The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1898. COMMISSIONER HITT TALKS OF HAWAII'S FUTURE Anticipated Annexation Eighteen Years Ago and Now Predicts Great Benefits. Declares the United States Should Not Fear the Chinese and Leper Elements of the Islands. itham Bain. , ment In the islands. There was fear of | the Japanese. Very recently busincss men there have been uneasy at the Copy NEW YORK, J ert R. Hitt of Illinc | consequences of the aid which the re- the House Committee public has given to us, or rather which Fate we have taken from it during vur war Com tion « | with Spain. Since war began an Amer- |ican cruiser has been lying in Hono- lulu harbor. Our ships went to the capital of those islands on the way to Manila and coaled as though they had A right there. And you must reme | ber that the law which makes a nation responsible for damage inflicted on | another nation through aid given to its | enemy is largely of our own making. “When the treaty of 18i1 was nego- n to Hawaii, vice in the State Depar lomatic corps and Committee on F he has gained an in He has alr edge of the sub States which proposed that a nation understanding of it, T | giving aid to one belligerent should be who have bee held responsible for any damage in- d with the ar flicted on the property of the other because Mr. I belligerent by that means. Out of tien {that grew the Alabama claims, for which we received $15,000,000. England hesitated at this provision, but we in- G. | sisted on it as international law, and Blaine when he W retary of | it was agreed to and we invited other S and that he at that | nations to join us in it. All that ap- sers of th of Re- _Slx:*‘h;xnsmn bi-lhbus!ness men in Hawaii - B1a Betin sappears with annexation. that the; ld Dbett T| “James G. Blaine gave notice to the g of some form Of BOVErN- |worlq that If Hawaii was threatened it ment for the new territ , becau: it | would be Americanized. But we have was sure to be Ame me day. | never undertaken, while it remained a inct sovereignty, to preserve it from | claims for damages arising from its acts. By assuming the right to use, not Pearl harbor—which was ceded to us a long time ago—but the harbor of Honolulu, we placed Hawaii in a posi- tion to be the subject of a claim for | heavy damages at the hands of Spain when this war should be over. “Why did we not use Pearl harbor? Because the mouth of that harbor i E clcsed by a reef. It is one of th st remarkable harbors in the world, a pouch miles inland, like the harbor at Santiago, of which everybody is talk- ing now. The approach to it is through a narrow, irregular channel, with con- Mr. Hitt told me t f the i ion, prover- n made s entirely out o mportance had are no 1 dis- | verging acclivities on each side, the channel opening into a broad harber inity . or lagoon of ample depth. The hilly in- ain go ment | tervening country protects this harbor men whe se in val a n illust value whic! from the fire of an enemy's ships with- out. “The reef which lies across the mouth ib- | of this channel is a coral formation, law and order was belleved | but the borings made by Admiral I went with the | Walker show that part of it, a rift or sent to San Do- | fissure 500 feet wide, is coral sand, e the subject | which could be drawn out with the use J US| of a suction dredge. It was estimated - | that a small opening of 200 feet in this j 3 reef could be made by an expenditure nd nothing good in any- | of $85,000, and a channel of 250 feet inted and denounced the | wide for $105,000. I once tried to get | Congress to make an appropriation for this purpose so as to make the harbor available, and I had the hope that then we ghould build fortifications to pro- tect it and that the hould float over it. That undoubtedly will be done now.” | T asked Mr. Hitt if the missionarles and thelr descendants would not profit largely by the increase in property values through annexation. “Possibly,” he said. “But the white and pr t to noth- ndition that the isl- d to the United s were by tly ‘in- h President of the Spanish-American | suff n he usual ed the ground and | man has made the land what It is. If and a possible El Dorado. | the Kanaka had remained in sole pos- were fertile » to | session of it what would it be worth to- iches of rich lan and | day? I have little sympathy with the s the trained eye of timentalism which some good peo- the line of | ple waste on the Indian. The worth of . But they | land is what man makes of it. Give to value unless the | an Indian to-day four ci squares on hout annexa- | F street in Washington, some of it land w not | property worth $40 a square foot, but > of the trip. When an- | with the provision that none but an In- | tiated at Washington it was the United American flag | the condition to the trickling drops of dirty water