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THE rAOlF10 COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, HONOLULU, NOVEMBER 22, 1901.
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Commercial Advertiser
WAL72S Q. SMITH - - EDITOR.
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 22.
A New Yorker who has known Croker
well say if the English estate Is Want
age surely Manhattan is Getage.
Pat Crowe is as ingenuous in Invent
ing conditions of surrender as he was
in getting hold of the Armour ransom.
Pantos Dumont surely knows that he
nailed around EifTel tower, but he does
not seem to want the prize badly
enough to try for it again.
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From the way the McKlnley monu
ment fund is starting off. the selection
t( a menu for the committee dinner
vootd seem to be a question for early
consideration.
It Is reassuring that farmers of the
Ijryan class, who buy fancy stock, do
not have to grow straw stack whiskers,
chew a wisp of hay and say "By Gum."
or the classic features and eloquent
language might be lost to future gen
erations. .
VVitlj electric cars running from Ma
nna valley to Kallhl the city is taking
on a metropolitan aspect as well as
offering to Its citizens advantages
which' are sssre to be appreciated. The
clang of ihe gong on King street yes
terday was the toll of the passing of
the mule-drawn arks.
When President Roosevelt wrote In
his Thanksgiving Proclamation: "We
can best prove our thankfulness to the
Almighty by the way in which on this
earth and at this time each of us does
his duty to his fellow man." he preach
ed a sermon which should sink into the
hearts of warring politicians here who
strive to have his ear-
1
Sir Thomas Llpton is going to do
more than race for the Cup. for he has
purchased 100,000 acres of farming land
in Georgia, upon which he will raise
vegetables for supplying his 3,000 Euro
pean stores. The scheme also Includes
a fast fruit ship line from Savannah.
The widespread publicity given the
scheme would indicate that the new
department store star had passed the
divorce and lost diamond advertising
stage and that the American opening
cannot be long delayed,
NO TARIFF TINKERING.
There Is more than passing Interest in
the announcement that it has been de
cided by the leaders of Congress and
the President that there shall be no
tariff tinkering at this session. Fur
ther It must be taken as of weight,
that the Philadelphia Chamber, of Com
merce would have none of the Reci
procity Congress which is now meeting
at the capital, for the purpose doubt
less of making capital for the advo
cates of that plan for extensions of
trade.
It would mean much for the timid
ones of this Territory If there was re
moved from In front of them the buga
boo or reciprocity in sugar with Cuba.
This has been talked of and magnified
until there seems to be a fear that if
Congress shall even talk of a close rela
tion with Cuba, there will follow only
distress to local industries. That this
is making too much of the matter will
be seen by a little Investigation. The
-members of Congress are not going to
give to the new Republic a start In life
without corresponding advantages.
These are not in sight. The island has
nothing to offer In return for the pro
posed concessions and the result will be
that It will be many years before there
te a turning over of oar sysU-m of tax
ation for the purpose of giving any set
of holders of securities further divi
dends. It cannot be said that the case of
Cuba Is on all fours with that of these
Islands twenty-five years ago. Then
there waa urgent need of the product of
this country upon the Pacific Coast.
There was in return a trade which
meant much to the growers of the
Golden State and thus the treaty of
reciprocity was urged by both parties
and proved of Inestimable benefit to the
people on both sides of the question.
In the case of Cuba there is no trade
which wlU not come to the United
States In any event and there seems to
be little enough which the country may
hope to 'sind there for several years,
except machinery- There Is no estab
lished government to guarantee that tne
advantages will exist until there has
been a complete establishment of trade
on the art of the United States, which
1 a great disadvantage-
Apart from the selfish satisfaction
which the annaunced determination
gives to the people of the country, it
must be seen that any tinkering with
the Dingley law at this time vould
.mean a concession In thu matter of
principle to opportunity. Republican
ism Is not opportunism. The tariff
principle Is not one which can be warp
ed to fit any special state of finances.
In tbe- presence of a surplus, created
un&eY Vfte beneficent provisions of the
law. It is not possible to alter the law
without making concessions to the op
position. There must be either an en
tire revision of the law or a main
tenance of Its present provisions. If
condltlona of raw material, labor and
demand have changed to such an extent
that the law must be altered, then It
must be changed In all particulars, not
in the few which have been proposed.
