Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1896, Page 9

. THE EVENING STAR, ——— ee ba THURSDAY, /APRIL -28, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE. NEW JERUSALEM] HE DETECTIVE CATHODE) AGAINST ASIATICS General Convention of Swedenbor- gians to Meet Here Soon. ACTIVE LOCAL PREPARATIONS Organization and Work of the ‘New Churchmen.” MANY DELEGATES COMING Saturday week, May 2,the general conven- tion of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America, the general governing body of the New Church in this country, will hold its seventy-fifth annual session in this city. The meetings are to be held in the new edifice recently completed at the corner of 16th and Corcoran streets north- west, and will continue until the following Wednes:day. The services Sunday are to be devoted to the solemn dedication of the church building, which has been built under the auspices of the convention afd by the contributions of the church-at-large. The same evening the celebration of the jubilee of the Washington Society of the New Jerusalem, which was founded fifty years ago this month of April. One evening dur- ing the sesssion will also be devoted to a festival celebration of this fiftieth anni- with historical and commemorative s It is also expected that the new edifice of the colored New Church men will also be ready in time for dedication, but the date for this has not been fixed as yet. The preachers appointed for the Sunday services are the Rev. James Reed of Bos- ton for the dedicatory sermon in the morn- ing, and the Rev. Lou‘s P. Mercer of Chica- go for the evening. ‘the Rev. John Worces- ter of Newtonville, Mass., president of the convention, is to officiate at the dedication, and will deliver the annual address on the epening day of the session. Among other prominent men of the denomination who are expected «is C. C. Bonney of Chicago, originator and president of the World's Congress of Religions. Other Meetings. Preceding ard accompanying the sessions of the convention proper there are also to be other meetings of associated bodies; the American conference of New Church min- isters beginning next Tuesday, this being also the clerical council of the convention. The executive or general council meets Friday, May 1, this being also the day of the American New Church Sunday School Association; the American League of New Church Young People’s Societies, will meet May 2, and a conference of the Ladies’ Round Table is also to be held during the session. The preparations for the musical program of the convention have been quite elabor- ate. Under the direction of Mrs. Susanne Oldberg, the music director, several musical selections of high order are to be produced. The Organization. The general conference is composed of New Church men throughout the country, but the right to vote at meetings is con- a ters reporting to the con- ates of associations and other bodies connected with the conven- tion. The associations correspond gen- frally to the state limitations and are com- posed of local societies or churches. The officers of the convention are the president, two secretaries and a treasurer, the coun- cil of ministers and a general council. The convention meets anrvally, and has among its the ordination to and regulation of the ministry, the furthering of the work of the board of missions at home and abroad, of the board of publication and of its theological school, located in Cambridge, Mass. The work of preparation from a local standpoint is now about completed. A gen- eral committee was appointed to take © ge of the arrangements as to the en- tertainment and reception of the delegates and visitors. vention and to dol Local Committees. The W igton committee is made up as follows: Chairman, Dr. R. B. Donald- son; retary, Charles F. Keefer; treas- urer, Job Barnard, and the Re Frank Sewall, C. . St. John Joy Edson, Dr. H. Dr. Rufus Choate, M ra A. Spencer, Mrs. E. A. Carman, 3 A. Knapp, Mrs. D. J. a Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mu: Smith and Miss J. M: Li also seven subcommittee chairmen are as follows: On entertainments, John Joy Edsony on finance, Job Barnard; on program, Rev. Dr. H. Alfred Frank Sewa M. Schooley; on accommodations, encht on music, Mrs. Susanne and on the press, C. F. Keefer. on lunches, w the local society is small, its mem- bership not exceeding some 125, and its mgregations rarely exceeding 300, the has already entertained two nation- ventions in Washington, and found mple without calling on the Those of the ministers and their families who accept invitations are to be cared for free of charge, as Suests of the local members and the ho This city has always attracted a attendance to the New Church con- Ss. and it is expected that the at- tendance this time will be five hundred and more. ——_—_ BARON HIRSCH He Gave Millions to Ameliorate the Condition of Hebrews. Maurice de Hirsch, whose death in Hun- gary wis announced in Tuesday's Star, was born at Munich sixty-three years ago. When he was thirteen years old he went to Brussels. At seventeen he went into business. Before long his capacity as a financier became evident. In 1866 the col- lapse of M. Langrand Dumonceau, which shook the money world of Beigium, gave him his