Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 381, 2 February 1892 — Page 5
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KA LEO O KA LAHUI.
"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."
Na Moho a ka Aoao Lahui Hawaii Liberala
OAHU.
NA ‘LII.
EONO MAKAHIKI---A. MARQUES; C. B. MAILE, CAPT. J. ROSS
EHA MAKAHIKI---E. B. THOMAS.
ELUA MAKAHIKI---JAS. GAY.
NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.
W. H. CUMMING.
AP 2 J.W. BIPIKANE.
AP. 3, C.W. AKEPOKA
AP 4, S.K. AKI
AP. 5, S. K. PUA
KOOLAU LOA ME WAIALUA R. W. WILIKOKI
EWA A ME WAIANAE, J. KAUHI
HAWAII.
NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.
HILO HEMA—JOSEPH NAWAHI.
HILO WAENA—WM. MOSSMAN.
HILO AKAU---JAMES MATTOON.
KAU---J. N. KAPAHU
KOHALA---G. B. KAMAUOHA.
HAMAKUA---Z. PAAKIKI.
MAUI.
NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.
WAILUKU HEMA—W. B. KEANU.
MAKAWAO—J. KAMAKELE.
HANA—P. KAMAI.
LAHAINA—WM. WHITE.
MOLOKAI—NAKALEKA.
KAUAI
Na ‘Lii
E. LINDEMANN.................................................................6 MAKAHIKI.
NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.
KOLOA A ME LIHUE—W. A. KIHA.
HANALEI—IKAAKA KAHILINA
WAIMEA—LIWAI KAUAI.
Platform of Principle
OF THE
HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL
PARTY.
PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT AND
CONSTITUTION.
1. We deem that all Government should be founded on the principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; we hold that all men are born free and equal before the law and are endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness and to self-protection against arbitrary concentration of power, irresponsible wealth, and unfair competition. We believe that just government exists only by the consent of the People, and that, when it becomes necessary for the public welfare, they may abolish existing forms and establish more advantageous and equitable system; and, as the present Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was established by intimidation and fraud for the benefit of a certain class therefore we favor the adoption of a new and more liberal Constitution, to truly secure a Government of the People, by the People and for the People.
INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY
2 Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinons of the native population, we dersire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy, under a liberal and popular form of government: but our Treaties with Foreign Powers, and yes,peciall with the United States of America, should be revised, so as to better meet present necessities and to obtain, more equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.
JUDICIARY REFORM-
3. Our Judiciary system and Code of Procedure must be submitted to a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice free of all sectarian or patisan spirit, and to render the Judges more directly responsible to the People; and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the press.
TAXATION
4. A more just and perfect system of Taxation must be inaugurated, to abolish the present inequalities, by which the property of the poor is excessively taxed, while much of the rich man’s goods are under valued for assessment or entirely excape taxation; we shall therefore demand the passage of laws that will more effectually subject the property of corporations and rich citizens to their just proportion of public burdens, while granting more liberal exemptions to the poor; and as a means of discouraging the locking up of large tracts of uncultivated lands, a differential tax should be levied in addition to the usual assessment on valuation which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil. We shall also favor this establishment of a graduated income tax, and thus expect to obtain ample funds for conducting the government and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the masses.
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.
PUBLIC SERVANTS.
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, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all sinecures or superfluous offices abolished.
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.
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 monies for the development of their resources and the satisfaction 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 officers, and levy taxes for the purpose, local improvements of a public nature.
PROTECTION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES
9. We shall endorse all measure leading 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 of the better protection of the poor, as for more liberation exemption of their property from forced sale on execution and from seizure in bankruptcy proceeding.
SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS.
10. The wealthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the developments 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 whch 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 divided as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred 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 produce of the soil to market.
ELECTORAL RIGHT.
11. We hold that upright and honored manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should constitute 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 that 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 rendering 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.
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. Ulukoa, from acting as an agent, for me in any sense whatever, in the charge 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.
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