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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, DECEMBER, 2S, 1S98.
THK PACIFIC
Coannerclal Advertiser.
W. N. ARMSTRONG EDITOR
WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 28.
CONTEMPT OF COURT.
The tempers of lawyers are like
those of horses. Some are mihl ami
serene. Some are wild and restless,
and can be held only with a strong bit
and a tight rein. And there are ether
lawyers who are like vicious horses,
who kick over the traces, lay their ears
back and nip at their masters. The
judges are the drivers appointed to
hold the reins over these legal trotters,
and guide them to the goal of justice.
But the great majority of the legal
trotters don't wish to be driven to the
goal of justice, but to the goal of vic
tory, which is, in one-half the cases,
in an entirely different direction. The
result is that they crowd each other
off the highway and into the ditches.
In these struggiing3 "with each other,
the judges pull the reins or check
them up, and then they let their heels
fly into the air, or try to get the bits
out of their mouths. The patience of
the driver on the Bench is sorely test
ed. For if he loses his temper, and
sometimes he does, the entire "outfit"
becomes a ridiculous affair.
Counsel have the usual infirmity of
men, in the faith that the cause which
each one advocates is. the right one,
and the cause which his opponent ad
vocates is the wrong one. Admirable
and honest zeal for the client creates
this fault. But it leads to friction in
lawsuits, and resentment of judicial
control.
The power to punish for contempt of
Court is absolutely necessary in order
to preserve the dignity and adminis
tration of justice. It is u power which
judges rarely use, unless contempt is
marked and inexcusable. Frequently
cases of mild or inadvertent contempt
occur, which are overlooked by patient
judges.
But experience shows that if the
judges permit, through kindness, and
a willingness to overlook infirmities,
the ton, of the Bench is lowered, and
the tone of the Bar is lowered, and
the best administration of justice then
falls. The weakness of some judges
permit. i their court rooms to become
bear gardens by failing to keep a tight
rein on the counsel.
The judges must have the power to
punish summarily, because he has the
evidence before ihim of the offense, and
requires no testimony about it. The
judge may be in error, in stating the
law, which provokes the offense of
contempt. The question of his error
can only be reviewed by appeal to
other judges. For if the lawyer on one
side may denounce him for error, the
lawyer on the other side may do so
when he, in turn, is over-ruled. The
captain of a ship may be in error, but
the crew must not mutiny and take
the command out of his hands.
The Anglo-Saxon communities stand
by the judge. As justice is the great
standing civil polity of mankind so the
judges are regarded vwith respect and
fully sustained in protecting the dig
nity of their courts.
AN OLD SUBJECT.
Dr. C. M. Hyde recently discussed in
the columns of this paper, the temper
ance question. In one sense it is stale,
in another, and the best sense it is one
of the most important that is before
men. For neither national prosperity,
nor expansion will compensate for the
infinite evils and suffering that arise
from intemperance.
But the temperance, and the total
abstinence, and the prohibition men
will be gradually driven to consider
the subject from an entirely new
standpoint.
It is quite enough to put these per
sons on their inquiry after new meth
ods, by referring to the recent wail
of the Maine Prohibitionists, who have
solemnly declared that after keeping
up a legal wall of prohibition around
the State of Maine for fifty years, the
plan has substantially failed, although
it has no doubt, done some good.
The day of "talk" should close. The
evils of intemperance cannot be
preadied out of existence. The litera
ture on the subject is stale. The
masses of men do not read it. A crank
asked the editor of the N. Y. Times to
print the ten commandments every day
at the head of his editorial columns.
-No," he replied, "but I will always
publish the account of any plan that
effectively removes the suffering and
pain of mankind."
The temperance question is still in
the clouds. It has not been brought
down to the earth and will not be until
it Is tackled as a social and pathologi
cal problem. Intemperance is largely
the result of social conditions. The
children in Germany and France drink
"beer and wine, and they are not drunk
ards. Wherever one finds unnatural,
strained, unjust social conditions,"
there is found intemperance also.
Goldwin Smith gets close to the
heart of the subject when he says "a
cold home, the friend of the saloon."
Men who live in warm houses, with
abundance of room, and with comforts
at hand, do not understand the im
pelling force to drink, in a cold home,
with a single room packed with crying
children and a worn out wife. Instead
of theorizing on the subject the earn
est, honest and devoted advocates of
temperance or total abstinence should
get at the facts. The majority of
young men, earning little at first, are
forced to accept uninviting rooms, or
cold homes." When they step out of
them in search of comfortable places
the saloon, with a shrewd knowledge
of the human instincts invites them to
a comfortable place. Here, in these
later days, the Y. M. C. A. which in
ts ways, is the best applied Christian
ty, steps forward, and beckons them
from the saloon and many there be
that follow its kindly light.
