Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 204, 29 May 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

Ka Leo

Friday, May 29, 1891

NOTICE

            Copies of the KA LEO O KA LAHUI can be found every morning at both the News Agencies in town. Price 5 cents a copy.

A WAVE OF DISCONTENT

            Even Hawaii has received her share of discontentment as well as other portions of the globe.  The wave of unrest and dissatisfaction which seem to permeate old and well established, conservative states has reached us.  Its laven has begun and it is hard to tell at what time it will cease.  Monarchies have been overthrown as it were in an instant, so unanimous has been the feeling to throw off restaint and arbitrary customs and usages.  With the advancement of knowledge men have begun to realize the unjust position they were in, and would still remain if they did not make the effort to cast of the incubus that stood in the way of man’s perfect enjoyment to his inherent rights.  The overthrow of old institutions and the establishment of new ideas in our social status and the reconstruction of governments upon popular rights or republican principles has proven successful.  To-day we know of possible changes that we may here of by any foreign arrival, of tottering and priest-rid den countries changing their rulers throush the popular will, and of new laws promulgated as a guide to the hitherto master by which he is to act his duty properly as only the chief servant of the people.

            We hear of discontent, and a feeling bordering on revolution rife among our people, with how much truth we are not in position to state.

TOO TRUE!

            “A medical practitioner informed me that well-to-do lepers were not interfered with, and he gave me the names of several at large who occupied prominent positions in the island, and he observed that it was not intended to disturb them, notwithstanding the law which imposes segregation upon all lepers regardless of distinction.”

            We quote the above from a pamphlet printed by a Medical Association, and called “The Public Health.”  This piece of information is not new to us, and has been the practice since the institution of the Board of Health, and is still continued to the present day. It is a cause of dissatisfaction, aside from other reasons, which the natives have against the Board.

The Poor Heathen.

            The Bulletin, a week or two ago contained a weakly “vindication of the police” in which we are accused of misstating the facts in regard to the Chinaman murdered at Kamoiliili.  We said he had applied in vain at the police station for protection.  We gave the facts as the other papers did. The Bulletin said: “Ah Young Kim accompanied by a friend came to the police station * * * * to request that a policeman be sent to Kamoiliili.”  What does the Bulletin mean by getting up an artificial Chinaman to attack us in its editorial column?

CASES.

            A native, Kualaku, has a wife who was condemned by the Board of Health and sent to the leper settlement on Molokai.  After a time Kualaku applied for a divorced on the ground that his wife was civilly dead; but Dr. Swift of the leper settlement sent in a certificate that the woman was not a leper and a divorce was refused on that ground.  The man thought that if his wife was not affected with the disease he would have her back, and took steps to secure her release.  Again Dr. Swift sent in a certificate, but to the opposite effect.  Dr. Swift seems to be very accommodating in the matter of certificates.

ANOTHER CASE

            An eight-year-old son of Mr. Nawahi was attending the foreign school in Hilo.  There came a swelling on one of his eyelids, commonly called a sty.  In the same school there was an infant Hitchcock, who immediately ran home and told her father that the Nawahi boy had the leprosy.  The sheriff without further ceremony sent a policeman for the accused child and brought him down to the courthouse.

            The mother hearing that her son had been arrested ran down town and found him being examined by D. Williams.  The doctor said that the boy was all right, but refused to give a health certificate’ because, as it afterward appeared, he had been ordered not to do so by the sheriff.  Again the parents heard that Hitchcock had expressed his determination to send the boy to Molokai.  So Mr. Nawahi brought him as soon as possible to Honolulu, and had him examined by several physicians and finally by the Board of Health all of whom pronounced him sound and well, the sty in the meantime having disappeared.  Now comes the most remarkable part of this story for which we beg the reader’s special attention. 

