The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-12-18

sible members" contain the i%nsinuation
that the evenues of this Kingdom are
foolishly and wastefully s~quandered. The
best and most conclusive reply to this in
situation is a simple statement of how the
money is spent. The Appropriation Act of
the current year indicates how the so-called
% irresponsible members" of our Legisla-
ture intended that it should be spent. 1t
sets apart for the Royal Family, and for
the permanent settlement on Queen EMMA
and others, S123, 800 for the salaries and
incidental expenses of the Legislative and
Executive Departments-the cost of go
verning the country-S189, O95 for the
Judiciary Department, $50, 587 SO for the
Police Department and gaols, 1886, 200 for
Educational purposes, Sl04,0 20 ; for interest
on National debt Incurred for waterworks,
&C., $4,000 to pay off part of the debt,
$50, 700; for Hospitals, Insane Asylum,
Resident Government Physicians, and
Sanitary purposes generally, S182, 500 for
new branch hospitals, new lighthouses,
wharves, lighthouses, and the tug-steamer,
dredging, &c, S154,OO0; to complete the
Palace, $50. 900 for water-works, $64, 600
for a Marine Railway at Honolulu, $4,000;
1 foads m2 ans bGidgees erp Gneilud i1Sg'OC $50, o oS6
for the Pail road), S2s5, 900 for sur
veys, $4,000 for the Post-office (including
mail subsidy, S64, 100 Customs and Tax
departments, S79,sOO; for the Royal band,
the Kings Guards, and the Volunteer Mill
tary Companies, SIS, 300 for sundry minor
matters, Ssh, 104 25. These, and two appro-
priations, the expenditure of which is not
likely to be called for, viz. !: bonus for cure
of lepers, S20,0O0, and subsidy to China
the sum of 50, 196,0O6 75-tbe total of the
figures in the Appropriation Bill.
On examining this contemplated expen-
diture, there is seen at the first glance the
selection ..of its objects. The maintenance
of the Monarchy, and the settlements on
Queen Emma and others, constitute an ex-
pense which will be more than provided for
by the revenue from Government Lands.
Hence nc man, white, yellow or brown, can
say hat he is taxed to support the "pomp
and state of royalty" The cost of the
necessary machinery of Government, of the
Legislature, of the Courts of Justice, and
the Police department cannot very we'll be
brought to a lower point, although it is pro-
bable that if he population of the islands
were to become four times as great, very
little increase in this item would be needed.
The cost of collecting the taxes and Gus
toms revenue is per s cent. upon the total in
come from those sources a point on which
Hawaii will compare favorably with many
more important and highly civilized coun-
tries. For the care of the peoples health and
for the education of children large sums are
set aside. The white" man gets his share
of the benefits which accrue from the ex-
penditure. Not one among us would like
to see effort relaxed in these directions.
Without it, these islands would be no place
for the "white man to live in. Roads
and bridges are indispensable things in a
country inhabited by the "white" man.
The native Hawaiian does not need them,
would not trouble himself about them if he
were the sole occupant of the islands, not
w~ithstanding the civilization which he has
adopted. We must put down the whole of
the $685. 900 appropriated or this purpose as
an expenditure for the benefit of the
"white" man: Meanwhile, it should not
be forgotten that every native male be-
tween the ages of seventeen and fifty pays
his two-dollar road tax. Next comes the
Immigration Department with it's lump
vote of 100000. We have talked much
about repeopling the islands with families
but every one knows that till the "Whiteu
men were in straits for laborers, there were
no votes for immigration purposes. An
other lump sum of 500, 600 has been appro-
priated for a Marine Railway for Honolulu.
If an accusation of voting away" reck-
lessly, the public funds could be substan-
tiated against the Legislature, no doubt
this is the item which would go furthest to
do it. But this is a "white" mans item
pure and s~imple-his in its conception, in
the profit to be had out of its construction
and the benefit to accrue from its presence
but only his in common with other tax
payers in regard to the future annual bur-
den for excess of working expenses and
maintenance over income derived from it.
Artesian well boring, $4,000 dredging Ho-
nolulu harbor, $1,000 the tug Pele, $4,000;
water-works, $64, 600 what are these l.?
but " white" mans items? All and sundry
may nave q certain amount of interest in
them, but it is the " white" man with his
ships, his commerce, and his home wants,
who has created the need for them, die
tated the appropriation for them, and reaps
the benefit of the expenditure on account of
them. Again, is it for the "white" man
or the native that We pay 81, 200 a month
subsidy to the Pacific Mail Company?
We pass on to another phase of the ques-
ton. Into whose pockets do the moneys
that are thus "voted away " go. Take the
Judiciary Department. Here $4,000 a year,
two-thirds of the whole annual cost of the
department goes in salaries to "white"
men. In The Foreign Department three.
"white" men receive $13, 500 among them.
In the Department of the Interior, $43, 800,
/ n that of Finance $23, 200, In that of the
Attorney-G General $4,000, go in salaries to
"white" men. The Inspector of Schools,
the Clerk to the Education Board, and all
the more highly paid schoolmasters are
i" white" men. Leaving out the school
masters as to whom we have not specific
information, we have here S136, 200 or more
than an eighth of the proposed annual ex-
penditure paid in salaries alone to white"
men.
GENERAL ARMSTRONG, echoing perhaps