Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 303, 16 October 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

EA LEO O KA LAHUI.

John E. Bush.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

FRIDAY, 0CT. 16, 1891.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER ON FINANCE IS TO LEAVES FOR WASHINOTON.

From good authority, we understand, that Mr. Mott Smith is going to Washington, in all probability to take the position of Minister Resident. It would have saved his Excellency a great deal of adverse criticism had his own intention been carried out, when he first came here, as then understood, of returning to Washington, to fill the vaca@@@ at that post.

Mr. H. A. P. Cartr.

The ex-Minister Resident, Mr. Carter, has reached San Francisco an invalid. We surmise, that our able and wily diplomat finds the climate and rest of the Paradise of the Pacific necessary to his recuperation, if such a thing is possible. But we are afaird that the extreme exertion and strain put upon Mr. Carter during his diplomatic career abroad has been too much for his overtaxed system. The effort that has cost him in his endeavors to negotiate away the free action of this government through the "bayonet clause" in a certain treaty has probably contributed somewhat towards his present feeble health. How the mighty men of all nations are breaking up and dying off.

Death of Parnell

This great man has gone to his rest. He was indeed, as far as known, a patriot of the first type, and except towards the last of his career, wherein the weaknesses of the flees overcame the moral character of the man, he leaves a good record behind- him the struggle and fight for the rights of his country men.

WANT HAWAII ANNEXED.

General Thurston Say There is a Deep Sentiment for it.

THE NATIVE JOURNALS URGE IT.

A. Thurston, late Attorney General of Hawaii, has arrived here after six weeks, absence in New York and Chicago.

In the latter city he has been energetically at work in the interest of the Hawaiian exhibit for the World's Fair. It is the intention to put in a big cyclorama of the great volcano of Kilauaea if the managers can find room, and it now looks as though they can. Walter Burridge, the leading landscape artist of Chicago, has been engaged to @@@ the can@@@ and he accom@@@ General Thurston to Honolulu.

"There is a deep underlying sentiment in Hawaii in favor of annexation by the United States, now." said General Thurston. "Even then native Hawaiian paper, KA LEO, is open and pronounced in favor of it, and is advocating annexation  This is the first time the Hawaiians have been in favor of it. It would be going too far to say that the sentiment as a whole is for annexation, but there is a very strong undercurrent, and it is growing.

SUGAR CUTS A FIGURE

"It is believed there that so far as the sugar business is concerned annexation would bring the Hawaiian islands under the benefit of the bounty law. If President Harrison would impose duties on sugar beets from Germany, France and some other countries it would also help us. The President was empowered to do this, if in his judgment he thought it wise. Our sugar interests have been so demoralized by the McKinley bill, involving, too, as it does, our labor problem, that there is a feeling that something must be done.

"It is not thought that the annexation of the islands would in any way be an infringement on the Monroe doctrine. Hawaii is directly in one of the paths of the ocean. It is the great stopping place out from San Francisco on the way to the Occident, and a straight line drawn from the end of the proposed Nicaragua canal to Hongkong strikes the islands square in the center.

LEANING ON THE UNITED STATES.

"Besides, the Hawaiian Islands occupy the same position to the United States, so many of the people think, as the Farallones do, and at the recent Pan-American Congress Hawaii sent delegates at the request of the United States.

"I see by the papers I have received and have learned by correspondence and by talking to persons just up from the islands, combined with what I knew formerly, that there is a deep and growing sentiment in favor of annexation. It seems to be the definite opinion that it is certain to come.

"The Queen is not favoring the English in any way," said he, in conclusion. "That is an error."

General Thurston has been East in the interest of the Oahu Land and Railroad Company and Volcano House Company. Forty thousand dollars is being spent on the new Hotel and fiteen miles of drives and the Government is making a thirty-mile macadamized road from Hilo to the Volcano at a cost of $3,000 a mile.

AN ISLAND MUSEUM.

