The Independent from Honolulu, Hawaii • Page 2

Tf a THE INDEPENDENT ISSUED i EVERY AFTERNOON i Except Sunday At Brlto Hall Konia Stroot tF Telephone 8 11 jft Gainst the wrong that needs resistance For the right that needs assistance For the future in the distance And the good that we can do I am in the place whereof I am demanded of conscience to syxak the truth and the truth I speak impugn it who so list SUBSCRIPTION BATES Per Month nnywhere in tho Hawaiian Islands 60 Per Year 0 00 Per Year postpaid to Foreign Countries 800 Fayablo Invariably in Advance Advertisements unaccompanied by specific instructions inserted till ordered out Advertisements dtscontinned beforo expiration of specified porlod will bo chargod as if continued for full torm Address all communications to tho Editorial Department to Edmund Norrie Business letters should be addressed to the Manager EDMUND NOBBIE Editor GO KENYON Co Editor TESTA Manogor Residing in Honolulu FEIDAY OCT 25 1895 THE SITUATION It is very gratifying to be ablo to write to our friends to inorrow that tho cholera epidemic is ended without having made more sorious ravages The quarantine of the port has been raised and Honolulu -is no longer an infected port Tourist travelling and the former legitimate business is again the order of tho day and tho Paradise of tho Pacific can again be looked upon as a true Paradise That is as far as our climate and sanitary conditions aro concerned In our domestic relations wo regret to state that things dont look very roseate There is no peace in tho Republic of Hawaii Unrest mistrust and dissatisfaction are the leading features of our public life The oligarchy which has usurped the government is still like the man who got hold of tho bear and- didnt dare to let go the hold Tho native Hawaiians retain their sulky and hostile attitude and in spite of certain half hearted advances by tho government reconciliation seemB to bo impossible until they go tho whole way The merchants are suffering under tho hard times and the cholera and oft repeated filibuster scares have materially assisted in bringing the country to tho verge of bankruptcy Tho troasury is virtually empty It was nocessary for Minister Damon on the last payday to advance -10000 out of his own pooket to pay salaries That performance will probably bo repeated on the nest payday and on every subsequent ono The money so advanced is to bo repaid as soon as the taxes can bo collected But every cent of theso taxes has been prescribed by the legislature for somo speoifio purpose When Mr Damon takos his whack out of them the treasury will again bo roducod to its present ciroumstancos and wo will continually bo obliged to borrow from Paul to pay Peter Tho largest portion of tho taxos is now used to pay for an army which is usnloss and unnecessary but which tho government lacks courage to disbaud Whonevor a move is made to- reducp the forces a filibuster soaro is got up nnd the ollieial orgaus fill columns in describing and oulargig on our narrow escape Thou all ideas of rotronohmout is given up Whilo our intornal affairs aro in a bad condition our relatious with foreign powers havo not improved Sovoral of tho powers of tho world havo tnado demands for damages for outrages committed on their subjects residing in Hawaii With an indiscretion hardly to boboliovod our representatives abroad aro doing all in their power to got tho country into imbroglios with other powers The attitildo of Japan is not vory riondly and tho escaped freak who wos to repropout us at Washington has not hesitated in expressing his views on the matter Tho Government hopes againxt nil reason that tho coming Congress will change tho attitudo of Mr Cleveland towards Hawaii Tho Minister of Foreign Affair Mr Hatch has been selected to go to Washington there to try to succeed where Thurston and Castle havo failed His hostile and abusive speech against Mr Cleveland two years ago will act as a barrier against him as Castles speooh did against that embryo diplomat When Mr Hatch arrivoc at Washington he will find id- olllc i shut nnd will coiiih bin i luvfwi a wiser and surel a inn piorer man Tho agitation in Euglaud in regard to Hawaii is assuming a threatening aspect aud it will not bo long bofore the climax will come And that is how we stand Estranged with foreign power with whom we ought to be the best of friends Bankrupt privately and officially suffering under financial burden which cannot be born subject to strife hatred and dissatisfaction Under such circumstances wo say does Hawaii again propose to knock at the door of Uncle Sam for admission to the Union And if the request is denied willtho game of tho desperate gatnbjnr fil iy i I who risks total ruin for th i sp Of gain When through i outrageous extravagance and im rnle the Dole oligarchy has reached th point where foreign interference becomes nocessary then it will step out and the future of Hawaii look a little brighter but thou Hawaii will bo totally and hopelessly ruined TOPICS OF ME DAY The Star on Wednesday said the dredger has been at work for two days but no epidemic