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r THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: TIOXOLULU, APRIL 7, 1S9S. 1 ! i i i i It r j i1 f:f H 1 ' i ' 1 'JIE PACIFIC Commercial Advertiser, W. N. ARMSTRONG EDITOR, TIIUItSDAY APItlL 7 CHEAP ALCOHOL. 0"e of the most important articles used in the manufacturing of many things is alcohol. Take any one of the encyclopedias of the various industries and look up the very extensive part it takes, and how impossible it would he to carry them on without it. This ar ticle, so valuable and absolutely ne cessary in the arts, also plays the mis chief with man's morals and stomach. This two-sided character of the fluid makes complications and confu:-:iou in dealing with it, in its social relations. Why do not the 'temperance women of the world refuse to use prefumery on the ground that the substance that "holds the perfume is the very substance that keeps the "saloon" agoing? "Wo forbid the manufacture of alco hol here. On -the other hand, the United States encourage the home pro duction of it, by placing a high pro tective duty on it. We are assimilat ing ourselves to American civilization with a vengeance. We follow one poli cy. The United States follows a di rectly opposite 'policy. There is some thing loose in our statesmanship. Why did we not make it a condition of an nexation that the United States forbid the manufacture of whiskey and alco hoi iin every State in the Union? The high duty on alcohol prevents the building up of a number of small industries here. Many of the articles sold by druggists require alcohol in the preparation. The labor of manufactur ing these articles can be obtained here. We drive these chemical manu facturers to England, Germany, France for stuff that should be made .here, and give employment to our own people. Through southern France, and south ern Italy, many hundreds of women and children are engaged in raising flowers for perfumes. One of the most important of these is the accasia far anesiana. It is the yellow round flower, the mimosa, that grows luxuri antly and well all over these Islands. The perfume obtained from this flower is a staple article of commerce in Eu rope. It is the base of many different prefumes. Experiments made with our owin flowers show that the perfumes are the same as those obtained in Eu rope. The extraction of these perfumes by the use of refined lard or oil, and their preservation in alcohol is a busi ness which is light, clean, agreeable, j and especially suited to women and children. Hundreds of them should be employed in it. But this industry is out of the question, at the present price of alcohol. The establishment of this in dustry was receintly proposed here, aft er most satisfactory experiments. The high price of alcohol forbade it. In 1896, an Englishman, in California, trained in the extensive lavender perfumery business of England, and familiar with the cultivation of flowers used in mak ing perfumes in France, proposed to start the industry here, owing to the ease of raising certain flowers here. On finding out the price of alcohol he gave up the project. It is perhaps needless to say that if cheap alcohol was required in the pro duction of sugar, we would have it, regardless of consequences. SENATOR THURSTON AND CUIJA. TENANTS AND LAND OWNERS. Several days ago, we asserted that the tillers of the soil, who owned their own land were, largely, the backbone of the Anglo-Saxon ract-s. We stated that the number of owners of soil on these Islands, excepting the natives, were only 3 per cent, of the people, and thi.s small percentage might involve .serious consequences in time. Our con temporary, the Bulletin, met this view by quoting a table of statistics, which showed that 70 per cent, of the Ameri can families were tenant families. The inference was, of course, that our so cial condition in this respect, was very sound, and that our views must there fore be wrong. We now present a few figures from the Census tables of the United States. In 1890, the total number of families in the United States was 12,G90,152. Of these only 52.20 per cent, hired farms and homes, while 47.80 per cent, owned them. The Census even omitted any account of farms under three acres. Of the families living on farms, 34.08 per cent, were merely tenants, while G5.32 owned their farms. Of 1,749,579 families living in 420 cit ies, of which the population ranged from 8,000 to 100,000 and the owner ship of real estate is largely concen trated in the hands of a few, the ten ants numbered 64.04 per cent, and the 1 owners numbered 35.97 per cent. ! In the new States, the precentage of those owning the soil is much higher 1 than the averages we quote. In discussing the matter, we assum ed that those who thought upon the subject, especially Americans, were familiar with the disposition of land in the United States, where enough of it has been given away at nominal prices, by the Government, to consti tute several empires. The debates in Congress during the past century, have turned on the point of putting every citizen, and alien too, in the possession of