Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 318, 6 November 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO O KA LAHUI

John E. Bush

Luna Hooponopno a me

Puuku

 

Fiday, Nov.6, 1891

            E @ GEO. B. STARR, at Y. M. C. A. Hall, continue his readings on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.

 

Leprosy Cure

            We continue our article on this subject, by quoting from the Dioesan Magazine, letters from Father Aug. Muller, in order to show how similar the benign efforts of genuine phylanthopy are obstructed everywhere by misguided bigots and selfish aims.

 

@ GALORE, 25 ^th May, 1891

            Not long ago I got a letter from the Governor of Jamaica, Sir Henry Blake, who likewise stated that he will do his best to prevail upon the Doctors there to try the Mattei medicines in the Leper Asylums.  Your letter makes me suppose that when you wrote you had not as yet received my report and all the newspaper correspondence on the leper question.  Of course, Dr. Lee does not deny the improvement that has taken place in the condition of the lepers in the Ayslum, but he attributes it all to dietary measures, etc.  Any one acquainted with leprosy will at once see that this position is untenable.  In refutation it would be enough to state that many of the outside lepers had been accustomed to the best of food, lodging, and cleanliness, as several of them belong to very good families.  But notwithstanding this and the usual medical treatment, the disease went on increasing day by day.  Whereas as soon as they were put under the Mattei treatment, the disease was at once checked in its onward course and improvement was visible in every case.  However, I am glad to state that not every medical officer is as prejudiced as Dr. Lee, as several now here in India are employing Count Mattei’s medicines and with great success.  Now, to give you something definite as to the probable cure of leprosy, I have come to the conclusion, after a year’s trial, that the disease may be easily cured, and in a short time, when it is only in its @pient stage.  Ween the blood has been once entirely corrupted it takes a long time to effect a cure in these extreme cases, if cure is possible.  Apart from this, the improvement in the health of lepers, their moral dispositions, cessation of sufferings on account of closing wounds, disappearing of turberoles and reduction of swelling is so great that it alone should be enough for any charitable persons to supply the poor lepers with the Mattei medicines in order to procure them this great @ in their state.  This was the great argument which the Con@tor here urged against Dr. Lee at a public dinner, where he maintained that the asylum was worthy of the supper, of the public and showed his sympathy for the asylum by making a donation of 100 Rs, and a monthly subscriptions of 20 Rs.  His example was followed by all the gentlemen of the station.  So you see, not all here are of Dr. Lee’s opinion, but rather chime in with Mr. Palmer.

            “In conclusion I am happy to state that there are several little asylums now besides my own, where they have begun to treat the lepers with the Mattei medicines.  After six months I hope to give you some news about them.

Aug. MULLER, S. J.

            In a subsequent letter, dated July 3 ^rd , father Muller writes:

            “I have now forty-five persons under treatment here in Mangalore, and might have double the number were it not for want of funds and want of accommodation.  So far I have not been able to get anything from the Government, thanks to the violent opposition of Dr. Lee, thought the Collector whose letter I saw did all he could to induce the Government to put both money and a Hospital assistant at my disposal.  However, Mr. Palmer, Bank or Madras, has collected nearly 1,000 Rs. for me here in town from Europeans and Hindoos, which shows in how great favor the institution is. Other little presents have also dropped in, and I hope will come in the future.”

 

            Father Muller is to be indeed congratulated, that his philanthrophy has not been obstructed as was the case with the R@ Rev. Bishop Willis.  But such is the admixture, of class feelings, religion and politics in our community, that very few men are found fitted for official life, that are not more or less cramped by the demand of their friends and swayed by the more potent influence of money and self interest.

            It is a pity, however, that public interests should be allowed to suffer in consequence, and more espcially in that which concerns the health of the prople.  Every administration prior to the last two had tried to accomplished all they could to alleviate the condition and cure those afflicted with leprosy.

            One of the most pleasing labors of the Reform Cabinet was in this direction.  They went to the extent of sending for a specialist, whose success created a jealous feeling among medical men, and also, we are unclined to think, among some of the bigots who have no great love for the Hawaiians, and thus detroyed the only succesful treatment ever tried on the sick, since which time no known effort has been made to do anything for the unforunates except to sweep them away out of sight wher they are allowed to rot slowly away until death, more merciful, closes their sufferings.

