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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER : HONOLULU, MAY 10, 1S9S.
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
W. N. ARMSTRONG - EDITOR.
TUESDAY :::::: MAY 10.
PEKSOXA L IXFLUEXCE.
Since Mr. J. O. Carter returned from
Washington, where he has made some
efforts to defeat the annexation plan,
the natives, we are told, are led to be
lieve that his efforts defeated it, up to
the present time. The reasoning is
simple enough, and often has much
force. Mr. Carter is sent to Washing
to to defeat the ratification of the
treaty. Action on it is suspended.
Therefore Mr. Carter defeated it. The
German peasants reasoned in the same
way about railways. Before rails were
used the potatoes did not rot. After
the rails were used, potatoes did rot.
Therefore the rails rotted the potatoes
So the Chinese reason also. A man is
sick, give him a dose of bugs pounded
up. He gets well. Then the bug dose
did it.
Mr. Carter counts for little in the
annexation movement. So does Mr.
Dole, aside from his official duties. The
men who believe that the great nation
al policy of the American Republic can
be pushed or retarded by the efforts of
one or two men, or even a host of men,
do not understand political evolution.
If annexation had followed the visit of
Mr. Dole Co Washington, it would have
been said that he secured it by his
presence, and the wisdom of sending
him there would have been very short
ly proclaimed.
A new policy however just and
broad, regarding territorial expansion,
and involving 70,000,000 of people, can
not be deflected one way or the other
by Mr. Dole or Mr. Carter. To say that
St could, would be to make them
greater statesmen than now exist on
this earth.
Those who believed that Mr. Carter
could defeat annexation, and those
who believed that Mr. Dole could se
cure it, belong to the same type of
men. They believe in the haphazard
rule of the earth and its people.
The quiet, sincere, annexationists
may see in the events now transpiring
In the United States, a steady evolu
tion towards .annexation. Of course
the jingoes do not see it. They never
see anything unless it is put with a
thousand candle power light right be
fore their eyes. Their chief blunder is
in expecting things to happen at once,
because they wish them to happen.
They have failed to see that it was no
easy matter to persuade a great nation
to abandon the advice of Washington
regarding political isolation, at short
notice. The very men here wrho refuse
to handle the labor question because it
is too complicated, are the men who
get frantic because the American peo
ple do not handle at once the novel
and complicated question of annexing
territory beyond the sea.
At the same time events which fin
ally bring annexation are slowly com
ing into existence. The American na
tion slowly outgrows the maxims of
Washington. The intervention in
Cuba is the first decided, firm, and ad
vanced step in the new path. The
present war is a notice to the world,
that the United States now adopts an
active and not a passive policy. It is
an education of the people to a sense
of the real position of the United
States in the world's affairs. Every
act, everything, that breaks down the
isolation of the States, is a move on
the lines of annexation.
We are peaking entirely from the
American standpoint. Very many able
Americans do not believe in territorial
expansion, because they do not see
practically the benefit of it. The Far
East and Cuba are breaking down
slowly the wall of isolation which Gen
eral Washington honestly and rightly
for those days, recommended. At r.o
time within five years have the ele
ments which control commercial ad
political policies been more active than
they are at the present moment. The
annexation cause is not buried. It
may not be showing outward signs of
life. But like the sugar cane in the
dark, it is growing and maturing.
At Old Point Comfort, Virginia, there
are two hotels, costing not less than
one and a quarter millions of dollars.
They are erected in front of Fortress
"Munroe, but not on the side facing the
ocean. These hotels have been built
on Government land, with the express
stipulation in the leases, that the mili
tary authorities may, in their own dis
cretion, in the event of war, destroy
them. Their destruction would be ne
cessary only in the event of an en
emy's fleet passing by the front of the
fort, and making an attack on the side
facing Hampton Roads. Preparations
have been made for the almost instant
demolition of these vast hotels. But
there is so much confidence in the
power of the fort's guns, with the aid
of the torpedo system to prevent access
of any hostile ships, the insurance on
the -hotel property has not been increased.
GERMANY AXI) THE UNITED
STATES.
Germany will observe the strictest
neutrality during the war. The Em
peror is not elected every four years,
nor does he feel called ujion to nak-i
an enemy of the United States, in
order to please the whims of certain
classes of his subjects. He is quite
well aware of the growth in popula
tion and wealth of the American peo
ple. Any unfriendliness at the present
time would be '.'chalked up' against
him by the Americans.
The German mercantile classes are
not friendly to the United States, ow
ing to the high tariff which excludes
their goods from American markets.
They claim that the Americans have
put up the bars of trade, and have done
so in a very mean and sefish way.
. Again, Germany has for some years
regarded South America as a field for
German settlement and empire. She
has even contemplated the occupation
of Brazil. All movements in this di
rection are at once checked by the
Monroe doctrine, which is in the na
ture of an arbitrary threat to all of the
European powers. The Emperor of
Germany, with his great army and
navy, does not relish being told to
"keep off American grass." He would
like to see the head of the American
bluffer punched a little by Spain.
The aristocratic class in Germany
also sympathises with the Spaniards.
