Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 203, 18 April 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

One of the point5 whioh the , mon- inteilijr‘ iit annex it:i :nstē are j using in fav r of their plai**. bf>lh ( froni an Amer>c*n j*otnt of vietv , an<i fr‘*m a Hawaiian. i? the great j imt>«-rt.ince whi-’h they elaim will i be attached t.> Hawaii a- s<x)n aā j the Ni> ir;'2': i Canal is fin : 9heiJ. ; Tu fr *m their talk and t;.eir | ass ‘rt ons it w iuld be reasonable | u> l>elieve that the eanal wi!l be finisbed m one or t«» ye*rs, ami ihal th* n ihe b>om will strike Hawai: whieh. t part <>f, the Union, will be».»me the centre of ihe Paeilie Conimerce. U'e are ; not going lo discus-. the advantages whieh in »y accrue to Hawaii by the com;>!et;on of the Nicaragua Canal —there will be ample time f< r that in the future, hut we believe that the pe..j>le who are looking to tiie aj>proaching eomplelion of the great work are antedating the year in whieh the eanal will be a Jnit acconn>li. In subHtautiating lhis aesertion, we will quote frura a well ‘informed article in the Railroad (in:ette of Januury whieh tell- a few plain truths about the diffioi»lty of the lakinK‘*You have beard mueh of the difliculties caused by the eccentric iivcr Chagres in ihe Panama excavations. Have you ever heard oi the rainfal! with whieh the Nicaragua Caual will have to eontetid? In 1890 it was 296 inehea atGreytown; it was 214 in 1891, and it must be remembered that the maximuiu, not the average, rainfall, is that against whieh the engineers have to contend. W ithin a distance of 23 miles in the early ccurse of the eanal, it has to run j across the natural dr»inage <>1 this rainfall. Emhankmenle, some of Iheiu 70 feet high. will be required, and ihe stone neces8«ry for these works wili have t" be brought fron the Stat«s. The Oehoa dam acrose the S>n Juan nver is to be 1JHX» feet long and 70 feet high; it is to i"iitr"l water passing it at the rate <>f from 50,000 to euhie fett jer second; aud the nearest st<>tie available is eighteen mi!es away, ai<d is on!y a l<v>se volcamc r< ok. There are 59 other embinkment? on the San Carlos nver. and altogether there will he eightor nine milea <»f embankment for confiiiing water, varying from 20 to 70 teet in height. To these dilliculties must be added the d>fficulty <>f the main cut through the mount un rauge, whieh, with the slopes proposed at preseut, wouhl necess'tate 10,000,000 euhie yards <»f exc.ivatiou. But seventenlhs of lhis uiateriai are described as “solid iavas aud iiuiu» rated or consolidated bed» of voIeanie ashes of about the hardness oonsislency of slate rock” —a kiml of n»cK whieh makes it doubtful whelher the protxised angle of slope is flal enough—esj>ecially with Uie exj>enence of Pauama before us. lf this sloj?e has to be cous;derably flattened, as ia not improbable. ihe amounl of excavation b»'Cv>mes of courseenormously increjised." We extract these opiniutis because they are not ihoee of experU who are opposed to the eanai project, or who defipair of its eomplelion, but lbo«e of men who de«ire to »*ate the full difficultie« of an enterprise whieh th*y nevenheless hope to see acoompli»bed—eome day. In reading Mr. S. B. Dole* intereetiog paper En<i*tio% o/ Ha-

vcniin<i Lan'i 7Vawrrs, we to<jk -! - ciai noliee of the foliowing ex- | whieh may l>e of general in- I terer-t just aī preseut .»5 coraing j from the Presidenl of the »poils-yor- j ernmriit. “The re-distribulion of I iands upon the accessio:i of a I ruiing ehiei w >- naturally carried [ out wilh great severity when h;s jacc< -sion w. - ti;e r--ult of civil war K*tween riv.il fictions or the : triumj>h of an inv,td:ng army. In | the case of u peac-fu! accession of ' | a voung chief t<> sovereign p»wer, | ; ihe re-distribution was mainly t<> | his {H.-r?onal friends and eouniaiions. and w.is .<■»- complete tiian in the c.ise "1 a rev >lution of torce. Very iuiineniial men of the preriom reign i eouhl not he <Usturhed , both heeauee it would be d.angerous and impolltir to <i'< so. and hecause their a*sist<i nee was <le-'ired. A curi»us surviv il of thi- feud.il custom of re-distribution of power and land ujx>n the accession of a new ruler is rec<>gnizable in the eqnally reprehensible sentim< at of modern politics, expressed in the well-known w<>rds, “to the victors belong the 8po : ls.” Mr. Dole’s views were so on December 5th, 1892. W hat are President Dole’s views ofto-day? A Committee from the Hawaiian Women’a Patriotic League presented a memonal yeslenlay to Commissioner 81ount, who re ceived them with his nsual affability. There have heen some changes in the j>ersonnel of the oflicers <>f the leig.ie, the majority of the women desiring the more important otlices tc be filled by ladiea representing the Hawaiian people in a more pronounced degree than heret<>fore has heen the o:ise. Mrs. James Campbell is now the President of the League, and Mrs. C Stillraan the Secreturv. The eommiUee whieh preI sented the mem >rial of the League 1 to the C«mmissioner were Mrs. Joeeph Nawahi, Mfs. C. K. Stiilman, Mrs. Junius Kaae. Mrs. HaUie Hiram and Mrs. M<>sea Malielona. The ink-slinging doct‘>r in his mani&eal ravings against everyl>odv aml everylhing opposed to his plans of annexation says “There siiould be no unnecessary delay in setting Uie machinery of the law at work aml then, if the coii8pirators are found guilty, evervone of theio should be bauished and lheir estates confiscated.” Thanks doctor for the suggestion, we shall rtie :t for fature consideration. The d<>ctoi- s always referring in his prc>i »sitions <>f how to deal ,vith the bad royalists to the old French revoluiion aiui U> CmmwelL If CromweIl had been around wheu the marine h<»spital matter was investigated the feelings of the Doct >r towar<ls Mr. CromweIl might have beeu of a iess frieodly natuje, “ We do not tbinu the government realizes what a depressing sj>ectacle is sbown by an hysterical nightlv turn-out of the trooj>s oii ix>valisls alarms. The Star says this aud we agree with it except in styling it depressing. To us it is simply laughter-compelling with a tear of pity thrown in for the troop». We know how annoyiug it is to be waked up from s sound ■ieep to be sent on a wild goose ch»se. “ Wh*t fools those moruls be.” We ean consistently and truthfully a»sur» the troope that they don’t need to do anythingel»e hut eooaume their boiled tongue and green pees in peaee.heeauae oo

