The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-29
THE EXTRA SESSION GAME.

1t IS the good fortune of the Home
Rulers TO find plenty of Republicans, or
pseudo Republicans, TO do their politics.
They desire. most of all. an extra ses-
sion, but left to themselves they have
no means of getting one. To them an
extra session of the Legislature implies
what the capture Of an unarmed treas
ure ship used to mean to buccaneers or
the. Bleaching of a laden merchantmen
meant TO wreckers along shore. Sixty
days at 100000 expense to the taxpay-
ers and the steals from cinch bills
printing deals and Interpretation Jobs
stand for all the difference between
Iuau and a famine to the organized
appetite called the Legislature. Nor is
this ali. If given a chance, the Home
Rule party-which, for che benefit OF
foreign readers, we viii describe as the
anti-American remnant of the old
Afonarehist organization-would enact
city and county charters for no other
reason than to get patronage to use IN
It's warfare upon Americans, Repubn-
cans and Democrats alike Even II
money were appropriated for the uses
OF the Territorial government 1t would
be put at the di5posal of the friends ana
tools of the Legislature majority. We
doubt that any legitimate interest
would be served by money thus raised
and allotted.
That Republicans" can be found to
assist the Home Rulers in their preda-
tory raids, merely shows what was
charged a year ago. namely, that the
wilcox men have their spies and con-
apirators staked out in the old parties
and are using them with cunning and
without conscience. Not a few of these
outside handy men bear Republican
commissions and some Of their news
paper organs profess Republican doc
trine. But actions speak louder than
words; policies mean more than titles
The truth Is that the demand for an
extra session Of the Legislature Is moth
ing else than a move of the Home Rui-
ers towards an era OF extravaganza and
plunder and that those who are trying
To help them within the American par
ties are doing il for a share In the
sroiis. The one thing that keeps the
decrepIt Honolulu Republican alive
despite It's deficit OF nearly $3.50 per
month and it's burden OF borrowed
money Is the hope that 1t may get It's
arm into the Territorial treasury under
Home Rule auspices and as a reward
for it's frequent betrayals OF the party
to which IL pretends TO belong and
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mask.
The deeoy argument about the I'M
perative need Of more money for Terri
torial purposes does not deceive the
Governor nor will Il deceive any think
ing taxpayer. Property taxes have been
vastly increased; license taxes are be-
Ing doubled; the income tax Is highly
productive; revenues are being derived
from hitherto untapped sources; certain
departmental expenses have been cut
down. On the whole there will be
enough money in hand for the uses OF
government economically administer
ed but none to throw away. That is
not an unsatisfactory state OF things
By any means It Is much more TO be
commended than fat budget to be
drawn upon for doing politics through
fiim-flam road-repair system such as is
proposed At an expense OF from S35. coo
10 $4,000 or perhaps double that sum
tor the excellent highway to the vol
cano. 1t is vastly better than what
would come through the institution of
city and county governments at the
hands Of men who habitually regard
public office as a private snap and who.
from their long and merited exile from
office. are slaverIng with cupidity and
greed 1.-JF7E.s