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IHK PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVEBTIBEB: HONOLULU, APRIL 17, 1901. .4 I THE PACIFIC Commercial Advertiser TKAJLXEB . SMITH - - EDITOR. WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 m , - R The taxpayers would, like to get a glimpse of the translation bills of the i Legislature. It was better to spend the public money on the plague than to leave it for this Legislature to fool away. Home Rulers would not object to swallowing the Republican party but they do not take to the idea of let- H ting a small faction of the Republican H party swallow them. The Dispensary bill is probably lost H for this session, but the way is open if to begin a campaign of education which will enable the people, before the next j Legislature meets, to make up their ! minds fairly upon the merits of the H proposed change in the liquor laws. ( The Home Rule caucus is said to have 1 opposed the confirmation of T. F. Lan i sing and Andrew Brown because of I their part in the affair of '93. It is not H stated whether Home Ruler Emmeluth, B whose name headed the 1893 commit I tee, took part in the caucus, but we M cherish the hope that he had the grace 'I to stay out. I The spirit of nihilism in Russia and if of socialism in Germany makes war I not unlikely as a means of composing M local differences. If the Czar can get H up a big fight, nihilism will be likely to '- subside in the meantime. Germany, H for the same reason, needs a foreign I -war, the attitude of the populace being M now distinctly hostile to the Govern B tnent. . There' seems to be a reasonable pros M pect of xearly if not permanent peace I I in the Philippines. Many rebels are i surrendering and Aguinaldo is said to ' I have signed a peace proclamation. I From now on if civil affairs are man- aged with discretion there may be a m steady recession of military and naval expenses and a corresponding growth H of respect among the islands for Ameri B can citizenship. Ir- The suggestion of this journal that a i l lecturer on Hawaii, fitted out with lan ! I tern slides and a civilized exhibit, should be sent to Buffalo, is likely to be taken up. There is a prospect that Daniel Logan may go on such a mis sion. He has already done similar work Nwr"done it well, hence a very general hope that he will be gjven a chance at Buffalo to counteract the Midway misrepresentations thei-e. Trades Unionism will lack for sym pathy in Honolulu at times when it may deserve it, if its policy is to lose $100,000 for the town rather than to permit employers to keep a certain foreman. That is too high a price to pay for a small grievance; and it is a price of which the strikers must carry their share. The contracts which will go to the Coast take a small forturffe away from Honolulu and in the mean time various large enterprises, employ ing labor, are held back. Two bills, signed by the Governor, and printed elsewhere, now- become a law through publication. One is an Act providing for the repair of roads and bridges and other public works in jured by the February storm. An ap propriation of $26,500 is carried divided as follows: Hawaii, $8000; Maui, $12, 600; Molokai, $1,000; Kauai, $4,000. The other Is an Act to prevent the employ ment of minors in saloons and to pre vent minors from visiting such places. The law is one of the best in its intent and effect of any the Legislature has considered. The vaccination statistics and argu ments adduced by the doctors made an impressive array of testimony and ought to be enough to convince even this Legislature, that compulsory vac cination is a wise policy for Hawaii. The argument that personal liberty is Invaded by the process amounts to very little. No one has a right to such liber ty when it implies danger. to the life of his neighbor. All quarantines restrict personal initiative; all sanitary laws must, in some degree do so. A state must proceed along the lines of the greatest good to the greatest number and the general protection of society from harm. In the performance of that duty individual prejudices, likes and dislikes, must be, to a great extent, disregarded. v The fine Italian touch of the dema gogue was seen in Wilcox's statement that he would be able to get public land for every' Hawaiian. The idea conveyed was that the Government, under a change In the present island laws, would simply hand out deeds to every comer, Hawaiians preferred, and let them do as tliey pleased with them. The process Is quite different. If lands are ever opened up here as they were in Oklahoma, citizens of the United States from every part of the country will have a chance to locate them; but no man will be able to get a title to his acreage until he has lived on It five years and made certain improvements. Taking up public lands means deferred deeds and much expense of time and labor and some expense of money in "proving up." Wllcojf says nothing about this, pf course; he merely wants to start th Hawaiians rainbow chas ine. I n or the PortO -(-Win than It was ' UndoubteBIy OieJfcfaTe Rican poor is wore now under the sovereignty of Spain, but the reason is one that reflects upon the poor themselves and not upon the United States. "When the American flag was raised in Porto Rico everybody stopped work and began to play. It was a time of