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Show "HAS A BRIGnf FUTURE Hawaii Emerging From Its Financial Depression. WORK OF THE REPUBLICANS Introducing Forms of American Oov-eminent Oov-eminent With Success-Cable Will He In Operation to San Francisco by Clitlstmns Will Drltip; tho Islands In Direct Touch With the United States, a Dieam of Years What Annexation Una Alreidy Dono for Hawaii and What is Looked Tot. Honolulu Nov IS - Like the Phoenix Phoe-nix the Hawaiian Islands have risen from financial depression nf the past two jenrs cuused bv the elee. Hon of a Homi Uule Legislature Alined chiefly ill the Dole government and Inculcated In a eplrlt of revenge, the Home Hulers, led liy their lent ers, Delegate tn Congress llohert Wil cox nnd Kalauokalanl, the icsult of the llrst session of the Territorial Legislature tluew Honolulu Into an era of financial depression never before ex lerlenced lluslness Interests were seriously affected stock values were lowered the Intrgrlt) of the Territorial government was nt stake the treas urj- vaults were emptj not only bj lick of receipts und hj excessive expenditures ex-penditures hut by lhe defalcations of Territorial ofllclals who had been forced upon Oov Dole by the Home Itule Leglsliture, and the tnxpjjers of the Isjands wero hird pressed Since November tth when the He publicans overwhelmed the Home llule or native partj nt the polls by a tre mendous mnjorltj, electing Prince Kuhln Knlanlanrtole as delegate to Congress nnd the bennte and House b large majorities, the commercial Interests of the Islinds have shown greater strength There Is a feeling of security among business men and nn era of prosperity has already been entered upon One of the bogles held up before business men during tho cnmpalgn waged by the Home Unions was their constant cr for municipal and county government Knowing nothing of such classes of government and led by one or two white men of doubtful Intentions, except for gain, the natives had been given a draft of a city and county bill which they hoped to pass at the legislative ses-Hon ses-Hon next spring. It was wonderfully made and would hnvu opened tho wny to a spoils svstem ruinous to the Paradise ot the Pacific" The Itepub-enns Itepub-enns promised a city and county gov-ernment gov-ernment system, also Tho hill Is now being prepared by all business men "",'! 'awr. and If made a law will benefit the community, although three-fourths of tho Republicans are not In favor of the creation of city and county forms of government In the Islands As under the monarchy, the government was centralized under the old republic In the executive. Gov Dole Is practically Mayor of the Hawaiian Islands The affairs of the entire Island group, everv village, vil-lage, town and city nre managed at the capltol flov. Dole and Secretary of the Territory Cooper, both appointed by the President, are the general heads. The Governor appoints a Superintendent Superin-tendent of Public Works, an Attorney-Oeneral, Attorney-Oeneral, Territorial Treasurer, Auditor, various commissioners, Superintendent of Public Instruction and the affairs of each department arc managed nil over the Territory by the respective heads There has been a crv here for tho ' true traditional form of American government," but It Is voiced mainly by American carpet-baggers, who see an opportunity for olhce. The fact re-mains re-mains that under tho present well conducted a) stem, the form In vogue since civilization came to the Ha. wallans, Is the most beneficial. COMING OP THE CAHLE. The advent of the Pacific Commercial cuble next month Is only another link In the chain of prosperity. The dream of twenty-five years Is about to be reo. Used, and on Christmas day Hawaii and tho rest of the world will be In direct communication The millions whleh the cable company Is expending on Us great enterprise will compensate tho companj, for the business over the line will be heavy. The S 8 Pll-verton. Pll-verton. bearlnp the cable, will reach flan Kranclsco noon, nnd It will be a mutter of only eleven or twelve days to lay the cable to Honolulu Tho offices nf the company here are already In readiness to commence operations. For the pist four weeks Honolulu has been three elnjs closer to the worlds news than before. Tho Hrltlsh cable which touches nt Panning lalnnd, sov-eral sov-eral miles to the south and cast of the Hawaiian Islands, Is