Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 335, 1 December 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

 

I ana Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1891

 

INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE.

            The usual weekly meeting of this League will take place at their Hall, upstairs corner King and Nuuanu St., Tuesday evening. The public are invited. Eloquent public speakers will address the meeting on the political outlook.

A Governor in Review.

            The troops, as near as we could ascertain, were out on the 28th of November, to review the new Governor of Oahu. After considerable ma@@ing about the city the Governor @s discovered at Palace Square, dressed as Collector General of Customs. It is very evident that although the bonnie Prince has been to Europe, he has not bee noble to learn the duties that pertain to royalty, and this is all the more surprising as the Governor is anxiously waiting the uncertainty of being a prospective power behind the throne. The life long habits at the counter are no doubt hard to overcome, and if the General probably had his way, he would prefer to don a picturesque highland costume, and on some bleak side-hill pipe the pibrock that would call up his highland countrymen from behind rocks and glens than to play review officers to a handful of toy soldiers in a sweltering sun. Poor Prince, he feels already, the prospective burdens of helmets, on his albaster brow, the weight of epaulets on his drooping shoulders, and the weightier sword of State, which, as the whole picture looms up in his minds eye, makes him feel all the more anxious to please the whims of his future democratic and republican subjects. The Bush's and Wilcox's, and for that reason appears though a Prince, only in the garb of a Roman citizen, leaving the clownish part of the business to his son and others who prefer the tinsel of office.

            The troops did very well, however, under the handling of au Seven-English descendant of a fine @an old English gentleman.

Ad Interim.

            We hear, from reliable sources, that Mr. James Castle has been appointed Auditor General of Government Accounts, ad interim. on account of the severe illness of Mr. Ross, the present incumbent of that office. The office is one of great responsibility and requires a man of unusual nerve to fill the position with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people.

            We believe that Mr. Castle has the nerve, and we hope he will have the right principle to guide him in the discharge of the duties of his office, if he is the man appointed. The position calls for righteousness, and this we believe Mr. B. will do, and if not, then we will be once more disappointed in the integrity of man. He has before him the honorable and wortby example of his principal in that office, a record that stood the test of friendship and party feeling. As our administration was not born of any principle, but grew up like a rank weed from some unknown seed, it is not to be expected that any party can make any special claim upon them in the question of appointments, except perhaps in the selection of men to look after (?) opium, and other questionable duties which belong to Government. We wish mr. C success in his new vocation, though we fear, it is on not congenial to his tastes and talents.

Whining St. Johnny of the "Elele."

            After challenging us in the Elele by saying that one issue of that sheet would keep Ka Leo busy daily fro that time, and using such terms as a "braying ass," a "political and religious bigot," "a Seventh day Saint savior--Joshua the Second--Saturday is Sunday Anyhow," and of "insumating falsehoods," and "Bigotted Boodle Bush's Sunday," and a great more of such trash as a quasher, our friend the real "Boodler," the on who swooped in the $35,000 for what he said he was going to do, and didn't do, and who has been trying to influence the Catholic natives to break away from WIlcox, Nawahi and Bush and others, appeared yesterday morning with an onion in one hand and Ka Leo in the other, on the street appealing to his countrymen, and showing how he was being martyrized by Ka Leo.

            The so soon after the boast, in the Elele, and only the strength of one daily issue in reply to his challenge does not show up much for Johnny. We take our abuse from John and his crowd, but the latter is parading himself as a much abused man and whining about nothing. Bah! Stick to your Boodle and don't try to run the Hawaiian Party but raising up race and religious feelings against those without whom you should be without a cent in you pocket, and your family all broke up. Have a little gratitude if there was ever such a characteristic in your make up.

Two Republican Stump Speeches!

            We congratulate our friend Dr. Hyde, the theological teacher of the Pacific Mission institute on his most elaborate republican sermon giving on Thanksgiving Day, at Union Church. This sermon will be read with interest and appreciated by right thinking men. The spirit of freedom and equality which has been smouldering in the beast of the Doctor, burst out unimpaired and with due eloquence worthy a priest of liberty, fraternity and equality. We cannot help comparing him to our Garibaldian patriots and singular as it may appear, the same spirit that seem to inspire the doctor in his declamation on Thanksgiving Day, was heard from the fiery young Hawaiian patriot R. W. Wilcox, at Thomas Square.

 

TO THE MECHANICS.

