Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 210, 8 June 1891 — Page 4

This text was transcribed by:	Rosemary Mccune
This work is dedicated to:	Kaelene Ahu Rey

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

[left in all the misspellings...if the letter was upside-down, though, I typed it rightside-up]

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KA LEO.

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MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1891

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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.

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THOSE AGITATORS.

"Of the absolute international rights of the States,one of the most essential and important, and that which is at the foundation oa all the restk isthe right of self preservation. It is not only a right with respect toother States, but a duty with respedt to its own members, and the most solemn and important which the State owes to them. This right necessarilu involves all other incidental rights which are essential as means to give effects to the principal ends."

The above citation is one of the 3established tenets of international law andissingularly applicable to the present state of affairs in Hawaii nei, where there is threatened agitation and revolt. We have had two revolutions in succession, and that is enough for the present decade at least. Without discussing the merits or errors ofwhat have gone before, the LEO asserts that there exists at the present no cause for revolution, and the government of te day must use a strong hand in supressing any attempt at revolt against the constitutional government. For the past week the city has been in the state of alarm over the rumors that some followers of the reform party contemplated a movement to secure the Queen's abdication in favor of the United States, or of an independent Republic, and that possibly force might be used to secure this end. That such plots have not materialized as yet, is probably because the conpirators have realized that their following would be slim, and that the Queen's friends, the Hawaiian and the mechanics generally are on the qui rive and ready to oppose such a movement. That these rumors. so universally current here, must have had some foundation is pretty certain, and it would be hard for many of our citizen not to believe that meetings have been held to discuss the scheme by some of the old missionary reform party. It is also believedthat some of the men who are working up this agitation, are acting as the secret agents of Mr. Blaine at Washington,who acknowledged in the last "S F Examiner" that he now intends to have a "more decisive policy" regarding these islands. More credence is given to thes latter idea from the fact that it it remembered that when Blaine was Secretary of State under Garfield, he had a secret agent here in the shape of a man named W. O. Murphy, who attempted agitationa, the purport of which were exposed by his own braggart conceit. At all events it is public belief that at the present time, there are plots and intrigues agoing here, - whether instigated at Washington or not - that are hostile to the Queen, the Hawaiian people and Hawaiian independence.

Under these circumstances it is the duty of the government to bring all its forces and powers into play, and if it is discoverfed that these treasonable plots do exist, the rights and duties of self-preservation demand that the leaders thereof be seized and deported from the country; there is no place here for agitators and traitors, and the peace and tranquility of the country require that all such should be far removed from the scene of their nefarious schemes, whether they be Hawaiian subjects or foreigners. The precedents for such action are numerous in all parts of the world, civilized or barbarous, and deportation or banishment, is recognzied as a convenient and legitimate metod of ridding a country of troublesome individuals. We are not aware that any overt act has as yet been committed, but the LEO, - and we speak for a large constituency - demands of the government the seizure and deportation of every agitatio, at the first sign of any warlike demonstration. The government owes it to the people to take this stand for the defence of its autonomy and the preservation of peace in the kingdom. Because ambitious ment and there satellites are out of office, this constitutes no cause for revolution: Whatever differences of political opinion there may be can all be settled at the ballot box. It has also been said that certain political men, by their agentsm approached Lieut. Kaaha of the Royal Guard to try to induce him to assist in turning over the arms and ammunition from the barracks. this is a highly treasonable action in which the authors may have simply acted, as they always have done, as tools of their more cunning associates nevertheless we also demand of the govenrment that the fact be properly investigated and correct that its authors be held to account for their treasonable conduct and also banished if they are found to be traitors to the Queen and her government.