In operation The Oceanic line of stenmers plying between be-tween Australia, Honolulu and San rranclsco, touch at Panning on the wav from Auckland and obtain into world news, which arrives In Honolulu three davs later We are now learning of whnt Is going on outsldo four days Instead of seven davs distant. The lack of a cable few months ago gave Honolulu unexpected distinction. The coronation of King Edwuid scheduled for last spring, was duly celebrated here ui cording to the programme pro-gramme prepured for the great London event, while tho rest of the world was holding Its breath over tho Illness of Edwaid Honolulu una tho only city In the world whleh celebrated PLANTATIONS HARD HIT. The past two years have been terrible ones foi the sugar plantations The abolishing nf the contract labor t-tern, t-tern, under which the plantations Be. cured Chinese nnd Japanese coolie laborers from the Orient for three veais, caused hardship Even ties laborers could not bo obtained from China owing to the exclusion net. Thousands of Porto Illcana were brought here, but they have proven almost al-most a failure Negroes from the southern States were total failures Italians und Portuguese cannot stand the work In the hot fields, and Japanese Japan-ese coolies have been the mainstay but these arc not a certain quanllt) They rove from ono plantation to an other, gradually drifting Into the towns. Labor has been scare e The low price nf sugar for the past year coupled with tho labor problem has caused a falling off In revenues, although al-though the production for the past eur was greater than before Sugar Is king In Hawaii Without this commodity the Islands would be the poorest plsce In tho world All Us business enterprises are clnselj Interwoven Inter-woven with this commodity Italso the price of sugar but an eighth supply (lenly of laborers for the fields and water for the Irrigation ditches, and the Islands will become one nf the wealthiest Insular dependcles of Uncle Sam THE FRUITS Or ANNEXATION, Tho average Inhabitant of the greit main asks tho question "What has annexation done for Hawaii?" Much. Horn an Integral part of tho United States In the Spanish-American war, us Nevada bernmo u State lu the Civil war, Hawaii has had a mission to perform per-form toward Us foster mother Annexation An-nexation would probably not have come had It not b en for tho brc iking out of the Spanish AnicrH an war When Dewey smashed the Spanish licet at Manila and cabled to V .vshlngton for troops thousands of soldltrn poured Into transports nt San Tram lai o These great troopships rtoppel at II umlulu en route on their long vojagc to the Philippines The raw rcerults were given nil opportunltv tn sin t h tin Ir leg's ashore In a land whleh was thr.e quarters merlcan In enterprise nnd spirit Warm hnspltalltv gritted tho soldiers the troopships took In thou sands ot tons of ton I the warships took In more the milled hand of the t'nlled States listed Us llngeis lure nnd there In Honolulu snd established camps and tiospltals Congress saw thin that tho Islands were valuable as n elratckti point, as n military and naval bise and annexation came Uncle Sum has had no reason to regret his anion 1 uele Sam has gained tltiu title to Pearl harbor and adjaient lands vvhtre a great naval station with tlotks workshops supptv depot and defenses will he located The hurboi Is .1 mag nlflcent watcrwav eight miles frt"n Honolulu In llonolul t harbor the finest frontue,e has Ikhii taken hv hltn where naval wharves have been con-strueted con-strueted nt which tmipshlpa nnd warships war-ships are moored tin land close bv, great toal shed prtitet t coal enough to last the waishlis for vchts lhe luiv tl station Is Intateil then Vt Walklkt n milllan post ban l en established In Nutiami vnlle) a s lendld hospital has been creeled Tin usioin-house. post-nllho post-nllho and a Inigi n mount of I unl alt ovei the teirltor have been taken over, and the ioniums uielts 11)1 tils poik-ets poik-ets While the Islands suffer on account ac-count of tbe loss or the customs and postnfllre reMiipts the exiwiise attained at-tained therein has 1mm n saved American capital has flowed Into the Islands Mme is mining ltepiesiiitn-tlvts ltepiesiiitn-tlvts of Nw York Huston and San rrauclsro bnnkis and lluanelal tiistltu tlnus have oflin visited Honolulu Investigating In-vestigating Its enttrprises nnd plantation