Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 405, 8 March 1892 — Platform of Principle OF THE HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY. [ARTICLE]

Platform of Principle OF THE HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

3. Our Judiciary system and Code of Procedure must be submitted to a thorought revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice, free of all sectarian or patisan spirit, and to sender the Judges more directly respossible to the People, and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and the press.

MONOPOLIES 5. We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, <illegible> and (illegible) to special classes shall be rendered impossible, they will, definite and mandatory statues. PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES 7. We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, and <illegible> our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc, should be protected and fosterd by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Govment, in its contracts and other opera tons, to give preference to national products over imported one. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT 8. We desire a more liberal policy towards the different Islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should rechive 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 I call improvements of a public nature. PUBLIC SERVANTS 6. Better laws should regulate the Civil service. The principle of the elecion 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 <illegible> compensation for the services rendered. All excessive saladies should be released and all sine <illegible> or super<illegible> 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 Hawa ivan or white labor. the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemption of their property from forced sale on ex ecution, and <illegible> seizure in bankruptcy proceeding. SMALL FARMING AND HOME STEADS 10. The wealthy fraction of our popularion have hitherto prevented the developmeant of an independent class of citizens; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands <illegible> <illegible> to suit favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but small farming is condecide 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 coun-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 devoteed as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred upon <illegible> settlers free of taxes for a limited period. It should be the further <illegible> 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 <illegible> 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 to them in their own country, and of which they have been unjustly deprived. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 12. We favor the expenditure of sufficlient <illegible> to <illegible> a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other islands; school; railroads and <illegible> and <illegible>, public light, and also a <illegible> <illegible> of <illegible> and waterworks, not only for Honolulu, but throughout the other Islands.