opportunit: He secured the most valuable of the assets, including the Turk- ish railways, and by his skillful manipula- tion of them built up a fortune, which is almost equal te that of the Rothschilds. He became interested in the miserable con- dition of the Hebrews of Russia. He en- tered into negotiations with the Russian Sum of $10,000 to aiding. Se Sree he 5 £ $10,000, © aidin, = — bes — declines aaron de Hirsch then began and help Russian Hebrews to. emisrae America was looked to, and to provide funds for the emigrants and for the edu- cation of their children was the prime ob- ject of his gift of $2,400,000. The income ds $125,000 per annum, and this is devoted to establishing colonies. The colonies are located in New Jersey, and the three prin- cipal commurities are Alliance, whose in- dustry is chiefly agricultural, and Rosen. hayn and Carmel, which are mainly de- bendent on the preduct of the sewing ma- It became necessary outlet than the United to find some other States. A furt sum was provided to enable Russian al brews to emigrate to the Argentti ig and purchase land there es n other directions his charities wi pensed upon a colessal scale. sagt le t is Impossible even to begin a list the baron’s charities. He never aarettced them, and It was only in cases like that of fhe Russian refugees, where publicity could not be avoiced, that his good deeds attracted more than local attention. Just as the baron was more than a banker, so he was more than, or, at least = besides, a dispenser of charity a man with an intense capacity for nt of the luxuries his wealth com- and he stinted himself as little as he did others. It ts hard to tell where he lived. In London, in Paris, in Vienna, he had nt residences, and occupied them. he spent more time in the French capital than anywhere else, but he was equaliy at home in England, where he had Breat racing Interests, as well as those of bus The bi some ext The magnific ‘ou had social aspirations, and to t sueceeged in gratifying them. Prince of Wales was his intimate and occasional guest. Of Baron $_Manners there are varying ac- ome found him brusque and h; others gentle and easy to approach. timates of the haron’s fortune are nearly valueless. “A hundred millions” is the figure usually given. friend Hirse! The Latest News From Europe on the Roentgen Discovery. It Can Be Employed to Find Flaws in Large Guns—The Crookes Tube Not Necessary in Experiments. Consul General De Kay, writing from Ber- lin to the State Department, gives some in- teresting news in regard to the develop- ment of Dr. Roengen's X ray discovery: “Among the later facts,to be noted in regard to this discovery is the use of the rays to detect false pearls. Professor Gold- stein showed this after an exposure of forty-five minutes. He has also shown that the rays have chemical properties, in that they change the color of salt. Prof. Doel- ter of the University of Graz, Austria, has proved that the X rays can be used to de- tect false diamonds as well as false pearls. A Berliner named Dr. Hezekiel having in- vented a special sensitive paper (Bromsil- berpapier) for photographs, Dr. Frentzel of the Agricultural High School has used this paper for direct reception of the X rays. The object being placed before the paper in ques- tion, images or shadows are thrown direct- ly on the paper. Thus, the image is not inverted, as In the indirect mode of print- ing frem the negative. It has been found that many pictures can de taken at once, since the Roentgen rays penetrate layers of the paper and register a picture on each leaf. To see where the Roentge present, Prof. Salvioni of Peru. what he calls a crypt one-half of an opera of the tens, has a pasteboard 1 penetrable to light. The inner side of this partition is painted with barium-platinum salts. As soon as the X rays are thrown, they penetrate the pasieboard and cause the surface benind to slow. Testing Sig Guns. “That the Roentgen rays had been passed through aluminum was known before Ro- entgen’s announcement. Recior Bender, in Spires, has now passed them through a brass counter, and the photograph distin- guishes an inscription on one side and a bird in reef on the otaer. The study of metals for flaws and strain is regarded by many observers as cxtremeiy important to makers of macninery and xuns, in all cases where much .leveads on the even tex- ture of the object throughout. Heavy picces of cast metal, such as guns aiways be examined for flaws or crack: delicate experiments wit) electricity charges registering differenUly when passed. through a flawless and a defective piece. It is believed here that when scientiic men can control the Roenigea rays, sull another methed of testing gi armor plates machinery will be available. The discovery has excited so much interest that a central laboratory for the study of the Roentgen Tays is proposed for e ion at Frankfort. New Methods. “AS very many people are working with these rays, new methods of work are beiny found out. Thus, ‘he lengtn of exposure necessary, which was leicly one hour, has been reduced to a few minutes. Moreover, it has been found that avy chai of electricity, whicn formerly destroyed many Crookes or Hittory tubes by their Violence, are not necessar’ tube is