The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-07-14


income for the same period
What would any business man DO
who foaue hIs business running behind
al this rzte- What would The man
aver Of any corporation DO. who. on
taking stock Al the end OF the year.
found that the expenditures o. the
business had exceeded the income By
more than s7s5.oeo? He woald Al
once have begun an investigation and
started in to cut down the expendi-
lures and at the same time increase
the reveuue would he not Did Dole
do anything Of this kind. No indeed
/ He did not. in his message to the leg
stature. recommend = single measure
TO Increase the income OF the Teiri-
tory. He even failed 20 call atten-
ton To this lamentabIe condition OF
affairs. He did not recommend the
cutting down OF the salary Of single
/ high priced empioye Of the Territory.
he did not recommend the reducing
Of the force OF Territorial employees
in any department. Under the So
called Republic a gigantic police force
had been built up as a part OF the
/ military establishment 10 maintain
the government Much OF the duties
of this police force became void with
the organization OF Territorial gov
eminent and the taking over Of inter-
nal revenue collections and customs
service by the Federal government. yet
did the Governor recommend any cut
ting down of this great and unduly
expensive force? Not he.
On the otner hand what did he do
He sent to the legislature estimates
for expenditures for the Territory
for the next two years aggregating
the enormous sum of $4,5oS, 56e. so.
With the total income of the Territory
for the year 1900 only amounting to
81. 9SS.2i1 So and with the expendi-
lures for that year exceeding the in
come by more than s7s5.000 he asked
the legislature to appropriate more than
half a million dollars more than the
income OF the Territory could posi-
bly, be without change in the tax
laws. And in this estimate he took
no account of any appropriation for
payment for property burned by the
authorities during the plague fake.
Governor Dole asked the legislature
70 appropriate s2,175.ss5.5 SO for ssIa
ries alone for this little Territory for
the next two years. In other words
the legislators were asked to appro-
pirate the sum of s7.O7 per annum
for every man. woman and child in
the Territory for salaries alone for
the next two years. We make bold
to assert that in no other country on
the civilized earth is any such sum
spent for salaries for public officials
and employees. The State of Califor-
MIA. which is noted as the most ex-
pensively conducted state in all the
union. only expended for the two years
ending June 80, 1900. the sum of s6.o6
per capita per annum for all purposes
, for conducting the government of that
State. But the salaries appropria-
tions Governor Dole asked for were
only the minor part of the appropria-
tons. Besides this enormous sum
he asked for s2,404.674 for current
expenses In other words he asked
for total appropriations by the present
legislature for the next two years o
capita per annum. And all this was
asked. mark you when 1t was known
that the receipts could not possibly
meet the expenditures and when nc
recommendations as to changes in the
/, tax laws so as TO increase the reve
: nues were made or suggested.
Does any sane reader believe it would
be possible for any State or Territory
to have a more incompetent and utter
ly incapable man for Chief Executiv,
than Governor Dole has shown him
self to be-
Let us contrast his action with tina
Of Governor Odell of New York. II
the MeClure's Magazine for July APP
pears an article on Governor Odelr!
administration in which the write
says:
Governor Odell set out determine,
= to have surplus. e.. to reduc'
e taxes. He went over the department.
e of the public service as the head OF ;
4 CREST corporation would ecrutiBiao tn
a work of its several branches. Her
he found waste. there extravaganza
e there useless multiplication of offices
& The results OF his investigation b
a reported fearlessly to the Legislature
n and TO the people. and then withou
any pyrotechnics or posturing. simpl
= said No business man would suffe
2 such an enormous drain upon his II
Y sources.
A. How like the conditions Governo
Il odell found. were those in Hawaii
Sanford B Dole had the opportunit
10 ne = lifetime Ne fund the expend