from a leak in the corner of an immense vat. Of course, 1f the rights of an in- dividual Chinaman were violated, as in the case where some China- men were burned to death at Rock Springs from sheer wantonness, his government would step in to protect them. The whole power of a govern- ment will be used to protect one sub- ject of that government in his rights in a foreign land. “The Chinese rulers are by no.means a stupid set,” continued Mr. Hitt. “‘Many years ago at Paris. I talked one day with the Chinese Minister. about railroads. It was just after his gov- ernment had torn up six miles of rail- | road which had been constructed from | Shanghai. ‘I asked him -why this ob- | Ject lesson in the usefulness of travel | by steam had been removed from the | sight of the people when it might have | done so much in educating them to a ! realization of the need of other and | longer roads. Our people were inter- | ested at the time in seeing an opening | for American investment -and Ameri- | can labor in building roads in China. “I said to him: ‘You know the value | of the steam railroads?” He answered | that he knew it quite as well as I. ‘But,’ | he said, ‘we of the governing class have a different task from that in America. With you the effort is continually to do | something new, to excel. Your pe.ple | | are always talking about doing s2> much | more in this or that direction than was | ever done before. Our one purpose is to keep the people in order, cortented |and quiet. "We do not want another | Tae Ping rebellion. A rebellion in Ch | means the loss of many million lives— | | much more than your civil war cost| | you. | " ‘When the six miles of railroad was | | 1aid no regard was paid to the burial | places of the dead. In China the dead | are not all gathered in cemeteries, but | the tombs are scattéred everywhere. It | is a part of the religious feeling of my ‘Pnple to believe that the dead can be disturbed, and that their spirits then disturb everybody else. It has been sald in the lower classes that the dead were disturbed by this railroad, and that they were bringing on calamity. | That impression had gone out quickly | through a district densely populated, until it had penetrated thirty or forty | miles in all directions, creating fear | and discontent, missing hardiy any one | In its progress. “The ruling class, of course, has no | belief in such things, which powerfully | influence the lower classes, but it was necessary to quiet them and appease | them. So the matter was gravely in- | | vestigated, and the Sole High Priest of | God—that is, the Emperor—having cast | his eye on the railroad, decreed that | | it should be torn up and sent to the | other end of the earth. As a matter jof fact, it was sold, but not to China. The iron was sent to New York. “Thig Chinese statesman said that | there was only one way in which the | | rallrcad could be introduced in China. | { The Chinese people resented the in- troduction of foreign labor, and es- | pecially of a foreign contractor who | bribed the officials and became | weaithy. The Chinese railroads, he | | said, would have to be bulit by Chi- | | nese, and they would have to be intro- | | duced at a time when it could be said | | that they were being built not to bring the enemy into the country, as | | the Chinese people thought they were then, but to enable the Emperor to get at the enemy. | ' “That was the way in which the tele- | graph wds iLtroduced. It was said | that it was intended to bring the news | to.the Emperor. When the people un- derstood that this was the purpose, | they raised no objection to it and now | China has many telegraph wires. In| | the same way modeérn weapons were inioduced, because it was said to the | people that the Emperor had seized the enemy's weapon to use against him— | that gunpowder was originally a Chin- | ese invention. The prediction which | this Chinese Minister made has been | verified and to-day Chinese labor is building railroads through China.” | I asked Mr. Hitt if the Hawaiian | people had acquired citizenship in the | United States by the act of passing the | resolutions of annexation and if we | were hereafter responsible for the acts | | of the Hawaiian government. He sald ! he did not understand this condition | would fully exist until we had taken possession of the islands formally and raised our flag over them. Even after that, it is expressly provided in the annexation resolution that the laws of the island should remain in force until new laws are made by Congress. He said it was a recognized principle |in all countries that existing laws continued in force until actually | superseded by others. Merely be- | cause we had voted to annex the isl- WE Sacrifice. YOU Reap the Profits, HERE’S Your Opportunity. ADVERTISEMENT The pictures of our