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The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
WHO is THE TRUE ANNEXA-
TIONISTs

The matter of finances is merely in
nut shell. Senator McCandless is in ia
vor of an interminable loan of fifty
wears. The Minister of Finance in his
financial plans has arranged, as will be
seen in another article, to have the
loan terminable loan upon six months
notice and five per cent. premium.
The difference between the two finan-
cial schemes is very patent. In Mr.. Da-
mons scheme provision is made for
annexation, and that is what the pres
emit Government is in power for. The
Senator's scheme is against annexation.
The first question asked by the Har-
rison Cabinet was, What about the
debt? Is it convertible"
What Mr. Damon wishes is TO be in
position to meet questions like this
in a satisfactory manner.
What Senator McCandless wishes to
do is to tie the country up in such
shape that it would make the United
States hesitate to take hold of us. The
result under the Senator's plan, in the
case of annexation, would be to send the
bonds up under the United States pro-
lection and put an enormous percentage
into the pockets of the bondholders.
The United States might very well hesi-
tate under the circumstances. Now,
who is the best annexationist? The
man who lays his plans for bringing
the country into such position that
it can accept annexation at once, or he
who puts bar that all American states
men will look at askance?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
LATEST TAX RETURNS.

The tax returns for the year ending
December 31st, 1895, have been printed
and were presented to the Legislature
Friday, and, as was to be expected, the
public gain some interesting informa-
ton from the document. We can gather
from them what nationalities pay taxes
and how many of each are delinquent.
We find that the total taxes assessed
were s637, 270.2O, that $3.50, 1858 were
collected, of which over $50, 900 had to
pay the ten per cent. penalty, making
1892, 691.92 as the net proceeds of the
Government Thus no less a sum than
$51, 874.82 is delinquent The total taxes
of Hawaiians and half-castes were as
sessed at $13a, 365.6O, and sos, 1887
we're collected, and of this over 30,000
incurred the ten per cent. penalty, or
one-half of all the penalty paid, while
the delinquent taxes amount to $685.
216.73, or nearly so per cent. of the total
delinquency. The taxes for Americans
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
FIRST STEAMER IN THE PACIFIC

Through the courtesy of Professor Al
exander we have received a short &C
count of the first steam vessel whose
keel ever cut the waters of the Pacific
ocean. The vessel was the Beaver. "
She sailed from England on the SANE
Nay as the Columbia" on which CAP
lain Peter Corney and his family were
passengers. Both vessels arrived in Ho-
nolulu on the same day, in January,
1886.
The Beaver" was built at Blackwell,
London, of oak and teak, in the year
1885, by Green Wigram. The engines
were made by Bolton and Watts. Her
tonnage was 10. She was brigantine
rigged and came out under sail only.
Her captains name was Holmes. She
called at Honolulu and remained in port
about twenty days. AS she came in IN
der sail, she attracted little attention.
If she had come in under steam she
would have made great sensation as
the first steamer on the Pacific. She
left Honolulu February 4, 1886, crossed
the Columbia bar March s, and anchor
ed at Vancouver April TO- Vancouver
at that time was the Hudson Bay Com
pany's headquarters for the Northwest
ern territory. At Vancouver guards,
wheels and warehouses were fitted.
After years of work along the coast she
was sold by the Hudson Bay Company
as too old and Anticipated for their bust
ness, and was used as tow-boat, tow
ing logs to the mill at Burrard's Inlet.
Two years ago she was wrecked on the
rocks near Vancouver, B. C. The wood
from the wreck was cut up into canes
and snuff boxes as relics, and every one
of them have been bought up by Hud-
son Bay Company people and old set
tiers in the country.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
NOW ENFORCE THE LAW.

