Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 351, 23 December 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

John E. Bush

Hana Hooponopono @a@me

Puuku

 

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1891

 

The Pactolus Contracts

 

        As we expected from the nature of the people involved, and the contract, that some harsh measure would be the result to those who are responsible in the shipment of the Pactolus Chinese. The time has arrived when fair dealing mush be our motto with the Chinese laborer, if we are e expect immunity from disgraceful epithets as a nation, and possible trouble in the future.

 

Election of Officers

 

            Having in our last issue fairly stated the ground work upon which we base our belief in the justice of the principle, that the governed should have the right to elect those who shall govern them, and upon that principle disposed of the manner of electing the heads of the judiciary department, without extra expense to the public purse, or difficulty in the form of election, we now branch off to the Ministry, equally as important, as representing the executive and administrative division of the machinery that compose our government. Leaving aside all reference to the Sovereign, who is also Chief of the Executive, we will devote our space to the elucidation of our view with regard to the best form of applying the popular will in the selection of the administration and executive officers of the government, without trenching upon the rights of the Chief, while carrying out the people's rights

            The Ministry is the responsible representative of the Sovereign, and is thus recognized by law and usage in monarchical governments, such as great Britain, and is supposed to be so here.  By this arrangement the direct responsibility of the sovereign is placed upon their advisors, and they are in turn responsible to the people. Thus in every turn we make reference to in regard to the source of power and the right of officials, we find the fundamental principle to be, that just powers @@anate only from the people and @@ officials, from the monarch to cantoneer are, simple the representative of that power. This authority then, having in the evolution of time been subverted to other hands, through the perversion of man's legitimate nature to that selfish animal instance, in ages past, should be restored again to its legitimate source, as fast as we realize them and appreciate their value. wE can understand the reasons why judges and ministers, and other officials should feel opposed to any return to first principles, when it is so much in their favor to remain masters of the people instead of servants, some for life, and others for an indefinite period through the whims or fancies of an individual, who in the present order of human nature, is easily won over to the corrupt side of life through vanity, pride and all the qualifications that revolted against order in heaven and made disorder and hell on earth.

            To restore order and legitimate authority is our aim. To do this we may be exuded from our persistency in urging upon the people and pointing to them, the necessity of making the effort and of urging the restoration of that authority that is there  birthright, an advocacy in which we are supported by reason, by nature, and above all by Creative Authority. The light which is inborn in man, has never been totally obliterated, bu the darkness of heathenism and the consequent degradation of the human family, but the Godlike spark has only smoldered and has remained burning here and there in the world in all ages and has grown brighter in the last nineteen centuries, since first it received a refurnishing in this sphere, by the greatest of all teachers, either temporal or spiritual, the Prince of Peace. Christianity has been the barrier to the total extinction of the light and knowledge, that without which we would descend to utter darkness and to chaos, and to the level of the brutes. But thanks be to God, that in His Infinite Mercy,  for the welfare of his creatures, which at first he created after his own likeness and in his own image, he has place within our reach a never failing source of knowledge and wisdom, the will leach us all we need to know of what is right and what is wrong, and how to apply it for our temporal wants, and - my I urge it, - our spiritual or higher wants.

            We know, there are many who will advance in opposition, to the principle we advocate, which they admit as being perfectly correct, as a reason for not making use of this system, that it is inexpedient and unsafe, because the people are not prepared to receive so great a boon, so great a privilege. we know that his dernier ressort is the unfailing argument of those who have nothing better to advance against reason. Too much light, they will say, will blind the people, and will bring about a disastrous reaction and an opportunity for interested motives to creep in unawares and destroy the very object to be attained. It is selfishness and interested motives that prompts such cowardly advice and unworthy arguments. The light never hurts any one, any more than knowledge, but it is the unwise use of either that injures, and its pervision that leads to destruction, and no man can receive light and knowledge that will injure his well being. It is the preaching of partial truths, that creates partial knowledge, and partial knowledge begets fools, hypocrites and cowards. The more unbending we are in our demeanor towards anything hat is wrong the quicker we will arrive at perfection, and the sooner will others imitate our examples. The as teachers, temporal or spiritual, or both together, - and we are not debarred from being either or both, for as we teach the one we are also teaching the other, let us from the pulpit as theologians @@@ from the stump as politicians teach immutable truths and advocate first principles.

            Reverting back to the immediate subject at issue, the legitimacy and praticability of electing the Ministry, we claim that as public servants, representing the sovereign, they too should be elected and we recommend that the election of the ministry, as in the case of the judges should be chosen from among the majority of the elective members of the Legislature, who may be in the ascendant at the time amount the people, throughout he nomination of one of the numbers by the sovereign, thus as in the case of the Superior Judges, saving expense and fulfilling the principles of selection of public servants by the will of their masters, the People, taking as precedent, in the selection and the maker of monition from the dominant party of the People as represented in the Legislature, the system that is vogue in the British monarchy. More anon.

 

The Efficacy of het Police.