heroes On the side show yow some very fashionable garments. They're exquisitely tailored. Yow stand “shoulder to shoulder,” on equal footing, equally as well dressed as the mtn who paid the tailor $40 for his suit. His is no belter, possesses no Mmors style, than yowrs at $8.50. The Suits represent every- thing thatis fashionable, every- thing thatis correct, every color that is new. They're Swits that have sold down to a few of a kind. Those very swell fancy Chev- iots with double-breasted vests ;' that swell Twill Sergde in the new shade of blue; fine blue and black Cheviots in cuta- ways, in single and double treasted sacks. They're $15, $16 and $18 Swits. Tomor- row in our big Suit room at $8.50. = L8] il THE FINAL CLEAN-UP ’em Corkers becawse this sale will be confined exclusively to high-class ¢ arments. The cheaper doods have all been sold. Now we tackle our finer grade of goods, only we’ll tackle ‘em fiercely. See 'Em in Our Corner Window. (| Sorriéo ar § Savraco (SAmrso S Seusey Corkers in Boys’ Knee-Pants Suits, Ages 3 to 15 Years. Never in the history of our Juvenile De- partment have L) Boys’ Fast Boys’ Knee Blaok Derby Ribbed Hose, ev- Paflts. ery size, 6to 9%. How the mothers did grab lTe?:y gfmj;;i;';; these Trousers 2 what they cost elsewhere. Mon- day, by the pair, Oc. Saturday! They know their value—all wool, yow know. |Corking Values. Gur Stock Must Go. Many of these lines arebroloen, Therefore we say cost and less than cost. failed, they gave up all idea | dian was to be permitted to set foot on | ands they could not be without law s b ok We had too Blue Serge tir it, what would it be worth? Let the| until Congress should make laws to E many; hence Corking values in Sailors, with aying to them that not | Indian as an Indian oceupy it and what | govern them, valwes. All-| | s Bogn S okl Golf ek island—Jamaica— | could he do and what did he do before D P the sacrifice it Lres Ml deep inlaid col- b s 3 = o | T asked him if he believed that there Wool Suwits, in = s and. Beilort in 1 S of the most | white men came but shoot squirreis on | was any danger of the Introduction of b ks y g You know how aps Sailors, ars. Some made where there was no ;l.d The land w:xuh wel took from the | japrosy into this country from Hawail. rownies, in -9 we make ’‘em biue, fancy mixtures, plain. Ourvery yet no | Indian was worth very little 50 1ong as | wnot at all” he said, ‘“We have a blwe and fancy & 4 i also leather. Ourreg- g 7 2 K said. b a g ers nest of Mid- nted a It remained Indian land. So the propo- | 1,norcolont in Loulsiana and thers is 2t °Y | They fit. Monday again at ik e IZZ .f Lid, 1 Jamaica; no one ever |Sitlon that we have robbed the Indian| gpother in Canada. I never heavd of ot s, n ies, with pret- t to stop for > Z'fi}th'sx reat precious rroperty is ab-|any one catching leprosy like smallpox pretty Ree fer 4 day at ty vests. Our wa s and | £ = 2 ey tasJan: a- | or yellow fever or measles by merely SRR i 5 0 - DI t ove ica and | Wall would have been worth little if | foidg In the place where the leners Suits in the C. 25c. ng, T piece u nd their money followed | the Kanaka alone had remained in pos- | were or coming Into passing contact plain dowble- S Ll = assimere and the flag. With the assured permanent | Session of it—it wenld require a big lot | with them. I suppose if a man lived breasted styles: PR R .. Cheviot Swits establishment cf the rule of the United | Of it now, as was once the actual case, | and associated closely with lepers and h ol for older boys States in Hawall, probably business | to be worth an old suit of clothes.” |came In contact with them for a year the $5 and $6 — : (e will quicken and property increase in| One of the difficult problems which | he might get. leprosy in his: system, kind: good,sol- Our most stylish lue. the Hawailan Commissicners will have | especially if predisposed by serofulous 0 e gl z and swellest of Tp to this time it has been subject | to solve is the Chinese problem. It has | affections or uncleanly in habits. I 3 td weight and Suwits, values up to §8. Mon- to the possible mutations of govern- | saw a colony of lepers in Jerusalem | sewed with silk. Monday only T ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Address Dr. Pierce as above. been one of the bugaboos of the Ha- walian question from the beginning. I | asked Mr. Hitt if he believed it would be a complicating problem. “I trust not insoluble,” he said. *“My | unaerstanding is that most of the | Chinamen and Japanese are there un- | der contract, and that they will steadily | tend to go back to their homes when the contract expires. They caunot be- come citizens, of course, because of the | laws. They have not the right to vote. | The annexation resolution ilorbids fur- | ther Chinese immigration. Th= statis- | ties for ten