The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-09

our Legislature the right To amend the
land law.
The wide interest aroused for the
advancement of the public schools
shows that the people are alive to the
necessity for the protection and de-
velopment of this great factor of our
American progress. We pledge our
legislative representatives to the adop-
ton of appropriations that will secure
for the teachers of the Territory, the
remuneration which their training and
experience justifies, under the rules and
regulation of the Department of Public
instruction. We favor the extension
of manual training in the public
schools
| We favor the appointment of a local
board of education in each county. safd
board shall have full charge of the
public schools in each county under and
subject to such general rules as may be
prescribed by the Department of Public
Instruction
Hawaii has reached the point in its
educational progress which warrants
the establishment of a college of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts on the same
lines as the institutions founded in
every State and Territory of the main
land under the Morrill, Act. and later
endowed by the United States Con-
gress. TO obtain this Federal endoW-
ment it is necessary for the Territory
to take the initiative. We believe TINS
can be best brought about by the setting
aside of income bearing public lands,
| the returns from which shall be per-
manently devoted to the maintenance
of such college. and we pledge our can
didates to the support of an executive
| and legislative policy which shall bring
about the desired result.
We believe that the waterworks sys-
| tenn throughout the Territory should be
| brought under the Immediate controi
| of the several counties.
The promiscuous granting OF licenses
for the sale of spirituous liquors under
| the present statute, whereby 1rrespon-
sible persons are enabled to sell an IN
| ferior quality of intoxicants without
discrimination to the detriment of re-
spectacle dealers, and to the injury OF
the public at large, necess1tates care
full revision of the liquor law. We favor
the enactment of high license law.
with provision for the inspection OF
| liquors, and such other provisions as
will properly safeguard the traffic and
| prevent its abuse.
We believe that the law should oe
amended so that the income tax OF
corporations shall be payable in the
county in which the property or the
CORPORATION is situated.
| We favor the enactment by congress
of the Refund BILL by the terms of
which seventy-five per cent. of the Gus
toms receipts collected in this Terri
tory shall be expended here.
we favor the enactment of a general
TarrifOrV under
which the nomination of candidates for
the Legislature and elective offices snail
he made directly by the voters
We favor liberal appropriations Tor
the maintenance of our unfortunate
fellow citizens who are segregated on
Molo!1ai, and advocate the continuance
of Federal assistance in the attempt to
find a cure for their malady.
We advocate further improvements
of our harbors wharfage and landing
facilities throughout the Territory; the
erection of needed public buildings ana
other necessary public works.
We demand the creation of a slnkIfls
fund for the repayment of our Terri
torial Indebtedness.
We desire legislative investigation
into the matter of private wharVes anu
landings, with a view to the resuia-
ton of charges at the same, and TO
consider the feasibility of the acquisi-
ton thereof by the government
We favor the continuance by the
T,egislature of a permanent settlement
uDon the. former Queen Liliuokalari.
We oppose and denounce all trusts
mononolies and combinations OF cap
ital. as they tend to control supphes'
increase prices, lower wages, and checK
the opportunities Of labor.
We favor the appointment of COM
mission for the purpose of considering
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