Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 492, 9 January 1902 — editorial comment [ARTICLE]

editorial comment

' The American people are notoriously forgetful of the misdeed* of men who have public trusts for f personal aggrandizement. They do 1 not cherish resentment after they • have administered chasticement. — * Chicago Record-Herald • • • A national Democratic committeeman say* the party cannot afford to change it* national platform every minute. Perhaps net .but when it falls d'wn it is not good policy to reconstruct it of the same ffimsy naienal—Boston Transcript. • • • Lots of aews these days. With the Supreme Court grinding out decisions. Congress in session and th-* r hiff apostle of the strenuous life in the White House none can c mplain that "nothing’s doing."—Port iand Oregrtnian. • « * And Sulzer. tool This dauntless foe of the trusts has now become vice president of the Sabine Oil company. which is in cahoots with the Standard Oil C mpany. Is there y-t remaining an antagonist of the trusts who has not crossed over into their ■ land of pure delight, where oil and honey flow.”—Louisville Courier# Journal. • • • Convicts in Sing Sing prison enjoy ed a sweet morsel of revenge the other day. when George Bissett. the New York policeman sentenced for . extortion, arrived there to serve his lime. As he was led to his cell the other prisoners jeered lustily, for they had all learned of his coming. Some particularly jubilant yells were uttered by the fellows whom Bissert had helped to striped suits. * • • Henry C. Payne, the new Postmaster General, began bis business career as a clerk in the dry goods store of Sherwia. Nowall & Pratt of Milwaukee. When the firm dlssolv ed he became a member of the company that succeed* d to its business After several years ill fortune compelled a suspension and Mr. Payne went into politics. He became postmaster of Milwaukee and subsequently obtained control cf the street car and electric light franchises, out of which he has made a fortune. » * •

A century from now. when the history of events in China within the ’ast two years shall have been written in judicial fashion, the record of Christendom will not be a bright one. In the lime light of the present it seems as if the United States, from a humanity viewpoint, deserves about all the credit there is attaching to the alleged settlement of disputes in the Flowery Kingdom Will this settlement hold through the next lustrum? Doubtful, very.—Minneapolis Times. • • • The Ni w York Times says many persons living have witnessed the whole development of the world’s railway system from a few miles of strap hail over which cars were drawn by horses. According to the latest statistics, ‘there are 466.539 miles of operated tracks, carrying 3. 380.00d.000 passengers a year, moving 192.000.000 tons of freight and showing gross earnings of $3,155,000.000 against expenditures of $1,865.000.000. The network of rails likely to cover the earth a century hence is too big a subject even for the ima agination. * • •

The projected naval station in the Philippines will cost at least $3O.OO*V Out*, according to the estimates submitted by Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor. United States navy, in his late report, as president of a special board appointed to consider this project “The station.** says Engineereerlng. News, “would have to b' equipped with dry docks, machine shops and ail the plant necessary not only for overhauling ships, but for building n- w warships. Defenses are also included against sea attack. The isolated position of such a station demands much special provision for storage of materia!, housing of workmen, hospitals, coaling-station, etc.”