Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-17

in accordance with the demands Of sn
increased enrolment has been found
to be somewhat inadequate. In or
der to carry out the spirit and intent
of this legislation IT is necessary that
the monthly allowance for school pay
roll be increased from approximately
$50, 800. as computed under the bud
get system, to approximately $50, 600.
The elastic limit of the capacity of
the schools has now been reached and
failure to provide prompt relief. 10
which we pledge our support, Will
cause a deterioration Of the whole
system. We also favor the amend
ment Of the school law so as to give
the department Of education control
over pupils whose residence may be
changed from one district to another.
"In the belief that the amalgama-
tion of the federal experiment station
and the bureau of forestry with the
College Of Hawaii will advance the
interests Of both efficiency and econ
omy, we pledge our support to legisla-
ton intended to bring about such
change"
A. d. Cooper has proposed the tar
iff plank as follows:
I by 1914, the effects of the in
auguration of the Democratic party
into power on the mainland during the
preceding year had reached this ter
ritory. Through the enactment of their
evil principles of free trade into leg
islation, the output of our predomin-
ant industry was to be marketed in
competition with the sugar of the
world including those countries where,
| owing to the low standard of living,
wages are but fraction of those paid
TO the laborers of Hawaii: and where
the cost of sugar production Is cor
respondingly less. The effect of such
/ legislation was inevitable. With the
natural decentralization Of our princi-
! pal industry, ever the mainstay of
these islands, prosperity vanished,
values deprecated, progress in all
business enterprises was retarded and
: frequently abandoned, thus throwing
out of employment hundreds of work
j ingmen formerly engaged in lucrative
) trades, and bringing suffering Incl
| dent to poverty and want into many
| homes.
| Through the wholly unforeseen in.
ception of the great war, and the
consequent increase in the price of
sugar; and later through the enforced
i restoration by T., the Democrats them
selves of a portion OF the protective
tariff in order TO supply the. urgent
needs of treasury depleted through
, extravaganza and false doctrine, the
Hawaiian sugar industry has again,
but entirely through chance, been re-
stored to position of prosperity.
Then, too. the appointment OF an un-
! usually efficient Democrat to the high.
est executive office In the territory
has somewhat mitigated the. usual
rtgors incidental. to Demo cratic con:
troll h' - - - =
! in expressing their choice at the
polls, the electorate will be called upon
to choose between q permanent Re-
publican prosperity, proved by expert.
ence to be the logical result OF the
economic laws of protective tariff;
and a temporary Democratic prosper
ity which spralg from an accident,
and. Us recent experience has con-
clusiyely demonstrated, Is doomed to
prevail only during" the continuance
of world conditions wholly abnormal.
I'VE especially urge the electorate
not to be misled as to the true cause
of the present and uncertain prosper
ity; and through unerring discrimina-
ton in casting their votes next Nov
ember for a Republican delegate to
Congress and Republican officials
throughout the islands, to at once re-
cord their. Endorsement and approval
of the party Of progress and pros
perity; and their protest against the
continuance In power of the party
again tried and found wanting"
Planks on Juvenile Aid $500:
{ Two planks proposed for the plat
form, are for the benefit Of Juvenile |
delinquency work. They are the sug-
gestions of A. ID. Cooper and are as
follows: ,..'.-.--
Juvenile Detention Home
The Republican party has ever been
foremost in the work for the better
ment Of the conditions of dependent
and delinquent children, and by its
efforts adequate laws have been pass
ed to this end. Through inability to
acquire suitable site, the appropria- |
ton for detention home has been
unavailable. We pledge the Republi-
can members 1T the legislature to ap.
propriate sufficient sum to acquire
suitable site: and to add to the
present appropriation such an amount
as may be- necessary for the erection
of an adequate home, without which 1t
is impossible tn derive the full bene-
fit of existing legislation.
Industrial Schools
To further provide for the care and
reformhtion of our Juvenile depend
ents and deIiu,;uents, and in the eff