Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 155, 23 March 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."

 

The “Leo’s” Views for the P.C.

Advertiser

            We are pleased to see our articles occasionally traslated and published in th English dailies of this city, and more particularly those articles which show the change now taking place among the Hawaiian people.  Like the rest of the human familu, they too are beginning to learn their rights, and to aspire to have them on the fundamental principles of universal right and justice; and as the scales fall away from their mental vision, naturally, as is transpiring among the more advanced peoples of the world theu are clamoring to preserve them, either under a limited monarchy like the British, or under a republican form like that of the United States.  The rights which we refer to are what naturally belongs to man, and whenever infringed upon or ignored, we feel it our duty to make a protest and to give the alarm.

            When those fundamental and self evident truths which are given them, in a Constitution “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,” were being ruthlessly uprooted and destroyed, and a retrogressive law substitued in its place, taking away from the people their equality with another and a foreign race in their own country, and those inalienable rights subvberted from them by force, then and only until then did the leaven of a higher form of government implanted among the Hawaiian people began to work and has ever since been working, until, we hope, with the aid of the KA LEO, the whole mass will be thoroughly leaveded.  We know that these great fundamental principles of universal right are being most thoroughly appreciated, as they are inculcated into the Hawaiian people, not in the half-hearted manner as of yore, but by apt illustrations of heroic deeds on the part of nations, who fought for and obtained these sacred rights.

            We rejoice to see the spirit of resistance against any invasion of the people’s right.  When a nation becomes incapable of being aroused to a sense of appreciation of the value of liberty and equality, it is then time for them to pass away from the roll of relationship to other nations as an independent people.  We do not desire that the Hawaiians as a nation or as a people should be blotted out of existence by acts of aggression under the pretence of helping them, without unveiling the miserable subterfuge of their pretended friends, and of cautioning the executibe against the wily advice of sycophantic aspirants for office and for the patronage at its command.  Our aim is the reverse.  It is to inspire in the race a proper feeling of self respect; to raise them to a higher plane of self government, and to encourage and advice them to maintain their just rights and to respect their privileges.

            For this reason, we have endeavored to teach our countrymen that the ideal of government is popular government, and that the divine rights of kings is an exploded idea and that the realization of the greatest good to the greatest number can never be attained by the rule of one or of a few.

            We hold that the rights and the dignity of man are best conserved when merit is recognized, not favoritism.  In this manner encouragement is given to all classes – the poorest in the land may then attain the highest post of honor and trust.  This condition can only be realized by a just and impartial administration of the affairs of the country, and by the dissemination of intelligence and of a high moral standard of culture.

            In this manner encouragement is given to all classes, the poorest in the land may then attain the highest post of honor.

            It is with this motive in view that we have been fearless in attacking the loose teachings of our moralists and the unscrupulous and unprinciple action of our rulers in their selection of proper representative men to regulate the affairs of the country.

            There is is no doubt that the Hawaiian is growing out of his false notions of respect for his alii, especially when the alii turn away from him and forgets that their position as rulers is recognized by other powers through the Hawaiian people, and through them the Hawaiian Nation.  Thus there need be no wonder that, like the fitful gusts of wind that immediately precede a storm, they are heard to utter a desire for a change of form of government that will palce all on equality, and not as now to be ignored and set aside through the advice of personal friends and selfish foreigners who fear that their interest will suffer by the appointment to office of men whom the people trust.

            The Hawaiians, who are in the majority, are becoming daily more conscious not only of their rights, but of their powers.  They have shown more principle in the exercise of their rights, than was anticipated, and it is our hope that the numbers of the true and honest-hearted among them will increase and become united upon a solid platform embodying all the principles of advanced government.

            Sine the taking away of their constitution by force, the people have been discontented.  They have discovered the treachery practiced upon them by the leaders of the revolution of 1887.  They have seen that what was represented to them as a liberal constitution, was an instrument lessening their natural rights and virtually gicing the handful of the wealthy men in the country an undue influence over them, and which has been exerted against them at the polls in the Legislature, in the Privy Council of State, and with the Sovreign, even to the exercise of a little unasked for foreign advice and the loan of munitions of war, and of a few men, from war vessels belonging to a friendly nation.  All this has been practiced upon the Hawaiian People and the Sovreign with the view to enslave a whole people for the purpose of gratifying the greed for unrightgeous ma@ and an unholy lust for power of men, and their followers, who were professing at the same time to be heralds of that glad tiding of “peace and good will to mankind.”

            The delusion of seventy years of the blind leading the blind is about over.  The native Hawaiian under a more honest inspiration is now aiming to cast aside the ancient superstition that kings are of heavenly origin and that Paul’s and Livingston’s way of preaching the gospel of salvation to the benighted with only a staff and their faith to support them, are somewhat different to the way salvation has been exemplified to the race..

