The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-14

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vertising AMI host OF other necessary /
expenses incidental to municipal govern /
ment, and all without money, because !
Mr. Marques does not say word about |
local taxation, while he does promise a |
POSSIBLE reduction in national taxation. !
Furthermore, Mr. Marques has laid
out public works programme for the
Kingdom irf the construction of roads,
bridges, wharves, landing places, rail
roads, telegraphs and irrigation which
would involve very heavy expenditure,
necessitating increased taxation and
big loan If it is to be carried out; yet IN
the same breath he says that he viii OPP
pose further borrowing and reduce taxa
ton. Does Mr.. Marques think that the
taxpayers and voters of the Kingdom are
to be fooled by such a transparent piece
of claptrap as this? Everything he adj
vocates should be done, but it cannot be
done without great deal OF money, and
there are only two ways by which
country can raise money, aud that IS by
taxation and borrowing. And indeed
one includes the other. If country
borrows it must provide for the payment
OF interest, and it can only do so either
by taxation or by hypothecating national
property, the latter always being doubt
full and costly expedient.
What can Mr.. Marques possibly mean
by the following: II am in favor of in
creasing the population of the Kingdom
by all practicable means, and l shall
urge the Government to offer proper in
ducements to all bona fide settlers" Ii
it means increase by immigration it in
wolves a money expenditure, and with
reduced taxation and comprehensive
scheme of public improvements in full
blast, it would puzzle the ingenuity even
of the great financial luminary of the
Opposition, Mr.. j. o. Carter, to intro
duce immigrants without money. But
Mr.. Marques is above all such petty de-
tails of business. His programme does
not take into consideration ways and
means. 1t is only heavy coating OF
molasses spread upon very thin paper
to catch flies as it were. But again, if the
paragraph above quoted does not mean
increase of population by immigration,
what on earth does it mean?
We now come to the Chinese plank in
the Marquesan platform. 1t processes
the utmost soEcitude for the native pop
ulation, and promises to "protect the
natives and the foreigners from the en-
croachments of the Chinese" So far so
good. But man is to be judged by
what he does, not by what he processes
his readiness to do. Now, it so hap
pens that Mr.. A. Marques has Chinese
record in acts done altogether different
from his written record of what he would
compel others to do if he had the power
to enforce his mandate. What is this
practical, as distinguished from the theo-
retical record of Mr.. Marques, who poses
as anti-Chinese candidate? We are
entitled to examine it, inasmuch as he
makes this point of policy ground OF
appeal to the foreign and native voters
of Honolulu. Otherwise we would not
say word about it. Mr.. Marques, how
ever, has stepped into the private arena
and his own actions may properly be
used to test the sincerity of his political
professions.
1t is reported, and We have reason to
believe that the report is true, that Mr..
A. MARQUES, who has filed the local
press, outside the ADVERTISER, for
months past, with his anti-Chinese
TRADES, was the first man in Honolulu
who employed only Chinese labor to
build house. 1t is reported, and we
have reason to believe that the report is
true, that Mr.. A. Marques went around
among foreign artisans and builders OF
Honolulu, and obtained estimates and
tenders for the erection of the house in
which he now resides, and that having
secured all the details and estimates, he
went to the Chinese and contracted with
them at lower rates to do the work. 1t
is reported, and we believe the report is
true, that this Mr.. A. Marques, having
fooled and humbugged the white build
ers and artisans as aforesaid, proceeded
to build, paint and finish in every detail
the house in which he now resides with
Chinese cheap labor to the injury and loss
of native and foreign labor. 1t is further
reported, and we believe the report to be
true, that this Mr.. A. Marques, who
pledges himself in his address to protect
foreign and white labor against the Chi
nese, has never had a stroke of work
done in this country by foreign or native
labor that he could avoid, except sinking
an artesian well, which he could find no
Chinaman to undertake. 1t is further
reported, and we believe the report to be
true, that Mr.. A. Marques, whose ''plat-
form" we have spoken of above, has
leased or let the few acres of land he
possesses to Chinese, who pay him q
rent out of all proportion to what either
a foreigner or native Hawaiian could
afford to pay; and that while he is thus