not absolutely an ordinary eleciric in placing outside of it at a metal plate, this plat mes the ra- diating center for the ray: tead of that end of the tube whenc2 the cathode radiated. In surgery and m: it has been foumd tnat ocular examnauons can be made of the tissues and inierior parts of the body simply oy electric tube, well covered cloth, in a dark roo:n over agains hich has been painted with a mixture of barium, platinum and cyauium. ‘The part of the body to be examined is placed be- tween the electric iube and sereen, when the inner structure of the flesh (and, to some extent, of the bones) is seen on’ the other side of the screen. The simplicity of this procedure is rer able; but what is still better is the f the position of the patient can be changed from time to time, so that the ‘nterior tssues can be examined for foreign bodies or hurtful siowths at various angles, and the shape of organ and bones determined by the ex- amining physician.” Detecting Gallstones. Consul General Max Judd writes from Vienna to the department that Prof. Neus- ser of the Vienna iedical faculty demon- strated recently, in ius clinic, how diag- noses could be made, with the Roentgen flashes, of gallstones as well as bladder The latter, being a phosphate, were le by this ght. a clear white s ee ground, whereas gall being of cho- lesterin, the Roentgen flashes penetrated them partly and the photograph obtained showed a faint dark Im; on. The dit- ference in_ these two pictur was very striking. The professor then showed a third picture,repres. 3 a gallstone which had heen photographed through a four- fingers-thick liver. He is of the opinion that, with the assistance of his new < covery, much pain will be spared a patient when uadergoing an operstion, for not enly can the surgeon first convince himself of the presence of the body to be removed, but also earn the pr position of it. Dr. Albert von Mosetig, together with Prof. Exner, applied she Noentzen light on a difficult operation wita marked success. The case was an abnormal xrowth on the foot of a girl. The photographic impression showed the last upper phalanx of the large toe in a doubled-up condition; the diagnosis furnished by the epparatus proved most trustworthy. The superfluous phalanx was easily removed by the professor in a short space of time, he remarking that, with. the aid of the picture, could easily see that the twin phalanx stood in no articulating relation with the other phalanx, and ali that was necessary was to remove the free joint. é Medical Value of the X Rays, Professor J. J. Kinyon of the marine hos- pital service and professor of bacteriology of the medical department of Georgetown University, conducted an interesting series of X ray experiments before the medical students of Georgetown University at the medical department Saturday night. Among those present were Dr. Magruder and Professors S._S. Adams; William H. Hawkes, G. M. Kober and W. S. Bowen. A number of ordinary demonstrations were made, such as ‘silhouett!ng keys, coins and the bones of the hand. Professor Kin- yon described a few observations he has made in the use of.the ray,,and spoke of its use in medicine.” He disrounted the re- port that the X rays would’ kill bacterla, on black —— FROM MONKEY ‘LAND. Prof. R. L. Garner im Chiengo Writing a Report on His Expedition. Prof. R. L. Garner, formerly of this elty, is In Chicago, where he has gone to sub- mit to Dr. Peabody of the Academy of Sciences his report on his experiments in Africa to determine something in regard to the speech of the simian species. “There ts no doubt that the monkey has a language, and it will some day be un- derstood by human beings,” Mr. Garner is quoted as saying to a Times-Herald re- porter. “E can now talk with them, and had several delightful conversations with some big ones I found in the parks of Lon- don. This time I did not go into the jun- gles, but I did secure several collections, which I hope will be brought to Chicago. My report is now ready, and as soon as the men who sent me can get together it will*be submitted. They are now mostly out of the city, but I shall await their re- tura. I have secured some valuable and new information on the habits and life of the chimpanzee.” The professor told about mies he had found up by his monkey vil- lage. He did not bring them with him, either, but he has two or three in hiding some place. He does not want the public to know where they are. He says the French government would be overwhelmed with applications from people who might want to go and hunt them. Prof. Garner says he is going back to the monkeys this summer, but not for a Chi- cago syndicate. There are some New York men who want to learn something about monkeys. He is going to be their guide, philosopher and friend. He will return to the Congo city, and expects to learn that his class has acquired mental arithmetic and progressive euchre, a race of pyg- eae aerate Impeneseopat essere eer erterscet elt eee epee rcpt lorie arecseeenrtemrrne er reeter pealir-eriemumen eae sais estimere asters ame The Sandwich Islands in Danger From Japan and China, PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE RESTRICTIONS Hawaiian Finances and the Pre- vailing High Rates of