Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1895, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. » MOSES AND SONS, alais F Street, Corner Eleventh. Storage Warehouse, 22d near M. oyal. G and Eleventh Streets... A. Lisner Bargain Tables in every depart- “LA REINE" FURNITURE POLIS! He. Will do more toward brightening up and t. renewing old furnitu-e than anything ms you can use. 25 cents a good-sized hot- tle. Women’s DESKS. —Now comes the clearing out of the balance of our Christmas stoc of Desks. A rich harvest of bi values for quick buyers. lect from. Every wood—every price—only price has taken a long step dow the price scale, making values that were already good unparalleled. Polish Mahogany Some 200 Desks in stock for you to se- style—every each ment, loaded with bargains as never before—with left-over holiday goods and “broken lots” of staple goods from regular stocks, which we are anxious to dispose of prior to stock taking. fF Note she spots on all five floors where the crowds most do congregate—that’s where the bar- gein tables are. Wraps « Suits. Three months of winter ahead and final reductions in prices now. But that’s not all. Wraps and Suits will not be as little priced for years to come. The new tariff bill adds $40,000,000 additional taxation. A large portion of this tax is raised by the restoration of 60 per cent of the McKinley rates on wool and woolens e 4 n Would sell ut 5 has ‘ > Large Quart: —so that” every woman wearin: Poltshed Denk. $0.00 value. For 95-95 s Z g Quartered Oak, Polish woolen garments will have to pay a arin ie barat $5.20] more for them in the future or be Quartered Oak or Mahogany content with inferior qualities for Finish Desk, mirror top. Worth ; a 90. Fos $6.90 | same prices as now.) 2100 Solid toy! Mahogany front . .. $14.00 The Suits, - id Mahogany Desk, with one a z : Arawer, brass roll top. $13 value. $8.75] Ready-to-wear Woolen “Costumes Lay) Quartered Ouk Desk, ii ¥ y Blow ocivepiniia, piace amr) . of equal quality to those now here ease raill oy $15 $7-65 | at $12.75, $13.50 and $14.50 will be nd Eye Maple Desk, 5 : : ‘ top, large drawer and lower shelf. $8. considerably higher in price—and Pen eC $ fe yet choice of them is now offered for eitale 10.65 : é one drawer. $15 value. only $10.98. Solid Mahogany Desk, swell CFThese costumes come in Wack and brown Cast op ghecnoith ate! aan C979 5 | cheviots snd the popular mixtures. Siik-lned Box Werthis “9 | Coat, trimming, mandolin sleeves. Skirt Quartered Cone 30 | lined rustling pereale. $10.08 for those Ore Se armNe: $11.70 marked heretofore sold at $12.75, $13.50 and Curly Bireh Desk, Fi A $12.50 value. For. ch legs. | Art Rooms, 6th Floor. It $87, 14.50, 5 ¥ $13.50 for the $15, $16.50 and $18.75 Costumes. Po SP SS Po CSO Of CO Oe Surely There.-is something you will need for New Year in this list : doz. Pearl Handle Fruit Kotves. 1.00 % doz. Pears Handle Dessert Kaives. HO Pearl Carving Knife, Fork and Steel 50 Buckhorn Carving Ka’ Fork Steel... $2.75 Nat Picks and Cracks, Rogers’ 1.75 Lamps, Shades, Frvit Bowls, Nut Bowls, ‘Tureens, Cake Buskets, Wine Coolers, Card ‘Trays, Pun h Ladies, Candelabra, ete. Our entire stock of Cut Glass Bowls, Pitchers, Vases and Bottles AT COST. i. Goldsmith $ gu Pa. Ave. (627-404 ooo sete to 2 Oe oe oe < “Sunday Schooi Workers!”’ ‘t Notes and You will Mind our Peloubet i a? 7 The Ultra Fashionable Boucle and Broadwele Diagonal Cloth Suits, in navy and black, satin trimming. Styles as described above. $20 for the $22.50 and $25 Cos- tumes. 7 Tailor-made Suits, of mixtures, basket tloth, boucle and other stylish rough effects. Box Coats, latest sleeves; extra wide skirts, silk lined. Dress Skirts. $1 off the price marked on all Skirts costing from $6.98 to $37.50. G7 They are made 5% to 6 yards wide; have velvet binding and rustling percale lining. $6.08 to $15 for the Crepon Skirts and $10 to $37.50 for those of Brocaded Satin, One dollar off the price marked on the one you select. The Waists. $6.75 to $22 instead of $8.50 to $25 for Chiffon and Silk Waists. EF The above repesent the very’ latest Paris styles, in black and colors. Some of those for evening wear are simply exquisite. $1.98 for the $2.98 All-wool Flan- nel Waists, braid trimmed. D7 7T5e instend of 98e for the Flannelette Waists, Hurlba tional In your Sunday seh headquarters for all kinds of § Literature, selling it cheaper because selling more of {t than any other store in the cit C. C. Pursell, 418 9th St. a27-16d KNEESSI, 425 7th st. Still lots of pocket books —here. Xmas. books this season as last, and no wonder. 