Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 429, 11 April 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.

MONDAY, APRIL, 11, 1892.

 

Death of Judge McCully.

            It is with profound sorrow that we have to record the death of His Honor Lawrence McCully who for nearly twenty years occupied the distinguished position of a Justice of the Supreme Court.

            Judge McCully has been ailing for some weeks during which his old trouble, disease of the heart, has been gradually undermining life and the end came at seven o'clock yesterday morning, when the Judge passed peacefully away.

            In the death of Judge McCully the community has lost an upright Judge, a patriotic citizen, and the humblest person has lost a friend and helper.

SUGAR TRUST.

            The @@@ by th@ @@eamer Monowa, brings us little to cheer the hearts of our sugar-barons. The sale of the Philadelphia, Refinery closes out the last opponent of the Sugar Trust. The best evidence of what the trust will do in the future is the sudden fall in the prices of raw sugars and the rise in the refined article. In view of the concentration of power in the hands of the Sugar Trust our planters have very little to hope from the sugar market of America. It seems as if many of our sugar magnates, who count their wealth by the hundred thousands, and millions, will be shorn of their gains within one or two years. They appear to be utterly paralized to check the apparent doom that every one else saw was sure to overtake the sugar industry of the country as soon as the United States stopped the seven or eight million dollars she was given us @ a bounty.

            We quote the following from the S. F. Chronicle, which speaks volumes:

            In another column the Cronicle prints a dispatch embodying the views of J. Mott Smith, Hawaiian Minister to the United States, on the subject of what he is pleased to term "closer trade relations with the United States." With considerable disingenuousness Mr. Smith tells how the putting of sugar on the free list has destroyed the prosperity of Hawaii, and then he adds that Hawaii intends "to become, to all intents and purposes, so far as commerce is concerned, a State in the Union." Note that only so far as commerce is concerned are the Hawaiians willing to be one with us. That is to say they would be willing take from the United States about $7,000,000 annually as a bounty on sugar, without incurring any of the manifold obligations which the American producers of sugar incur by reason of their being citizens of States of the Union. The proposition is too ridiculous to deserve serious attention, especially as Americans are very doubtful about the value of the islands to the coun@@@@ should in our @@@@@@ of Ameri@@@@ @@@will not make a @@@ which would virtually amount to the making of an absolute annual gift of over $7,000,000 without giving anything in return.

HE SPEAKS.

            J. Mott Smith, Minister from Hawaii at Washington, is in the city on important matters pertaining to future relations between Hawaii and the United States. He will see a number of men interested in the kingdom and its sugar and rice products, and discuss with them the feasibility of bringing about a commercial union between this country and Hawaii. As the Minister tersely puts it, "We would not only like to have free trade between the two countries, but we desire to have relations commercially as a State of the Union. We were satisfied with the treaty until 1876, when the new tariff law went into effect putting sugar on the free list. If Hawaii had the same commercial relations to the Union as a State we would get; a bounty on our sugar and be happy. Putting @@ on the free list has virtually @@@ the treaty between the two countries. @@@@ for his opinion, and he answered in the affirmative. But our relations with this country are the friendliest. and we do not propose to take the initiative in declaring the treated abrogated, because sugar is free of duty. We propose to establish closer relations and become to all intents and purposes as far as commerce is concerned a State in the Union.

            "A few young men, American born, on the islands, dreaming that the United States would ever put sugar on the free list, went ahead and purchased plantations. I can instance some young men who purchased or bargained for three new plantations for $5,000,000. They will have to go to San Francisco to borrow money and try to @@ over the @@@@ distress. P@@@@@ there and many new enterprises such as raising pineapples and other fruits, oranges included, would be started. I know that California objects to our oranges going in duty free, but I do not think it would hurt the fruitgrowers of the Pacific Slope.-- Call. S. F., March 25, 1892 .

            The future of Hawaii lies with the United States. The natives are on the road to near extinction. In a generation more there will not be enough of them to maintain their Kingdom. Then the United States, being the nation nearest and most directly interested will take control. The Hawaiians desire annexation even now.-- Mascot. Si@son, March 24, 1892 .

WHY ARE THE MANY POOR?

            EDITOR KA LEO:--We live in a competitive society with Capital in the hands of individuals. What are the results? A few are very rich, some well off, the MAJORITY IN POVERTY, and a vast number in misery.

            Is this a just and wise system, worthy of humanity? Can we or can we not improve it?

            Kither@@ it has escaped condemnation only because we are so ready to accept established custom and because such general ignorance prevails both as to the evils to which our industrial disorder inevitably gives and as to our power to avert them.

            The competitive system, which leaves each to struggle against each, and enables a few to appropriate the wealth of the community, is a makeshift which perpetuates many of the evils of the ages of open violence, with an added plague of tricks of trade so vile and contemptible that words cannot adequately denounce them.