continuous fiesta. The, impres sion got out, as It did among the "for-ty-acres-and-a-mule" negroes of the South after the Civil War, that Uncle Sam was going to be a Santa Claus. Soon the hurricane swept the island and Uncle Sam, as a matter of tem porary service to the destitute, did be come a grand almoner, with the result that the whole laboring population made up its mind that it need never work again the great republic owed it a living. Naturally destitution did not try to rescue itself and It remains, with outstretched palms, waiting for the aid It sullenly refuses to deserve. .THE MANCHURIAN QUESTION. H It" is still "uncertain, says the New York Sun, whether the proposed con vention between the Russian and Chi nese Governments will be concluded. Neither is there, as yet, any ground for believing that any of the foreign pow ers now represented at Peking will protest against the signing of that convention, or will support China in a refusal to sign it. Why should a pro test be made? An answer to the ques tion requires, first, a knowledge or the text of the proposed convention, which has not been published; and, secondly, a recognition of the fact that, not only geographically, but also in the eye or international law, Russia occupies to ward China a position different rrom that held by any other or tne treaty powers. So far as the attack on the foreign legations at Peking and the assassina tion of foreigners in many parts of China are concerned, Russia's relation to the Chinese Government, which or dered or tolerated those outrages, is indistinguishable from that or Great Britain or that of the United States. As a matter of convenience, the Rus sian Foreign Office, like our own State Department, has chosen to assume that those injuries did not, technically, constitute acts of war. Whatever may be thought of the wisdom of that as sumption or of the difficulty of recon ciling it with the punitive expeditions and wholesale massacres for which Germany and France have principally made themselves responsible, and at which, it must be admitted, some other powers have connived, it is certain that Russia has suffered wrongs of an exceptional nature, which she is at perfect liberty to construe as acts of war, and which, indeed, can hardly bear any other construction. We refer to the invasion of Russian territory lying north of the Amur river by Chi nese regular soluiers, whose comman der produced, in justification . of his course, orders emanating directly from the court at Peking. Now, while the murder of Russian officials in Manchuria and the destruc tion of a part of the Manchurian branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway might, like similar losses of life and property by subjects or citizens of oth er powers in that part of China lying south of the Great Wall, be held, theoretically, not necessarily to satisfy the definition of a casus belli, it can not, for a moment, be denied that the invasion of Russian territory under the circumstances just mentioned was an act whose warlike character is inca pable of extenuation. This act, en tirely apart from the grievances which Russia has complained of in common with other treaty powers, would, as we have said, have justified her in pursu ing an entirely independent course, and in despatching an army directly against Peking, or against any other city in which the Chinese court might find a refuge. The fact that Russia has, hitherto, refrained from availing herself of the provocation given does not of itself impair her right to accept the challenge, and we know of no ground on which any of the treaty powers could fairly object to a frank declaration on the part or tne St. Pe tersburg Government that, by way or reprisal for the Chinese invasion of Si beria, it purposed to undertake the permanent conquest of Manchuria. Such Is the fundamental distinction between the position occupied by Rus sia and that of the other treaty pow ers, and it is, no doubt, a recognition of it that caused Count von Bulow to sey in the Reichstag that the A-n"gio-Ger-man agreement did notxfver the case of Manchuria. He -aciinowledges, ap parently, that, while Russia, whose soldiers helped to defend the foreign settlement at Tien-tsin and to rescue the legations at Peking, Is entitled to share in the pecuniary indemnities ex acted by the treaty powers for the losses of life and property suffered by their respective subjects or citizens in China, she has a particular grievance of her own, in that she has incurred an actual invasion of her territory by Chinese regular troops acting under orders from the Peking government. It is by no means evident that any other power has any business to dis cuss the nature of the reparation which Russia may choose to demand for that indisputable act of war. It may be said, however, that Rus sia has given the other treaty powers a right, which they did not originally possess, by declaring that, notwith standing the Chinese invasion o Si beria, she did not purpose to retaliate by annexing Manchuria. Whether Russia has- ever made an unequivocal declaration to that effect is disputed; the London National Review main tains that the written reply given by the St. Petersburg Foreign Office to an inquiry on the subject was evasive and ambiguous. Be that as it may, it is now verbally asserted