Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 214, 12 June 1891 — Page 4
| This text was transcribed by: | Mary Deguzman |
| This work is dedicated to: | my brother bryan |
KA LEO O KA LAHUI.
"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."
KA LEO.
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FRIDAY JUNE 12,1891,
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NOTICE.
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Copies of the KA LEO O KA LAHUI can be found ever morning at both the News Agencies in twn. Price 5 cents a copy.
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THE PLAN.
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The planters say they are in great straights now they have to compete with other sugar producing countries. The cause of this we have already discussed. I is due to the very low wages he prevail in other countries. it is plain that planters cannot pay $15 per month and compete with those who pay $5. Now, we propose to make remarks on the remedy. We may no put it in the most delicate or polished way, but we will meet the problem squarely.
The sugar industry on these islands has been stated to be the cause or our prosperity. The increase in land values has enriched many or our people. The trade in supplies and increased demand for commodities due to general prosperity has built up Honolulu and our merchants. The mechanics, the only partly independent class we have are here because of the demand for their services by the plantations and concurrent industries. The talk about a diversity of industries is all very proper and the effort to develop them should be assisted and encouraged, but that is experimental and in the future and offers no immediate adequate solution to the industrial problem.
Coffee is in the same position as regards cheap labor as sugar. It is cultivated in Brazil with what was and is practically slave labor. In that and other coffee producing countries labor is even cheaper than that of slaves, for the people of the county are employed during the season at almost nothing a day, and for the rest of the year they provide for themselves; something no domesticated animal will do. In coffee growing a very large number of hands are required in the picking season and few at other times. This renders it impossible tao employ profitably contract labor that must be paid all the year. Fruit cannot be shipped from our position in med-ocean to any great extent. Practically, for the acquisition of wealth, there is only one thing that the county can depend on. If the plantations were to be shut down not only would there be a lot of people out of office but out of a job and out of any means of living. Land would be of no value; and the country would lapse into poverty-stricken decreptitude.
There are two possible remedies:
To get labor as cheap as other sugar growing countries, or to gain some advantage as to market, or bounty such as the reciprocity gave us. Any such advantage is artificial and can never be as certainly permanent as cheap production. We might secure a treaty with Canada, but there would naturally be a very great reluctance to break with a great and generous nation like the United States to attach ourselves as a dependent province of Great Brittain as Canada is. If the United States should drop us at seems certain we would not stand long alone; we would be picked up by some aggressive power--gobbled up and swallowed whole. We would find ourselves touching our hats to stripplings sent out by a foreign government to rule over us.
To be annexed to the United States might be a sentimental loss, but whollly imaginery. The chances for a bounty or a protective tariff would be extremely good for many ears to come, together with numerous incidental advantages. The principal internal difficulty in the road to annexation ha been placed there be politicians, of one party seeking from self-interest to make capital against another party by the cry or independence and Hawaii for Hawaiians, and by the opposite side making threats that thae country would lose its independence and holding up annexation as a kind of bug-a boo before the native people. Between these two fictitious positions the people have been mislead, and there they have taken there stand. But a reasonable and conscientious discussion of our present condition, may even lead the Queen and her people to accept a change for the better for the whole country. However, an advocacy of any kind for the purpose of improving our welfare should never be urged by force and only by reasoning until the people and ruler are convinced it is to their interest to accept an inevitable destiny.
The question of cheap labor is difficult and antagonistic to the principles of a free people. It is at at his point that relief to the main industry of the county through a system of involuntary servitude is justly opposed by the people. This antagonism, however, can readily be settled by judicious legislation. The trouble is in the constant addition of cheap labor thrown at large upon the community, who after a term of involuntary servitude becomes a competitor with free labor. The plantation imported peon labor of an kind should never be allowed to remain in the county, except it be upon a renewal of their service under contract otherwise they should be reshipped out of the country either at public expense or between the government and employer.
No native no white man will eve fill the requirements of plantation labor, and in that respect no objection can be made against even coolie labor. In jour anxiety to help ourselves we should never forget to treat those we do have as laborers justly.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY.
