Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 162, 1 April 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

To be Devout! Avoided.

 

            It is devoutly to hoped that some scientist of our time will set himself to the task of discovering the bacillus of the chronic-lair, and that he may be legally subjected to some species of inoculation which will reduce the virulence, or at least modify the grosser aspects of his malady. Of all contemptable professors of lying the newspaper leader writer of the would-be devout type, heads the class.

            He invariably holds a brief for a syndicate or a trust, whose one aim in life is monopoly. For argument he substitutes a repetition of the mouldy falsehood which his opponent has knooked into pie.

            We last week stated a few plain facts – not a tithe either in number or force of what we could state – on contract labor.

            We noticed the subject, as we were aware that one phase of it, that of the nature of the contracts, had been occupying the attention of the Supreme Court and produced a conflict of opinion on the Bench although when our first article – which the P.C. Advertiser branded as “dishonest” – was writte, we had not seen any of the deliverences of the Judges on the matter, we simply wrote from our own experience of what is commonly known in relation to the subject. We proposed to the P.C. Advertiser to make a beginning in the way of meeting their charge of “dishonest” statement by offering to print for their benefit. the names of the parties who were pecuniarily interested in importing South Sea laborers. also to print the numbers which were imported and returned to their homes. That was a plain business-like offer which our cotemporary should have jumped at, but instead of accepting it we have the following in the Advertiser of last Friday:

            “Another bi-lingual flatly asserts that all the police justices sheriffs, and all the police justices, sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs outside of Honolulu are in a criminal conspiracy against the rights of laborers, and are in league with employers as against those employed. Perhaps some of the gentlemen thus aspersed may think it worth while to defend themselves. Then some more of the stuff about hundreds of slaves smarting from daylight to dark under the lash of the overseer and some more about sanctimonious’ persons whose qualification for the title seems to be that they go to church on Sunday instead of Saturday, make the sheet referred to one to be devoutly avoided.”

            A reference to our articles will show that we made no such charge against the Police Justices and Deputy Sheriffs,” and if any of the said officials “think it worth while” to take up the cudgels against our own statements. we shall be happy to meet them. The sneer about our Saturday “church” is so much extraneous twaddle. We are content to have as prototypes for our practice in this our conscientious observance, Christ and his Apostles, and the early years of the church down to the period when Constantine, in conjunctions with, possibly the progenitor of the editor of the Advertiser introduced chattle-slavery and other heathen proprietary rites, into Christendom.

            We are indifferent to the wriggling of the official organ of “contract labor,” and can but feel amused when it calls on employers and officials “to defend themselves.” THus it is that the once powerful battering-ram of the chattle-slavery trust throws up the sponge; “gentlemen clients. defend yourselves, the last shot has been fired at that ‘bi-lingual’sheet, and we hae nto an argument left.”

            Our readers will specially remark how all our taunts will not provoke the Advertiser to dare us to publish the name of the missionary planting firm in this city. which was especially interested in importing South Sea Islanders, and retailing them in lots to suit.

            The nature of the traffic as related on oath, the evidence of which, is on file in the Supreme Court, and the further evidence that can be brought would make an interesting paper to read before the A. B. C. @. Missions. On the whole it is a subject, in the words of our contemporary. “to be devoutly avoided!”

 

They were perhaps glad to be Rid of Him!

 

            In Miss Rose Gertrude’s article to the Ladies’ Home Journal. republished in the Pac. Com. Advertiser, we are pleased to see the doings of the Christian Reform Board of Health, shown up to the world, and quote a short paragraph to show how much charity can possibly exist in members of the Board when such indifference and unnatural disposition is shown towards a brother as is here stated in the following paragraph:

            “We, in the hospital, wept for him remembering him with pity and regret, and felt that he might have been prevented from hurrying his soul so rashly into the unknown. And yet the brother of that dead man was a member of the Board of Health who allowed the doctor to be maligned by the Luna with impunity, and suffered the doctor to leave the hospital, when his treatment was becoming more and more successful, rather than deprive the Luna of his office.”

            Instead of having men of the most humane and charitable natures for the care of the unfortunate Hawaiian, we have had to chronicle the fact that all the members heretofore, were foreigners, whose love of lucre has driven from their natures the little humanity they ever possessed. We say it is an outrage, that no pure Hawaiian has been placed on the Board to have some voice in the wholesale and indiscriminate disposal of the people who are sent here as suspects; if they only have a pimple or a crooked finger, they find themselves at the mercy of such fiends as the Board employ as their agents, at the same time disavowing all responsibility in the matter.

            The brother, called in the Lady’s letter, “Api.” is Alfred Carter, a brother of Joseph O. Carter, a memder of that Board, which was instrumental in “hurrying his (brother’s) soul so rashly into the unknown.” This same gentleman was understood by the Legislative Committee, to be the “maligner” alluded to in this paragraph, and who seemed to take a special delight to drive away those who are of any help it all to the sick out of spite against the native race.