General Thurston reports that a movement has been commenced at Honolulu to collect the various native curiosities of the islands and preserve them in a a great institution devoted to the history of the Islands. Charles R. Bishop, the banker, is at the head of it. He is now in England collecting various articles that have been carried away since the days of Captain Cook, the discoverer of the islands.

"He has been very courteously treated in Great Britain and other foreign lands, and has been aided materially," said General Thurston."The British Museum turned over to him without cost several exceedingly rare articles of native clothing and weapons, and other countries are doing likewise. Mr. Bishop has erected a costly stone building, in which various articles, are now gathered. The original idea has taken of @ much greater scope, however, and the building will be greatly enlarged by Mr. Bishop.

"It is a fact that most of the rare and highly priced articles of native manufacture are now scattered in foreign lands. It is a big undertaking to get them back, but Mr. Bishop is succeedingly admirably. The building is in memory of his wife. The institution is to be known as the Museum of the Pacific, and will be one of the most comprehensive and interesting on this side of the world."

Mr. Bishop is expected here at an early date with a large quantity of articles illustrative of early Hawaiian History. - S. F. Ex.

The Kahuna Prophesy.

One of the survivors of ancient Hawaiian Priesthood was recently visited by a remarkable vision which is believed to foreshadow events of moment to the nation.

The prophet stood on a vast plain an before him flitted the shadows of the gods and heroes of the past. At last Kamehameha rose like a giant and his successors in order. Then came a time when the people were divided into two parts. One group was gathered around a woman in a scarlet robe and many brought her gifts and paid her homage. On the other side were only young men and one in their midst rode a mighty white horse. The two factions prepared for conflict.

The woman in scarlet sat upon a black bull and led her host. When they met in the middle of the plain the woman and her followers were cut down by the young men and their leader on the white horse and they were seen no more.

The rider of the horse approached the place where the spectator stood, and when he came near the prophet saw that it was Robert Wilcox who came quite near and saluted him and then the dream dissolved.  The Kahuna says this means that the government will be overthrown and Hawaii annexed to the United States.

Decentralization of Power.

Having shown that the real movement against the King and his government in our issue of Oct. 13 was only the result of arbitrary use of patronage and power, and was the principle cause that led the workingmen to follow the lead of those who were actuated by other motives, to revolt against a state of Coesarism, or centralization of power, we turn our sttention to the at attacks and criticisms made by our English contemporaries upon our views and advocacy of the very principles which four years ago were the excuses given by them for the revolution against the government.

Every attempt on our part to advance the cause of liberal and progressive government have been met by some unreasonable argument by either of our daily English contemporaries, or by an attempt to sneer us into silence when unable to openly oppose us and their own heretofore avowed views on fundamental principles of government. We are accused in our advocacy of the elective system of choosing government officers of endeavoring to inculcate republican ideas or annexation to the United States of America.

On this point we do not at present propose to argue. Suffice it to say that until specific reference can be shown to prove the oft repeated insinuation, from anything we have written, that we are advocating republicanism or annexation, we will not take up that train of the subject now.

Our object is to show that the principles of decentralization of power, is, under that head, all that the National Liberal Party have tried to carry out in the past, and by their declaration, as published in KA LEO, are advocating to-day, ourself included, as part of their political platform for the @@ming election campaign. We are satisfied that we have already proven that this was the main object of the revolution, and was ever after set up as part of the main plea in palliation for the subversion of established authority in 1887, by the Reform Party and by their advocate, the P. C. Advertiser. The attempt was feebly made to carry out this principle, in our present constitution, by taking away from the Chief Executive his prerogatives, and passing it over to four other irresponsible representatives of the same Executive, and thus in a measure pacifying the demands of the revolution for decentralization of power, and a restoration of popular and just rule for the governance of the affairs of the country and the welfare of the people.