The Act Ito provide punishment for
libidinous solicitation and procuring -
which is now the law of the land, is
sufficiently sweeping in it's provisions
to wipe out ever item of temptation
which the social evil throws in the
pathway of the community. The law
makes it a misdemeanor to attend any
place where immoral dances are held
or any indecent entertainment is being
given; to go to or attend any place
where a prostitute resides or prosti-
tutes are known to congregate; to do
anything tending to allure and tempt
another to go to or attend any of the
places indicated in the Act, or to lead,
conduct or act as guide to any of the
places named. Any person convicted
under the Act is liable to fine of not
more than $500, or Imprisonment at
hard labor not over one year; and, if the
person convicted is licensed driver,
his license shall be forfeited and no Ii
cense granted to him for two years.
The law is undoubtedly aimed at
certain class Of hack drivers who have
done more to lead young women to ruin
than any other class in the country. 1t
will also strike a class of tourists who
come to the country with a desire to
see some of the most fragrant evils with
which the country has to contend. The
law is a good one. 1t was drawn I'D SO
as to leave no loophole for escape upon a
shabby excuse of technicality, and 30
far as the legal work is concerned, that
object has been fully realized.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
KINDERGARTENS.

The May Day celebration of the kin
dergartens shows the public how i'm
portant this work is becoming in Homo
lulu, and will doubtless increase the
number of those who give aid to the
movement.
The first kindergarten ever establish
ed on the Islands was that opened on
Nuuanu street by Miss Sarah King, in
1888. Her school was moved into Ku-
kui street and was continued by Miss
Mather for number of years. Through
lack of patronage the school was dis
continued, but in year or so was re-
vived under Miss Birch Tanning, at the
Punahou Preparatory building. These
we're pay schools.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
REGISTERING BIRTHS, ETC.

A correspondent wants to Know
whether any "hoary Senator OF frisky
Representative" correspondent, we
fear, is disposed to be flippant-has ia
ken up the question of registration Of
births, marriages and deaths. No one
has. Our correspondent further urges
that if the fine of $25 for not registering
were enforced, the Minister of Finance
might find he had a surplus in the
treasury.
Joking apart, something should be
done for accurate registration of births
and deaths. The so-called statistics are
utterly unreliable. In order to counter
act the idea that the Islands are not
healthy, we have only the death sta
tistics of Honolulu, which are accurate
ly kept by the Board of Health, but
there is absolutely no accuracy about
death statistics in the outside districts,
and as things are now managed it is a
positive waste of money paying for the
names now handed in, for inaccurate
statistics are worse than none at all.
AS for birth statistics, they simply
don't exist We venture to say that
starting from the Chief Justice down
wards there is not one head of family
in hundred who has registered his
children. We trust that the Board of
Health, under whose charge these sta
tistics should be, will formulate some
plan for proper work in this direction.
If the present law wants amending, let
the amendment be made at this session.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

The first free kindergarten was es
tablished in 1892, under the auspices o.
Mr.. Frank w. Damon, for Chinese chill
dren, and shortly after free kindergar
tens were opened for Hawaiians, Portu
guese and japanese.
The present free kindergarten system
was organized in March, 1894, and the
schools mentioned above were taken
over In September of that year a de-
partment was opened for foreign chill
dren of any nationality outside those
named
In June, 1895, this organization was
incorporated under the name of the Free
kindergarten and Children's Aid Asso-
citation of the Hawaiian Islands. In
September, 1894, kindergarten was
applied for and sent to Honolulu by Mrs
Cooper, so well known from her connec-
ton with the Golden Gate Free Kinder
garten Association of San Francisco.
Under her a number of young ladies
have been trained, and some of them
are now acting as paid assistants.
OF the free kindergartens there are
now FIVE. with total attendance of
about 100 children, and outside of the
organization there are three indepen-
dent kindergartens with an attendance
of over so, thus making 270 children be-
ing educated under this influence in the
city of Honolulu.
Outside of Honolulu, there are two
kindergartens in Hilo and one in Ko-
hala.
The main work of organizing and
keeping the kindergartens has been
done by Mrs. Coleman, who has devoted
herself and still devotes herself to the
work.
The kindergartens are kept up by vol
untary contributions, and are, we un-
derstand, out of debt The cost of keep
ing them up is estimated by Mrs. Cole
man at $4,000 annually.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

