Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 398, 26 February 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush.

I ana Hooponopono a me Puuku.

FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1892

TOURIST TRAVEL.

 

            Among the other very “bad” things which the Liberal Party had entertained as parts of its policy and which probably caused alarm to the Advertiser and Bulletin, was the intent to promote tourist travel to these islands.  The party hope to have a good majority in the house in order to secure assistance for the many enterprises necessary now for our continued prosperity.  And also among other things to obtain appropriations for the purpose of making the attractions of these islands known widely abroad, and inducing a good percentage of the large army of travelers, sight seers and health seekers to come our way.  But the Advertiser and Bulletin found the Liberal Party so utterly “bad” that they did all in their power, and successfully to prevent it having a majority.  This perverse opposition was presumably because we would not bend in meek submission to sugar and coolies but held higher purposes and ambitions.

            The Liberal Party will not be able to carry out, in its integrity, its programmer for the assistance and encouragement of all such enterprises as would tend to add to the general wealth and prosperity, for they would encounter an equally numerous party of reformers whose sole object and ambition is legislation for sugar and coolies.  But we hope and believe the Liberal Party will endeavor to prove the honesty of its character and promises by striving for legislation in accordance with their declared policy, even if they fail to secure it.  The honor of the party will be maintained, and the next elections will bring as many adherents, who will meanwhile have suffered under the heel of our plutocrat class.

            One of the most promising sources for bringing wealth to the country is in tourist travel.  Enquiry at the two banks reveal the fact that the amount drawn on letters of credits and expended here by our foreign visitors is a considerable sum, reaching up into the hundreds of thousands annually.  But our attractions are scarcely known abroad, and the crowds of tourists are lured into other and less attractive directions by enterprising advertisers and glowing descriptions.  The tourist travel out of California to Alaska, for instance, is 50 times more than what @@@@es to Hawaii, yet the Alaskan trip is over a rough ocean, to bleak scenes and frigid atmosphere.  But people go there because the trip is b@@@ed by active and interested parties and consequently a great deal of wealthy pours into Alaska, a large portion of which could be easily directed here.  For the average tourist, Hawaii possesses far more @@ i@ations than does Alaska.

            Any one familiar with travel, in Europe, knows how the many @@@ winter and summer resorts, are dependent solely upon tourists for their prosperity.  It is said that the principal industry of Switzerland is tourists , without which the country would go bankrupt.  The cholera scare in Italy about two years ago which frightened away tourists, seriously affected the whole finances of the country, and crippled many localities.  Tourists is a paying business, and it lays within our power to do a large share in that line.  There is hardly a branch of trade or industry that would not be benefitted by it; even sugar and coolies would profit by it, for these tourists would be bound to take sugar in their morning coffee.  For pleasure, for health, for the wonders and beauties of nature, there can be no more fascinating trip than that which brings the traveler across the mild Pacific ocean and lands him in this Paradise of the Pacific. 

            In America and Europe there are hundreds of thousands of people of wealth and leisure who restlessly seek a change and scatter to all parts of the earth.  If all the attractions, beauties and allurement of this tropic paradise were placed attractively before the traveling public, there is no doubt that large numbers could be annually drawn here, @ they are to less interesting places, and the money they would leave behind would add largely to the material wealth of the country.

            But before tourists are induced to come hither in any number, it is necessary to provide in many ways for their accommodation and facilities for them to see and enjoy all our sights without inconvenience.  And this would be a legitimate object for government assistance.  Our monthly cotemporary the “Paradise of the Pacific” has been doing a grand work in making our Paradise known to the world at large and it is to be credited with having inaugurated a systematic tide of tourist travel in this direction.  With government aid for all the necessary measures for promoting the tourist business, our shores would soon swarm with a host of travelers who would leave wealth in the country that would be distributed among many industries.  With such attractions as these islands undoubtedly possess over many fashionable resorts, we would soon be @@@eacellence the resort of the traveling world, and the favorite lounging place of fashion and leisure.  We believe that it would pay better than sugar.

