SATURDAY 1'NKS.S
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"We Join onrelvc to no fKirly llrnt
loci not tarry the H.ip nml keriMlcp to
the ininlr of the Union," wroir Ktifiii
riioatc My tin: nlmtilc ' li.ingr of one
woiil- ly nialdiiR " Union " read " In
ilcmlriirc" ono li.m the treed
which till' journal iiiilicnittitiriKl) "
rpt nnd whlrh we hulievc ought to he
rn cetiieil liy the Itvlqientlc'iil ixhiv
We think no Kiily r.in neliirse any
Innllug ticrctM whoie nlli'gi.ini c 10
"Ir.tilftion," or milwrrvienrt- lo"ioliry '
n stronger than iln devotion to prinn
pie we wnnl to tee the "pocket '
policy fjive way, nml to ee truth
prevnil. Hut ttnth lauuot prevail
until At- not onl ieu our nun
foulta lull ar know ledge- thcin nnd re
nolvc to live without repealing them
"I'aillifnl arc llic vwiiihiU of a friend."
Willi man) friend who liau'cxprowcil
ilicitKclvcN 111 counter rrith ism of our
oiirM.. c have liad the opportunits of
perional I'xpl.m.itloii. We do not won
dcr at some of their exprcntkm of
diMcnt. A patty of fcarlcu and mile
pendent men may Ik; led to believe in
a polity that is all policy until they
learn to fairly cMimale the value of
truth for Irutli's sake. Hut the IioiichI
intcllieiKO of men wlioie indepen
dence is worth anything jmiIh polity
aside the moment that truth is beset
liv it. ho wc are rertam that our
friends no longer hesitate- between
truth and policy -between rifjlit and
wrong. for (he stupid misjiidgmcnl
or malleioui 'iiminlerpctntion of our
enemies we have only contempt tcm-
prert by indifferent c.
Suftmctly Mattti, the objections
matlc to our arlitle of last week may
1)0 rctlurctl to three counts, lurst -'I
lint we had "gone over to the enemy1' ,
had "sold out to Gibson." Only fools
-we beg their pnitlons, "persons con
spicuously devoid of i (million sense -believed
the first count Hut a few
malicious detractors busied themselves
in insinuations about it. Second That
Gibson would get great comfort out of
(he article, because it seemed to tlefc-ml
him for tioing what lutl been done by
previous administrations. Wc have
great respect for some of the gentle
men who feared that Gibson might
tortutc the articles of last Saturday
into a comfortable endorsement of his
own sinuous indirection. The fact-
that the Court Journal had the dis
cretion not to notice it is the best
assurance that their fears were ground
less. Third That the altogether tin'
personal attack upon a few -a " knot,
we saitl within the Independent party
was ill-timed and altogether injudicious,
tending to " divide the party " antl to
"discourage faithful antl honest
leaders."
Atthisw'ritingjthcthirdcouulistlie on
lyoneofthe three concerning which there
may be an honest difference of opinion.
It is part of the Press' fight to strive
for the cvercie of an honest difference
of opinion in all things. Now as to
our article being "ill-timed." If ever
there is a time when criticism or
censure ought to do a man or a party
good it is after a task has been partially
completed, or a partial defeat sustained.
The end may )ct be afar off? Imme
diate action docs not threaten; but the
work in hand is fresh in the memory
and the causes of failure or of imper
fect success arc clearly to be seen.
There is lime to think over the past,
to avoid mistakes, to plan intelligently
for the future. If ever there is a time
for similar action it is now. Wc are
thirteen months this side of the next
election. "The wisdom of beratingthe
crew from the quarter deck, before
going into action" docs not seem an
exact parallel, because we fail to rccog
like the nearness of the struggle. We
think both government anil industry on
the islands will be worse before they
are better. We believe that another
two years of Gibsonism antl unrestricted
Kalakauaism will do more for the unity
(and the purification) of the indepen
dent party, and, consequently for Haw
aiian progress, than all the talk and all
the writing that has yet been done
about it. The "pocket nerve" is be
coming more and more sensitive ever)'
day. Impending taxes, whipped on by
already impended commercial disaster,
will bring us together. When wc do
really come together the men of mere
policy, the selfishly virtuous, the drones,
the incapables, the men who would
once have gone into office with Gibson
and who have never had the grace to
confess their folly or promise better
things, must be content with places
in the ranks then, ,or else be
drummed oul of the party. The sooner
this combined organization and re-orga
iation can he accomplished the better
say wc. Anil if a plain statement of
what we consider a perfectly manifest
truth lie "treason" to the Independent
party, we aic willing our detractors
shall "make the most of it."
