Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 27, 1 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

#What ip Mr. A. S. Hart'vell doins» anyway on Ihe conspiracy case Messrs. Walker.Sinclair and Crick? Why are the taxpayers to pay a fee to the learned ex Judge for doing the work of the Aitorney-Gen-eral? Is it time or ability whieh Mr. W. 0. Smilh lacks so that it l*ecomes necessary to eall m Mr Kartwell as pn>secutor, or is the | case of the government so bad that the ordinary fund of legal knowiat present in the Attorney- j ■ Geuerai's department had to be j reinforced so as to if possibly make . the case less ridiculous than it now seems to be. Thie squandering of the taxpayers’ money for the benefit of uiembers of the bar was alwaya cbaracteri9tic of the reform oarty. The report of the Finance Committee \n the liegislature of 1890 gave certain information iu regard to the policy of hiriog outsiders to do tbe Attorney-General s work. and the policy was the nsual : grab game at the puhlīe treasury i whieh we see continueil to-day. j There are three men employed by ] the government to attend to the law department, ar/d they are all tbre« admi|»ed to tbe bir at.d supposed to know law. Wl,y neitber Mr. Smith. Mr. W»lder or Mr. Brown eap handle tbe ccnspir»cy em we cannot understand. If none of ihem are fit to proaecute. they ought to atep out and give | somebody who » oqmpeteot a ; ehanee. mmmmmmmmmmmm* ! | T«t proviak»nal govemment bas 4 a gw*t deal to «ay *bont protect- . 1 mg bome-inda*tn« and enoour g ,; ing all loeal manu£»cturing. Tbe .j«otwi» of lh» *omn«eot betie

;heir āne trords. e noliee th»t | ther* b»s been »me load eomplaini over the tn»nner m whieh tbe eontract for bre*d fc*r the Bo»rd of. < He*lth »nd other governa»ent bnacbe« is given oct. Here was » good cb»nc« t*i protect home-in-dagtnr and the eoulnael ooght cert»inly to h*ve heen given lo * 1 <r»l manufacturer even if tbe prce * trifle higber ihan the one asked by the importers. lt is poeeihle thal owing to onr eipensive labor, the loeal manufacturers cannot eomplele w;th f>rvign made pr>xlQct6, we think tbat it is a po«-»r pol:cy of the government to r.fuse to snpport our manuiacturers and at a very insignincant saving virtuallv do»e up some of our h >me-indu6tries. ln its magnaniraity tbe governraent promĪ8es to tre«l tne home-nianufacturer on the same teni5 w;th any otber b:ddtrs fcr contracts and even to give him the prcference over the i im{iorter, if he ean sell al the same fig jre. That is a niee wa>* to put it in, but that by such a aham-eon-cession the governraent neither helps the raanufacturer or encourages the indnstry is obvious to ! everyl>idy.