There could have been no more fit
ting answer to the proposal of Con
gressman Babcock. that there be a re
duction of ' the duties upon articles
handled by a Trust than Is given In this
determination of the Executive. It wa.?
not a safe proposition In any event, for
It took only the most superficial ex
amination to show that those trusts
which did handle articles upon which
there are' high duties could by reduc
ing wages do business at a minimum
or with free trade, while the Independ
ent producers would be closed up by
the reduction. It Is not often that a
country must try and gr-t away f
some degree of Its prospt-iit: l :
ural remedy is that wni'.-n has been
adopted In effect, the reduction !f the
internal revenue features of fha na
tional taxes. This will keep money I
the hands of the people and will n
disturb conditl3ns under which there
has come to this nation a period cf un
exampled rrisperity.
SIZING HIM UP.
PresTdent Roosevelt, though yet i:i v is
early manhood, has had an exporUn e
in the administration of public ai; ':
of far greater variety than any publl:
man of his generation. As a member
of the Legislature of the State of Not
York, as a member of the Civil Bun I
Commissi n. as a men b r an l IT i i nl
of the Police Board of the city of Ne
York, as Governor of the State, lie bac
faced the most serious problems of our
polltl.al evolution, and he Is singularly
well grounded In the knowledge of the
workings of political machinery.
His supervision of the police force of
the city, during the years "95 end "96
gave him a close Insight Into the evils
of our democratic system of rule, al
though It never Impaired his faith in
self-rule. A study of his essays, of
which there are many, enables us u
size up the man who Is now the Na
tional Executive. In spite of the oppo
sition of the politicians. His own ac
count of the difficulties he encountered
in the discharge of his office as Police
Commissioner Is most instructive and
even fascinating. He abandons the
timid discretion of the politician who
Is afraid to "talk out In meeting" lest
it hurt the party or his own politica:
future. No public man has ever talked
with such childlike simplicity of th
true Inwardness of things. He blurts
out the most disagreeable remarks-:
about his own party when he believes
it is in the wrong.
Tammany was overthrown In '94 by a
Reform government. Under this gov
ernment he became Police Commission
er. He was himself a Republican, but
his own party demanded at once that
he should use his power to help the
party- The Independents insisted that
he should discharge the duties of his
office without any reference to party.
He says. "In theory they were quite
right, and I cordially sympathized with
them, but it was out of the question to
put those theories Into complete effect."
Tammany opposed him In every way,
"but," he says, "the Republican ma
chine asked the Board to do many
things which they could not do, because
a surrender in certain vital points
meant the abandonment of the effort
to obtain good administration." When
the Republicans realized his independ
ence, they enacted laws In the Legisla
ture which hampered him. He bold
ly says of one law passed to tie him
up, "A more foolish or vicious law was
never enacted by any Legislature." He
does not hesitate to berate his own
party. He threw party allegiance to
the winds. He was determined to
create a good police force In the city
with or without party aid. He says in
his essay, that he wished to stand "on
good tern s with the machine" even at
"the cost of sacrificing many of our
Ideals." but he found the machine was
against him.
In spite, however, of the hostility of
both national parties, his Board made
much progress In reforming the police
force of the city.
In speaking of the attacks of the
press upon him. he uses this striking
language, "the man who is to do honor
able work in any form of civic politics
must make up his mind (and if he is a
man of properly robust character he
will make It up without difficulty) to
treat the assaults of papers like these
with absolute indifference and to go
his way unheeded. Indeed he will have
to make up his mind to be criticised,
sometimes justly, more often unjustly,
even by decent people; and he must not
be so thin skinned as to mind such
criticism overmuch."
The overthrow of the Reform govern
ment, and the triumph of Tammany at
the end of two years, due to rigid en
forcement of the Sunday liquor law by
the police force, makes another and
most serious chapter in the adminis
tration of municipal rule. The large
and intelligent German vote, indignant
at being deprived of its Sunday beer,
went over to Croker and Tammany,
with the result that the wort set of
municipal free-booters came Into power.
It was not Mr. Roosevelt's fault. He
was not a believer in the prohibitory
law. but he enforced it because it was
a law-
GERMANY'S NAVAL PROGRAM.
Germany Is not having Its revival of
t , . ml Its naval reiuvenation with
out many evidences of national travail.
