Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 385, 9 February 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO.

John E. Bush.

@@@@ Hooponopono a me Puuka.

Tuesday. Feb. 9, 1892

 

Stand firm.

The duty of the Liberal Party at the present juncture is to @@@d to the g@@e.  The election has not given our party a majority of the House but it will probably be found in the assembling of the Legislature, that not less than twenty members will fight under the Liberal standard, with such a force, thoroughly united and well disciplined under the command of a leader who understands the situation and knows how, where and when to strike the blows of the Liberal members will prove more than a match for the heterogeneous mob @@ @@ as they will be opposed.  It is @@@@@@@ that there will be three parties in the House the most numerous whereof will be the Liberals.  The Reform missionary strength will be less than that of the Liberals while Boss Bowler's contingent of Tammany statesmen will be the least numerous of all.  It needs no prophet to foretell the result - that the Liberals though they may not control the government, can at least rely with confidence upon being able to defeat the odious schemes of the opposition.

It is equally apparent that the opposing factions can no more unite upon a general policy than can oil and water amalgamate.  It is doubtless true that Mr. Dillingham could show them some pointers upon the facility with which milk-and-water will unite - but they will find oil-and-water more stubborn.  Taken all in all, the poor missionaries are between the devil and the deep sea.  On the one hand they are confronted by the Liberals - united, alert, and determined to carry out their policy if possible.  On the other hand the pious ones are threatened by the hungry and unscrupulous disciples of Tammany.  Should any question arise as to which of these parties may be most fittingly described as "the devil", in accordance with the above fiture of speech, we will state that the Liberals are not fastidious in the matter, and are as willing to be known by the appellation of "the devil" as that of "the deep sea."  At any rate, Ka Leo pledges its words that the Liberal party "play the devil" with missionary schemes and pretensions, when the Legislature meets.

If Mr. Joe Emerson represents any coterie of blood thirsty "@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ to beware how he continues to incite people with his bigoted prejudices and advices them to get their guns ready.  The Liberal Party @@@@@@@@@@@.  Hawaiians are ag@sting only in a constitutional way to obtain "equal rights" under the constitution and to preserve the @@@@@@@@@ properity of their native country by choosing the diabolical plans of a @@@@ of monied plutocrats to @@@niate this Paradise with the hordes of degraded @ooliee.  Their noble conduct in this respect is in striking contrast to the treasonable methods of Joe Emerson and his "missionary" associates in 1887.  we are fully aware that the last elections have developed a most contemptible spirit of ill will by the foreigner against the native.  if the tactics of 1887 are repeated it will simply arouse the native Hawaiians, the young Hawaiians of mixed parentage and a large rally of honest white men to resist any such invasion of popular rights.  Joe Emerson, you and your clique had better confine your pitiful puritanic prejudices within the precincts of your political church and not attempt to insult a whole nation of people who have ever treated you and yours with kindness and hospitality.

 

Dan the General.

The country is saved once more, thanks to the indomitable Dan.

Never mind if Dan's great National Reform Party could not elect a Representative nor get either of its chief bosses within a thousand of the Road Board.  It was a glorious chance for solo on the Bulletin's big drum and Dan played on it for all it was worth.

Dan has been presented with a s@venir in verse hich his modesty could not allow him to print.  It came into our hands as an unconsidered trible.  Its authorship is uncertain.  It is probably by Paul, who having used up all his prose comic jokes in the campaign was seized with an epic fit on top of his Waterhouse victory.  It can be sung to the tune of "Lanigans Ball" or any other long meter hymn.

 

Dan

How death has of late gone a-mowing 

Among the tall heroes who stood

At the front as chief heirs of distinction

Through letters or statecraft or blood;

How the long blade has glittered among them

And lopped off their lives and grown red:

How old time has exulted in heaping

His graveyard with eminent dead!

Many lands have been placed under tribute

By him with the @@@@-glass and s@y@@@

On the leaders and heads he has levied

And from them collected his tithe

Russell Lowell he took and though deeply

His going the world @@@@@ regret,

There is still a broad sunbeam of comfort

Daniel @@@@@@@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@@@.

"H@l@@@@@@" has not gone to him @@@@@@@@

"Bonlanger" may yet @@@@ @@@@@@

On danger is popular clamor

That things as they are, @@@ not @@@@

But let Maile go back to him @@@@@@@

And Marques his books now @@ @@@,

You have given the Liberals a @@@@@@@

You're a broth of a boy Logan Da@..

l@t destruction make general havoc

And only the enemy choose

If he spares one who more than ail others

Being greater, 'twould pain us @@ @@@@

Let the victims go down by your @@li@t,

Plural voting's o'er mastering can,

There is life in our @@@@@@@@ alliance

 

Be Patient

@@@@@@@@ is a virtue which the @@@@@@@@@

the meeting of the Legislature shall open a way to the triumph of their principles, @@@@ does not mean that our party are to forget their @@@@@gs @@ forgive the authors of those @@@@@@@.  It merely means that we will submit to the r@@@lt of the ballot for the present, looking to the Legislature for the righting of any wrongs which appear in the election returns.  We are not a party of violence and though the violently - imposed constitution of unrigheousness and inequality under which we suffer, is our prime grievance, we do not despair of being able to reach our aims without a resort to kindred means.  We are for peace, but, we remember even General Grant was willing in the last resort, to right for peace if necessary.

Twin Deities.

How ardently the pious guild of the p@@@@@@onary @@@@@ have worshipped at the shrine of the twin political deities - Boss Bowler and Boss Thurston, did ever such a combination of worthies before appear above our political horizon.  the eminently pure Mr. Thurston, one of the twin herbes of the Santa Claus stock deal, for whom the holy ones have held prayer meetings during the campaign - in loving embrace with the eminently practical Mr. Bowler.  @@@@ @ the $34,000 hoodle racket - Ye Gods, what a spectacle.  This is a sight to make men and angels weep. 

