Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 3, 9 November 1901 — Page 4

4  HOME RULE REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1901.

 

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HONOLULU, SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1901.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

                Our road supervisor, J. T. Loyd, deserves a great deal of credit for what he has accomplished. The extension of Beretania street had been practically impassable after every shower ever since its opening. Now one can travel over it in comparative comfort, and thus avoid the dangers of the most congested portion of King street—that is, just Ewa of the Nuuanu stream bridge.
                But the road needs a coat of macadam, and when our Superintendent of Public Works settles wth the Board of Health, the material will be forthcoming to enable our efficient road supervisor to properly finish that much needed thoroughfare.
                The portion of Beretania street between the river and Nuuan street looks smooth and inviting to both drivers and bicyclists. It is not yet opened to public traffic.

                An evening contemporary does not seem to realize the fact that iron becomes hard when it is tempered, or that a donkey becomes more stubborn at a ditch when spurs are freely applied to its sides, otherwise it would cease tormenting the Republican Central Committee. Go easy, brother. The slighted young Hawaiians will yet realize that they are among strange friends and will return to where they belong.

                We cannot give credit to a street rumor or any kind of a rumor that no extra session of the Legislature will be called unless the Republican candidate at the coming special election is elected. For if the calling of an extra session of the Legislature depends upon the success of a Republican candidate at a special election in any district of this Territory, it is two to one no extra session will ever be called.

                The only "Spendthrift Magoon" has a second in the person of George R. Carter. Papers have been filed in the First Circuit Court, signed by Willie A. Hall, asking the removal of Geo. R. Carter as his guardian under a spendthrift trust decree issued by the court on account of his expensive habits. He declares that "Geo. R. Carter is not his friend, or in any way related to him, a no reason exists why Geo. R. Carter should be continued as guardian."
                War clouds are hovering over Europe, and the friendly relations that have hitherto existed between France and Turkey are on the point of being ruptured and hostilities begun.

                With the present rains and the great increase in the number of saloons of late, Honolulu bids fair to rival Hilo as a wet city.

                In a dispatch dated Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 1, it is said Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister at Washington, delivered an address before 4,000 students of the university that night, in the course of which he admitted that "the Government of China is a relic of the past." The thirtv-seven members of the Bar Association here may console themselves with the fact that the heathen Chinaman has made a precedent for their admission the other night that their attempts to have Judge Humphreys removed were a failure, and could therefore openly and honestly declare the same but relics of the past conditions, reared and nurtured under an oligarchical form of government.

NO DISSENSION AMONG THE HOME RULERS.

                The Official morning organ seems to delight in disseminating a false impression to a state of dissension as existing in the ranks of the Home Rule Republican Party. At no time were the interests and individual opinions of the Home Rulers more closely linked together in the one common cause against the aggressions of their political enemies than now. Their leaders all realize that they have the trump cards, as the underlying current of opinion tends to show that the native Hawaiians will fall in line to a man under the new Republican banner, and many of the white Republicans who are thoroughly disgusted with the damnable tactics of their own party men will undoubtedly add considerable strength to the party which is out for "equal rights." As to any attempt by the "younger element" to capture control of the Executive Committee, such an idea is preposterous and far from the thoughts of the young men, who are willing at all times to work in harmony with the older members for the success of the partv in the interest  of the people at large, irrespective of color or race, but only equal rights for all under a Government that should be for the people of the people, and by the people.

LOOKOUT FOR THE HOBOS.

                Quite a large number of this undesirable class of people  have come to the Islands of late, and the police drag-net is daily rewarded with a liberal haul of these degenerate specimens of humanity. Although the police warned them off the capitol grounds a short while ago, still a number of them may be often seen now on the same grounds and other public parks, sleeping under the trees after a night's wandering and prowling about people's homes in quest of food and possible plunder. No doubt many of the recent robberies can be traced directly to this vagrant class of men, who in most cases either came as stow-aways or worked their way unsatisfactorily before the mast with the ulterior object of getting discharged at this port. From the time Kamehameha the Great laid down his law, "Let the old and the weak sleep on the highways unmolested," until the late dvelopments of the advantages of so-called Western civilization, we were not obliged to close the doors of our Island homes at nignt; but we do warn you to do so now if you do not want the hobos to walk in upon you unawares.

OFFICIAL PROMPTNESS.

                During the early part of the regular session of the Legislature the Governor sent a communication to the lower house in reply to a resolution, from which communication the following is an extract:
                "In regard to the second request of the resolution, I will furnish the House with copies of official correspondence between the government and its special Agent, Mr. Alfred S. Hartwell, during the transition period, as soon as they are prepared."
                Inasmuch as the House had never received the soon-as-they-are-prepared copies of the official correspondence referred to, notwithstanding the 97 days in which the Legislature had been in session, since the receipt of said communication, it can be easily imagined tnat the "official correspondence between the Government and its special agent" was not a light one, and the filing of copies of which alone will juustify the calling of another extra session, to say nothing of the necessary measures for government relief.

The Francis Murphy Temperance Club.

                We would call the attention of all the friends of the above organization to the fact that they reopen at Queen Emma Hall with a fine musical programme this evening at 7:30 o'clock. The public is cordially invited. The musical entertainment is absolutely free, notwithstanding the impression some seem to have obtained that an admission fee is to be charged.
                This young and earnest club is based on the idea of mutual support to resist the allurements of the saloon, and its doors are open to whoever may wish to avail himself of its advantages for furnishing rational enjoyment or social intercourse with each other and with the many noble people who are trying to help a weak brother to resist the temptation of drink and thus enable him to regain or assume the place in the world which is his birthright by nature.
                The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Francis Murphy Club will have ice cream, cakes, coffee and sandwiches for sale to raise the money to furnish the Ladies' Parlor and the reading rooms, and earnestly hope that many friends of the institution will come and patronize their tables and thus help them to accomplish their object.

                Many of the wise-acres seem to attach a political aspect to the present trip of Her Majesty Liliuokalani to the mainland. Other than a change of climate for the benefit of her health, we know of no cause for her departure today.