The Empire Is determined upon becom
' lng a naval as well as a military power.
and the policy takes its Impetus not
more from the Emperor than from his
subjects. It is in the success of the
first steps that may be found the rea
sons for the enmity towards the United
j States as evidenced in the recent re
' mark of officers high in the councils
'of the Empire. It Is seeing that this
country does not depend absolutely upon
'fighting weight, but upon skill and in
genuity to force trade, that has aroused
the wrath of the Prussian ruler and his
auvisers, and which even at this early
day seems to point to a serious coming
together before the atmosphere Is
cleared.
Perhaps a better idea of what the
Empire Is trying to do may be gained
from this translation of a recent arti
cle contributed to the Paris Temps by
Edouard Lockroy, formerly French
Minister of Marine. The expert says
in part:
The movement which impels Germany
seaward is constantly growing stronger.
She is no longer content to be one of the
leading military powers; she now asp res
to the place among- naval powers which
France has held for centuries. Perhaps
she even dreams of the humiliation of
England after a contest for world em
pire. The naval budget adopted by the
Re!chstag is suggestive of such an am
bition. Formerly the government alone was
tormented by these aspirations, but now
they possess the whole nation, which lias
been aroused and converted by a most
skilfully executed propaganda. The Km
peror. In addition to sending models of
-irsh!ps to all the provincial cities and
summoning naval conferences, persists in
naklng personal appeals to parliament
and people. In 1S97 he sent to the Reich
stag nine of his own designs representing
the navies of Kurope. In December, 1900,
he sent seven more which were hung
with great ceremony. They are small
"nit accurately drawn outlines of a few
'ypes of warships, selected with a view
to 'nflaming German patriotism. Three
if t represent the European squad-
as ' in Ch!p"e waters. Others
! iv.i . 'rogrt s f oth. r nations
D - Um "erll of Germany. They
r. 'he Russian Baltic et. the
iu Fi n a!d Eng'.lsh frulse-s, :tnl
he nro. ed French armor-clad;, and
11 of fh m, so to spak, loudly proclaim
.he necessity of strengthening the O r
ran r vy a ' of making liberal ap; rj-
riations.
The press 5 of public opinion on the
ReIchstiT is riOt less than that exerted
j by the Emperor. The thermometer of
i public opinion is the German naval
1 IrS ip if 1 an Imitation of the English naval
! league, which has a membership of more
I than haif a million. Administered with
admirable system and energy it makes
,,. i.f . ;i known advertising method
meetings, newspaper, pictures, calen
U s. almanacs, etc., and raises money
by assi -sments. collections, and other
means, it pubttsnea an illustrated wertr?
lv Journal, a daily calendar, each leaf of
J whK h contains a marine picture with a
I carefully selected legend, and a year
! book of 700 pages containing detaib d ln
! formation about German and foreign na
vtea The sums raised by voluntary gifts.
subscriptions, ana om-r means nave uo-
,me so large tnat '.t has been thought
necessary to ask the Emperor wat shall
be done with them. In the face of such
an outburst cf popular feeling the Reich
stag could not-help adopting the prop:s
ed naval program and the budget neces
sary to Its execution. The budget for
1J01 exceeds by 112.000,000 that of 19 0,
which showed an increase of nearly 5,
000,000 over previous budgets. Sme of
the Items of the new budget are espe
cially significant. Such are the provi
sions for rebuilding coast-defense vessels
of thi Siegfried type and converting
them into seagoing warships, increasing
the fighting force, building arsenals. In
creasing the armament of vessels, and
laying submarine cables In order to ren
der Germany Independent of the English
service. Finally, concealed in the supple
mentary budget for the Chinese expedi
tion are the appropriations necessary- for
the establishment of the naval base at
Klou-Chou.
The vessels authorized by the new bud
get consist of two battleships, a large
armored cruiser, three protected cruisers,
and six torpedo-destroyers of 350 tons
each. Two battleships were launched in
1600, and six others, in addition to an ar
mored cruiser and a gunboat, are in
process of construction. So that Ger
many will have In construction, afloat
and on the stocks, ten battlesh ps, seven
protected cruisers, a gunboat and a large
number of torpedo-boats and destroyers.
ALGER AMID HORNETS.
