The Liberal, Volume I, Number 46, 18 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

THE LIBERAL has an ambition to become a first class illustrated newspaper. The insertion of a few rough cuts and old blocks as the Paradise of the Pacific has done, does not make an illustrated paper. The artistic abortions which have appeared about once a month in that periodical must have done a great deal toward bringing the country into contempt if it had any considerable circulation abroad. Our idea is to produce a real illustrated paper comparable to Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's and other first rate American publications. Abundance of material is at hand. We have alway new photographs of our beautiful and varied scenery, of our public men and important events, political, cartoons, and a great variety of illustrations of foreign subjects. Modern photographic methods make it possible to produce printing blocks at very small cost after the plant is established. A well written and illustrated paper will be the best advertisement the country can get up, and will be far ahead of the advertising devises of the Bureau of Information. THE LIBERAL now has a large subscription list and is run on strictly business principles. The business men who have taken a stand for good government shoul advertise in the THE LIBERAL and so help the boom that is coming to Honolulu, Advertising is believed in by all Americans. Let us get a little American motion on us, "rustle," push, get there like Yankees. THE IDEA of seeking admission as a part of California has met with favor among all classes. The proposition is the most satisfactory that has been advanced both to natives and foreigners. The former would secure equal rights with the citizens of California and the United States the latter would have a perfect guaranty for the preservation of order and a conservative administration of the laws. Hawaii is the jeweled key of the Golden Gate. California would probably receive us with outstretched arms. The legislature of California on February 3d adopted a resolution in favor of annexing the Islands. That is a pretty good indication of how California feels. She would say, come right in and make yourself at home. The Californians are noted for their open-handed hospitality and generosity. There is nothing mean about the people of the golden west. They are not backward in coming forward, nor in knowing or saying what they want. DANIEL ENRAGED. - On creditable information of unprofessional conduct on the part of Daniel of the Bulletin, I took occasion in the last LIBERAL to administer a little judicial correction to one who boasts of being a veteran journalist. It seems that I cut deeper through the corporate and composite hide of the Bulletin heart than I had expected to do. The counter attact is written with more rigor and effect than is usual with that defunct organ. It makes one wonder if the manager has secured a new contributor to the editorial columns. I hear that the stock of the Bulletin Company has been bought up by the Parker-Col-burn ministry and their friends and that it is to be hereafter edited by Messrs. Kenyon and Norris in the interests of the decreased monarchy, If Daniel should cease to be a "regular journalist, what would he be? The boldest part of the recent attack is directed against a woman, presumed to be connected with this paper. It is to be noted that with his characteristic mixture of valor and discretion, Daniel choose a time for his assault when the person in question is confined to her house and unable to wield a horsewhip. LITERARY CRAFT. - I have heard many comments, flattering and otherwise, on the literary quality of the editorial work in the columns of this paper. The praise received I have considered comparative and

excited by contrast with the flat and sloppy work on other local papers rather than intrinsic me \oC ttveir lo puiaue eef- . j tai» ob)ects >» iile. Xalure īi iaj eaoraWe. She unikea ama waat \vha.t she wi lb, aad they follow her iaw>, even wiieu they Ihiuk to defy her. A man b not free wheu fcwo aiteruatives are piaced befory bim, to toil from dawn till dark for a master or t'o a starve In the street& j Hii ca»e is different from that of our oontract laborec who toudt work or go to jail. Xa moderu timed roonyy iā the meaiure of ito po«> sessor T .s freedoui. AVithout moaey meu seek «ervitude a* a boon. The privilege of workiug forsome one is so highly valaed that, mea riot and lay down their liveā for U, The time when men might emplcy their faculties lndfcpendently ia irrevocabJy past. No man aione eau till the soil or make any usefui articieB in eompetition wlth mac"hinerv and brganlze<l Indu3trj f . The introductiou of maehitiery ha« tuade tb« trorfcman a seoondao' eleidtai, Wotkmen are only a part of soiae maehine, a part whose Brst ciust Is nothing and whieh ean be replaced at any time without expense. Machinery wlll make a readjustment of aoeial and polit!cal systems inevitable. Tt may eome gradually or it miy be i>ent up till it huwlaoul. in a wor!d w!de revolution, of whieh the Freneli revoluHon is a p rototype. Thk Caxt Tillers.—The Üborers of the plantations wni beasfrec as other men are when theaeisland; becc|me TTnited Statss territory. I ami not saying that it wlll do them mueh good. There U no law for fchose without money, though there fs abundance of it against them. The contract laborer wlll in a!l prohabi!ity be to poor to take advan,tage of the lawa. H* ma>* go on being a serf for years. At best he wiil be forced to work fbr what the plan-tation.-s offer ; till tbe scarcity ol JeU?r tu«se-3 wages in spite of unlawfui eombiōatious to keep'themdawn. Under Unite<i sjtatēs law<s no labore« under contract will be aximitted, and h U almo s t u that ao more immigrants of any undesirabie eia» wili herealter bt» admited. The people are agreed upon, tbe and aii. immigration wiU be prohibited for one year # pi-r--haps for ten, while American eonstder« the que.-;tioa of a pemuanenl iaw aud poīicy in regard to imniir granU, When we are annexed the exo?inost of A-!atlcjs wiii «x>n ' fhe pply o! eheap labor and glve ?be f!r«l fer tf?e wīnie man obtain a foothold in Hawali. An s v.XA'ii<'n?-.--Somc llttle lime Iho Exansioer a 3pecM eorrespon-leuJ dowa here u> take a eeti3ūs oī th« Hawauan Legii:iAta:e 'on lī>; 'iui-ili.n ol it j appears n&w ia&i Oio' coaatfy wai j with uut ( the enteryrL:ing aew&jp*p«r mau i '--oaM :hid ualy one ia thc wiiole I cuuntry; Mr. James Asjder*oa of | Kuuai gave h& voīc*t. qS ! oaloa with the Caitiiā St*ie& 'i!U« i&ai deckml agai«st it ox evsn<le<J the T* i& «Uiūon <A K\atainer ial&cwating r«*din£ aow> aad m»ktss oa« waadv c r t *U ihw |*lrkyc, m>r|ght ChriisU*n goaU6mea Ue * mire.p:--' ( p . ,