Interest. PUBLIC QUESTIONS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, April 2, 1896. A prominent incident of the past fort- night has been a demonstration’made by Portuguese workingmen to express thelr opposition to further importation of Asiatic laborers. After considerable agitation and certain preliminary meetings to make ar- rangements, onthe morning of March 25 an assemblage of Pcrtuguese artisans and laborers marched in a body to the execu- tive building, where the legislature was sit- ting, and presented a lengthy. petition against Asiatic immigration. The most re- liable counting of the numbers in the pro- cession made them a little short of 700. They were entirely peaceable and orderly in demeanor. Col. McLean, who is chief of the military force, met them half way from the gate, and directed them where and how te stand while their committee of twenty carried in their petition. The com- rittee was received by Minister Cooper, who’had copies of the document made for the president and each house of the legis- lature, to whom they were soon presented. ‘The whole was soon over and the proces- sionists retired. As a method of securing attention and lending emphasis to their statement of grievances this public demonstration of the Portuguese may be regarded as a suc- cess, and admirably managed, the more so for its good order and peaceable tone. is felt, however, that such assemblages are liable to assume a menacing aspect. A large body of men approaching the legisla- ture with a petition is apt to wear an ap- pearance of intimidation. The precedent seems to be a bad one. It is quite possible that a much larger assemblage of Japan- ese might be gathered for some similar purpose, who might not be so peaceable. > a crowd of natives might come together demonstrate their sentiments to the representatives of the people. This would be a mischievous fashion, as tending to agitate the minds and disturb the judg- ments of our lawniakers. It is not unlikely that a law will be passed*prohibiting such assemblages in the future. Against the Asiatics. At the same time, *the sympathies of most of the whites in the country are with the Portuguese, whose grievance is a gen- uine one, and ts dceply felt by all except these directly interested in sugar produc- tion. This continued importation of Asiatic laborers, chiefly Japanese, is extremely damaging to the interests of the whites of all classes, except capitalists profiting by cheep labor. As formulated in the Portu- guese petition, the grievance is: “That the invasion during the last few years of Chinese and Japanese Into these islands has been such that the remunera- tion of labor has been reduced to such a figure that it has become almost impos- sible fer European and other workingmen to subsist on the wages offered The fact here stated is substantially true, and constitutes in the judgment of many the most serious evil with which Haweii is now wrestling. There has been for several years, and still continues, a steady stream of Japanese laborers pouring in at the rate of about 3,000 a y They are brought here to labor on the sugar plentations, their passages being paid by the pianters. They come under coniract to serve for three years. Their wages are $11 or $12 a month, lodging, firewood and med- ieal attendance being free. Such pay is a great attraction to the Japanese peasantry, but Teans extreme poverty to the Euro- pean laborer, although paid for his supe- rior strength at the rate cf $16 a month, which has been the usual wages of Portu- xucse laborers on the plantations. This is all that is now offered them, and is not ac- spted by any number of them. Indeed, few Japanese will continue on the planta- tions after their contracts have expired, cept on advanced wages, which their in- creased sKill may secure for them. Crowding Into Honolulu. As a rule, the great majority of planta- tion laborers of all classes desert thé plan- tations as soon as their contracts expire, They trust to the chances of bettering them- selves in other employments. Their labor bas been drudging and monotonous, perhaps under harsh overseers. They are too often kcdged in barracks, with an absence of all possibilities of making things homelike. As long as the planter can import fresh re- cruits from Asia at cheap rates he will pay but small advance in wages to the more ex- perienced laborer. As a consequence, the laborers are dispersed around the islands. Few of them return to their own homes. They simply inerease the laboring popula- tion of the islands. They-largely crowd in- to the city. Thus Honolulu has filled up with a large mixed population of Portu- , Chinese and Japanese, most of whom served out their three years of con- tract labor on the plantations. Of these three nationalities the Portu- guese arrived first in the islands, coming mostly in importations from Madeira and the Azores, from ten to fifteen years ago. Since then they have considerably multi- plied by births, and now number over 13,000 souls. Although mainly of the Latin or South Europe race, they are strictly white people, with no admixture of African blood, such as was usual in the earlier arrivals of Portuguese on whalers from the Cape de Verde Islands. Although mostly quite