            You complained last year that even when the big plantations were paying out fat dividends to their lucky shareholders, the skilled mechanics employed about the mill were being gradually displaced by cheap Asiatics who had been trained by those dismissed. In this manner hundreds of white mechanics were obliged to leave the country with their families. The most of those sugar dividends were spent abroad by the lucky ones in foreign residence and foreign travel. But would it not have been better for the country if an equitable proportion of surplus profits had been paid in fair wages to white families for the benefit of trade. As it was what did no go to America and Europe, when to China; but a small percentage was distributed here. Do you think that your prospects as mechanics are any better now that sugar is down?

            You, in this city, whatever your mechanical trade may be, in wood or tin or iron, does your prosperity depend entirely upon the success of the few sugar platers, or does not your trade thrive upon the needs and necessities of many families, the more the better. Indirectly your work is now depeendent on the Panters to the extent of the families who exist on the few enterprises contingent to sugar. But where you have on planter and a thousand coolies, would not you have more trade if they were replaced with say two hundred families? If this country is to become solely a collection of rich planters and a mass of coolie laborers, where are you mechanics going to get off? At the golden gate perhaps, if not at the golden stairs, for you will soon be driven to the wall by the competition of trained collies in all the mechanical arts.

            It is said that the mechanics of the two big foundries will feel obliged to vote against the National Party, as they and their employees are depenedent upon plantation work for wage and salary, and there seems to be an ungenerous tendency on the part of the reformers to boycott and shut out all those who dare to have any independent political opinions.

            We do not know how many of the mechanics referred to have home and family here, and how many are simply here while good wages can be obtained, but without any definite purpose of remaining. The former will carefully consider what has been s aid to them and will undoubtedly be guided by such interest as will include them and their families in the general prosperity. The latter may or may not be guided by such fellow feeling for their brother mechanics in some other trades who have planted their stakes here. Tis well said, however, that "a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind."

            If we look on the right side of the picture we can almost hear the continued buzz of our works in the welding of our apparatus than sugar mills, for the National Party believes in the agricultural wealth and resources of this country, and its continued prosperity under diversified industries and an independent farming population. Mechanics, be patriotic and stand firm. Unite your political forces wit hthe native hawaiians and the peasant Portuguese, for you will all in or swim as the political principles of our party o@ succeed.

ON DIT.

            That there is talk of forming a Vigilance Committee to renovate the Police Department, and of calling a mass meeting for that purpose. If it was for the removal of the entire official fabric, and the substitution of new and popular men in office by universal suffrage, we would, be pleased to see the move made, otherwise it would be only jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

           

            That the Beagle after having discharged her cargo and Koolau, has gone to Mahukona, to land a few tins of that drug that has made Hawaiian officials drunk.

           

            That there will be a fine lot of Chinese and Japanese carpenters and architects employed to build houses on those sixty lots with friend Waterhouse bought at Pearl City.

 

            That the water at Pear City is equal to Thames Water for making ber, and ops from Fords Island cannot be beat.

           

            That the Queen was a guest of Mr. Chas. Brown, at his wife's country seat at Waipio on Independence Day.

 

            That if a mass meeting is to be held to put Marshal Wilson out, we would like the resolution to be amended by including his superior the Attourney General and his Deputies. How is that for high--and we will let the Legislature boost the Ministry out if not disposed of before. Huurah.

           

            That there was another display of valor made by one of Major Nowlein's Guards, by thumding the life nearly out of a young girl at Honoukaha, and as usual not a policeman nearer than the Station House.

            That the entire Police Department including the Attorney General and deputies, the Marshal and his deputy, were out at Thomas Square to suppress the people or any exuberance of feeling by them on account of their independence. The say they were armed. It would be well for those people to look after the opium smugglers and the rogues that run away from home with their mother's money.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

MONOPOLIES

            5. We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, trusts and privileges to special classes shall be rendered impossible, by full, definite and mandatory statues.

            6. Better laws should regulate the Civil Service. The principle of the election of officers of the government by the people should be established, and no man should be allowed to hold more than on office of profit, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all sinecures or superfluous offices abolished.

 

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

            7. We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, and all our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc. should be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulations and also it must be the duty of the Government, in its contracts and other operations, to give preference to national products over imported ones.

 

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 I cal 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. We will 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 land 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 con@nations of capitalists; but as small farming is conducive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by the new and more liberal Homestead act, by which the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement thereon of families of our present population,--and especially of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in their 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,--and, 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 coustithe 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 to the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiians privileges which pertain them in their own country, and of which they have unjustly deprived.

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

            12. We l@vor the expenditure of efficient 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.

 

NOTICE

Know all men by this notice that from and after this date, I have this day discharged 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 my d@s and rents upon any and all my estate in this kingdom.

 

Public Notice

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

KAPIOLANI

per Jo@. Nawani.

Honolulu Nov. 3 1891