one will attempt on the psrt of the j Ruyalists U> intertVre either with | their eonnd dige#t ou >-r their sweet ! sleep. We have no eill t > in- j lerftre wiih the Provisional G«>v- > ernment or its uieroer.aries. The | United >:-;es G->v»-ni!neiit vri 11 do that or it won't be done :»t a II. The suggestion. tbougb, th»t ti.-* Rr.ya::sti> bave any est;«t»-s t<» be coi.fiscat.-d scarce’y t.illies vrit:i ihe prevj.>i;s a8Sertim.s >f "e-srs. | J. L. Stevens, and ti.e Chr.>nioIe i rep.>rter. ai.d the A<lvert ser e.ut r j and the olliers who iiave s-> :udustrious!y liithert > fc?serled and pr-e claimed.botit here ai.d abroad, thst , they were bankrupts, hoodlums. I ad%’ont'irer.-. etc., and that all the j property \vas on the side of the j revolutionists. Rut }>erhape we wrong the venerable pill-mixer. The govornment is 'n such finaneial straits that he desires to show them a way to fill their coffers and get rid of the alarmiug defieits by confiscating what little property he and his eonfreres have not boen ahle to lie away frmo the possession of the loyal adhorents of the raonarcb. But, D >ctor dear! How would it be if th« b.x>t should be on the other foot? One of the nu>sl remarkable and insultiug fictions whieh have heen put into circulation by the Star is that ’‘Admiral SKerrett has laken pains to deny 10 several prominent citizens that any of his officers are royalists.” \Vhatever the Admiral ean have done to the Star and its writers to cause them to slander the U. S. navv in this way we k;iow not. How could anyone ever have dreamt that officers of the United States ean be roya!ists. \Vhat ground then has the Star for saying that the Admiral has taken pains to deny such a self-evident proposition. Possibly however the Star has gone the length of classifying all those gentlemen in the U. S. navy, heeauae they do not join its chorus of vilification aga>nst the Queen and her adherents. as royaiists. As if everyone was obligetl to follow thera ia &11 the'r foul slander under pain of being banned a? that fearful bugbear of their?—i r >yalist. If so the Star will have to han about all the gentlemen in the coratrunity and certainly all those iu the U. S. as well as the o'ther naval vessels iacluding Admiral Skerrett himself. By another shake of the provisīonal dice Mr. J . B. C’a8t!e has dr>>pped out of the tai offioe and tumbled into the Custom House where he according to the Star intends to inmuluee new businees niethode— whatever that may mean. Mr. McStocker has heen pr< moted to the Deputy Collectorship, an office whieh he undoubtedly will fill to satisfiction. We hope | th*>ugh lhat his ardent railit;iry duties wi.l epahle him to occasionally turn up in his office and atteud to ihe business for whieh he is pa;d. Wheh next we pay taxes we are then to pay thecn to Mr. McCandlees. At last, saywe. with a eign of relief, upou eeeing that justice hae been done.and the radieal councillor has got hie share of tbe epoi!s for whieh he has been hankering 90 long. Of hie eapaeity for the office the leea »aid the better. Tbe exhibition whieh he ha» made of hioue!f as a councillor doea not promise «eli for his fature appeannee on the Board of Eqaaiiaaiioa bat perhapt the minister of Pinanen will do tb« work and tba «z-ooqDcillor draw the pay.

The Star wante a Portuguese :’ >r the vacant eeat in the emneil, the Advertiser wants W. C. \Vi!der of builying and buildozing ūme. snd the Liberal wants a Haw&iiae. Allow u? iu all rse{>ect to nominale CIaus Si>reckle* ;>r the j >b. He is here t>>-diy and his opini>>r.§ wi!l be of great value to the gnvernraent epecially in rtg;ird to how to pay up the I. O. U.s wnieh he hoids fr>>m the treasuiy. An aricature of Commissioner B1ount has heen exhibite<.l in a sh>>;> \viud >w >>n F >rl Stre--t. T’:.’.s disgruvfui w tnl of taste and obj ct: >n;.ble disp. iy of r.it c>r could have only erninated from the bra ; ns »>f a P. G. uian.