Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 373, 21 January 1892 — Page 6

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

THE VOICE OF THE NATION
HAWAIIAN LIBERAL PARTY
NOBLES

For @

MARQ@   

@ C.B. MAILE  

@ W @OLE 

@ E.B. THOMAS

@ CAP J. ROSS

REPRESENTATIVES

WARD 1.  @ W.H. @ MMINGS

2. J.W. @PIKANE

3. @ W. ASHFORD

4. S.K. AKI

5. S.K. P@A

 

ROAD BOARD

SAMUEL DWIGHT

SAMUEL MAHELONA

ABR. FERNANDEZ

 

THURSDAY JAN 21 1892

POLITICAL ECHOES

@ hitherto obscure @ vent@ out last Monday @ English page in imitation @ E pleads the cause of @ B Union @ Ta@ Party of what J.A. Cam@ is the head and is also believed to be the chief owner of the paper. The letter @ causes its comments @ tcasts and social parity to @ back sarcastic r@ Its @ remind the of @ and point@ service editor.  He gets off a verbose taradiddle of egotistical driveling; he dances, prances and parades down one column and up another.  He kicks @ behind the Adverstiser like a @ out in front @ ole an inebriated bully and @ the Bulletin, until finally exhausted with its mad masquerade he drops into a drea@ so@nolent state of metaphysical temporary insanity and sighs @

The Holo@ is a cowardly @ of its betters, guided by a speaking quid@ who is associated with sawdust politicians and @ orators who nauseate the e@anity with their slip-shod propaganda.  Need we wonder what these p@ brigands who in the guise of converts and patriots are acting as decoys to lure an innocent people into s@ a plunder, but are being gradually unmasked and @ the @ old National Party to dis@ and @lly under other banners. 

A cir@stance that is regarded by many is that Mr B. F. Dillingham the railway magnate should have entered the political arena in @ with the B@ Union and the brigands of the Holo@.  A study of the record of votes in the Legislature @ which @ aliy secured the subsidy in the O.R. & L. Co. show that Mr Dillingham is now allied with the men who fought against him bitterly last session and is an active opposition to the men who fought hard to secure him the subsidy.  This ungenerous display is meeting its own reward.  It would have been more sensible for Mr. Dillingham to have kept @ of the pro@ cat conflict @ has prejudiced the interests of the stockholders of the O.R. & L Co.  If the R.R. Co. desired a representation in the Legislature they should have advised their Mr Robinson to accept the nomination proffered him by the Liberal Party and not allowed him to scorn it as he did.  But @ Mr Dillingham has un@ to place himself @ political opposition @ the popu@ takes into his own @ sensibility for what2 opposition his R.R. Co may @nter in the Legislature. 

Mr. Dillingham’s action has @ a good lesson, and that is the danger to be feared from a big corporation that undertakes to use its influence in political elections.  The history of railway corporations in American is a scandalous record of @itical jobbery rendered possible by the vast power which their organization gave them.  Right in its in@ the O.R. & L. Co have taught us that they can, and will use the machinery of their organization for political purposes, and if we cast our glance into the nature @ up a menacing monopoly with its iron rails and privileges belting each island commanding an array of men and wielding a powerful influence that will hold in its grasp the balance of power in every election and consequently in the government.

Mr. Dillingham unveiled the spectre that has warned us to avert the evils of a monopoly whose tentacles were growing too fast.  The National Liberal Party are pledged to favor and assist a c@str@etion of railways around each island for the purpose of opening up lands for settlement, developing the minor industries, facilitating the movement of our products to market.  But with the object lesson that Mr. Dillingham has taught us in view, we shall strongly urge upon the Liberal Representative and upon the Legislature that all further railway extension be conducted as a government enterprise, and that the public @dit be pledged for a necessary loan.  The undoubted value of such an investment and its vast benefit to the country district have been fairly demonstrated by O.R. & L Co.  To anticipate the argument which will probably be made against this let us hope that by that time the government would have adopted a @ service system which would forever put the qu@ on the struggle for the spoils of office which every election brings with it. 

