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* AfO ALCRISIS. HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION PRE SENTS A GRAVE PROBLEM. !"e roestlen of American or English Dom satleo In the Pacific and In Central £Amerlea-Armed Conflict Between the Two Pations the Probable Outcome. [Speda Correspondence.] WAsmalorow, Feb. 6.-The arrival here I4 the annexation commissioners from Ha wail has stirred this capital as it has not been stirred for many years. Probably there was greater excitement among the masses of the people when it was thought Ve might have a war with little Chili en gar hands, tamong the foremost me of the government there was less agitation ad le a eboding for the future tan the is now. No one can tell what will come out of this incident. Behind the little kingdom et Hawaii and its apparent desire to be came part and parcel of the United States, there loomsep the shadow of one of the most tremendous qutions with which this government has-,ad to deal since the civil war. In my talks- with the biggest and wisest men of tharnapital I find them look ang forward with anxious eyes. They say we are at a crisis. and that history is to be made within the next few weeks or months. We may maku.a mistake in one direction and bring upon ourselves foreign complica tions which will result in a war of great Cost and destructiveness. Or we may err in the other direetion, and through timid ity or indifference let slip a glorious oppor tunity to extend American prestige and to intrench our government securely in con trol of the continent of which we are as yet the chief nation. In explaining the nature and the serious ads of this situation as it is viewed here I cannot do tetter than employ the lan guage of a prominent government official. a thoughtful "L-seeing an, whose wordnis, but not whose name I am permitted to use. "The revolution in Hawaii," said this official. "has brought our country face to face with one of the gravest problems it has had to deal with for many years. We are suddenly broaght. to a parting of the ways, to an absjiute necessit y for reaching a decision as to what is to be our national policy with reference to the acquisition of territory and of strategic advantage in the western hemisphere. IHeretofore our poli cy has been one of neutrality. W'e have said that umlter what is known as the Mon roe doctrine we should not interfere with our neighbors, nor should we permit Eu ropean nations to interfere. "So far this policy has worked pretty well. But thie time has evidently come when we-must do-one of two things-aban don our policy of neutrality .and inaction or, in case we hold to it. stand by and see some other nation do that which we have up to this time aid we should neither do nor permit any other powertodo. The ten dencles of the times are such that I think I can see far enough into the future to wit neas in my mind's eye American domina tion in Central America or English dom onatlon. It must be one or theother. And . the very question which we are now ap penaching a solution of, though the final struggle may not come for some years, is, Whic shall it heb "ISo not lihe to take -a gloomy view of - the hture. but it looks to me as if the set 4ieaet of this question, unless we settle it b absaandn.ns fd the-eld, will result in oaliet betweenthetwo.nations. The most p~pable Q)tcome of the Hawaiian matter, at least for the present, is a 'joint protec torate between England and the United Sames over those islands. But this will be emy a makeshift. Neither nation will ao egs it as a final solution of the ditealty. Dprng the whole period of the protectorate thse will be noend of scheming and in triging on the part of one or the other na tin probably both,or the upper hand. Tbwill create acondition somewhat anal agi stto that of childen playing with fire. It Isoly a qmtio n af time when the con lsesiton oeus 'That England has ~ber heart.m Ha wael isknown of lllamen. The.diplomacy at thsnatioa is ftimeing, :alert, stran ant ewauteos, blmedas t-l. by unvary lag lasyat mm and he greatest naa the wr l ever saw. It is aes for diple mats *t :be couaneus when they have Mawre nroselads to sqpport them. The lmgi tSracter e .ik that it arely -sse ho s purpose ase eted upon. . condaosco their point them-are not S·p ak e d their r bawat rwll w ars L me aeh awai Lrself as Sbe aa.truade adu.am, Jens a they - was andaily ohtaaedWbraltst just .