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If you wish Prosperity Advertise in the News VOLUME XV WAILUKU, MAUI, H. T., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1 908 NUMBER 4. '5 What is Best for Maui Is Best for the News MAUI -NEWS 7' 7 f Lahaina News Items Teachers Meet to "Discuss Educational Topics. On Monday nt 8 A'. M. Manuel de.Mcllo, liorn in the Azores 91 years ago, retired from this world of work nnd outs. He came here on a whaling vessel and worked on the Pioneer plantation nearly ever since landing. He acquired quite a hit of uroncrty which will fall to pome near relatives living in the Azores. Though .unconscious tor four days,' his heart beat regularly, as if fitted to work for a whole century i'f the rest of this good old Portuguese's body had licen strong enough to continue. Sister Eulalia of Wailuku came to Lahaina on Wednesday and left the. same day for Kalawao where she to bo at the bedside of the Uev Mother Marianne of the sisters of the Settlement. This aged lady lias ,lrmn Imr share of uood works upon earth and may bo soon called home to receive her reward which is sure to be pretty large. Mr. and Mrs. Crazier of Kohala with their two children are visiting their relatives in Lahaina. On Monday there was an overllow of water in one of the plantation ditches' and a beautiful stream dash ed down the side of a mountain about two thousand feet high. Mrs. White, wife of the pastor of Waineo church, has the mumps. The Rev. Leopold Kroll and Mrs Kroll returned from Honolulu on Tuesday evening. They , say that Alva. Kroll met Santa Claus in Ho nolulu and that she invited him to come to Lahaina on Xmas eve. The teachers had a very success fnl meeting on Friday. Dec. 4th ' Miss Kaukau, Miss Aiona, Miss Abu and Mr. Mookini gave papers. Senator Ilayselden and family are at Pukoo", Molokai. Inspector Wells visited the La hninahina school last week and re ports that institution in excellent condition. Manncer Barkhausen left La haina last Saturday for a visit to Germany, - Two large porpoises' were caught last wecit in me cnauuei. The Lahaina teachers will visit 4hn Wnilllkll schools Oil tllC 17th and attend the Maui teachers' meet ing on the 18th. Contractor Chas. O'Sullivan is at work on the Wailuku Town Hall. A commo dious stage anil up-to-date dressing rooms are being constructed in the mauka end of the building, and n broad lanai with lnnai with steps on the end towards High Street. THE FIRST NATIONAL Chas. M. Cooke, President D. H. Case, 2nd Vice-President C. D. I.nfkin, Cashier CPPUNSHP STATEMENT TP COMPTJiOLLBR a tlic plnsp o( business, May 14th, 190S URSOURCRS oaus and Discounts.,,...- $527,77-14 United States Hands , 16,500.00 Premium on U. S. Itonds 450.00 Other Honds (quickly convert) 51,800.00 Cash and Due from Hanks $0,730.71 Hanking House, Purniture.etc 7,287.3? pue from U, S. Treasury, 5-W TURRITORY OP HAWAII. I ss. COUNTY OK MAUI, 1 I, ,C. 11. I,ufkin, Caslvier of the above above htateuient is true 10 me nesi 01 my kiuiwii-iiki: unu ii-m-i. C. D. I.UPKIN, Cashier. Qi,lcrrilpil nml sworn to before me this 24th dV of Mav. IQ08. HUGH Opened For Settlement Rosebud Reservation Lands Distributed by Lot. Once more the Country lias wit nessed perhaps for the last time a scene which has been typical of life in the United States, the opening of a new area of government land to settlers. The scene this time was in South Dakota, and the area the Rosebud Indian reservation, eight hundred uitl twenty-eight thousand acres, a large portion of which. is valued at twenty-live dollars an acre. It was distributed, in quarter-sections of one hundred and sixty acres each, among the somewhat more than five thousand fortunate applicants. The methods of distributing gov ernment land have been and are open to serious criticism. Former ly it was "first come, first served," but as the .crush and brutalities of the Oklahoma "dash" were in tolerable, a system of distribution by lot was adopted. For the somewhat more than "five thousand lots just distributed there were two hundred thousand registra tions (applicants). Exchange. After hearing so much from democratic speakers the last election campaign that our good old Uncle Samuel is ready to give out quarter section" farms of a hundred and sixty acres