If also it be true that the present agitation is inspired from Washington the LEO informs Mr. Blaine that he is proceeding in the very bestway to defeat his own purposes and to alienate the feelings of the Hawaiians against any American alliance. Mr. Blaine must be poorly informed as to the political status here ishe believesthat the revolution party of 1887, contemptuously known as the religio-hypocretics-politic-reform-party are representative ofthe people,and any thing that he might attempt through that party or any of its representatives, would surely be defeated at the polls, and we doubt if the political status of this dingdom can or will be altered without a plebiscite of the people. The party in favor of annexation may represent a certain oligarchy of sugar planters and church bigots, but it is politically dead a buried, and can no more win the public confidence. There has been and is a growing sentiment among the people at large, and Hawaiians especially for a more complete commercial and political union with the United States some of the mor radicaleven advocating, that in the distant future wes hould seek admissiom as a State ofthe Union; but any such movement will surely fail, unless it is advocated and led by men who are representative of the nation and of the people and have the public confidence. The present agitators are not such men.

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A TARNISHED REPTATION

It must be admitted that Mr. Thurston's reputation is not as lustrous as it once was. It lost most of the shine while he was Minister of Interior, into which position he came by force and fraud, and retired by the request of the people expressed by the ballot. He and his friend, Mr. Wunderberg, are a pair of distempered and disappointed office-seekers, who never can expect to attain any position by the vote of the people o by any fair means whatsoever. The

Bulleten has long been singing Mr. Thurston's requiem as the political "defunct," and we have not paid him even that attention. Now, he goes before a police justice and holds up his hand and swears that a crime has been committed against the Queen and country, inasmuch as KA LEO coldly on a tender young

conspiracy that he and his confederates were said to be hatching. We must say this is very offensive conduct on the part of a political corpse. Mr. Thurston

once made incendiary speeches with a cardridge belt around his middle and a rifle in his hand, against the King and Constitution that he had solemnly sworn to support. After that we cannot see that his character would be much injured by the word "conspirator" or even "traitor" When we published what was as much saidofthe Marshal he came around and wanted to clean out KA LEO office and wipe up the floor with the editor, and with a good deal of difficulty was refrained from disfiguring the Mouth of the People. But Mr. Thurston, of course, has too much moral stamina to take such methods to prove his innocence. Making oath to things is in Mr. Thurston's line, and he went at once and swore out a warrant against KA LEO while he retired to his fortifications. He thus made a contemptible and unmanly attempt to suppress free speech, which as a journalist and an American he was always bound to

support.

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TRADE WITH HAWAII.

It appears that other countries beside the United States of America are anxious to make reciprocal trade, and are casting about to make such commercial treaties as will give them advantages over competitors. The following is taken from the Montreal Herald, showing the views fo the press and the favorable

comparison which is made between the East Indies' trade and what would accrue to them from the West Indies ofthe Pacific. We know of a gentleman in the city who is in correspondence with large commercialhouses, in Camada one of whom will take at least 20,000 tons of raw sugars for refinery pruposes. It seems only a matter of common sense and justice towards the people of Hawaii and the capitalist, that our government shoud bestir themselves in this matter.

But we are afraid that the Secretary of the Foreign Department, who is sentimentally inclined towards the land of his birth, -is against the proposition, and undoubtedly leads the minister in the matter, the latter being only a novice in statecraft and only too glad to have some one think for him.

"According to a San Francisco despatch there is likely to be a disagreement between the United States and Hawaii over the new commercial t@aty and the Queen and her Cabinet are said to be looking to Canada and Australia with a view toarranging with those countries a treaty on lines similar to the old treaty between the United States and Hawaii. The Canadian Government might do worse than give this matter some attention. The trade between the United States and Hawaiiu has been very profitable to both countries, and if Canada could secure the trade of those islands it would probably be of more value to us than all the trade we can get with the West Inidies under existing circumstances. Just now, however, Sir John is probably too busy in figuring out how he is going to keep his hungry and quarrelling family in order, and speculating whether or not it is worth while to send reciprocity delegates to Washington on what several Tory organs say will be a wild=goose chase; while several Cabinet Ministers are spending half their time in making vicious passes with sharp instruments at each others political Whale these performances are going to trade witn Hawaii, Newfoundland and tne United States can wait.

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STUDY LAW!

Penal Code, Chap. LXX.