75¢- $1, $1.25, $1.50 up. Kneessi, 425 7th Street. a27-28d Ilustrative Notes on the Interna- ol Lessons of invaluable as- We laid in an enormous stock for the holiday trade and reordered just before We sold just twice as many pocket to all appearances as god as the all-wool waists at $2.08. Boys’ All-wool Waists at the cost to us. [Te for those marked 98e and 89e. for those marked Sve; but worth Se. The Wrappers. The Cashmere and Silk Robes and Tea Gowns from $5 to $30 at 10 per cent discount. EFThe $2.25 Elderdown Wrappers in Persian effects and the Flannelette Wrappers, with cash- mere yoke, in black and white effects, at $1.98 for ho! 98c, $1.19, $1.29 and $1.39 Wrap- pers are made dne lot, at 98c for choice. TF The shove come made ot flannelette and per- cale, in fancy and mourning effects. Latest styles, sizes 34 to 44 bust measure, The Sweaters. $3.25 for the $3.98 All-wool Knit Sweaters, black and colors. EFProportionate reductions in prices for those Only ide HOME WARMERS. drudgery one of our OL, STOVES. c Made of best waterials and guaranteed to service and safety. eda ban stuck in town—iere, to § e D.C. agi RENCE OLL. Smoke t for heat and 1101. less, odorless—m light. ‘Ph C. W. BARKER, 1210 F St. 27-28 iMén’s Patent Leather ‘SHOES, $3.50. E A spectal price that we pat on this & un t t for the holidays. A_romark- E low “i admit 4 Shoes. "They're the H t leather hand-sewed—and — A the very latest lasts. AlE A D. ER 7 FRobt. Cohen & Son, 630 Pa. Ave., f DOWNTOWN AMERICAN SHOE MEN. E dezi-20d Rav] \j[ade eady— ade Punch ts Gl 14th st _ SMITHFIELD HAMS For New Year's receptions— finest quality—one year old— fully cured—unequaled for de- licious flavor. de27-200 N. W. Burchell, 1325 F St. 14d ‘The relief from coal and ashes carrsing as well ax the inevitable dust and dirt that accompanies the use of coal stoves Is easily obtained if you will use largest and From Se. for world-famous ‘fry it. the It does up to $12 . All are latest styles, easily ad- justed, though “glove fitting.” The Furs. 25 per cent discount—one quarter off the marked price. C7 The discount is to include all fur coats and capes from $12 to $60; all seal $25 to $45; all seal plush capes fro: all velvet capes from $22.50 to $65. Cloth Coats. Here from $9 to $45. price reductions below: (3'$5 for the $9 Black Broad Wale Cheviot Box Coats, with stield front, half silk Uned, velvet collar, mandolin sleeves. $9.08 for choice of the $10.98, $11.48, $12.98 and $13.50 Coats. or rly e. as Hints of two thousand of above coats d—they are the coats of boucle, eater- is, with shield and box ete. Choice now for h mts, tandylin slee' $22.50 for the $27 English Tan, Kersey and Melton Coats, tailor- made, lap seams, fancy silk lining. TFS$I5 for the $18 Coats looking like the above, bat half Hned and othersise less costly in finish, The Capes. Cloth Capes here from $4.98 to All prices reduced. with double In weight, the $898 Boucle Capes, J $6.08 for "| satin lined and interlined, 24 inches deep, and sweep forming complete circle. 30 Inches deep aud extra wide sweep. Misses’ Coats. Short Coats and Gretchens at 25 per cent disco F Short Coats a Gretehens from $5 to price marked on the ove s¢ unt. from $2.98 to $21, ter off the ted. Get the Best— “THE CONCORD HARNESS," Horse Biankets and Lap Robes In great variety aud at sowest prices, 3 497 Pa. Ave. N.W. 2-160 (Adjoining Ni opal Hotel.) NEAT DUPONT CIR , DN st. ww. Jobbing by ‘Bullder, estdene Special. 