The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-02
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Garter stated that only revenue-produc,
ing works should be undertaken under
loan bill, leaving sehoolhouses and
other things to come out of current
revenue, nothing from loans that would
not be in use in twenty years. He
stated that for education Cuba was
spending IS per cent. of its revenue,
Whlle Hawaii only spent between II
| and Is per cent.
Rochester VS.. Hawaii.
Cohen quoted statistics to show that
Rochester, n. Y, had twenty million
more taxable property than Hawaii,
with about the same population, while
the tax rate there was 223 per cent.
Around Rochester the debate between
Carter and Cohen ragged until Senator
Fairchild cut in.
Put More on Counties.
Fairchild stated that the Senate
Committee on Ways and Means was
gong carefully into the question of
saving in the departments He had
not made up his mind about the ques-
ton of appropriating for conservation
OF natural resources, one of the ques-
lions of added Territorial expense.
''There is strong sentiment on the
outside islands that many things are
being done by the Territory which
shonld be assumed by the counties, -
he said. "That the counties should be
given more power and then thrown
upon their own responsibility He
favored purchasing agent for the
government, one man to buy every
thing on competitive bids; if not here.
at the Coast. This man would know
where the finances always stood On
plantation the business agent at times
was told to cut down expenses or get
out. He always did the cutting. He
assured the meeting that the commit
tees would save money where possible
Properties Down; Taxes Up.
]. R. Gait said that in the ten years
he had been here he had seen a cycle
OF prosperity and then changed condi-
tons, six out of the ten years seeing
drop in real estate, which has been
dead for two years. But during these
ten years taxes have always increased
and the taxation values of real estate
arbitrarily increased Always the peo-
pie had stood bravely up and paid.
Mr. CALI presented the following
figures: Taxes on real and personal
property, 1901, 1858, 600; in 1908, ST.
100000; in 1901, no income tax; in
1908, income tax, 100000; increase in
taxes In eight years, $629,oo0, or Go
per cent
How much longer this country can
stand these increases I don t know, -
concluded Mr. Gait.
Davis for Equality.
Judge George A. Davis said he be-
iieved there should be taxes enough |
raised to run the government efficient |
IL. and not have any department Grip |
gled He stated that he was III favor |
Of the policy of the great Abraham |
Lincoln, who had been educated neither |
at Harvard nor Yale, and who had not |
learned figuring in frenzied finance in
Wall Street, but "equal privileges to
all. special favors to none.
He believed everybody ought to be |
treated alike, Orientals and whites,
with no income exemption. Every man |
cent. tax on It and there should be no
false valuation put on property. One
part of the tax system was abominable
and that was the pawnbroklng busl-
ness of the government, charging de-
linquent taxpayers 10 per cent. penalty |
and 10 per cent. interest en- top OF
that, a pawnbroker S rate. That part
of the law should be repealed, as it
was unjust to wiring 10 per cent. out
of the poor.
"You may think this speech is rad
icai, but you know it is true, said
the speaker, who stated what ne would
do if he were judge. He also roast
ed w. 0. Smith for wanting to have
imprisonment for debt for taxes con-
tinued in Hawaii.
III believe that too much money -
spent here for education. IF a man
wants his children educated in high
schools and things like that he ought
to pay for it himself
Graduated Income Tax Best.
L. Tenney Peck called ON Judge
Perry. chairman of the tax commits
sion, to speak. The Judge stated that
all the questions brought up so far had
been discussed by the commission ex-
cept the necessity of increasing the
revenues. Personally he opposed any
increase of taxation and did not ap
prove especially of either of the meth
DDS in the two bills before the House
One bill requiring graduated tax
on real estate seemed to be aimed at
breaking up large tracts of lands, but
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