            Reverting back to the efforts of Bishop Willis, to introduce, at his own expense and supervision, the “Mattei” system of treatment, we were astonished at the heartless manner in which the Board of Health, with two Hawaiians on it as members, ignored the kind and earnest request of the Bishop, by curtly replying that he could go to Molokai to try his experiments, knowing well that the calls of his diocese would preclude his doing so.

            This mode of treating the kindly efforts of those who love to do charity for charity sake, stands as a blemish upon the character of the present Government and the Board of Health, and place her Majesty under a band in the native mind, that is deep rooted and hard to eradicate.  Her Majesty and the government have no one, however, but themselve to thank for this treatment and heartless neglect of the poor and suffering humanity now steaming and rotting on Molokai, without the advanvtage of proper treatment and hygienic accomodations to at least alleviate.  Experiments are being made in the interests of the sick all over the world, and although professional egotism, are ever standing in the way of progressive knowledge in medical or curative science, yet no such outrageous obstruction are known elsewhere, as has been practiced here, through the assumption and intolerable ignorance of one man supported by a lot of ignormuses, who know not the primary dutice of a government.

 

How to get a Subscription

            We are quick to take a hint and appreciate a good joke.  We were non-plussed, however, in what we took to be a joke on J. T. Waterhouse, at seeing the name at the head of the local column in Wednesday’s issue of the P. C. Advertiser, without word or phrase as to its meaning.

            Dissecting the word Waterhouse, we can readily understand its meaning viz:, a place to hold water in a water container.  But our surprise and doubt has dissolved since seeing the big letters taking up a column of space in the P. C. Advetiser, as an advertisement.  This to the advertiser is one way of getting into public notice, but to the medium of adverising, it implies a cheap left handed way of receiving a subscription, somewhat different to the manner in which a certain poor an innocent Hawaiian has been led to do to get subscriptions for help to his party.  We are open to like favors as our contemporary and have published the same honored name in our “On Dit” column and wait with fear and expectation.

 

A PORTRAIT OF SOME OF OUR MEN

            “So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.”  Luke 15:21

            Ah! What sound was that?  Just the slamming of that broken, sagging blind!  I’d almost pay the price of a new one, rather than sustain such another fright!  But see these shining beauties!  They are all mine, mine, mine!  Ah, yes, mine mine!  Won by days of toil and sleepless nights.  But here they are!  Ah, to spread them out upon his creaky old table, more than makes amends for all this solitude and squalor.  James 5:3  Ah yes, I know I’m growing old.  What will become of it then?  Whose hands will untie these well-filled bags, whose eyes behold their shining contents?  Ps 39:6  Ah, too bad! too bad! I can take none of it along!  In the costly shroud, which I fear some of these beauties will go to buy, there is said to be no pocket.  O, life, life, life.  What a great thing it is to lie, to gather together such as these!  O, that I had one more life, I’d give that too!  But after this life, what?  I dare not hope for much beyond.  All my energies, hopes, ambitions, aims have been swallowed up in the one object, getting gain.  Ps. 52:7.

            The three score years and ten alloted man on earth, are reached and past, by ten years more, and not a chick or child have I to love and shield.  I’m all alone in this great world, so nearly lost!  O that blind again!  How the wind howls by!  Tis growing dark, still darker!  Oh could I but afford a light to drive away this thickening gloom, and give me but a longer time to feast my eyes upon this treasure!  But then, tis just as well perhaps, for other eyes than mine, might gaze from out you darkness, and wrest from me, some fated hour, my goodly store.

            Ah! these anxious days, these nights of terror!  Eccl. 5:12.  I fear the presen, I dread the future!  With all these riches what might I have done!  But now, too late! too late!  Matt. 25:18.  I know the day is coming that shall burn as an oven!  What then, what then?  Eze. 7:19/

            The blinds flaps again, but he heeds it not!  He is answering the summons of the death angel at the door!  A film is speading across his sight; his breath grows heavy now faint, still fainter.  His whitened head falls upon his emaciated arms, hovering, as it were, over the scattered coins of precious metal his heart has ceased to act; his breath goes forth; the man is dead! 