7 of Sunde other price surprises. Cs [ean will be worth dotla See page s Post for sand china to be quoted at nilities. tomorrow's Post sto housekeepers. ‘ linen Palais Royal, +A, Lisaer 2021 N, Eleventh strecta, —all expert in their lines. It’s the man who owns a house who is the 6he to appreciate such PLUMBING as we do-work that has attained the highest standard of excellence through years of practica! experience and study: There's another point that in- terests him. The force of work- men we employ are employed here all the year round—and are not men picked up only for the busy serson. We can say, and say truth- fully, that when we've done a job it doesn't have to be done over again. Forces of gas fitters, Stters of heating apparatus, and tinners here Gas & Oil Heaters. This cold snap is just a warning to put you on your y guard. Better prepare your- Ks self with Oil Heaters or Gas | Radiators. ) Puritan Oil Heaters.$4 and $5 QAZ-"FS2crv DEPP POA ( Gas Radiators. -$5 up. Gas Heaters. . $1.50 SHEDD 34). 432 oth Street. Reductions in CAMERAS! juced in prlee—till the first of 1 opportiinity aS PRAY ) Do you realize the importance of using good washing swaps? You can’t expect your. wash- woman to make your ttothes look white and clean unless-you keep her supplied with ~ Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s ‘Laundry & Borax’ S=0=a=p=S-. = These soaps are made from * steam refined tallow and high- est grade chemicals. When you order them of your grocer be sure he sends them to you and not a worthless imitation. Plant, 3244. K St.N.W. — de28-32d ee eH HH % a ‘The prettiest stock and store in Washington! ‘That's the title this p earned. rimming ov pretty, dainty conceits—in Silver, Precious Stones au Art Goods. And the very prices make thy bly attractive to shoppers, RETT’S, Jeweler and Importer File Art Goods, EVE “As dry as a bone” —lIs the wearer of one of these handsome mackintoshes that we are showing. A sensible garment and summer al Ww ladies or gent su the finest qualities. Goodyear Rubber Co., 807 Pa. av. * de2s-2 ful in winter have them for teed, and of u Lock at These Prices! Ru n, 12 volumes. | Regular price, $12. Our price, $9. Young Folks’ Hist. Civil War, 4 vols. Regular price, $3.50. Our price,$2.50. Hume’s England, 6 volumes. Regular price, $2.50. Our price,$1.50. (John C. Parker, di 1G 315 of the Best Books Published for $5! A year’s membership entitles yout day x azine fiom! Called for and delivered at residence! for six maths, Imperial Cireulating Libeary, 51 11th St. 7-1 For a few days longer. Opera G Ome= oy sts of mouth Third feel safe in saying—1 Off? ‘hington shows Claflin Optical Co., oo7 F St. select st 27-14 lasse make, | and we) And we store {n audsomer or mc ished 18% Franklin & Co. —Opticians—i227 Pa. Ave. 1 1 viptions promptly and accurately tiled. e to 1203 F St. January 18. 14 Rem Ov oS » experience of Thanksziv jt being impossible to ill 1 Will plice your orders fi s atd Palms at ouce, to For vantage of our special the holiday prices on 5 O'clock Tea Kettles, New Banquet Lamps and Year’s other articles useful for . _feception purposes or Reception as New Year gifts. Setter come now while these holi- day inducements last. Geo: F. Mtith & Co., dez id t 4 41s 7TH ST. N.W. “Bru 8, bat it wil cure AU druggists, y Wind-up * of the Swiss Music Boxes. We are determined to close out all the Swiss Mu- sic Boxes left from the ‘Christmas trade at and “BELOW COST” in order ‘to insure their immediate sale. We have followed :this custom for the past 14 ‘years, as we do not carry Swiss Magic Boxes in stock at any‘ other time of the year except Christmas. If you go ‘to every music -store in Washington you will be’ fOrced at last to come berg to get the best ‘boxes for the lowest prices. Not a“box"in stock is ex- empt from this grand price leveling; sale. ny chment 12-alr Box, with Zit! ment. loin Box, witht a Ment ..-seeeeee = 00 The new Columbian Inter- * changeable Swiss Music Boxes, with richly inlaid and carved cases, playing 18 airs, only two left. 1 $75 Inte Box goes at $45.00. 1 $125 I Kock at $50, The al Roxes are all of the 1896 pattern artery teed In’ perfect condt by ' ume your own prise and take come tomorrow and get first choice. Bradbury Factory Warerooms, 1225 Pa. Ave. it tctieally choice, Better Jeweler who ant comes Into your mind first Sure jto be someone that you want to please with a New Year’s gift. Notwithstanding ‘the rush I had at Christmas I have looked out for your New Year wants. I have reorganized my stock, filled up the gaps and can! again show you daintiest lovelirfess'in the way of i ut jewelry. Cc. H. Davison, JEWELER, 1105 F Street N.W. Graig & Harding, Furgiture,-&e., 1th and F New Year’s FURNITURE. You w elp you “xpecial sale of Diniug larger Furni- thi of Din i 4 : foun be $35 Sideboards, $23. » is the handsomest ore, top drawers, columns, I WV mirror, Wall compa: : Hoard In the Cit aly with eclal any $23 es. dak, Extension value §6, ~ Special $4 50 ns foot”? Quarte m Dining Tables—greatest ¥: 6 ft.eworth $10, only $6.75. 