Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 418, 25 March 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

KA LEO.

John E. Bush.

I una Hooponopono a me Puuku.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1892.

JAY GOULD'S "STOMACH"

Late exchanges tell us that the railway magnate is a sick man and his stomach can now hold nothing stronger than warm boiled milk and that his aesophagus has shrivelled up to dimenstions that are abnormal and hopeless.            Think of it, a millionaire with all the luxuries of life at his command unable to eat!  What a commentary on Wealth - so called. Time was when Jay Gould could and did swallow a whole railway and his stomach held gall enough to defy justice and corrupted courts and legislatures, and when at last driven to bay his then cpacious stomach was made to disgorge nine millions of dollars, which was but a small portion of his plunder.       Jay Gould is a wrecker and robber of other peoples fortunes, has carried on his famous career since 1870 almost unchecked.  He had robbed more widows and orphans than any living man.  As a dishonest gambler and thief he stands on record without any equal, and this is the only capacity in which as an American citizen, the name of Jay Gould is known the world over.  If the anathemas of victims driven to poverty, and the contempt of honest men had the spirit power to shrivel anything, surely it would be easy to account for the contractions of Jay Gould's gizzard.    But Jay Gould is about to be enveloped in the white robe of Presyterian sanctity.  The railroad robber has been dividing with the Church by helping "Church exstension" and Dr. Paxton, the eminent Presbyterian divine, says his "home life" is lovely, which reminds us that the Italian brigand generally makes the sign of the cross before he cuts his victims throat. The spectacle of Tetzel selling indulgances (which fired the seal of Luther) had some palliation, inasmuch as for "the ease and grace done for the rich," part of the fees was held for the poor; whereas under the rule of Presbyterian Paxton, the "converted" magnate will be received with open arms and no questions asked beyond a "declaration" of belief in teh faith according to Dr. Paxton and his fellow @ worshippers. The spectacle of a rich highwayman who escaped hanging, or a life long residence in prison, only because of his audacity and power to corrupt, being received into Church fellowship is an immoral spectacle for young men, and only confirm the common impression of men as the @shame character of a great deal of the self styled "Evangelical Churches."  It is simply a modern made of selling Indulgences.

Wanted a Land Policy.

The most pressing want of this country is a land policy for the present crisis.  We must devise some means of arresting the exodus of the desirable agricultural class who are burrying out of the country and the first point that suggests is to hold out stronger inducements that our Homestead Act offers for the settlement of families upon the land.  In certain of the South American republics not only is the land given free to bona-fide settlers; but help is afforded by the state to enable them to persevere until they become self-supporting.  In some States a bonus of two and a half cents is given a year for four years on each coffee tree planted, adn the State is in a measure recouped by a light export duty.     The government should at once reduce the price at what it is offering Homestead land to the lowest point to which it can stretch its authority - even to give it away in order to induce settlement.  The public can safely be trusted to approve such a policy, and it may be safely said that the Legislature can not do other than ratify it.  The fact that a number of the legislative nobility, who are prominent land sharks, may feel affected thereby, is nothing to the public.  It is a well known fact that only a few out of a large number of lots are taken up and the condition of things demands that the fancy prices set for such lands shall now be reduced to the lowest figure.

SOCIALISM, WHAT IS IT?

(Continued.)

The communistic idea was long kept alive by the Church, being inculcated on the rich in the form of alms - giving, and fully embodied in one of her most remarkable institutions - the Religious Houses, with life and goods in common, and the surplus goods to the poor.  We find too, the early fathers of the Church, St. Jerome, St. Basil and others denoucing riches as robbery.  And all throughout the ages of the Church's grandeur and power we find her saints speaking communism, the Church not condemning; although she herself, in her collective capacity, partly from respect for the estalished order of things, partly because she profited by the institution of property, leaned to the side of the rich and powerful in the great social quarrel which went on intermittently.    In truly catholic and comprehensive spirit she combined communism with private property in herself; in equally catholic spirit; though not quite in the spirit of the Founder of the Church, she gave her benediction to rich as well as poor; taking a care however to make the former pay in return for the ease and grace done to their souls, some equivalent part of which she held for the poor.  In the dark ages in the long struggle of the strong among @ and individuals, the Christian ideal was wholly inapplicable outside of the monastery, but as part compensation the poor and the helpless were cared for by the Church, that is those of them (comparatively few) who were not serfs to any lord, nor had any means of livelihood.  When Feudalism was fully established, society assumed a hierarchical gradation of classes, the strong man at the top as lord, the weak and conquered beneath as serfs.      The serf labored so many days for the lord, so many for himself, pretty much in the same order or may be seen on our Hawaiian Crown Lands.  The mendicant or pauper class, the lacklands and lackalls were not comparatively numerous.  In the town the craftsmen were associated in guilds which protected the interests of their members.  Society was stable; men were fixed relations to other men, and though there was higher and lower, strong and weak, there was little dissatisfaction; the morrow and its food was sure to all even to the destitute few.         During the decline of Feudalism and after it we find a different state of things.  Society became again fluid and disorganized.  We find risings of people in England, France, and Germany, the three leading nations, risings of the "commonality" in England.  Peasant wars in Germany, Lacquerie in France, from the same common cause in each case, and we find the commoinistic phrase in the mouths of the leaders.  For two hundred years in England, from the rising of Wat Tyler in 1381 to @ , society was unstable and liable to these soial commotions; in England all throughout the century of the Tudor Sovereigns we find repeated insurrections of the people to maintain their rights to the land; rising against the practice of "clearance and enclosures" by the great landowners.  The rising against the practice of clearances of turning arable into pasture land, and driving away the cultivators, was plainly an attempt to deprive the tillers of the soil of the means of life, and against the attempt of the landlords to exercise absolute right of property in the land which they never really possessed and could not be permitted to exercise at the cost of the existence of the people.           The strong Tudor Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII took the part of the people in this fraud and attempted by statutes to check the practice, though with only partial success.  One permanent social result followed from these practices together with the confiscation of the property of religious communities, namely:  a great increase in the destitute poor , so great that @ a permanent provision had to be made for them, and a new communistic institution in the shape of Poor Lands was devised in place of the old communisitc institutions dissolved.  The great increase of the poor and the hardships roused the pity and sympathy of Sir Thomas More who in his "Utopia" goes back to the communism of the @, and in some reports of Plato's Republic as the only radical care.            (To be Continued.)