illit- erate, they are peo» of excellent morals, orderly, thrifty, inqustrious, provident and capable. Their ethical sentiments are those of European Christendom, and radically far above and superior to those of Asiatics, so that they naturally.assimilate and combine with the other white nationalities repre- sented here. They make an excellent class of citizens. Their very numerous children are receiving a sound English education in the public schools, and in another genera- tion will be quite indistinguishable from other whites. ‘This valuable and superior race is one highly desirable for the future of these is- Jards. They are inured to severe toil. Among them are considerable numbers of mechanics and ariisans. Many are skilled stonecutters and pavers. Most of the brick blocks .erected during the past five years have cut stone fronts, the handiwork of Portuguese. Perhaps ten miles of heavy, handsome stone curbing line our sidewalks, cut during the past five years by the same workmen. They are a wealth-producing and a frugal people. No more serviceable class of laborers is to be found anywhere. From lack of education but a small pro- portion have as yet risen into higher walks of business life. ,Jnpanese Against Portuguese. As artisans and laborers it is these Por- tuguese people who most severely feel the competition of Asiatic cheap labor. Per- haps 3,000 Japanese plantation laborers are set at liberty every year to find other em- ployment ‘in the islands, and a considerable proportion of these drift into this city and congest the labor market to the grievous detriment of‘the Portuguese householders, whose pretty homes have for many years been growing throughout the city outskirts. They do not crowd the slums like the Asiat- ics. But it is not merely unskilled labor with which the Japanese compete. They are apt at acquiring mechanical arts, and many of them have learned plain carpenter- ing and other work while on the planta- tions. They are also apt in trading, and open little shops, which undersell the Por- tuguese and other whites. It is extremely difficult for the white workman or shopkeeper to compete with Japanese, because of the extreme cheapness with which the latter has from infancy been taught to live. The Portuguese can live more cheaply than other. whites, but it is nearly impossible even for him to come down, to the scale which the Chinese or the Japanese find comfortable. It must be felt by every wise person that any condition of affairs is greatly evil which tends to drive out the desirable citizens and replace them by people of inferior race and degraded morals, The Mongolian bears in his coarse and distorted features the unmistakable marks of his degraded and heathen origins, and of the ages of debased and cruel social life which his ancestors have endured. While the Portuguese-fs not perhaps in feature fully the equal of Anglo-Saxon comeliness, he has substantially the Cauca- sian face, betokeningan ancestry of com- paratively pure sociabhdbits. The desire of the noble’American colony who have occupied these islands is to have them become the of the superior European race, and another negting place for Asiatics. is eminently fit- ted by location and by. climate to become a white man’s country pf the first class. Its propinquity to the rican continent, its close trade connectioWs™ with your Pacific coast, its centrally influential position in the crossing routes (Pacific commerce, make it the natural ssion of the great commercial Anglo-Saxon race. The early occupancy of this grofp by Americans, and the successful and prosperous establish- ment here of American Institutions, social, political and educational—in short, its ex- tensive Americanization and the dominance of American ideas—indicate its manifest destiny to become the permanent home of an overflowing white population, and not of the inferior Asiatic. Repelling White Immigration, Hawaii cannot well belong to both races. One or the other will predominate. The two diverse and antagonistic races cannot dwell here together in harmony. Which race shall possess the country? Already the Japanese and Chinese together number over 40,000, or two-thirds more than all persons of white blood, and more males-than in the population of all other races. And still they continue to pour into the country without check, repelling further white immigration. The zreat body of the white people are strongly opposed to this, but the interests of capital are favored by it. The sugar planters naturally manage to run the is- lands by virtue of their immense capital, and it is in the interest of their business to procure their labor in the cheapest mar- kets, which are Japan and China. It will obviously be very uphill work to overcome this tendency. It is by no means essential to the prosper- ity of the plantations to continue this sys- tem of importing Asiatic contract labor. There is now already in these islands an amply sufficient number of laborers to do all the work required, ff suffictent induce; ments were offered them. Large numbers of these laborers are unemployed, and ac- quiring vagrant habits. The planters can well afford to pay much higher wages than they do. If importation from Asia was cut off, they would, of necessity, pay