 

            An instance is of record in yesterday morning's Advertiser where it is clearly shown, how efficient and how much her Majesty's police force under the management of her special choice, are to be depended on in the maintenance of order and the prevention of crime, and the arrest of offenders. So deeply absorbed are the heads of this Department in watching libels against newspapers and in prepairing and drilling the police for soldiers against revolutionists, and Pearl Harbor annexationists that they have entirely forgot the object for which that department was instituted and the duties of the chief and the men belonging to it. It does emms as thought that the appointment of faborites into office through roual patronage, has encouraged all kinds of irregularity and disregard of public duties and responsibilities. Turning our attention to the remarks of the P.C.A, on the conduct and association of the chie of Police we cannot help feeling the great necessity of instituting they system of popular vote in the selection of the executive administration and judicial officers of the Kingdom, as the only and most legitimate way of doing away with existing evils in this community. The execution of the law and its impartial administration are the main supports that give value and character to a government, and when these are weak and partial it is the province of the Press to criticise the action of either and for the public to take the proper and legitimate steps to correct the evil.

 

Purity vs. Prudishness.

 

When she read them the story of Phryne the Grecian;

That touching sad poem of pleasure and woe.

When she spoke with emotion, with fervor, with feeling,

Of the mating of "Annie" and poor "Ostler Joe;"

When her silv'ry voiced chimed with the bells of the weddng.

At the birth of the baby, at Joe's glad surprise;

And when shame flushed her face at the downfall of Annie,

And when Joe's Godlike action brought tears to her eyes,-

They turned from her bitterly, outraged, embarrassed,

Indignant, insulted of hearing her tale.

These mothers! These matrons! These leaders of women.

Sat mutely with faces some crimsomed, some pale!

Was it Phryne, my Muse, my Madonna, my Maker,

That caused them to pale, and tremble, and burn?

Was Guinevere sinless? Was Helen? Francesca?

And yet from these stories no woman would turn.

Had the shaft which had pierced gentle Annie's fair bosom.

And that late had sunk into Phryne's stained soul,

Been aimed at their own breasts, half hidden, half showing.

And trembled their spirits at fear of the goal?

I hope; I think not; but still I must grieve for

The abnormal mortal who no warning reads

In the fate of frail Phryne, whose one hour of madness

Brought whole years of torture at which thought recedes;

And for those who are powerless to find in Joe's action

A lesson supernal, heroic, divine,

Though their faith be devout, and thier creed their one treasure,

There's naught that's congenial 'twist their souls and mine.

*    *    *

I throw at the feet of this group of fair women

Sweet garlands of crimson, of lilac, and rose.

I give with its emblem my one calla lily

To her who for subject that old ballad chose.

            -P.L.

 

ON DIT

 

That Chinese justice in lieu of Hawaiian injustice rakes, the "agent" and the "sugar barons" who were interested in spqeezing out a few pennies out of the poor, hard working laborer. "Go to now ye rich men (sugar barons and your agents) and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

 

That the little notice which the Chinese government has taken in some of our "agents" friends in China, may lead that phlegmatic government to take a further dtep in the matter and seek to enforce a little justice where it is wanting and where the article heretofore has been considered a matter of merchandise and "expediency."

 

That a whale, eh, treed the hippodrome reporter of the P.C.Advertise. This is the first instance of the leviathan running a Hoog up a tree, though it has ben known to swallow a man before. Historians, please note these as a matter of fact, an unusual phonoment, and one the signs of these times.

 

That the P.C.A is after the Marshal's scalp, to send on to the Columbian Exposition, giving as a reason for this unchristian-like conduct, that the "big-injun" of Hawaii nei must in some way be represented a the World's Fair. It is believed that this representation of Hawaii's great men will be more complete that the entire carcasses of the present and the preceeding premiers.

 

That some of our political friends is beginning to think that "bolodics" is as warm as hades, where Stone are molten and Bowl(d)ers are ground as fine as plasterers' cement.

 

That the Duke of Argyle is in retirement, praying to hasten the day when he will be bonnie Prince Archie. Our greatness now-a-days lays not in doing good but in scrambling over one another. Such is life.

 

That under the existing rotten system of appointing officials the people cannot have who they like for Sheriff of Hilo any more than they who wish it can the the Sheriff of Hawaii be Marshal of the Kingdom, vice Wilson, not resigned.

 

That Fort Street Church has nutured more deception than truth, in its time,  is an undisputed fact, but we hope it will mend when it gets its new habilaments on, and accepts the ordiance of baptism by immersion instead of sprinkling as a part of its creed. For verily I sya unto thee, Nicodemus, unless thou art born of water and of the spirit thou canst never see the Kindgom of God.

 

That some one heard a whale spouting in the Hotel Billiard Parlor the other night.

 

That the lesson of the handwriting on the wall is as good now as it ever was, and nothing but repentance is the antidote, as was the case with poor Nebucadnessar, after he had been let out to pasture for a reason.

 

ELECTORAL RIHGT

 

            11. We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should @@@@ the right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be accorded to the ballot of the rich man that 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 to them in their own country, and of which they have been unjustly deprived.

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

 

                        12. We favor the expenditure of sufficient sumes 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.

 

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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. Uloku, from acting as an agent, or me in any sense whatever, in 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 Honua@aha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

            KAPIOLANI

            per Jos. Nawahi

            Honolulu Nov. 3. 1891.                      d-Sm.

 

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