-Atheyto paiuem intyjrus the key at.ci~hewo of he Madiarranem, and Ajg as they heast their baosnateeaatheir em4d thb sway to dab mt. - "Ma imS dp c sm d ElujlieI a p weapayillr ta by a-J.apa l p e ln d n w as wal tih <he l~ld theweeU BaM the %ah *w tak po sm frat d - shA ~e to the . The Eg ILbgh gg ighthehablishae. sEm g din. a e s leai ha the aupply at their h a Rta ldy a are., and soene (Make mdli de a lrm. Ba peaty e -som at bsh l suna leave the und amslheinms thedheaurhema a <4ar r * 31ro precpiaols 4UIShe thPa*. hale aim, iad thea he a I em eoa st of Nornh and South America and the orient. "Hawaii i. the 1ev to, the i-thmu-ua it is of the Pacific, and hence I take it the strug - gle for controlof that littlegroupof islands will be likely to precipitate war betweent the two great English speaking nations of the world. Wrapped up in this question of, * control of Iawaii is that of mastery over a& the Nicaragua canal. It was .Mr. Blaine.s he pet plan to find a coaling station in San Domingo for the uis of our vessels in the Atlantic en route to and from the canal, to obtain absolute mastery of the canal itself si and to annex Hawaii to the United States Sand use it as the western sentry of this grand line of communication. %/ "With the canal under United States ly control, and by using the landlocked we ie ters of Lake Nicaragua for a naval outft bt ting and supply station for reoaling and m drydocking, Mr. Blaine not long ago made of the statement that the chief American na a tion -would be the absolute mistres of the re western hemiphere, as in his opinion it is her destiny to be. It was an odd coinci of deuce of fate that on the very day after this m farseeing statesman was called heacm by e- inexorable death news should be receved a, from faraway Hawaii of a revolution he which had precipitated the very problem is to which he had given so many years of ril study, and whose salient features he had d seen before any one else in this country. k- "But how are we to obtain control of hy Nicaragua?" continued the high official e with whom I was talking. "Unfortunately is. It is stipulated in the concessions for this )n canal granted by the governments of Costa a- Rica and Nicaragua, through whose terri at tory the canal as surveyed is to pass, that rr the canal was forever to be kept free from d- the domination of any foreign government ir- -was to be, in other words, neutral terri to tory and waterway. If those concessions - had not contained these stipulations, it is et doubtful if England, France and Germany would have sat silent while they were be - uing granted. Nor do I see but one way re now for the United States to step in and n- avail itself of the -advantages of the Nicara ii. gua canal according to Mr. Blaine's plan, s, and that. is by annexation of Nicaraguaa o . and Costa Rica. is "Mr. Blaine wanted to close this canal to to the ships of any country with which the it Upited States might be at war, and it is e evident that if this could be done. while i" our own naval vessel.- pass freely from g ocean to ocean., we should indeed be mis l tress of this hemisphere. But the only way of in which we can secure this immense stra iC tegic and commercial advantage is by an li- nexation, and England will no more per e mit us to obtain mastery of this passage n- from ocean to ocean, by annexation or I :h otherwise, than she would consent to our u- making United States soil of the Gibraltar of the Pacific, Hawaii. ly "Therefore the burning question, the ie momentous question, which now presents n itself and will continue to harass and to n call for our greatest patriotism and wisest ee statesmanship, is, What shall we do? Shall ce we through fear of England decline to ad lo vantage by the opportunity which presents 1 L- itself for annexation of Hawaii? Shall we I refuse aid to the Nicaraguacanal and make t- no effort to make that enterprise distinc a- tively American? Shall we, in other words, a- now that the time for decision has arrived, id settle back Into our old policy of isolation, p- of ilactivity, of listlessness, in all matters 1 al beyond our own shores? Or shall we rouse a, ourselves, asseert our energy, and by aggress ive action endeavor to occupy our proper I fa place as the mistress of the western hemi- ] t- sphere? Probably our national policy for it the next half century will be decided with in in the next year or two, and this is why Ia at say we