apiece to the landless for the sum of fourteen dollars, and what the landless voters needed for the upbuilding of Hawaii was an extension of the said American land laws in the form administered on the Mainland to the public lands of this Territory, it seems the special American land laws for homestead ers 'as proclaimed by our friends of the democratic faith existed only in the realms of fancy. In the Rose bud land distribution good Uncle Samuel expects his husky nephews to pay 84,000.00 apiece for a quarter-section farm, and to prevent the brutalities likely to happen in a rush for land the allotment plan Was adopted and all who are lucky enough to draw a winning number are only entitled to the privilege of paying twenty-five dollars an acre or four thousand dollars for a quarter section farm. It is reassuring to find that after all our own land laws are not as bad as the outs would have it, and that the homestead laws on the Main land as well as in this Territory are worked out on a safe and sane basis. And in the distribution of homesteads at least the Yankee love for a "chance to get something at a bargain is tempered by the inborn spirit of Yankee thrift. BANK OF WAILUKU V. T. Robinson, 1st Vice-President R. A. Wadswortu, Director A. Aalberg, Auditor MAHIMTIKS Capital Stock $ 35,000,00 Surplus and Profits 22,501.67 Circulation 16,000.00 Deposits 181,868.50 J255.370.17 named bank, do solemnly swear that the M. COKE, Notary Public Sec. Jud. Circuit Winery At Kaupakalua Expects' to Turn Out 75,000 Gallons Next Season. The Kaupakalua Wine and Li quor Company, Limited, has pro duced about 28,000 gallons of first class wine, and about 7.000 gallons of fruit brandy this season. The brandy produced ranges from 100 to 1G0 per cent test, and in the opinion of experts is an excellent article for Uie home tiade. The winery was started shortly after the passage of the general li quor law of 1905, in which liberal provisions were made for the pro duction of wine from home re sources. In the opinion of Geo. II. Carter, tlfcn Governor, there was no reason why our own people shbuld not b given a chance to manufacture wine, when hundreds of thousands of gallons of Califor nia wine was being regularly im ported to supply a crowing demand for wines. Through Governor Carter's in fluence the provision allowing the manufacturing of winfs in this Territory was incorporated in the liquor law of 1905, and to people of sniall.means are to be given the credit of starting this n iw industry, in industry which promises in time to, at least, supply the, home demand for wince, giving both em ployment and encouragement to the numerous small farmers of the Kokomo and Kaupakalua portions of the makawao district. The winery gets it supply of grapes from sixty or more, small vineyards, the plantings rang ing in area from half 1 an acre to four acres, a self evident proof of the cooperative nature of the in dustry, arid of the support it is re ceiving from small land holders and people of small :nenns. Much of the success of the win ery is due to the able management of Mr. W, F. Cole, who is an ex pert in the making of different grades of wines and brandy, and the Winery Company is preparing to enlarge its plant from the pre sent capacity of 30,000 gallons a season, and is putting in new iir.- provemgents at an expense of $2 -500 00 to be in a position to profi tably handle the crop from the ma ny new vineyards the next season. The grape 'growers are almost wholly Portuguese who are evident ly doing wclh, judging by the way the older farmers are increasing the area of their plantings! and of new men coming to locate in the grape growing district, improving proporty and growing intp the bu siness, with so much confidence as to the successful outcome of their efforts.