The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-04
GOVERNMENT Of CITIES
IN j. 8. IS WORLDS
WORST
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| tations mostly in the divorce courts
| Helen Gould's fortune came in about
the same manner as did Rockefeller s
| by graft, by hoggishness, by treading on
other people s toes-but Helen IS money
| has one redeeming feature; the faint
has been removed You know the old
saying that in the second generation the
| faint is removed and in the third GEN
| Grafton the estate is wiped out. And
so it goes with the rich people. You
would be surprised to know the hard
work to which the young scions of the
| East are put to spend the money which
| their fathers father made for them.
You would also be surprised to know
the amount from these great fortunes
which eventually finds it's way back
into the nation treasury. Income
taxes, franchise rights, and other forms
of estate taxation have been on the
rise of late years, and there is great
deal of the big money that finds its
weary way back to the public strong
box
"But I must get down to earth
again. | have attended several meet
ings in Honolulu, and | have been en-
tertained to some extent while here. l
can not GO away from Honolulu and
say that distance lends enchant-
ment.' [ have enjoyed every minute
of my stay in this beautiful city, and
1 have let the sunshiry atmosphere of
the place ooze into my bones. It was
many years ago when w. r. Castle and
[ were classmates at the School of Law
at Harvard University, and in those
dow ho ON
the beauties of Honolulu and Hawaii in
a way that I could never forget. He
wanted me to come out here then, but
I couldn't, and for thirty-fve years /
have been waiting and wanting to
make the trip. And now / I'M here, and
I am not disappointed. Every minute
I have been treated to some new SEN
sation, I have enjoyed some pleasant
hospitality, and I have been treated to
a sample of the overlooking generosity
for which Hawaii is already famous.
1t has been the most delicious few
weeks of my life.
81 stopped in number of cities on
my way here, and always / found the
business men confronted with two great
problems, the first and most important,
probably, being the question of labor.
Where are the rude laborers of the flu
ture to come froma In almost all the
cities of the United States the question
of securing sufficient number of com
mon laborers is of great moment to the |
business men. You have the same prob |
lem before you here. You look to
Italy, and you will find that wages
there have trebled within the past few
years, and what workmen are left are
content to live in their own land when
they can earn trifie more than liv- !
ing. AS to Portugal and Greece-you
can It depend on these countries to fur
nish you with laborers. What is to be |
done in the future is more than / can1
say, Tor it is question that must work |
out its own answer.
''The second problem which the bust /!
ness men of the cities of the United |
States are considering is that of gov
eminent. Rotten, incompetent, graft |
ing, ignorant, insolent, government is |
found in almost every one of the big /
cities in the States. Look at San Fran
cisco, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, |
Baltimore, New Orleans! 1t is posi- |
lively rotten. We Americans have pro- |
duced masters in business, but we are I
ro5ten in government. The government |
of the cities above mentioned is re-
preach to the civilization of the age In |
which we are living. And even down |
here | read each morning in the paper !
of Honolulu s municipal troubles. 1t
is all rotten.
''We will never have good govern.
ment until the power is put in the
hands of one man, or one definite set
of men, upon whom the entire burden |
of responsibility will rest, and on whom
all the blame can be laid. (Applause.) |
Sin our elections we must consider
things, not persons. And, above all, |
we must put intelligent, honest, organ
izing men in Office
Mr.. Reed was frequently interrupted
during the course of his address by
prolonged applause. The audience was
with him.