Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 361, 6 January 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

John E. Bush

I @a Hooponopono a me Punku

Wednesday, January 6, 1892

The Reason

@ appears that there are quite a number of Waialua people in town and some on visits to their distant relations.This influx from the country led us to inquire the reason of this sudden desire for travel.  When we were told that they had left, because, they did not want to be coaxed, hoaxed, coerced, and intimidated into making false promises, even to political hangers on of a royal personage (office holders included).  We have heard that @ has been money and favors @ and promised, if the people will only vote the straight ticket (?).  It seems a little strange that her most gracious Majesty should feel called to visit Waialua at this bleak and wintry time of the year.  We hope it is not born of discontent that her royal visit was made, but only to ameliorate the condition of her suffering millions from the grasping hand of the land shark and slave driver, whose interest she has specially favored heretofore.  This qualm of conscience, we sincerely pray and piously hope that it will not make her Majesty unwell, and that all the evil spirits so much dreaded by royalty of old, will take the hint, for of such, my dear bretheren, is the kingdom of Hawaii.

 

Correspondence

 

We do not hold ourselves responsible for any statements or opinions made and expressed by correspondents.

 

Mr. Editor: In the platform of the Hui Hawaii Liberala, you advocate small farming and homesteads, and as you seem to realize the fact that small farming is conducive to the prosperity of the State of Nation, in which I personally agree with you and a large majority of the community, therefore, I would like, through the medium of your paper, to make some suggestions which I think (if not too late) would in a great measure help to carry out you plan successfully.  I believe, first, taking up the thurston administration, and from @@nce up to the present time, that there has been land laid out in small lots for farming; that there are available only to those not already the owners of land; also, that said lots are sold at their full market value, payable by installments, and on certain conditions of tenure and occupancy for a number of years, for the fulfillment of which the holder will then receive a royal patent for said homestead.  Now, Mr. Editor, I object to the condition made by the government.  In the first place there are a great many Portuguese families, who have worked the agreed time on plantations, and have @@@@ @@@@ hundred dollars each, by careful economy in living, and a habit of saving, looking to better themselves in the future.  Now, the tempting offer of our paternal government is such that take a few only advantage of the offer and buy a lot.  It takes most of their hard earned savings to do this and to carry out successfully the conditions attached to each lot, and they have either to go in debt, or continue to work as servants for the sugar barons.  The capitalist will be only too glad to lend them money to improve and plant their homesteads with coffee or fruit, or whatever is most suitable to the section of country, knowing that he has a safe investment for his capital.  the said capital will be invested in behalf of the sugar barons or monopolist.  It puts a class of small farmers in the hands of the planters, and they will have to come to the planters terms, or as sure as fate the homesteads will fall into the hands of monopolist, and that there hard earned savings which they invested in the purchase will be lost.  On the other hand if our government was desirous of helping small industries.  Let them divide what lands they control into homesteads, the area of said land to be regulated by the nature of the crops they are adapted to, a marker value of the land in an unimproved condition taken, and then to give a lease for two years to any one applying for it, at a rental for the first five years of one per cent. of the unimproved value of the land and for the balance of the period at five to six per cent of the unimproved value.  The condition should be: first, they must within three months from the obtaining of said lease take possession, and begin to build, fence and plants, and permanently reside on their lots.  The lessee may sell his lease at any time to any one who will reside on the land, and agree to all the terms and conditions as first made between the original lessee and the government; and in case of a temporary absence from the country, he should place a substitute on the land to hold it in his name during his absence.  the advantage of giving the land on this system, in preference to that now in vogue, is that the money, in the present instance, is swallowed up in the purchase of a nominal ownership and in the improvement of the land, and as soon as that is done, the owner will be only too happy to send some of his sons, and go himself to work on the plantation and at other industries, at daily wages, and if the planter or other employer, were not so grasping, they would be the first to see the benefits of giving homesteads to small farmers, there would always be a large @@@ @@@ thrifty and intelligent farm laborers in the country, ready and willing to labor for the larger agricultural industries in their vicinity, if once they become permanent homesteaders; the planter would be far more independent than they are now with their shipped Asiatics, and be without fear of being boycotted by a lot of celestial highbinders - which they certainly will if they are to be dependent upon that class for laborers.  Within the last few years, there have been hundreds of Portuguese families who have left the country, and every one of them taking there money @@@ @@@ @  aggregate would have helped to build up nice home and a thrifty poppulation, well adapted to our country and climate.  These people never would have left the country if they could have obtained homesteads.  They would be here in Hawaii nei today, the majority of them with large families of Hawaiian born children, settled as small farmers, if encouragement had been given them.  They would always be large producers as well as consumers, and in this manner would not only to enrich the country and help support the government, but would in the course of twenty or thirty years save us the expense, trouble, and stigma of importing Asiatic and maintaining a semi-slavery system of labor in the country. 

