Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 285, 22 September 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

                                            KA LEO.
                                          John E. Bush.
                                     Luna Hooponopono a me
                                             Puuku.

                                    TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1891.

                                    The “Advertiser” Coming
                                             to Terms.

    According to the Advertiser, “there is no doubt that by mutual concessions, a platform may be adopted, which will meet the approval of a majority of voters here and throughout the kingdom”... “and all will assist”....although experience has hitherto confirmed the truth of the latin saying “tienes danaos et dona erentes,” which teaches that little good can ever be expected from the Greeks of the Advertiser’s crowd, yet we shall be very curious indeed to see what “mutual concessions” they will be willing to make.  But, until proff o fthe contrary, we are afraid that no “concessions” made by the Advertiser and the classes it represents can possibly satisfy the masses.  However the LEO is perfectly disposed to give a hearing to the Advertiser’s proposals and will not purposely oppose anything reasonable.
    The Advertiser further says: “That the results of the elections of 1890 was a disappointment all round is now universally conceded:...to be sure the Advertiser’s pet cabinte did fall after the elections,---which was a disappointment for it,--but the two cabinet who succeeded that one have been so much the satellites of the class whose organ that paper is, and the new minister have been so tacitly and serviley at the beck and command of the old Reform Party,---though not having any particle of the talent and business capacity of the Thurston cabinet,---that, although a bitter “disappointment” indeed to the National Party.  Yet there ought to be no sentiment of the kind on the part of the Advertiser.  The old reform crowd reigns in fact more today than they did before the elections of 1890, and moreover with the sovereign’s sanction, and we cordially agree with the Advertiser that “to avoid a similar disaster in 1892 should be the aim of every voter”....and therefore we hope, not only that the Advertiser will help us to obtain for the people a good platform, but will also help us to obtain good men to carry that platform out; the only trouble and diffference we anticipate between usas to what “good men” are.  But “mutual concessions” might perhaps be suggested, on the question of men as well as that of the platform.  And we shall wait for further development of the Advertiser’s ideas.  But surely, two of the common aims of both parties will be to oust the present cabinet in its entirety and to crush the designing treacherous politicians who are trying to fish a seat between the two, by constituting the so-called “independent party,” independent of all honesty and devoid of all patriotism, and whose only aim is to raise up the renegades of both the other parties.

                                   “We are not Careful to Answer
                                       thee in this Matter.”

“There is a point,” says yesterday’s P. C. Advertiser, when “forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”  that point the Hawaiians have reached, and have started to realize and appreciate and KA LEO is their exponent.  The systematic robbery that has been practied upon the Hawaiian people has caused their “forbearance” to “cease” long ago, and the sharpers who have been robbing them under disguise of teachers of religion, and who are now prating about “virtue and forbearance,” would do well to study the matter, and let the motley sugar reform crowd see if a little common sense and self-respect would not teach them and their Cristian professors to be circumspect in their language towards those whom they have fleeced of nearly everything they had.
    Ye hellish crew, how much more “virtue” and “forbearance” would you show the Queen, after that which you showed towards King Kalakaua and his people, who saved you from going back to your old occupation of begging contributions for your support?  Ye prate about the Queen; what mercy would you have for her any more than you had for her brother, who obtained for you favors from the United States, which have made you rich and arrogant instead of the beggarly sycophants that your crowd would have been reduced to through bankruptcy and inability to otherwise earn a living than by and through the Hawaiian King and his people?  Yes, it is time that forbearance should “cease to be a virtue” and every Hawaiian whose soul has not been tampered with hypocrisy until dead to all sense of honor and self-respect, should unite and answer the hydra-headed beast who flaunts about the streets of Honolulu in his carriage with his family, with his Asiatic slave as driver, and who like his counter-part the bloated pharisee, who says, it is time that so much wickedness as KA LEO should not be tolerated.  KA LEO has only one reply to make to the traitors to King Kalakaua, and to their sneaking implied threat: “We are not careful to answer thee in this matter.”

    That the standard height for future Policemen will be six-foot two and all their fat.

    That Hon. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson will live at the Bungalow inside the palace yard in the near future.

                                     Correspondence.
    We are not in any sense responsible for the statements or views of the respondents.

                                         Honolulu
                                                September 18, 1891.
To the Editor KA LEO
                                                                          Sir:
    The P. C. Advertiser of the 17 instant contains a paragraph stating that a Japanese had his arm torn off “while trying to put on a belt at the centrifugals at Nuilii Mill.”
    Now, sir, it appears to me from the frequency which these accidents occur that there is something wrong in the machine departments of a great many of these mills; scarcely a week passes without some serious accident happening to an unfortunate Jap or Chinaman on one of the plantations, and it appears to me a most cruel and unjust thing that inexperienced Asiatics should be allowed to work at machinery of any kind.
    It is cruel to the unsophisticated Jap who through ignorance or inexperience is liable to have one of his limbs torn off at any moment, and it is unjust to the members of white and Hawaiian mechanics and skilled hands among the machinery who are walking about Honolulu or traveling round the Islands looking in vain for those positions to which their abilities entitle them and which are nearly all filled by Chinese, Japanese, or any other nationality which will work for wages on which a Hawaiian or white man could not exist.
    This is really a serious question for the mechanics of this kingdom and very few of them to realize to what an extent their rights are being wrested from them by capitalist, whose inordinate greed induces them to employ unskilled Asiatic labor never heeding the loss of an arm or legs occasionally, while their own countrymen and those native to the soil travel wearily round the country with stomachs and pockets empty?  I think, sir, that the law might interfere here without infringing too much on the “liberty on the subject” and insist on only those being employed in responsible positions about machinery who have had experience enough to enable them to do their work without being maimed or possibly decapitated---It is high time for all mechanics and in fact all who have to labor for their daily bread to set aside any little differences of opinion they may have and work together for the common good, and at the next election strive earnestly for one end that is to keep Asiatic labor in its proper place and when done with it send it back whence it came.         
                                                       I am etc.
                                                               HOMO.

