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THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
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W. N. ARMSTRONG - EDITOR.
TUESDAY : : : : : MAY 17.
VICTORY AT THE PHILIPPINES.
The latest dispatches show that the
victory of Commodore, now Hear Ad
miral Dewey was complete, resulting
in the annihilation of the Spanish fleet
at Manila, and the capture of several
fortifications. The singular absence
of any loss of life on the American
vessels indicates the utter demoraliza
tion of the Spanish fleet. Hear Ad
miral Dewey seems to have conducted
his operations with great foresight and
skill In cutting the cable which con
nects Manila with the world, he has
closed any communications between
the Spanish forces, and the home Gov
ernment, and left them to work out
their own salvation, if they can do it.
How this sea fight will rank in com
parison with other great naval battles
remains to be seen. The small injury
received by the American ships sug
gests that the American fleet had a
"walk over," and that its fighting cap
acity has not been really tested.
THE ANCIENT TEMPLES.
Time and investigation has removed
much of the prejudice which existed
against the "Ileiau and Puuhonuas
Trust" which was recently instigated
by the missionary Senators. No one at
any time questioned the purity of their
motives in the attempt to restore visi
hle heathenism on these Islands, by the
purchase and preservation of the an
cient interesting but disreputable tem
ples. But we have it on the authority
n lpsrnpd Indian: "That white man
is mighty unsartain." The conservative,
and conscientious antf-missionary por
tion of the community felt that these
missionary Senators were unconscious
ly back-sliding into paganism, and un
der pretense of restoring relics, were
really attempting to put this Paradise
of the Pacific on the old footing of bar
baric and fetish worship.
The public sentiment is now greatly
in favor of the movement towards the
preservation of the old temples, but it
cannot, for some time to come, relieve
itself of the apprehension that these
missionary Senators may be weak anl
suddenly revert to the old order of
things, if they are allowed to wJor ine
restored relics.
This case well illustrates what is
called "the point of view." On pre
cisely the same reasons that suggest
the preservation of heiaus, those liv
ing a hundred years hence, and after
the Blue Ribbon movement has fin
ished its work by the demolition of the
saloon, will apply for an appropriation
from the Legislature for the purchase
of the ruins of the old "saloons," as
evidences of the depravity of man in
the year 1S9S. And on the opening of
these restored relics, for public in
spection, some member of the S. S. C.
will read a paper stating that he had
heard his grandfather say that on one
occasion he had seen three reputable
citizens boldly and openly enter one of
these ancient structures, and jn defi
ance of the laws of hgiene and physio
logy had "taken a drink," for such was
the' phrase used. And he would add,
with scientific accuracy, that all of
those ancienf and nearly forgotten
"saloons" were so saturated with alco
hol to a depth of six or seven feet into
the ground, that the casting of a light
ed match upon the sites often resulted
in fearful explosions, and conflagra
tions.
From a philosophical standpoint the
missionary Senators are right. At sev
eral hundred years from the present
time, many of our own institutions
will be exhibited as specimens of our
own barbarism, we have no way of
getting even with prosterity, excepting
hy holding up to our own scorn and
ridicule the serious foolishness of our
predecessors
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PROPHESY.
An educated man, a politician of wide
experience, a student of human affairs,
occupying a high place at the seat of
Government that enabled him to sweep
a wide horizon, he summed up the
movement of events as a war affair
which would last only 00 days.
And yet, in many a city and village
were living quiet, unknown men, who
could sweep no such horizon, were far
away from the swelling tides of men,
but predicted that trhis affair of 90 days
would enlarge into a terrible affair of
years.
This incident reveals the strong and,
as Herbert Spencer says, the overrul
ing power of individual sentiment and
temperament in the judgment of af
fairs, to the large exclusion of reason.
On the other hand, this very states
man had ten years before, on the floor
of the Senate chamber, in a speech on
the efforts to reconcile the relations of
freedom and slavery, suddenly coined
a new phrase, "the irreconcilable con
flict" which has taken its place in Am
erican political literature, as the best
and broadest and profoundest defini
tion of the perpetual antagonism of
those institutions. Mr. Seward had
displayed singular intuitive knowledge
of the principles which governed hu
man thought, the permanent struggle
for that which is better. But he had dis
played an equally singular ignorance
in his estimation of the power of ra
cial feeling, of pride, and local pa
triotism in governing men's thoughts.
Statesman as he was, there was many
a cotton broker uneducated in the
books or in life, who was wiser than
he. and could have told him that he
failed to see the meaning and signific
ance of one of the greatest, most pa
thetic, and most disasterous move
ments of the century.