" It is better to be right than to
rule," " 1 hail rather be right than be
president," "There is nothing sacred
under heaven save truth" -brave
words, grand thoughts. We are con
lent to echo them in the defense that
lias been forced uion in. If we can
not lead the Independent party to
victory, weean, 'at least, do yeomen's
Service in the ranks. That much is al
ready to our credit. And yet, if to
remain within the party pale comes to
mean submission to the dictation of
the sort of men we so accurately des
cribed last Saturday- so accurate!)
that one shot In ought its bird to bag
within half an hour of the papers issue
if that sort of submission is necessary,
then count us on--una ut snail gain
jfivj" company. Ami again yet, so long
as the sparrow hawk does not aspire to
be an eagle we have no quanvl with
him, So long as the selfishly virtuous
time server and his fellows are content
to fight in the ranks we will light with
them. Wc will even submit to be high
privates to their corporalcies, or ser
geants to their sub lieutenancies. Uut
until they develop qualities we think
than destitute of--wc shall never call
one of them general of the Iudccn
dcnUarmy; and we think the sober
, .second thought of the lurty will ac
knowledge the justice of our piotest,.
A word in closing for the special ear
,,-v vi uioeijeuuo journaims wnu linns.
it ' journalism to pervert the truth in
older to ihv oinfit a buiincvi rival
I heir irideiiHidentr is generally a mnl
tcr of " pup " I'dtronngr ' and "mib
sidy" rue, to them, cxfltl synonyms of
"honor " antl "principle." eirinin
amount of government priming, n err
tain number of business ntlvntUe
mertt, sec lire the fenilty of these fair
wcathrr friend And they keep faith
just so long ns it is paid for In current
coin, "or its equivalent" Does the
cap fit ? Thru wear il. I he fat I (lint
many honorable Rcntlernm are not in
nte-ortl with us on one important line of
rllon, or the ntlditioii.il fact tlt.it we
ate K'rlups in mlv.imi- of the nrty,
neither angers nor discourages us We
have :i profound admiration for the
mn who is letter perfect -in business,
in religion or in politics Certainly we
nou'r have been v fortunate as to ntfet
him 'I his pir.ig'iii of all the virtues
mil) br responsible for the maudlin
mistiness of the Hawaiian nnd the
blustriiug bathos of the Gaelic
The nebulous journalist who writes
tittnsloii.il mis lenders for the ILiwniinn,
essnved to find Haws in our tarefully
preparctl t rilit ism of our own piny
Not content, however, in quarrr-lling
with n logical t one lusion he could not
understand, the writer m question had
l lie intlc rnc ) in hint thai :it least one of
our utterance was "suggested liy
Gibson. If the man who wrote thai
aci usnlion was unaware of in uller in
justice, its iciniciuptible falseness, ihen
he uii'st have written it when in his
ciits. As to thr Gazette's feeble at
tempt ai rilicism little need be saitl.
We print il because its silliness is its
own best refutation with a single c oin
int'iit 'I he I'ress did not pass "stric
tures ' upon the members of
the Independent party." It did rriti
t ise almost altogether impersonally -a
few members of the party a " knot "
And the Ga?cttc must have known
that it was falsifying when it wrote what
it did. If its editorial writer -wrote
carelessly, antl not maliciously, he is
less to blame than he seems to be.
'Ibis is his "argument " "The stric
tures wliit It trie baturtlay I'ress passes
upon the members of (lie independent
party, come with spct ial ill grate from
a paper which was called into existence
by that parly I lie baturtlay I'ress re
minds one very mm h of the boy who
loaded up the blunderbuss. I le loaded
her antl fired, but he suffered far more
from what flew into his fate from the
touch hole, than the foe he fired at, op
posite the muzzle. The writer charged
his gun antl hurt only himself. He
had better use a little more discretion
when loading up again.'
It is by no means our intention to
stigmalic our critics as they have
dared. to write of us dared wantonly
or with most comprehensive stupidity.
Wc prefer to think thcin stupid of over
feeding, or of too much sleep, or of any
nmoiig the stupid ills that flesh is heir
to If our critics arc in fact the intel
ligently honest gentlemen we prefer to
believe them to be, they will repent
their blundering folly antl ask our par
don If, though nnl gentlemen, they are
editors of discretion, they will accept
this hatchet burial in the intercstnfth.it
harmony we ought all to strive for
aficr'e truth is satisfied.
KniTOK Satukdav I'stss. Sir I ilo not
know y the commutiily of Micse isUndvhave
all at once liecomc Ihe tulijccts of jour di'pleai-
ute, that you feci called Iinn in the last issues of
the Saturday I'ce and Morning Guide, 10 up
braid tlicm for tlieir shoil-comings and possi
ble faults in rather a scathing manner, (.cav
ing vour discussion of a hielier standard of
parly and of purer politics alone, I propose to
deny the charge thai )nu male, of a money-
grasping spirit prevailing in this community to
tuch an extent as to lie alarming, undermining
society and destructive of higher aims and
duliea In life.
Your argument, as far as principle and tea-
toning is concerned, is sound enough anil
a proper subject for a sermon j but I hope it
docs not apply in its fullness to Ihe state of
things ou find here or indeed "we would lie in
a conlemptible plight. Let me remind you
that those very men who, )ou maintain, believe
in but sugsr and rice, together with a host of
others In the past and present, have been con
strutting building? and furthering institutions
for the mental, moral and religious improve
ment of lhc people, and they have never been
idle in well-doing when objects of charity
called for their support. This communit) has
gained for itself a well deserved reputation for
just such virtues which vour remarks would
take from it, It is not in the spirit of glorifi
cation of individual acts, or of undue praise of
a community of which I form a part, when I
say that few, if any, communities, large or
small, have a beller record for hospitality,
charil) and public spitit for the advancement
and improvement of the condition of their fel
loe man than ours, and I may well point to our
churches, colleges, the Queen's Hospital, the
Young Men's Christian Association, Ihe public
library and others, all of which are monuments
of individual charity and good will, Thcse
alone, if none other, will contradict the asser
tion thai the dollars is the ruling principle of
the land. Thank God lhat such is not
fact, and everything around us proves that it is
not. Yours truly,
I". A. .ScilAEir.
