The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-18
ACHI STATES HIS
COUNTY ACT VIEWS
POINTS OUT THAT FEASIBLE
COUNTY GOVERNMENT Is con-
TINGENT ON COMMON SENSE.

EDITOR HAWAIIAN STAR: Please
allow me space i'm your paper, to ans
Ncr Hon. r. McCants Stewart.
It seems to me that Hon. r. McCauts
Stewart is not satisfied with his posi-
ton as "a County Commissioners but it
looks To me that he is trying to be "a
dictator of the legislature of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii.
Hon. Stewart wants his name to APP
pear I'm papers, so he is trying to get
me I'm dispute with him.
| am really surprised to see Hon.
Stewart jump i'm print and say that l
CIV. G.. AchD said so and so i'm regard
to his County Act etc. He puts it i'm
a way that l said to him that there is
enough money to run County govern
ment without ifs" i'm it. I know
better than what Hon. Stewart says
now. know this fact, by July l. 1905,
the Territorial government will owe
about 100000, and two years hence, if
only one government it will owe be-
tween 100000 and 100000
l said to every one including Hon.
Stewart if the salaries and current eN-
penses of the Territory should be de-
creased by this Legislature, and new
revenue laws be passed and the salaries
and expenses of counties be made less
than the Territorial officers now; and
that bankers would discount the war
rants of the counties, then there is a
chance for us to run counties. l al
ways said that, and 1 am now saying
| that to Hon. Stewart, and to the world
a.,
! this Legislature to pass all necessary
Laws to get a County Act which will
stand but not to be dictated by Hon.
Stewart; it looks to me unless a mem
| Der of the Legislature follows Hon.
| Stewart in every way, said member is
| declared by Hon. Stewart and his
| henCmen that che is a traitor to his
| party and to his country"
1t may be true that no person dis
putes the correctness of Hon. Stewart $
statements of County expenses, but 1
also failed to know or hear any fnan-
| cier who approves his statement.
I believe the cause is that nobody
| takes notice of it,
Hon. Stewart is trying to make a
! layman believe, that if we start a
| County Government it would decrease
| the expenses, a very misleading eX-
| PLANTATION; there is no question to me
nor to any man of common sense, that
| County Government means, more
| taxes if not now, it will i'm the future.
So far as l know, by July 1905. there
will be no money in the treasury, and
Hon. Stewart says in his open letter
as follows:
Money will be needed to pay salaries
on the first day of July next. If there
should not be SUFFICIENT funds i'm the
Treasury, and if the Territorial gov
eminent can get it from the banks
then under your tax act, the counties
will be able to get it as easily"
l am very surprised to see a state
ment of this kind ever made by a
gentleman Of Hon. Stewards standing
ability and experience.
1t is not necessarily that because the
territorial warrants are taken by the
banks the county warrants should be
taken or discounted by the banks II
depends a great deal upon the officers
of the Territory and the Counties; and
also depends upon the wishes of the
| bankers.
1t is not necessarily true that two
men of different positions in life with
the same amount of securities would
be able to raise the same amount OF
money, or their negotiable notes would
be discounted by banks i'm same way.
l have plenty to say on the subject
but l think it is a waste of time t.
write longer.
Very truly yours,
w. c. ACHI
March IS, 1905.