Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 347, 17 December 1891 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

PROTECTI()N T0 HOME INDUJrTMES 7. We are inj|avor of encouragmgtall hoine agricqfaft?« and iīiii"Tilrn. ■nwill *>ur natjve prodncts* Uke rice, tolk wool. tobacco. etc shouM be protocted and fostered by i>roper tāriff regaīaUon; and aleo it nmit be the duty of the Gov* ment, in ita contracts and other opera* tione, to give pr«feronce to national products over im\>|)rted ones. pumie SERVAOTS. I/XJ.A JF-U< > VKRNMENT - S. We |& more liberal i>olicy towards the difle rent Isla*\ds oi dom, outside oi i »ahu; tliey shouM i«ceive afairer |>n »>ortioa of the puhiie ! moneyB for the dc\\ U>piuentof their»re~ | so«rceB and tji« su tl«factirn of th«ur i »antB. In fucl >' o prirfoiple of looeu ! i:l hLonid be : wherebv jrivin« 1* the i ini(K>rtHm oi tueir lodfl «x«c«tive I ofttcers, «ai»d iwy for U>e purpo®e I l ea* inu>ro\*enibnti> nf a nahlie nature. ! PROTKCTION TO tIIE LABOUBING I CLABiSRS t). We «hal 1 <M>dorse all nieaBur« tending to i:upi-uve the condiUon d the workinj? clasFee, and t«neequ«nUy t withent injurmsr any vtHitetl rights, we wfll advocate lawa to prevent «ul furthor \m* nortation or env|J«>yßient of oonUael* labosHof any kind, -rt]9oii cooditkms whieh will brme it itito a ruiao*»e aad d«graditig cany >ctlUon with£ree Hawai lan or white labor» W* ehall also, m the int*n?st of &e eett«r protection ol

19. Th«wealthy fractlon of ocri>opaiJonhavehrttfertoprevipat€d tbefieveU.p~ ineh'i fjan indeppn"dent e]as« olcit!zeng; ! the pub»ic larids have be«n acquired and I haYe been tied up in a few dr parc©lled to suit favor)tes, snd smail Canrers bave beeo drven »i}t by eqri, "ations or co2nbf&atioag ©i eapitaliet6: b taa EHiall {arminp: is' eonilncive tothe i-tabilitv of the State, it ehould pe eLr by a new ?»Tid more liberal VJi»mestead act, by wheli the owiiership \ t Brnall tr»cts of land and the settlement thereon of of our present populatiou,—and eepeeiali ly of the native Hawaiians who have been left almcst homelepa in therecoun-.try.-should be rexidered poss«bJe". To that end, the Government and C»~cwr» lands,, (in so far as can°be done without invading vested righte ) should be devoted as soon as poeeihle to homesteads. and conferred upoa bona-fide settlers free nf taxes for a limited penōeL It should be the further aim of government to, at onc§, so*far improve the means of trantfport tion,—loeal, national and internatiofial, —as to provide, in ali the districts, eheap saeans of conveying pr«duct of the soil to market. ELECTORAL RIHGT 31. We hold that uprightand honest manhood, and $ot the posseesion *ef wealth, arbitrarily fixed, shouW constithe right to for nobles as well as representatives, and no more powea* should be accorded to th§" ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man. The discrimination m £avor of wealth now made in ©ur Gonstitation is contrary to all the etemal principles of right and justice, and must be abolisfaed. To this end, we wall favor a ieveling of the present distii>ction of wealth aad whieh blemish <nst tawlr with respect of ths right to vote for nobleß,.ihereby~ to the nativ*> Hawaiians p»vileges whieh pertain to them in their own c»untry, and ol whieh th«3r have"been daimved. wTfmu> 12 Wefaver%g exp«iditur« of • cieat sums toa«»E»« a nmah» o£ needed ' pubUc onO®hnan4 anil liawliina tormtmtxāß» WIIJTf wltt llHNmq i and wharves, puhlie lighfc, and also £ i tho«»ugh BystesBk of awi . water-wo*lc8 t tiot4o»|y fcrH<HKjulu, b«t r tiirou«h-iWit the other ĪBhoia&