Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-03

gage within one year after such sale.
By paying principal interest ant
costs.
ENCOURAGE SMALL FARMERS
We believe that every effort should
be made BY the territory 10 assist and
encourage the small farmer, and We
indorse the territorial marketing dfvi.
SIGN as a practical means TO that end.
We believe that this institution should
receive liberal financial support from
the territory. so as TO enable the divi-
sion TO make prompt returns to farm
ers and to develop through storage
and delivery facilities In the interests
of the residents of Honolulu who as
patrons OF the institution are inter
ested In securing prompt and .econoni-
cal delivery OF the farm products Cs
the islands. al. e
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP uTiLI-
TIES
We reiterate our belief in the prin-
ciple of the government ownership Of
public utilities, and cite the Honolulu
Rapid Transit Company as a corpora
tfon enjoying the free use Of the pub
lie streets, that has so consistently
manipulated its charter as to deprive
the people Of their Just share of the
benefits accruing from the operation
Of generous franchise. We recon.
mend as a settled policy that on the
expiration Of this franchise the street
railway system In Honolulu be taken
over by the city and county and adj
mfnistered In the interests Of the peo-
pie.
The profits now being enjoyed by
the private stockholders interested In
this corporation when turned into the
treasury of the city and county would
supply the funds necessary to provide
the city with free garbage disposal
and the cost of maintaining the
sewer sytem Of the city without addi-
tional cost to our citizens. In the
meantime the party favorB such apprc-
priations as are necessary to provide
free garbage disposed as a sanitary
measure OF the most urgent nature
PROMOTION WORK FAVORED
We look with favor on the c0ntin-
ued development Of tourist travel to
these islands, believing that funds
thus expended ultimately benefit an
our people from the humblest Iaborer
and farmer to the busy city merchant.
We urge that such reasonable appro-
priations should be made and expend-
ed under territorial supervision as
will not only induce an increase in
travel to the islands, but win develop
and make avaflabiA through the con.
structiof Of roads, trails and shelter
houses and the Ike the many and
varied attractions our islands afford
for residents and tourists alike. The
isolation Of the islands Is our great
est handicap in the development oil
the tourist trade. and this handicap
is made doubiy great BY the excessive
passenger rates charged by existing
lines of steamships throughout the
islands and to the mainland. A ter.
ritorially owned OF controlled tourist
vessel, operated at cost In the inter.
est Of the people would reduce the
cost Of travel minimize our water
isolation and be q boon to residents
and to our tourist stravel. t4s
sioMEsTEGbs AND ROADS.
One Of the greatest obstacles to sue.
cessful esteadfng IA this territory
has been the lEck of roads during the
first few. years when the homesteader
| IS performing his homestead duties. All
the very time when the law. a. II now
stands, compels the homesteadkr "a