Honolulu, .Sept. 36, 1SS1,
The above letter was given us after
the editorial on the same tonic was in
type. We appreciate the fairness and
gcnllemanlinchs ot .Mr. bhaeler, in
sending his letter to us, nnd not to the
papers which have done their best to
misconstrue our ixisition. We are
sorry, however, that Mr. Schaefer to
entirely misunderstands our position.
We belies ed our position was so
clearly indicated that it could not be
misunderstood. The fact that he has
misunderstood it, makes us more chari
table of the misconstruction of others.
We cordially agree witli what Mr.
Slucfer writes about the "hospitality,
charity and public spirit " of the com
munity Hut wc do not sec how
,-L-rwu li!i,metit rf ll.nt flrl ilirtnM
abate the just censure that
ought to follow neglect ot civil or social
duty A man may shut his eyes and
walk unintentionally into the sea. The
act is culpable folly, lie may shut his
ce-, anil pull the trigger of a pistol he
u holding, and theieby kill a fellow
uun. 'lhc second act is criminal
folly. The tralilical folly of this com
nuiiity is greater tlian any of us like
to acknowledge, even to ourselves. Mr,
Ctutan's meaning was probably more
sweeping than ours. Hut 4we go to the
same length he docs in belies mj that
we can never have good government
until the nation liecomcs more sensi
tively conscientious, in demanding that
both government and society shall in
sist upon unquestionable 'methods in
all relations ot life in pariv-, in busi
Ijess, in society, in the ctty cnice.
Illll'tllll At I I.I I Hit"! tr.TTMl,
fl is n sirutiK antl logual nrraignmcnt
of the board of health that Doctor Mai
lard has made in the letters recently
printed in these columns. The do tors
pit lute of lhc mismanagement of affairs
at Kalawao ami KnlaupaKi, and the
averment antl deduction he makes in
the premises, ate such as ran neither
be scl Aidc by mere clcnhl, or lhc
sneers of Mr Gibson or his hired
friends tliretietl against the possible
motives of Doctor Htallard's conduct
In Ihe mailer, I he mere fad thai a
man has, without success, sought office,
ran never In itself afford an answer to
(Urn i antl well suUt.inii.itcd thmge
made against those who have ignored
his ilaims Iti preferment , and the re
sort to sneers m sutb cases is the best
proof of the unas.iil.ible c li.u.ic tor of ihe
evident e anil arguments brought to bear
against the accused The least wg can
say of Doctor Htallard's cffoit to obtain
office here it, that they were nticn and
above hoard , and, while we ma) not al
together admire Ihe plan he adopted,
we i an at least say, that while his
writings prove him to be a man of no
mean ability, he woultl pcrh.i have
met with mote favor from the powers
that be, bail that hi I been made less
apparent anil his conduit been that of
a crawling ignoramus instead. With
the present policy of the government
in existent e, where it seems as though
a premium has been set upon fraud, it
is no reproach to any man that his ser
sites should be rejected
What Doctor Slallard says of the
footl supply of the leper settlement at
Molokai wc believe to he substantially
true; antl thai a great deal of icmetlia
ble suffering exists there as a conse
quence of the wilful mismanagement of
the hoard, we have no reason to doubt,
as wc have had statements to that ef
feet from most reliable eve-witnesses,
from such we learn that the lepers in
many places suffer greatly from an
altogether inadequate suppry of water,
and that, too, in a district where there
is a natural supply more than sufficient
to meet the ncetls of a population as
large as that of Honolulu. These also
support by their statements those
of the tloctor in reference to the scan
tiness of the meat supply. From what
wc hear from those who have lately
visited the Molokai settlement, there
can be no doubt that the wants of suffer
ing lepers have been most shamefully
neglected under tlict.ibson adinimstra
.1... ..... !tt.a,HH.K..I llA Cnnl t.A ,.n
hum, imini niidiiun I..J. .-l iini ""that the country may be plunged into
l" ..'".. """".". .'.'. . . I
so iiDeraty supplied witn lun-is. uoc
iih oiaii.nu .eels iu mi.- ii.im.i.m
mission of the heir ajircnt and Queen
v.. mu.u.i. .y ..... .,.,.. -,v......-" ,, vigorously ollset Dy tlic gratuitous im
Kalawao and remarks that he has "no pertinence of the threat that the gov-
tiouoi tnai substantial complaints oi
Hunger met tneir ears and win oc rem-
edied so far as they can be by royal in-
tenerence. iscitncr nave wt any
.lr,.il,ln nit irt tl.n vl..lir.. nf t, lint tit,. I
wunu iu .u .uiuuu i ui iU.
doctor supposes; but what can any
Jin-will uu .m ,-j iv,y, .mi ...i.mui ot lts cncmlMi and actually courting no
power to act against a person who, i;,ical disaster." In other words "It
though without paramount title, is not, :s 0 maer what jecomM of ,,c in
apparently, without paramount power midustrial neclls 0f the nation. 'land
the regulation not only ot iicaitn mat-
w-, u. y. -u ...t.n. ...tl. ...I. -. And the nominal king keeps self-con-of
a whole districf tortured and suf-1 demncd ,jm(..smen in oKei Fallh ,
fering people seem to be ineffectual
ii..
when opposetl to the favorite, Gibson.
