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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL, ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, ArillL 4, 1S99.
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Cosnssrclai Advertiser.
(situation, may be on'.v Mting the file
of a Divine di -pen sat ion in tho inter
ests cf a greater civilization.
END OK A GOOD LIKE-
ARMSTRONG EDITOR
TUESDAY
APRIL 4.
QUEENSLAND AND HAWAII.
The Premier of Queensland, Hon.
J. It. Dickson, in his recent address
to -the elector insists that there
should be more immigration of per
sons from the agricultural classes of
Great Britain, but that only suitable
3ersons fliould be encouraged to enter
fthts colony. He says that although the
colony needs laborers ho desires to
speak with no "uncertain sound"
against the importation of alien labor.
JIo also says that he Intends to pro
jpoae to the Imperial government any
measures of restriction or exclusion
which may be necessary, in order to
reserve Queensland to th.o British
white men. He Bays that he has secured
from the Japanese government pre
ferential treatment of the Queensland
sugars in the Japanese market, and
lie believes friendly relations with
Japan may "be safely established and
maintained without the necessity for
admitting their laborers and artisans
into our cciaimunity."
This is rather significant language,
and may be studied to advantage by
our people.
Queensland is a tropical country.
The British are making there the larg
est and the : most exhaustive experi
ments of the litness and capacity of
the white man to live in the tropics;
not only to live in the tropics, but to
thrive, advance, and keep abreast of
the men of the temperate zones. In.
order to make a successful experiment
they 'have placed the British farmer
on the soil, because there can be no
permanent success of British institu
tions in the tropics unless they are
maintained by the men who till the
ground. There may be admirable gov
ernment over the people of the tro
pics, as there is in India, but there
cannot be self government unless the
mass of the people know how to gov
ern themselves and the mass of the
people are the tillers of the soil.
The British in Queensland have not
Aean shouting for the Flag and then
asking the "heathen" to immigrate
and hold it up. They have insisted
that it should be held by British
lhands. .
On one of the sugar plantations of
Queensland, which yielded -00,000 tons
of sugar last year, there are 930 men,
women and. children from Great Brit
ain now living and working, while the
number of aliens, that is, Kanakas
and Japanese, on the place is only
four hundred and fifty. Eighty-two
small farms that supply the mills are
personally cultivated by Englishmen.
It appears, therefore, that tropical
Queensland has, on one of the sugar
plantations, about one-third as many
men, .women and children as there
-wrere American men, women and chil
dren in all of these Islands at the time
the census of 1S90 was taken. This
instance illustrates, what can bs done
-by emeu who are really sincere in their
Intention. Queensland does employ
the Asiatics and aliens, but they 'be
come less important every year as the
eourcea of a labor supply. The British
in Australia know that the white man
can thrive as a laborer in the tropics
tas well as in tha temperate regions,
and they have already proved it.
While the American appears to have
utterly failed so far in the establish
ment of the American laborer on the
soil of these Islands, and must ac
knowledge with humiliation that
the British in Queensland have mad
a signal triumph in their experiments
with the white .men in the tropics,
thore are reasons for the failure. The
Americans in these Islands did not
until 1S93, control the Monarchy and
probably could not enforce any dis
tinctively American policy regarding
immigration. "WJien. they seized the
political power, the laboring class was
overwhelmingly Asiatic, and it could
not 'be changed for an American class
without a sacrifice of interests, a sac
rifice occasionally exhibited in the
"lives of heroes," and of philanthrop
ists, but quite rare in the average life
of a community. A change of the la
bor system could only be made by
heroic treatment, and that was im
practicable as the world goes
If the government, after '93, had not
only grasped the situation, but nad
anode a final stand in favor of American
settlement, and had bent its energies
to secure it, the system might possibly
have been changed. It did not. Perhaps
it conld not.
There remains now the fact that the
British .have placed beyond doubt, in
the tropical land of Queensland, the
success of the Anglo-Saxon laborer in
the tropics, while we, Americans, point
to our churches, to the Orpheum, and
our saloons, with thirty thousand Asi
atics feeding us daily, and proudly ex
claim, "this is American, civilization."
