Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 290, 28 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.

MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1891.

An Injustice.

            “The New Zealand House of Representatives has voted an increase of members pay from $750 to $1,200 a year.”

            The above item shows, how in other parts of the world people have no qualms of conscience or pretended modesty in doing justice to themselves as public servants.  In no other part of the civilized world is it the rule to underpay a public servant.  The Senators and Representatives of the Legislative Body of the United, if we are not misinformed, get $5,000 a year.  Here in Hawaii, where the majority of Legislators have been Hawaiians, until the open usurpation of rights by the missionary party in 1887, the salary was placed at the instigation of the missionaries at a very low figure, an average of about $250, and any attempt to increase the pay of members, has been frowned upon and opposed by the opulent white Legislator; the native members under the influence of the American Missionaries, being made to believe it was outrageous and unpatriotic for the members themselves to dream of raising their pay though at the same time they were granting themselves, under corporate names, privileges, franchises, and subsidies, to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

            To the initiated the idea is plain.  The missionary, who has been the principal factor heretofore in politics has made this part of a programme to keep the native poor and thereby control him, by making a present of a suit of clothes, or in some other way placing the honorable gentleman under an obligation to them.  The vote thus controlled has been used to obtain gants from the public funds by direct vote or by indirect ways, out of which only an infinitesimal porportion, reaches the natives.  This is what newspapers in other countries are allowed to term, the STEAL.  This trick of keeping the Hawaiians poor, under the idea that no one can otherwise reach Heaven, has been practiced towards the aboriginee by his professing friend, in his private, religious and public capacity, and a strong opposition is always put forth wherever the native has made the effort to obtain a proper and equal share of pay or patronage for his services.

            This outrageous deception towards the Hawaiian is fast being discovered by him; necessity now has taken the place of his former teacher, and is giving him an understanding that has dispelled the film which has been thrown over his mental vision in the past seventy years of hypocritical and selfish teaching.

 

The Future Time of Trouble.

            Since the Crimean war, an astonishing revolution has taken place in the attitude of the Nations in Europe.  Russia, as soon as she could, refused to be bound by treaty obligations, and has ever since directed her attention and energy to the carrying out of that inspired document, - the testament of Peter the Great.  France, one of the chief parties to an alliance to maintain the Ottoman Empire, was crushed by Prussia in 1870.  Prussia was too much in sympathy with Russia, at the time, to interfere with her movements against Turkey later.

            England with her own affairs demanding all her attention, could not without France help Turkey.

            Austria had not recovered from the blow she received from Prussia; Italy, was too much occupied with stripping the Pope of his temporal power and making Rome the Capital of the Nation.

            The sudden and overwhelming humiliation of France changed the plan and attitude of the European Powers.  New and entirely different combinations have been the result, and today we see Russia, with France allied to her, assuming an aggressive attitude.  She has obtained a forced concession from the Turkish Government.  She proposes to make use of the latter to coerce Egypt out of England’s grasp in which effort France takes a large interest.

            By the sudden overthrow of France, the Muscovite saw her opporunity, and accordingly in 1890, she astonished the powers of Europe in the fall of that year, by deliberately disregarding the stipulations of the treaty of 1856.  The restrictions put upon her after the termination of the Crimean war were set aside, just at the moment when none of the powers were in a condition to enforce it.  Several reasons were given by the Russian government at the time for this act on her part, but the real reason was the fulfillment of Russia’s duty as mapped out in Czar Peter’s will, to possess Constantinople and drive the Crescent from the soil of Europe.

            This desire has been cherished as a sacred legacy, left to Russia by that famous Prince.  Becoming at the early age of sixteen, sole emperor, he enjoyed a prosperous reign of thirty-seven years, to 1725, and at his death left a “last will and testament,” in which were certain important instructions for his successors to follow, and which has been religious observed up to the present time.  The 9 ^th article of said will, enjoined upon his successors and his people, the following policy: -

            “To take every possible means of gaining Constantinople and the Indies, (for he who rules there will be the true Sovereign of the world); excite war continually in Turkey and Persia; establish fortresses in the Black Sea; get control of the sea by degrees, - and also of the Baltic, which is a double point necessary to the realization of our project; accelerate as much as possible the decay of Persia; penetrate to the Persian Gulf; re-establish, if possible by the way of Syria, the ancient commerce of the Levant; advance to the Indies, which are the great depot of the world.  Once there we can do without the gold of England.”

            To show how persistently this line of policy has been followed, the following facts will show: -

            “In 1696, Peter wrested the Sea of Azov from the Turks and kept it.  Next, Catherine won Crimea.  In 1812, Alexander I, obtained Moldavia, by the peace of Bucharest, and the Province Bessarabia.  Nicholas won the right of free navigation of the Black Sea, the Dardanelles, and the Danube; but his inordinate greed, led him into the Crimean war, by which he lost Moldavia, and the right of navigating the Danube, and the unrestricted navigation of the Black Sea.  This was no doubt a severe repulse to Russia, but it did not extinguish its designs upon the Ottoman power, nor did it contribute in any essential degree to the stability of the Ottoman Empire.  Patiently biding her time, Russia has been watching and waiting, and in 1870, when all the Western nations were watching the Franco-Prussian war, she announced to the Powers that she would be no longer bound by the treaty of 1856, which restricted her use of the Black Sea; and since that time that sea has been, as it was hundreds of years ago, to all intents and purposes, a marc Russicum.”

