Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 421, 30 March 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO.

John E. Bush.

@una Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1892.

Editor KA LEO:

            The following will give the reader (who is not posted), some idea of the workings of prohibition in Des Moines, Iowa.

            "A visiting Christian gentleman, who spoke at the First Methodist class-meeting two weeks ago tomorrow morning, made the remarkable assertion, with sadness, that he had stood on a certain street corner with his host since his arrival in Des Moines, and counted over one hundred men and boys issue from a single drinking den, guiltily wiping their lips.  This he observed was a poor kind of prohibition and he inquired what sort of officers Des Moines has?  The sight of the men issuing from the den, was deplorable enough, but that of the youth was inexpressly sad.

            "The truth is, prohibition in Des Moines is a farce.  The law abiding people generally have no idea of the extent to which the vampires are burlesquing prohibition as a means of feathering their own nest."  Des Moines Mail and Times:  If prohibition is a good thing, why have so many States (some eighteen in number) repeal the law, after a fair trial?

MALTA.

 

WANTED, A REMEDY.

            That there is much distress among our working classes, nobody with open eyes can deny, and yet this country is one mass of undeveloped wealth; capable of sustaining considerable population on the products of the temperate and tropic zones, and leaving a surplus for export to the peoples north and south of us who are in need of them.  The series of article now appearing in the Bulletin on "Diversified Industries" as to what our soil and climate can produce, are practical and valuable as showing our capabilities and past neglect.  But the practical agriculturists is generally poor—that is moneyless—and in consequence cannot meet the exacting conditions of our capitalistic land laws and is therefore kept off the land.  "Keep off the land" has been the watchword of the monopolist all over these fair islands ever since sugar took root here.  The profits—the 140 per cent per annum dividends of such plantations as Paia—have been used to secure more land, and "field has been added to field" by usurous means until Maui, as well as other islands was fenced in by sugar monopolist.

            That a hungry man should be found in such a country as this is past the comprehension of a Zanzibar aboriginal unless he became versed in the sinuosities of the white man's civilization and the arts by which one white man can fence in the earth.  If suffering and possible trouble is to be averted in this country, the "keep off my land" laws will have to be modified:  the government as a first duty must point the people to the available lands of the people and give it to them for bona-fide settlement at a nominal sum.  This is our only hope, and no sane man of intelligence can doubt that it is the natural and obvious road to national prosperity.

            The aim of our sugar barons has been to become wealthy on Asiatic coolie labor and freeze out any one who wanted an acre of land.  The land question is just now of more moment than any other it is the question of bread, it is the question of settling a free population of European or American blood and helping the Hawaiian to hold his own in this fair land; the which of it is achieved, even McKinley and his tariff bill may be regarded by prosterity as among the avenging angels of a higher civilization.

 

A CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu, March 24, 1892.

            I, George Campton, carpenter, have been a resident of these islands for the last 14 years.  In the year 1891 I suffered from a cancer in the leg, and through the advice of a friend I had Mr. Lowell to see it.  I suffered the most excruciating pain and was confined to my bed for weeks, when Mr. Lowell saw me and told me he thought he could cure it, and to my utter astonishment, in one month from the time Mr. Lowell first saw it, it was cured.  It is now nearly three months since and has all the appearances of a complete cure.  In three weeks from the time Mr. Lowell first saw me I was able to go about my business.  Any one desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

 

JAY GOULD "TAKES STOCK" IN HEAVEN.

            The World to-morrow, in commenting on the gift of $25,000 to the University of the City of New York, will say:

            Mr. Gould fully feels that his identity in the things of this world is an affair of but a comparatively short time to come.  For this reason he is beginning to turn his thoughts from matters perishable to matters imperishable.  He has grown greatly in religious grace and farvor of late.  He is clearly and rapidly shaping his course towards actual membership with the church.  Very soon, indeed, after his return from his present trip, there will be an interesting ceremony in Dr. Paxton's Presbyterian church.  It may be a very quiet ceremony—almost, indeed, a secret one, but at its close Jay Gould will be a communicant with Dr. Paxton's presbyterian flock.

 

STREET TALK.

            Tom.  Any news B@?

            Bill.  Only about the new foundation.

            Tom.  You mean the Nowlein sand lots?

            Bill.  Y@ Sam's a great military engineer, and don't you forget it.

            Tom.  Yes, Sam's @ good at two things, drawin' @rks and salaries but as for a sand sojer I dun no, think their aint much @ in @

            Bill.  You should see Sam; one day, or evening, last week.  I got where I watched the game in the dark.  The boys had been confined to barracks for days and on this particular evening they had a case of gin—bought not a Sam's gin-mill—and the boys knew when Sam would be around and received him with open order and fixed bayonets and formed a ring with Sam in the center.

            Tom.  You don't means to say—

            Bill.  Yes, no, they didn't feed him, but they gave him liberty for the rest of the evening and he rode off and the boys enjoyed themselves.  Sam is not nearly so hard on the boys as he used to be when Sam Parker came over to quell a mutiny and found half the guards in cells.  The boys say if ever it comes to smoke and noise Sam will want popping up with some of the spare iron railings and a steel cuirass on his busterior, and in the event of General Nowlein getting dropped, the four ministers are willing to confer the rank of Field Marshal on the head of the police.