cheap land, for the good of the State. The same opinions hold in the Aus tralian colonies. No one that we .know of claims that chis system is practicable here at pre sent. The fact that it is believed to be impracticable is one of the dangers of securing here, in the case of independ ence, stable government. In the United States alone, the dis orders and uprisings against authority in the majority of cases arise from the class who are gathered in the cities and have no stake in the soil. Whenever in the rural manufacturing districts, or in the smaller places, the mechanics and employes own the land they oc cupy, there are the least disturbances. The most conservative class in France is that embracing the 6,000,000 peas ant proprietors. The communists, the revolutionary elements are found in the cities, especially Paris, where only a few comparatively speaking, own their own homes, but still hold the voting power. The singular absence of small landed proprietors, of an intelligent class, is one of our dangers, and cannot be ignored. SENATOR THURSTON SPEAKS. 31akcs Eloquent Appeal for Cuba and Her Cause. WASHINGTON, March 24. Senator Thurston of Nebraska made an appeal for Cuba's cause today that stirred every member and every occupant of the crowded galleries. He said he spoke by command of silent lips. Mrs. Thurs ton's dying re-quest to her husband was that he should lose no time on account of her death to do his utmost. to save and free Cuba and its people Senator Thurston said he had gone to Cuba firmly believing that the con dition cf affairs on the island had been greatly exaggerated. After seeing for himself he had concluded that an over statement of the horrors of the situa tion was impossible, lie was prepared net only ito adopt every word of Sena tor Proctor, but was even convinced that he had understated the facts. "l do not believe,' said he, "that the entire Spanish army in Cuba couk: stand an engagement in the open field against 2000 well disciplined American soldiers. The Spanish soldiers, of all people on earth, would most gladly welcome anj' result which would enable them to return to their homes. The pictures in the American papers cf the starving reconcentrados are true." Discussing the remedy w hich should be applied Thurston said: "I counseled silence and moderation from this floor when the passion of the nation seemed at white heat over the destruction of the Maine, but it seems to me the time for action has now come. Not action in the Maine case. I ihone and trust that this srovem ment will take action on the Cuban situation entirely outside of the Maine case. When the Maine report is re ceived, if it be found that our ship and sailors were blown up by some outside explosive, we will nave ample pre paration without quibble or delay, and if the explosion can be traced to Span ish official sources there will be such swift and terrible punishment adjudged as will remain a warning to the world forever." There will be a session of the Coun cil of State at the Executive Building this afternoon to consider several im portant matters. The speech of Senator Thurston, in the Senate on Cuban affairs is one of the most dramatic scenes of the hour. Ilia wife, a dying woman, almost at the moment" the vision of the earth was about to close on her eyes forever, fer vently besought .her husband to plead for the suffering and forsaken in Cuba. He, struggling with the burden of his grief, at her loss, rose in his place in the Senate chamber and delivered to the men who hold the fate of peace or war, and to the people behind them, this message of a dying woman, with the fervent eloquence of one who was an eye witness of the horrors of the most brutal war of the century. He rmild onlv sav of Snain: "She has pet no more crosses in more lands, be neath more skies, and under them has butchered more people than all of the other nations of the earth combined." There come moments in the life of a nation where if peace and gold are placed in one scale, and humanity and justice are placed in the other, the scale trembles only for an instant in the balance, and then peace and gold strike the beam. The question of pro fit and comfort to the American people ceases to exist. The great American ship of State clears her gun decks for action. And to President McKinley standing with his hand on the helm, every American turns and repeats the words of the old Greek mariners: "We trust thee, oh pilot, for thy hand is steady, and as long as thou are there, we shall not fear that our ship will leave her course." THIS DAY. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AT AUCTION. AT 10 O'CLOCHC, A. M., At the Residence of -Mr. Jas. Steiner, Adams Lane, I will sell at Public Auc tion, the Entire Household Furniture, comprising Large Plate Mirror, Oak Parlor Chairs, Divans, Oil Paintings, Steel Engravings, Parlor and Sofa Rugs, Oak Hall Stand, Oak Bedroom Sets, Table and Bed Linen, Dining Room Chairs, Fine Oak Sideboard, Crockery and Glassware, 1 Manhattan Stove, Kitchen Utensils. Etc. Etc. Jas. F. Morgan. AUCTIONEER. 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