Mark 8:36, 37.                                                                                                 M. B. D.

 

ON DIT

 

That J. T. Waterhouse.

 

That if “Dennis” is an agitator, what kind of a tater is “Dan.”

            That there are at leasst six hundred strong in favor of a republic.  That from another quarter, and a high official at that, there are one thousand six hundred.

            What is the difference between Kuleana Kastle and a Burglar.  Ans. that K. K. likes to fix the stock, while the burglar likes to pick the lock.  Prize No3.  Pictures of a thriving city of Ford’s island with the city in the distance.

            That a weekly newspaper and a daily will be started soon, to be run in the interest of the smugglers.  What will the National Reform Boodiers do next.

            That the condition of the people in Hawaii is leprous in more senses than one.

            That the Norwegian fortune teller got out of her mind, brooding over the meanness of the “high toned kanaka women who get yearly incomes of eight thousand dollars, and only paying the ordinary dollar a visit.”  Old Nick the chief partner in the fortune telling business has loosend a screw in the Norwegian medium’s mind in consequence.

            That a crazy Norwegian woman, lately a royal medium, has been sent to the Insane Hospital.  Visitors will probably see her privately.  The laven of iniquity is so strong in our community that Hawaiian are biueg easily lead, the highest being the greatest dupes.

 

ELECTORAL RIGHT

            We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should cousta the right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be accorded to the ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man.  The discrimiation in favor of wealth now made in our Constitution is contrary to all the eternal principles of right and justice and must be abolished.  To this end, we will favor a leveling of the present distimotion of wealth and classes which blemish our laws with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiians privileges which pertain to them in their own country, and of which they have been unjustly deprived.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

PRINCIPLE OF GOVRNMENT AND CONSTITUTION

1.         We deem that all Government should be founded on the principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; we hold that all men are born free and equal before the law and are endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness and to self-protection against arbitrary concentration of power, irresponsible wealth, and unfair competition.  We believe that just government exists only by the consent of the People, and that, when it becomes necessary for the public welfare, they may abolish existing forms and establish more advantageous and equitable system; and, as the present Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was established by intimidation and fraud for the benefit of a certain class, therefore, we favor the adoption of a new and more liberal Constitution, to truly secure a Government of the People, by the People and for the People

 

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

2.        Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population, we desire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomu, under a liberal and popular form of government; but our Treaties with Foreign Powers, and especially with the United States of America, should be revised, so as to better meet present necessities and to obtain more euitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.

JUDICIARY REFORMS

3.         Our Judiciary system and Code of Procedure must be submitted to a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of jusice, free of all sectarian or patisan spirit and to render the Judges more directly responsible to the People; and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the press.

 

TAXATION

4.         A more just and perfect system of Taxation must be inaugurated to abolish the present inequalities, by which the property of the poor is excessively taxed, while much of the rich man’s goods are under valued for assessment or entirely escape taxation;  we shall therefore demand the passage of laws that will more effectually subject the property of corporations and rich citizens to their just proportion of public burdens, while granting more liberal exemptions to the poor, and as a means of discouraging the locking up of large tracts of uncultivated lands, a differential tax should be levied in addition to the usual assessment on valuation, which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil.  We shall also favor the establishment of a graduated income tax and thus expect to obtain ample funds for conducting the goverment and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the masses.

 

NOTICE

            LADIES wishing their feathers dyed or cleaned and curled can have done by MRS. WERTHERN.  103 Beretania street.

            LADIES wishing to purity their complexion and cradiate tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge.  103 Bertania Street, past the Armory. 317-d3m

 

Public Notice

            Know all men by this notice that from and after this date, I have this day discharged Mr. H. C. Umkoa from being as an agent, for me in any sense whatever, in the charge nad administration of all my property, and to the collection of all dues and rents upon any and all my estate in this kingdom.

            Any one who hold or is in possession of any property or who has any business or payments to make, will transfer the same with me personally, at my place at Honuna@aha, at Honolulu, Oahu.                                                                              KAPIOLANI,

                                                                                                PER Jos. Nawain

                                                                                                Honolulu, Nov. 3, 1891  d-trc.