enough to Bet hold of the local labor, and would still make money. For one thing, they would then all be compelled to provide decent homes for*their laborers. They would also allot portions of their fields to be cultivated by white men on shares at rates profitable to both partis Whether our government and legislators have sufficient unity and resolution to over- come the tendegcy of the planters to con- tinue renning in the Aslatics is hard to say. The most obvious solution of the problem would be that made by annexation, which would at once exclude all further importa- tion of such laborers. It would at the same time powerfully stimulate an active Ameri- can immigration into what would then have become American territory. The Registration Act. An important law is now in progress of enactment by the legislature, which is par- ticulariy intended to facilitate any dealing that may be necessary with vagrant and unsettled elements in our population which now evade control. A large proportion of such elements belong to the Asiatics among us, who leave the planfations and live more or less in idle TH? Taw in question is known as the registration act. It requires all males in the islandsyover fifteen years of age to be regisiered“and preserve cer- tificates of such regis! containing a thor- try ough description of Mselves, including a thumb mark. Such provisions are in- cluded in the act as will secure the prompt identifica ion of any son at any time. ot Was passed by the iegista- and was sent to the queen for signature near the close of th her sion. Jn some way it becarre lost. After the queen's overthrow 'n6 trace of it could be found. As it was vbopopular with the Chinese, it is surmised that the to corrupt some intermediary offici jade way with the bill in the cor and excitement of those revolutionary days. ‘The present act is very popular with most of the white population, on account of its rendering efficient any’ subsequent. mea, s to be enacted fen the-eontrol of the tic population, Some object to it as iS oppressive restriction on the population, ‘Most, however, feel that the hardship of regi: ng and carrying a certificate when changing their loca will be but slis Among those opposin the act are i i inance Minister Damon, who is thought to take a needlessly timental view of the subject. Mr. Damon in this finds himself in opposition to the members of the legislature, both houses being nearly unanimous in support of the bill. An inmediate and important effect of this registration act will be to put an end to the evasion of personal taxes by a multi- tude of Asiatics whom the tax collectors have been unable to identify. It is es mated that about $45,000 will be annually recovered for the treasury by this means, personal taxes being $5 per head of males between eighteen and sixty years. A much more important result will be to promote the enforcement of laws against vagrants, and thus to impound considerable | num- bers of the labering class who are ‘living in idleness, and compel them to enter the agricultural or other employments which are open to them. ‘It ts believed that large numbers of labor recraits can be secured by this means. Temporary Immigrants. Considerable numbers of laburers have been introduced under a provésion that they shall either leave the country at the expiration of their contracts, or if they re- main, shell engage only in agricultural labor, or in domestic service. This rule fa- vors the mechanics and traders of ail class- es, by exempting them from the competi- tion now experienced from laborers leay- ing the plantations. But it is impossible to enforce such provisions of law, as the offi- jcials are totally unable to distinguish Asiatics from each other among the masses of that population. Under the registration act this difficulty will be surmounted. Al- together this measure appears to be indis- pensable to the proper and successful han- dling of our mongrel and heterogeneous population, for whom stricter police and disciplinary provisions are necessary than in supericr communities like those of Amer- ica. Thé whites will generaily submit with cheerfulness to the very slight inconven- ience of being registered. Our very brainy and economical finance minister, Damon, also encounters legisla- tive and public oppcsition in another direc- tion. An important financial measure which he is trying to push is received by the legis'ature with grave doubt and by the business community with strong oppo- sition. Mr. Damon may be quite in the right in the policy. proposed, but the pub- lic are new tc it, and have yet to be con- verted to a sense of tts wisdom. He has brought in a series of four acts, two pro- viding for 2 consolidation of the bonded debt of the republic and two for opening a new loan of $2,000,000 ‘for the purpose of public improvements and education, the bonds not to be issued at the rate of more than $250,000 a year. ‘The opposition to these schemes is directed less against the bond issues themselvgs than against Mr. Damon’s proposed method of negotiating them. He wants to place them in the Lon- don market as the most available one. What awakens most opposition is his prop- osition to offer as much as 15 per cent dis- count on bonds at 4 percent