            The Hawaiians are entitled by their demeanor and intelligence to a free franchise, as are any other intelligent class of people.  They have shown, to the discredit of many of their more pretentious brother, a more comprehensive, liberal and just spirit, in the discharge of their functions as legislators.  His desire to change and remodel a constitution forced upon him, a document which its framers are ashamed to acknowledge, was met with bigoted and illogical reasons, by all the white representatives of both political partied in the country, with one honorable exception, (Mr. A. Marques), the whole of whom that were elected by the national party as members of the legislature shamelessly violating their pledges to the party, made before and after their election.  Fair play among thieves is a jewel, but selfishness seems to override everything in the esteem of some men.           

            It is our duty to teach the people what in principle is right, and to disabuse their minds of what has been erroneously taught them as being right.  It is thus that we are called upon to chronicle error and abuses, and lead the way to a correction of those errors, by those committing them, and in that manner prevent dissatisfaction and anarchy in our affairs.  More anon.

Riveting the Chains.

            In corroboration of our comments on the so-called “contract labor” system, published on the 16 ^th inst., we will print tomorrow the dissenting opinion of Judge Dole, and in the same issue of KA LEO we will resume our comments on the subject.  The Advertiser of Friday last, a paper principally owned by the commercial missionaries and under the patronage of the sugar magnates of the country, devoted a column to an off-hand general denial of statements “in one of the Native papers,” taking comfort in the fact that “the paper had only a small circulation and not known abroad.”  The general public will appreciate the characteristic spirit and sense of journalistic courtesy of that sheet, when they note the name of its manager, - to say nothing of common honesty – in devoting a column to a professed refutation of an article without stating for the benefit of its readers where the original could be seen.  Either it did not suit the owners of the Advertiser to help the reader to find the original article; - knowing that it contained more truth than poetry about plantation slavery, or as a native paper we are to consider ourselves not entitled to the amenities, which is about the extent of missionary civility and charity, and more especially like the well rounded pharisee towards his poor neighbor!  Blessed are they who expect nothing from such for they shall not be disappointed!

            As the Advertiser’s article was simply a lame and impotent general denial, it leaves nothing for us to notice beyond an humble assurance that our number of daily paying subscribers exceeds that of our self exalted neighbor, and that they hold the cash value of our sheet at just double that of the Advertiser, viz one dollar per month and only one-half the size of the latter.  As to our foreign circulation we have over fifty paying subscribers, and when such articles as that which compelled our friend to say something indefeuce of the slave system practiced by its patrons; or when we publish things that the public are interested to know, we distribute many copies to the leading jourrnals pro amore vertitatis.

 

NALOWALE.

            Ma ka Poaono iho nei, ua nalowale aku he Ilio wahine, e o ana i ka inoa o Gib, ke hea ia aku.  Aole lei-a-i, ua pi’o ka wawae akau mua.  E uku ia no ka makana kupono ke hoihoi ia mai ka Ilio ma ka Hale Inu Lama Pantheon.  3ts.

 

HOOLAHA A KA PUUKU

NO NA HOOKUPU NO KA LA KUO

KOA O KA LAHUI HAWAII.

            I na Hawaii, a pau, ke poloai aku nei ka mea i kohoia he Puuku no ka wa, no ka malama ana i na hookupu, e loaa no oia ma ke Keena o ka LEO O KA LAHUI i na la a pau, koe ke Sabati, ka la ehiku o ka hebedoma, e lawe i na hookupu a ka poe i aloha i kona aina hanau, i makee i Kona Kuokoa o Hawaii Ponoi.

            I mea e maopopo ai ke ano o keia hookupu ke hoike aku nei ka puuku, penei.  Ua noa ka hookupu i na Hawaii a pau, i na hookupu dala, a me ai paha.  He mau haneri dala kai hookupu ia i keia manawa, a he 10 bipi, he 20 mau puaa.  E hoike ia aku ana no ka papa inoa hookupu i ka wa e pau pono mai ai o na hookapu ma ko’u lima.

Ma ke Kauoha,

JNO E. BUSH

 

KUAI HOOPAU NUI.

 

Mau keia manawa aku a hiki i ko Makou hoonee

ana aku iloko o ko makou

 

HALEKUAI HOU

 

Ma ke Alanui Papu, (NA HALE BURUA.

 

E hoolilo aku ana Makou i ko Makou waiwai a

pau o na ano Lole:

 

NA LOLE NANI,

NA LOLE I HUMUIA,

KAPU A ME PAPALE,

PAHU LOLE, a pela aku

 

No na Uku Hooemi Loa Nae.

Egan & Gunn.

ALANUI MOI, kokoke i ke ALANUI PAPU

 

Hoolaha Hou!

B.F. EHLERS & CO., - Painapa

 

Ua loaa mai nei ia makou he mau waiwai hou loa, oia hoi

 

KAKIMIA,

KINAMU,

KEOKEO HALU’A

CHALLI,

VIKOLIA KEOKEO

 

A ME NA

 

Mikilima o na ano a pau a me na paku puka aniani o kela a me keia ano, no na kumukuai haahaa loa.

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