8 ft., worth $12, only $8.75. $2.75 Dining Chair Tlizh-class 1 Sat worth eh $2.25 nt styles and shapes finest line south of More than of China CI New York CRAIG & | HARDING, | Furniture, &c., 13th and F Sts. d2s-Sod SR Assured by using our TOOTH SH habitually. ‘The nicest ost ef ration ble to. imagin jeanses: e |b Like the tccun’ oroncits-amparts | fragrance to the breath aoe tive p Ivory | hardens the gums. 15e. a bot- Fue. "Phone 1623. tin gown. Mezzo Tint Oval Photo W° W. H. Successo* to M. 28.3m YeY s Ace in thé art of photo; our business’ t 627-160 Quickens The Appetite Makes the Weak Strong. YER'S THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL ‘Sarsparilla Has Cured Others And Will Cure You. 's Cherry Pectoral for Conghs. (F THE BABY IS CUITING TEETH BE and use hat old and well-tried remedy Winsiow’s Sootatng Syrup, children teething: It soothes the child, softens the zum, ,allays abl pain, cures wind colic and Is the best remedy for @arthoea. 25 cents a bottle. sel0-1y If Sick 1 Little Live ailing Hatr, Scalp Dixe valuable stamp to Co- lumbla Chemical ¢ D.C. No cure, no pay. ‘This concern 4s reliable. Hearing Sale Johnson Luttrell’s, 713 Market Space. Our Annual Clearing Sale of Winter Goods will begin Monday morning. LEvery- thing im the way of heavy goods, such as Cloaking Cloth, Wraps, Blankets, Winter Dress Goods, &c., at greatly reduced prices. Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Winter Cloaks To beclosed out at one fourth off marked prices. $5.00 Ladies’ Cloth Jackets and Capes for, K) Ladies’ Rough Cloth Jackets for. . Ladies’ Cloth Jackets uml Capes for: 0 Ladies’ Jackets and Capes for. 50 Ladies’ Coney Fur Capes, 30 in., for. $15.00 Ladies’ Sheared Coney Capes for. $20.00 Ladies’ Electric Seal Capes for.......$15.00 And similar reductions on the finer Jackets and Capes up to $40. Coats left from last season At Half Price. 100 Ladies’: Coats left from last season will be closed out at just half what they're marked. The styles are the same as this year’s, with the ex- ception that they are longer. Were... $8.00 $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 §: At Reduced Prices. Here’s a chance for those of you who wish to reciprecate on New Year's to some one who remembered you Christma: . Ladies’ Ebro 25e. Ladies’ Silk or Linen Initial Handkerchief Swiss Embroidered H'dkfs. for. tin Suspenders, in fan Windsor Scarfs for. "s All-linen Initial Handkerchiefs fo Children’s Thibet Fur Sets for. Ladies’ and Men's Ladies’ and Men's Taffeta Silk Un X) Men's Dogskin Gloves, sizes 7 to 10. Se. Men's Kid Gloves, slightly damaged. The above are only a few of the many reductions we've made—every department in the store contributes something to this sale. JOHNSON & LUT TRELL 718 MARKET SPAGE. —~o SSeS For the table New Year’s Day. We have everything that’s need- ed to make it a success—from an fepicurean standpoint. Qualities\ the finest and prices of a mos reasonable sort. RS, Ww WINES ana LIQUO » Claret. Ca seullon Now wish pri ea Smithfield Hams— ‘re selling them y ery band gine ort —w us neighbors. H. Duv (No Christmas and without a bottle of 1923 9Pa. Ave. 1 Beware of counterteits! No City Salaries. From the New York Sun. The city cf South Bend, Oregon, presents a novelty in American politles and govern- ment, in that no city office there will have any salary attached to it during the com- ing year, or practically none, and also that there are more place hunters than there are places. The city is in debt for im- provements that have been made, and a week ago the council voted to redu alaries of all city officers to $1 a y devote the proceeds of the tax lev ing off the debt. More than en 3 have of debt. The thnt the treasurer shall re per_month, but