Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 404, 7 March 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush

I una Hooponopono a me Puuku

MONDAY, March 7, 1892

THE POLICE

Under its present administration we regret to say that this department has been run to suit the whims and fancies of one of her Majesty’s special favorites, and not conducted for the maintenance of the public interest, or for the suppression of evil and of vice.  One would suppose from the way vice is tolerated in this city that the department is under the patronage and control of thiefs, gamblers and whore mongers, from the open manner in which it is perpetrated in our midst.  Lottery games are openly conducted in violation of law, gambling is maintained in certain parts of the city as a business and opium is allowed to come into the country under the very eyes of the police, hacks and hackmen avow that their business would go under if it were not for the patronage of the fashionable men of the city – old and young – who pay large sums to them to ensnare wives and daughters for the gratification of the bestial passions of these ghouls in human form.

But we see a rift in the dark clouds of official apathy and collusion with vice and evil, when we read of the avidity and persistency with which the police are made to ride one hundred and twenty miles to carry out the mandates of the Marshal of the Kingdom against an offender, a wicked, characterless man who had inadvertently forgot to make return to the government of his election expenses.  Wretched man, yes, he was more than wretched, he was vile, because he was a liberal candidate for Noble, and had openly opposed and helped to defeat a Queenite for Legislative honors.  It was a splendid opportunity for venting pent up feelings of animus against a person disliked because he was an impersonation of principle and honor as contradistinguished from those whom he opposed and whose immoral and unprincipled lives he openly detested.

In this herculean effort of the police Department, we have hopes that the Agean Stable under control of the law officer of the Crown, will receive a thorough cleansing, and that beginning with the heads of the government it will continue its good work and suppress the social vices and evils that officialdom patronizes and tolerates.

VACCINATION

We publish the following extracts from Dr. Tebb of London, in view of the by authority notice of the Board of Health calling upon the unvaccinated to pass through the danger and risks of inoculation by vaccination.  It is a well established fact that the spread of this disease all over the world is due to vaccination and not withstanding the boast of a higher scientific knowledge, the human family today is physically in a worse condition for the reception of disease than ever before.  This state is due to the want of correct knowledge of hygiene and notwithstanding the profession of our medical scientists this era is lamentably deficit in a correct knowledge of the very first principles for the prevention of disease and preservation of health.  There is no question in the minds of a large member of thinking people, that there are more people killed from professional ignorance than are cured, and vaccination is one of those doubtful protection from disease, which scientists have been credited to have discovered:

“According to recent accounts in the Anglo-Indian Press, the Leprosy Commission (the English members of which arrived in Bomby in November last) have completed their investigation and experimental researches, and are now preparing their report, which is awaited with much interest.  Exhaustive inquiries have been made to determine the pathological aspects of the disease.  They have performed over one hundred vaccinations on lepers, and confirmed the existence of the bacillus leprae in the vaccine virus, as previously demonstrated by Hansen, Neisser, Montgomery, Arning, Cunningham and other bacteriologists.

“As Leprosy is a disease of slow incubation, and impossible to detect in its early stages, the danger of the arm to arm vaccination, practiced in most of our Colonies where this repulsive scourge is endemic, will be seen by all who will give the matter a moments reflection.  It is, however, no new discovery that Leprosy is disseminated by vaccination, as anyone may see who will take the trouble to refer to the report of the evidence laid before the Select Parliamentary Committee on Vaccination by Dr. R. H. Bakewell, Vaccinator-General of Trinidad in 1871. – Wm Tebb

“PATRIARCHAL” KAUAI

In the good old days when prisoners was worth only 25 cents a day, the planters hired the prisoners to work for that sum.  It simply amounted to a premium for arresting man, and any man either native or foreigner who fell foul of a planter, found himself in durance vile, before he had time to a suspicious of it.  Every Court on Kauai is to-day run by a local planter and the whole outfit is run by Boss Rice of Lihue.  In connection with politics he nominated the personal of the convention, gathers them into his own house provides their provender, draws up their program and when they have gone through the farce of “deliberating’ they are again fed and smiled upon as holy Willie can smile and having duly cursed the Liberals, they are dismissed with Pastor Isenberg benediction, as good and faithful servants.  The registration Boards on Kauai, with perhaps one solitary exception, were composed of planters nominees, men whose supply of daily hash depended on the will of the @ planter.

What chance had the people in a contest with a combine of vote @ such as are herded together on Kauai?  Imagine, dear reader if you can, the @ of a vote of the “free and independent electors” being taken on the island of Niihau; which is a part of the electoral district of Waimea.  When you understand that every inch of its 70,000 acres is owned by one man or one family, and the first question put to any one visiting Niihau is. “who gave you permission to land here?”  There is no police on the little empire of Niihau and the only judge in law on the island is Mr. Gay, one of the owners.