            We apologise to the Bulletin and the Advertiser for our laudations of the Liberal tourist, and our sneers at the Conservative coolie immigrant, but we are sincere in believing that the general policy of the Liberals, was too liberal and statesmanlike for the comprehension of the minds that guide our contemporaries.

            We regret that the Liberal tourist will probably get no encouragement this year, and the Conservative coolie immigrant commands such a large vote, but we hope in two years time the people of Honolulu would have discovered their error and at the next elections will vote for the Liberal Party and for Liberal Principles.

 

MRS. GREY’S CONCERT.

 

            On Saturday evening next @ concert will be given for the benefit of Mrs. Grey.  This lady has been a@ expe@@@@ a@@ have suffered a loss in the production of two @@@@@ lately in this city.  This entertainment is gotten up by the lady, who is assisted by Mr. Berger, and others, and a celebrated lady vocalist, Mrs. Rice, who sang with Madame Adelina Paiti.  We bespeak a generous house for Mrs. Grey, and hope that our music loving people will respond.

 

“PATRIARCHAL” KAUAI.

 

            That there is one plantation on Kauai which runs as the P. C. Advertiser says, almost entirely, without contract labor, goes to prove that KA LEO has so often asserted; that contract labor is not necessary to the sugar business.  But is out of the twelve or more plantations on Kauai only one “almost entirely” dispenses with contract labor the fact is scarcely more of a protest against bond service than Captain Corcoran’s assertion that he “hardly ever” swore at the crew of the Pinafore.  On Kauai as elsewhere, there are exceedingly kind men as manager and owners of plantations who never have trouble with their hands, and there are others who as Hamlet said of a class of actors:  one would suppose one of the nature’s journeymen made them and botched the job.  Nature never intended them for overseers of men, but the bond by which they rule – alone – enables them to maintain the position of “boss.”  On some Kauai plantations the men are not sworn at; on others, every sentence is flavored with an oath.  “You G- D- Jackass” is the common address of a certain (otherwise well educated) German mill manager on Kauai to the field hands.  This to a Hawaiian is specially galling, but any attempt to resent it would land the contract slave in Waimea lock-up and Lihue Jail.

            The records as given in the last official report of the Chief Justice proves that Kauai is evidently harder on the contract laborer than any of the other islands.  It must be tolerably evient from the following figures – which can’t lie nor be distorted, that the patriarch who rules politics and labor on Kauai has a pretty rough time with his laborers.  On page 56 of the report of the Chief Justice for the year 188@-9 we find the total number of cases of refusing or deserting bound service to be 3075 of which Kauai furnished 777 cases against 530 on Hawaii, and 241 on the islands of Maui, Molokai and Lanai, and on Oahu only 27 cases.  In the face of these figures one is led to ask whether the “alien agitator” whose habitat is on Oahu, and Hawaii, and is quite a @@@@@@@@ on Kauai, is not to be credited with this apparent humanizing effect in populating our jails.  Or is the Kauai “patriarch” so unfortunate in his selection of bad charactered laborers, as to be able to fix on such circumstances as the reason why his little island contributes nearly 30 per cent of the imprisoned deserting laborers of the kingdom.  Kauai fairly bristles with good missionaries and their descendants who are all the sugar and contract labor business and yet why is this true?  Advertiser please come to the rescue.

            By the way is the only planter on Kauai who “hardly ever” hold a bond labor, a member of an old missionary family.  The writer will @@@@ @@@ to one @@@ is an anti-missionary and Englishman at that.

 

ON DIT.

 

That Uncle Sam once bitten is twice shy.

That the pure unadulterated is used for “mechanical purposes” don’t you know.

That Popcorn Jones was not a good sample of the poor missionary to send over to help our Treaty.

That the diplomatic teeth puller could not manage to pull wool over the U. S. Government.

That Messers, Alcohol and Son hope to do a good trade with the whalers this year in the pure unadulterated article.