 

“While the Lamp holds Out.”

 

            “The latest Hawaiian Patriot” from Texas, who ladles out of personalities and small beer at so much a yard for the Bulletin, has evidently woke up to the fact that his cranium is a dynamo charged with the right stuff to bring about a fusion and a general embrace of our “cat-and-dog contemporaries.” The patriot editor from Texas is a real humorist in the roll of pitying and rebuking

 

TBE EXCESSES OF FACTION

 

            “from the political influcnce of sectaries as shown in the last election.” Can this new preacher of morals be the same individual, who so extravagantly spread superfluous venom over the pages of the Elele about a year ago?

            As to the compliment of being a Hawaiian patriot from Australia I may inform Mr. Chameleon-de-la-Bulletin, that the paragraph to which he refers, was not written by me; nor had I any knowledge of it or any other portion – Hawaiian or English of the contents of Ka Leo, March 20, in which it appears until I received the paper printed on the day of issue. I may also state I never penned the word missionary as a term of contempt. The old picture of

THE DEVIL REBUKING SIN

is dished up with new trimmings. when we see our repentent brother flailing the “missionaries’ enemies in general” and the “Bush faction” in particular.

            Having found out the right side of the (monetary) fence, I wish him luck and hope he will stay there The one perplexing circumstance is, that he is liable at any moment to bob up on the other side. Yours,

 

THE AUSTRALIAN.

 

What Became of Them?

 

            For several months last year a number of New Hebredes men and women, the majority of whom were kidnapped – under the auspi@es of the Hawaiian Government – from their islands, where knocking about Honolulu in the vain hope of being returned to their homes. About eighty of the men were cajoled on board the whaleships lying off port last spring, but so far in no instance have any been accounted for as returned here, or anywhere else. Even of the Hawaiians thus far of those who shipped here, none have been accounted for, although their government is supposed to look out for them : and especially should they do so under such circumstances.

 

            As to the New Hebrides, after having been permitted to feast their longing eyes on Christian civilization, and to sleep beneath a vine or fig-tree, or a roadside fence where they could find one, and to feast on any mouldy crust when they could get it: they were probably very glad to accept a passage to any latitude between sheol and the North Pole. None the less is it the duty of the Nation to satisfy itself, that these helpless unfortunate victims of greed and diabolical dishonesty, who became the unconscious, if not the involuntary, wards of the Nation, whould be accounted for by the whaleships who are here on probably the same mission as they were last year, - to get cheap labor and material for cheap whiskey.

 

            As for the Hawaiians, when they return to San Francisco after a voyage to the Arctic, they are offered a dollar as their pay. An appeal to the Hawaiian Consul does not help them in having their wrongs adjusted. These are the reports we have, which are perhaps partly due to teh want of a Consul who can understand Hawaiians in their own language. We have an elaborate and costly Immigration Bureau, but it seems to be in existence for the purpose of ding all for the “master,” and but precious little for the unfortunate waif, who is or has been a used-up chattle. THe number of arrivals from the Soush-sea Islands can be readily ascertained and the department will have to give an account of their disposal when the Legislature meets.

 

ON DIT.

 

                        That the Board of Health is receiving an infusion of new blood, and it is to be hoped, of a more charitable nature than the money-loving Christian (?) members that still hang on as part of the Board.

            That where there is no love to recompense gratuitous service, there must be some solid reward to be made out of the position.

            That the reason our people of commercial instincts cannot be clubbed out of the Board of Health, is because there is a large appropriation to be spent at the discretion of the Board.

            That WE, not the editorial we, but the governmental we, myself and the Queen. have a lot of good intentions, but owing to a little weakness in the vertebrae, the good intentions passes off in vapid vaporings.

 

            That Col. Claus seems to have intended visiting his colonial possessions in the Paradise of the Pacific. He was booked to leave for Honolulu, with his family. by the Australia. It is possible that he has read our articles on popular government, and proposed to be on hand to shape the elections in accordance with that idea.

 

            That those “nether garments” are fluttering now across the way, due no doubt to the Ka Leo’s solicitude for the royal reputation of Hawaii.

 

            That our Johnstonian friend of hte Bulletin has changed his note on missionary hymns, since he left the Elele, from G hard to G flat. Who gives him the key note now?

 

            That the kanaka shooter. seems to be nailed to his office. probably through the friendship of the scri@t holder Damon. Pythias looks on complacently, and well he may when backed by a Bishop.

 

            That a suit is pending against the Queen Dowager, for having removed all the supposed government Palace furniture, and that in consequence Her Most Gracious Majesty is floored.

 

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