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That even a pretence of native rule has broken down in the Hawaiian Islands need surprise no one. It appears to be the destiny of the Polynesian races to wither away in presence o civilization. Even in the New Hebrides, where the natives have been subjected only to the humanising intluence of the missionaries, the objects of so much care display a low vitality and are rapidly decreasing in numbers, and the same remarks applies to Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. We may experience a sentimental regret that races, interesting in themselves, should be thus doomed to extinction, but after all it is only an exemplification in the human world of a law of nature which decrees the survival of the fittest. But for the operation of this law, the greater part of the earth's surface would to-day be in the occupation of races in a low stage of barbarism. @ and who were wanting in the capacity for progress. Have the blackfellow been able to hold his own in these colonies, and even under the security given by European rule to life and property. proved as prolific as the negroes in the United States, we would have hound ourselves greatly embarrassed by the presence in large numbers of people who had put on but a thin veneer of civilisation. The difficulty is how to carry on in the transtion period. The experiment of native rule has been tried not only in the Sandwich Islands, but in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, and the result have ben in no case satisfactory. There is a a tendency to bring to the front white adventurers who have not the confidence of their own countrymen. The position in Fiji became so intolerable that the white residents had to urge Her Majesty's Government to assume the sovereignty, and the Baker episode in Tonga did not lend encouragement to the system of a nominally indigenous Government. It is obviously better even in the interest of the natives themselves that some civilised State should assume the responsibility. Some kind of intervention will speedily become indispensable in Hawaii. "A feeble minded Queen," as she is described, dragged this way and that by factions of white men, will obviously be unable o maitain order amongst the most heterogeneous population in the southern hemisphere. The question is, On whom does the duty of maintaining order rest? It would be absurd for Australia to set up territorial rights so far from her shores and it would be idle besides, because Australia could only act through the British Government, and we know by experience that the London authorities, instead of seeking opportunities for extending their responsibilities in the Pacific, have sought to evade them even in close proximity to our own shores when active intervention was dictated by the interests of the British Colonies. As a matter of fact, Hawaii has a long been an American possession commercially, and even politically the influence of the United States has been supreme. Lying in the track of the future cable between Australia and America, we could have desired that the islands should have belonged to the Empire, but the next best thing is that they should be taken possession of by the United States. There are people who would begrudge to our trans-pacific cousins the fruits of their enterprises in Hawaii, but it is surely better that the island should be in their hands than in those of some aggressive European Power. We are the more called upon to be sympathetic with the Americans in this matter that we wee indebted to the energetic action of the Republic for preventing Samoa being absorbed by Germany, when our own suzerain stood timidly by.-- Melbourne Leader, March 14.
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ANOTHER PROPHET,
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In an English newspaper, The People, of May 17th. we read of another year herald of coming events, who prophesies "before this time next year the greatest war ever known--- a war which will culminate in the conversion of twenty three now existing states into ten." This seer is a clergyman in Liverpool, England, and a close student of current history as well as being versed in biblical lore. There are unquestionable signs that agree with the bible that point to the approaching close of the world's drama as at present performed. That this time is to terminate with one of the most terrible conflicts among nations ever known since the world was made. Te keeping up of large standing armies, vast arsenals of all manner of improved arms and munitions of war; borrowing large amounts of money to keep up this unnatural state; nations angry one against another, are evidences of an impending "time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time."
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ON DIT.
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That another warrant was served upon us by the Marshal, in the name of the Queen. We attribute this special attention towards us for having possibly damaged the intention of some people towards her Majesty. It was thus that Caesar died.
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That her majesty the Queen was at a Sunday School picnic, where she was highly entertained with hand shaking and "Aloha Oe." and by a Psalm by a number of centenarian girls, the whole closing with ice cream and cakes, coffee and cream, and Hollister's gin ad lib.; a few tearful remarks by a brother, more singing,, and a benediction.
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That the weather has been so warm in Maui, that a pig chased by a couple of natives for a contribution to the Queen, at Lahaina, suddenly toppled over; when picked up the animal was actually roasted to death from the heat.
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That ex-premier John A. Cummins took most of the races, Kealia Ranch coming in for a share of the honors.
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That nearly everybody was out to view the races.
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That several of our Maui friends graced the race course yesterday.
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That some of the sports came home with empty purses, while others went on their way rejoicing. Such is life.