It did not take long for Gen. Alger's
book to get a rise out of some of those
who wore hit by it. and as might have
been expected by some of those who
have followed the spectacular features
of the career of the young man, it Is
Richard Harding Davis who takos the
first chance to get at the former Secre
tary of War. The Argonaut tells of the
trouble thus:
Th4i book has brought the hornets buz
zing around h'.s head once more. In one
place he makes the following statement:
"Some timid newspaper men accompany
ing General Young and Colonel Wood be
came alarmed at the first shot fired at
Las Guasimas, and. rushing frantically
back to Slboney before the engagement
was over, wrote from the decks of the
transports, where they tcok refuge, Im
aginary accounts of the fight." This
reflection upon their courage has natur
ally incensed the correspondents, and
they are preparing to stilke back. WtJi
General Young was Caspar Whitney, and
Richard Harding Davis and Edward
Marshall were with Colonel Wood. Davis
writes a lengthy letter In reply to Gen
eral Alger's slur. He cites a picture of
General Lawton, General Wheeler, Col
onel Wood, Colonel Roosevelt, and Cas
par Whitney seated in the camp of the
Spaniards, which had Just been taken, as
proof that Whitney remained through
the engagement. He recalls the fact that
Marshall was shot while advancing on
the firing line with Colonel Wood, and
insisted upon dictating his account &f the
fight where he fell, as long as hp was
conscious. For himself he says that he
borrowed a gun from a wounded map,
and advanced with the troops. ijfJrlng
when the order was given, until the fight
was closed. He cites Roosevelt's book
to the effect that "there were also; with
us two men at the head of the column
who did not run away, who, though. non
combatants they were newspaper corre
spondentsshowed as much gallantry as
any soldier in the field. They were Ed
ward Marshall and Richard Harding Da
vis." He also quotes from the official
report of Colonel Wood to the same ef
fect. Of the other correspondents, Davis
says that after the fight began. Stephen
Crane. John Klein, and J. P. Dunning
came running up. As they had run for
ward on hearing the firing, they could
not be accused of running away. This
letter of Davis's Is addressed to Harper
& Brothers, the publishers of the book,
and is not wholly confined to reminis
cences of the engagement, for he closes
with these words: "Before taking lecal
action I should like to know whether
General Alger will withdraw the objec
tionable paragraph, and what you mean
to do toward suppressing the libel."
Caspar Whitney Is acting with Mr. Davis
In the matter, so apparently the Schley
Inquiry Is not to be the last sensational
episode growing out of the Spanish
American war.
CHINESE: ALWAYS ALIENS.
One of the features which has to do
most with the feeling against the Ori
ental races in the United States is that
despite thirty years of residence within
the country they are never in touch
with Its laws or conditions of life- This
is shown in the present condition of
affairs in San Francisco's Chinatown.
A murder has been committed, the
murderer is doubtless well known to
the tongs and the heads of the six
companies, but instead of his being de
livered up to the police, he Is sheltered
and the Chinese meet to consider how
to settle the matter with cash without
there being necessary a war of the
hatchetmen. It Is this which moves
the San Francisco Chronicle to say:
Here is a" Chinese colony which has
been in existence in this city for over
fifty years, and is no nearer now than
the day it was established to submit
ting to our laws and respecting our cus
toms. For over half a century these
Chinese have been living practically out
side our laws, and they still have as lit
tle respect for our judicial and police
institutions as if they were on thftlr na
tive heath in Canton or some other Chi
nese city. Instead of carrying their fac
tional differences and grievances Into
the courts for settlement or relying upon
the regularly constituted authorities for
the protection of their persons and prop
erty, as any other race in our cosmopoli
tan population would do, they dellberate
'y hold a court of their own, consisting
H representatives of the Six Companies,
nnd mak a bargain and sale of the set
tlement of their respective crimes. Fel
inies are compounded with absolute dis
regard for anything our laws have to
-ay on the subject. Murder la condoned
n a cash basis. A price ta put on the
preservation of the peace. If the terms
if settlement are unsatisfactory a ven
letta Is Inaugurated, blood Is shed on
'oth s'des, and each faction when satl
ted proceeds to shield the principals
from pro&ecution by our own laws.
Consul General Dickinson will believe
iota that he has to deal with Pat
Crowe instead of a Bulgarian bandit,
from the very eluslveness of the captor
f Miss Stone.
Rrhley's loip seems to have been
tightened about the prosecution's c3se.
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I beaaa taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and in
two days felt better. It was not long before
I was eared, and I have new had any skia
Hood's SarsapaHtla
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