            When the boy was brought to Honolulu, Hitchcock sent a letter to the Board of Health “recommending”  that they should not give him a certificate of health.  This was evidently an attempt to influence the Board.  The sheriff is not a physican nor has he any right to recommend any course of action to the Board.  Did Hitchcock think that the Board would condemn this innocent child to a living death to accommodate him and on the general principle of reciprocity?  Have such things been done before?  It looks like it.  Perhaps if the Board had been constituted as it once was, this young child would have been sent to a loathsome death to gratify a private spite.

NO COMPROMISE WITH WRONG.

            The seizure of the bark S.C. Allen is a good beginning in the right direction. The next step, if the vessel has been allowed to trespass the law of the country, is to condemn and sell her; and if possible punish the owners and those employed aboard the vessel, who are responsible in the matter.

            The authorities, who have the execution of the law in their hands should carry it out without impartiality, as has been often practiced heretofore.  Only in extreme cases, and for good reasons should discretion and moderation be exercised.  The barefaced smuggling done of late shows in what a low condition our morals have fallen, when even newspapers look on and say a thing.

THE CHARGE OF THE DEUTCH BRIGADE.

Half a block, half a block, half a block onward,

Down to the Royal Hotel strode the three hundred.

Wilcox to the right of them;

Wagner to the left of them;

Lager beer in front of them;

Policemen all wondered.

Was there a man delayed?

Was there a man dismayed?

No! but for beer they craved clamored and thundered;

Into the Royal Hotel march the three hundred.

Bring forth the Lager Beer!

That’s what has brought us here!

We’ll cash up never fear!

Yelled the three hundred.

We’ll put our foes to rout

With Lemburger and Samer Kraut,

And fire the ministers out;

Gallant three hundred.

We’re not a bid afraid,

Of any sea mer-maid

Or any sea mer-mans

Dry houdret Shermans.

Now we will march around

From Pali to the sea right down,

And all these wags we’ll drown,

For laughing at these Shermans.

Then shout with might and mian

Over hill and over plain,

For liberty we’ll gain,

By the charge of these brave Germans.

Honor these deutchers dear!

Honor their Lager Beer!

Now give them all a cheer!

Noble three hundred.

A PARTIZAN

            An editorial in the “Advertiser” of May 14, on the appointment of Mr. Hill, says “although he has not been, strictly speaking, a partisan, yet it is well-known that his paper warmly expoused and aided the ‘national’ movement and his appointment will be generally considered as a reward for services rendered- and no doubt merited- and therefore it may be viewed as a partisan appointment.”  Possibly so, Mr. Advertiser man, but let it be remembered that Mr. Hill saw the people staggering under a heavy load of oppression and treachery heaped upon them by an unsaintly and bogus reform party, which aroused the spirit of right and justice in Mr. Hill, who threw himself in the scale of right and justice, with the people.  Such partizanship, is both healthy and heavenly.  Again, he warbles, “The Post Office should be conducted on strictly business principles and not as a political machine, or as a reward for effete politicians and hoopilimeaai’s.”  The “Advertiser” need have no fear that MR. Hill will be found wallowing in the muddy pool of politics as the “P.C.A.” lambs were in the past.  Mr. Hill is not made that way.  The poor “Advertiser should reserve its blarney and advice for its own circle of discoasolate and purring hoopilimeaais,” who need it muchly.

Erin-go-braugh

Hilo, Hawaii, May 20, 1891

            Complications multiply among the nation.  There is a little cloud indicating a jealously on the past of Franch regarding the friendly relations between the United States and Hayti.  Over in England they are predicting that trouble is probable, and they seem to think that Americans are not aware of the extent of the danger, and that France will try to make permanent her formal protectorate over the little Haytians public.

ON DIT.

            That there is a new Constitution concocted by certain ex-Ministers, to suite possible and hoped for changes in the form of our government.

            That the barracks are in order and soldiers drilled ready to meet all emergencies.

            That moneyed influence is combined to check Russia as well as Hawaii, two extremes in the order of the family of nations.

            That Hon. Cecil Brown is already mentioned as a candidate for Legislative honors for the district of Koolauloa.  Mr. Brown is quite influential among the natives of that district. The gentleman’s urbane and pleasing manners and his open-heartedness has much to do with popularity. 

