Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 330, 24 November 1891 — Page 4
| This text was transcribed by: | Kainani Hartnett |
| This work is dedicated to: | Fred Zinger |
KA LEO O KA LAHUI.
"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."
KA LEO O KA LAHUI
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John E. Bush
Luna Hooponopono a me
Puuku
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TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1891.
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A Change Wanted.
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According to the P.C. Advertiser with whom we agree in this instance, a change is needed in the affairs of this country. This change is based upon the outrageous and barefaced collusion apparent in the executions of our laws, by those to whom the duties is alloted. We have all along feared the weakness of our government from the very first appointments made by the sovereign: it was neither democratic nor aristocratic, but autocratic. It @ weak one, as all formations @ of principles are. There could not have been selected four men of more mediocre ability to run a government than our poor Queen’s appointment. Look at them as they are and study them well, and we feel sure that the public will agree with us in what we have said. The condition of Hawaii to-day proves our assertion correct.
As a believer in universal rights, we forbear making any suggestions, but leave the matter to the judgment of the public what the change shall be.
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Republican Ideas.
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It seems to us that the present rotten condition of officialdom in Hawaii, has caused a wide-spread feeling of dissatisfaction, and is proselyting the masses to republicanism. We know that this growing feeling is mainly due to the outgrowth of intelligence among the people, and whenever the idea is new, or starts in a country loyal to monarchical institutions, any unprecedented growth of sentiment towards republicanism is attributable to the mismanagment and corruption in public affairs. That we have arrived at a stage of dissatisfaction throughout the country that impels the people to utter language favorable to republicanism @ is very apparent to any but the victims of their own delusions.
Such a state of feeling never was known to exist before among the @ as at the present time. They seem to be as it were, awakening from a sleep, and suddenly to grasp at the present condition of affairs and the needs of the hour.
We have often tried to point out to the executive a way to master this very proper and natural feeling which in this nineteenth century cannot be checked. Wisdom would teach the Government to advise the Executive to embrace the popular form of administration of public affairs and to abstain from personal government, from politics and from interfering with the legitimate functions that belong to the people and to the constitutional advisors to the Crown and thus control this awakening force to its proper sphere. Withstanding it never yet settled a question of right, it may possibly check it for a time, but like the pent up stream will surge to break forth and carry
disaster and ruin in its onward course over every impediment in its way.
We were in hopes that the model form of government of Great Britain would be adopted by our government. The form is republican in the fullest sense of republicanism—a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the Chief Executive being hereditary, but subject to the will of the people. This form has been ignored and we have in its stead, that form that created a sentiment in England which produced a Cromwell.
We may be mistaken in the murmurings of dissatisfaction and the audible whispers for a change-we hope we are – which greet us from time to time.
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Treaty Revision.
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The news from Washington is that Mr. Mott-Smith, acting as the Hawaiian diplomatic representative, has announced that his mission is to negotiate for a new treaty with the United States.
As the National Party has no confidence in the present administration it is to be regretted that the cabinet should at this juncture make any attempt at negotiation with the United States for a renewal or revision of the present treaty until they are sure that they and the party who support them in office are in a majority in the coming session of the Legislature. Otherwise, there might arise the unpleasant necessity of repudiating their protocols, and running them under the policy of the popular or National Party if they are in the ascendency. We make this statement publicly and will forward many copies of this paper to Washington and elsewhere in order that those concerned may be informed that two political parties are confronting each other for the coming elections. One party is the party of the people, the native Hawaiians and the industrial and farmers classes, who are not in sympathy with the present administration, and who from present indication are likely to be in the majority in the next Legislature. This party has announced a definite platform, and is strongly imbued with a friendly feeling towards the United States and has in reserve certain ideas for a renewed treaty, which it is believed will be mutually satisfactory and advantageous. The second party (or, first, if you please) are the sugar planter class and their dependents who are now in a sorry dilemma, the only salvation of which appears to lie in the importation of cheap East India or Chinese coolie labor. But they are disorganized and uncertain as to methods or policy. Their vested interests ought to be protected and saved from ruin if possible, but the National Party object to having the whole political interests of the country rendered subservient to a handful of wealthy sugar planters. The solution of all these difficulties is easy enough if the proper men be allowed to handle the reins of government.
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He Had a Chinaman.
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The other day a conclave of committeemen of the British Club was held in the open air to deliberate on the advisability of repurchasing from the contractor a certain structure in the yard, which by virtue of the alterations had become his property. It was a building of four sides with a door and a roof of sound lumber, worth any way fifty dollars, and the owner was offered five dollars for it, and declined. A higher figure was mentioned but the question of altering and placing it in position loomed up before the committeemen and before the contractor could assure them that the cost would moderated the collector of customs came to the rescue.
