The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-25

Earn more than % cents or 90 cents per /
lay, or do you want prosperity IN the /
and, pay your taxes like men, and re-
,eive $1.25 per day, or more, according
o your several ability? Who are en-
Dloying some OF you to-day? The very
people whom you are told by G. W.
and the Ka Leo are your enc
mics. Hon. G. r. Bishop and the trust
ees OF the Bishop estate are numbered
among those who Mr.. Ashford tells you
are your enemies. Your enemies then
have employed many people in the
building of Bishop Hall and Kameha-
meha School buildings and havel paid
them over $50 900; ind the building
committee OF the Central Union church,
another lot of Va enemies, are giving
you employment during these hard
and paying to you weekly
through their contractor, Mr.. Lishman,
what has amounted since commence
ment to $27 900 and willreach sum total
at completion of 100000. When | had
my contract to build the first fifteen miles
OF railway, advertised in both Native
and Portuguese papers for all the labor
ers obtainable, and paid better wages
than they had received before, and dur
ing the time the work was being pushed
forward rapidly furnished, al my own
expense, free lunches to all the track
builders. | required nothing from them
in return but, good, honest work, which
they gave me in a most cheerful manner.
Ii this is the treatment you receive from
your enemies, what may you not expect
from your friends Ifyou wait until Q.
w. Ashford and the Ka Leo do as well
for you, you will be heard frequently re-
peating the sentiments of the Chinaman,
who, weary of promises unfulflled, eX-
claimed in pigeon English, "too muchy
bye and bye" and you will walk the
streets or lie under the tickle shade OF
the cocoanut tree and die, before they
will look after you, for they will take
care OF themselves, which is as much as
they seem to have done under most ia
vorable circumstances. Ii you think it
is in my power to do you and the whole
country more good and less harm than
any other candidate before you in this
ward, it is your duty to elect NE. The
people in this country, native and for
eign, gave tangible proof of their conf
dence in me by investing in the railway
over $700,0O0. That money has all been
paid out, nearly all of it in this country,
and the bulk of it has gone into circula
ton among laboring men and mechan-
les. The company pays its interest on
its bonds when due, and is now paying
out to employees over $4,000 each month.
The franchise granted to B. L. Dilling
ham and his associates is an exclusive
one fer term of twenty years from its
date. 1t allows the company, which has
a monopoly of the railway business on
&c iClnn nd tc,o al, 81 ~,
cents per mile first class and four cents
per mile second class. The COM
pany, however, are carrying peo-
pie for about one half the amount
they have the right to charge; our stat
istics show that the laboring class pay
the larger part of the gross receipts from
passengers, which for the last three
months OF 1891 was only 10 cents per
mile average. This looks more as il the
people had the monopoly and were
grinding the rich. Perhaps this is the
bad management Bush complains of in
his untruthful paper, Ka Leo. With
this view of the case, the people are to
be congratulated that Bush nor any Of
his cut are managing the railway or any
other public interest Ia Leo says the
railway is no good to the country under
its present management; whenever the
stock and bond holders who represent a
very large number of the people are dis
satisfied with the management, they
have it in their power to change the
management, fortunately for them with
out consultation with Bush or his paper.
As matter of interest to taxpayers, l
may say that Bush and his paper does
him and it justice, when it says the
D. R. & L. Co. is of no use to the coun-
try, and sustains thereby its utter I'M
reliability. The Oahu r. & L. Co. has
furnished as safe an investment as can
be found in the country for a large
amount of money, upon which is paid a
liberal rate of interest. 1t disburses to
mechanics and employees in Honolulu
over $75, 900 year. 1t has raised the
value of property in Manana for taxation
over $150,000. 1t has been instrumental
in creating taxable property at Eva and
Kahuku which was assessed this year,
amounting to $6534.60 in taxes, and will
be increased, it is hoped, through
natural growth of business to an annual
tax of $4,000. 1t has not only i'm
proved the value of its own property, but
has largely increased the value of prop.
erty all along the line. The taxes this
year amount to $S,034.60, an increase Of
$7,887.40 over and above the amount
collected from the same lands three
years ago, prior to the building of the
railway. The subsidy which IA Lee
credits its friends with having
secured for the railway amounts
at present to 1926 q year, an
amount barely sufficient to keep nine
teen miles of its road-bed in order fol
two months. 1t has been stated to me
that Mr.. Bush who secured his election
two years ago at Koolau through his
promises to encourage railway extern
sion around this island, wrote letter to
the late King Kalakaua urging him tC
veto the railway bill which had just
passed the house on its third reading,
and had been sent to His Majesty fol
signature. The bill was not forthcom.
ing until the 9th or 10th day after it had
been sent for signature. An investiga.
ton brought the facts as stated to light
the King had written his veto and at.
tached it to the bill ready to be returned
to the Legislature, and the veto referred
to is now in the safe-keeping of gen.
tlemen in this city. 1 knew nothing Of
this until after the bill had been signed
anu I6IuGu6u ~ Tic uOuSG through Tie
influence OF those who were true to their
constituents. Now, gentlemen, a man
who will do that will sell his constitu-
ents whenever the least temptation is
presented. What could have been the
object? | am told he was looking for
Doodle. Such a man cannot be trusted
out of sight. Not long since Mr.. Bush
was on his way to Eva by rail. | met
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praise for the railway and its promoter