The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-26

Judge. 5000; salary OF twenty-five district
judges, ranging from $500 to 2,4O each"
what q paradise of paradises for the
office seeker. and what a bonanza for the
tax-eater. The total appropriations for the
two years were nearly $S.500.00 When it
is considered that $500, coo is raised annually
by taxation upon a valuation of S35, 100000
the opinion of the writer is that If this heavy
burden upon the wheels of Hawaiian pro-
gTess shall continue lit will sooner or later
wear out the grease of its axles and make the
old cart squeak" The tax falls u2evenly;
the sugar interests. holding two-thirds of
all the property, pays but one-flfth of the
taxes. Under a tariff fer revenue only
S109.GG0 a year is collected. For instance,
an import OF intoxicating liquor valued at
S320.000 in 1890 put $4,000 into the treasury.
D.. Furthermore, a license of 1000 per annum
is exacted of retailers, but the dozen IL
censees who monopolize the trade thrive
are compelled to pay for "tarantula~ juice"
as the Ohio lumberman Classics their
wares.
While the writer was in Hawaii a cam
paign for representatives was In progress.
He quotes from the newspapers the speeches
OF several of the natives. one asked for his
election because he was too ignorant 10
take brides" Another candidates speech
is reported as follows:
my grandfather was a chief, and he
owned ahupuaa in Makawao. The mis-
sionaries induced my grandfather to sell
his estate for % cents an acre. My grand,
father became a runka and vicious, and
was ruined. l think he is now in hell. a
national bank will remove our present
monetary crisis. England, Russia, France
and Italy are flooded with bank notes"
If this Hawaiian statesman had heard of
the propositions of our Populist statesmen
that the government issue billions of fat
/ per cent. he would have been the PETER
of the Sandwich Islands.
Very naturally a government with SO
N onU r1nnoOaCCarV officials has hann POrruDt
and inefficient. There has been no security
for capital or enterprise. The rule of the
b taSS Rlhg man Mas eou I'd make nas it. its Job bbe at thro owe
and the king was in the steals.
And here 1t may be added hat the pres
do the business of Hawaii and who are all
there is Of it. In 1887 public corruption be-
came SO rank that had not the King
acquiesced in the demands made upon him
and accepted the constitution offered him
by the better element of the people he
would have been deposed. They made him
and pledge himself 10 some sort OF decency.
The committee acting for the better ele-
'in ~twenty-four hours" and he made 1t a
full surrender. Again in 1889 the divine
right ruler overstepped the bounds of
decency, and refused TO treat with the In
dignant people, trusting 10 his army of a
hundred men. but the intelligent people at
tackled the citadel with arms, Killed several
of the regular army and dispersed the rest.
Not wishing to take charge of affairs. the
native ruler again made concessions and
promised decency. 1t was in 1893 when the
faithless Queen undertook 10 proclaim a
constitution which would have made her
supreme and her rule robbery and debauch-
cry, that nearly all the people who are in
Hawaii deposed her and established a pro-
visional government, awaiting annexation To
the United States. To maintain such mis-
rule as that of Liliuokalani is only another
name for l-awlessness, confscation and
shameless debauchery.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS.
With the instinct and training of a wide
awake business man, Ash Sliyers, ST., In
yestigated the Industrial and commercial
condition OF Hawaii. Several years ago a
treaty was made by our government with
Hawaii which made free trade between the
two. This was a godsend to Claus Spreckles
and other sugar kings, who imported coolies
from China and cheap labor from Japan.
The high duty on sugar, which put up the
price 2 or 3 cents u pound, went into the
pockets OF these kings. The exports Of the
Islands to the United States In 1890 were
valued at $4,000. 900, chiefly sugar, while we
sold Hawaii A,000,M0 of goods in return.
But the free-sugar clause of the Mckinley
law put an end 10 this hourishing business,
TO the great disgust of the excellent Spreck-
els and others, who had a lobby at Wash
ington TO defeat the clause with the spe-