plan-tation and lallwnv bonds and real es lute hive been txihnllktd for hundtcda nf thousands of gold intn lluslness Institution In-stitution have had In house themseljs lu new and mignlllient buildings nnd have Increased their stoiks of L.oods ralth In the rutuie or Hawaii has shown Itself lu the mignlllient strui lures whleh nre rearing ekvwnrd One building has not Us equal west of Chicago, Chi-cago, a building which obtained lhe nickname of Polly la cause It looked to be a white elt ph mt Now bowevir. It Is seen tn be a monev maker and more buildings nre going up Six and seven story hull lings nre the voguo of the cUv s development The ndvent nt flouting palaces like the steamship Korea, the biggest vessel on the Pacini, nnd the new boils of the Oceanic line and the Jopanise companies com-panies have caused Honolulu harbor accommodation to become rrninped nnd hundreds of thousands of dollars nro being spent In the construe If on ot new wharves New lines of freight steamers have found Hawaii a profitable profita-ble group to v Islt They come from New York, San Prnnclsio Tncoina nnd Seattle, and nro up lo dale lu every respect, oil being used ns fuel Instead of coal. Cargoes Increase with ever) nrrlval Magnificent residences arc springing up, and new and splendid hotels which would grace wtalthv elites have been established An electric street railway, now operating sixteen tulles of track, was established a )car ngo Its cars are the llnest sent out nf the St Ixiuls tarshops The tracks reach every part of the city ond go Into tho suburbs, displacing the sleepy antiquated anti-quated hnise car lines The service Is of the lint st, the men the paid tho best of wages, nnd dividends are already al-ready being declared Suburban districts dis-tricts nre being peopled with astonishing astonish-ing rapidity Such Is the optimistic view of n city and of a group ot Islands which ure yet comparatively unknown on the mainland. main-land. AS A WINTER RESORT, The cable has solved a problem which has been a stickler for Islanders and wealthy matnlanders for )ears Honolulu, Hono-lulu, ns well as the entlro Island group, lias been favorably known nbroad as a winter resort, but men of business and wealthy people have lusltated upon arrival ar-rival In California as to whether they would make tho trip here Why' The business men and thu wealthy ones who depend upon keeping constantly In touch with their olllces would hnvo been nt least three weeks distant from news ns to the conduct of their respective affairs. af-fairs. There has been no cable to Honolulu Hon-olulu and no man of weulth who looks to the dally fluctuations of the stock market could afford the trip here. Now nil will be changed Tho new steamers steam-ers make the trip In nbout flvo days. On arrival here and during his stay tho business man of tho malulind can keep In constant touch with his olllce. The wealthy traveler will now have the long-wished for opportunity of visiting visit-ing the Hawaiian Islands and residing temporarily In a sub-tropical belt which is neither too warm nor too cold at any time nf tho ear, hcvcral wealthy Easterners who have visited the Islands nre preparing tn build winter win-ter residences In tho choice suburbs Pithing all the sear round at Walklkl beueh, tho praises nf which have been sung by Robert Louis StevenBon, Ho-ljnd Ho-ljnd Daggett, Mark Twain nnd every writer who has seen tho bewitching crcsccnt-shnped shore, Is certainly u rarity. PRINCE KALANIANAOLES PLANS When the Congressional session opens next Mmch, a Prince ot rovnl blood and claimant to tho throno nf Hawaii will take his scat In the House He Is Prince Kuhlo Kulnnlnnaole, or 'Prlnro Cupid," as ho Is familiarly known, nephew ne-phew of tho late King Kalikauu nnd of Queen Lllluoknlanl He Is n Republican Repub-lican and mado a most surprising campaign cam-paign against Wilcox, the former delegate dele-gate and lender Kuhlo Is u striking figure In American hiIch and has many friends lu Washington and In CongiesB The Princess Knlunlunnole u handsome tvpo of Hawaiian, will ac-enmpuny ac-enmpuny him, and they will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be much In the public eye during their stay ut tho national capital As there Is a large Hawaii in colony ncai Salt Lake Pilncc Kuhlo Is llkelj to stop over them cu route Enst to greet the natives lie Is a man beloved by the Hawaiian people. A P. TAYLOR. |