the citiz takes that office will turn over the to the city, ) Senator in this country, ; would be a mere farce if confined to then NO POPULAR VOTE Hawaii's Annexation Not to Be Sought by a Plebiscite. THE NATIVES WOULD BE AGAINST IT The British Element Would Play Havoc With the Vote. SS EARTHQUAKE —__+__—_. THE Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, December 12, 1895. Our last mal brings a renewal in cir- cumstantial form of a previous statement that President Cleveland would favor the annexation of Hawali by a resolution of Congress at its present session, but that he “will ins’st that the annexat‘on propozed be submitted to all the electors who have the right to vote for members of the popu- lar branch of the Hawaiian legislature.” I propese to show that such an offer to favor annexation is delusive, and that in making it Mr. Cleveland is simply playing into the hands of the British enemies of annexation in these islands, I do not thereby accuse him of insincerity br false intention. He ts probably horest, but very determined and adherent to past convic- tions. What has been his record on this point? Our vi earliest report of Mr. Cleve- land's actions on this subject came in March, 189%,” #¥laAtickland telegram from London, to thf'effect that he was sending out Mr. Blouttt‘to~have a plebiscite tak This created surprise and alarm, the mo: in that it strahwely corresponded to a d mand by the ‘British minister, Wodehouse, that a plebiscite should be taken on “he question of annexing Hawaii to the United States. Mr. Dole replied by asking Mr. Wodehouse for any precedent of the an- nexation of any Ocean‘c group by Great Britain being decided by a plebiscite of the native inhabitants. He might safely have asked fo" any precedent of any an- nexation whatever in all history being made in that way. It looked then, how- ever, as If Mr. Cleveland intended to create such a precedent.. So much was talked about it at the time that the question was very seriously discussed whether the pro- visional government would allow. M Blount to hold such an election. Annexa- tion was then supposed to be the object cf his inves:igations, and not at all, as it afterward proved, to try the case between the queen and those who dethroned her. Constant outery was made by the royal- ists during Col. Blount’s presence for a popular vote on the subject of the restora- tion of the queen, Her attorney, Paul Neumann, published during the summer something like a formal demand for such a vote to be taken, appending to it a menace that United States power might make it worse for us if we did not. Neu- mann was believed to be well informed as to Mr. Cleveland's views. Every British and other enemy of the government and of annexation urgently demanded a popuiar vote of the natives to settle the question between monarchy and annexation. They well knew that five-sixths of the natives decidedly wanted monarchy, with all its abuses, rather than any government in which foreigners directed or ruled. British Residents Averse. With the exception of a rather small, but very intelligent and public-spirited mi- nority, British subjects in these islands are jealously and actively pro-British and anti- American. They are deeply and bitterly opposed to United States possession of these Islands. Most patriotically, from their national standpoint, Britishers want Great Britain to possess this most indis- pensable Hawaiian link in her chain of §sland groups leading from Australia to Canada.Therefore the annexation of Hawail to the United States is a measure to be re- sisted to the utmost, and by every possi- ble means. For this reason this large ma- jority of British residents in Hawaii, who are two-thirds of the number of the Amer- icans, have been ardent’ and bitter roy.l- ists, and have worked against annexation especially by all the means at their com- mand. Their chief and readiest means has been from the beginning to embitter the minis of the natives against American annexa- tion and its promoters. For three years past these English foes of Americanism have diligently and systematically educat- ed the Hawatians to believe that it was sought to rob them of their country, Je- prive them of