Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 356, 30 December 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 1891.

 

The Fall of Tyrants.

            That Balmaceda and Fonseca, of Chile and of Brazil, are living examples of the result of obstruction to progress and disregard of the legitimate wishes of the people.  “Live and learn,” is a motto that  @ both useful and advisable for governmental powers to follow, and one that will no doubt save a vast amount of misunderstanding and unpleasantness.

 

Mitchell from Alabama

 

            This gentleman from Alabama, took the rostrum at the meeting of the International League, and from an overflowing heart, and with the voice of an honest man, gave one of the most pointed and emphatic speeches we ever had the pleasure of listening to.  The speech was a declaration from honest lips, brief and to the point, saying in substance that if there were a few sincere men in the country, they would be a change for the better very soon instead of the rotten government that we are living under.  It is an outrage and is getting intolerable, and it is high time that honest working men should unite and break down such tyranny.

 

Drilling the Police.

 

            The drilling of the Police Force gives currency to the reported statement of a conversation, which took place in the royal presence, where the Executive is stated to say that she did not care for any party, as she was prepared to maintain her pets in office in spite of any cause of complaint against them, or for their removal.  Such language, if correctly reported, is one that does little credit to the Executive or her advisors.

            The sudden overturning of established rule in other countries is too alarmingly frequent to warrant such expressions, and should set the advisors of her Majesty to study the best means of maintaining good and equitable government and how to avoid the epidemic that is growing of upsetting established authority for non-regard of the legitimate wishes of the people.  The police is an arm of the civil service, and is best adapted when trained for the maintenance of peace in other ways than being paraded as a means of intimidation to law abiding citizens.  It would be more to the credit of the police that their time and service should be devoted to the suppressing of @, pakapio, and other gambling games, and to prevent smuggling of opium in open daylight.

 

More about the Police.

            We are glad to see the Advertiser call attention to the corrupt and inefficient police force of the kingdom.  This is a subject upon which we have discoursed almost continuously for two years past, without any result other than a growing public sentiment in favor of a more honest administration of the Attorney General’s department, which has acquired the reputation of being the most vicious and rotten of the government.  We now wish to assist our welcome ally the Advertiser, to fix the responsibility where it belongs, and we hope that the editor will have the courage and fairness to lay these facts before its readers.  Of course, the Cabinet and the Attorney General are responsible, that is, they know all the dishonest transaction that are occurring around them, but they are only responsible in theory, and are in fact, fattening for the winter of discontent that they see close upon them.  Considering the men and their antecedents, what else should be expected?

            But the Supreme Court has also the power to remove the marshal and sheriffs.  They have complete control of the police department.  We can see how the framers of the laws thought it necessary to insert this provision to insure the incorruptibility of all officers of the court.  The court and all that pertains to it, should not only be above reproach, but above suspicion.  Our Supreme Court of Justice consists of men of the highest character and ability, and the people have a right to expect more from them than from an ephemeral and partisan cabinet.

 

The Mass Meeting.

            Last Monday evening the meeting called by the Native Sons of Hawaii was held.  The affair was called at the request of the law members of the association, which comprise nearly all the active members at present attending.  They were present about one hundred and fifty adult voters, a number of seamen and native children, who were attracted to the hall by the music of the Hawaiian Band, who was kindly loaned for the occasion.

            After the band had tooted the horns, beat the drums, and sounded the cymbal, and no one appearing to encourage the callers, they resolved themselves into two parties, and began the “tug of war” which with the yelling attracted a few people to the number above stated.  Hon. A. Rosa, who dropped in accidently to help his brother lawyers along, was called to the chair, in taking which, he stated, he was no candidate for electoral honors, he was not a member of the society, he knew nothing of the object of the meeting, and he hoped the little company would be orderly.

            Several speakers were called upon to voice their views, which with the exception of Mr. Kanui and Mr. Lilikalani were received with silence.  The latter gentleman, with all his frivolity, stated facts when he said, all who had spoken had wandered away from the subject.  He had no fear that any one party or division of the government could give away the independence of the Kingdom. (nor would it be received by any one) without the willing consent of the people.

            Mr. Kanui spoke more sense in what he said than all the kanaka lawyers put together that were at the meeting, including even such legal lights as the ear splitting Kaulukou, the whinnying Aohi, and others, when he spoke:  That what had been said about republics and annexation, were only reports on the wing.  I ask you, who are these people in out country, that are engaged in so vile a scheme?  Is it the Queen and her Cabinet?  A treaty is being negotiated, which will lead straight to annexation.  Annexation is as unconstitutional as the forcing of the revolutionary constitution of 1887 upon us.

            At the end of the speech making resolutions denouncing any change of government to that of republic, or to being annexed, was passed, by a few voting for it, the majority taking no stock in the whole affair.  From first to last:  the band playing the “tug of war” and having to wait forty-five minutes after the time announced before an audience, respectable enough to gtalk to were gathered together, are evidences in themselves of the fizzle in the attempt for a mass meeting.

