Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 326, 18 November 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO KA LAHUI

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John E. Bush.

 

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

“Never forget, the man who does not vote is even more dangerous than the man who does, for little or nothing will be done for him; he @ wait, but the voter must be @ked out for, lest he do harm.  The social or political outcast is most to be feared n an uprising or revolution.”

“The extraordinary conditions of Hawaii and my want of knowledge of them, forbid any dictum as to @ the line should be drawn @ voter and non-voter.  No@ in the world, I think, is there such lack of homogenity.  The disciples of Confucius and Buddha euqal or outnumber the disciples of Christ; they are a peculiar people refusing as a class to become one with you.  What will you do about it?  From a money standpoint you would flood the country with them for the sake of cheap labor; from a moral standpoint you keep them out.  Financial ruin without more Asiatics; moral ruin with them.—if I understand it rightly.  God help you in it all for it will tax your pockets and your principles to do the right thing.”—General S.C. Armstrong, Jubilee address at Punahou College.

There is a significant unanimity in the sentiments of the leading thinkers and writers who are allied to the so-called Reform Party, and the repeatedly uttered opinions of those who voice the sentiments of the so-called National Party.  The natural inference is that when this question of coolie immigration is received from an intelligent, patriotic and christian standpoint, regardless of clique or party interests, there can be but one reflection that while cheap coolie labor may be deemed necessary to our sugar planting interests it is a dangerous menace to the general peace and prosperity of this kingdom.  It was a manly and a serious prayer of General Armstrong’s that “God help you in it all.”  Will the selfish “pocket” or the honest “principle’ prevail.  The purse proud reformer says pocket, the patriotic national says principle.  The voters of the country have its fate in their hands.  Shall we have but two classes, aristocratic sugar barons and coolie camps: or shall we have a christian population having liberty and fraternity and prospering under a variety of industrial and agricultural enterprises interdependent upon each other.  If the former, vote the reform ticket and vote it straight, and let this paradise be perdition; if the latter vote for the men and the principles that the National Party will put before you, of which the Bush-Wilcox faction are the leading exponents.

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Who Shall Vote?

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Iin its issue on Monday the P.G. Advertiser, endeavors under the above heading to gain the sympathies of the white voting element and to cast odium upon the Bush-Wilcox faction, but unfortunately for the P.C.A., the Bush-Wilcox faction plumbs its course of action upon fundamental principles, while the former is running its political lines on no principles whatever.  The Bush-Wilcox faction, and particularly its leaders as a consequence has been enabled to run the gauntlet of their political opponents unreasonable, vindictive and villifying criticisms.

We may safely say of Bush and Wilcox, that no two Hawaiians have received as much venom and traduction as these two loyal represntatives of their people have from a class of foreighners from whom better things may be expected.  We can understand an appreciate the feeling of disappointment the Reform Party may have, of which the P.C.A. is its exponent because their cause and aims have been frustrated in a large measure by these two men, and through the P.C.A.’s lack of consistency with just and right principles. But with fair minded and honorable men, the course pursued by the P.C.A. party, towards those Hawaiians, of whom these two are types, is not going to help matters for either political party, and more especially for the Reform Party, who in numbers represent only a handful of the population, and representing no just principles.

Returning to the subject of “Who shall vote?” we feel that there is but one reply to this question, and that is that every one who is a citizen of the country should have the privilege to vote, and to have only one vote.  This is what we have always, and ever will advocte.  We concede no superior right to any man over his fellowman.  It is a right which requires only natural intelligence to qualify one for the privilege, and that alone is all the qualifications needed at any time.  Is is not a matter of theory, but a well known fact, that the nearer we base our principles of government upon natures laws the nearer we are to that equality and freedom, which is universally acknowledged as the birthright of man, and that this superiority is only granted him from the beginning over the lower order of the animal kingdome, never over one another.

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Very interesting

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The folllowing conversation took place between two cousins, which, more than anything else, will give a good picture of the nature, characteristic, and peculiarities of political life, as practiced in general here.  It will also go to show, how men in our community, who are otherwise honorable and good, are led by self-interest to close their eyes in the impurities of politics and accept the baser means employed to obtain their aims through the political machinery of the country.

1 ^st Speaker.   Cousin Charley Northwest.  I have just dropped in to see you and talk matters over, and understand what is your view of the situation.  It is evident to all, that we must do something soon to protect our interest.  The future campain is fraught with disaster if we do not succeed in preventing the Nationalists from carrying the elections.  Our subterfuges, advanced as reasons, are understood, and will not pass this time.  The old game of buying up a few of these boodlers, is the only chance we have of security men to support our cause, and defend it, right or wrong.  You say, you are negotiating with one of them, who was in the Legislature last time, and who was well kept with the chink.  My dear Chas, you know how that fellow acted?  he played with both parties, and you must be careful of that class.  These boss fellows are slippery as an eel, and when you do put your finger on their slimy wiggling bodies they are bound to get you covered with slime and nip you at the same time.