This device or deception, practiced upon the masses, as a bona fide act to do away with Coesarism, and to establish a liberal government by the will of the people, was soon discovered to be only a cloak to transfer the hydra-headed beast from one man to four other fallible of God's creatures. This delusion soon wore away. Starting in with a mental lie in reserve, the Reform Party, through its leaders, have come to grief. The honest-minded who took part in the reform movement, seeing their error have withdrawn from that Party, and have turned against the remnant, composed of the sugar barons, sugar agents, capitalists, and the parasitic followers of the vultures who feast upon and devour the profits of their unfortunate fellow laborers.  As is always the case with all fictitious attempts to do right, the discovery which sooner or later is bound to overtake the fiction, has brought about a very natural reaction against the promoters of the pretense to establish popular government, but which was in reality a movement to make it a Coesarism by the favored few.

Our government was run for about three years by these pretenders to a principle, universally acknowledge to be correct, which are by them adversely criticized and condemned to day through the medium of their newspaper; exposing themselves, however, as being without principle, and even ready to advocate or sell a principle whichever way it pays best.

To make matters worse for those who have set up a standard, which we agree is based on fundamental principles, - the right of the governed in the exercise of the selection of the powers that are to govern them, etc., in other words, decentralization of authority to rule - and which they undertook to carry out @@, the beginning of their illegal career, was the utter failure of the principle upon the @ se up in the instrument, called our Constitution, by the devisers themselves of that instrument. The four representing the decentralized power became themselves so arbitrary, that they were not even satisfied to act covertly, but actually took the stump openly, and went about doing just exactly what they had charged the King, and his administration of having done contrary to law; and, further, they had armed forces ready to exercise their influence to intimidate the v@@@ of the people, and were only prevented from so doing, through the remonstrance and intimation of the Diplomatic Representatives here that they would in that case be obliged to interfere. More. anon.

ON DIT

That a member of the Legislature, the second estate, was put in as a talisman on the jury to try one of the chef cases on appeal. Contrary to the Constitution we think.

That Marshal Wilson is beginning to smell a rat, and proposes to trap the rats and place them out of harms way, or at least in a way not to harm him.

That KA LEO has been honored by General Thurston, (we presume our fellow townsman by that name) in his reports of the affairs of the country, to newspaper writers in America, saying among other things that republican and annexation was fast finding favor among the Hawaiian people, and was also advocated by their leading newspaper. Thank you. KA LEO is very useful at all times to both friends and to those who are not friendly to it.

That now Parnell is dead, it opens up a splendid chance for some of these red-headed and loudmouthed Irish patriots. who love Ireland so well, to pick up their traps and go home to play the true patriot, instead of trying to make the "kanakas" believe they are beloved by them. Poor bleeding Ireland, with all its patriotism oozing out here in mid-ocean. Bah!

HOOLAHA KAI KONOHIKI.

Ke pa leo aku nei ke Konohiki o Waialae, i kona mau hoaloha a me na hoaaina o kona Aina, ua hoolimalima ak@ oia i ke kai i keia manawa, a ua hookapu iho oia i ka hee nona iho, a nolaila, ke poloai aku nei oia e ike a hoomaopopo i keia Ieo la.  Owau no,

3ms-d.    PAULO ISENBERG.

Haule! Haule!

$5.00 Makana $5.00 Makana.

E HAAWI ia no keia uku makana ka mea e hoihei mai ana i kekahi pale-noho ili noho paniolo i haule i ka piina ana mai o ka Nuku o Nuuanu. E hoihoi ia mai ma keia Keena ke loaa.  286 1w.

OLELO HOOLAHA.

Owau o ka mea nona na aina o Makailio. Kamakalalaukalo, Kaluaopalena, ke papa akea aku nei i na mea a pau aole e hele wale maluna o ka aina, a aole hoi e kuai i na loi ai oo a me loi opiopio, me ka hele mua ole mai e kuka p@ me a'u. O ka poe a pau o kue ana i keia olelo, maluna no o lako @@@@@@ po@@. MELE AKONI @@@@

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