 

THAT ROW

 

Mr. Editor: Sir: While within your rights in publishing a communication refused admittance to the P.C.A.; ( a paper whose columns for some reason or other are closed and sealed, when right and truth wants justice) signed an "eye witness" and who says, that there was a free fight on board the S.S. Claudine (Dec 22) between the Chief Engineer and a gentleman (sic) who was on board for the purpose of biding farewell to two lady friends, and that the Port Superintendent and the Captain of the steamer took part in it is also your province to insert any mistatements made.  You are now in your strength denouncing the disgusting social evils corroding and demoralizing this nation, and when we assure you that the said gentleman (sic) is the alientor (or said to be) of the said engineer ʻ s wife ʻ s affections, and that said wife is now pleading (subjudice) for separation, there is little wonder that trouble issued on the narrow pathway of the "Port ladder."  As for the Captain and the port Superintendent all the part they took in "the disgraceful melee" was to separate the men, and save trouble.  The "gentleman" should not board that steamer, but leave as he ardently desires.  SKIP

 

BRING BACK OUR FRANKIE TO US

 

He ʻ s been away a week to day (Friday).  His absence grieves us greatly ($1,000 bond).  He had a strawberry mark (3 feet from the ground).  He has not seen it lately.  Dogberry

 

ON DIT.

 

Fogarty Fashion says; Be jabers, byes, I never want to be a sojer.  Plashter - Why not, mi son?  Fogarty - Becaze I might git kilt entorely by the inemy.  Plashter - And whose the inemy, John?  Fogarty - Von amathon.  Don ʻ t you no, that Bush and Wilcox is the inemy  @@@ Boodlers.  Next.

 

That some prominent haole lawyers (professional politicians) will be nominated by the Stone -Bowlder Sool@wan wing of the Mick-Kannie onion as they call it, shure.

 

That a bullock was slaughtered at Waialua for the beef @@@rs, who were in attendance on the Queen on her tour to that district.

 

That the new "Colonel" from Maui and, Brigadier of the Court, is a gentleman in fact, he is a regular Buck-in-sham.

 

That a young Prince has been offered a monination as Queenite, but prefers to @@@@@@@@.  Shows his good sence. 

 

That a Porpoise, is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor a good red herring.

 

That if the sale of the liquor by retail, is the law of the land, favortism to licenses should be abolished - equal rights again!

 

That the chief Administrator of tha sardine box, is willing to repent, provided the dear people will trust him another two years in office.

 

That the Boodlers are beginning to find out that fooling with the peoples interest will not be tolerated, and the result of the election on Oahu will prove it.

 

That ex-Marshal Kaulukou is not feeling very brilliant, in regard to his election at Koolaupoko, as the time draws near.  He feels like the fellow just before the battle.

 

That the portfolio of Minister of Finance has not been handed over yet, but is to be as soon as her Majesty returns.  There appears to be a hitch about the pronounciation of the name, whether it will be with a hyphen, i.e., Wide-mann, - or not as was the case with hyphenated Mott-Smith.

 

That the Rev. Kapu of K@@lauloa was proposed as a Queenite representative for the Legislature for that District. But the gentleman is too much of a man to be bannered as Queenite against his countryman ʻ s interests or their choice, and has refused.

 

That Captain J. Ross, is a popular candidate for Noble with the Hawaiians.  That though the Captain has always been blunt and straight forward the native recognizes his sterling qualites and is willing to trust him at the present time, when they are looking for trusted men to represent them.

 

That the Hui Kalaiaina was again to be trotted under the wire by the Mechanics Union against time, but it was discovered that the left hind leg of the beast had refused to work from an injury, on account of the right kicking against it, and the result was no meeting for the two associations.

 

Platform of Principle of the HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

 

7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, and all our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc. should 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 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 @@@@@@ 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 otherd, and levy taxes for the purpose local improvements of a public nature.

 

PROTECTION TO THE LABOURING CLASSES

 

9. We shall endorse all measures 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 ot the better @@@@@ of

 

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS

 

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 been tied up in a few hands or 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 should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by 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 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 homesteads and cconferred 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 conveying the product of the soil to market.

 

ELECTORAL RIHGT

 

11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession wealth, arbitrarily @@@ed, should consti-the right to vote @ 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 Hawaiian 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.

 

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. Ulakoa, 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 Honuaaha, at Honolulu, Oahu.  KAPIOLANI per Jos. NAWAHI Honolulu, Nov.3, 1891. d-3m

 

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