Now comes the question of enforce
ment. The wording of the law amounts
to little or nothing unless its provisions
are strictly carried out. Furthermore
the work of the officials cannot be car
ried on successfully unless they have
the cooperation of the community. The
people who were active in having the
law placed upon the statutes are by no
means fulfilling their duty if they con-
slider that their work is completed.
They ought not to say, We've given
you the law, now go to work and en-
force it," and sit back and condemn Of
fcials if social conditions continue near
ly as bad as in the past. Very likely the
private citizen will shrink from the
prominence that might be necessary in
bringing the law down on the heads of
guilty parties; but in nine cases out of
ten, of this character, the private citizen
can obtain and turn over to the authoEi-
ties information which the officials
could not touch by following the usual
methods.
Let the good people of the community
show that they mean to have the law
enforced, and not allow false modesty
to stand in the way of sadly needed
reform movement.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

and Europeans were assessed at $10S,-
1924, and the amount collected was
s9S ,965.37, leaving $10,s17.T delinquent.
To these there must be added the Am
erican and European corporations, with
an assessment of s146,2 97.64 and col
lection of s145, 74O23, and American and
European firms with an assessment OF
S32, 342.3O and a collection of $31 $3.50
This would make a total of taxes from
Americans and Europeans of $276, 3O3.1O
collected.
The Portuguese were assessed at $685.
S42.5O, and paid s25,475.91, and as their
ten per cent penalty only amounted to
s392.36, it is very evident that the bulk
of the Portuguese are prompt in paying
their taxes.
The Chinese were assessed at S1O1,-
2244O, and paid in $92, 323.16, but their
ten per cent. penalty amounted to ST.
800. 80, being a little less than half of the
Hawaiian. The japanese have proved
good taxpayers, being assessed at $685.
272.07 and having paid $S1, S3S.S9.
On real estate the 1888 Hawaiian
property payers were assessed at $685.
565.s6, and paid sos, 243.10, leaving $14,-
322.S6 delinquent. The Americans and
Europeans were assessed at SIS, 645.9S,
paid s63, 1857, leaving $6,5O9.62 delin-
quent. Add to this the real estate of
American and European corporations
and firms, and it will be found that from
this source there have been collected
$122, 1883, with a delinquency of only
s6,59S.53.
On real estate, Americans and Euro
peans have paid 81 per cent. of the taxes
collected, the Hawaiians q per cent,
and the remaining three nationalities
II per cent. between them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

According to this, the Island of Kauai
stands second in the proportion of taxes
it pays compared with it's area and pop
ulation. We commend this statement to
the careful consideration of the Hawaii
contingent.
We do not for an instant maintain
that what the Island of Hawaii asks
in the way of roads and bridges is un-
necessary. We have ere now advocated
public works on that Island, and know
that such works, though not directly re-
munerative, would eventually become
remunerative to very large extent.
What we do maintain is that the Island
of Hawaii contributes nothing like as
large proportion of the taxes as has
been claimed. The figures given above
distinctly prove that.
In conclusion, from these tables we
learn that there are a considerable mum.
Der of delinquent taxes, in all ISL. 8748
or about eight per cent. of the whole
amount assessed. This seems a very Sc
rious loss, and the tax collectors should
be very careful to get in the public
funds more nearly to the mark. The
new registration act may be of some as
sistance to them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

Some one who has been delving in
old-time English journalism has culled
the following news item from the Daily
Mercury of July II, 1904: An enor-
nous whale is said to have been strand
ed off Marlborough Head in the year
1853. in a state of dreadful exhaustion,
with a church steeple sticking out of it's
mouth. On cutting up the sacriligious
monster. which could not be performed
so quickly as to prevent his convulsions
from setting all the bells a-ringing, the
whole congregation were found in the
body of the church, enclosed in the
stomach of the leviathan, in the very
act of singing Psalms, and the parson in
the vestry taking a glass of wine before
sermon" When critics pass judgment
upon modern methods of journalism
they should take into account that if
newspaper men of the present day are
inclined to draw an occasional long
bow they came by it honestly. Even
in the days when the record of daily
events covered one-tenth of the amount
of paper used today, the ubiquitous
reporter was sometimes hard pressed
for story. The yarn quoted above will
certainly take the palm over any Ha-
waiian shark story that has yet been
published.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

In destroying the contraband opium
collected from time to time in this coun-
try the Customs Department and the
Board of Health are getting down to
first principles in most commendable
STYLE. OF course the country would real
ize a little more money by following out
the old scheme of selling the opium in
8 foreign market, but this country has
put itself on record as irrevocably OPP
posed to the opium trade in any form.
Other countries do not consider it an
evil to deal in the drug, but at the same
time it is hardly proper for Hawaii to
profit by the moral weakness of another
government. At the present time it can
be stated without the possibility of sue
cessful refutation that Hawaii is not in
the opium business for what money
there is in it. Hawaii is ready to stand
by a moral principle, Notwithstanding
the national pocketbook is touched to a
certain extent. This is the kind of bust
ness administration of moral laws that
merits admiration and respect.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
TEMPERANCE COFFEE HOUSE.