are now at one of the crises of our r, national career. c- "If our decision should chance to be the I dl latter, it will be one from which retreat is >s impossible. Having once set our face to the c- sea, having declared our intention to domi r. nate and to lead in the western world, It to will be craven for us to take the back track. a- no matter what dangers threaten or oppo a sition appears. To do that would be n ] d. tional disgrace, humiliation. To maintain I- our position we may be compelled to fight. e. Our little navy may be destroyed, but we a- shall have to build another. If while we ae endeavoring to streathen ourselves on a- the seas the enemy becomes intrenched in y the strongholds, we shall have to dislodge I S '"From what I know of the American people I am satisfied that if they conclude I their national genius reqhre more sell assertivease in the regan of the isthmus Sand the point of vantage oan eithe side E thereof, aed opposition arises, it will not matter how formidable that opposition Smay be or bowgreat maybe the cost of i. uhttakingur mpositioa-t will be doae c Satallbamath. "Iwilmow give yea my aa etpl tof the fture," conol ti Ml 1 Spaking deliberately and carefully weigh Slag his words, "Withina ve years this Scomunatry will be at war with England. SThesetwo grea n ations, easily the leaders I e.be world, sm to have a struggle for the t makr. Ther mmanfest destiny bring Stb.anto coalrt at many places, at all i plasesia this hemirpherra England is the L SAmbed7 as she was a centry ago, buta Swara We have passed thrunu a SthebahryalLs of isalatic., of interior t Smremtand ma mow reedy to tutrn our t tothe a We have conquereud the varust our west aad subjected the desert ( to. civilization. Now we are ready for more worlds to conquer. The mighty forces of oTr natioml ,lie aare slowly but surely i sad trsi tiblydrivin .as to a policy of ralgreainse hond our bordere. "Ia tlhas moryng outwardly we at c a embe lato contact and collision with Great o Srtltta She skirts ournombern fontier Swith h posealema, whe there Is coo rMat memae to the peace. From Halifag St theWt IndIa along the lieae tbe n i ada aad Debamas, ash has confret with avalstatioa- anad tfossetae i Ishl a vrts to plant heri tt Ia soth sad Cat al, Amerid , whet al Ame v.s .,t,. n , c.tedu ,e. For b p ;eet hM. her ne po Hewad. In • m.Jpy e a mposop pnenu . w .$l~mSubt teass osibi e sim, a g ,. 7. -Nir a ,mm.eM. , 1I I Ee le, 71 em, M Jas ; , Pets, 8I La .ass e, M s oii, vi, l, J. M- t Yb Y 4 isem e d'We g5 eiBd AI SATURDAY'S TRIAL. ~i SJ. B. Elder Given a Prelimi i nary Hearing and Both He and Geo. H. Winters Honorably Discharged. d * THE STATE PROVED THAT SOL ROBINSON IS DEAD AND n Caused the Public to Breathe a t Sigh of Relief. ) As was expected a large number of people assembled in the Criminal + courtroom Saturday morning to wit ness the preliminary trial of Mr. J. Lt B. Elder, charged with the murder of n Sol Robinson on the night of Janu ary 25 last. The majority of the as is semblage was composed of whitopeo I ple representing all the vocations of life. It required no keen reader of s human nature to determine from the icomplexion of those present that a , , case of much importance was to be " tried. It could bs seen that everyone1 o was anxious for the mystery of this 0 crime to be cleared,up and that the law would be meeted out to the guilty n man or men without regard to race or color. The names of thq witnesses for the V State were called amid a breathless silence as if all were anxious to know c the personnel of those who were sup-, posed to know who killed Sol Robin son, and who were ready to say on, e this trial that J. B. Elder was at least one of the guilty parties. When some failed to answer to their names, I a look of disappointment settled on the faces of those present as if they e feared that that the trial would have to be r postponed. They knew that two s, white citizens, young men, t ne of whom was married, had been in jail for nearly a week with the crime of e murder lodged against them and that r murder that of Sol Robinson whose - killing had kept the town at the r highest pitch of excitement ever I since. They knew also that the r mother, wife and father of Elder and e the sister of Winter, all of highly Srespectable families, were waiting with bated breaths and lacerated i t hearts to hear the outcome. And it was with sighs of pleasure that they heard both