The foregoing comments leads us again to a reflection on the relative merits of Pearl Harbor and Koolan Harbor.  We do not believe that the necessity for a cession of harbor will arise.  But if it do, the people of Koolau did not realize it before, but are now awakened to the fact, that the waters of Mokolii or Koolau harbor lapping the shores at their feet have nothing to compare with it in size and natural advantages as a harbor in any part of the Pacific Islands.  This is the opinion of a navigator who has extensively voyaged throughout the Pacific. 

Koolau Harbor extends over six miles in an east and west direction from the Mokolii entrance, and is about two miles or more in width for anchorage from the barrier reed to the shore.  The entrance is a fair way and straight @ead in and out with a distance of about two thousand feet of channel way from nine fathoms at the entrance to eight and a half fathoms inside at low water.  The depth is channel is sixteen and a half feet at low water.  The extreme distance to deep@ would be twenty-five hundred feet.  There are no heathen dangers on approaching the reef which is always well defined by the breakers, night or day.  The depths in the harbor are from eight to six fathoms of water to four fathoms as you approach Heea and Kaneohe.  It is a perfect safe haven in all weather, the anchorage is good and the water so clear that you can see the anchor on the bottom.  It is smooth as a mill pond in every ondition of weather.

Landward of the bay are beautiful and fertile valleys well watered, and an excellent carriage road leads of the pali to Honolulu.  The valleys are backed by a beautiful semicircle of precipitous mountains.  As a naval station Koolau would be absolutely impregnable for the rear and flanks.  It could be attacked only from the front and the naval vessels would be compelled by the direction of the ocean swell to attack end on therefore depriving them of the use of a broadside fire.  Defense could be made from the miles of barrier reef, part of which are considerably elevated above water and have extenstible supplies of sand for sand batteries. 

The district of Koolau has the loveliest scenery, the most fertile valleys and the most delightful climate on this island, if ever there is to be a naval or commercial depot outside of Honolulu let us locate it on the finest island harbor in the Pacific and connect it by rail with Honolulu via Kalihi valley tunnel.                    FREE LANCE.

 

THE LABORER

We say that the laborer must be able to live, clothe and educate his family.  Scores of Portuguese are out of work and you @ not get a adequate wages.  You are willing to work if you can get wages sufficient to supply your family with food.  They want more labor, but they do not look around for laborers out of work in this country.  They cry for more cheap coolie.”  So said Mr. C.W. Ashford on Monday night last at the R@ School.  Every word of the above is indisputably true.  Scores of Portuguese scarcely know where to look for the morrow’s food for their families, although they are willing to toil for a pittance that barely keeps soul and body together.  Yet the capitalist class who are now seeking control of the Legislature are the men who do not try to employ the men with families already in the country.  The Portuguese have to compete in the matter of wages with Chinese and Japs. 

They are induced to come to this country by promises of constant employment, but faith has been broken with them and today they are walking about, out of employment, while the cheap Japanese is being brought into the country by the thousands.  Hence numbers of Portuguese are leaving the country by every steamer.

Truly the laborer out of work with his family may starve.  All the planters and their @ care for is @ sweat human labor and treat the laborer as a chattel.                  COMMENTARY

 

The “Holomua’ reminds us of something we did’nt know about.  Mar@ promised 20 cents a day coolies.  Under the heading of “Sensitive” we are exhorted to remember that the coming coolie is a man and a brother:

“The Liberal orators are endeavoring to produce the impression among their constituents that the Coolie of India are more to be feared than those of Asia which we have among us.  They ought to mention that they belong to the same Aryan race as the haoles.”

