Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-07-31
DAMAGES FOR IMPROVEMENTS.

Hon. John L. Bush, eX-Minister of
the Interior has come to the conclu-
sion that progress in Honolulu Is a
farce, that the extension of well pavcl
streets is delusion, in fact that the
whole system OF Territorial govern
ment and more particularly the posi-
ton of Superintendent of Public
Works was inaugurated with the fixed
purpose of doing Mr.. Bush.
The present particular cause of Nj.
Bush's misunderstanding of the rights,
duties and privileges of American citi.
Zenship is the failure of the govern
ment to pay him his price for land re-
quired for the extension Of Fort street,
that will not only prove a great public
benefit and make for the speedy devci-
opment of the city on broad and mol
ern lines, but will also increase Inc
value of MIR. Bush's land. Twas ev.?
thus. Only few instances are there
on record where private citizens lid
not consider themselves in duty bound
| to make as much out Of government
as possible. With equal regularity,
the effort of a public official to protect
the peoples interests is Immediately
/ depicted as finding its source in an IN
holy purpose to favor the rich and put
down the poor.
The statements presented by Mr..
Bush are not all statements of fact,
His arguments give proof hat the
heresies of Organism have found a
ready advocate.
The superintendent Of public works
can neither give. take away nor pay a
price for the land Of Mr.. Bush or any
other citizen or corporation. His
province is to perform the will of the
people as ordered in the law providing
for the extension of Fort street or Ivy
the findings of jury. Mr. McCand-
less would soon have the treasury of
the Territory in a magnificent state Of
bankruptcy and the populace in an up
roar should he, in extending and Wild
ening STREETS, guarantee to pay every
property holder his price. Mr.. Nc
Candless states the truth when he says
that property holders will be repaid
for land taken for streets by the bet
terments to their property. When
municipal government is inaugurated
the people will doubtless see to it that
the payment of damages for improve
ments will be relegated to the past
II Mr. McCandless goes before the PEG
/ pie on that platform he's pretty sure %
: life tenure of Office.
The Rapid Transit Company scheme
is where the Organism comes in. III
convenient man of straw to rope II
) when there's nothing else to put up
, When Mr.. Bush consults the stoc'
, books of this company he will fn'
E neither J. A. McCandless nor p. G
Jones as stockholders, notwithstand
r ing they have Offices in the same build
Y ing. When Mr.. Bush consults la
= pigeon hole of public spirit he will fin
e that private interests have got the hes
of his better judgment. When he talk
e of "kanaka statesmen" he will dis
e cover that this is term used only b
a the Democratic party whose cause h
i has espoused, that Hawaiian-Am"rI
4 cans are deserving of more dignitic
t title and thoughtful Hawaiian-AmerI
= cans are ever watchful of public inter
% ests-as against private demands fo
5 damages on improvements-ln fact b
= will find the superintendent of publ
Il works right and Mr.. Bush laboring ~
n der a mistaken idea,