years past show the de- | partures of returning Chinese and Jap- | anese is about half as large as the ar- | rivals, and now the arrivals will cease. | “The Chinaman has a great cesire to get back to his home as soon as he can accomplish his mission of raking money: enough to keep him in affluence | for the remainder of his aays, and it | takes very little to do that in China. One of the reasons is the matt:r ot his bones, which, according to his supersti- tions, must be buried in Chinese soil. Another is the desire to be an afflucat | personage in his native village with a fortune of $300. “I think the Chinese labor question |1s not giving the people of the United | States as much concern as formerly. It was once the favorite topic for speeches in industrial cities, for news- paper editorials and magazine articles |and we heard about the hordes and myriads of Chinamen who wer: to overrun this country. But the exclu- sfon law {s really very effective. A Chinaman squeezes in here and there. but the number who are smuggled in is inconsiderable. “The Chinese question gave less con- cern to the Chinese Government at the time we were first exercised about it than most of us thought. At the dme the exclusion law was under consider- ation the Chinese Minister was at my house one afternoon and the subjecr | came up. I had said on the floor of the House that while I was opposed to the competition of Chinese labor with our own, I was equally opposed to ths violation by this nation of its treaty with China, and we ought to make a new treaty and not passa law vio- lating the one in force. | “The Chinese Minister said that the matter of excluding Chinese labor from | this country was one which did not interest his government save as to the question of its dignity involved in the treaty, and was one about which his government would rather not be troubled. All of the coolies came from one province, a trivial leak from a cor- l ner of their vast empire, and he likened | years ago, and while there went many | times to the places where they were. No one seemed to be afraid of the con- | taglon of the disease. It is a dreadful malady and generally deemed incur- able. But the leper is not so unhappy as most people think. He has no pain ‘rrom it. When they were taken by charitable German ladies to a hospital just outside of Jerusalem they would watch to escape and return to the others.” Mr. Hitt probably does not welcome his new duties and responsibilties very warmly, since they come to him at the end of a long and very trying session of | Congress. Speaking of the adjourn- ment, he said he was glad it had come. He thought it was well that the House did not leave the Military Committee of the House to sit during the recess and to potter about investigating the con- duct of the war. ‘“The proposition,” he said, “recalled to many the work of the committees of Congress during the war of the re- bellion. You remember the history of the army of the Potomac and i{ts many defeats and hard fate for a long time? Not satisfied with one Bull Run, ad- verse fate brought another. All this time the armies elsewhere were push- ing steadily forward. Congress thought to remedy the trouble in the army of the Potomac by sending committees with stenographers to take testimony about all sorts of things and publish it to the world, disheartening the country and bringing on criticism of command- ers. The recent impatience of the press brought back vividly the old ery, “On to Richmond!” Tt was the most fate- ful phrdse the war brought into being. “When the war began the people of the country were assured that it was to be short and decisive. Mr. Seward, always sanguine, with much eipendi- ture of rhetoric, assured them it was to be a ninety days’ war. The people could not understand why April went by and then May and June and noth- ‘ing seemed to be accomplished. They could not patiently wait and take time for preparation. They expected to go right down South and crush the rebel- lion at once. They learned to be pa- tient and the cost ©f inconsiderate haste, and at last bore the long war with steadfast fortitude and unquench- able courage. That lesson shouid have taught this generation to be patient with the administration in the short de- lays of our war with Spain.” GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. Advances made on turniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonen, 1017-1023 Misston. at $2.58. 9-11-13-15 KEARNY &T. day at HAS FINISHED TAKING COAL Philadelphia Ready fo Her Voyage. HAWAIl HER DESTINATION WILL LEAVE MARE ISLAND ON TUESDAY. Tug Iroquois Steams Down to San Francisco to Await Orders From Admiral Miller. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. VALLEJO, July 23.