2 ^nd Speaker.  Well, Cousin Chateau you ought to be an adept in these matters.  You have been in the business a long time.   You know human nature pretty well.  Your profession calls upon you to lie, to steal, and murder, that is, to defend those who do these things.  I must acknowledge, what I look back, I do detect a want of honesty in the boodlers.  I did think that as they used up a lot of the ready, that they would stand by us.  Well, what else can we do?  I have some interest over my man, and I thing he is all right; to be sure he saws me all to pieces when he comes to see me, and he seizes me and seesaws me like a piece of lumber if I don’t pony up like a saw horse.  I know we are expected to be seesawed, but we must take the chances.  See him as he is going by he is like vermillion, and those others you see are his followers.  You can form an idea what a power he is among the mechanics, and as he is going up street, by the time he reaches the Northwest corner of Hotel and Fort Street, he has a regiment after him.  I see this every day, and I am satisfied that though swilling is opposed by us, yet for our interests we must be patient and tolerate the connection.

1 ^st Speaker. (Chateau) My dear, Northwest, we have a great deal to contend with.  There are these men whom you have in view and there are those tireless fellows who control the people who have made up their minds no more to be bull-dozed; or to tolerate any boodle business, or monopolies.  What we are going to come to I am at loss to understand.

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ON DIT.

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That the Advertise Boodlers are “putting up” poltical subsidies

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That the reaon a Noble Plumber is like the Ibis, is because he produces a long bill.  Nest.

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That some one in C@ is trying to tucker in some of the Mechanics to Re-Reform.

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That we will boost our railways, and lesson the taxes on our plantation stocks at par-lie-mint.  In the sweet mahope!

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That the Boodlers or political vultures are working up a compromise ticket for the Reform Party all for the good of those whom it may concern.

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That the Admiral of the green will give a pow-wow and a feed of pitatoes and buthermilk to the Mechaneics Union, in his new castle, if they only elect him as a Nibble d’ye mind.”

That some officials feeding at the government crib have outlived their usefulness.

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That J.B. says he can turn the tide of political battle ever since he because thirty-five thousand strong.

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That the old Keystone Corner Store in the magnificent Brick Building will be opened as a drug Store by Mr. Hobron and associates.

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That the old Hui Kalaiaina is under the chaperonage of mostly Hawaiian lawyers, who have stepped in where once they feared to tread when decency ruled supreme.

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That a plaster cast of the bark Kalakaua painted green is to be put up at the entrance to Boodle Castle.  The casting and coloring will be triumph in art.

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That the Tramway water cart mule, is like the plantation contract coolie, a muchee overweighted animal.  This morning, in order to clear the track, the higher order of mules had to help the poor brute order along.

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That R. More and Admiral J Bowler of the Hibernian man-of-war Akamai are men who can safely be said to have made their mark in the country’s financial records, and in U.S.G.C. at that (1890).

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That the levan of iniquity is working in the Reform camp, and soon the man of perdition will be revealed.—the Union having already received a rude shaking from the old Harry himself in the shape of golden eagles flying around loose.  The object of attack is the President of Hui Kalaiaina.

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That Walter cannot, be excelled in his artistic conception of that two cent fa@ stamp.  It covers the ideal and the real beauty and devotion, the higher and the lower order combained, all in a little space and for only two cents.  So much like the old editorial war-horse.

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That the Ewa Plantation has a nominee for judge for that district and that the government had one; the latter had the right to nominate, the former had the might to do the same; the result is that Ewa is without a district judge.  Now if it had been left to the people by election, there would have been no favoritism, and a judge would be holding forth today in that district.

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Platform of Principle of the

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

JUDICIARY REFORMS

2. Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population, we dersire to retain the independence of the Country and defent its @omy, under a liberal and popular form of government but @ 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 equitable advantage in exchange of those granted by us.

@ outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public moneys for the development of their @ and @ of their wants.  In fact, the principle of  @ self government should be extended whereby giving localities may choose the most important of their local executive officers, and levy taxes for the purpose local improvements of a public nature.

 

PROTECTION TO THE LABOURING CLASSES

9.  We shall endorse all measure tending to improve the condition of the working classes, and consequently, without injuries any vested rights we @ advocate loaws to prevent all further importation or employment of @tract labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a ruinous and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also in the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemptions of their property from forced sale on execution and from seizure in bankruptcy proceedings.

 

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS

10.  The wealthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the development of an independent class of citizens; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands or parcelled to suit favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but as small farming is conducive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by which the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement therein of familities of our present population—and especially of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in there country-should be rendered possible.  To that end, the Government and Crown lands, (in so far as can be done without invading vested rights) should be devoted as soon as possible homesteads. and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of taxes from a limited period.

It should be the further aim of government to, at once, so far improve the means of transportation, -- local, national and international—as to provide, in all the districts, cheap means of conveying the product of the soil to market.

 

ELECTORAL RIHGT

11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should consti@ the right to vote for nobles as wellas representatives, and no more power should be accorded to the ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man.  The discrimination of 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 distinction of welth and class 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.

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

12. We favor the expenditures of sufficient sums to secure a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other Islands: school, railroads and harbors and wharves, public light, and also a thorough system of reservoirs and water-works, no only for Honolulu, but through-out the other Islands.

NOTICE

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

LADIES wishing to purify their complexion and eradiate tan and freckles will be inst@cted by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge. 103 Beretania Street past the Armorr.

Public Notice

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

            Any one who holds or is in possession of any property or who has any business or payments to make, will transact the same with me personally at my place at Honuakaha, at Honolulu Oahu.

                                                                                                KAPIOLANI.

                                                                                    per JOS. NAWA@

                                                            Honolulu Nov. 3, @                           D-S@