ON DIT.

That sense of the big children made very improper use of the Band Stand in the Palace Grounds on the night of the State Ball week ago Thursday.  Babylon is falling.

That a Royal Box for the Executive and her guests, at the corner of the Palace yard near the hotel, would be the proper thing to enjoy the Band concerts at the hotel premises.

That the morals of the community is again retrogressing because our articles on social evil were discontinued.  If the social evil continues, for the safety of the City from Sodem and Gomorrah's doom, we may be obliged to call the wicked to repentance and turn them from their evil ways before it is too late.

That certain married ladies were seen driving together one moment, and a few minutes after pairing of with a couple of yellow jackets with blue buttons.  We expected a repetition of the Hetherington affair here, but it appears that the effect on the climate is more soothing and forgiving.

That the steamer Kinau and Likelike saw a hermarphridite-brig supposed to be the Grecian craft called the Lycurgus, with a whale in tow.  It is said she is stuffed with "stink pots," such as is used in Chinese pirate-junks, which the brig uses when approached too near by uninvited guests.  Ua hiki no!

That the government is seriously thinking of arming the new dredger and of sending her in tow of the "Alert," to seize the @ strange craft.  The officers and crew are to be well paid for fear they will be hipnotized by the stranger.

The Admiral Bowler and Captain Cook will each take the Akauni and the Kaimiloa and @ of the fleet, with the Alert, Commodore Rice, and the new Dredger following @ in charge of the Risdon Iren @ in case of repairs.

That Reymond Grove will offer grand inducements to our young people to play the "missing link" in the Darwin theory during the sable cover of night on the occasion of the Arion Picnic.  No doubt the chance will be embraced by the free thinkers.

That a young woman while driving fast around the corner, nearly came in contact with a cab coming along hotel Street, and seeing the danger, instinctively cried out "Oh! mamma!" at "G" hard.

That our World's Fair Commisioners met at two o'clock yesterday and discussed the feasibility of transplanting @Osybee wth Madame Pele and her suite of high kickers to Chicago, not excepting our @Perger and his Royal Hwaiian Band, all under the care and supervision of the Chief Clark of the Interior Department and Adjutant General John Brown as bearer on the Past, Present and Future of the Hawaii not  @whose  @ is beyond impeechment.

MONOPOLIES

5.  We shall use our @ by which all @ and all monopolies, @ to special classes, @ rendered impossible, by full, definite and mandatory statutes.

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, @, our native products.  @ rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc. shold be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulations and also it must be the duty of the Government, in its contracts and other @, 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 developments 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 Services.  The principle of the creation of officers of the government by the people should be established, and no man shold be allowed to hold more than one office of profit, while 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 any 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 @farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but as small farming is conclusive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead pact by which the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement thereon of families of our present populations - 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 a vested rights) should be developed as soon as possible to homesteads, and conferred upon bona-fide @ free of taxes for a limited period.         It should be the further aim of government to, at once, so far improve the means and transportation, local, national and international, as to provide, all the @, cheap means of conveying the product of the soil to market.

ELECTORAL RIGHT.

11.  We hold the upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should @ right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be @ to the ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man.  The determination in favor of wealth now made in our Constitution is contrary to all the eternal @ of right and justice and must be abolished.  To this end, we will favor a @ of the @ distribution of wealth and classes which blemish our laws with respect to the right to vote for nobles, thereby referring to the Native Hawaiians privileges which pertain to them in their own country, and of which they have unjustly deprived.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

12.  We favor the expenditure of @ to secure a number of @ public improvements on @:  school, @ and harbors and wharves, public @, and also @ system, of reservoirs and water works, not only for Honolulu, but through-out the other islands.