Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 340, 8 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@na Hooponopono a me Puuku.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1891.

 

Not Losing Their Grip.

     The Hons. Wilcox and Bush are not losing their grip, that we are aware of, but as the rock and shoals and rapids appear. it is necessary to be careful and not overdose the public mind with any one subject, more paticularly upon that which the dishonest are fond of distorting to suit election and personal motives.  The education of a people to new ideas and new forms, in social as well as in governmental life @@st necessarily be gradual.  The @@@@tored mind must be cultivated @@@ educated to that standard of appreciation of progress in order to prevent abuses from creeping in and in order that it should be fortified against demagoguism.  No one, two or three men, can have the courage of simple conviction to sustain them in advocating new ideas and radical changes to a people just on the threshold of enlightenment and progress.  The must have supporters, but the misfortune in this country is, that any honest effort in the advocacy of a principle, is often turned against the party or parties advocating it, by the very parties who are most anxious to secure the adoption of the idea or principle.  The advocacy of radical changes in the form of a government is a matter of grave importance.  It requires means and moral support, and there is no newspaper better equipped with either than our contemporary the P.C. Advertiser, who we hope will not weaken its advocacy of the subject which it refers to at the present time.

     We are satisfied that its convictions of duty towards the general welfare are in favor of the establishment of a more liberal and popular form of administration than that under which our affairs are now conducted.  But there is a proper time for advancing these new ideas to the people, otherwise, indiscretion may cause a current of prejudice to be fanned against it that will retard its progress.  Bush and Wilcox have now the Reform @@arty and the National Boodlers that belong to no party, to contend with---they have an opponent and a nest of vipers to look after, both of whom are ready to use these gentlemen for nothing, and have them serve their interests and kick them over afterwards as their recompense, which has been done heretofore.  There is nothing so like the future as the past, so once said a great man.

 

Complacency.

     The Advertiser is making quite a splurge, and is full of complacent self laudations.  Its editors evidently aspire to be the leading journalists of the kingdom. but it is equally evident that the power is not in them.  Some of its late editorials have been excellent. but marred by needless personal abuse that resembles the peculiar journalism of some noted California papers.

     But we do not expect for a moment that this critique will disturb their complacency.  No, they are of the wealthy 500 who will believe that they have established themselves as a seclusive political sect outside of which there can be nothing good:  The editorial assault on the marshal was well timed, though it was spiteful, rather then dignified.  But why was the marshal attacked alone, and the Attorney General screened:  one belongs to the 500, the other don’t.  Is this impartial journalism?  And why this sudden freak of virtue since certain proteges of the 500 have been guilty of worse boodling than the marshal.  And how are the public benefitted or edified by the gratification of the personal spite of the editor of the Advertiser in his parade of the “Police News” account of Dr. Hammond.  That kind of personal black guardism is better let alone in Honolulu for we are a city of numerous social glass houses. and if the stones begin to fly, there would be a ghoulish rattling of glass all over the city.  We could tell tales, and prove them too, that would create consternation among the select, from their ragged outside edge to their inner sanctum sanctorums.  But we are taught to have faith, hope and charity for the weakness of our fellow men; we are told that the greatest of these is charity.

     In its issue of the 2 ^nd inst., the Advertiser affects a superiority of advice to voters, and intimates that the opinions and intentions of KA LEO and its supporters will sink Hawaii into oblivion and drive every industry to the wall.  It ts a complacent conceit of this disingenerous sheet that they, and they only are the oracles that are to be believed.  They hur back at us the charge we have been making against them, and we hurl it back. and reiterate that the Advertiser and its crowd, be they 500, more or less have not shown themselves fit to lead in political affairs, and the attitude they have assumed, affords grave doubts as to the integrity of their purpose.  The missionary reform party whom they represent are mistrusted.

(To be Continued).

 

OAHU PRISON.

Honolulu, Dec. 7, 1891.

SIR:---

     We, the inmates of the prison, known as the “reef” have our grievances, one of which if you can spare a space in your valuable paper we would like to air.

     There is a guard attached to this prison who tries to make life a howling wilderness for those who come under his supervision as well as for his fellow guards, against whom he is everlastingly carrying tales with little or no foundation.  This man has been crazy, and was found wandering through the woods in an almost nude condition, preaching to the sticks and stones.

     How he secured his appointment as guard to this prison, we cannot tell, but his removal would rectify a great wrong, as a man of this kind should not be placed in authority over his fellow men; ---in a religions controversy with a brother guard he threatened to “cut his guts out.”

     It is just such men as this who cause acts of violence to happened.  Sometime ago he undertook to make converts to Mormonism and gather together at the Fish Market quite an audience of his own race (natives), who became so much enraged at some of his utterances that they threatened personal violence to him, and were going to throw him into the water.

     The name of this man is O.Z. Wainee, and the man should be placed under ustraint, until examined by a lunacy commission.  By giving the public and insight into this affair you will confer a favor on that portion of suffering humanity represented by.

The Prisoners of Oahu Prison.

 

ON DIT.

     That if Sheriff Hitchock as Marshal instead of Wilson, there would be no chefa and pakapio game going on in open daylight.

 

     That a schooner load of opium was landed a few days ago at Molokai.  Where are the Wilson detectives.

 

     That the steamer Waimanalo is now watching the opium as it floats ashore at Molokai.

 

     That the Police are drilled and have been on duty to prevent the Charleston’s crew from turning Hawaii into a little republic.

 

     That the Hawaiian Government is powerless to cope with evil, it being itself rotten.

 

That we are coming father Parker

     More than 500 strong:

And in February the ballot makers

     Will prove you to be wrong:

The National boys will whoop and shout

And send your Cabinet to the right about;

And when good men and true the helm take

     A happy country out of this we’ll make.

 

     That J.L. Kaulukou Esq., is one of S.E. Bishop’s 500.

 

     That Dr. Hammond and the Advertiser are having a monkey and parrot sort of a time.

 

     That Mr. Moreno is not the agent of the National Party in Washington.  He is acting solely on his own responsibility.  The interests and plans of the National Party are known and cared for by bright journalists in New York and Washington.

 

     That the natives of Koolau have been interested and amused to learn that Hon. C. Brown is also way up on the 500; and that his features are depicted in the Review of Reviews.

 

     That a municipality would be the best form of Local Government for Honolulu.  There is sufficient fat men in town to fill the chairs of mayor and supervisors.

 

     That the Chinese openly gamble and are selling chefa tickets, and they say:  Me heap savee Police come see me, I see him.  Hiah!  How can do.

 

     That Father Archie is at loggerheads with the Attorney General’s Department becuase he wants to commission a customs Detective on his own account:  thus the hitch.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT 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 propertp, 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 establisded 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 dersire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its 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 Procedure 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 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 government and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the masses.

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 statutes.

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 one office of profit, whilst salaries should be adaquate compensation for the sarvices 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 regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Govment, 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 satisfactirn 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, we will advocate laws to prevent all further importation of 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, aud 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 @e 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,                 c      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 cons@@ 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 su@@icient 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 syatem of reservoirs and water-works, not only for Honolulu, but through-out the 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 cradiate tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge.  103 Beretania 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. 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 Honuakaha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

KAPIOLANI.

per Jos. NAWA@I.

Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891.     d-3@.