- In the 1907 season the winery purchased, tHirty-eight tons of grapes, and in the season just closed ninety-five tons paying thorefor forty dollars a ton deliv ered. The uvorago production this year being a little over threo tons of grap'e an acre, which is consider ed a very good showing for young vine 8, and experts say as the vino yards become older the vines will produco larger and richer orops. The crop of the year 19,07 was taken from 25 acres of vines, an average of a-littlo over one and a half tons of cranes an acre, nro- ducing about' 12,000 gallons while that of this year, rJOo. was from thirty-ono acres of grapes, showing bui a small increaso in the grape area, and over a hundred per cent increaso in the quantity of wine produced. Continued on Page 6. Cohen's Views On Taxation Wants Rates Increased to 1 12 Percent. Honorable Joel Cohen, during his recent visit to Hilo, gave some particulars of the ideas he has been incubating on the land and taxa tion questions. In an interview with the Hawaii Herald ho is quo ted as follows. "As to taxation, tho plantations pay one per cent, upon the valua tion of their property. This is not enough to meet the demands of government. The tax assessor, is expected to make good so he taxes the small property holder on a va luation .of two to one. For instance where plantation property may bp valued at $1000, the small holder who owns land of equal value with the plantation is taxed zn an as sessed value of 2000 for his little piece. The government needs the money, and even then there are not enough small property owners to make up the deficiency, so we run behind as we are doing at the present time. "Take Ewa plantation, us an ex ample, which pays. 0110 per cent, on a valuation of $5,500,000, that is $55,000, and an income tax of $1(5, 000, making its total tax amount to 71,000. If instead of taxing the small man on a basis of double the property valuation that Ewa pays, the assessed value wet e divid ed equally and the tax rate raised to 1 1-2 per cent., the ilSwa would pay 882,500, a difference of 811,500. This will give an equalization of assessment, the same tax rate for all, but it would result in a large revenue for the Territory. It would not bo any hardship upon Ewa as the incicoFo of 811,500 in its taxes would only be one-fifth of one per cent, upon its capital stock. It would be a homeopathic dose. . "Another thing that I find is that the big men practically pay no income tax . Tjiat is a direct contribution to the revenue from the small man and, as I Under stand it, a charge upon bis labor. '1 he big men, who own the large blocks of sugar stock, claim that they pay their income tax indirect ly through the company which h assessed on its stock. Then again there are the owneis of our Hawa iian stocks, who live away from hero on incomes' derived fr.om their investments on these Islands. They have their homes on the mainland or in Europe. They make a small payment to the revenue on the stock they hold but do nothing else whatever to benofit these islands, only draining them of largo sums of money. "The income tax has been held to he unconstitutional in those Stats where it has been tested, and my opinion is that it is unconsti tutional. Hero it is not an income tax but a tax on labor. Men who have incomes, largo incomes, do not pay any such tax as tho law calls for. Hut tho man who sells his labor, even at a rate of four dollars a day, has to pay it. Tho clerk, tho salesman, the bookkeeper all sell their labor and tboy are the ones who pay tho income tax Any man who is earning wages is a laborer. Ho sells his labor for those wages and he is tho only 0110 who pays income tax, The laborer is said to bo worthy of his biro. Then why not let him keep his hire instead of taking a part of it for taxes just because ho is a la- boror. JAPANESE LABORERS WANT HIGHER WAGES Abe Ruef is Found Guilty After a Long Trial. President Castro is Allowed to Land in Bordeaux, France. (SPECIAL TO THE MAUI NEWS.) .Sugar 9(5 dog. test 3.8(3 Beets 10s. HONOLULU, December 11. The Mahtika site has boon decided upon by the authorities at Washington after a conference with Gover nor 11 rear and Delegate Kuhio was Japanese nicrcnants will attempt to have the wages of laborers iiisod. A meeting for that purpose is to bo heldtonight. The Southorn California Fruit Groweis' Exchange will admit to membership Hawaiian fruit growers. WASHINGTON, December 11. esterday said that some Americans falsehoods in the statements thev tion of construction properly by the ..one. The House and Senate have portion of the President's message amended last session. SAN FRANCISCO. December guilty of giving a bribe. Ho will bo. was out 2G hours and took live ballots.'" BORDEAUX, France, December was