The benevolent heir apparent and the
lencvolent tpieen may know, by what
they saw and heard, of the remediable
distress and complaints of the lepers at
Kalawao, but the public must not know-
it, forsooth, because the true tale ofl
ine.r ui-ieo, in-aiicnaeu. iii-cioincct con-1
dition, if told, might reflect u.on the
pretended philanthropy of the man who
for some time back has been posing as
the sanitary savior of the Hawaiian
race.
In his relations with the health man
agement of this nation, Mr. Gibson has
shown himself the same gross pretender
that he has always been, and establish
ed his reputation as a man without
either feeling or ability. With more
opportunity he has done less than any
man, who has vet had such affairs in
charge. And what Doctor Stallardsays of
his assumption of the medical know
ledge is no less true than of his false
pretences of philantrophy. The doc
tor calls his "Sanitary Instruction for
the Hawaiian," "worse rubbish than was
ever written by his friends, the Greeks;"
and so in many senses it is. Hut what
ehc does any one expect from a man
whose whole life lTas been one of va
cillation and gross pretense. If the mat
ter were not so serious, we miah't smile
over some of the ridiculous blunders
he has made at different times, as when
assuming to mathematical know ledge he
gave to the vvorld.in the columns of the
Advertiser, a disquisition on the muta-
tionsof the planets and anexplanationot
paralaxes as applied to the late transit
of Venus. His results were about as
valuable as those of the learned coun
tryman whomultiplicd the poker by the
scuttle to find out how much the coals
came to. Hut his contributions on an
other branch of science, botany, were
equally absurd, where he exposed his
ignorance of the botanical nomencla
ture by classing the castor-oil plant
merely from its name, "falma tirisf."
111 ih.tpww
It is currently rcKrted that Professor
Alexander was told, at the last moment,
that he was to be second to Mr. Aholo's
first, on the Meridian Commission. If
the report be true, the professor ought
to have resigned. Let us not lie mis
understood. The color of Mr. Aholo's
skin has nothing to do with it. If Mr.
Aholo had been a cnnqietent man for
head, Professor Alexander would have
no riglu to complain. Thavan unscien
tific man, of any color, should be made
to rank above the man best educated
in science now on these islands was an
insult and an impropriety .that should
have been rebuked.
jt iji iawMM''
One reason given for Mr. Allen's re
moval is lhat he stopped Mr. Aholo's
passport, i he law makes it obligatory
upon him to stop protested passports.
Eventually Mr. Aholo secured a foreign
office KtssjKirt. The law for the pro
tection of creditors if a sound one ought
to be enforced. If not a good one it
ought lo be recaled. Certainly the
foreign-office passport system was never
meant to enable couttpets or foreign-office
favorites jo circumvent the law.,
An age in which all mankind are
" enabled to read the aer" is an age
in which it is sery difficult for school
teachers to cultivate good taste, aud
all that good taste implies, in their pu
pils, even by the most skillful adjust
ment of virtue on eJ'th.
n tin . v tniii:tiiriir
I h' fat ledum in ordinary, secretary
out of ordinary and editor elraor
dinciry, who divides his time between
the foreign offiic and the editorial
rooms of the Court Journal, has done
the nation a nertite While the portly
Hessian who is now In San Francisco
remained in charge, here ami there one
was found lei believe In the honcslv of
(lie ('ourt Journal' utterances. Now,
happily, we Uiwve just where vrc slant!.
The hands are the hands of Vmu, and
the voice also. The funeral baked
meats of the foreign office arc now
dally served in stews, croquette and
other mysterious coniKjiiii(l, while
every one knows that they come from
that " Inspired " intellectual hath hoiine,
whose menial mutton has been fattened
on I .a mi.
Do you think to deceive us, O Webb,
J.S.?
S'oii cannot antl never will.
Whenever, wherever, however you
press,
The sum of (he ministerial mess,
Is hanging around you still.
n
"Scandalous itorsonalilies" harm
only ihosc whose scandalous char
acters have given them scandalous
reputations. Men who arc known of
men lobe honest, camhlc, patriolit,
are seldom denounced by the public
(ires. When they are so denounced
it is by papers of the same stamp a
ihe Court Journal of Hawaii
ust now the king and cabinet are
vastly cxercisctl over the quctloti of
labor supply. We say "king and cab
inet" localise the king ought to be in
tereslcd, if he is not , and localise he is
res(onsiblc to the extent of keeping
his ill-advisers in office. Ileing so
much exercised, they Ihys display their
effrontery (while admitting their power
lessness) in the Court Journal' " Mr,
Spreckels has, we understand, retired
in disgust, and is no longer ready to
assist the country through any financial
difficulty into which it may be plunged.
