Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 503, 22 January 1902 — EDITORIAL COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Ledger 'R«-p. > it*!- r- fr< m the tenor of th* m*s**ag«* that If a subsidy bill should be pass- • r. :• would be approved, but that the President will not go out of his way to promote Its passage." • • • lxiuis Republic:—"ln som* Isf'Bty thcusan 5 words, more gf less. President Roos*vc-lt tells the American p*ople that the party machine pressure has been too much for him or the issues of monopoly and protection " • • • P t'sbcrg Oat*tt c ; —"If Congress undertakes to legislate football out of ' government colleges it might t** a-k* d later on to abolish he gym-ra-i :m and the sham battle la rens*- to tome oversea lons Coni i s f Li an s Id - as of dang**r *o the livcg and limbs of the students." • • • “Th*- c -owning act of our duty to Cuba remains to be done." says the Indianapolis Journal iR<-p t. "In the • stablishmen cf such commercial rer a*- w!!l inure to the prosperity <>f both countries and to insuring the stab ity of the new government which we have planted at so much co-r :n money and lives." • • • I>-liver Republican:—"The recipro<ity policy is one of the most itnportar." questions that will be eonslder- • d and it i- uncertain what course Congress will pursue. Certain mem (■■r* de-,re radical changes In the tariff schedule; but to this there is strong opposition. bas**d upon the fact that the country being prosperous. It Is wls«- to Li matters alone." • • • R c-ton Herald If there is* no reason for thinking that, by means of < ■ ngr* sslonal negotiation, terms can l>< made with the French canal com-; pany that ar* more satisfactory than ihos*- thus far offered, then it seems t* us that Congress sh -uld proceed on its own account and follow the i**'-( nimc-ndattons of the Isthmian Commission In approving the con■■tn." Hon of the i anal at Nicaragua • • • "Pr sldent Roos* velt Is "bands off’ In the Soutner* suffrage controver -v " the Washington corresp nd* nt • f the New Orleans Tlm« s-Democrat reports. “He believes It is n matter Cong • - :i lot should deal, and he has no Intention of in 1' imi ’dime or taking any part in the tight This is. in substance, the statement made to day by President Roosevelt to a prominent South m nu mb- r of Congress." • • • Vre there no Industries which an* sufficiently established to stand ana sonahie reduction of duty?" asks th•*■ t'ni'ago Poit (Rep). "A negative ntower is an affront to sense and fact. The tariff readjustment is Inco Stable If the Republicans shrink from the task, the revision will devolve upon a O-mocrEtic Congress. That is the easily foreseeable conseof the stupid policy ef cowardice and evasion and waiting for something to turn up.” • • • New York Times —"The facts submitt* J and th* recommendations made by the commission will prob ably be accepted as decisive by Congress. There have been rumors of a "Panama lobby." which is said to have sought to obstruct Congressional action favorable to the Nicaraguan route in the Interests of the French owners of the Panama Company's un completed canal, who have for some t'me been trying to sell out to the 1 tilted States. It would seem probable that our government will now decline to give furth-r consideration to the Panama protect," « • • Various estimates have appeared of the actual number of plac-s which tiie incoming municipal administration will have to fill or be able to fill after Jan. 1, Mayor Low will have 100 appointments; the county officers, elected on the sam* ticket with him. will have cellectiv ly twenty-five. \bout as many more will be within the gift of th* count.'* officers of Kings Queens and Richmond, and in th* whole of the Greater New York there are about SOO places not in the i la sol fled civil service—secretaries, cashiers, confidential messengers and offices to which onlv qualified memb* rs of the bar are eligible. • • • The reciprocity treaties negotlat . : by Mr Kasson are dead. New ones to lake their place will not be ordered. The Ways and Means Committee ofithe House will give the tariff a wide berth. And so on." sum mariges the Washington Star (Ini i. ' It all depends. The cockiest of th? g* ntiemca holding this tone is not beyond the reach of public opinion res olutely ar.d adequately expressed. If there is a demand for reciprocity and for the abolition of tariff duties which have cessed to be a protect! n for intact industries and are now a bounty for giants, they mav b. obtain*d • • • The Washington Post tlad.i docs' net agree with the Presidect In the < pinion that such amendments and revisions in our tariff laws as might be possible, after securing ail substantial and legitimate protection, would preduce even a ripple—much less an upheaval or a panic’—in the business world " On the contrary, it 1 elieves that "they con’d be effected much more expeditiously and decently through the medium of legislative enaction than by the machinery of an executive bureau, or a preposterous commission, or a solemn, expensive, end futile High Jcint Circumlocution !

Office of any kind and that 'the bus-m-es world' in general yc-nli be vast ly reassured by haring the thing done lawfully and r«gularly."