To speak of a contested election on such ground as Niihau, is the climax of the ridiculous; and yet the whole island of Kauai is but a few shades better in the matter of independence; all of which is the natural, inevitable Dead Sea fruit of the sugar monopoly.

The one man on Kauai whose existence is a guarantee of justice before the law, such as it is; is judge Hardy.  The unflinching integrity of this good man and upright judge, is seen on the numerous appeals which he sustains in the capacity as arbitrator between the threatened liberties of the people and the encroachments of grinding monopoly and corrupt courts.

Amusing stories are told of how the present governor of Kauai gained his gubernatorial stirrups on the occasion of the late visit of the Queen.  Beholders say that the manner in which he crawled up on all fours to kiss the Royal big toe, and the way he crawled back through the door hole without ever kicking the door post, was the fact that sealed his fate for governor.  It is whispered around Bishop’s store that he got his joints supple for the royal crawl, through the aid of a case of horse linament.  Of course it must be understood that the toothsome roots and succulent edibles were there and likewise the toothsome anti-rodent was duly baisted.  Indeed there is a general style about things on Kauai which to a resident of Honolulu appears – as the P.C. Advertiser truly styles it – “Patriarchal.”

WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE MINISTER

Section 90 of the Election Law reads thus:

“At the hearing the Justice shall cause the evidence to be reduced to writing in full, or sufficently to ascertain all the facts involved, and shall thereupon give Judgment, stating all of his findings of fact and the law thereupon, which shall then be transmitted in full to the Minister of the Interior, provided no appeal shall be taken.  If such finding shall be that the election was invalid and the seat therefore vacant a new election shall at once be ordered by the said Minister.

While the Hawaiian Government is very anxious to have men arrested and incarcerated for a misdemeanor, at most, in their zeal to carry out the law, as in the case of Mr. Jas Gay, because he did not make return of his election expenses, how it is that no notice is take by the Minister in the case of the seat for representative for Hamakua, which has been declared vacant by the Supreme Court?

ON DIT

That the police in their leisure moments ought to haulina those mangy curs to be found frequently in the market and butcher stores.

 

That there is some fresh stock in town, ask the young bloods about it.

 

That some Honolulu ladies are born tired, too lazy to get out of their carriages to do their shopping,

 

That “Bonnie Bairn” has not yet revealed the names of the velocity opium shippers.  Oi-hoi-ha.

 

That the Board of Health has a regulation forbidding W. Cs. Within 100 feet of stream or pond, and yet between the King Street Bridge and Smith Bridge, Ewa side, there is one one long row of these erections, draining into Nuuanu River.

 

That Hawaii Nei can give pointers to the United States trusts as to cornering the markets.  “oh! Its such fun, such fun, when you know how its done” so sing the milk-and-water trusts. The fire insurance trust, the meat monopoly, the kerosene trust, the auctioneering monopoly, the whisky selling trust etc.

 

That the Advertiser’s theory of road making consists in starting at any point, it doesn’t matter where, so long as it is 5 miles from town, leaving the business portion of the city to wallow in mud or be smothered in dust.

 

That the reason why the Advertiser editor is so bitter against Mr. Paine manager of Hawaiian Tramways Company is because that gentleman declined to carry the Advertiser’s newsboys and reporters on the cars for nothing.  This is on a par with persecution of Johnny Bowler because he won a case in court against one of the Castle gang.

 

That the Bulletin on one side of its Friday last issue published a notice of the Board of Health notifying that all unvaccinated children must be vaccinated with bovine virus, and on the outside page of the same newspaper is a long extract from a New York paper headed “Tortured by Vaccine Virus” What is one to believe from this “Does the Bulletin if it believe in vaccination, and it is presumed it does, from its allowing the government ad. To appear in its columns, think it is “for the benefit of all” to publish such a blood curdling yarn.

 

That the Advertiser has been letting off another of its idiotic remarks about the necessity for making a road to improve the Queen’s recently acquired property at Punahou, in the vicinity of the Missionary School, and that the long suffering taxpayers are tired of seeing the money squandered on roads in the outskirts of the town like Kamoiliilii Road, the Diamond Head Road, the Punchbowl Road, the Tantalus zigzag in every direction except where the coin should be spent, viz:on the roads situated in the business part of the town.

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.

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 Govment, 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 moneys 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

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 sine 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 ruinous 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 execution and from seizure in bankruptcy proceeding.

SMALL FARMING AND HOME STEADS

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 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 devoted as soon as possible by 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 product of the soil to market.

ELECTORAL RIGHT

11.  We hold that upright and honest 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 the 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 restoring to the native Hawaiians privileges which pertain 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, 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.