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That a policeman jumped out of a tramway car with an obstreperous passenger and gave him John L. Sullivan, in order to put him to rest. The does take effect.
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That one of the drivers in the trotting race, was thrown out, by the horse falling down, but neither the horse man nor the horse were hurt.
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That as a whole the 11th o June a as general holiday, went off very quietly and with hardly an accident of any consequence to mar the pleasures of the day.
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That a great murdering of the Queen's English was heard all day yesterday. The voice of the speakers was quite thick and hoarse towards evening, and only a gurgle or a gutteral by ten P. M. last night.
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That some one tried to knock his brains out with one of the gate posts to Col. Jas. Boyh's gate at his residence at Pawaa, while going at express speed with others on horse-back.
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NA MEA HOU.
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He mau la nui keia o na mea hou, a he mau mea hou no hoi e pili ana i ka pono o ko kakou kulana aupuni. He oiaio, ke nee aku nei ko kakou kulana a ke ano haiki mai nei. Me he la ma na hiona, ua haalele mai na hoa nana i kakoo kakkou a i hookipa he pokii iloko aka ohana o na aupuni, a ua hamama ka ipuka o ka hoohui aina me Amerika me ke keakea ole ia, oiai na aupuni o Enelani a me Farani i ku keakea ai no kakou, ua ano haalele mai i ke kulana kue i ka hooni ia o ko kakou noho na kuokoa.
He mau kumu ko keia. Ua nana mai nei na aupnni a ke ike nei, ua like ko kakou kulana me ka ole. Ua nawaliwali ka hookele ia ana o ke kkulana kuokoa o ke aupuni ma kona ano Hawaii, a ke emi mau nei ka lahui mua o ka aina. Ke holomoku nei ka make. Ke ikea mai nei no hoi e ko waho poe, he oe haole wale no ma na wahi kiekie e lawelawe nei i ke aupuni. He nau kokua keia e kono ana i ko wal@o poe, na aupuni mana e nana mai nei, ua hala ke aupuni Hawaii ma kona ano Hawaii. Ke oi aku nei ka heluna o na lahui e mamua o ka lahui maoli o ka aina. Me he la, aole he lima a he leo mana e komo iho e uwao i pakele ai kakou, mai ka hopena e halialia mai nei, me he puahiohio la.
No keia palupalu o ke aupuni Hawaii, no ka omali wale o ke ano o ka lahui a me ano o na kekahi mea paani ia e ka makani, e paia, ewa ia ana io a ia nei.
No keia mau kumu lehlehu, ke ala mai la ka mana o Amerika e hoolale a e hoeueu i na hana e hiki ai iaia ke hoopau i keia mau ano hana, a me keia kulana onawaliwali o ke aupuni, a hoonoho iho i aupuni, a hoonoho iho i aupuni hou malalo o kona mana. a i ole lawe kaokoa maoli ae ao. A ina oia kona manao, a ua haalele mai hoi na hoa uwao o kakou, o Ennelani a me Farani, owai ka mea mana a hiki ke hoole aku. Hookahi wale no mana, o ko ka lahui hoomaemae ana iaia iho me ka oiaio, a hoi ae a hoopono, hilinai aku i ko ke Akua lokomaikai.
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Mamala-hoe Kanawai.
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"Mamala-hoe kanawai." o keia ke kumukanawai o ka Na'i aupuni kaulana, a me kona mau kanawai. O ke kahua o keia kumukanawai i loaa ai, aia ma Papai, Puna, Hawaii, oai, ma ia wahi i haua ia ai ke poo o ua Na'i aina nei i ka hoe e Pa'ikaka kekahi hoi o na koa kaulana oia mau la.
A o kahi o Kamehamahe i kukala ai i ua kumukanawai ala o na, ma Kaipalaoa Hilo, iloko o ka Haleioleole.
E hele ka elemakule a moe i ke ala, pela hoi ka luahine a me ke keiki, aole hoi he kaua i koe, aole luku wale ana.
Na keia kumu kanawai i hoike mai, o ka mea nona keia la , oia kekahi o na 'lii kaulana loa, a naauao oi kelakela hoi, i oi aku ko keia au e ike ia nei. He kumukanawai kona o ka manao i kakau ole ia, aka he mana nae.