The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-07-24

a United Democracy 10 make a worthy
n college of the people, thoroughly in
keeping with similar colleges of agrieul.
ture and mechanic arts found in every
State of the Union. The Lever Bill
recently passed by the Democratic con-
gfess is an evidence of the attitude Of
Democracy toward these colleges, and
tho failure Of Hawaii's college Of agrl.i
citlturc and mechanic arts to receive the
benefits Of this bill constitute an rnan.
hwerable 4inaictTnent n the weak, fal,
tcriyik ia ptf inepmpetent repre-
seIlation lof THIS Territory and its IN.
tefests by the Republican Delegate to
Congress-. Due to the absence Of the
Delegate and the wholly inefficient rep.
resentation Of Hawaii In Washington
by the Republicans, an exception was
made of Hawaii alone in diverting these
funds from our local college and thus
checking the plans of our college adj
niniStration to carry on the work Of
intelligent agriculture abroad in the
Territory. lW &
Homesteads and Homestead Roads
We again announce our belief in the
principle that the public lands of this
Territory ought TO be given TO the citi.
zens. We pledge the Democratic party
of this Territory to work for the en-
actment of such legislation, both in con,
gress and in the local legislature, as
| will tend to facilitate the homesteading
of the public lands in such a way as TO
build up the citizen farmer class Of this
| Territory. In connection with the ques.
tion of homesteading, we believe that
one cause of the failure of bona fide
homesteading has been the lack of
roads. We believe that roads should be
built through all homestead tracts here.
after opened. We believe that these
roads should be built at the time when
such homestead tracts are opened. We
therefore pledge our representatives
and senators to enact legislation pro-
yiding for revolving fund of sufficient
size to allow the prompt building of
roads as soon as the homestead tracts
are opened, the money from the sale
Of such homestead lots to be turned
back into the said revolving fund, SO
that at all times there may be sufficient
funds on hand to provide for the
prompt building of homestead roads.
The Audit Of Accounts. f.,
We believe that the present laws with
regard to auditing of public accounts
are inadequate, and should be amend
ed. We believe in the principle Of q
territorial audit bureau, whereby th'
accounts Of the territorial department,
and the county departments may be eff
fieieutly and thoroughly audited from
time to time.
| Marriage licenses.
We condemn the present arbitrary
manner of appointing marriage licens,
agents by the territorial treasurer, ant
pledge our party to the enactment of
law authorizing the several count,
treasurers to handle the issuance o,
marriage licenses, the fees from whiel
should become county reIlizations,
4 =. Minimum Wage
We pledge our candidates to the le
gislature to work for law which will
make the mipimum wage two dollar
per day for all unskilled labor perform
ed by territorial county and munieipa
government employees,
Citizen Labor on Federal Public Work
We pledge our candidate for Dele
gate to Congress to work for sue
measures as will prevent the employ
ment of any but citizen labor on fed
eral government work in Hawaii,
.., Public Administrator.
We favor the passage of 4 law b.
which the duties of public admihistra
tor shall be added to those of count
treasurer, who, with the advice and at
sistance of the county attorney, shal
net as the local officer Of the county I
performing the duties Of public admin
istrator, without fee or reward, exeep