The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-05-10
SiO.g6O 80

leaving deficiency ot........ sIO.96o 80
Which must be taken IS the actual loss sustained
5y The government in it. printing department.,
after crediting it with al receipts for town job
work and government work. which gives a very
different result from that exhibited By the Poly
ncsiGn, whose only aim appears to he to
present such n statement as might lull the Legis-
lature into a two years longer probation of the
office.
The enormous expense Of the government print
ing Office, equal 10 about one-thirtieth of the rev
enue Of the kingdom, Is entirely unnecessary.
All the necessary printing required 10y the gov
crsment can be executed by contract for $4,000 q
year, OF at the most $1,000. instead Of Sll, 200 as
shown above. Were We q wealthy nation, we
might perhaps, without prejudice to our public
credit, support an expensive Office and pay out
$40, 600 biennially for what can be obtained
81 moral support included-for u quarter Of that
sum. The total expenses Of the government
bureau for the years 1867, as shown by " in
an article published three years since. were 500
go while for 1859 we show them 70 have
been So, 236.-an increase of about so, COO, or
33 per cent. This enormous increase in cost ap-
pears 10 have been without a corresponding in
crease in work done. At this rate the public
press Will cost in 1901 over so, goo! Is it
any puzzle now why our Ministers find them
selves compelled to resort to ten per cent duty
and a real estate and personal tax?
We have omitted t. charge the printing Office
for interest paid by the government on money
borrowed, Is much 10 support the Office as for
anything else, which were it Il private concern,
and subject to a like deficiency. would be a very
important item in the ways and means to be pro-
vided Tho deficiency ~ absolute loss in CON
ductipg the r,vernmcnt rre.s whatever il may
or,,,n+ - ms, h ,nodc,a am D., lo,.o,ccd ,oooeyot
10 90. cont interest Here i G,ct which
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Director 1000
Pursha.e Of materials and incidental cxren.cs...... 1000
lnr,-;nr, Lis limited suu = : ,rosu,nad n
b,vo h.an rho iptenti,p of the LEGISLATURE that
.ho If H.. bureau slouId he ko,t within
II. i"-r,u,. -, ,"av ~ ma tuc sum VI oto,r--
expended for - incidentais' (rathcr Il liberal
. incidental billy and the sum OF %l'45o %
expended for " materials. or S1,Sdl 81 con-
sumcd in place Of $4,000 voted. Now by what
right, we ask, has the viii of the legislature been
thus violated and its authority deied? Who
stands uPas responsible for such a breach of public
trust. which, if allowed in one department. may
be sanctioned in every other? Is the law Of the
land to be regarded sacred and binding, or not?
The Legislature, in voting a spccifc s,0n, in
tended that economy should be practiced in this
bureau. but instead Of it, we find only extrava-
eance. Whatever apology may be given for it..
we trust the matter may be investigated hy the
representatives. and the question determined, how
far their will can be thus openly violated.
We have deemed it our duty thus to expose the
and some Of the errors in the manage
ment Of the public press. not from any ..rettv
sritc'- a. Is alleged. but from the fact that the
hubble are deeply interested and involved in the
conduct of the Office. We have shown that the
expenses have increased SlU.O 600 in two years,
and that If this increase i, allowed 10 continue at
the same rate. the next two years will show a bill
Of SjO. 900, or one-fJr,Ldh of the entire revenue
Of the kingdom. and all for what? 1t is said
that gamblers, when in the height of their career,
seized with a strange Authorization, by which
their mental faculties are distorted, and they be-
come infatuated. \ golden igHis fafals rises be-
their Imagination, and becoming blind TO
everything but its imaginary glitter, they rush
along after it. needless of tie counsels Of expert
ance. reason and friendship. till suddenly they find
themselves wrecked in the turbii sea of mental,
moral and social ruin-a curse To themselves and
the community in which they live.
-. We regret to say, it is with our Ministry,
in this heavy bill Of national expense. Lured by
the glittrring but imaginary dream that the pub
&c press only rebounds to the glory Of their adj
nini>tration. fluttercd by the soft words and unc-
i.us ,r,f..s ,,L;rb ,w,l,va.s know we'll how 10