It would not give aid and comfort to
them, but would rejoice to see them
victorious, and knock the stuffing out
of the Americans. The German pa
pers condemn Spain's government of
Cuba, but they refuse to see justice in
American interference. They refuse to
believe that the Americans are gov
erned by any other than the most sel
fish motives in interference, and charge
that the humanitarian motive is mere
ly a protest for conquest.
But this is not the belief of the great
body of the German people, the quiet,
serious, strong majority, who keep and
will keep Germany on the side of the
United States. " The influence of the
large German population of the States
is a powerful one, reaching back to
Germany itself. It informs the people
of the Fatherland that the Americans
are really conservative in their treat
ment of the Cuban matter.
Germany will manintain the very
strictest neutrality. The report that
the Emperor intended to prevent the
capture of the Philippine Islands must
be, therefore, without any foundation.
The Madrid papers are frantic. The
Union Constitutional says: "The rich
Yankees will fight against insolvents.
They are turned crazy by money,
which gives them no courage, and
which will not buy patriotism or per
sonal or collective braveness. Enthu
siasm is faith in God's justice. The
actual war is a laughable fight be
tween cosmopolis and the cry of 'the
Fatherland!' which gives soul and
nerve to the fighting vessels and to the
army, arid which is to be found only
in those who are ready to die, thinking
of glory, victory, honor, and the tri
umph of the Fatherland. Besides,
most important, the American soldiers
In re neither guitars nor scapularies of
the Virgin."
The war should be watched from the
musical aspect of the case. If vhe
failure of the American soldiers to pos
sess guitars and scapularies results in
disaster, we shall get a lesson out of
it. Why is not the highest officer of
rank in the Hawaiian army sent out
on an observing tour to Cuba and
Florida, so that he may pick up "nug-
THIS DAY.
STOCK FOR SALE.
By order of the Treasurer of the
HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC CO. I will sell
at Public Auction, at my salesrooms,
Queen street,
ON TUESDAY, MY 10,
AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON,
3 shares of stock of the above Com
pany, being fractional shares of the
new issue.
Jas. F. Morgan,
AUCTIONEER.
gets?" If the Spaniards play the mis
chief to the Yankees on their musical
instruments why should not our own
army be thoroughly armed and equip
ped with them?
In Circuit Court.
"Jim" Shearin was called before
Judge Perry yesterday and to him was
announced suspension of sentence till
next term of the Circuit Court here.
Shearin, a few weeks ago, fired a rifle
shot at some hoodlums annoying him
at his Kakaako home. The bullent
struck the leg of a Chinese storekeeper
some distance away. Shearin was
given a sentence of 30 days and ap
pealed for mitigation.
In the two cases of C. S. Bradford vs.
Sheriff Andrews and C. S. Bradford vs.
Wise & Porter, both from Hilo. mo
tions for a change of venue, made by
the plaintiffs, were denied.
On application of John M. Vivas and
one other interested party, by Attor
ney Creighton, the Portuguese weekly
newspaper O Luso has been thrown
temporarily into the hands of a re
ceiver. Charles Phillips is the re
ceiver, under bond of $1,000.
Immigration Question.
Half a dozen or more of the promi
nent planters and sugar factors had a
conference with the Cabinet at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The sub
ject was immigration and there was
earnest discussion of the matter. It is
believed to be the request of the plan
ters that further time be given to fill
the agreement of bringing to the coun
try 10 per cent of labor either from the
United States or Europe. The planters
are under bond to do this.
Cheap
AND
Powerm
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A walk' through most
any section of this city
at night when all is still
will cause anyone to won
der why more sickness
does not exist. The ob
noxious orders from defec
tive sewerage and many
other causes ought to be
overcome and that at once.
5
CENTS
A
GALLON
Look after your cess
pools, water closets and
garbage barrels. They are
fever producers. Keep
them free from offensive
odors.
It saves doctor's bills.
II MESS I IB.
Much simpler and more
convenient than Chloride
of Lime, Carbolic Acid
and many other disinfec
tants. Used In all the
prominent Hospitals and
Public Buildings through
out the United States.
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Sold in any quantity
from 25 cents upwards.
Give it a trial.
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Woman's Friend
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'I feel that I ought to write a few
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which ha9 done great things for me. I
was in a delicate condition and was sick
at my stomach and constipated. I tried
remedies highly recommended for female
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and I then determined to try Hood's Sar
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until I was able to work all day without
any inconvenience. I have taken Hood'e
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Since taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and
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Wholesale Agents.
TIMELY TOPICS
May 9, 1898.
Last week we drew'your
attention to the good quali
ties of the
nir a
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but did not mention the fact
that although the Aermotor
will
PUMP MORE WATER
than any other mill, even
with a poor pump, still it
will not do its best work
unless attached - to a good
pump.
We keep in stock, to go
with our 16 -foot geared
mills, the
Gould
Triple Action
Pump
which will furnish from 8
to 10,000 gallons per hour.
For our smaller mills we
have a pump which is man
ufactured by the Aermotor
Co. itself and is the very
thing for those who want a
pump that is cheap and at
the same time is the best of
its kind.
You cannot make a mis
take when you invest in an
Aermotor. They pay for
themselves in no time.
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