf So by -an nmondment to tho Constitution. of both Houses doom, it necossary, Congress must propose amendments to tho Constitution, or on tho application ot the Legislatures of two-thirds of tho sovoral Statos, shall call a convention for proposing amende monts, which in oither caso shall bo valid whon ratified bv tho Logislaturos of three-fourths of .the several Stales or by a convention of throo - fourths thoroof. There is a probability that somo 'such action will be takon, Hostility toward trusts is increasing among tho mnssos, and the irr'u' tation which thoy excite dovelopS a strong tondency in tho direction of unreasoning hostility toward all forms of wealth. If wealthy who aro employing thdir capital in fields outside of tlioir linos bo wiso, thoy will quioken tho action of Congress in submitting an ainondmont to tho various ' Statos, for there is a dooidod danger that a fow years honco, if tho irritation continue, tho innocent may bo made to suffer as well as .the guilty. A special session of the. Legislature is now in order.' It should be called .at once to ratify or modify acts passed by tlio councils since th$ elec tion. The future policy of the Government in regard to annexation should als,o bo pre-: sented for discussion and 'ratification. CITY DRAYAGE CO., '.. W. P, SHARIUT, Mdfaagor. Stand adjoinjug H. 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