The government will be very unwise if
it moves a step towards any expendi
ture, however vitally necessary for the
interests of the country, unless assured
beforehand of the necessary funds.
That woultl indeed be pin) ing into the
hands of its enemies, and actually
courting politit.nl disaster.
Tin rttm!itrtllll nnivn nilmiu4iin
!. . " '. . ..
financial dillicully this splendidly tie-
vcloped country which " I and my col-
leag,,,. an(J .. t)c kjng) (;od i)lcs,
,,:, . nave done so much , ddo,
crnment wili do nolhi) for IC labor
nce(ls of lhc i,and, unleS5 .. aureJ
of tlle ncccswry funds. Tfie imperii-
nc ncc, howcv er.is rc-offsct I jy another
... . . ' . . '
neucious (jit of frankness : "That
tt0uld indeed be playing into the hands
m). coneagues- musl reinairj in IJOWcr
. . . .
It makes one sea-sick.
The king and the cabinet are unfor
tunate in their allusions. They say
through their organ "The great
national want is the prosecution of our
I immigration policy. In a measure,
the statement is true, lint who is re-
s,)0nsiWe for the cx:,tn Ilitch ? The
kin and ,.:, i t Ifwe h,.e h,d
economy in administration or even
intelligence without especial economy
Hawaiian bonds would be taken here,
eagerly. Hut who can have any faith
in the future of a country governed by
the rule-or-ruin policy of the present
king and the present cabinet? The
problem of Hawaiian progress is too
big an one to get into the nutshell of
j;y general statement, but there is a
great deal of truth in this nutshell
cracked recently by one of our shrewd
est thinkers: " King and cabinet are
loiiify responsible for most of our gov
ernmental ills, and rtrcv is trying to
tvad its responsibility.
And yet it would be unjust to deny,
to the king at least, all parental interest
in the industrial advancement of his
kingdom. The king it interested in
row boats. His most imperial majesty,
the notorious Nero, fiddled contentedly
while Rome burned. King Kalakaua
is building and buying race boats and
training crews, while nis ministers are
commending the industries of Hawaii
to the dogs.
"We rise, Messrs. ministers, to move
the abolition of the privy council of
state. Our reasons, your excellencies.
are manifest What the deuce of clubs
is the use of keeping a lot of gentlemen
from lawful business, merely to register
the resolves ol his majesty? We know,
your excellencies, that the eminently
progressive government you so ably
represent wants to abolish two of the
three 'boards' on which your excellen
cies, and the faithful patriots who sun
port you so nobly server and we think,
Messrs. ministers, it will be a dodgasted
good scheme to abolish the privy coun
cil of state also. With your kftpotcd
arms up to the elbows in the 'possibili
ties' of immigration and public ill'
health, you need only the power to
make your exalted selves and your
most gracious master bosses in name as
well as in fact. As tribunes of a loyal
and grateful people, we hope you will
not falter in the good work you have
cut out for yourselves; but press on to
that absolute and not-to tie-questioned
rule, for which your noble selves and
your august associate are so eminently
quaiihed.
Ioma's letter of last week has been
the occasion of considerable hostile
comment, and.also, of much commenda
tion. The truth of his charges cannot
be improved, his mistake was, how
ever, in making those charges too
sweeping. While we, in common with
all observing townsx:ople, are forced to
acknowledge that every offense Ioma
mentions is committed here, neither
we nor the community believe the ex
ceptions to be the rule. Honolulu has
some good clerks and some ba ones.
We hope the latter will take Ioma's
letter to themselves and reform.
If history teaches anv thin, it is that
lev ity and " common sense," without the
eternal principles that have been learned
ooiv-01 religion, soon sins men ana
nations in crime and shame that Is, in
hell.
riw. in: m 11 itorr crnment has Jn-t published a blue book
Angra I'e'juina 11 a bay on the south containing the I remh Malagasy corre
wesr cwst of Africa, in bit i( H iH jtomltnce lh- I imt. condemns the
is. , Ion ij o p '. It forms an In ,uniealiiv of the Irem h c bun arid their
dentation of the roast at the mouth ofiwant of validity according to interna-
a small river which ha not been lull
explore 'I hi boy was first written
ahoul by the Portuguese navigator
Dias, who divwered it In i.(8i. It
was claimed in Ihe nsme of (Ijp reign
ing king of Portugal . and one of the
ineffee tual.t.ix-g.itliering, non colonizing
rolonic of lhat nation was planted
there II languished intoa nominal pro
lectorate ami finally became only a
memory A few jcars ago a German
commercial company discovered th'at (v.rlpt that lhc F.mpcror of Germany,
large denosii of guano, and of nitrates, Austria and Knia met at Warw (or
oi potash and soda, might lc had for
the taking ; and a German settlement j
took pocion of the ly whether
by understanding with Portugal or not
wc arc unable to stale and a formal 1
announcement of German sovereignty
was made. Now a dance at anv aood I
ana win snow the relative positions of
Angra ('equina Hay and the mouth ol
the Orange Kivcr. Ihe distance i
alxjut 200 miles in a straight line,
though much farther of course in fol
lowing ihe Indentation of the roat
line. It doc not i.car from any
reading at hand that the intermediate
country Is of either present or prospect
ive value, though It may be of both.