sides announcel ready. When Mr. J. B. Elder came into the courtroom his old father gather- i S ed him in his arms and sobbed like a j child, and as ths accused walked in t e and took his seat the parent broke down completely, his sobs being dis a tinctly audible all over the courtroom. It was an affecting scene which cans Sed tears to gather in the eyes of every man who was entitled to the name t in the audience. Ah, it is in-It Sdeed true that a golden, gossamer I cord of sympathy unites the world of mmankmd and teaches us that the - same God meated aus all The rt witness of the State was i Dr. H. O. Coty, who, beyond the feeat that he is coroner, and that Sol Bob ioson is dead,and died from in termal hemomerg a ue I fi om gun- I shot wounds, stated nothing of in- u Th next wites was Mr. W. B. Ogilvie. who stated he was on a car on c night otf killing. He heard the shoot- 0 ing which at frst he though was some oe setting of a pack of amre erackers. He sgoL oif the ear in front of Dr. Fishesrs. Walked diagonally acrmos to the sidewalk. On his wary he met a youngman and asked him b who it was that had done the shoot- A ing and received the reply, "I don't know, but;I am getting out of the a way." When he resched Gas Kahn b hehad some shargp words with him e becaem he did not top the man he addressed on the way to the scene, whom Kahns told him was the i ape who had done the booi.g. He could not see the man plainly be-t pasne the glare of the electric light a st* isb gm* f*l **eiitieer the i srger to him. Knew Elder uhgtly and.pointed him out in court. The voe of themanhe met resm bled John Levy'e strongly as it did u .dLr's also That Elder's buildar- ea responded very well with that of th. man he ecosted as did that of Gus White, who, however was a little a taller. Could not identsy Elder as the man h met and would not swesar i positively to the ioty of a roiee ex er tLrt K MeKb e iar ani T d IL. Joheso, which he thought he could distinguish though blindfold ed. SSeveral other witnesses Were put on the stand but except that two saw what appeared to be two white men Shooting, they testified nothing against either accused. Mr. Mose Weinstock. a member of the police force. testified that he reached the scene immediatelylafter the shooting, saw one man cross the street therefrom and loan against the fence, but stated positively that it was not Elder whom he met. On be ing put to the test by the Court as to whether he knew Elder, pointed him out in court by request from the Bench. One of the strongest points against the accused Elder, was the fact that he bought three oranges only) an r hour and thirty minutes after the kill ing and ate them while squatting down, ordinarily a sure sign of guilt. No innocent man ever eats oranges after 10 o'clock at night while squat ting down. When anout six or eight witnesses had testified the State abandoned the case, having succeeded in proving - nothing save that Sol Robinson was 'dead and had been killed; and Judge Taylor ordered both Elder and Win ter discharged. This trial was a sad commentary on the criminal Iroceedure of this 1State. It is indeed food for serious and apprehensive reflection that it is lawful to confine two men in our parish jail, keep at least one in a felon's cell for an entire week, with absolutely not a scintilla of evidence. Sjudged by that introduced at the trial, against them. A law which I prevents men, in this age of civiliza I tion, to be apprehended on the crime of murder, deprived of their freedom as if they were wild beasts without justification or excuse. The fact of this trial going abroad, that the free- 4 dom of men is considered as lightly as if they were only work animals in the parish of Caddo, will furnish able immigration matter truly. Home seek ers will hasten to a place where they are liable to be hauled up and lodged in jail n a mere suspicion. We are glad that our citizens so freely expressed their codemnation of it; that the Times openly expressed its disapproval of the apparent want onees of this arrest. These all pro claim to the outer world that such acts are not approved of, that theciti zens of Shreveport are civilized and i have i high regard for personal free dom, and freely and unreservedly condemn the injustice of incarcerat ing these gentlemen behind prison bars on evidence so flimsy. We would certainly deeply regret it if we had been the means of caus ing all the suffering