their poitical rights and to force them into subjection and servitude. Certainly there has never been one m)- ment’s intention of depriving the native Hawalian of a single right or advantage or of discriminating against him in any manner whatever. The constitution of the republic places him on the highest level of political and civil equality. Assuredly annexation would not lower his stats. But these British enemies of annexation have scrupled at no falsehcod to poison the native mind against American influ- ence. The native press, including four or five dailies and weeklies, has teemed with | the grossest falsehoods and misconstruc- tions to teach and illustrate the enormity of American intentions and practices and the nefariovs annexatian robbery intended. The consequence is that five-sixths of the native people are filled to saturation with the strongest dread and antipathy toward annexation. An Mlastration, To illustrate the methods used to alarm and embitter the native mind, let an inci- dent be described. It occurred about the time of Col. Blount’s arrival, some two months after the overthrow of monarchy. ‘There was a very intelligent elderly native lady In peculiarly intimate relations to the writer, but living at a distance. A half- white daughter, with whom she mostly lived, was married to a wealthy British su’ ject, who was extremely bitter against an- rexation. Meeting the writer unexpectedly she asked in great distress why we had such evil intentions toward the natives, and were going to take their lands from them and drive them all into the mountains. Such was the terrible talk she was constantly hearing in her daughter's home. The natives throughout the islands have been stuffed for three years with the same kind of poisorous rubbish. It is, therefore, true that in proposing a ycte of the Hawaiian people to indorse the annexation) (of: ‘their country President Cleveland can justly be said to be playing into the hands of its British enemies. These enemies have forestalled the vote. They have prepared the minds of the Hawaiians to give just such a desire. othing has lately given these gen- tlemen such delighted satisfaction as the prospect held out by Washington corre- spondents that the President is going to favor annexation, with the trifling condition as a matter of form that the native people shall vote in favor of it. That is all the st strenuous British enemy of anne: tion will ask for. It is a “dead give-a: of the whole business. Kanakas Oppose Annexation. It is entirely improbable that Mr, Hatch, or Mr. Castle, or Mr. Dole believes that any large number of native voters not already registered would vote any other way than solidly against annexation. I this week asked a prominent publie man what he thought of It. He 1s more closely in touch with the native mind than any other white and, though an Englishman, is thoroughly for annexation. His prompt reply was: “If the queen her. self and all her leading supporters were to turn around and work for six months to persua4> the natives to vote for annexation, they would fail to influence them.” I think he spoke correctly. Undoubtedly if the question were to be submitted to the present set of registered voters, sworn to maintain the republic, nearly all of them would heartily vote for annexation. It is quite unnecessary to in- quire into thelr wishes. Their registering has defined their position. Such inquiry Mr. Cleveland undoubtedly wants to learn what the Hawaiian people wish, the whole body of the Kanakas, and not ‘merely the supporters of the republic. If that inquiry is made the answer will he found to be that the great majority of the natives want no annexation, but to revert to native ru through the corrupt and capricious nati nionarchy. what!” some will say, “is y to be taken from them w consent? Is a nation to be deprived of i ote as Britishers most | { known to the author independence against its will?” Such per- sons contend that this is subversive of lib- erty, of justice, and of American principles of freedom and democracy. The people must have a full voice in all that concerns their affairs. It is quite contrary, they urge, to American principles to absorb a population into