Hut, in any event, England has come
w believe that this particular section
of coast lielong to her ; and ha in
effect fif officially, we arc not aware of
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,.y ....r.stu tut: jhjvicii iiui, wuiic VV.I
many may have Angra Pcqtiina if she
wants it, England want lhc coast
country south of that place a far a
lhc Orange River. 'I his incident, to
gether with some minor " differences of
opinion in the Congo region and
along the "oil" coast, the "ivory
coast and lhc " gold " .roast, has made
the existing hard feeling. The re
sult of the irritated feeling between Ger
many and England, chiefly growing out
of commercial questions, has so farlcen
nothing more dreadful than a tirade
against "perfidious Albion " by German
newspaijcrs many of them being semi
official, notably the North German Ga
iette, Hismorck's accredited organ. It
has been generally believed that the
recent German policy, which, of course,
means Hismarck's iiolicy has been to
foster home industries, and to discour
age emigration. The beet-sugar busi
ness was more distinctively a business
to keep Germans at home by affording
agricultural employment than one to
increase Germany's export trade. Hut,
in spite of every effort, German labor
is slipping through the iron chancellor's
fingers, It is manifestly less an nvil to
permit Germans to leave the country
for colonics under German rule, than
to leave fatherland for the United
States, Australia or Canada. For this
reason, Gcimany's most recent foreign
olicy has encouraged settlement in
Africa. That great country is becom
ing better known every year. In the
language of Mr. John Childcr's, a re
cent interviewer of Mr. Stanley "'ITie
Congo region, at least, he maintains, is
one of the most fertile on the globe.
We arc usually told by those who take
a pessimistic view 01 Ainca that ivory,
gum and oil are the only products of
any consequence, and that the I11M will
be exhausted in a few years. Hut Mr.
Stanley tells me that ivory svill last for
generations yet, that gum and oil alone
give an ample field for trade. On re
turning to England this time he came
in a steamer that touched at about filty
places on the vv est Loast, among others
at Old Calaba. There he found that
oil was being shipped at the rate of five
hundred tons a week, and all this ob
tained from a stretch of country' only
forty-two miles in extent. All along the
one thousand miles of the middle and
upper Congo the banks are crowded
with oil-palms ; and, said he, divide
that 1,000 by 43, and it will give you
some, idea of what you may expect the
Congo to produce. Not only so, but
the country abounds in the wild cofiee
plant, the beaies of which, even in its
uncultivated state, produce an excellent
beverage. The orchilla plant is equally
abundant, and both the native and
the white settlers have extensive banana
plantations. Not only bananas, but
oranges and other fruits have been cul
tivated with complete success ; so that
Mr. Stanley considers himself per
fectly justified in maintaining that the
native products themselves are varied
and .inexhaustible, and that the country
is capable of unjimited agricultural de
velopment." A writer in the New York
Independent well says : "What is
needed is that thorough-going traders,
like the English and Germans, should
develop these productions and give
them to the markets of the world.
The French promise little or nothing
in this direction, and the Portuguese
appear to bring blight instead of pros
perity to African soil." Why then
should Germany and England mis
understand each other? There is room
for both. Their civilizations are the
best now existing. Why should they
not work together hand in hand ? And
why should Germany's semi-official
papers talk of " hurling the Hritish into
the sea"?
Mr. Smiley, the veteran London cor
respondent of the New York Tribune,
tears that the "peace of hurotie" is to
be disturbed in another wy. Writine
under date ot August 30th he says
"According to present appearances it
is improbable that the Franco-Chinese
dilticulties will involve other powers.
trance lias privately given assurances
to Germany, England and Russia that
she will avoid complicating the Treaty
Ports. This endeavor is among the
reasons why M. Ferry refrains from a
lormal declaration 01 war. Hut trance
cannot control her own destinies. If
China attacks French shlfs in Treaty
Potts, the ships must cither withdraw
or a door for grave international com
plications will be throw r open. The
highly colored statements of The l.on
donTimes's correspondent respecting
the Foo Chow bombardrncnt produced
such an outburst of French journalistic
wTath toward hngiand as was never be
fore known. The Times' leader sup
porting its correspondent has been no
ticed by M. Ferry in an interview with
the Uoswellian .NUde Hloiu, but the
interview is less remarkable for this cir
cumstance than for M. Ferry's obvious
endeavor to make knou n that the IncnU-l
ship of the British Government does
not escape his observation. The main
spring of this week's tonent of French
abuse lies in French jealousy of Hritish
interference with the French colonial
policy. Such feeling will be aiatravated
by to-day's criticisms of 'tench action
in MicUgiscar. the .Malagasy Gov
tional law and morality " It would be
a IcrriWe struggle in which France and
Germany should be pitted against Eng
land. It would be a war of naval
titan. Single handed, the navy of l'.n
land might easily overpower any one of
ilnavalrival;liit thecombincii fighting
ship of France antl German) could
lest the naval supremacy of England
a it Jw never Mote been icMctl. It
InJV lie mentioned liv wiv nl a (km).
were to meet there, dynamite consent
ingj on the 15th imtant. IlismarV.
pet scheme, the sanitation of th tez
Canal, antl of lower Egypt, wa to be
diK0cd. Hut, doubtle, ihe "ice
of F,uroie" rut no frwll frs-nre in the
conference
Ljrr Itt JrifHin.