of mind and heart which the dear old mother and father, and loving wife and sister of the accused, were forced to endure for an entire week unnecessarily, and would feel like deeply repenting in sack-cloth and ashes for the sia. The anguish of a parent's and wife's heart is in our opinion too sacred to be trifled with, and we are truly glad that our's was not the hand that camsed the gray heads of Mr. Elder's parents to bow in sorrow for so long. ~herevoportOystcr an I Chop eHose, Market street, in Bogel's block Meals mrved at all hours, oysters' on the half shell or cooked in the ast mn ner. yster loeaves and oyster pates made to order. Polite attendanta. Everything new, neat and lrat-laes m evremy respeet Nom aloon attahed Balk or can oysr delivered to all pits oft ity. Call or leave yor order, or telephone No. 9. Place open all night Frank Serwich pro prietor. ST. LOUIS DBIANDS. First-We demand a national cur Te fe, meoad and aleaible, issued SLgenuatgovumnment only. A f legal tder for all d bl. and privte; and that without the ase abeandmsumeent meus of dutri bution tothepeaopleat atax not to exed 2 per ent, he o isd the pioeare ofti Fmis igatom or psblo .;betm' , she and b alimite i bmlnqdEhair . " .... ; , e We demaad a bidmted gea8e :' ts.L d. Webelinertbhat .t moa of the uatrymshoanld hapt as mueb pasiblin the hands of the eo j b and aemw we demad all mation Shd Smat. rmeame shall he limIted tethe namesmary npsneem of the gow. womient counomaeslly and honestly administered. e We demand that 1 tal say ings beak-st rt by the gotv ernment for msfe deposit of the mearn i of the people, amt to faelite. Send-T-- laMnd, inlwading a!1 the natural resources of wealt i'i the heritage of the people and sh 1II not be monopolized for specnl' ,"'. purposes, and alien ownership of I 1 should be prohibited. All lauds w held by railroads and other corp tions in excess of their actual n and all lands now owned by alie should be reclaimed by the gove - went and held for actual setlers on Third-Transportation being fa means of exchange and a public net essity, the government should ova t and operate the railroads in the id u terest of the people. a. The telegraph and telephoneb t like the post office system, being necessity for transmission of news should be owned and operated by th government in the interest of th people.t ereck accidentally shot and killed W. 4. Davis at ,Bayou Netor, Plaqhe minesparish, while firing his gun as a signal for a boat to land Lieutenant E. S. Benton. com-l) 1 lMiller Bros. , -DEALEI IN- Best Family and Fancy Groceries Finest Tobaccos and Cigars. GOODS DELIVERED FREE The ILadies' Store. POSITIVELY NO LIQUORS SOLD. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. Opposite Town Clock, - - - Shreveport, Louisiana. J. H. STEPHENS, G'omission lerchal -And Dealer In Grocaries, :: Weston :: Pioue, :: G AND FEED STUFF. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Nos. 14 and 16 Texas St.,. Shreveport, Louisiana. The First Natiomal Ba " OF SHREVEPORT, LA. PAID UP CAPITAL 00tn0o 00 A AND PROFITS. ,UUU.UU. E. JACOBS, Preidet. W. E. HAMILTON, Vice W. B. JAOBS, Cashier. . 8. PENICK, Ja., Asist. Cashier. Transacts a General Banking Business. Domestic an Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold. Accounts Solicited. shreveport's Druggist. LEON M. CARTER --Duaxmr IN -Makes a 8pecialty of which are warranted to be always fresh. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY PREPARED. Corner Teas and spring Sts, ... . 8hre.eport, uLandant of cadets at the I.Liisiana S.ate uiniversity, came ilowri fry m 1:;rntn luouge on Tuiitsday of last '.rek and put the cannulneers thr(,ough ua -lirited drill i; infantry and artil hJ.ry taetics that evening at the ar ,mory. Next morning hedes(ete d the Itii r:g gun ani explainedI it ºre canism f.r the instruction of sevi"ral ofliver, a ld nmembers of the li cal o('nrllll who had assembled fcir the rpurpose, and then the ilnad t )ok the piece to the levee at t:e head of Ltesard street. where a drum of cartridges was emptied in target practice and an exhibition of rapid tiring. It was demonstrated that the SGatling, even when manipulated by an ordinary marksman who handles it for the first time, can be fired with i a degree of accuracy almost equal to that of a rifle. iluy Your Stove. At The Fair Fresh meats, nice, juicy and ten der, at Harris & Winston's stalls, ad joining Abe M ever's store. r