—The Philadel- phia has finished taking on coal, and is now ready to start for Honolulu, with the exception of some attach- ments for her three-pound and six- pound rapid-fire guns. The missing parts are the sights, shields and shoul- der-bars, which were shipped from the New York navy-yard over ten days ago. There are three boxes of them yet to be recefved. The ship can sail without them, but it is desired that she be equipped thoroughly before being sent to represent the navy at the formal occupation of Hawall by the American forces. The Philadelphia’s guns for the secondary battery were purchased in England. The mounts were very clumsy as compared with those on American guns, and caused considerable extra work, but they have all been fixed in place. It is expected the vessel will leave Mare Island on Tue«lay morning. The tug Iroquois, under command of Lieutenant Turner, left the yard at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon for San Francisco, where she will be subject to orders from Admiral Miller. The tug is fully equipped, and has her bunkers filled, so she is ready for any duty that may be assigned to her. Lieutenant Turner says he has re- celved no orders concerning the towing of the ship Tacoma to Manila and doubts if he will receive any. He has his vessel ready for any emergency, however, and hopes to be ordered to some active duty. The other tugs, the Actlve and Vigilant, expect to leave Mare Island to-morrow, and will re- port to Admiral Miller for assignment. ‘When the Iroquois left she received an ovation from all the steam whistles in the bay. The revenue cutter Rush steamed up the bay yesterday afternoon, and was moored to a buoy off the coal wharf. She came up to be docked, and will probably be placed in the stone dock to-morrow. As soon as her hull has been put in good order she will leave for San Francisco. ’ The Yorktown still presents the busi- est scene in the yard. She is approach- ing completion, though ther~ "~ still much work to be done or: her. Her huil has been scaled above the water line and is ready to be covered with war paint. Generous French Winemakers. NEW YORK, July 23.—A firm of winemakers at Rhetms, France, has of- fered the United States Govc.nment 1200 bottles of chdmpagne for the sick and wounded soldiers. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered that the wine be admitted free of duty. LITTLE DANGER OF INTERFERENCE Representative Dingley Says Euro- pean Powers Will not Meddle in the War. WASHINGTON, July 23.—Representa- tive Dingley of Maine, who has been in the city as-one of the members of the Canadian-American Commission, when asked to-day, “What do you think will be the solving of the Philippines problem?"” replied: “No one can tell at this time. Events adjust themselves, and sometimes in a sudden and unexpected manner. I feel sure, however, that there is no fdunda- tion for the talk of alleged European in- terference In whatever programme this Government may adopt for the Philip- ines. I believe the rumored protests of he powers of Europe will be found to be merely unauthorized reports and will not matérialize into anything _definita. The conduct of the Germans at Manila is subject to criticism, but their action, I believe, will not go beyond hounds. “I do not pay any attention to the al- leged attitude of Europe protesting against the sending of Commodore Wat- son's fleet to the coast of Spain. Such a suppositicn would be untenable. This Government is at war with Spain, and we have a right to strike her where and when we please. It remains for us alone to say whether we will send a fleet to Spain. f course, if we contemplated seizing d holding Spanish territory on the continent of Europe It might cause disquietude among ‘the powers for fear that the balance of power might be dis- turbed. They would have no right, how- ever, to object to the harassing of the coast and commerce by a fleet.” S e MOROCCO WOULD SOON NOTIFY WATSON Bpeclal cable to The Call' and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 15%, by James Gor- don Bennett. LN TANGIER, July 23.—The Revell de Maroc says that if the American squadron should come to Morocco, Mo- hamed Torres, the Sultan’s Minister for Forelgn Affalrs, would notify it to leave within twenty-four hours. If the | squadron should refuse he would refer the matter to the diplomatic corps, placing the country under the protec- tion of the great powers. Should the case arise, what the powers would do is the secret of European chancellors. It is understood that, in view of the impending dispatch of the squadron of ships commanded by Commodore Wat- Son to Spanish waters, a number of warships belonging to various nations will arrive here shortly B L —— ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘“;Rs DOCT EANY E RESTORES LOST VIGOR AND vitality to weak men. 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