interest. At 4% per cent he proposes 10 per cent dis- count, and at 5 per cent a discount of 5 per cent. Such a sacrifice as 15 per cent at once strikes the mind as too great, al- though the minister shows that it will re- duce the annual interest on the present $3,005,300 of outstanding bonds at 6 per cent from $180,900 to $128,243.50 on $3,456,- 000 at 4 per cent, payable in fifty years. The annual saving of over $40,000 will in fifty years amount to $2,000,000, to offset the additimal principal of $450,000 to be paid by posterity. There is certainly much to be said in favor of Mr. Damon's proposi- tion. Hawaiian Finances. ‘The same features occur in the acts pro- viding for the new loan of two millions. The senate a few days since held a confer- ence with the leading capitalists and bank- ers to learn their views about the project. ‘The opposition to it, as then developed, was very united. The opinion was generally ex- ressed that it was inexpedient to offer pie walne bonds at any considerable dis- count in order to obtain lower rates of in- terest, since Hawalian credit was excellent in London, and the present 6 per cent bonds were ccmmanding a good premium. ‘The 10 aud 15 per cent discounts proposed by the minister had evidently given a shock to the sensibilities of the other Ha- waiian financiers. But another element of opposition also was seen to manifest itself. Great objection Buy them right— That’s the thing— The old adage that “goods well bought are half sold,” applies with peculiar force to the tail- oring business. You will appreciate this when | you compare our prices with would-be rivals. You can buy your clothes from us at what it . costs other tailors to produce them. For instance— 7 a suit of clothes we make for $10, they will ask - you $15—a suit of clothes we make for $13, they | will ask you $20—and so on. Get samples from them—bring ’em in and prove us. Under our New “ERA” system 906 F Street- we ‘have the reputation, an being the lowest-priced tailoring firm in Wash- ington—or for that matter in America. we stop at no step short of absolute bottom. We - have an immense output, and with ready cash, many concessions are made to us which are never made to small dealers. Consequently . csc eee d deserve it, too, of Mertz and Mertz, res) se). Price Makers. WOON ONWOWD was expressed to the plan of sending so far as London to sell our bonds. , they not be murketed in Boston or Ne York? Indeed, why could they not be sold right here tn Honolulu? There was cali here cn the spot for all new loans for pub- lic improvements as fast as the money was needed. The fact is that money has been plenty in Honolulu, and is fast be- ccming more plenty with the large sugar dividends, which present high prices of sugar are pouring in from the plantations. These streams vf coin are seeking invest- ment. Hawaiian 6 per cent bonds have been affording an extremely satisfactory vay of salting down one’s money. In fact, it has been a very good thing, indeeed. High Rates of Interest. And now the moneyed men cannot con- template withcut alarm a proposition to put an end to these favorable investments, and to send our government bonds abroad to be sold at much lower rates of interest. And then the old bords are to be called in. All this change is proposed just at the time when new stgar dividends are about to be made, running up into millions. It is evi- dent that here is no unimportant element of the objectionable aspect which Mr. Da- mon's proposition wears to his brother financiers. By persons and corporations seeking to borrow money Mr. Damon's proposition is hailed with gratification, as tending to establish much lower rates of interest for Hawaiian securities. As long as such gilt- edge articles as government bonds are to be had at 6 per cent, it is hopeless for rai way bonds to pay less interest. Ordina paper pays 9 per cent. We want these rates lowered. Our capitalists must come down in their prices. So it 1s evident that_there is quite a fight on, in which the different parties do not yet fully understand the po- sition of things. The proposition is a new one, and not yet familiar to the public. Since it is propcsed to expend a consider- able amount of borrowed capital on public improvement, our Hilo fellow-citizens are Kicking like little men to secure their just share, and as much more as possible. They have just held a big meeting and sent down here a committee, armed with their de- mands. One demand for a wharf and breakwater at the inner angle of their har- bor, a mile and a half from town, is a just ene, and should immediately be attended to. On the whole our little republic is very rauch alive and pregressive. <AMEHAMEHA. —_— The Obligations of Clerks. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The questicn of honor ard integrity of many government employes having been latelv discussed thrcvgh your columns, it is to be hoped that further space will be devoted thereto, since its notice by our District Commissioners and of Congress might result in sanitary legislation there- on. That myself end many others of your readers stculd suffer in consequence of the refusal of government employes to recog- nize their debts of honor, while we are striving to meet cur obligations, and feel honcr bound to do so, is an unwarrantable inequality of rights and principles needing legislative remedies. Thre exist fundamental principles laid down by Jefferson for the guidance of the appointing powers of the government which the present “civil service reform’ principles do not seem to embody. First. Is the candidate for appointment honest? Second. Is he capable? Third. Is he faith- ful to the Constitution? These are the on- ly essential roquirites today (regardless of politi's), and, as much as then, should be synonymous of nobility and dignity for a government employe. It is a reproach to the dignity of this government and a sad commentary on the “so-called civil service reform” that men and women while occupying positions of trust under the government should be pro tected as they are, and thereby virtually licensed to violate private trusts and obli- gatiors. J. A. SETTLE. — Opposed to Ducling. The German reichstag Tuesday unani- mously adopted Herr Adt’s motion calling upon the federal government to energeti- cally combat with all the means in its power the illegal practice of dueling. SGROFULA Miss Della Stevens of Boston, Mass., writes: I bave always suffered from hereditary Scrofula, for which I tried ious remedies, and many reliable phy- but none relieved me, After told ay » and shall take pleasure oa taking’ 6 bottles of Xam now well, | 1 ma see in ly words?of Dralos ter the wooderfal med- Yelng, and in recommending it to all. saved me Blood ool akin ee ty any oe Green. from a life of un- SWIFT SPECIFIO OO., Atlanta, Ga, Why could | Your Money! the Matting—and the Ba prices elsewhere. Credit Is our skert word for accommodation. size you need is here. Baby Carriages are made “Hevywood”—none better the world—all prices—up $50. grade of Matting—the R ent patterns. down. free. We tack —no notes—or interest. Grogan’s Biv S21—S2s Seventh strect nw. S4e Get the Refrigerator—and Carriage HERE—on credit. We have just as large variety as any house in town—and our regular credit prices are lower than the lowest cash If you want an Ice Box— or a Refrigerator—the exact Our We keep only ONE LIABLE kind—1,000 differ- Carpets made and laid free—no charge for waste in matching figures. All the credit you want--easy 2) weekly or monthly payments by eS . by in to eeee E- it J. C. Hutchinson Company. THIS WEEK Enormous Reductions IN Ladies’ Hats Trimmed 5 AND Bonnets. At $4.00—were $5.09 to $6.00. At $7.00—wefe $8.60 to $10.00. At $12.00—were $13.00 to $ 1329 F Street N. ap2l-1m,42 ? 20.00. W. SESE OOO 00 9-20-98 ‘The Best Recipe iFor Salads Would be a complete failure $f with impure or “ch * of. finest olive oil should always be ing LUCCA . * we handle comes * Ital . . . Pg . . . full quart of oil, $1. |W. Thompson, Pharmacist, made The All lirect from Lucea, TF In quart bottles, that hold a 793 ist np22-28a h. &$e-0 $o-0e oe Gray Hair A thing vf the past when Nattan's Crystal Dis- covery is. u Guaranteed to restore faded hair to its natural color in 8 to 10 ds: positively rot a dye. Stops the halr from fall Gut, arrests dandruff and takes the nicest dressing No XN Xo stains. Price, $1. Trial size, 50°. 438 7TH ZHARMACY, 808 AGENTS, Bt, express on receipt of pric any part of the country ‘mbb- gray or NCE. gist: used, and you will never be with- out Georges’ Bunion and Co-n Shields. Best in the world. At leading drng- sa Prof. J. J. GEORGES & SON, ‘Chiropodists, 1 15 Pa. ave. Illustrated catalogue sent free. 8 to 6 pm. Sundays, 9 to 12, ap3-10d, World's HIGEEST AWARD. Pairt 9) Sees esse oO PP yee $. KA ( / BS LAS * CREAR ( IMPERIAL GRANUM, The STANDARD and BEST prepared iF OOD A very palatable food! A most wholesome food. Delicate children, a 1 delicate, infirm and aged persons, INVALIDS and convalescents praise the I virtues of this food! Mothers know its value preceding childbirth and while nourishing their off- thrive on it! Sold by DRUGGISTS EVERY WHERE! John Carle & Sons, New York. |spring. Infants from birth Jno. A. for Jas. L. Hamilton, Receiver Barbour & Son. ba 3 4 Still Greater Red Hotels, uctions. NOW is your chance 1 COODSIOOEDOO Boarding Houses and Pri- sore eoe to e * ° = > > 2 9 4 3 > > -—— ete, at than S 3 —= “kk we Oo. P< — This eroll Hist wilt sh ou an 4 3 inkling of the way prices ru » 4 @ Antelope Corn, only... 36c doz. $ Sime vis. ie, 65¢.doz. 8 J Catitornia Aprteots, onty.....- $1.00 doz. & © Armour’s White Label Soups, $1.65 doz. ? > ° Kinnes's Flat -can Salmon, $1.68 doz. California Asparagus, only.... $2.50 doz. 3 Pie Peaches, gal. cans., only.. $1.75 doz. 2 14.1b. cans Corned Beef, only. $1.00 can. 2 . only... c. Ib. $ Teele’ terse oe | 35° S $ gar, reduced trom $0 t0..5-) $4 pundrea, @ * 3Jas. Barb & 3 i* Barbouré,? ° 614-616 Penna. Avenue. 2 ° John A. Hamilton, Receiver. @ ° » s $0002000000000080 = Summer ° Cooking —is rendered the Intense heat that ov If the b fuel to cook “ded. Tt is op vunitaes : WASH. GASLIGHT CO., 413 roth St. N. W. WM. J. ZEH, 926 N st. "Phone 476. apon-28a LIS ‘Evans’ nnn nua Artificial = Teeth, see So Our ARTIFICIAL TEETH com- mend snd advertise Their general app @ favorable impression upon the most casual observer. anteed to fit, look natural ai be duzable. Dental Pariors, 11217 Penna. Ave. N. W. Guar FULL SET FAULTLESS nd