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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, May 23, 1900, Image 2

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THE INDSPENDBHf
I3HUKD
OTJR IiODAL BOUKBONS
Auytning id uie line ol immigra
tion was a go under the imbecile
regime of Dole and the planters
evidently think that the same con
ditions exist and that they are run
ning this country
Like the Biurbous they will not
admit that different conditions pre
vail aud that tho Plauters Associa
Labor will ba expensive uudoubt
edjy and why should it not be In
what country are such enormous
ditldvuds paid 39 fu Hawaii Wheis
GYKRX AFTJDRN C N
Kxunut Handny
It Drito Rnll Koum Utronl
V TELEPHONE 841 -
P O BOX 81
SUBSaKIPTlON HATES
Per Month anywhere In the
wnllnti Islands f r0
Per Year 6 00
Prr Yefi poiti nid o Korelfn Coun
tries S 00
f uyable Inve lably in Advance
V J TESTA Propriotor and Pub
lisher
EDMUND NOEKIE Editor
W HOEACE WBIQHT Assistant
Editor
Kcsldlnc in Honolulu
WEDNESDAY MAY 23 1900
The Planters Association will evi
dently nob understand that the
powers of the Sugar Barons in tboie
Islands are pau The planters and
their agents meet and coolly decide
to import laborers from Porto Rico
or any other place which may suit
them without consulting the wishes
of the people Those things could
be dona under the monarchy which
Wo ate not interested however in
l ho wilrnm of the sugar barons we
protect on lwhnlf of the people
aRiinHt any fepa huiit taken to
briii into thin territory any more
pauper labor and ouj more men to
swell the male population of the
toiritory above the females in a de
gree which oau la lemtjit only
which will pievent the introduction
of hobor criminals ami other un
desirable classo in the interest of
a certain clique and to the dotrimeub
of the people
TOPICS OF THE DAY
We notice a communication in tho
P C A this morning signed by ono
Isaiah Pahee in which he says For
seven years wo have been led astray
by the advice of such newspapers aB
the Holomua and The Independent
Mr Pahee is au unknown quantity
to all the ETawaiians we have met
to day and as his name b not found
the planters to their grief deatroyod on the subscription lints of the pa
pers who leu him astray we pre
sume that he belongs to the class
who borrows a newspaper reads it
and feels entitled to critioize it By
the way is Mr I Pahee under finan
cial obligations o the Republicans
The Republicans are endeavoring
to educate the Hawaiians by repeat
ing tho stain platitudes used by Ra
tion uo longer controls the affairs of publican datnagogues on thiustump
tiva territory The people hero have
beeu forced through the moneyed
power of the sugar mop to tolerate
the unholy influx of male coolies
They have patiently watched the
ruin of the Hawaiian race the
driving away of white men aud their
families by the constant stream of
the invading Asiatics A halt has to
be called now and it should b call
ed in clarion notes before a shipload
of Porto Rioaus or negroes from
the South are allowed to be assist
ed to land in this territory
The natives of Porto Rico are the
most undesirable class to invite into
any country Their notorious bad
character is of course df no account
to Mr S T Alexander or any of the
other millionaires who live abroad
and care for Hawaii only as far as
their dividendu are concerned But
we object to having Mr Alexander
or the Planters Association take
upou themselves the right to import
pauper Jabor to this trritory The
peoplo hero propoo to have some
thing to nay in the matter nod the
planters cau rest assured that they
will never again bb permitted to
ilood these islands with mi undesir
able class of laborers Wo under
stand why no attempts are being
made to introduce white laborers
here White men may btand the
climate but they will uot stand tho
arrogance of plantation managers
or the brutcl treatment the plauta
tion laborer generally meets from
the hands of tho overseers The
white men may bo willing to work
and do the task imposed upon I hem
intelligently aud faithfully but they
want to be paid honest wages for
honest work They do uot propose
to compete in the line of cheapnuea
of wages with the Asiatic coolies
but demand a fair pro rata based
upon tho 512000 a year salaries of
the plantation managers who sun
ceeded in getting into the swim by
flinging hymns ana dropping tbo
pick aud shovel aud flask for tho
prayer book and tho blue ribbou
in the Mates The poor classes in
Hiwaii will not suffer by free trade
and as far as the emplojiug class is
concerned it is at present reaching
the limit in economising the money
that goes into circulation The Ha
waiinus are up to date they know a
trust and an absenteo sugar baron
when they see him They have
gained no benefits from tho enor
mous dividends gathered annually
by tho sugar magnates from the
sweat of the Asiatic coolies
Tho morning paper feels happy
because as it says only one half
white appears in the Ddriiocratio
Committee of 21 and it cries trium
phautly that this is not a very big
bid for these classes of support but
it is tho best our Dimocratio friend
can make Evidently the party of
Bryan aud Altgeld is not going to
ho overcrowded in Hawaii The
Advertiser man is a malihini lofy
course otherwise ho would have-
been able to pick out tho names of
the Hawaiiaas on the D mooratic
committee and he might have saved
himself tho humiliation of making
a mistake in regard to tho Btrongth
of ho Demosrits
Tue Independent cannot doubt
that the good Government Republi
cans are in a big majjrily over the
machine Republicans hero without
admitting that the natives who
saved the machine mon at tho local
primaries are actually members of
the Republican party au assump
tion it has vigorously denied PCl
Wheu The Independent talks
