The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-03-11
(From Thursdays daiiy.)

of self government, by Sec. SO of the
same. granted authority to the Ter
ritorial Legislature to create Counties
and Town and CITY Municipalities and
provide for the government thereof
To what part soever of the globe
the Anglo saxon migrates he carries
with him the love of the laws and
/ forms of local government to which he
has been accustomed, IL not being ma
! terial whether the Topography or eli
mate of his adopted land is suitable or
mot
The land laws of the United States
were enacted after grave consideration
and nroved very npplicablc and con-
diciye to the settlement of the coun-
fry At the same time the ingenious
citizen. or non-citizen. discovered loop
holes i'm them and proceeded through
perinry. bribery and corruption to cor
raj great sections of the public domain
from which they have amassed for
tunes. and are still at work.
/ From the topography of Hawaii the
thinking man can see that those laws
are not appropriate to this country. and
those who have studied our land laws
| find they are much better adapted to
the Topography and to Tending off the
continually pursuing individual in
search of something for nothing. The
latter is probably the advocate of the
| extension of the u. s. Land Laws to
| Hawaii.
| 1t did not take the coIonsts in Amer
| lea long to institute shire and county
| government somewhat similar to those
| they had been accustomed to in En-
| gland. while at the same time originat-
| ing allodial titles in lieu of feudal I'M
der which they We're born.
Today their descendants advocate
county government in Hawaii, and the
natives, seeing the opportunity for null
tiplying office, easily became infatuat-
ed with the proposition. There is no
doubt that improvements, or at least a
modification of the expensive form of
government maintaining under the late
monarchy is necessary 1t is largely
necessary, however, in order to reduce
expenses while at the same time pro-
viding a thoroughly representative gov
eminent.
If we look at the Islands from the
standpoint of population we admit there
is barely sufficient to form one county
of a reasonable size. AS population is
prone to aggregate in centers and if
population only is to be considered we
would md these few nuclei govern
ing the whole. 1t would be advisable
then to form some city governments
who also would have representation
in the general government of the coun-
ty within whose periphery they were
situated.
. If the Legislature must be called to-
gether, and even when 1t does meet in
regular session, would 1t not be wise
in order to meet the demand of the
masses for county government to pass
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 a
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 multiplicity OF Auditors,
Treasurers, Recorders, Sherifts' Asses
sors, etc, together with the numerous
and expensive county buildings re-
quired by these ofncers TO carry out
their duties, as Wen as the many super
Visors which that Act called Tor
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, put some
also say that the millennium is coming
1t is as impossible to separate partyism
from elections as 1t Is to separate car
from its mother 1t Is possible to edu-
cate the former ana Weah the iatter.
1t Is SAID that county OF shire Is
q division of a state, and therefore the