 

A LETTER.

EDITOR KA LEO

SIR:  I deeply @ our reference in the morning’s issue to the Hon. H.A. Widemann, the more, because I am made responsible in a measure for your strictures.  Mr. Widemann over twenty years ago, gave me help and encouragement to pursue my way in proper paths, and I never have no will express any other opinion of him, than that I am his friend and well tried supporter.

            Mr. Editor, private and careless talk around a table, should not be used as matter for political squibs, and all I ask for you is that when you have lived as many winters as our friend Hon. H.A. W., you show as good and unblemished front as does him, who in his old age had “all” as Shakepeare says-should accompany that stage, children, grand children and troops of friends.

        J. OLDS.

  Empire House.

 

TO OUR FRIENDS.

 

            We give publication to a letter from Mr. Olds of Kaneohe, wherein he wishes to state that he is a friend of Mr. Widemann, and his regrets “that private and careless table-talk should” “be used as matter of political squibs,” and his prayers that we may live as many winters as his friend and show as good and unblemished a record, and all such taffy.  Unfortunately for both Mr. Olds and his grand old friend, we had nothing to say of them in their private capacity, or of them from any private talk with either of them.  We know nothing of Mr. Widemann’s private life, that is wrong; he is generous and impulsive, and we believe means well.  We were first informed by others, not by Mr. Olds at his table &c., of what, we published as the substance of Mr. Widemann’s private opinion of our public conduct, and his very friendly request in a private way what Mr. Olds should do with either Mr. Bush or Mr. Wilcox to prevent their election as public men, Mr. Olds simply corroborated then at his table, what we had heard from other sources, and what we were impelled to publish to prevent as much as possible these “Irish whispers” being circulated to the injury of these two public men, who were being probed like Caesar by his friend in a private way, causing the latter to say, as we said of the old friend of the Hawaiian, et tu’ Brute !  Mr. Widemann and Mr. Olds we know are honorable men, and with the permission of these men, we pray that they speak in an honorably way of Bush and Wilcox, or as these latter two do, in an open way of their public life.  The LEO but speaks in self-defence, and are we wrong?  Is the hand of an assassin then in a private way to be shielded, because, like Brutus, the hand may be that of an honorable man?  We hope not, for honor’s sake.  And here, we leave our two foreign friends, whom in their private life we esteem; and beg to be excused from imitating, as hoped for by our friend Mr. Olds, we should, by preferring a more solid friend to trust to than any that is embodied in a tenement of clay for our example and guide for this life, and for that future which we hope to enjoy beyond the reach of “private” of “careless table-talk.”

 

ON DIT.

 

            That the Grand Jury (our darling Attorney General) will indite the proprietor of Boodle Castle.

 

            That Chinese supply all uniforms, shoes and meat to the Queen’s Guard.  That the Captain is a member of the Mechanics Union Executive Committee.  Boodle again.  How well he loves the white mechanics.

 

            That the Palace servants and yeomanry receive their supplies of shoes, etc, direct from San Francisco.  This is some of the coachman’s work who has since been promoted to private secretary, and is to be nominee for representative, from the Mechanics Union for Ward one.

 

            That a political document was circulated in the Roman Catholic Cathedral for Signatures, -Church and State again.

 

            That an old Teuton and a white washed Hawaiian, were seen among the members of the Catholic Church.  A pair of wolves in sheeps clothing.  One is an old emaginary grand and the other is an imaginary saint and philosopher of the Fort Street fold.

            That the meat monoply has been reinforced lately.

 

            That Noble H. A. Widemann and Mr. J.C. Carter were seen working the political machine the other day.  Rome and the Reformation pooling in politics.

            That Queenite influence is being spread to catch votes, but it is no use.  The people are not so with much in love with loyalty as it seems in the surface.

 

            That J. N. S. would be wise not to place himself in ice as was the case with Ah Young, when the latter was snowed under by Jon Pismark, last time don’t you know.

 

            That the fortifications of Pearl River, and money to be spent in that direction by the United States, would not help the poor people of these Islands but might possibly enrich the land holders and speculators, not forgetting the Randy-Dandy Tax Assessor.

 

            That the Native “Sons of Hawaii” had a poor turn out this time, but they @ @ @ @ eight horse team to parade @ streets in, with the announcements of their meeting pasted on the backs of each of the lawyers that belongs to the association, dressed in variegated colours, with a little red skull-cap and tassel and connected to one another, with an organ-grinder and his organ, to set the lot to jabbering their jibberish.  Four Bands to call the people together will also be employed to insure a corporals guard to hear the sons.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDNCE OF THE COUNTRY

            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 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 con@ 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 sufficient 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.

 

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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. Ulukou, from acting as an agent, for me in any @ 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 of who has any @ or payments to make, will transact the same with me personally, at my place at Hounaiaha, at Honolulu, Oahu,

KAPIOLANI

per JOE NAWAHI,

Honolulu Nov 6, 1891

 

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