At Ihe toigntloM at f;1M (MM, I rem,
ml! l (lifxc 1 few I'mtiit on Ix-jtcwry m Ji.
pn. Ifit-ffig IhhI, hi pfofeMor lit Unl
srrilly, an mnl opjwitttmhy cvf oWrilIn
laiing l(;hl yf t lh-Brrii(iwfli' haspfctl,
I M justified to My 1
tint Tlrtl Ih rmj of Jipn is tlw hw
4 Itt.r'jsy in other rosirrfiin I htt-e always
fosiwi Ihe iMcflhn I'j.ca hi I WA.tA to H.
SrrtnJ Thai leprosy In Jiptn fs no4 in th
slightest dgr CfirHlgiCflK it fnfrtisj
lint IhclddC lo fv.fit'lefwrf from other jitlentt
frr um occur 10 anybody. In my own wirds
I bate always hid lfr bHween 'tl.c pa
tients, rery body knowing Ihe rulme of the
dKnvJuircjOiic jljU t' sleerifng hilheld
nesitolheiM. NilWnf-ti'mUesecieI. There
Is a mtlve dodoc in Toklo In 1kk family Ih'
treatment of leprosy has heen carrml on as a
specially foe at least lhrf generation, he and
hit whole family live inlhesarne ivmv: llh his
Ie.r patients. J-or a harvlel yais, many
many thousands hae bn Heated In thst teiy
same house, In the cml'r of Ihe capital inhabi
ted by morr than a million of Jple and nv
er onr eat of conugiofi has hapjrned.
I hare heen very much atonlhd to hear
lhat at Ihe Hawaiian Islands fi are (total
led and people are w much afraid of ldng In
contact withlhm. Kilhectheleprosytherelsdif
ferent fcom that In Japan, which I do not h
lieve, or there is 1 great mistake about cita
CHjutnett. In the middle ages leprosy K-emt lo
have heen pror;g.ated by contagion, if we may
trust the old reports, bet since accurate ohsef
rations are maile, no cate of contagion hasben
proved as far as I know. If the bacillus lepra
has anything to do wiih Ihe origin of the dis
ease I am inclined to place him n-ar the ba
cillus malariae, ami lo think, thai it may
imported into a country and germinate theiein
ihe ale and the wt, and occasionally infect
the human lly, but thai too Is a hypothesis for
which I ur.not giv any proofs.
I)..E. IlAKty
Professor of Chemical
Medicines at ihe University of Tolciojapan.
On board ll.e City of ToVio, Pacific Ocean,
September, 1884.
Rev. S. C. Damon has handed us
ihe above for publication. He says
the writer of the letter, whose present
address is, Or. Erwin Haelz, No. 33
Neue Weinsteige, Stuttgart, Germany,
is greatly interested in leprosy, as met
with in japan, and would be grateful
for either written or printed information
about the disease here. We shall re
fer to his novel statements next week.
We are pained to notice that Mr.
Antishamus, a gentleman whose ac
quaintance wc have not the honor of,
has been writing to the Bulletin in a
shockingly personal manner about
some of the writing in this paper. We
have nothing to say in defense of our
Mr. loma, as that gentleman is abun
dantly able to take care of himself.
Hut we protest against the action of
Mr. Antishamus, in dragging innocent
outside persons into the controversy.
Now we do not know Messrs. Crombey
and Morrell, sshom Mr. Antishamus
mentions, but we are on speaking
terms with .Messrs. bcott, Sullivan,
Arnold, Cornwell and Irwin; and knew
the late lamented Mr. Buckle quite
well Professor Scott, it is true, is well
cknown as an educator, and has written
or some of the local publications, u e
cheerfully admit his ability as a critic,
but we do not see why he should be
classed with Mr. Sullivan, who, though
a jnost careful livery keeper and hackman,
makes no pretense to literary ability;
or Mr. Arnold, whose -unquestioned
knowledge of well-boring has never
lecn supplemented by publicity as a
writer. The same may be said of Mr.
Cornwell, who U thoroughly versed in
horse flesh, but a hater of writing in all
its forms; and, also, of Mr. Irwin, whose
business training has been so exacting
as to quite unfit him to enter the arena
as a critic of English. If Mr. Buckle
was alive he might be able to help
Anti-shamus out. Hut I don't think
the other gentlemen are likely to; and
so I don't sec why their privacy should
be so inconsiderately disturbed.
A glimmer of common sense seems to
have penetrated the governmental cran
ium. What made the fissure by nhich
the light strajed in is not yet deter
mined. Hut the Ion,; leader in yester
days Advertiser was evidently "sug
gested" bv some one who knows some
thing of things as they are. The sug
gestion that the government ought to
exercise its discretion, in extending
the time for redemption of current
silver coin until November 30th, is one
fully in accord with the spirit of the
law, with justice and with business
convenience, ihe bank, and money
gatherers generally, would gladly co
operate. Wc hone a further conces
sion to justice and common sense will
be made by the government, in accent
ing all unmutilated current coins,
hitherto cxfhangable as quarter dollars.