            That Minister Spencer says that he will deepen Honolulu harbor or else take to the woods before Legislature meets.  This is a laudable resolution- and the woods, his native Puna forest, is waiting for him.

            That there are so many detectives in the government employ that there are no outsiders for them to watch, so they are largely engaged in shadowing each other.  Malicious persons say that the government does not pay the detectives to detect, but to keep quiet some things they know about the great of Hawaii that would not look well in print.

            That the LEO is the only detective that shows up the current history of the land and makes the guilty fear in their grand houses and costly equipages, and gives the public the bottom facts about the public business.

            That it is about time for the bulls and bears and the whole menagerie to retire from the public pasture and seek some more private situation for their spring time gambols.

            That the proprietor of the gambling den whom we gave some free advertising some days ago started out to pay a year’s subscription to KA LEO; but before he got there he met a policeman who wanted to borrow ten dollars so urgently that the gentleman had to give it to him for old time’s sake.  He says the taxes are so high there is nothing in the business any more.

            That the freebooters of Europe having taking possession of Africa, propose to kill of the aboriginees with rum, tobacco and syphilis, and those that survive will unoculated with leperous lymph as has been done in the isles of the Pacific in the last seventy-years.

            That Catholic Spain is already looking forward to the soon re-establishment of the Inquisition, Rome never changes, but thank God the 1260 years of the Martyr-age is past, and the reward of the overcome is near at hand!

            That moneyed influence has been combined to influence the governments of Russia and Hawaii, proves how great nations are effected, alike no matter how far removed they are, in politics or in their situation.

            That Hon. Jas Campbell finds Hawaii still the same little tempest in a teapot, more so since he has visited other nations somewhat larger than Hawaii.

            That Joe Aea, one of the musicians of Berger’s band, is to be Deputy Jailor of Oahu Prison, Joe is a father of quite an exlensive and promising family, and as a Hooulu Lahui man, is worth of favors.  We expect to see Joseph made governor yet.

            That eighty pounds of opium were landed from the Australia yesterday a lady assisting in the ticklish operation of carrying the tins out under her skirts.  A feeling of gallantry prevented the detectives from undertaking the seizing of the drug.

            That the electric light glow not. The works of that department seem to be costive just now.

            That several tax payers have agreed to contribute to a suit to make Minister Widemann pay into the treasury the money lost by the private sale of bonds.

            That a gentleman made a statement at the prayer meeting Wednesday evening that he joined the church on business principles, but afterward learned to love Jesus for his own dear sake.  So do all our most successful dealers.

            That there is some excellent land over in Puna, Hawaii, for growing kanakas if the government will only give the raisers of that kind of stock a show.

            That Ed. Styles, of the War Office gave a miniature Diplomatic Dinner, at which were represented by proxy, the Finance Minister, the Mercantile, Planting and Stock interests.  Edward’s princely styles would just fit us at Washington if the backers of the Adcertiser would only put up the $20,000 per annum.

            That a lot of brigands have been surpressed in Italy, and are talking of seeking homesteads and occupation in America, while another lot descendents of japhet have taken voluntary possession of Africa, and have divined the land of Ham, containing 11,900,000 sq. miles, as follows: Portugal 774,993; Spain 210,000; France 2,300,248; Germany 1,035,720; Congo Free State 1,000,000; Italy 360,000; Great Britain 1,909,445, and as France has not been able to utilize the desert of Sahara, Madagascar is thrown as a manuahi to her.  The intention of these nations is to carry out the scripture saying “the heathen I will give unto you,” &c,, believing the scripture in this rsspect, as pointing to them.

            Bismarck has been elected to a seat in the Reichstag, and already there are indications that his presence in that body will be the signal for sharp controversy between the prince and his sympathizers on the one hand and the government supporters on the other.  There will be no lack of issues to call forth controversy.  The young emperor is already manifesting his annoyance at the prospect.  He is throwing the hint in pretty strong terms that he alone is master in Germany.