the Union without their free consent. No Consent Asked. The last position can hardly stand, in face of the fact that every territory yet absorbed by the United States has been appropriated without asking the consent of the inhabi- tants, except Texas, and no vote was taken then from the people. In every other case, Louisiana, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Alaska, it is nearly certain that a majority of the inhabitants, in their ignorance, would have refused consent to come into the Union. And yet, no one questions that to so enter the Union was the highest political privi- lege and the greatest material advantage that could be conferred upon those coun- tries. Precisely the same is the case with Hawaii. Notwithstanding their prejudices, it will be the noblest possible political ele- vation to the Kanaka people to be admitted as citizens of the United States. As to their indefeasible right to have their consent asked—what a fallacy this is! What do they know about the question’ How can they possibly form a sound judgment upon the subject? Their Kahuna priests all warn them against becoming Americans. Their British neighbors all protest against the American robbers of their country, and these poor, childish, ignorant natives believe them, and will refuse what is for their own highest advantage. On»this whole field of reasoning atout rights of self-government limitations and exceptions have constantly to be recognized. Minors have to be ex- cepted, as well as some other classes. An important exception is in this very matter of national relations. Of what is best in such matters men generally are far less capable of judging than of what concerns their local interests. It necessarily results that such national relations have to be de- termined by the princes or the leaders of the people, and not by the common people them- selves. At least such is the general rule. The common Hawaiian is-a very simple, weak-minded person. He is a child in intel- ject—a natural minor. He has always lean- ed upon a chief, a superior., He naturally craves to be directed and governed, like a child. A kindly despotism exactly fits his disposition. The benevolent American has come to Hawaii, educated, civilized and ele- vated him, as fast and far as his feeble na- ture would bear, , it is feared, rather faster. The Hawaiian was given a vote for a lower house, never for the upper one, until the foreigner’s constitution gave such a vote to all holders of $600 income. He must continue to be in some things under guard- janship, in statu pupillari, until intellect and character are more highly developed. By proximity, by commercial relations and by a practical direction and cherishing of the Hawalian people for seventy-five years, the United States are their natural guard- dans. It belongs to the United States benev- olently and wisely to getermine what shall be done with the Hawalians. It is not for these natives to settle the question for them- selves, any more than it is for any child to say where his home shall be. Hawatians may suitably vote upon some subjects. The question of their national rejations ts a wholly unsuitable one for their own deci- sion. a Should Be Paterna The true part of American statesmen evidently js to determine what is best for the Interests of the United States fh dis- pesing of Hawaii, consistently with true regard to the interests of all classes of Hawail's perinanent inhabitants. To con- sult the ignorant masses those inhabit- ants on such a weighty question does not Seem the part of good sense or statesman- ship. There is especially a fallacy, and a colos- sal one, in the assumption that annexation robs the Hawaiians of their country. Ad- mitting Hawaii to the Union does not de- stroy its existence as a free state. The country is in no sense taken away from its inhabitants. So far from being lessened in honor and privilege, the people of Hawaii will be incomparably exalted. It may be fitting for Americans to question sharply the expediency of taking in so frail and feeble a sister; they reed not hesitate about doirg Hawaiians any injustice there- by. Such admission will be a proud gift and horor to the people. But is it not a severity