            Tom.  Why don't they offer the job to C. Burnit vigilante boss, or what's the matter with Sam Parker as Commander-in-chief?

            Bill.  That's all right, but Parker is a busy man and thinks the A. I. would be a better mark.  Charlie should know more about sand lots.

 

NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Not understood.  We move along asunder.

            Our paths grow wider as the season creep

Along the years; we marvel and we wonder

            Why life is life?  And then we fall asleep,

                        Not understood.

Not understood.  We gather false impressions

            And hug them closer as the years go by,

Till virtues often seems to us transgressions,

And thus men rise and fall and live and die—

            Not understood.

Not understood.  Poor sons with stunted vision

            Oft measure giants by their narrow gauge

The poisoned shafts of falsehood and derision

            Are oft impelled 'gainst those who mould the age,

                        Not understood.

Not understood! The secret springs of action

            Which lie beneath the surface and the show,

Are disregarded; with self-satisfaction

            We judge our neighbors, and they often go.

                        Not understood.

Not understood.  How trifles often change us!

            The thoughtless sentence and the fancied slight

Destroy long years of friendship, and estrange us,

            And on our souls there falls a freezing blight;

                        Not understood.

Not understood.  How many breasts are aching

            For lack of sympathy! Ah! day by day,

How many cheerless, lonely hearts are breaking,

            How many noble spirits pass away,

                        Not understood.

Oh, God! that men would see a little clearer,

            Or judge less harshly where they cannot see!

Oh, God! that men would draw a little nearer

            To one another, -- they'd be nearer thee,

                        And understood.

THOMAS BRACKEN,

New Zealand.

 

ANOTHER CHANGE.

            We hear that the decision of the Circuit Court sitting at Kau, in the case of Apiki, et al, petitioners, to annul the election for Representative for that district, has been given in favor of petitioners.  This opens the way for another chance for aspirants to Legislative honors before a new republic may be instituted.

 

ON DIT.

 

            That annexation and republicanism is getting very popular.  Oh, my!

 

            That the Che fa and Paka pio games will revive, as it will require the entire military and police force to keep an eye and ear open after Madam Rumor.

 

            That there must be a scared run-away around the Advertiser office who wants to get even with detective Wagner.  The books of the Station House show 100 dollars in gold coin as bail put up in his case.

 

            That Berger is composing a new piece to be called the "Sandbag Gallon" in which the Bulletin C Burnit and General Nonothing will perform a breakdown.

 

            That the Palace Guards are getting disgusted with only two hours of broken sleep in the 21.

 

            That the Cabinet orders to the Bulletin to ignore the sand-bag racket was obeyed to the letter, and was considered cool by the Palace war circle.

 

            That the people will demand to know if the Cabinet approve of such Sam-foolery.

 

            That Sam now feels sorry that fickle fortune made him a sojer and that he didn't stick to the Pacific cocktail, where the swindle though small was safer than sand-bags.

           

            That Misses Kenwill and Batchelor, who have generously offered to serve the Kauai Industrial School, without pay for the rest of the year, display a self-denial which should cause many of the wealthy Patriarchs of the garden Island to blush—were the sensation possible.

 

            That her majesty the Queen took her chocolate yesterday morning without a tremor, the assuring articles in KA LEO having acted as a tonic.

 

            That the American flag was waving from many a hand in adieu to @ds as the mail steamer left the wharf for the Golden Gate the entrance to the Father of the Republic.  That all it needed was the English Jack and the German iron c@oss.

 

            That two tons of dope has been landed lately in the vicinity of Honolulu, and like sugar the business is getting unprofitable.

 

            That Ben Savior sailed away for San Francisco with orders from the Bhoys for o @lag for the new republic.

 

            That as the Premier walked up the gangway plank of the Australia the Royal Maestro lead off the Band with "God save poor Sa@," a new musical composition by C. Burnet of the Bulletin staff.

 

MONOPOLIES.

            5.  We shalt use our efforts to @ laws by which all la@ in the government and all monopolies, trusts and @dvileges to special @ 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 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 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.

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 lands or parcelled to suit favorites, and snial 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 thereon of families of our present population,--and e@ialily 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 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 and international,--as to provide in all the districts, cheap means of conveying the product of the soil to market.

ELECTORAL RIHGT

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should consti- 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 sufficient sums to secure a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other Islands:  school, railroads and 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.

PUBLIC SERVANTS.

            @.  Better laws should regulate the Civil Service.  The principle of the @ government by the p@ should be @, and no man should be allowed to hold more than @ whilst @ compensation for the services render@.  All excessive salaries should be @ and all @ or superfluous others abolished.

PROTECTION TO THE LABOURING CLASSES

            9.  We shall endorse all measure tending to improve the @ of the working classes, and consequently, without injuring any @ rights, we will advocate laws to prevent all further @portation or employment of contract labor of any kind, upon @itions which will bring it into a ruinous and degrading competition with free Hawaian or white labor.  We shall @, in the interest of the better @ of the poor, ask for more liberal @ion @ their property from @ and from @ bankruptcy proceeding.