The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-06
LIMITATIONS OF COUNTY GOVERN
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| The SeI-gONeFnlHS pTlitlp4e II
American communities is the founda-
ton of American institutions. 1t has
been fully accepted and endorsed by
the Republican party and is applicable
to this Territory. which is legally sub
ject to Congressional legislation. That,
however, does not mean that funda-
mental proposition shall be prostituted
to throw the Territory out of gear with
the Union and create a multitude of
minor offices. to increase the opportu-
mites for graft. This is the deliberate
local politicians. who desire the enact
+ Tnent of complicated legislation, in Or
der to burden the taxpayers with an
intricate and fnapplicable system Of
county government. for the benefit of
the tax-eaters. Resident citizens, of all
natfoaaIities, now fully exercise the
elective franchise in the choice of .,
congressman and of members of the
legislature. The rule of representative
government, therefore, actually exists
and is faithfully applied. The qualif-
cations of voters also are most liberal,
inasmuch as, among them, the ability
to speak read and write either the
English or the Hawaiian language is |
included.
refusal of the ballot is within the dis
erection of Congress. and the Organic
Act shows the broad views which pre-
vailed when Hawaii became part of the
Union. But it was not intended that,
in these islands, self-government
should be perverted into cile means of
expressing dissatisfaction with annex
alton or to the purpose of practically
the Territory from the
depicting the pockets of the
people by enormous taxation and meet
ng the incessant demands of the idle
md conscienceless citizens, who are to
De found here a. elsewhere.
The real purpose behind the effort to
Lpply to Hawaii a system of county
government, only adapted to densely
populated States. where the inhabi-
ants are nearly all citizens, has been
hinIy yelled and has recently been
IearIy exposed. In a paper, nominalIy
evoted to the Democratic party, but
eaIly standing for every element of +
iscontent consistent with technical l
nj n Are1arica,, T-I11a
cen distinctly claimed, in opposition
0 the expressed opinion of Z. S. At
orney Breckons, that the native Ha t
-aiians are not reconciled, and during
nciied, to annexation, and that they
have in their own hands the power, ]
ut they fail to exercise it in the right I
ERECTION" In that connection it is
aid: Even if fooled once in 1900 and
gain in 1903, we may not be again 2
ooled in the future. say, in 1905, or
arlier, if the coming Legislature viii
i've US county government as prom :
;ed."
These observations, in themselves I
re unimportant and probably misrep-
esent the mass of the natives. but
hey have a certain value, as EXPRESS n
lg the motive and the objects of the f
lass of politicians, who desire to sad h
lie upon the property owners, already
iore IMAM sufficiently ourdened' de- il
rec of taxation that would be unen- S
urable, besides subscribing interests s
nat have all the indicia of disloyaIty. l
In Hawaii, with a white population
OF exceeding from twelve to fifteen II
many of whom are not citi- a
ems, and more than hundred thou
ledge of the Republican party and the
Jews of intelligent and conscientious n
oters will be fully met, by the enact r
tent of simple and brief county act, :
reating very few offices and strictly n
mited to those matters of local adj n
in which each county
lay have special necessities apart
ON every other county, as to which =.
lie immediate residents are best ca ~
able of insuring effective action. Such 81
n act could be condensed into five or "
X pages Of print and should carefully
void even the semblance of interfer-
nee with the Territorial government,
s established by the fundamental
wv.
7 40 ic1n tore n1rf6 do to
er that Hawaii is an integral part of
he American Union and, under no dis
use, can be permitted to set up for
self. 8