Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 290, 28 September 1891 — An Injustice. [ARTICLE]

An Injustice.

,4 The New Zealand House of Rep* jresentatives has voted an increase of members pay from $750 to $1,200 a year." The above item «howe* how in other parts of the world people have no qualms of«conscience or pretended modesty in doing justice to themselves as puhlie servants. In nō other part of ihe civilized %orld is itthe rule to underpay a public servant. The Senators and Bepresentatives oi tlie 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 membere, has been frowned upon and opposed by the i>pulent white Legislator; the naUve members under the influence of the American Miseionariies, be!ng made to believe it was outrageoue and unpatriotic for the meml>ers themselves to dream of raising their |my though at the same time they were granting themselves, under corporate names, privileges, £ranchises, and subsideis,(to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To the initiated the ideais plain. The missionary, who has been the pnneipal 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 bonorable gentleman under an obligation to them. The vote thus controlled has bēen used to obtain gants from the public fuods by direct vote or by indirect ways, out of whieh only an infinitesimal porportion, reacbes the natives. This is what newspapers in other countries are allowed to term, ihe steal. ThiB trick of keeping the Hawaiiane poor, under the idea that no one ean otherwtfe reach Heaven, has been practiged vhe aboriginee by bls friend, in his private, religious and puhlie capacity, and a strong opposition is alwayß put forth wherever thenat]ve hae made the effort to obtain a proper and equal share of pay or patrooage for hie ser\'i«es. This outrageous deception towards the Haw&iian ia faet being disoovered by him; necessity now bas taken the plaee of fomer ieaehei, &Dd is giviog him an uo-

dersiaßding that has diBpelled the film A whieh has beep thrown over his mental vision •in ,the past seventy years of hypocritical and selfish teaching.