1t is reported on very good authority
that movement is to be made to es-
tablish temperance coffee house to be
conducted on somewhat the same plan
as the coffee palaces of Australia and
similar organizations in England and
the United States. The object of these
establishments is not only to furnish
place where people without homes
may obtain something to eat and drink.
In fact, in many features they are not
unlike the Y. M. C. A. or social club,
in that they provide pleasant rooms
where young men, and even those who
can no longer be classed with the youth,
can pass a quiet evening with good
reading and interesting games at their
disposal.
There is in every city class of men
who, after their days work is done, are
at loss to know what to do with them
selves. They are not inclined to seek
the Y. M. c. A., they don't shine in So
ciety, they keep very much to them
selves, and gradually form an opinion
that nobody has any particular interest
in their welfare, except the man who is
a hale fellow we'll met in the barroom
Thus it is that many an individual
spends his evenings in a saloon when
he would seek better society if it were
put in his pathway.
If it is impossible to do away with the
saloons, it is certainly possible to create
counter attractions entirely free from
the evil influences of the saloon. To
make the coffee house a success it
should be kept open until midnight, it
should be managed by people whose in
fuence for good cannot be questioned,
and finally, it should have good, sub
stantial financial backing at the outset.
If the restaurant, which is the import
ant feature of the institution, is not well
up to the mark, the stamp of signal fail
ure will be placed upon it from the
start. There is more truth than poetry
in the old adage that the shortest
course to mans heart is through his
stomach.
The people of Honolulu have deserv-
eddy good reputation for liberality to-
wards any institution inaugurated to
raise the moral standard of the commu-
nifty, and we can see no reason Ho-
nolulu coffee house should not receive
the hearty support of all those inter-
ested in lessening the individuals in Ho-
nolulu who come under the head of IAN
other man gone wrong"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

the House Of Representatives have no
idea that the Senate should block the
progress of the country for the benefit
of the few, and it is well known that
had not things shaped themselves in
the Senate as they did yesterday, that
a meeting of those merchants and tax
PAYERS who are earnestly interested in
the expansion of the country would have
been called to show the Senate how the
country felt.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

One of the interesting items connect
Sd with the Republican Presidential
canvass now going on in the United
states is the discovery that Governor
Mckinley and Senator Allison are rela-
nyes Governor McKinley's mother was
Nancy Campbell Allison, a descendant
from the same line as Senator Allison.
Again is the old adage proven true that
politics makes queer bedfellows."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
Architect Assaulted.

There was no little excitement at the
corner of Fort and Hotel streets shortly
after o'clock last evening over an as
sault by Fred Harrison on C. B. Ripley,
the architect.
There will probably be two charges
against himEone already in, for as
saulting an officer, and another for as
sault and battery on Mr.. Ripley. It is
not known what grievance he had
against the latter.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
A Cure for Muscular Rheumatism

Mrs. R. L. Lamson of Fairmount, H.,
says: MY sister used Chamberlain
Pain Balm for muscular rheumatism
and it effected complete cure. I keep
it in the house at all times and have al
ways found it beneficial for aches and
pains. 1t is the Quickest cure for rheu-
matism, muscular pains and lameness
l have ever seem" For sale by all drug
gists and dealers. Benson, Smith & Co.,
agents for Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05
PROPORTION OF TAXES.