At the same time, the evolution is
logical, and he who quarrels with the
On the ISth of March Prof. O. C.
Marsh, professor of paleontology in the
Yale University, died of pneumonia.
His life was that of a young man,
who left a clerkship in a mercantile
house, at a time when young men
usually feel that it is too late to get
an education, and prepared himself for
college at Andover, Mass., entered Yale
and graduated in I860, and from that
time devoted himself to the study of
paleontology, and became one of the
most distinguished scientists of the
world.
He received at his graduation a large
fortune from his uncle, the late mil
lionaire philanthropist of London,
George Peabody. Instead of becoming
an idler, a man of fashion as the large
majority of rich young men become,
he determined to increase the sum of
human knowledge, and he used his
wealth lavishly for that purpose. He
fitted out, year after year at his own
expense, expeditions for the explora
tion of the unknown parts of the Con
tinent. He discovered many fossils
of animals which were of the highest
importance in the study of animal life
in past ages. His general collection
was said by Prof. Huxley to be the
greatest of the kind in the world. His
ethnological collection was also said
to be the finest in America. He learn
ed through his Hawaiian born asso
ciates in college, that the skeletons of
ancient Hawaiians could be found
buried in the sands on the windward
side of the island of Oahu, and he
finally secured a collection of them
which' he declared, in later years, to be
remarkable in the size of their bones
and their skulls. Through his in
fluence, the Peabody Museum was
founded in New Haven by his uncle,
George Peabody, and he became its
curator.
While making his researches in the
Rocky Mountains he became much in
terested in the Indians, and in 1S75,
his fierce attacks upon the frauds of
the Indian bureau resulted in the im
provement of their condition. The
man of science incidentally contribut
ed in this way more to the cause of
humanity than millions of men who
knew nothing of science or humanity.
lie was once asked by an idle and
rich young man, "What's the use of
your collection in fossils?" . He replied,
"If a yellow dog could speak English
that is just the question he would ask."
Devoted as he was to his great work,
his reputation as a genial scientist
commanded the hospitality of the rich,
the educated, the fashionable, the
learned in all countries. He carried
no letters of introduction, for he did
not need them. The doors of the
aristocracy in England and Europe
were open to him. . He was a guest
that was always wanted at elaborate
dinner parties in. the eastern cities.
He illustrated in his life, the great
advantage which a man of knowledge,
common sense, and humor has over a
rich man in social life, who can only
jingle gold coin in his pockets.
He believed that all accurate knowl
edge of the history of man and animals
had an ethical side to it. The wonder
ful and complicated structure of earth,
and the life upon it, he believed, taught
men that there was a vast spiritual
power in the universe which those
ignorant of the life upon the earth
could not appreciate. He believed that
truth was one, whether it was spiritual
or physical, because so far as he could
see, they had one common origin.
Orpheum tonight.
CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC NOMINA
TIONS. CHICAGO, March 16. The Demo
cratic city convention ioday nominated
Mayor Carter H. Harrison to succeed
himself. His running mates will be
Adam Ortzifen for City Treasurer, An
drew J. Ryan, for City Attorney and
William L,oeffler, the present incum
bent, for City Clerk. The platform
adopted steers clear of national issues,
and the Mayor will stand on his record
against the Allen bill and other street
railway legislation.
A widower, says the Chicago News,
who had a five-year-old son, married
a second time, and his choice was
rather a plain woman of about fifty.
After the wedding they came home,
and the father introduced her to the
little fellow, saying: "Charlie, this is
the new mamma I promised to bring
you." After taking a long and steady
look at her Charlie went over to his
papa and exclaimed in an audible
whisper: "Papa, you've been swindled.
She isn't' new at all."
Dn
nk
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I the advice given in those three
words is heeded, good 'health will fol
low. City water is not good for many
reasons, principally, because it is con
taminated with vegetable and putrid
matter of all descriptions. A uimple
analysis shows this to be a fact.
EA
Our doctors are busy treating pa
tients who are suffering from com
plaints, more especially malarial dis
orders, which will be materially bene
fitted if they drink a water that is pura
and possesses curative features, as does
Bartlett Spring Water.