            Governor Sir Hudson Lowe, of the Island of St. Helena, gives the following opinion, of his illustrious charge, while a prisoner on that Island, showing how well Napoleon Bonaparte understood the designs of Russia and the importance of her contemplated movements: -

            “In the course of a few years, Russia will have Constantinople, part of Turkey, and all of Greece.  This I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken place.  All the cajolery and flattery that Alexander practiced upon me was to gain my consent to effect that object.  I would not give it, for seeing that the equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed.  Once mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a naval power, and then God knows what may happen.  The object of my invasion of Russia was to prevent this, by the interposition between her and Turkey of a new state, which I meant to call into existence as a barrier to her Eastern encroachments.”

                                    (To be Continued.)

 

A Reply.

 

            That “Smilax” or perhaps more appropriately named small ax evidently has an ax to grind, and when sharp enough, if such a thing were possible, to use it on KA LEO.

            That there are plenty of such small characters in this community no one need be surprised, as they are generally impecunious and will do anything to obtain a means of existence.  “Smilax” is one of those small fries that calls for a cup of coffee for ten cents, and eats up the balance of other people’s lunches and is all the time stealing the Elele and Ka Leo to read, because too mean and not honest enough buy one and read it leisurely and understand what he has read and talk intelligently about it.  The fellow evidently has some knowledge of an Insane Asylum, and from his language, we should say, he has been an inmate of one.  He is however a mean cur, otherwise, when speaking as he does of an individual, he should sign his name, and be a man and not act like a pup.

 

A NEWPORT PROPOSAL.

I.

Oh say, will you marry, my summer girl,

I’ve a cottage quite close to the sea.

In a derisive smile her red lips curl,

And “come off!” was her answer to me.

“But my cot it was built for a Railroad King,”

And I softly got down on my knee.

Her eyes shone like gems in a nine-carat ring,

“Now your talking; I’m on,” said she.

Y.W.H.

 

Along the Shore at Waikiki.

The sun’s at rest the dark clouds come

And hang like palls o’er glassy sea,

Just hear the festive skeeters hum

Along the shore at Waikiki.

 

Far from the citys busy whirl

Its twinkling lights we dimly see;

I’d like to stroll, with my best girl

Along the shore at Waikiki.

 

In fantastic shapes and somber clusters

Rears the stately Koko tree;

Like badly used up feather dusters,

Along the shore at Waikiki.

 

Then sad thoughts came amid the gloom,

Could I the distant future see;

And some one start these lands to boom

Along the shore at Waikiki.

 

I sat and wonder what I’d do,

If these things really came to be;

And I owned a fine sand lot or two

Along the shore at Waikiki.

 

The wind goes sighing thro’ the leaves,

In a weird and solemn minor key;

I think of B.F. Bill and thieves

Along the beach at Waikiki.

 

“Tis growing cold, how drear the place;

Quite changed the scene now seems to be,

Snug in a hack, two forty pace,

I’ll leave the shore-at Waikiki.

                  Y.W.F.

 

ON DIT.

            That the one “dig” a day will prove the Bulletin’s downfall, and the destruction of its political supporters, while KA LEO and the National Party will come in on the top-crest of popular suffrage and sweep away the Bulletin debris, not excepting little Dan and his antipode friend.

 

            That P.C. Advertiser is justly indignant at the boyishness of the Premier, or perverseness or foolishness, or all three peculiar characteristics combines, - in ordering the Band to play at some other place than the one advertised.  It seems as if the addition of an Elder in the ministry, in the person of the Minister of Finance, has not had the effect to properly ballast our youthfull Pitt, who seems bent by his actions to be known only as “Buffalo” Sam.

            That an old gentleman, just returned from a visit to California, states that there is no place after all like Hawaii nei.  That to a man like him, who once said as he came away from a prayer meeting, that he had always looked upon a dollar as being as big as at cart-wheel, we can understand his reasons for appreciating the land of his adoption.  There are quire a number of people who have returned to Hawaii for the same reason before him.

 

            That the most exclusive as well as the most consistent and enthusiastic Mutual Admiration Society, in this Kingdom, is confined, in its membership, to two persons – little Mac and old JOE.  By the way, will some gentleman who has closely watched the history of events in this country, please step forward and inform an anxious public in what manner, when and where either of the members of that admirable aggregation of self-esteem has shown any real ability as publicists?

 

            That our ridicule of the Romanesque hyphen-izing of his name by the gentleman from holy Boston, has shamed him into a compromise, which involves the conspicuous omission of the hyphen in the Bulletin’s report of a certain wedding reception, while the ridiculous little dash is retained in the Finance Office notices published by authority in the Advertiser.  We do not propose to let up on our hyphenated hybrid until he retreats entirely from the middle ground he is now trying to occupy and drops the absurd use of the hyphen – pau loa.

 

            That there has been a new departure in the standard of the selection of teachers at Punahou, - that hoary gospel dispensary.  It is no longer a detriment to a lady applicant for a teacher’s position that she is young, pretty and accomplished.  That the Musical Recital at Kaumakapili last week brought before a Honolulu audience no less than two recent acquisitions to the staff of that institution – Miss Dale, a delightful soprano songstress, and Miss Wink, an accomplished pianist, who illustragtes the truth of the above suggestion: - It is happily no longer essential that a lady candidate for a place on that staff should have a face that would stop a clock.

 

            That the above reference reminds us that the so-called “Honorable” Paul Isenberg sang like a bird at the recital mentioned.  Paul has tremendous lung power. – enough to run a moderate size windmill.  Somehow, as the writer listened to the tones of the minstrel, that evening, there involuntarily occurred to his mind an idea once expressed by a witty lady, after listening to an obese prima donna, vix:  that her singing suggested to the mind of the speaker the spectacle of a linnet piping out of a lump of suet.  Paul never palls on a Honolulu audience.