The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-24
HIS SOLUTION.

When a gentleman of Mr.. Mshuka's
caliber tackles financial questions,
Pierepont Morgan, Rothschilds, Rock
Teller, Russell Sage, Carnegie. Wander
bilts, Astors and host of minor tiDan-
cial lights should hide their diminished
heads. They bungle about with fifteen
or twenty millions of dollars at dip,
but Mr.. Mahuka has schemes which
will deal with fifty or a hundred mill
lions of dollars at a time. The late
King Kalakaua used to have golden
visions of the character of Mr.. Ma
huka's dreams, but he never realized
them, though he sucked the orange of
local finance very fairly dry.
1t does seem very brilliant PROPOSE
tion, and shows a breadth of mind
which is almost incomprehensible, to
formulate it. Mr.. Mahuka after mature
consideration says the personal taxes
amount to five dollars per head. Every
man in the. country pays five dollars
in personal taxes. If one man enters
the territory the territorial income is
raised five dollars, if five hundred men
come in, the territorial income. will be
raised $4,000. The matter then of reve-
nue., which has, been bothering fools
like Dole, Boyd. Damon, Irwin, Cooper,
Baldwin and others like them, is the
simplest thing in the world. If you
want a big revenue get plenty of peo-
pie. A million Chinese, and China
swarms with people, would mean S.
100000. But why stop at a million, why
not ten million, that would i've $780,
100000 and every Office holder could be
paid according to Mr.. Mahuk-'I scale
of merit.
1t is true that the total area of the
Territory is but SAG square miles, and
that a population of 10 900 would
average up 1850 to the square mile.
which would be four times as much as
the most thickly populated country in
the world. Also, it is not clear how
all these Chinese would find means of
livelihood, and therefore means Cf rails
ing five dollars a head annually to go
into Mr.. Mahukas treasury. But as
Mr.. Mahuka might justly say, These
are details. have given the main idea
stone, the Grand arcanum, the means
of raising unlimited riches and maxine
every Hawaiian office holder wealthy
beyond the dreams of avarice. Do you
expect me to go into the vulgar details
OF percentages, or square miles, or the
means of these ten millions Chinese
slaves who are to minister to the needs
of forty tbOuG1pH 10 10 WI,
the idea is absurd, work out your base
mechanical figures as you choose. but
don't bother my mind with petty de-
tails. l will hit another pipe and dream
another fifty or one hundred million"
of course Mr.. Mahuka is quite right
in this attitude, and every man of sense
will support him in his view, but like
many great men he has overlooked one
little particular, of course it NAV he
overcome, no one can say how mighty
lis the force of this gentleman's intel
lect, but t. the ordinary mind there is
a stumbling block. The Territory of
Hawaii is a portion of the United
states. That country has a rooted OBJ
lection to Chinese, and passed some
years ago an exclusion act. This act
rs still in force. How is Mr.. Mahuka
going to get his Chinese in here, in face
of this act?''r.. D. ,..s ,..
This is all very funny and amusing.
and we can laugh over this bander-log
exhibition of pseudo finance. for it is
worse than childish, it is thoroughly
HANDKERCHIEF, but it is sad as well. Mr.. |
Mahuka's attitude. shows how utterly |
himself and what followers he may
have misunderstood the situation and
how thoroughly incapable they are of
understanding in it. 10 those who |
have admired the Hawaiians, and who
have done everything that they could .
for their advancement, Mr. Mahuka
and many more like him are a subject
of profound sorrow. But there need be
no surprise in this. 1t has been the ex-
perience of others besides those who
have dealt with Hawaiians. It has
been the same in New Zealand, in Sa-
moa, in British India. The veneer is
given, but the real spirit is never touch
ed. man who can talk such utter
rubbish as Mr.. Mahuka talks, and men
who can applaud and believe in his
theories are utterly unfit to have any
thing to say upon financial questions.
They simply know no more about them
than they know of the movements in
the constellation of the Great Bear as
shown by the spectroscOpe J ..,t
THE UNFORTUNATE CELESTIAL,