Foolish and extravagant women
drive men to the saloon. Men strug
gling against adverse circumstances,
the creation of unnatural social condi
tions, go to drink. The club3 of the
great cities are filled every day with
professional and business men whose
brains are overtaxed, and find tempora
ry relief in the stimulating effects of
alcohol. And besides these, is the vast
army of workingmen who have no
hope and find relief from the mono
tony of toil in drink.
When the younger Vanderbilt erec
ted a great building for the comfort
and use of the railway train men, he
did more for the cause of temperance,
than if he had distributed many mil
lions of tracts on total abstinence. So
the railway officials say. He altered
the social conditions of the men, and
gave them hope and decent surround
ings, r
When reformation is discussed on
these lines, instead of merely denounc
ing the evil, the world will see the real
methods of meeting it, and will act
on it.
A reader of Harper's Weekly who
believes in high license, and has been
to Maine and seen how prohibition
works there, suggests new definitions
for Maine's next speller and definer:
License the privilege of selling liquor,
obtained by the payment' of money;
Prohibition the right to sell liquor
without any payment.
THE PASSING 110 UK.
The Sunday School people here make
the Merry Christmas season last well.
If President McKinley's name was
Bryan, he would be accused of endeav
oring to politically cultivate the South.
A cry of distress again goes up from
Armenia. Probably relief will be sent
to that country, past Cuba, from here
again.
There is renewed consideration of
Spanish trouble at home. This seems
to have been the bother of the Dons
from the first.
As Minneapolis says no, it is likely
that the flour trust will die in the in
cipient stage. This is one of the bless
ings of the later days of 1898.
Now if the steamer people wil only
allow the '99 schedule to stand a few
weeks the Honolulu mind can have
time to give attention to New Year
resolutions.
Lawyer Davis, whatever the outcome
of the duello with Judge Perry can al
ways have the flattering thought that
he made a really eloquent address in
the contempt proceedings.
Those hot-headed Irishmen in Amer
ica who sneer at Justin McCarthy and
a British understanding with the Unit
ed States are keeping up the reputa
tion of their race for disagreement.
Gen. Guy V. Henry (Fighting Guy),
now military commander of Porto
Rico, will not permit a little thing
like a religious war to worry him
much. Gen. Henry is a graduated In-
THE BALANCE OF THE
The
Fine White Dress Goods
OLLS ancS
TREMENDOUS BARGAINS IN
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TABLE LINEN AND NAPKINS at
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dian fighter of the west and those nu:n
are ever alert and positive.
The Advertiser is pleased to have
drawn a letter from the Rev. John
Usborne, of St. Clement's. Rev. Mr.
Usborne is a clear writer and makes
plain some issues or conditions that
the lay mind had failed to grasp. The
Rector of St. Clement's is going at
the business of making his stand per
manent in a way that is skillful and
vigorous.
Atlantic Coast papers are urging,
since the loss of the Boston S. S. Port
land, with 200 lives, the strict mainte
nance of a weather blockade. This
means that the port authorities shall
have power to hold any craft when the
weather indications warrant the as
sumption that a storm predicted will
be dangerous. It should be done. As
remarked some days ago, the stories
of death and disaster come regularly
from the New England coast when
there is clearly a way to avert much
of the calamity.
A box of our candies makes a most
acceptable Xmas present.
NEW ENGLAND BAKERY.
MESSENGER SERVICE.
Honolulu Messenger Service deliver
messages and packages. Tel. 378.
To look at the finest and most com
plete line of holiday goods ever im
ported into the Hawaiian Islands? If
so we shall be pleased to offer the ser
vices of one of our obliging clerks to
show you the goods.
TIME NO OBJECT.
The goods were purchased by our
Mr. Barthrop, who has recently re
turned from a tour among the lead
ing makers throughout the United
States.
In quality and price we are leaders.
We have a line of fine leather
goods that embraces almost every
thing useful made of leather at prices
astonishingly low.
IN CELLULOID GOODS our line
will astonish you.
FANCY GLASS BOTTLES. We lead
our competitors.
PERFUMERY is our forte. Our line
of Palmer's, Lazell, Dalley & Co., Lund
borgs, Colgate, Pinauds, Rigand & Co.,
Roger & Gal let, is complete.
