Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 360, 5 January 1892 — 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

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku,

Tuesday, January 5, 1892.

Social Purity vs. Social Vices.

@ this title we propose to take in as part of our political gospel, the advocacy of social purity and the condemnation of all things that are impure.  “Keep thyself @” is as good a motto for any man or woman to follow in order to their well-being as any we @ recommend.  It is the mainspring to all the enjoyment that man can aspire to.  it will give him more in return than anything else that man can hope for and expect to achieve in this world. and when he has obtained that he has obtained @.

 

It is therefore, by following all that is pure and true, all that is honest and noble that we are enabled to reach the acme of our desires, the legitimate object of life in this and in that sphere to come.  Then if that is the case, let us look at the condition that we are in and see if we are keeping ourselves free from the impurities of life as individuals, as families, and as a Nation.  We are afraid, that, from the evidences we see around us, that we are much like the world. that we are full of all uncleanness.  The open as well as hidden practices of our lives are far from being pure, when taken as a whole.  Instead of being thankful for the many blessings that surround us, and looking upon the ease with which a livelihood can always be obtained here, without any danger or risk to life or limb. without the starvation that millions are now suffering in other parts of the world, to induce us to an impure life, it seems to us the haight of ingratitude to a beneficient Creator, that our moral as well as our social status is as it is to-day.

 

Any one wishing to verify any doubts in his mind, can go on the streets and listen to the foolish and unpure conversations, the filthy and rude jesting that are heard every where; let them take a birds eye view of the Park, and the Sea Beach, and observe the numerous vehicles loaded down with the seething mass of corruption, that visit those places, in pairs, and in a State of semi intoxication, and learn the truth for themselves.  Many have seen too much evidence to doubt, or to claim that the picture as overdrawn.

 

In view of the condition of affairs, we hold, it is the duty of this government, from the Chief Executive to the lowest public servant to see that a renovation should be initiated. themselves setting the example, of a pure private as well as a pure public life.  Visiting churches and making contributions, or giving alms, does not by any means do away with the evils nor help the nation.  Though our sovereign lady may give all her goods to help the poor, and she does not do it with pure motives. it profiteth nothing; it bringeth no good to the giver, nor the receiver, nor the state.

 

The duty of renovating and making pure the impure atmosphere of our society, should be the grand aim of the government.  It is for that purpose that governments are instituted, that laws are made, and officials are called into existence, to carry out the duty of preserving a pure social and national existence.  (Aole pau)

 

Wire Pulling and Secret Voting.

 

Be Just.

We are more than pleased, we are in fact intensely glad that the P. C. Advertiser has taken an outspoken position in protesting against the converting the police into soldiers, and instead of doing their duty as police having them constantly on drill or parade duty, and as a natural consequence a careless and inefficient body in the proper exercise of the functions, for which they are really employed, even with the palace guard there is much more display that there is any need for drilling purposes, who knows in these days of belligerent talk, but that Chile may hear of these military parades and reviews, and when they get through with United States may come and bounce us and take us in on the way as a little by play.

 

But facetiousness aside why was there not fault found before with the arming of the police, under the Cubamind-Brown-Peterson administration, and just a year ago the magicians in the Marshal’s Department were giving exhibitions in converting opium into poi and molasses, and finally when they found that the public were taking more than the usual interest in the legerdemain developments.  They endeavored to call the attention of the public away from themselves by spreading repute of Bogus conspiracies revolutions that had no existance whatever and all the fuss about night attacks upon the Police Station, aimed double guards, &e, resulted in the ugle as the public were not to be gulled, yet the press of Honolulu kept silent on the matter.

 

REPLY

To Edward Walters Vice – President, International Liberal.

 

Dear Sir:  I am in receipt of your communication as Vice-President of the Interial Liveral League, and content noted.  I shall have the pleasure of placing the matter before our Committee at the earliest possible date.  Yours Respectfully, ROBERT MORE.