NOT THE MAN.

That Mr. McInerny is not the boycotter referred to in yesterday's issue of Ka Leo.  Mac is too honorable, too liberal to stoop to such dirty miserable means to obtain an advantage over a fellow tradesman, under cover of political satisfaction.

 

ON DIT.

That the Boss of the ring is quite lame now, and will soon be a dead duck in the pond.  They played him for goose.

That the opium dealers, wholesalers especially are jubilant over the election of their men.

That Larson Bay, Koalaupoko, will be dotted once more with shipping, called the Mosquito Fleet from Kawaihae.

That because Peter Rooney voted against the Road Board, he is reported to be the Road Supervisor.

That protestant Kenyon said in reply to enquiry, that he is not going to protect against Saturday's parade.

That the absence of the Police at the Fire Department parade proves, that like opium, they are controlled by one or two men.

That the  "Dead Past" will not down, when the Christmas-Box taker thinks ther's a point in his favor by resurrecting it.

@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@@@, Santa Claus Dillingham, has been discharging from his employ all the men whom he @@@@@@ted of having voted for EQUAL RIGHTS on February 3d.

That the "Santa Claus" business will be investigated by a parliamentary committee on the @@@eting of the Legislature, unless the Christmas-box taker can utilize the National Reform members to "bury the dead poet" by stifling investigation.

That the @@@@@ is @@@@@@@@@ after Mr. @@@lewan who has been conspicuous by his sh@@@@@ since Wednesday last.

That the Boodler candidates wil@ build a ship for the East India immigrant service to import human chattels to work on railways and plantations at fifteen cents a day.

That Quinn's prospects to stop the Chinese from driving hacks has been indefinitely postponed and his bill to stop the issuance of business licenses to the celestia, will not be road a first time the coming session.

That the Tammany Boss as in good health and is training his trove of five Reform Nobles to perform Tammany tricks, just as it is don in New York, don't ye moind.

That the man with the iron jaw was a pattern of modesty and humility compared to the packet borough member from Baldwinville, when he assumes to dictate to the National Reform members how they must assist him to throttle the liberal leaders who (as he says) have already furnished the country with one revolution.  Where, oh where, was the pocket borough member on thee historic 30th of June?  Both before June 30th and after July 7th had paraded in the Honolulu Rifle's uniform.  But if he wishes to purge himself of the CRIME with which he charges others we concede him the fact that during the period limited by the above dates, he kept religiously beyond ang@.

 

Platform of Principle of the HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

JUDICIARY REFORMS

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 partisan spirit, and to tender the Judges more directly responsible to the People; and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and the poems.

 

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 good are under-valued for assessment or entirely @@@@@ tax@@@@@ @@ whatif therefore demand the passage of laws that will more effectually @@@@@ the property of corporations and rich @@@@@@@ to their just proportion of public burdens, while granting more liberal exemptions to the poor; and as a means of discouraging the l@@king up of large (@acts of cultivated lands, a different @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

the @@@@@ @@@@@@@ment on valuation which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil.  We shall also favor the establishment of a graduated income tax, and thus expect to obtain ample fund@@@ conducting the @@@ @@@@@@@ and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the @@@@@.

 

MONOPOLIES

We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by which all favoritism in the government and all in@@@@@@@, trusts and privileges to special classes shall be @@@@@@@@

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should be adequate @@@@@@@@ @@@ for the services rendered.  All @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@ should be reduced and all @@@@ @@@@ of s@@@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@.

 

PROTECTION TO XXXX IN@@@@@@@@@@@

7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, @@@@@ our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc. should be protected and @@@@@@@ by proper @@@@@ @@@@tion; and also it @@@@@ @@ the duty of the Gover@ment, in its @@@@@ and other operations, to give @@@@@@@ to national p@@@@@@ over imported ones.

 

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

 

8.  We @@@@@@ a nire @@@@@@ policy towards the different @@@@@@@ of the  @@@@ dam. outside of Oahu:  they @@@@@ receive a fairer properties of the public moneys for the development of their resources and the @@@@@@@@@@@@@ of their wants.  In fact, the principle of Lanai, Self-government should be @@@@@@@@@, whereby giving localities may chance the most important of their local executive officers, and levy taxes for the purpose local improvements of a public nature.

 

PROTECTIN 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 lawn to prevent all further importation or employment of contract-labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a rai@@@@ and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also, @@@ the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemption of their property from in@@@@ @@@@ on execution, and from @@@@@@ is bankruptcy proceeding.

 

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 parceled 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 @@@@try-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 deverted as soon 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 as to provide in all the districts cheap means of @@@@@ing the product of the soil to market.

 

ELECTORAL RIGHT.

We hold that upright and @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ and not the @@@@@@@@ of wealth, arbitrarily fined, should constitute the right to @@@@ for @@@@@@ as well as rep@@@@@@@@@ and no more power should be awarded to the ballot of the rich man than to the @@@@@ of the poor man.  The discrimination in favor of wealth now made in our Constitution is contrary to all the moral principles of right and justice and must be abolished.  To this end, we will have a leveling of the pr@@@@@ distinction of wealth and @@@@@@ which @@@@@@ our @@@@ with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiians privileges which pertain to them I their own country and of which they have been unjustly deprived.

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

 

12       We favor the exp@nd@@@@ @@ @@@@@@@ @@@@ to acquire a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other island:  school, railroads and @@@@@@ and @@@@@  public light.  and also a thorough system of r@@@@@@ and ater-works not only for @@@@@@@@, but through-out the other islands.