Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 355, 29 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.

Lima Hooponopono a me Puuku.

TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1891

 

The Suppression of the Social Evil

 

            There is no place in the known world, for its size, where the social evil exists to such an extent as it is in Honolulu.  From our knowledge of the criticisms made by travellers and strangers, and our own observations, we firmly believe this statement in regard to the existence of this evil in Honolulu, to be in every respect true.  The great blot upon the fallen rice has grown to such proportions in this city and producing such disastrous results to our population, is such @@@ we think among other duties, our legislators should take steps in the incoming legislature, to restrict this evil and to adopt drastic measures for its suppression.

            The moral degradation and beastial depravity among the people of these islands reckoning from nearly all classes among its victims, is a serious charge to make of a community, but it is, we are sorry to say, about true.  We are often told of cases, where the very best of our society are sufferers, in consequence of this growing vice among the sexes, and many of the weaker portion have been obliged to flee the country to hide their sin and shame.  Among those who know the most about the condition we are today in this respect, are our cabmen, who have got so bold in this nefarious business that they do not hesitate to make use of the telephone to call up some of the galdy ones of a family and rush them off to the Park or beyond Diamond Head, or some other hell hole to ruin and destroy the young and innocent girls of some of our most respected citizens, at the request of some of the brothers and fathers of the families to which some of these same poor misguided young women.

            Had we not changed our ideas, we would rejoice to see some of these principals and tools in the traffice, drilled and riddled as they observe and as they are served in some other parts of the world.

            We can pity and forgive the poor down fallen woman, but the wretch who spends his means and time and the one who lowers himself to the hellish work of debasing and destroying a woman's virtue, must be born of animal instincts instead of human nature, and deserve to be severely dealt with.

            our attention has been called to this subject through a quarrel between a young Hawaiian merchant and a young man of foreign parentage.  The latter is married to a fine foreign lady, young, handsome, and in every respect such a wife a could make a decent man, happy and contented.  But so great is the beastial instinct, which this young man has inherited that he tried to s@@@@@ a mere child, a step daughter of the Hawaiian gentleman alluded to and for which he was called to account and to whom he had to make satisfactory amends for his conduct.

            So degraded is the sense of honor in some men, that they are known to tolerate liasons between their wives and some of these human beasts that are highly received and lionized in our beast societies.  If the grains of san at Waikiki Beach could speak it would unfold a mystery that would drive some in this community frantic.

            We hope our article will bestir the dormant and moral nature of our community and arouse them to a more vigilant and positive stand against the brutal instincts in members of our community.  The safety of our homes are threatened, and the vitality of the nation is seriously impaired by the work of these devils in human form.

 

ASSESSORS and ASSESSMENTS

            To any one who have studied the inequality and down right injustice practiced in this department of government, under the present system, will feel like us, and the vast majority, that it needs a thorough overhauling, in the practice @@@@ in the men who run the mach@@@@.

            As a lucid way of making one matter clear, we will take for instance the cae of the H@@ Sugar Co., as stated by ex-Minister Ashford, in one of his public speeches about two weeks ago.  This plantation company, it appears, was instituted with a capital of $500,000.  During one year it was assessed for the sum of $240,000 at the same time it declared a dividend of $300,000.

            This is only one instance, and we can state with confidence, that all the rest of the plantations are assessed and shielded alike, under the present system of taxation and by the picked corps of reform fools that were put in under the present law to carry out the dirty work of the masters, that shouted in 1887, "reform," "regeneration," "purification."

            Another of the processes, that was lately carried into effect, and in which the government became a willling participant under advice, was the reduction of twenty to thirty percent of the valuation of sugar plantations and other large interests controlled and owned by the money lenders, agents, and sugar barons, throughout the country, while the poor people and small property holders were assessed the same as in the past, and in some instances, to be consistent as it were with the present system of administering our affairs, a little more was added than during the past few years, when property values were higher.

            While decrying the rotten and vicious system now in existence, and pointing out the way in which an immense revenue is stolen from the government through collusion and fraud throughout every section of the machinery of the little lilliputian kingdom of Hawaii nei, we submit as a part of the policy of the National Hawaiian Liberal Party, the principles which their candidates are to be pledged to maintain and carry forward in the next Legislature.

