The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-12

sufficient percentage of the tax on real
and personal property. The party
pledges its Delegate to Congress TO an
active campaign for the passage of
the so-called Davis bill or such other
Federal law as will provide a Federal
appropriation for the support of
schools in every county for industrial
education The report of the school
fund commission win have the especial
consideration of the Republican mem,
bers of the legislature.
LIQUOR.
The Republican party regards the
plebiscite as a conclusive expression
of the sentiment of the people of this
Territory in favor of the present liquor
law and of it's enforcement in good
faith We therefore pledge our repre-
sentatives in the legislature against
any change or modification of that law
and demand its faithful, impartial, and
vigorous enforcement, and pledge
them to make the necessary appro-
pTldIlOuS 10 carry OUT lue law
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
Leprosy.-The Republican party is
proud of the effectiveness of the hui
name leprosy law advocated and pass
ed by the party in the last legislature.
The party has also brought about,
through Congressional legislation, the
establishment of a scientific investiga-
ton of this subject The combined ac-
ton thus made possible has already
lessened the hardships Of those suffer
ing with this disease, and their friends
and relatives, and gives early promise
of the discovery of a cure for this di-
sease
Tuberculosis.-The party has also
adopted and put into operation a po-
Icy to suppress and prevent the
spread of tuberculosis, the most de-
vastating of all diseases.
Board of HeaIth-We commend the
successful efforts of the Territorial
Board of Health to secure greater eff
cheney in the agencies guarding the
public health, and favor such legisla-
ton as will increase the efficiency of
this most important branch of the pub
lie service
NEW WHARVES AND LANDINGS.
We realize the paramount necessity
for providing adequate wharf and land
ing facilities and approaches thereto
to accommodate the rapidly increasing
commerce of the Territory and, par
ticularly in view of the approaching
completion of the Panama Canal, we
pledge our representatives in the com
| ing legislature to make sufficient ap-
preparations, through loan funds, if ne
cessary, for providing for such i'm
provements.
DUTY ON COFFEE.
We reiterate our firm support of the
policy of protection for all of our agri-
cultural products and pledbe our fur
Their efforts Tor a tariff on all coffee
grown on American soil
COUNTY RECORD OFFICES.
We favor the establishment within
each county or an Office for the regis
tration of conveyances and other in
struments affecting property within
each county and declare for such legis.
lation as will effectively carry out this
purpose.
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT FOR
QUEEN.
We favor the continuance, so long
as she shan live, of the permanent set.
Element upon the former Queen Lii.
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kILAUEA NATIONAL PARK.
We advocate that the Volcano of XII
lauea be reserved as a national park.
PROMOTION WORK.
We believe that every inducement
should be offered to desirable tourists
and prospective settlers to visit these
islands, and that the best mean to in
crease the torist traffic is to continue
the promotion work so ably conducted
by the present Promotion Committee,
and we favor sufficient appropriations
to enable them TO continue their work
in this behalf.
STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII.
The Republican party rejecting the
proposition of government by commits
sion and other reactionary proposals
of like kind, presses on for the growth
and maturity of such responsible re-
preventative government as will lead
to statehood.
GREAT REGISTRY OF VOTERS.
We favor a permanent registration
law providing that a voters registra-
ton for one election shall hold good
for all subsequent elections, subject
to necessary corrections from time to
time in case of death, change of resi-.
dence or other sufficient cause.
CONGRESSIONAL VISIT.
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