by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs and by his representatives abroad, that the pro posed convention between Russia and China does not involve the annexation of Manchuria, but simply provides guarantees for the maintenance of the security and order which are Indispen sable for the Russian occupants of Tallenwan and Port Arthur, and for the prosecution of work upon the Man churian branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The purport of the proposed ventlon must, of course, be assum ed to be what the Russian Foreign Or fice at St. Petersburg says It is. If it is, not only is there no ground for pro test, but, evidently, Russia has made a great deal less than she might have made out of the provocation afforded by the Chinese Invasion or Siberia. If China refuses to sign the proposed convention, it Is manifest that relations between her and Russia will revert to the status which they occupied before the negotiations touching Russia's in dividual and separate grievance were begun. That is to say, Russia would be at liberty to avow a purpose of effecting a permanent conquest of Manchuria, by way of reprisals for the Chinese invasion of Siberia. It is prob able enough that she would find an opponent in Japan, were not the latter power isolated, but, as things are uow, there is no likelihood that the Mikado would find an ally against the Czar in either Germany or Great Britain, much less in the United States; while, as for France, that power would, cer tainly, in the event of extended com plications, be found on the Russian side. If war breaks out between Russia and Japan, the latter power will be found in a state of complete readiness. No civilized troops ever moved so rapid ly, upon a declaration of war, as did the Japanese in 1894. They had a big army on Corean soil within ten days, and that army did not lack for a sin gle thing it needed, including bundles of faggots to use for camp fires in a treeless land. The day hostilities with Russia begin, an army will embark up on transports at Ujina, on the inland sea, and within two days perhaps within twenty-four hours it will start for Corea convoyed by the most power ful fleet ever seen in Asiatic waters. All .the plans for such a coup de main were worked out by the late General Kawakami, and the army and navy are but waiting the signal to advance. The Venezuelan Consul who thinks that an American fleet would not dare bombard his home ports, because of the foreign property located there, cher ishes a delusion. When England fired upon Alexandria and the United States upon San Juan de Porto Rico, Matanzas, Manila and Santiago de Cuba, foreign property had to take its chances. It would be the same way with Venezue lan ports. If the United States Is ob liged to collect indemnity from Vene zuela by force it will act with sum mary address and settle with foreign property-owners afterward. nee. is, has been ged double. mblance. hipping corn to hold their ransport ser. Gainsborough s been identi- the New York NEWS OF WORLD CONDENSED The Scottish strikes are ended. Lord Salisbury is now in France. The strike in Marseilles is at an end. Mrs. John A. Logan is seriously ill at Washington. New caes of plague are daily develop- ing in Cape Town. Seven hundred tons of alcohol were ' burned at a fire In Peru. Six-penny reprints of the works of ! prominent authors are having a big ; sale In London. The Pretoria correspondents say that j the Boers must be crushed as they will ! never surrender. It is feared that there 'will be great ; floods from the swollen Merrimac river in Massachusetts. I Mrs. Powell Webster, ail American ; singer In Germany, is beinj scathingly criticized in Berlin, j A west-bound limited waslditched and ! wrecked April 8 near Wells, fTevada. Two ' firemen were killed. Three hundred squaws wire distribut ed by a Cheyenne chief in Oklahoma re cently after a sacrificial Mrs. Botkin, the murder : confronted with her al There is a very slight re It is said that Japanese panles have been Instruct : vessels In readiness for I vice. The robber who stole th painting recently found fled and is well know police. The Kaiser has Wfcrfed his troo l against listening to the viice of tempt , and threatened woe to any unfaith . soldier. An attempt was made tl wreck a wen bound train in Idaho last week, ties ! ing piled across the track. An h delay resulted. i According to reports ffom St. Pete Iburg, import duties at VfadJyostok been raised on all American -iroS and machinery. " j I China has agreed to tlie list of pun isnments ana now tne question , tion. guards is proving a sjumh ;to the Ministers. I The value of the'lnmitarir e ; recently tested in London wit ' results except that succes upon the weather. Insurgent officers and In from the mountains themselves and their rifl .cans in the Philippines. A running battle betwe ' and pursuing citizens toi Frankfort, Ind., last week : and a pursuer were killed. Tt Is reported that a ham flerht has ! taken place between the Siberian rifle regiments and several tfiousaid Chinese with heavv loss to the Chinese. The handling of the oranga crop as to freight matters has been Biuch im ! proved as a result of the comnlalnts of Southern California orchardists.', I Americans intending to visit Europe i have been warned to beware of Brigands in Naples," as Americans are the particu lar preV