 

PERFECT HEALTH

The possession of perfect health is the first great essential for happiness; it is equally the first essential for the perfect exercise of mind; and it therefore forms the first item for our consideration when we ask the question, Is life worth living?  To the healthy man or woman who takes care of the body, all things in the way of advance and enjoyment, physical and mental are possible.  Conversely, with a body weakened, no matter how or why, most things become impossible, or, if not actually unattainable, they are at least achieved with difficulty, and through pain and tribulation of spirit.  Sound health is the first condition for enjoying life; and, if we reflect upon the common causes of life’s failure in a social sense, we may easily prove that much of the want of success is due to physical incapacity, again, largely arises from the lack of knowledge about health and its laws.  Dr. A. Wilson.

 

ON DIT.

That the Reform party has again reformed, and is now imitating the mysterious and dark wave of the heathen Chinee.

 

That the Mechanics Union has not been honest enough o form a platform of principles yet, and that they are not likely to because there are too many Boodlers among them who are after the “pull.”

 

That her Majesty’s visit to Waialua, has not been an ovation. nor was she and her suite chased after except perhaps by the children and the pastor and his flock of about a dozen.

 

That C. J. McCarthy has a few more lots for sale of that valuable piece of property at Kamakela five minutes walk from the Post office.

 

That Hon. Cecil Brown is working on the oracle and hopes it will respond in his favor.  We don’t mean the kahuna business at all don’t ye mind only the Waialua business.

 

That money is being used, spiced with sweet promises, in the district of Koolaupoko and Koolauloa and Waialua, in the absence of the candidates of the Hawaiian Liberal party for those two districts.

 

That Mr. Rosa has resigned the political tester to his office partner, Mr. Tesla, who now agitates the common mind with a stave as his sceptre of office, and with which he leans upon when exhausted in one of his grand efforts.

 

That royalty is giving countenance to the impression that she is electioneering as did her royal brother @ by her visit to Waialua, and by her conversation, and the attempt of her suite to influence the people.  This does not appear to cord with a monarchial form of government, but smacks much after Nero’s way of ruling, but we hope it will not of course, end as did the tyrants rule.

 

That the query is:  Where is the clouted youth to be pitch-forked into now?

 

That if Mr. Kahoonei swallows many more platforms he will have the grippe.

 

That the Mechanics Union and Hui Kalaiaina represents two dry oyster shells, of which the National Liberals have scooped out the oysters.

 

That Jas. Olds of Kaneohe is loyal to our cause, but is exercised about our comments on things said – as he says under the bonds of confidence.  What was said was known to us before that time.

 

That the Liberal invitation to the Mechanics Union was intended as an act of courtesy – was couched in polite terms.  But the ignorant Boodlers, who are trying to control the Union did not understand the language – and said what do they main entoirly, - choked the invitation, and relieved the Liberals from all accusation of inharmony.

 

That the substitute for the baby in diapers (having been found incompetent as we prognosticated) as the first act of the minister of Finance, shows his antique excellency to be in the sear and yellow leaf.

 

 

PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLE

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY 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, whilet salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All receive salaries should be reduced and all @ or @ officially abolished.

 

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, and all our native products, like rice, @, wool, tobacco, etc. @ be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Government, in its contracts and other operations, to give preference to national products over imported ones.

 

PUBLIC SERVANTE.

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 @ of their wants.  In fact, the principle of local @ government should be extended, whereby giving localities may choose the @ important of their local executive @ and levy taxes for the purpose of 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 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 @ in the interest of the better protection @

 

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS

 

10.  The wealthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the development of an independent claim of citizens; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands or parcelled to unit favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combination of capitalists:  but as small farming is conducive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by what the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement theron of families of our present population.- and especially 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 homelands and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of taxes for a limited period.

 

It should be the further aim of the 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 coureying 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 @ the right to vote for @ 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 levelling 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 IMPORVEMENTS

12.  We favor the expenditure of sufficient sums to secure a number of @ public improvements on Oahu and other Islands:  school, railroads and harbors and wharves, public light, and also 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. Ulukea, from acting as an agent, for me in any @ whatever in the charge and administration of all my property, and in the election of all @ and rents upon any and all my @ in this Kingdom.

 

 

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