The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-20

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| Actual current revenues....$l7 23,0SO 81
For The first six months Of the year
the probable actual current revenue as
/ estima ed by the Auditor will be $6O6
10000, and for the first six months of
1908 81 729, $4,000, making a total esti-
mated current revenue for the present
year of 81, 1886, $50.
From these various statements it is
safe to estimate our actual current rev.
enues for the coming biennial period
upon the basis of our present revenue
laws, at not over $5,000,O00.
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
Although from this showing the ex-
/ pendtures for the first year of the pres
ent biennial period have been within
lthe actual current revenues, the rev
enues for the period viii! be insufficient
for fully carrying out the appropria-
J lions for current expenses amounting
! in the aggregate to $5,732, 1853 SO. Esti-
mating the actual current revenues for
the last six months of the present bien-
NAL period at $606, AGO. the revenues for
the entire present biennial period will
be $4,SO2 6S3.12 which is 1929 7SO.57 less
than the aggregate appropriations for
current expenses.
The past year has not been a very
prosperous one for the producers of
the main staple of the Territory. Our
general prosperity is so intimately con-
necte1 with that of the sugar planta-
tons that every opportunity of success
not inconsistent with other and more
paramount interests of the body poll
| tic, should be afforded them.
The recent depression, however, in
sugar production, should forcibly re-
mind us of the vital Importance to the
Territory of the development of pro-
ductive enterprises on other lines. 1t
! is not to be doubted that the phenom-
email profit of sugar production in these
Islands in the past has had a power
! fully repressive influence upon all other
| productive enterprises. The lessening
of such profit will therefore have its
compensation in the inevitable tenden-
cy toward a revival of such other en-
terprises; and the Government should
stimulate such tendency whenever it
may legitimately do So
SMALL FARMING.
The ways are many in which this
may be done. BY promoting agricul-
! tural education and the work of eX-
pertinent stations; by promoting the
settlement of the public lands by men
who Will make their permanent homes
on the farms, and by making it posi-
bic for such farmers to get their pro-
ducts to good markets; and by giving
every reasonable assistance to new
operations that are still in the expert
mental stage; which may be done in
one way by exempting them from tax
es for a definite period.
The production for instance, of fibre
in the Territory has reached a pro-
missing and it is to be hoped, a sue
cessful stage. 1t is important in the
public interest, that We should not be
satisfied to ship away the raw ma
terial to be manufactured elsewhere,
and the government should encourage
its home manufacture and other new
manufacturing schemes, whenever pri-
vate enterprise shall be ready to take
the initiative.
In connection with the plans of the
business men of the Territory for the
exploitation of it's resources and at
fractions l would call your attention
to the experience of the older Terri
| tories, where ii has been found ad-
visable to maintain a bureau for the
information of tourists and settlers,
and | would suggest that provision be
made for such a bureau, or that as
sistance be given to the citizens in their
conduct of such an undertaking.
ADVERTISING HAWAII.
The great Worlds Fair which is to
| be held at st. Louis next year will give
an opportunity for disseminating infor-
nation about the Territory which can
not well be surpassed. If the Terri
tory takes up this matter, it is worth
while to do it thoroughly l would
( recommend liberal appropriation for
this object.
One of the most important duties of
the Legislature in the present session
will be for the consideration of legisla-
| tion for the creation of counties, and
provision for their government, The
| Continued to page six.)