The recapitulation of the tax returns
by divisions is as interesting as that
by nationality. From the latter we
learned what people we're the largest
taxpayers and who were the most seri-
Gus delinquents, the figures showing
that the most careless of the taxpayers
were the Hawaiians, who paid half Of
the total ten per cent. penalty and were
debited with half the delinquencies-
though their assessed taxes were about
one-fifth of the total assessment.
On the Island of Oahu there are 1886
property taxpayers and 14,7SO personal
taxpayers. Real estate was assessed for
$127, 3O39S, while the total assessed
taxes for the Island were $300,334.73.
Next in importance to the Island Of
Oahu--though we doubt if the Hilo
Tribune and Hilo contingent will acqui-
esce in that statements the Island of
Hawaii. On that Island the number of
property payers is 1855, less than that,
of Maui, which has 1929 property pay
ers. The number of personal payers is
14,043, or only 700 less than on the
Island of Oahu. The real estate tax
from the Island of Hawaii amounted to
$41, 222.O5, which is one-third the as
sessment Of real estate on Oahu, and the
total assessment is $15S, 921. 80-a little
over one-half of the total assessment
of Oahu, and just one-fourth of the total
assessment of the whole Islands.
The Island of Maui, with which are
included Molokai and Lanai, has, as has
been already stated, 2,S29 property pay
ers and 1882 personal payers. The real
estate assessment is $31 ,O2O.62, and the
total assessment $92,15492. While on
Kauai the number of property payers is
1,09S, Of personal payers 1914, the as
sessed real estate amounts to $22,287.77,
and the total assessment to $S5,S5S.75.
COuSiucTluS luC SlLc VI Tic NdliOuo
Islands and their proportion of popula-
ton to the population of the whole
group, Hawaii by no means makes good
her claim to paying an over proportion
of the taxes, and upon this clamoring
that not enough is done for her in COM
parison with the other Islands.
Roughly speaking, the Island of Oahu
has "a per cent. of the population, Ha-
wall has 81 per cent, Maui and its adj
jacent Islands p per cent, and Kauai
IA per cent. OF the taxes Oahu pays
AZ per cent, Hawaii rs per cent, Maui
and it's adjacent Islands, Is per cent,
and Kauai Is per cent.
The tabulated statement is as follows.
The areas are given in square miles
The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-05-05

The bill, NO. IL, about which so mucn
has been said and written, contains
fourteen sections. The preamble states
that bonds and loans to the amount OF
So, 0O5, 10000 have been contracted, bear
ing various rates of interest and re-
deemable at various dates. 1t would be
better to consolidate at one rate of in
terest and for one stated time.
Section 1 provides for issue of bonds
by the Minister of Finance with approx
al of Executive Council, to the amount
of SO, 005 10000 Section makes the in
terest semi-annual, interest at not more
than six per cent. and date not exceed
ing fifty years. Section exempts bonds
from taxes. Sections and provide
small details. Section 6 orders the pro-
ceeds of the bonds to be exclusively
used for the conversion of existing
bonds. Section z shows how the old
bonds may be converted by offering new
bonds at "such rate of premium or dis
count or otherwise upon such terms as
may be agreed upon with the holders
thereof, subject to approval of the Ex-
ecutive Council" Section s authorizes
the Minister of Finance to grant dis
caunt on all bonds issued under this
Act. Section allows the Minister, with
approval of the Executive Council, to
make arrangements with any person,
persons, Syndicate, Bank or Company
for the purchase or issue of bonds under
this Act of not less than $3.50, 900, If
necessary at a discount, and may allow
such persons, Syndicate, etc., such COM
mission as he may think fit. Section 10
provides for signing the bonds. Section
II is probably the most important 1t
provides that at any time, after a six
months notice by the Government and
a payment of premium of five per
cent, the bonds can be redeemed. This
clause provides for annexation and was
inserted for that reason.
Section IL forbids borrowing under
any previous loan acts which may yet
be unexhausted. Section 13 confers the
power of borrowing from time to time
until the limit is reached.
Added to the bill is the statement of
the public debt in detail, footing up 49,
O05, 300, with yearly interest of $780,
9OS. 1t also shows how the interest un-
der various rates of discount and COM
mission would be reduced for per
cent. loan to $161 ,534.SS; for AZ per
cent. loan to $152, 1881, or for per
cent. loan to $141, 249.10, instead Of the
$1SO,9OS which we are now paying.
This is the bill which it was consid
cred not the time to pass, which was
wiped aside in half column report and
a few minutes debate.