            "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 good are undervaluted for assessment or entirely escape taxation; we shall therefore demand the passage of laws that will more effecually 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.

 

THE LE LACHEUR'S OPIUM.

            The lot of opium which was supposed to be reshipped to China by the Le Lacheur, was relanded at Ewa, only a few hours after she left the port of Honolulu.  it is supposed that the same course was pursued by the manipulaters of the Velocity's two thousand-pounds of opium.  There can be no doubt that the schooner Beagle, would have been the medium, to land it ashore, but was prevented by the suit against her owners, which kept her back for a day or two after the other vessel had gone to sea.  The activity displayed in engaging suitable residences @@@ne corners, coves and landings around this island, shows that some vessel is expected and gives color to the truth of the report that a vessel was seen off Waikiki last Monday evening, signalling to and being answered from the shore.  Here is a chance for the last thief to get his finger in the pie and get the stuffing out the boodle- pie.  where is the bark Kalakaua now?  What a fine time she would have with the Waimanalo as a steam tneder to land her cargo.  A diamond mine is not more profitable, and from the signs, the Hawaiian government has been resolved into a great big ipium den and house of ill-fame.

 

There She Blows!

            Last Sunday night the cry of "there she blows!" was faintly heard by the seaside residents of Kapiolani Park, in the region of m\r. Henry Poor's cottage at the Park, lately rented to a couple of capitalists.  It appears, so the story goes, that a schooner was prowling in the offing at Waikiki, when a voice was heard to come from her, calling out:  Whale, eh!  Whale, ahoy! and lights, apparently as signals were seen to flash, as mystic signes to some one on the beach.  We have been preaching to our readers, in the past six months, to be on the watch for signs, as an indication of coming events, and now we are able to say that these are some of the signs which give evience of the rottenness of these days, as was prophesied would be the same as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

A STORY ABOUT CRAB.

            The ancients tell a very instructive fable about the crabs who once deliberated in a council what to do in order to amend their backward walk.  "It is a shame for us," said the speaker addressing the assembly, "to walk contrary to all other animals.  Whenever a man is unfortunate in his business, at once they say, 'He walks like a crab.'  We must suffer this no longer.  As regards ourselves, we are too old to change our habit; but let us make it a law that every parent shall train his young one, by all ways and means, never to walk otherwise than forward.  Our decendants will then gradually amend the disgraceful oddity of our species.  The law proposed was unanimously adopted and the meeting dissolved.

            "It is now time," said the old crab to this young one, "that you learned to walk."

            "How must I do it?" inquired the youngster.

            "Lift up your feet, one after the other, and put them straight ahead, and pay attention not to walk in any other way," was the parent's reply.

            "Father, walk ahead and show me," was the youngsters demand.

            The old one began to walk in his old fashion; the youg one followed him at once in like manner.

            "Hold!" cried the old one, in anger.  "Did I not tell you to walk straight ahead; why don't you obey me?"

            "I cannot do differently from your example, the little one meekly replied."

            To be brief, the old crab could effect nothing to the purpose by all his exclamations and threats; and this is the reason why all the crabs still walk backwards.--Christian at Work.

 

ON DIT

            The Brother Olesen, or some teacher at the Kamehameha School, in playing Santo Claus, got scorched with fire and at one time thought he was near the lake of brimstone.

            That A. K. Williams is asked to be candidate for Representative of the District of Ewa and Waianae.  That he has not decided yet what he shall do.

            That the International Liberal League will hold its regular meeting tonight.

            That opium is so plentiful around our sea-coast, that one schooner Captain picked up a lot, and so heavy were the cases that tackles from the schooner had to be used to hoist it out of the sea.  He managed to land it safely in Honolulu, and got from a Chinese firm, $4000, an official was laid on to the sway and being a high flyer, nothing short of $5000 satisfied him.  It is no wonder that the Messenger Boodlers are @@coited.

 

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 improvement 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...

 

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 tied up in a few hands @@ 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 shoould be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, in 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 there country,- should be rendered pobbile.  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 conveyng 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 ore 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 Island; school, railroad 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

            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 JON. NAWAHI

Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891. d-S@@

 

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