DUE
Ask your family physician about the
water, and if he Is honest he will en
dorse its use.
All who have drank the water speak
in the highest of terms for it.
This climate demands the use of
such a water and you cannot afford to
be without it.
VIGILANCE.
We will serve free of charge a glass
of this wonderful natural Spring
water at our Soda Counter to all who
care to ccme and test its virtues. We
deliver the water to your home in c.sa
lots at 6.50 for 50 pints, $9.50 for 50
quarts.
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SOLE AGENTS.
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
t peak of its merits.
The testimonials of cures by Hood's
constitute a vast mass of testimony which
proves 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.
"I have been troubled with scrofula all
my life, and it effected my eyes eo 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.
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Elood Purifier, rrice $1.
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Mood's
HnnH'Q Pilli easy to take, easy to buy,
A 1UUU r " easy to operate. 25c.
TIMELY TOPICS
March :oth, 1899.
Our advertisements for the past
month have been directed, generally,
to the housewife, but we have things
in our store that will be of interest to
the wife as well as the husband. No
doubt you heard about the runaway
a few weeks ago. A man was riding
down Fort street, his horse suddenly
got frightened at some object, became
unmanageable and started to run away.
The man tried every effort to check the
horse, but without avail. A man hap
pened to be coming up the street on
his bicycle and before he could get out
of the way, the horse, vehicle and all
were upon him. The bicyciist was
seriously hurt and was confined to his
bed for some time. .Now who do you
think is to blame for that accident? We
blame the driver, as he should have
had one of
acific Heights" Notice,
Applications will be received at the office of Bruce Waring & Co.
for the purchase of Lots on
PACIFIC HEIGHTS,
situated on the rragnificent hillside
between Nuuanu and Pauoa Valleys and commanding a superb marine
and scenic view str-tching from Diamond Head, over Punchbowl to the
Waianae Range of Mountains.
A broad, winding Boulevard giving access to the property is now
in course of construction and Choice Lots of sufficient art a for magni
ficent homesteads will soon be available.
On the Nuuanu side of the Hill is a pali protecting it from
the high winds and heavy showers of the Nuuanu Valley, ensuring a
salubrious climate.
The elevation of the property is from 150 to 750 feet above tho
sea level.
Applications will be numbered and filed and choice will be
allotted accoiding to the number of the application.
Only $1,000 for a Lot 100 by 200 feet. Terms easy.
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BRUCE WARING & CO.
Offices: 7 and 8, Progress Block.
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"The Pipe draws wisdom from the
lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the
mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of
conversation, contemplative, thoughtful
benevolent and unaffected." Thacleray.
Hol lister & Co
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
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for his, horse or A RACKING, or RA
CINE DRIVING BIT. A gentle pull
on the reins will check the wildest spir
ited horse living. Besides these bits
we carry a full line of curry combs, the
Dandy Horse Brushes, Black Snake
Whips and Horse and Mule Collars of
all sizes.
Hip Mop IP lip u
Limited.
307 FORT ST
American, Havana and Manila Cigars
TOBACCO, SNUFF, AND
Smokers' Articles.
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Fine Grades SMOKING TOBACCO a specialty.
Cor. Fort and Merchant Sts. - - - Honolulu.
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Will Drive Mosquitoes Away,
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Cures the Bites!
Brings Comfort!
enson, Smith & Co,
LIMITED-
Fort and Hotel Streets.
We Have Just Received Another Shipment of
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Elegant New Prints in tasty patterns, thirty yds. fcr $i.
Ten thouasnd pieces New Dress Goods, ?cts per yd. and
upward.
Valenciennes Laces in great variety of design, twelve yds.
for 2cts.
BARGAINS.
LADIES' UNDERCLOTHES
at special prices.
LADIES' STOCKINGS
at special prices.
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Variety.
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HAPES
Five hundred different styles of Trimmed Hats $i each. IVlagnificent Easter Hats, direct from Paris that are dreams of beauty.
To see them means to buy, as they are irresistible.
This is the place to" get your Easter needs in Hats, Dress Goods, Laces, etc. The choicest are always taken first. The wise come early.
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