            What can be said in favor of a system which breeds and tolerates the leisured "masher," who lives without a stroke of useful work; the wage-slave workers, who toil for the mere mockery of a human life; the abject pauper and the Ishmael-minded criminal; -- which makes inevitable and constant a three-cornered duel of dishonesty between the producer, the middleman and the consumer?

            What is Capital?

            It is the @@@@ of production, and of the @@@@ @@of the work of @@@ years. Its use is to be found in devoting it to the benefit of all its abuse in leaving it in the hands of a few to waste its revenues in their own personal gratification. The present system gives to the few the power to take from the workers a huge portion of the product of their labor--the labor which alone makes fruitful the capital bequeathed by generations of social industry.

            What does it gives to the many?

            Their portion is poverty. This is the inevitable outcome of their competition for wages, and none know so well as the workers the full burden of that terrible and long continued demoralization which is brought about not merely by the poverty of a @@@@ by g@@@@. With the s@@@ of h@@ @@@ the poor are expected to display the greatest of virtues. On @@anty and uncertain wages they must stuggle to maintain the independence, self-respect, and honesty of men and women, and put by something for the rainy day that is sure to come.

            Let the least depression take place in the labor market and the worker is pitted against his fellow. The poverty of one is underbid by the greater need of another, and the competition for work reduces the highest wage of some and the lowest wage for all occupations to a pittance just about starvation point, at which the least failure of work or health leads to pauperism.

            This happens to nearly every worker; whilst the capitalist often retires with a fortune on which he, his children and his children's children live without useful industry. Instances of rapid fortune making are seen on every hand. The gambling spirit of the commerce of our time renders it easy, for men who regard gain before principle, to amass wealth. But where are the children of those whose work made the fortune? They toil from morning to night for a bear living as did their fathers before them.

            This ceaseless labor of the workers continually enriches those already rich until extreme wealth enables a privileged minority to live in ceaseless luxury, undisturbed by the struggle for existence that goes on beneath them.

To be Continued.

ON DIT.

            That the State Dinner was perfect -- the menu excellent except the turtle soup, which seem to have received a little too much water from a shower that feel just before the dinner began.

            That some one fearing investigation is burning up bogus pay rolls and vouchers and otherwise destroying all possible traces of fraud in the public service.

            That Frenchy was allowed time on the Water Works pay roll, at the same time he was receiving six dollars a day to watch and see that too much cement was not put in on the Waikiki Causeway Wall.

            That the Marshal's s@@te for the new Cabinet is Charlie Barnit Wilson, Interior and Premier; Curtis P. Iaukea, Foreign Office; Godfrey Brown, Finance; Cecil Brown, Attorney General.

            That Godfrey is very fortunate to be thus favored.

            That the the forty hired defenders of the Crown who sleep on their guns in the police court room remind one of a chapter in the Arabian Nights, with Warwick as Ali Baba. Kenvon, the Seer, can interpret this.

            That Warwick lately looks as if someone was praying him to death. "Uneasy lies the head that bosses a Crown." Shakespeare Hawaiian@sed.

            That the @@@ Immortalised @@@@ Marshal in sand and s@@-fa. Any cop caught singing it will be bounced.

            That the Missionary Ship Morning Star is in from her trip to the Islands. She arrived yesterday morning.

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

 

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY.

            2. Out of consideration for the inher@n rights and present ep@@@ of the native population we de@@@ tain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy,  @@@ a liberal and popular form of government; but our Treaties with Foreign Powers and y@@@@ with the United States of America, should be revised, @@ as to better m@@@ present a@@@@ and to obtain more equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.

JUDICIARY REFORMS

            3. Our Judiciary system and Code of Procedure must be submitted to a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice, free of all sectarian or @@@@ spirit, and to @ender the Judges more directly responsible to the People; and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and the press.

MONOPOLIES

            @. We shall @@@@@ laws by which all favoritism in @@@@ @ and all monopolies, tr@@@ to special classes shall be rendered impossible, by fail, @@@ and ma@@@@ statutes.

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

            7. We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries; @@@ our native products, like rice, @@@ wool, tobacco, etc. should be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of their 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 change 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 hands or parcelled to suit favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but as small farming @@ conductive 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 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 invading vested rights) should be devoted as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred upon @@@@@ settlers free of taxes for a limited period.

            It should be the further aim of government to, o @@@, 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 the upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should coa@@ 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 @@@ principles of rights and justice and must @@@ abolished. To this end, we will in@@@ @@ing of the present distinction of wealth and classes which blemish our laws with respect of the @@@ to vote our nobles, thereby re@@@ to the native Hawaiiana 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.

            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, which salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive @@@ should be reduced and all @@@ or superfluous @@@ 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 @@@ 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 or @@@ and from @@@ @ bankruptcy proceeding.