hai appeared as yet How soou es the Star want the deadly microbe to begin its work It isnt under engagement for salary and required to be on timo by tho 7 oclock whistle If it is there at all it will take its own time and if it over does begin it will bo gin too soon for tho peace of mind of tho community The feoling of fiuding employment for Hawaiians seems to have dropped out of sight with tho cholera scare Let a move bo made lest worse befall us What about tho release pf the remainder of tho politica1 prisoners on Thanksgiving Day Let us have a national Thanksgiving for poauo health and returning prosperity for dolivorauce from revolution aud pestilence and for tho fact that we havo no one imprisoned for political offencos Thou all could unite in praise and prayorl A subscriber asks if a notary public can acknowledge a deed tho par tios signing not being present in person He says he knows of ono who did If such a case exists here tho authorities should removo him from commission at once It apparently paralyzes tho Star to find that Queou Victoria recognizes morit no matter what tho color of a mans skin That is the rulo with all Britrehora Take a man as you find him God made of otio blood all tho oarlh nations of tlio Says tho Itov Bishop in tho Ootobor Friontl Wo havo occasionally known Hawaiians to eat horse flush aud ofton that of asses which we have been told by whito men wero very palatable Wouldnt it bo as well to give chapter aud verse Witnesses aud dates In another column we reprint Minister It Oastlos intorview with tho representative of tho Sun on Hawaiis relations with Japan aud the lattors attitude to it It is no doubt within tho memory of our renders how in Consul Gouurnl ujiis time Minister Thuroton had to 10 called over tho coals at tho request of the Japaueso Government for indiscreet uttoraucos in the samo lino Tho Hawaiian Provisional Government made an explanation lame it is truo that Minister Thurctous uttorances wore not official and were only to bo understood in a Pickwickian sense How will their reduplication by Minister Castle be regarded In tho sanio interviow he is reported as saying Of tho 35000000 invested in plantations and othor property by it aiders 2G0n0000 is controlled oy he American- Ho pointed to the fact that the officers of tho Government aro all of American parentage or born in this couutry Their education is that of Americans aud their method of living and working also American Mr Castlo is very cautious in discussing Hawaiian affairs especially in view of tho trouble his predecessor got in through what Secretary Gresham alleged was a tendency to discuss too freely the relations between Hawaii and tho United States The leopard cannot ohange his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin But like the ostrich 11 buries his head in the saud by pointing out that he is very cautidus in discussing Hawaiian affairs apparently forgetting the rest of his carcass is lie I View Shys the Eev EmorBon editor of the Hawaiian Board of Missions portion of the Prioud The Rev Knili after seven mouths of service on tho reef is a freo man Ho was one of tho stato prisoners who were sentenced lastFebruary for complicity in the rebellion Ho aud forty five ohers were lately pardoned by Presidot Dole and wero released on the 0th of September His sentence was imprisonment for a year with 100 fine The fine and tho last five months of tho sentence wero commuted When arrested Kaili wa proprietor of Kuhala the placo near the beauh where arms were landed and buried in the sand He held the place on rental as a fishing elation and though it was not his regular residence he Kad th misfortune of being Ihere the night uhm the arms were landed He wns thus found to br in collusion with the rebels lie was also known to be an ardent sunnorter of the rovalist cause Such facts scoured his arrest and conviction He was tno only native clergyman who was implicated in tho rebellion Mr Kaili bears testimony to the considerate treatment he received at the hands of Jailor Low He affirms that while a prisoner he had good food aud a clean bed and that ho wasnot over worked as ono of the road gang He it a man of fine physical presence being five feet ten inches high the height which would pass him on our polico roll and weighing over 205 pounds Ho is in rugged health and his musales are aro tough This he says is duo to tho training he rocoived on the road as a member of tho chain gang Tho Rev Knili is in good spirits and is eager to avail himself of any opportunity to work He has somo knowledge of carpontry and can do a plain job well Till ho has secured a parish we commoud him to any who can give employment Tho italics aro ours Such wore tho facts that sent mon to juil during the rebolllou of riot or late disturbance or whatever you call it On no bettor grounds are mon still in jail to day Tho confossion of tho Rev is woloomo But soo to what ho dooms his follow clergyman the police force or plain carpentry How tho cloth love one another -1 Doath of Oaptnln Mint Tho community was shookod this morning by looming of tho