Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 374, 22 January 1892 — Page 6

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

 

THE VOICE OF THE NATION

 

To Voters.

WARNING

 

Your name mus tbe 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.

Ex@ 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

20-dtf Minister of Interior.

 

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL

 

Liberal Party

 

NOBLES

For 6 yrs A. MARQUES

For 6 yrs C. B. MA@M

For 6 yrs J. ROSS

For 4 yrs E. B. THOMAS

For 2 yrs W. HOLT

 

REPRESENTATIVES

Ward 1. W. H. CUMMINGS

Ward 2. J. W. BIPIKANE

Ward 3. C. W. ASHFORD

Ward 4. S. K. AKI

Ward 5. S. K. PUA

 

ROAD BOARD

 

@ @

SAMUEL MAHELONA

ABR. FERNANDEZ

 

FRIDAY JAN. 22, 1892

 

Political Echoes

 

There is a growing mistrust of the nominees of the Mechanics Union faction for a closer analysis of them, their @ances, associations and business connetions, distinctly marks them as having a close affinity to the “sugar-barons” and being of the clique who would render every other interest of this country subservient to sugar. They are sailing under false colors, when they affect to represent the interests of the industrial and working classes, and have simply manipulated the Mechanics Union to obtain nominations that they never could have done under their true colors. This is probably the reason they are being supported by the rattled cliques of “barons”, “reformers” and “missionaries.” But the cloven b@oof has appeared under the masquerade of the cliques who have tried to shroud themselves under the banners of the old National Reform Party and the people will not be deceived by them.

 

There are two gloomy shadows hovering over this country that will rapidly materialize into rapacious dragons of ruin, if the Mechanics Union or any @ila; class of candidates come into power. These are first, the impending invation of hordes of East Indian and Chinese coolies, who will soon drive all other industrial classes to the wall and @nd the threatened destruction of any rice industry by importing @ rice from China and Japan. The nominees of the Mechanics Union and Native Sons are more or less bound and pledged to these schemes which will inevitably reduce country to the deplorable social this condition of the West Indies and effectually check all Chritian progress. The sugar planters, lawyers, and monopolists whom the re@ of the Mechanics Union are now supporting will undoubtebly prosper under these conditions, but the deluded mechanics artizan and laborer will have to dismount at the Golden Gate if not at the Golden Stairs.

 

Whatever denials or pervarication may be made on behalf of the “sugar-barons” it is only too evident that their cry for coolie labor is only the selfish greed of a clique of plutocrats who do not care a tinkers malediction for the country at large. Let the flood gates of coolie immigration be opened and in a very few years, the coolie who has graduated from the plantation will crowd into the towns and become a lively competitor with the white mechanics and traders and in every branch of minor industry.  The rice fed pagan coolie wiould soon drive every white man of the industrial classes out of the country. It is useless to controvert this for actual experience has proved that such would be the inevitable result.

 

It is abserd to contend that these coolies could be brought here under restrictions that would confine them to the plantations and enforce their return to India or China at the @ of their contracts. The law which was passed at the last session of the Legislature with this end in view has been a failure. The Chinese will not come under any such humiliating conditions nor is their government, which with its powerful navy is arousing itself to a determined stand among the civilized nations, likely to allow Hawaiian sugar planters to impose conditions of peonage upon the Chinese that will place them at the disadvantage with other nationalities. Nor is it likely that the British Government will allow its East Indian subjects to come here under any restricted conditions resembling slavery.

 

KA LEO has for some time past persistently contended that the best solution of the labor problem was in apportioning the lands in small sections and cultivating on some plan of cooperation with an intelligent peasantry who would be the back bone of the Chris@ and prosperous population. We consider the Portuguese the best class of people to bring here for the double puspose of labor and population.

 

The question of “alien labor” has been for some time agitating the minds of people in Australia who are bitterly opposed to Chinese and East Indian coolies. It has been fairly demonstrated that the white laborer is capable of sustained efforts in the tropics and there are thousands of miners, shearers, mechanics and agricultural laborers whose avocations never take them out of the tropics. Hundresds of miles of railways have been built without coolie labor as the contractors found cheaper in every way to employ white labor and in many tropical districts white labor is preferred although Chinese are plentiful and cheaper. Charles Bashford, a large and noted contractor of Queensland says: “One good English, Scotch or Irish ‘navy’ is equal to two and a hlaf Chinese a@s he had tried them in all climate. (To be Continued.)

FREE LANCE

 

Subjects or Citizens

 

The persistence of the Advertiser in laying in exemplified in the third editorial column yesterday. The Hawaiians do not want to the circle of electiors narrowed and Mr. Ashford only recently corrected the Advertiser by pointing ouut that the leaders of the Liberal Party of last session voted against confingin the franchise to subjects. The insinuation that Mr. Ashford is concealing from the Hawaiians that which he places before the Portugues is contemptible. Try again!

 

DILLINGHAM’S PUNCHBOWL MEETING

 

The Portuguese Club Room on Kinau Street was packed on Wednesday evening to hear Mr. B. B. Dillingham. Contrary to expectation the meeting was opened by and the greater part of the time taken up by L. A. Thurston, who labored very hard to stay nothing beyond the pratical advice to his hearers, to vote for Dillingham if they wanted bread, and for Ashford if they wanted politics.

