The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-10
COUNTY GOVERNMENT

a bill forming one county of the whole
archipelago. To establish municipal
governments for the cities of Honolulu
and Hilo and for other cities when their
/ increased population warrants and
such wish is expressed by the inhabi-
tants.
A Board of Supervisors made up of
supervisor each from Kauai, Oahu,
Maui. East Hawaii, West Hawaii. two
from the city of Honolulu. and one
from Hilo. making eight in. all. of which
the Governor should be chairman. This
form of county government would ex-
else many of the officers proposed by
the late County Act, would obviate the
necessity for a multiplicity of Auditors,
Treasurers, Recorders, Sheriffs. Asses
sors, etc, together with the numerous
and expensive county buildings re-
quired by these officers to carry out
their duties, as well as the many super
visors which that Act called for.
The buildings we already have would
be ample and the expense of carrying
on such a proposed county government
would be a minimum of that involved
in the defunct Act.
Some say that politics should be
eliminated in the election of judges,
supervisors, assessors. etc, but some
also say that the millennium is coming.
1t is as impossible to separate partyism
from elections as it is to separate a calf
from its mother. 1t is possible to edu-
cate the former and wean the latter.
1t is said that a county or shire is
a division of state and therefore the
proposition made above is impossible
as it includes the whole. The people
can originate any form of representa-
tive government it chooses, and if in
its wisdom and desire for economy it
elects to adopt such a form of govern
ment it can do so and call it by any
name it pleases.
AS the Federal Government appoints
and pays the salaries of the Governor.
Secretary of the Territory, Chief jus
tice, Associate Justices, Judges of the
Circuit Courts and the inhabitants find
the work for these officials We have
left but the minor officials TO provide
for. It also provides the Postofficc,
Lighthouses. deepens entrances to har-
bors. cares for the quarantine, etc, etc,
leaving apparently a modicum TO be
raised by direct taxation and which
nlodicum we have in our own control TO
make greater or less.
The cities Of Honolulu and Hilo would
care for all within their peripheries and
their inhabitants could have such
streets. sewers, public buildings and
other municipal improvements as they
should elect.
The next Legislature would be the
last, which would eliminate much work
for the grand jury and be very Crafty
ing to the intelligence of the commu-
nifty. There would be an end to talk
of an appeal to Washington, which no
thoroughb bred American desiring 10 |
continue representative government
ever permits.
Property would be assessed equally
and only such taxes levied as the
projected improvements and expenses
necessitated, and as much raised by
indirect taxes. as licenses, as possible |
Congress could be incessantly worked |
for all the Federal buildings and i'm
provements possible and we will never |
have too many OF them
Probably by thus reducing the num-
Der OF elective officers more interest