Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 502, 21 January 1902 — EDITORIAL COMMENT [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL COMMENT

No man works harder than the i millionaire, to whom the eight-hour law affords no relief whatever. The xtreme penalty of financial law has be* n imposed upon him —he is sentenced to financial servitude for life. —Brooklyn Eagle. • • A Sioux C.‘y Journal: In protesting that they will not be given a fair show in the Cuban election, the friends cf Gen. Maso seem to be fol- :• wing th- precedent set by Senator and. incidentally, providing an xplar.ation of impending defeat. A A • Th® warm hospitality of the Com ruerrial club is exemplified in th“ loud applause which greeted Minister WuV statement that the Chinese cught to enjoy free admission to this country, when not one member In a hundred believes that wav for a moment. —Kansas City Journal. • A A What a long step toward true metropolitan distinction New York will lave madde when it is suitably provided with plenty of artistic street rigns. and when the street and avenue numbers on all buildings, public .nd private are made clear and conspicuous both by day and by nightl —New York Tribune. AAA In proceeding on the theory that the salvation of the Filipinos de pends on their education, the Philippine commission Is working on correct line#, and the aridity with which the natives are availing themselves of educational opportunities is a gu prantee that American efforts to aid these people will succeed. —Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. • • • The disclaimer by the German Ambassador at Washington of any purpose on the part of his Government of acquiring a naval station or other ‘foothold" in the West Indies, or in any part of Central or South America, vas so frank, full, and explicit that it was received ami recognized throughout the United States as entirely satisfactory.—New York Times AAA Chicago Chronicle; "Art for art’s 1 ■-ake’’ has been a debasing as well as a fallacious apology for otherwise indefensible pictorial and plastic execution. “Art for the Gospel’s sake’’ is a revival of the doctrine, aesthetic and ethical, which did more than all other influences combined to fill the world with architecture and decorative achievement. AAA If Congress would avert scandal and jobbery of every description it will centralize all responsibility for the expenditure of the canal appropriation in the President. This course will inspire public confidence in the honest disbursement of the millions that must go into the canal as well 8' popular faith in its engineering success. —Chicago Record-Herald. • AAA. Whatever else Lonf Roseberry has done in his Chesterfield speech he has pronounced the formal funeral oration on the party and the creed of Cobden and Gladstone. He may not have evolved a New Liberalism, but he has in the counsels which he controls, and which seem to. represent all that retains vitality in the British opposition, destroyed the Old. —New York Press. • » • Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas is going to England to close negotiations for the organization of a gigantic oil syndicate. with a capital of $50,000,000. which is to rival the Standard Oil company. Let’s see. wasn’t there cnce down in Texas a man by the name of Hogg, formerly Governor of of the State, who was a bitter and uncompromising foe of the Octopus? • • • The movement in all kinds of trade continues to be tremendous, but regular and healthful. There are no indications whatever that the high-water mark of business has been reached, or that it is likely to be eached in the immediate future. From the present outlook there is nothing save a long period of prosperity in sight.—Chicago Inter Oc P an.