The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-10-28

party, whether his income is from a
salary or from investment, has had
both reduced to such an extent that an
increase in the rate of the income tax
to support increased salaries and in
creased clerks in the Government SER
vice, should make him a supporter of
the Republican policy of keeping the
expenditures within the revenues. 1t
is not justifiable to burden the people
with taxation in order to create offices,
and pay larger salaries to government
employees than obtained in the mercan-
tile community and among the people
which support them.
The estimated revenue of this Terri
tory per annum is $2,500,0OO and the
salaries and payrolls bill of the gov
eminent per annum is $96S.4Oi. This
leaves for improvements and running
expenses 1899, 491 per annum. Increase
the salaries and payrolls bill, by an in
crease in the number Of clerks and a
higher salary, and we have to pay for
it by an increase in taxation. Would
any sane business man in the man
agement of his own affairs increase the
number of clerks in his employ with
levy assessments on the stockholders to
pay increased salaries during a period
of depression, from which the stock
holders themselves were suffering
And yet this is the unbusinesslike, I'M
sound. unjust financial policy of the
Democratic party, as put forth in their
platform. And further the Democratic
platform says, We deplore the present
distressed financial condition of the
Territory, brought about by the Re
publican element in part, by withhold
ing from circulation large sums of loan
fund moneys that might heretofore
have been made available had the de-
partments used due diligence in prose-
cutting the several works comprised in
the loan fund appropriations; and in
extravagant administration, resulting
in the issuance of government warrants
to employees and supply men, a prepos-
ferrous course whereby the taxpayers
are being daily mulcted in the amount
OF interest paid on unproductive loans
on the one hand and the loss incidental
to discounting warrants on the other
And this charge is made as part of
the thunder of the Democratic plat
form, and not one word of remedy.
How would the Democratic party in it's
advocacy in the same platform of in
creased expenditures, in salaries and
clerks meet the situation? Would not
the increase in the rate of the income
tax advocated by the Democratic party
mulct the taxpayers in more than the
amount of interest paid and the loss
incidental to discounting warrants"
EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL.
What the people of this Territory
demand and must have. is an efficient
and economical administration con-
Quoted within the revenues obtained
by fair and just taxation. In regard
To expenditures of loan fund" moneys
on unproductiye works, the last Re
publican Legislature that passed the
loan bill authorizing the issuance Of
81, 400 900 worth of territorial bonds for
public Improvements, and passed the
appropriation bin under the loan act,
appropriating all moneys received from
the sale of bonds, We're limited 10 GER
tain improvements as defined by the
organic Act That the Republican par
~ did their work and did II we'll n
shown by the fact that the President
II the United states approved Of H.
ana the loRn was subscribed for az par
unpfoduellye loans IN what manner
Does the Democratic party contend
thai the building ~ new roads, the
erection Of public schools the increased
water facilities, the erection Of ne8
Nbaryss and landings. as provided faf
Ia the loan appropriations ars unpfod'