Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 200, 25 May 1891 — What we want. [ARTICLE]

What we want.

Our conteniDorariea designing to j produce the-impression in the pub-1 lie mind that we represent only a set i of office-seeking deuiagogues, have I frequently said that the pub3ic ef-! fices and an unreasonable envious | yindictiveness against sucressfu! and prosperous men are the mainsprings of our activities. We desire to refute this by showing what we d« want and demand in behalf of the people. lst. Loeal self-government. The. voters of eaeh district shall elect their constable or deputy-sheriff the district or peliee judge, road board,_etc. The people of eaeh island ehall elect their governor, Bheriff, circuit judges, tax-Qollec-tors, custom-collector, post- masters etc. The.people of kingdo&* shall elect boards ot education, health and imDiigration, registeri of conveyances; surveyor general, auditor, postmaster general, mar- j shal, collector general andofficesi that eoneeni the people at large. | īt is to.btf noted that a]mostall| these changes ean be secured with* out a change in our constitution. 2d. The prohibitiou of Asiatic Innnigration. 3d. Imprison!ment for refusal to work should be unlawful. 4th. A tax on land that shall j render it impossiblefor land sharks to huld thcusands of acres of fertile uncultivated lanel excluding ple who are ready and anxious to till and render the soil productive. j sth. Homestead laws that shali the land in small lots to bona tide settlers. | 6th. The building of roads to open up thousatids of acres of now iinaccessible lanss. | 7th. One class of voters—educational, but no property qualifications. • * j These are some of the th\ngs wi® are working for, and hoDe ultimately to wrest from an unwilling plu-to-aristocracy. Every one who thinkd upon the matter must admit the essential reason and justice of securing a popular government and an intelHgent and indtpondcr.t :»iddlfs class. A state of planters and peona is so unBtable and unbalanced that it offers no security for life, liberty or property, and even the wealthy themselves are in conetant danmr of destruction of thcir fortunes by servile war and anarchy. While for anyone who has ths smalleBt sfcnse of abstract right> who in any degree believes īn christian doctrin<H}, or feels a philoso* phie inter«st in tne progres3 and happiness ofth» human raw, the spread of sla\*erv» thc increase of [>owtjr am! attendant vioes» the «athenng of people from the eountry !aud to waiulor homele» in townp, ihe ncouin»latton of uneamaiu) irrcsponi<ibl? wealth t are wd thingB %to i see aiul prognant \vith future woo.

By ? :iitating the most iidvaiK&d and prosperous nntions we may eseape & state of thinp even worse than we now have upon us.