That a certain criminal case shortly to come before Court is nothing more than a put-up job on the part of a lo@ of worthless conspirators.

That the new building of the Dutch Club – we beg pardon – the British Club, looks more like a huge packing case, than the abode of the plutocracy of Honolulu.

That little Dan proposes to give the P. C. A. infant a few pointers as to how a newspaper should be run, so soon as he gets into that new building of his.

That judging by the report of the party held on board the “ Alice Cooke ” the P. C. A. editor is fond of letting people know that he spent six weeks in Germany.

            That we are determined not to be outdone by “ alt Deutch ” Castle, have therefore imported at enormous expense, an editor for our”alt Deutch” department.

            That most people would like some more light thrown upon the subject at night time, and would be content with oil lamps if they cannot get anything better.  That there are a few electric lights in the principal street corners, but that all the side streets are in Egyptian darkness.

            That when several cases of broken shins take place, there will be actions for damage against the government all on account of those beautiful water hydrants stuck in the middle of the sidewalks.

            That the Noble vote being sacred to beach-combers and missionary lawyers and mechanics, and their tribe, the political sentiment of the masses cannot be heard from, and the U. S. Government knows it well. 

            That later on our rubi@@@@ and well-fed capitalist will find it absolutely necessary to consult the will of the common people.  Put not your trust in lumber, law or Pl@@@@/  Prey no more.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

JUDICIARY REFORMS

 

4.       Our Judiciary system and Code and Procedure must be submitted to a thorough revision, @@ @@ to receive a cheap and prompt administration of justice free of all @@@tarian of @@@@ a@@@@, and to @@@@ the Judges more directly responsible to the People, and we are in favor of a more liberal @@@@@@@@tative of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the press. 

 

MONOPOLISM

 

5.        We shall use our efforts to @@@@@@@ laws by which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, trusts shall privileges to special classes shall be rendered impossible, by full, @@@@@@@ and mandatory statutes.

 

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

 

7.   We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries @@@@all our native products, @@@@ rice, candles, wool tobacco, etc. should be protected and featured by proper tariff regulations; 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 @@@@@@@@ for the developmental their resources and the @@@@@@@@ of their waste.  In fact, the principle of local, self-government should be established, whereby giving localities @@@ @@@@@ the most important of their local @@@@@@tive officers, and levy taxes for the purpose local improvements of a public nature.

 

PUBLIC SERVANTS

 

5.   Better laws should regulate the Civil Service.  The principle of the selection of the 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 @in@@ cures or superfluous offices abolished.

 

PROTECTION 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 laws to prevent all further importation or employment of contract-labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a rui@@@s and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also, in the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemption of their property from forced sale on @@ @@ution, and from seizure in bankruptcy proceeding.

 

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS.

 

10.   The wealthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the development of an independent @@@@ of citizens; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands or parceled to @@@@ favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists, but as small farming is @@@lucive 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 @@@@@@@@ly of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in their country – should be rendered possible.  To that end, the Government and Crown lands, in so far as @@@ be @@@@@ without invading vested rights should be @@@@@ed as soon as possible to homesteads, and @@@@@@ upon bona-fide @@@@@@@ free of taxes for a hundred percent.

            It should be the further action of government to, at once, @@ @@@ improve the means of transportation, - local, national and international, - as to preside, in all the districts, cheap means of @@@@@@@ing the product of the soil to market.

 

ELECTORAL RIGHT

 

11.    We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily @@@, should @@@@@@ right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be awarded to the ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man.  The @@@@@@mination in favor of wealth @@@ made in our Constitution tp @@@@@@@@ t all the eternal principles of right and justice and must be established.  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 pertains to them in their @@@  @@@@@@, and of which they have been @@@@@@ deprived.  

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

 

12.    We favor the expenditure of @@@@-@@@  @@@@ to secure a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other islands, @@@@@ @@@@@ and harbors and wharves, public @@@@, and also a thorough system of @@@@@@ and water works, not only the Honolulu, but throughout the other islands.