We will mention it, and we shall therefore receive the 20 cents a day Aryan with open arms.  The editor of the beef trust journal will no doubt find the new haole in his boss, slaughter yards, and inform us poor liberals how much beef they can chew on 20 cents a day.  No, we have no ill feeling towards Mr. Marsden 20 cents a day British fellow countrymen, we rather like them, at their present distance, and will use our best efforts in the most @scular sense, to keep them home.  Any serious attempt to bring the Indian coolie here will result in – well in the death knell of plantation slavery in one grand act.  Nobody out side of the 40 or so who fatten on plantation coolie slavery wants it, or would attempt to uphold it by any show of force, however legalized.

How did Ministers get Oahu Railroad stock.  Who gave half the harbor away to Dillingham?  Was it not Thurston and Cummins between them, unknown to the public and the Legislature?  Fortunately for Dillingham there is a gag on all the newspapers in his favor outside of ourselves.  Mr. Macfarlane and Noble Berger who opposed the Railway bill are now fam@ @.  Will the beef-trust journal tell us why? Is not Dillingham, in the Holomua meat trust also?

To Voters! To Voters!

WARNING

Your name must be registered on the list of Voters for Representative.  The name only being on the list of Voters for Nobles will not entitle the person to vote for Representatives.

Examine the voting list and immediately cause your name to be entered on the Representative list by the Inspectors.

Voters for Nobles now on the Noble list must also have their names registered on the Representative voting list and register.  Many names of voters for Nobles on the list published and on the register are not now on the Representative voting list or register.             C.N. Spencer, Minister of Interior.                J-20-@

 

On Dit.

That Ward 3 will give GB.F.G. the G.B

That Dillingham hates the poor white man that can’t be bent our way

That B@ Avenue will be the @ of the Sp@ near the Fashion Stables at present occupied by Soolivans & Co. Right yon@ says Charlie Mahope.

That the weather has been bad for rats and mice, for it has been raining cats and dogs.

That E.C.M. is the @izzy-clan who prepares the Holomua’s emeties assisted by a white prescription clerk. 

That the Ministry’s hand organ Holomua, says, that the K@ L@o office is a city of refuge, @c.  Yes, and the city will be fortified with majority ballots cast for the Liberal Party in the coming evil day for the organ’s crowd, or Queen’s party. 

That our “Free Lanes” gives the Advertiser some vigorous pokes in the ribs which makes Henry Castle and his Salurians very “tired.”

That the “female orator” quoted by the Holomua’s Snide, once had an interest in the Fashion Stables. Aisy boys! aisy!! for the love of God, stop.

That the only regret is that poor Kalakaua paid with his life for the villainy of his false friends.

That her Majesty the Queen is to a certain extent avenging her brother’s death by ignoring the social and political standing of the little wheezing bantam.

That the blizzard struck the P.C.A’s Boodle candidate for Koolau, when the latter found the people would not come to hear his ear splitting voice. 

Stand by to lower away // For on Koolau’s rocky shoa// We shall see a total wreck // Of the name of Kauinkoa

That after the Railroad Boodle – goes through the Dillingham s@ there will not be much left for the “dear” Portuguese.

That Chung Leon got a preference from Dillingham while white and Hawaiians bid lower on the work of construction

That the election of any other but the Liberal Road Board means the continuance of the Jiga Dear Brin@ Major who will still hold the streets.

That crooked and false Customs entries were practiced by the Bantams now in high social feather with the Sultan of Turkey and the Khedive of Egypt who run the Hylo@a

That – Naw, says S@lewan Captain Sam is no relation of the Nowelin@ of Anid Ireland, where apple praties grow.  He’s a whalers son, so I am towld.

            That the country will never be safe until we corral the Treasury Wid-a-man of our own kidney, so said Bow@ as he contemplated the glittering pile in a government vaults when he completed the plastering on them the other day. Yah, said mine son-in-law. 

            That twelve japs were seen working at the Plaza in front of the Railroad depot, along King street.  This shows little sympathy and sincerity on the part of Dillingham for the Hawaiians, Portuguese and other workingmen, who need more than fifteen cents a day.