of lawless Neapolitans. A Nebraska school teacher sav&d her pupils and the school house In a flood hy harnessing a horse to the building; the strength of the horse holding the hpuse. The Philippine Commission has prepar ed recommendations as to the form of general civil governments to be estab lished temporarily for the Philippines Julv L The panic which resulted from an earthquake at the banquet recently q-iv-en by the Turkish Sultan was quieted by a singer who chanted a prayer from the Koran. Eruptions Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all forms of eczema or salt rheum, pimples and other cutaneous eruptions proceed from humors, either inherited, or acquired through defective digestion and as limilation. To treat these eruptions with drying medicines is dangerous -4 The thing to do is to help the Sys tem discharge the humors, and to strengthen it against their return. Hood's Sarsaparllla permanently eared J. G. Hlnes, Franks, 111., of eczema, from which he had suffered for some time; and Miss A 1 vina Wolter. Box 212, Alcona. Wis., of pim ples on her face and back and chafed skin on her body, by which she had been greatly troubled. There are more testimonials in favor of this great medicine than can be published. HootTs Sarsapariita Promises to cure and keeps the prom ise. No longer put off treatment Buy a bottle of Hood's today. JUST RECEIVED 0n second consignment of New Season's Shirt Waists . . . Also Fancy Hosiery. SUPPORT! la needed by many People. We can supply you with most any article in the sup porting line. Just received a complete line of Abdominal Supporters! All grades and all sizes. Some People need a Bracer. For these we would advise a pair of Lxhnii mrr ' Btr X msmm a i i x lawPlpSlteifc-aifa r-u rrv oil bIvam 'atfejff for gmirwijjoy ladies and 11 gentlemen. flfbiockl i Jtils was lisfffti-orahle . ihMendent im I IffTA-ft flTMtSfi at t oA&fthe Ameri. ISW1 .j 13 fit I II SIIMSU U "TVaank robbers , Place a. fOKT STREET. Bune roDDer f BAINBRIDGE, M. A. What a Distinguished Visitor Thinks of Hawaii. J Editor Advertiser: I think Hawaii "A vision of the most ethereal loveliness." lovely beyond all earthly expression and ! forcibly suggestive of romance is HiV (wall to the eye of a poet or an artist. 'An ambrosial dream from which one ex pects to presently have a rude awaken j Ing and discover a more stern and dreary j existence; but it la not so; Hawaii is a "Terrestrial Garden of Eden" "Paradise revealed In earthly form." If one hap jpened to be journeying to Paradise and reached Hawaii they would at once conclude that their journey had ended. Evening in Hawaii brings back to my mind the blissful days of boyhood when my heart beat with Intense delight at the wondrous fairy tales my mother would tell the band from amidst a cluster of trees pours forth In liquid strains which the mellow breeze wafts to our ears, inspiring our souls and touching our bet ter feelings which the harsh rattle and commotion of most cities tend to stifle and what a glorious tonic for one in the early morning, plants bedecked with diamond dewdrops, bending with the soft est motion, the stately palms, the birds flitting to and fro singing their thankful hymns to the Creator, the hills gazing majestically, the sun rising supremely tinging the picture with its golden light, while the ocean murmurs in pathetic mu sic some melody from Its mighty bosom. I making the most delightful composite of ecstacy! A picture never to be effaced, from one's memory. BAINBRIDGE. Between Hotel and King StB. Jtjtjl C. H. DICKEY, General Business Agent Corner King and Bethel Ft. I WILL TRANSACT GENERAL BUSINESS OP ALL KINDS, act a trustee, guardian or administrator, col lect rents, make purchases, etc., etc. All business intrusted to me will re ceive prompt attention. C. H. DICKET. PACIFIC TRANSFER CO. JAB. H. LOVE, Manr. MA!N 58. OSes, King St., Nut to Bailey's Cyelery. 11 0 Stock and Bond Broker Fire Insurance Agents 9 Commission Merchants M. BRASCH & CO. PHONE 157. DYNAMOS 42 Feet High, Weighing 870,000 pounds and having a capacity of 10,0003 H. P. are being constructed tiu ass, " BY THE WestiBgbouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. OF PITTSBURG, PA. for the Manhattan Elevated Railway Of NJIW YOKK CITY. They also build over 3,000 different machines ot less J 1 -mm m . M carry tne most complete line of iuectric Fixtures and Supp in nonoiuiu. THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC CO , LTD, P. O. Box 144. ALAKEA STREET. 'PHOMl Just Received A SHIPMENT OF Moet & Chandon's Champaqn IN QUARTS AND PINTS FOR SALE BY H. Hackfeld & Co., L SOLE AGENTS FOR HAWAIIAN TERRITORY. STRAW HATS MADE TO OR FOR Ladies or Gentlemen WE HAVE JUST OPENED up a Factory and mak tt a m,i i our riAid on tne premises. THF! FAHTORV 1 0 linAa (L . i- r. ( O PftU tent man who has had years of experience in one of the m estaon-ninents ot its kind in Japan. THE LADIES are especially invited to inspect our We Also Trim Hats Careful attention lren to bnslnMa i trust. 1 I ow mw quarter, eornof Fort a&4 j If Waverley Block Hotel 6t SPECIAL SALE OF Gents' Furnishing Goods. NOTE THE PRICES: UNDERWEAR, per suit STANLEY SHIRTS 2V" T TLTI n AT 1? J IITDTO r -v nn,l ID" WOOLEN SHIRTS 7fir.. and SI UJ f3T We also have PAJAMAS, which are being Bold at greatly reduced prices No. ui Hotel Street. 'f I