Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 272, 31 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Thk Advert'ser 8 b1nwing Mr. S.nn Damou’s little tintrfcnipft very Iou! 3* lately to eull the attention ot' the j»uhlic to the fact that he is e >»iterni<lating a nnuiber of refonns in the different departraents \vbere *‘the vile niethods of the rnonarchy are still in force.” Great Scott! So Hawaii has existed and prospered in the most wond'-rfnl manner under these , vile methods whieh thegreat finan cier is now to arnend, and he adds e >mplainipgly that he did not huve time to make these ref->rma when he was in the cabinet of 18S7. Are we to understand then that Mr. Daraon is the only one >f the reform party who has seen the necessity of reforming the alleged vile raethods, and that Mr. Thurston and the other tin-gods of that party didn’t know enough to carry out the great scheraes of Mr. Damon? The reform party have h<-en in power. aiuee the acotssion of Kalakaua, a great dea! more years than any other party, and the ••vile” meth ods were instituted bv fheraselves, aud ever since carried out The Thurstou C;>binet was in office for more than three }'ears, but did not haye time (!) to make the alterations whieh Mr. D.imon now is to m&ke during the two or three weeka before annexation comes(?) Reallv we fail to underetand Mr. Damon this time, and we fear that the grippe and overwort combined must have dulled his wonderfuI brain-po\ver, and made bis utteraoeea appear silly—to say the least. The great reform to be made is that all reveuues of ihe country should bj turned directly intothe treasury,and thatthedifferentdrafts and bureaus shali draw iu future for all expenditurea directly on the Minister of Pinanee. The only bureau where that eystem is not in rogue at pneeni, ie the boreeu of

education, and it waa from there that the kiek alwaye eame. whenever propoeitions were made in the different Legislatiires to have the school-taxe3 deposited in the treasurv. Mr. C. R. Bishop. the President of the Board of Education, objected to bavicg the Board treated as an ordiuary branch of the govenunent, and the mor.eys were depoeite<l by the d:fTrrent school agents, or tax collectors in thebank of whieh Mr. Damon is the managing partner,and this “vile” method haa been continued t 11 to day, in sj»ite of a hiennial opj>osiiion. lf that is what Mr. Damon proposcs to refi>rm, well and good, but we shouid hke hiin to remember that he, as a member of the Board of Education probably had ample ehaneea in the past to h ive procured that step whieh would have been taken lcng :igo upon the recom mendation of Lhe Board. The other deuartments make the>.r deposits regulariy in the treasury. although it is the custom to hold sutlicient money on hand to meet iucidentals whereby a gre:it deal of trouble, both to the dej>artmeuts and to the puhlie is being sived. lf we understand Mr. Damon’8 ref>rm rightly, he desires us if we have a e'aim f>r $1 for a rnonth subscription to the Holomua 3gainst the Custom House to go lhere with our bi11, have it pr >perly approved by theCoi!ector General, then travel to the governmei.t building to haw the biil endorsed by the Auditor-Gener.il,and finally upou presentiug it to the tre«sury, get our doilar wliile the different clerks make a 1<>t > f entries, and doub e-euiries in their b<x>ks. lf that is the bus:nees mcthcd t> be of Mr. Damou, all \ve e.ui siy >s that it will be more exnensive to the country tli.>u tiie late praclice, > and lhat he must be a uiighty poor . busiuess eaan, and m>t know the first rudiments uf busint:ss methods.