to deprive Ha- walians of their national independence? Here is the greatest fallacy of all. Hawaii has long been irdependent only in name. She is utterly dependent now on the pro- tecting authority of the United States. That authority has for some years been all that has prevented England from seizing Ha- waii, so much needed for binding together her imperial possessions. Aside from this, should America refuse us, we could not possibly lorg maintain secure and stable government. We contain too many con+ flicting race elements, among which the Kanakes are in a hopeless minority, and in case of ery break up would fall a prey. It is utterly preposterous to talk of Ha- waiians preserving their independence. Deprivitg them of that honor by annex: tion is the last scruple that needs to trou- ble American statesmen. If they do not speedily gather us in under protection a live necessity for security will drive us to seek the sterner protection which England will gladly accord. The Earthquake. Two items of special local news are note- worthy. One is a shaking up by earth- quake lest Sunday night, the Sth, 11 p.m., and 9th, 3 a.m. The writer was awakened at both hours by heavy, swinging shaxes. A friend states that he was wakeful erough to note four other slight shocks curing the night. Some clocks were stop- ped and a_few 4ishes broken; no walls damaged. The center of disturbance ap- pears to have been the active volcanoes on Haweil. It was ascertained by telephone to Kailua that Kau, at the south end of that island, experienced eight shakes, some of which were of great severity. All parts of the islend were shaken. It is probably ten years since any severe shock has been experienced. Our voleano experts regard these shakes as probably premonitory of an eruption, ,more probably of the chief agitator, Mauna ‘Loa, but possibly of the more steady vol- cano Kalcuea, or it may be of both. It is ten years since the last eruption of the big mountain, ard quite time for a fresh output of lava. The last flow buried ten square miles twenty feet deep with rocks. I saw 300 acres of new land just made out into the ocean. Mounting upon it, we found it still white hot within, as seen through crevices. A stezmer is due to- morrow from the volcanic distriet. Like the Indian's white man, our voleanoes are “mighty onsartin.” Filibusters Arrested. The other item relates to the arrest on the 9th of a couple of filibuster agents or schemers from the coast. There is said to be abundant evidence of conspiracy against them. Their examination has been post- poned cn account of the death of one of the justices of the supreme court, R. F. Bickerton. One of the men, named Sheri- dan, is said to be icentified as the Morrow who a while ago was reported as working up a filibuster project in Oakland, Cal It ly believed that some arrests will of Honolulu men in more or less ty with the two strangers. ems quite improbable that these men have brought any of their tive trial, or have produced anything more than a ‘crazy fiasco. They are not likely to meet with any great lev- ity. The effcct of their proceedings can hardly b> favoratie to an early release of the remaining political prison MEHAMEHA. _ THREE AMERICANS, ATE The Story Told of Five Sadi Indinns in Mexico. A special from Deming, N. M., says: John Martin, an American prospector, who hes just returned after a year’s absence in the gold fields of Sonora, Mexico, brings news of a horrible story of cannibalism, which occurred in that republic, Several weeks ago a party of five Sadi indians, a race closely allied with the Yaqui tribe, driven to desperation dy hunger, ambushed and killed three Americans working in t gold fields in the state of Sonora. three hundred miles south of Her and then cooked and ate the bodie Yaquis reported the affair to the authori- and after a pursuit of several weeks the perpetrators captured in their mountain hom at the Ist of December. They were taken to Guymas and thence to | the City of Mexico, where they will be exe- cuted. Th x Americans rities o-+—__—_ Resolutions looking toward the contro! by city of the street railways have been 1 by the eftizens’ committee of twen- of Philadelphia. names of the are not