Any other procedure would be bad
fault And although good faith on the
part of Gibson & Co., can scarcely be
expected, yet, in the language of the
law "jour petitioners will ever pray"
for.iu P. S. If the extension of time
is to do any good the notice of it ought
lo be published in all the native papers
and by porters.
A Nt Vcul dispatch of September llth
uys The member cfa prominent sugai firm
la this diy said )esK(day, lespcctlogtb: Ecr
get Huiltxit hilar ei "Il was largely due la
Ihe competition kxerd upon ht taspeoJcJ
house ty the cheap c.rde of Cuban wgu
hlch his been put upon ihe outlet. Tbv
-were toilers of molasses and tualer U cheap
tugat aaj Ihe depreciation of oot cent sad a
half per pound during lhc list) eat had been too
much Kit them. It is not ctpected that any
trouble will icuk 10 other turns, as U It gener
ally believed all the debts will be ull up In
full,"
11 l'rla .Sr.
Thtf vlfit bt lw vM l tfu'litht
"""Wlltsg
K Me hit jJoivtsnH itK vm "it ottn
pfng Y'mmnt.
iWtvm U M rirj; g)tn (k Amnfm) hi
CJ'rminy pfOj l itr s ascps M liviyi
Tl CWn Hj llf7)lh Vithtii tun
Cojjv in Iwlli tcr V'j iMhi'A lr
lf, cMlnrrl Umtfti
Th? tid'mdj hM tihtf bi .Vew VotV ft
ctmfngn tVxlfrj RmttiWr.
Itm'tmr WMf, tA OwwdkaS, rJs
r?-lfm - llr wtcta 10 itmr hnt.
f'rat it eMMtig a
nil rf'syx st ltt
sthl of
Il k t-pin stalM (tut list PKgift l4tm fti
Mowtina ai fyfftg of sSirratWn.
(jiti il-ottmetUn In profitr has f-wl'il
from reset Wt;h water fn Wkw4.
1h Peneh In Madagavar base bonrfcanM
and rccupiVd Mahaftore, rarTama('
A cofirrfjtton of rrrotsMtofUry totfalitU hit
ten elted Ui meet at IsmUm hi OetcAr.
(I'M Is saM lo be UmM in large cjUMities
at Uul Ktjdi, it'ii lively I'ofot, (ourts.
IJetAonstatiom ice In ptogreM in Spain la
favot of the tfisfioril jwwei of Ihe I'wir- of
Rom.
Pistols tiwjMltif. to liojun a .a
discovered In the Kgyplbn Ministry f Pi-
BiOC,
There was onlyoce Irhhinai ainonj; yJ Mof
non convcts who arrived in Nw York tr.
cently.
A fyecman-Afrkan Association, with s
capital of yjiffn mirks, hat Uen ocgaM'nl
at Hamburg.
The elgraph males out that "via A Kali
Vaua's" was sick of choleca in Naples Vourg
ISooth was pcobablv meant.
Chol'ra is increasing in Italy, awl In Na
ples the most rnjrowlnj; scenes of rnrtf y and
wrttthedness are rejrmed. '
Ilodtha Hassan, the false pfOJhel, together
with hit principal followers, have been ciptar
ed Jly Ihe fJovefnoi of Trebkond.
A valuable collection of llfiican raritlct
zoological and botanical, have been destroyed
by fire at the City of Merida, Yucatan.
The election in Vermont ibis month gave ite
Republic! n nominee for tjoremor over Jl.cxo
majority while the Republican majority In
Maine a over ig,(sx.
Tf-n.l rfl KXrl.ltlKMK.VT
Band at Emma Sptaie at 4 r. M.
Sale of furniture at Hist Coney's cesSdeffe
on Hotel street, at I A. M.
Gospel Tempeiance
Vestry at 7. 30 P. M.
mrtir. at lVtbel
The premises of J. fJ. Karmey on Hotel
Street wis entered last night by bcrgtars trho
took away the safe and all contents, uhieh
held abiut Stoo in coin, a valuable tvateb, pa
pen, etc
DIED.
Coceus In Honolulu, Sept. 27th, aftev a
short illness of 10 days of Kronchitii, John
f-rands Neville, eldest son of Marcus and
Alice Colbert, aged 3 years and 7 months.
The Feneral will lake place from Mrs. E.
M. Colbun's on King Street, lo-morton-afternoon
at 3 o'clock r. M.
MARRIED.
KlTEttV Ca.tek. At Port Tcmnsend, .
T., Aoc. 30th, on board the back Hope,"
by the Krv. John Keid, Oran Kiteley, Esq.,
lo Kate Layman, eldest daejhtetcfS. M.
Oner, Esq.
McGURN-DAVIS In ihU city SfAernber
35th, at the residence of A. Femandta. by
Her.- II. II. Parker. Witlum McGtfrn lo
Mary E. Davis, both of Honolulu.
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