    That a certain zealous interloper at the Mechanics meeting the other day was told by his employee to “hud his mush” which we are inclined to think he will.

                                        A ROMANCE.
                                  The Paradise of the Pacific
                                              OR
                                      The Devil’s Kuleana.
                                   (Continued by Uncle Beke.)

   “Well,” said Nyama laughing, “it seems to me just what he deserved, and I am greatly obliged to you.  I must say I am surprised at you strength.”
   “It takes some muscle to run a plantation.” remarked Rowe smiling grimly. “But you have to be very careful of those fellows, the will do any mean thing, and their boss will back them in it, too.  The plantation is the only thing they are afraid of.”
    Here the officer appeared in the door his face was bleading and his clothes covered with mud.  He was holding his coat open and pointing to his badge. “Me policeman, I arrest you,” he said  “you do, you do,” said Rowe, striding toward him.
    He disappeared from the door and was on his horse and making for town when Nyama got to the door.
    Rowe returned and brought out a chair from the office and sat it down by Faza. “Sit down,” he said.
   “You have a pretty little girl, this,” said he to Nyama. “Does she speak English too?”
   “No,” said Nyama, “she has never been away from home before.”
   “Well,” i am sorry for you here.  She is as pretty as a doll, and about as bif.  That dress does not fit her very well; it would hold a dozen such.  Have you had breakfast? “Yes?” “Then I must go to work.  We work night and day in Hardrow,” and he disappeared in the office the dorr of which opened behind the counter.  Inside of it they could catch glimpses of desks and huge books and big iron safes.
    Nyama on a box and Faza on the chair sat and looked at the clock inside on the shelf for a long time.
    When it was near noon a young man came into the store.  A little peaked cloth cap was drawn over his blue eyes, but afforded no protection to his slightly aqueline nose which shoed signs of the sun’s action.  His red beard was trimmed closely to a point at the chin, in the Christofo Columbo style, and his whole face reminded one of the portrait of the discoveror of America.  He wore a flamel coat with broad stripes of the more brilliant dyes.  A startling tie of sky-blue silk adorned the collar of his soft white silk shirt, and a wide and of the same material girded his slender waist.  Trousers of dark cloth tucked into high top boots completed his make up.
    He came saundering into the room, his head up, and snapping a small riding whip against his boot with an air of lofty indifference.  He spied Faza and came up within a yard of her chair, and setting his feet well apart looked steadily at her.  After a minute of observation he began to fumble and search his pockets.  A prolonged exploration produced a pair of eye-glasses, which he proceeded to adjust on his nose.  He then inspected the girl at his leisure whistling softly and absent mindedly, as if he were studying some remarkable work of art.
                                   (To be Continued).


                                                ON DIT.

    That J. Phillips, E. C. Macfarlane and T. Lucas, are failures and vacilating members of last legislature, ---would make an excellent trio to send the Mechanics’ Union to its early grave.

    That the octopus arms of the devilfish is out feeling among the bone and sinew of the country.  That we hope for the independence of the people in this country and for its general prosperity that the tentacles of this animal will not be allowed to attach itself to the honest and hard working man.

    That O’Sullivan without being a member of the Mechanics’ Union put in his right and left before Vice President McKenzie gave him the drop.

    That the Macedonian Prince Phillip has evidently lost his grip, not knowing as President of the Mechanics Union for what purpose the meeting had been called.

    That James R. Hold and a Mr. Williams both Hawaiians, are candidates for Ewa and Waianae.

    That for ingratitude one has to look among missionaries for examples par excellence, and for assuance as compared to the delectable cheek of a brass monkey.

    That Mr. J. Guinn is the exponent of the old political principles upon which the Mechanics’ Union was built, and he still believes and maintains them to-day.

    That the Advertiser is willing to toady to the Queen at the expense of its convictions for the sake of a dollar or two, and in order to obtain a little public sympathy against KA LEO.

    That it was not KA LEO crowd, but the Advetiser Party that conspired against the sovereign and went to offer the throne to Kalakaua’s sister; that it was a crowd of hypocrites, members of churches, lawyers, usuers, sugar agents, and plantaion @@ners and @@@ longing to Gideon’s @@@ work, which has become unbearable and for which “forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

    That Hon. J. Nawahi is going to stand for the fifth ward to represent the people.

    That Wm. Sheldon, who was discharged from service, perhaps for being too clever in hunting up opium theives, and be the means of bringing some of these things home to officials themselves, dicovered 79 tins of opium in a rubbish box in the eating saloon belonging to Akana.  Murder will out, and we rejoice to see the evil rooted out and we hope all evil-doers will get their just dues.