The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-24
DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM
Ico0tInued from Page one).

relation Coo public lands as mere plati-
tudcs opposed To- the policy of the party
leaders ana calculated to deceive the
electors The cTroutery of the party
i'm power is evidenced by its platform
declarations relative to teachers sal
aries, College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts, Water Works, Liquor Law
Income Tax, Sinking Fund, Tax Com
mission, and the Gold brick County
Act an matters either Of commission
or omission ON their part i'm the Legis-
laturc of 1908.
We again call attention to the failure
of the Republican Legislature to make
disappointment of Territorial sem
ators and representatives, as required
by Chapter 2, Section So of the Organic
Act
The County Act passed by the Lee
gislature of 1905 leaves much to be de-
sired, both as to local self government
and economy of administration. We
pledge our candidates for the Legisla-
ture to a careful revision of the Act
and to such additions as will bring it
to the American standard place the
public office buildings and utilities oper-
ated i'm each county i'm charge of such
county, provide for the election of all
officers of the county and we pledge our
candidate for Delegate to a determine
ed effort i'm congress to eliminate all
Territorial offices performing county
functions, particularly that of high
high sheriff and superintendent of Pub
lie Works. giving the Territory as a
whole an economic operating basis and
the people their rights.
We believe the system of taxation in
vogue in this territory is increasingly
Ubiquitous and burdensome unscientific
and expensive in its application
The platform statement of the Re-
publican party on this subject is one of
evasion and procrastination under con-
I dittons that require action. We de-
clare for an immediate adjustment of
the tax laws, creating elective assessor
in each county, with right of appeal
from assessment to the county Super
visors sitting as a tax appeal board
( Assessment rolls to be placed with
County Treasurer for collection. to-
gether with all licenses issued in the
county; Territorial expenditures to be
met by percentage of receipts from all
counties.
But in this connection declare that
the burden of educating aliens in our
public schools has grown to such pro-
portions that provision should be made
whereby those thus benefited shall be
directly taxed therefor
| We favor limiting sources of taxa
ton to land values, and a graduated
Income tax, believing these to be the
simplest of application and least ex-
pensive in collection, while they tax
industry in ratio as it is benefited. We
demand an enactment covering forced
sales of property for taxes, or under
mortgage foreclosure and to provide
for the redemption of same within a
reasonable time.
! We view with deep concern the total
absence of provisions in the fiscal sys-
tenn of the Territory for meeting in
terest on the redemption of bonds
when same shall fall due. We charge
that under prevailing practice many
non-revenue producing improvements
for which Loan appropriations have
been expended will become fruitful
sources of further expenditure for re-
pairs long prior to the redemption of
bonds issued therefor. Non-productive
loan fund expenditures should be as
sessed against the property benefited
as a special tax, the rate being such
as to meet interest and provide a sink
ing fund that shall liquidate the in
debtedness when the bonds mature. In
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Loan fund investments should be APP
piled to the reduction of the obligation
incurred in creating them, providing a
comprehensive and just system for
meeting our Indebtedness. In this con-
nection we favor the policy, on gov
eminent account, of making loan APP
preparations for productive works only
making provision under a general loan
act for non-productive loan funds Sc
cured by special tax as above pro-
posed.
We pledge our candidates for the
legislature to the enactment of Dis
trict Primary law. The Initiative and
Referendum including the Recall" and
such other legislation as may be need
ed to put the quietus on Graft" and
Nil0 icbNilllN ~ tlllS IGIlllOIS.
We favor the establishment of an
Agricultural College, to be maintained
as other Agricultural Colleges are
maintained throughout the United
States, and not by leasing the public
lands to corporations, as indicated in
the Republican platform recently
adopted at Waikiki.
We demand the erection of a Ter
ritorial penal establishment, separate
and apart from any County prison, for
the incarceration Of persons convicted
of felony.
We favor the extension of the pub
lie school system, so as to embrace a
comprehensive course of manual and
agricultural training and an element
airy course in civil government, thus
instiling into the youth of this Terri
tory the principles of industry aid
good citizenship upon which the future