HAWAII NEI.
The Rev. George H. Hepworth, a
man of great ability and honesty, was
rpppntlv sent by the N. Y. Herald to
make an investigation of the Armenian
massacres. His conclusions are that
the massacres were caused hy the Ar
menian, revolutionists. He does not for
an instant justify the Turkish atroci
ties, but he believes that the revolu
tionists expected the interference, on
their behalf of England or Russia, and
miscalculated their own resources, lie
gives the missionaries great credit for
wisdom, tact, and usefulness.
This view of the case was held by
the British Government, on the break
ing out of the trouble, and so stated
publicly. While the British nation
largely sympathized with the Armen
ians the Government itself could not
see its way clear to aid a people who
lmd nrovoked the Turkish attack.
Some of the religious journals in
America severely criticise Dr. Hep
worth's report. It contradicts many of
the statements perhaps loosely made
regarding the Armenians, and which
have been accepted as true. While it
may be true, and relieve the Turks of
the charge of a deliberate attempt to
annihilate the Armenians, it does not
clear them of the guilt of inhuman
barbarity.
The case is one which shows the ex
treme difficulty of obtaining the cor
rect facts, upon which alone history
may be correctly written.
Music Hy Teresa Howler, Words
By Charlotte Haley.
Both the Hawaiian News Company
and Wall, Nichols Company have the
song Hawaii Nei, words by Charlotte
Haley and music by Teresa Bowler. It
is a dainty selection. Charlotte Haley,
who now lives in Seattle, was born in
Hawaii, and in the verses expresses
with feeing and grace, love for the
beautiful Islands. This is the bow of
Mrs. Bowler as a composer for the
public, though she has long been
known to her friends as a musician of
fine ability. The music of Hawaii Nei
will soon be heard at a concert by the
Government band, most likely as a
cornet solo. All who have heard the
air so far have gone into raptures over
it. These are the words:
When .the twilight softly lingers
And the shadows pale and die,
On the distant sloping landscape,
'Neath the bending, brooding sky,
Then I sit and gaze with feelings,
Much more deep than words can say,
Thoughts so deep and feelings tender
For our loved Hawaii nei.
Chorus.
Deep blue sea spread out before me,
Gently heaving to and fro,
Rock bound coast with white spray
rJnshiner.
Pinkly touched by evening glow,. .
Distant land, blue mountains, ocean;,
Twilight's tender lights display, 'I
Best to me and in my heart is,
My love for Hawaii nei.
Chorus.
If in distant lands I wander,
Lands perhaps I long to see,
Still my thoughts will ever hover,
Dear adopted land, 'round thee
Twilight's thoughts and twilight's
shadows,
Like all things soon pass away,
But ray heart will never alter,
It's love for Hawaii nei.
Chorus.
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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 he
overcome and that at once.
A Third Team.
There is still talk of yet having a
baseball League to contest regularly
for the 1S9S championship. The games
now being played by the Honolulus
and Regiments are not for the trophy.
The cup was won by the Regiments
last year. The latest plan suggested is
for a revival of the Stars. Four of the
Star players are now with the Regi
ments and the statement is made that
one Star player would be taken from
the Honolulus. It is very desirable to
have three teams and it is believed
that the Regiments could still make a
good showing after releasing the pres
ent battery and two others. Unless
something of this sort is done and that
very soon, the 1S9S baseball season will
be a failure.
Sir William Howard Russell, the fa
mous war correspondent of the Lon
don Times, is now publishing the pri
vate memoranda which he made dur
ing the American Civil war. Owing to
a just, but not very favorable criticism,
of the Federal forces at the battle of
Bull Run, he was spoken of for some
years in the Republican papers, as
"null Run Russell."
In his memoirs he refers in 1861, to
the determination of the Southern
men to fight, and he was admitted
through the lines to see their prepara
tions. He then makes this note:
"What will Mr. Seward say? He has
been ding-donging into my ears that
the Southern States are not really
anti-Northern. Only a set of noisy
factious slave owners in each State
were in secession, the majority were
sound for the glorous Union."
"The prediction of Mr. Seward that
the Civil war would last only 90 days,
is gradually passing into American
literature as an illustration of the
.weakness of man's gift for prophecy.
Martin J. Egan, special correspond
ent for the San Francisco Chronicle,
i nnfi of the throuerh passengers on
thP Citv of Peking: on his way to Ma
nila whence he has been sent to re
port the war news for the paper to
which he belongs. Mr. Egan is an en
thusiastic vounsr man. brimful of ener
gy and just the right kind of a fel
low for the place to which he has been
assigned,
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