allowed to come ashore yesterday. SAN FRANCISCO, December tie for Honolulu yesterday. WASHINGTON, December 10. providing that future issues of bonds by railway, telegraph and. .ex press companies as well as stock issues shall be subject to special scru tiny by Federal o'fiicials. . . . Carnegie was subpoenaed to testify before the Wavs and Means Committee relative to tariff revision. "The gross amount of revenue provided the Teriitory from the property tax at one per cent, is 1,275,000, and from income tax 82(19,000, a total of 81.54-1,000. My idea is to eliminate ihe income tax and have a straight property tax of 1 1-2 per cent, with an equable assessment. This will give a total revenue of $1,912,000, an increase of 83(18,000. Half pf the revenue goes to the Territory and half to (he Counties. I would .ilso give the entire collections from licenses to the Counties. The Territory would lose S100.000. If the levo" 11 ue of the Territory were not suffi cient, then increase the property valuation for a sessment purposes or reduce its expenses. This last has neyer been tried since annexa tion Jind I believe that it could be done in some dotmrtmonts. They always ask for more money but never .suggest one single economy. 'Everybody admits that our pre sent system oi administering tho public lands is wrong and most will agree that tho leasehold sys tem which prevails throughout tho Islands is wrong. Everyone ad mits that our system of taxation is wrong, that our wealthy escape with a lower percentage of taxation than the poor, but no one has come out openly to suggest measures that will equalize matters. There is a decided fear on tho part of our public men that they would anta gonize tho big interests of the Ter ritory if they pressed too vigorous ly for reforms. In private conversa tions our officials from tho lowest to the highest will agree that things arc wrong in Hawaii, but none is willing to mako any clean-cut pub lic declaration nor give counte nance to any declaration of policy along the lines privately v agreed upon. "Land and taxation are the pa ramount issues in Hawaii today. Tho Republican party must take up thosp issues boldly or defeat will overtake it, Tho land ques- 1 11011 win no me matin issue ticloro I the people two years from now held. President Roosevelt in conference have boon truiltv of infamous have made coneeriiintr the iifnmHi government in the Panama Canal expressed resentment atiainst., that relating to the secret service bill as 11. Abe Ruef has boon declared sentenced tomorrow. The jury 1 1 -President Unstro of V cnnztinln 11. The steamer Hvades left Seat Dolliver has introduced a bill and, while I believe that tho, De- 1 mocrnts this year went at the ques tion in the wrong way, there is reason to believe that unless wo do something ourselves the Democrats will evolve a land policy for the next campaign that will settle them in power. ''The Republican party has to face this question squarely. To bring about the results required, the request to Congress to amend the Organic Act that wo can deal with our land question ourselves, must come from Republicans, and the Republicans must bo prepared to face the issue and to handle it in a manner that will bo satisfactory to the people. Otherwise? Well, you know what happened to Ka bul's vote this year." Popular Young Man Leayes Wailuku Chas. II. G. Bra'un formerly of tho Wailuku Telephone Station left for Lahaina, Tuesday last, on his way to Honolulu. Mr. Braun was a' popular young man. He was foreman of Firo Company No. 1, President of tho Young Men's Republican Club, and a member of tho local militia. Ho leaves Wailuku with the alohas and good wishes of his many friends. He was both an activo and useful, and pleasant companion and good fellow in tho civic bodies of which he was a member. Already tho patrons of ' central iniss his voice, and timid ones feel and fear to entrust tender nothings to the tangled nest of wires over which ho onco ruled supromo lest tho switch fail to readily respond and as readily forget what past twi.xt tho two entities, for some where in this world tho sun is shin ing bright and somewhere elso tho hand is playing and - somewhere else will new found friendships bo formed. Hero's wishing success to him wherever ho may bo.