about majority in political affairs
we do uot refer la ajiisjorityampng
the factions of the local Republi
cans Wo understood our contem
porary to claim that tho Thurston
coterie would have a majority at the
territorial election and expressed
our surprise at the clique being un
able to carry the primaries eveu
Some Hawaiiana may put their
names down on tho Republican lists
for personal roasouB How they will
vote is a very different mattcir
The Republican faction represent
ed by Mr Thurstons organ claims
that it is the representative of good
goveruiueut iu fact hsu a jaleut ou
Labor will bo plentiful when fair
wages nro dfftred It will moan ol
Oikku that the sugar men tmtet be
nal ided with
AiLuricnn
7 to 8 pur cont inter
is Hi their iniestmeulp but that
will not s tm a great misfortune to
ur Luropoan capitalists
do wo find ninth millionaire at II o being thnbeBt people here The
age of Bahluin Young stid othrrs j Thurstou faction has made so many
bad breaks in ioail politics mat i
cannot help sympathizing with the
liberal faction of th Republican
party who does not believe in itilo
by family compact and declines to
be bullied into submission by Thurs
ton Si Co MUsiouarius in poli
tics always come to grief in the end
Let Democrats and Independents
romeraber that lilaiun was defeated
by Cleveland in 181 because the
Rev Dr Barchard chairman of a
committeo of clergymen publicy
addressed Blaine and pledging loy
alty to the Republican parly charg
ed the Democrats with basing their
political strength on Hum It m
anism and Rebrdlioo The Catho
lics among the Portuguese and Ha-
The oreaniclaw of the territory wauan voters will probably rernom
will do away with contract labor it Dcr tuo lUrea lv 8 ou Uie aai 0l
in fir Ihti irntrrv fn ntiotr ditb wuu
Worlds Smallest Book
Tho imalleBt book iu the world
ha3 just been printed in Cleveland
says tho Leader of that city But
10 of them worn printed aud none
of them is for sale
Iu all the catalogues of the rare
book dealers what is called the Bijou
Almanac is named as the smallest
book iu tho world and until now it
has been that The Cleveland book
breaks tho record in size or lack of
size for printed books There are
rare little volumes engraved on
ivory sheets fastened together like a
book but thpy are not really books
in the estimation of collectors of
miniature volumes The Bijou Al
manac is a real book printed on
real paper and bound in stiff little
blue covers It was made in London
in 1836 by Schloss It has 60 pages
a calendar for each month and
some wonderfully delicate little
steel engravings It is half an inch
long and not much thicker than the
cover of an ordinary book
The owner of this little book
which is worth several times its
weight in gold ib Charles H Mnigs
XT n T 1 a
ui 111 11 vi u3voau street wno is
also the publisher of the other tiny
book mentioned th ono that is the
smallest in the world
3Pair -Children Best
111
wmrnrirnygimBsMgagjgM
WITH
AT
This smallest book in the wnrld
measures just three eighth f
inch bv half au inch oyer all There
are 13 panes in il and the work Jib
been done in a Cleveland printing
establishment The type was set by
hand and then tho pages photo
grsphod down lo the limit of ills
tinotnps though the book can only
bo read with a magnifying glnsr
Under a strong glaM however tho
work is seen to be distinct and per
fect It is printed on goMiuo India
paper and this is one of the moft
interesting things about the tiny
book
Tho Oxford Prepy the English
bible publishing eoucorn controls
all the genuine India paper produc
ed and it was with the greatest dif
ficulty that enough wa procured to
mako eveu the 10 copies of this tiny
book It is said that the paper was
surreptitiously obtained The tite
of the hook is Thus Spake tho
Wind a very old religious poem of
no particular interent
Straits Boitlemetts Stamps
In compliance with the regula
tions of the Universal Postal Union
the Straits Sottlemouts 5 cent samp
was issued of a rod enlour to
sent ttie Id value but the Govern
ment of the Straits Settlements hav
ing reduced the penny reprorenta
live to -1 cents thesooceu1 stamps
were surcharged four ceuts and tho
permauent issue will no doubt be in
the same colour The 8 cent stamp
will lemain blur but the colour of
the present 1 ceut greeu will hao
to be changed iu order to allow of
green being used for tho 2 ceDt
stamp which is the equivalent to
the half penny 6tamp What tho
colour of tho new 1 cent stamp is to
be has not yet been made public
Insure Your House and Furniture
EC LOSE
OENEIUL AQEKT
i For Insurance Company of North
America and
New Zealand Insurance Company
istt 7
mm iiuimUMW 11 iijiiin 1
Hermsdorf Black
Stockings
CHANGE
IlsT
TARIFF
SIXTY DAYS AFTER
the Hawaiian Territorial
bill is passed the duty on
Eurnpenn China and
Crockery ware will bo from
K5 to 60 percent higher
55 percent on White and
CO percent on Decorated
THE PRESENT DUTY
is 10 percent ou oither
NOW IS YOUR TIME
to purchase what you want
in thia lino before prices are
advanced
STERLING SILVER
from tho factories of Rend
Barton and Whitine
Mfg Co
WE WILL have a upe
cial sale for the next thirty
days commencing April
28th
THE REDUCTION will
be 83 1 3 percent Our as
sortment is very complete
PLATEWARE will be
also sold at special reduced
prices
RICH CUT GLASS for
the next thirty days at a
25 percent reduction
ALL OP OUR GOODS
are marked iu plain figures
and the old prices remain
with the now
f W DIMOND CO
LIMITED
Importers of Crockery GliB
Lamps House Furnishing Goods
FOR ONE WEEK
4-
L B KERR CO LTD
Bargains -will abound
2 Pair Mens Best
Hennedorf docks
25c
Frnncli Yalenciennes feL6 itovviiiin
100
These are only a sample of the Bargains tobe found
all lines of goods m our Various Departments v
L B KERR CO
QUEEN STKEET
LTD

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