ARE
YOU
READY
AND
SEE
1
Great
STOCK HAVING ARRIVED, WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO SELL AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES
ds, sets, a yard; Fine Printed Nainsooks, ?cts. a yard; French Organdies, 10 cts. a yard;
new patterns, iocts a yard; Fine French Organdies, 15 yards, $1.00; Victoria Lawns, 32
wide, 10 yards
TOYS- At your own
,
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25 each.
Bargain Prices.
and CUFFS, NECKTIES and a Com
0
We Know
By Experience
Wise men use the experience of others
and make it their own.
Those who have taken Hood's Sarsapa
rilla are the ones who are competent to
speak of its merits.
The testimonials of cures by Hood's
constitute a vast mass of testimony which
prove, the power of this medicine to cure
a great variety of diseases.
These cures often seem marvelous, yet
they are perfectly natural and are easily
explained. They are the necessary result
of purifying and enriching the blood.
44 1 have been troubled with scrofula all
my life, and it effected my eyes so that I
was obliged to remain in a dark room. I
began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Now
my eyes are so strong that the light never
troubles me, and my health is good."
Mrs. Carrie Weeks, Lompoc, Cal.
cod's
Sarsa
parilla la the One True Blood Purifier. Price f 1.
Hnnn'c PilU sy to take, easy to buy,
1 IUUU 2 I'll id easy to operate. 25c.
TIMELY TOPICS
December 19, 1898.
A FEW MORE
HANDSOME GOODS.
Last week we spoke of
B & H Lamps. We are more
than pleased with the sale we
have had on these goods last
week, as it goes to show that
our efforts on behalf of our
patrons is fully appreciated.
This week we are desirous
of calling your attention to a
handsome line of
ART MIRRORS,
ART VASES,
ART PITCHERS,
ART CANDLE STICKS.
These goods are without
exception the most handsome
line ever brought before the
public of Honolulu.
The Scounse Mirrors are
the very best beveled plate
glass set in the latest cre
ation artists of the highest
order can conceive and are of
a large variety of designs.
What we have said of the
Mirrors also applies to the
assortment of
VASES : AND : PITCHERS.
Within the last year or so
the fad of using candle sticks
is again in vogue, with the
exception that at the present
day the designs are much
prettier than those used in
the last century.
It is no uncommon thing
today to step into the best fur
nished houses and find these
Art Candle Sticks displayed
in some cosy nook around the
house. Our assortment of
these goods consists of sev
eral patterns.
i nil lii fit
Limited.
307 FORT ST.
ycts. ah otner gooas at proportionate m.
000
price. The whole Stock must be cleared. TOYS
being the very latest Styles
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( THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY OF
1 LIFETIME. EMBRACE IT.
plete Stock of UNDERWEAR will be
Honolulu, Oahu.
BRUCE WARING & CO.
Dealers in Lands.
Investment Brokers.
Fire Insurance Agents.
CHOICE BUSINESS and Residence Properties for Sale.
ELEGANT LOTS on Punchbowl Slope with fine marine view.
A BEAUTIFUL MODERN RESIDENCE on Green street. TerrM
grounds. Splendid view. Choice neighborhood.
A CHOICE RESIDENCE AT PUNAHOU. Large grounds convenient
Tram Cars.
LOTS AND HOUSES at "Buena Vista," Nuuanu Valley.
BUSINESS PROPERTIES Centrally located.
Lots on Makiki street.
HOME LOTS IN KEWALO TRACT. Houses built for purchasers on t36a
Installment plan.
STORES AND OFFICE, (single or in suite) in "Progress Block."
RESIDENCE LOTS at Puueo, Villa Franca, and Reed's Island, Hlle.
LOANS NEGOTIATED. Insurance Written on Residence
and Mercantile Risks.
We invite inspection of properties.
BRUCE WARING & CO.
Offices: 7 and 8, Progress Block;
Occident and Orient I
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BOTH ENDS MEET AT
HOLLISTER & CO
TOBACCO
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Just Received
and Australia
Corner Fort and
For a Christmas Gift Select
Maile : Colo
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From American, French and English Makers.
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enson, Smith & Co
LIMITED-
Fort and Hotel Streets.
Goes
selected from a fashionable
) TOWELS, BEDSPREADS AND
j SHEETINGS AND PILLOW CASES
cleared at any price, as tts are going
Pry
Hilo, HftWftii.
STORE.
Manila Cigars
ex. Stmrs. Belgic
Merchant Streets.
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Heavy Flannelettes,
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and DO
Regent Street. London, Stock
BLANKETS, must be sold at any vrbo.
will be sold at a sacrifice.
out of the business.
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