sudden death of au old and ostoomod citizen Henry Wontworth Mist a post-captain on tho rotired list of tho Royal Navy oxpirod at his rosidonco on Ntiuanu stroot at 4 oclock this morning aftor a few- days illness The deceasod was born on Juno 10 1833 at Fulham Middlesex England and served fpr a numbor of years in tho Britisli navy About twenty years ago ho rotired from active service and took up his residence in tho Hawaiian Islands Ho devoted his timo horo to journal- istic aud literary work and hos during his career beon connected with tho Saturday Pross tho Hawaiian Gazette and tho Advortiaor In 1887 ho was appointed secretary to tho Foreign Office a position which ho hold for several years Captain Mist was very prominent in social circles and was a leading morabor aud churchwardon of St Andrews Cathedral Ho was married to Miss McKibbon a sister to tho well known physician of that name who survivos him aud with three sons and two daughters now mourn their loss Tho funeral will take place from St Andrews Cathedral to morrow afternoon at 3 oclock Office of the Boaiid of Health I Honolulu I Oct 23 1805 The regulation of tho Board of Health of AugUBt 80 1895 prohibiting the sondiug of Letters from Oahu to any othor Island of the group excepting from tho Gonoral fostoffico and requiring all mail matter to be fumigated ha3 been rescinded By order of tho Board of Health WILLIAM SMITH President Board of Health 101 2t OOJE AJSTIO Steamsiaip Co KOttSAN FRANCISCO THE STEAMSHIP AUSTRALIA WILL liEAVE HONOLULU fOB TilK AHOVB PORT ON Saturday Oct 26th AT -1 OOLOOK It The undersigned are now prepared to issue Through Tickets from this City to all points in tho United States C8f For furthor particulars regarding Freight or Passage apply Wm IRWIN CO LD 100 Ot Genoral Agonta WANTED AT THE Ul NUUANU 8TIIKKT booo aiBJJsr daily TO DIUNK THE Famous Staattie Beer IOE COLD ON DltAUOHT EDWARD HARBY Post Office Box 175 Honolulu 101 A CARD rpHE UNDEUBIGNED IS NOT TO IE JL soared out of town by cholera House Painting and Papor Hanging are his specialities and 023 is tolenhono ndiu bor through which communications can Do established If you want good work done by a professional painter call around and satisfaction will bo given GEORGE TURNER Faiixter Corner of Itoretanin and Fort Streets BKAItOlIKB OK Records Colleotor Copyist TIIANSLATQU IK English and Hawaiian Heal Estate Agent Typewriter Stamp Dealer Purchasing Commission and Advertising Agont Etc Oft- Office No 827 King btreet the former private office of Thomas Timely Topics Honolulu Oct 86 1896 It 1ms boon demonstrated in most sorious manner during tho Into opidomic of what vital importanco pure wulor is to nil human beings Whilo our medical mon havo difforod in Opinion in regard to tho naturo and troatmont of tho opidomic which now fortunately is ontlod thoro has only hcon ono opinion in rogard to tho imporativo necessity of having an am plo supply of puro water for all purposes In Honolulu the wator supply is now plontiful both for drinking purposes and for irrigation Tho samo cannot bo said for tho country districts In many places it is nccossary for tho inhabitants to carefully savo rainwater in tanks especially whoro artesian wolls aro impossiblo It has boon a groat holp to peoplo living in tho country that wo havo introduced tho colobratod Aorraotor in thoso islands Many people havo availed thomsolvcs of tho goldon opportunity- to purchase ono of our ealvanizod Aormotors and they havo in all instances ox pressed thomsolvcs as highly satisfied with tho bargain Tho Acrmotor is especially appreciated because it runs in the lightest wind Being geared back threo to one it starts with only a third of tho load that tho ordinary mill has to contend with This enables it to start and run in a zophyr so light that all competitors stand idly by Again its lightweight and perfect bearing enable it to face up to and got tho full benefit of tho broozo Tho whool is so light and its efficiency so groat that it is an absoluto calm in deod which induces it to stand still Thd lightweight of tho Aor motor is a strong point in its favor Tho weight airocts tho cost of transportation tho oaso of handling and erection tho facility of turning on tho tower to face the wind for work the regulation for safety in a high wind tho rocovpry of working position when danger is past tho sagging of tho towor out shapo tho vibration and broak ing of tho towor in a storn and consequently tho weight strongth and cost of a towor nnc foundations Tho Aormotoi only weighs about two lifths as- much as tho othor mills which do tho samo work Tho groat disparity in woight is in parti made possible by tho uso of steel malloablo iron and tho vory host materials throughout and oxplains why so oxcollont pioco of work can bo turnod outl at so low a prico Wo invito farmors and othors who havo uso for an Aormotor to call in at our storos or writo to us and wo shall bo ploasod to give ovory furthor information necessary in rogard to this invaluable farm implomont Toe Hawaiian Hardware Co Ia 307 Fort Stueet Onponltn flprenlroli1 nirwtr i -Ill.