These people evidently were there to hear politics, but Mr. Thurston did not bing any along that night and said the country was in such a muddle (all through Ashford appartenly), that he did not know what he should do when he got in the Legislature, as he expected he would get there from Maui. But the salvation of the country depended in keeping out Ashford and also Wilcox, who went around the coutnry with a waist belt on which was inscribed Preisdent of the Hawaiian Republic. Then there was Bipicane, on the interpretation of whose honest name, he raised a sickly synicism. One would suppose that Ben would have remembered the chilling effect of Mr. Thurston’s chaperonage last time and not risk another bawling post.

 

Then Ben took the stand and told his hearers that they had received $65,000 in wages from the Railway, and not forget there was $27,000 spent already on the Union Church Building, and $33,000 more to spend there. The Portuguese had received better wages than they had before. Indepently of the Railway he employs sixty-three natives and foreigners. The Railway Company employs one hundred and thirty-three men, whose wages is over $6,000 a month. Every dollar he made was here, whereas Ashford sends his out of the country, and is a carpet-bagger. A general denial was filed as to offering Ashoford stock. The statement that he had no money in the railroad was a lie in cool blood, he paid in account for it over $100,000 in coin and pledge all he had. Ashford was an unmitigated fraud and had put the country into a hole that would cost a million to get it out again and may lose its independence in the operation.

 

Then Paul Neumann took the stand and in California Spanish told the audience that Dillingham was the saviour of the country. It was true that Dillingham and Thurston had not always played games of chances with him before, but look at them now, with Thurston at the stroke oar, Dillingham as bow oar, and he (Paul) at the helm. He had been nominated by the Mechanics Union on account of the distinguished services he had rendered the working class in going to Japan to renew the immigration to Hawaii to compete with the people already here. He heard that on the evening of the 3 ^rd of February, he would be presented by the Liberal Party with a small soup-tureen in which would be a putty medal. He hoped, when he next took tea with the Mikado, it would be as a Noble Baron von Newmann. A Hawaiian coronet would suit the contour of his bald phiz-mahogony and would impress the Japanese Court to the extent of getting a reduction of coolie wage for Mr. Dillingham and his friends, Ashford was a lawyer excepted of course. Both Thurston and himself understood each other about Japanese coolies, if they elected Ashford he would spoil the whole thing and ruin the country.

Times were hard, but they maust bear it like men and Mr. Dillingham’s frieds had put up a soul-saving soup kitchen close by, where they could go to pray when hungry. The bell would tell them when feeding time came and if they wanted to know more they could ask the Portuguese @ Jap. The converted Sual’s oration was immense.

 

Paul at the conclusion resumed his seat beside the stroke oar. They embraced The Lord of Waimanalo presented him with a moss rose. There was a pause during which a Portuguese deacon invited John Cummins to close with a prayer, who excused himself as he had been close to prayer from his birth and could not sing the doxology as he had left his tuning-fork at home and referred him to Charley McCarthy. Finally Saul breathed an unctions benediction thusly: “Lands l@ @ lasset uns ein’s trinken und dann nach hause gehen.”

 

ON DIT

 

That Archer is a straddle candidate

 

That the G&C Brown bossed John A. Cummins

 

That when Cummins went out of office the Brown’s had no more use for him.

 

That the wheezy politician of Kaahumanu Street got an ex-school-master to conduct the English page of the Holomua.

 

That Ben’s lucky fall some years ago, when he fell like Lucifer from a horse, into a love sick-bed, has been the means of his riding the iron-horse to-day, and posing as the workingman’s fried, so said Paul in his California Spanish the other night.

 

That F. Acher gae it all away to those whom he thought were friends.

 

That the sports are backing the Liberal Party with coin, and will make easy winnings.

 

That Charley Mahope will loan the mud scow to the Helemua to dig up editorials with.

 

That Thurston says that R. W. Wilcox was an old schoolmate of his. He said the same thing to Theresa last week, and begged her help in favor of his cause.

 

That it is now in order for those two purists, Messrs. Dillingham and Thurston, to rise and explain that five-hundred-dollar, Oahu Railway Stock deal.

 

That on election day,

The Liberals will have away;

Reformers will deplore their loss

To see vitorious Captain Ross,

On the Liberal tidal wave.

 

That Cecil Brown said confidingly a few weeks ago that if there was any annexation, he would see that it would be with England only.

 

That we will publish from the Ilustrated American a continuation of “Hawaii’s Appeal,” which touches upon the system of slavery practiced by the Sugar Planters. This part we wish to nail “at last” to the P. C. Advertiser and its party.

 

That one of our Road Supervisors under the Grigadiner-Brindle puts on all the style of a man about to be hung and struts around on horseback from where he gives his commands in unparliamentary language.

 

That tenders were made for supplying hay to feed government four-footed officials at $234 when it was selling at $264 in small quantities. The profit will be made up in the waste while delivering the hay.

 

That a month or more ago about the hours of one or two in the morning, two drays were seen by a Policeman coming from the government stables loaded with tarpaulins covering the loads. Question was asked what they had; the reply was: trunks for the steamer and the team continued out towards the Park.

 

That W. R. Castle’s nature was shown by sending word not to open Waikiki Church for the Liberals. But W. R. C. does not forbid his protege sneaks to steal in with Liberal meetings to air W. R. C. sentiments.

 

That some of the Marshall’s deputies are unfit for their positions when they break into temprarily vacated houses at Waikiki and turn into a bawdy house without permission of the owner or lessee. These are Reform incompetents who ought to have been bounced the service long ago.

 

That the Irish chairman of inspectors of election of the 3 ^rd District displayed his partizan sympathy with his fellow cranks of the Boodlers Union by refusing to allow his associates to put the inspector’s notice in the Hawaiian edition of Ka Leo.