He told his brethren that he had a Chinaman who was a general genius and capable of shingling the building before them or even putting in a new perporated seat therein, and, of course his time was of no value.
We have since discovered that the chinkee in question boasts that Prince Charlie has educated him up to the point of cleaning his shoes, shaving him and curling his eyebrows. Also that he can stew porridge, peas, brose and haggis, sew on buttons and scrub the floor, and espects to replace his boss in the Custom House, as he remarks it would heap save dollars, in fact he would take the chance of what pickings there may or may not be in it. Why should the carpenter not be in a position to get a cheap collector of custom, to serve him and his fellow workmen and so lighten their taxes. Moral for the laborer: put not your trust in princes who forget that they once worked for a day’s pay.
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ON DIT.
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That bellies outrank brains among our high officials, and not even a coat of whiting can cover up their weaknesses.
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That the National Party will hereafter impose a duty upon imported reform finance ministers: but there is a dispute in party councils as to whether the valuation will be expressed with one figure or with two.
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That the big B—k are booming a little blonde B for the post of Finance Minister: That KA LEO and its constituency protests: That the said dude B though a successful fortune hunter is not necessarily a financier: that like the B@ston hyphen he is but the tool of a clique whose days of power are waning; that if one was a ridiculous little----the other would be an equally ridiculous small? that he is too intimate with other tribe of B’s whose legislative and administrative record prove them to be unscrupulous and treacherous white trash: That he is a kanaka hater and gloried in the sport he had shooting down kanakas on the 31 st of July, ’89; that though he may be the pet of the money riag, he has not the confidence or backing of the people, that the fact of the matter is that neither the big B—k, the blonde B. or the other disgraceful tribe of B’s or their treacherous allies can bolster up the rottenness and weakness of the present administration, that the cabinet had better step down and out and give place to competent men of the National Party who have come before the public with substantial platform and published political principles which are certain to have the support of the majority of voters, and will extricate this country from the deplorable condition into which it has fallen.
That Mott-Smith has arrived in Washington and has informed the authorities there that the present Cabinet in Hawaii is strong and popular, and that the opposition to it is but a small faction headed by Wilcox. What a lie!
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That the Preimer has deputed all the executive work of his office to the ex. U. S. Vice Consul who acts as Secretary. Uncle Sam is surely getting the inside track just now where Johnny Bull had it before. Kanaka boy is not in the race.
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That one of the tribe of B’s who has made himself politically detestable is reminded of the occasion when he cringingly went on his knees before the late King at the boat house to beseech a favour, by making a promise which he afterwards treachrously ignored. The whole story will be told in these columns with the permission of the witnesses if that said B. gets too fresh politically. Two of that tribe of B’s are unworthy the confidence of the public and should be forever shelved, as political back numbers that have failed.
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That the Washington Cabinet are fully informed from sources that will be believed that the Hawaiian representative there is but the tool of a political clique here who are in the minority, and that it will not be safe to enter into any treaty negotiations until after our elections, and then only with the party who are in the majority; that that party is liable to be the Nationals, who are proved to be more friendly to the United States than the misdirected-reformes and have in view treaty relations with that country, advantageous to both nations, and more likely to be than any scheme of the present clique.
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Platform of Principle
OF THE
HAWAIIAN NATIONAL
LIBERAL PARTY.
INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY
PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT AND
CONSTITUTION.
- 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.
JUDICIARY REFORMS
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 it’s autonomy, 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 equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.
3. Our Judiciary system and Code of Prodecure must be submitted to a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice, 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 interpretationof Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the press.
PUBLIC SERVANTS,
LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
8. We desire a more liberal policy towards the different Islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public moneys for the development of their resources and the satisfaction of their wants. In fact, the principle of local 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 injuring any vested rights. @ advocate laws to prevent all further importation or employment of contract-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 HOME
STEADS.
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 whch the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement thereon of families of our present population—and especialily 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 to homesteads and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of taxes for 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 RIGHT
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 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 discrimination 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
distinction 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.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
12. We favor the expenditure 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, not only for Honolulu, but through-out the other Islands.
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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 @ tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge. 103 Beretania Street @ the Armory.
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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 all my property, and in 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 H@, at Honolulu, Oahu.
KAPIOLANI
per JOS. NA@ANA
Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891 @-3w