* * *And all goods, wares and merchandise so smuggled or attempted to be smuggled, and the vessel from which they are smuggled together with all her boats, tackel, apparel and furniture, and all other boats, vessels and craft of whatever discription in any way engaged or used in such smuggling,m or attempt to smuggle, shall be forfeited, and may be seized condemned and sold for the benefit of the Hawaiian Government.

The latest enactment in the opium question provides as follows: Laws of 1888. Chapter LXX, Section 6.

Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to exempt any person or vessel from the pains and penalties prescribed by the laws of the kingdom against smuggling. The opinion of the Court as reported in teh "I. C. Advertiser," June 5 1891.

* * * The Court in the course of remarks said:

At any rate, here is a libel asking only for the condemnation of the opium. I think I ought no to allow this amendment at this stage of the case, and I wish to say that I do it mainly because from the testimony that is already in, and from my view of the statue of 1886, the Government could not have the vessel condemned if the libel should be amended,

"It is a detriment to the commerce of this country to have ships attached with out good cause, and unless there is some place constructed in the vessel where the opium is concealed, which affords the presumption that the owners must be aware of it the vessel cannot be forfeited. And I am willing to place my refusal to exercise my discretion favorably to the amendment on that ground, and I will sign a decree condemning the opium but not the ship. Ammendment refused."

The Act of 1886 referred to is entitled "An Act Supplementary to Article 26 Chapter 9 of the Civil Code." (The title does not say to ammend the Penal Code nor the Laws of 1888).

Sec. 3. If any goods or articles prohibited from being imported by any private person shall be found in any ship within the limit of any port of this kingdom, such goods and articles and the packagecontaining the same and all merchandise or part of the invoice in which such goods and articles were imported, shall be forfeited, and all ships or boats coming into any port of this kingdom having opium on board concealed in false bulk heads, false bows,

double sides or botto, or in any secret or disguised place whatsoever constructed in such ships or boat shall be forfeited.

Port Surveyor Holt says, and it was the common report around town, that the opium was found in a secret place constructed in the cook's galley of the Allen.

There is no unraveling the intricacies of the law as woven by our intelligent legislators, the courts, attorney generals and the customs of mershants. Therefore we give no opinion on the law. We are actuated in making these extracts by a heart-felt desire to see a new attorney general wbho will recognize the fact that it is his duty to inforce and not to make the laws.

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ON DIT.

That the attempt twice made to bribe the officers of theHousehold Guards to five up those pet Austrian breach loading guns, which were bought by Mr.

Bush for the use of the Hawaiian government, was a move intended to initiate the work of seizing the government and then the Queen with the intention of making her agree to abdicate in favor of some lay preacher of the Congregational sect er, as King or President, and in case of a refulsa to create a disturbance and thereby precipitate annexation to the United States.

That the clerk in the Attorney General's Office who made the mistake that liberate dthe opium smuggler Allen will not loss any thing by the clerical error.

That a 'reformer' was heard to say tht te smnoke of coal-oil torches served in a measure to disguise the order of kanaka.

That a portly figure was seen to approach the Queen on the palace portico and after several ineffectual efforts to displace the pater presumptive and engage Her Majesty in an animated and confidental conerversation. A hoodlum waas heard to say: "See! He is making a mash!" "No, he aint; he's sayin' his prayers," replied his mate.

That the people are all glad to see Her Majesty safe and well and hear again the strains of the Royal Band which the people have greatly missed.

That Marshal Wilson appeared on the scene in good shape mounted on a handsome horse and looking like a cavalier.

That the peopleare waiting breathlessly the development of the new cabinet. Let the Queen remember, not who are, but who were her friends before she came to the throne.

That the pullers of pulls who try to frighten the Queen and the Ministry with threats that they won't stand it will stand a good deal. Let the Psalm-singers and foreign ministers too, have the retort courteous and curt.

That the time is coming soon when we may have a cabinet who have some principles besides the love of office and pelf, and wo cannot be pulled by pulls nor scared by scares.

That Saturday as come and gone - the last day the riot was to have taken place - without any riot.

That it is quiet evident that Marshal Wilson is a staunch Queen's man.