Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 435, 19 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.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1892.

 

THE VILLAGE CHOIR.

Half a bar, half a bar,

Half a bar onward!

        Into an awful ditch,

        Choir and Precentor hitch,

        Into a mess of pitch,

        They led the Old Hundred.

Trebles to the right of them,

Tenors to the left of them,

Basses in front of them,

        Bellowed and thundered.

Oh, that Precentor's look.

When the sopranos took

Their own time and hook,

        From the Old Hundred.

 

Screeched all the trebles here,

Boggled the tenors there,

Raising the parson's hair.

        While his mind wandered;

Theirs not to reason why

This Psalm was pitched too high;

Theirs but to gasp and cry

        Out the Old Hundred.

Trebles to the right of them.

Tenors to the left of them,

Basses in front of them,

        Bellowed and thundered.

Stormed they with shout and yell,

Not wise they sang, nor well,

Drowning the sexton's bell,

        While all the church wondered

 

Dire the Precentor's glare,

Flash'd his pitchfork in air,

Sounding fresh keys to bear

        Out the Old Hundred.

Swiftly he turned his back,

Reached he his hat from rack,

Then from the screaming pack

        Himself he sundered.

Tenors to the right of him,

Trebles to the left of him,

Discords behind him,

        Bellowed and thundered,

Oh, the wild how they wrought;

Right to the end they fought!

Same time they sang but not,

        Not the Old Hundred.

--Audre's Journal

Hon. Geo. E. Richardson.

        The death of Judge Richardson, of Maui, makes vacant a place among his countrymen, which cannot be readily filled from among them. He was a man of natural abilities and with the advantages of our local schools, he succeeded uncommonly well in private as well as in public life. For a one of an independent disposition, and ever in the interest of his fellow countrymen, it can truly be said, he has won, -- what few who stand in that unenviable position in this country, has failed to accomplish, --the esteem of foreigners beside that of his own people.

        Mr. Richardson was a man of liberal views and high and noble aspirations. He died leaving a widow and children, and a brother and sister, in whose memory he will ever be lovingly remembered. Our personal sympathies are with his family in their hour of bereavement.

Annexation a Comparison.

        The wide gulf which separates the industrial masses, and especially the native Hawaiian from the class who have procured the monopoly of land and water in the country, has divided us into two nations. Practically, this country is, and has been for the past yen years at least, annexed to the Planters Labor and Supply Co. An examination of our Statutes will prove that all our legislation for that period is based on class distinctions and the result is a conflict of interests which is not promising to the peace and good order of the commonwealth. Let us take two illustrations in order to compare the social and political status of the working classes under the stars and stripes, and under the Hawaiian flag.

        During the last five years every vestige of the law relating to importing contract labor has been repealed in the United States, during the same period in Hawaii, the chains binding the contract laborer has been drawn tighter, as witness the Fugitive Slave Act of 1890, under which the Pactolus cargo of coolies were let loose. Then again, look at the condition of the poor in this country under the action of a Police Court judgment or a levy for rent.

        Here everything even to tools, can be swept away by the Sheriff; not even a bed would be left, for the debtors children to sleep on. How differently an unfortunate poor debtor is dealt with in California. His homestead to the value of five thousand dollars and his household furniture and tools of trade and horses and vehicles used in his business, are exempt from forced sale. We need not refer to the imbred determination of the few monopolists here to whom this country is practically annexed, to fill it up with Chinese or any cheaper coolies, until there shall not be standing room for a Hawaiian or European laborer.

        We would rather see our country exist as an independent nation, and it could be so if the elementary conditions of a well-ordered state were present; but they are not.

Another Failure.

        The dredger, generally known as the "Charley Mahope," was drawn under cover of the Light-house, and of Saturday's midnight sable darkness, to be once more tested. The sea was smooth, the men engaged on board the nondescript craft. worked like demons, flitting here and there as displayed to sight by the light of keeper Williams lamplight, and working with the will and strength born of hope that the "galled jade" would only work sufficiently long to cover the needed approval that would place the elephant officially in the hands of the Minister after whom the leviathan is to be hereafter known, and the ducats placed from the government sack given in exchange. But, sl@@@ an iron beam, several pieces of iron in the bottom of the sea, (so they say) struck the mud-fans and away went the hopes of the contracting parties to the dim mahope. It was due to this unfortunate circumstance that the whistle from the dredger was blowed on Sunday night as a funeral dirge.

THE ELECTION MUDDLE.

        The election at North Hilo has brought out another point of interest, among others, in the manner in which the elections are manipulated by Government officials to the detriment of the Hawaiian voter. It seems, as we have often stated, that the whole aim of the powers, whose duty is to carry into effect the laws of the country, are to defeat the law and to substitute in its stead their own selfish notions. Our Government cannot be better illustrated to-day in the way its several functions are being carried out than by comparing the same to that quadruped of the genus Eguus :--the head and tail representing the executive, its propelling powers, the administration, the judiciary system the spirit that gives animation to the whole beast.

KA LEAIALII O HAWAII.

        On Monday last another Hawaiian daily was issued, named as the above, meaning in English "The Crown of Hawaii." It flies for its motto love of Soverign, Country and People. It is evidently a Tory of the rankest kind, from its motto, and from royal patronage displayed in its columns, and the names of royalists on its stock subscription. We have had on intimation, ever since the election of February last, that something of the kind was to be inagurated in defense of sovereignty; and the causes that produced the sand-bag scare, has succeeded in giving birth to a full fledged Tory fledgling. We congratulate the Queen, in having her admirers start a paper in her interest, though evidently scared out of them.

ON DIT.

        That for glorifying a marriage and eulogizing the dead, please apply to the Bulletin, as that paper has the exclusive right to joy with the living and dissemble with the dying,

        That since the loss of the benefits of our sugar interest, under the McKinley Tariff Act, H. P. Baldwin has had a morbid desire to personate the life of such characters as "Haman." attributable no doubt to disappointment, at the loss of the generous gift which the U. S. people gave to our sugar planters by which false hopes were entertained of accumulating things where moth eat and rust doth corrupt.

        That the lamented death of Geo. E. Richardson leaves a vacancy in the Circuit Judgeship of Maui. That is has been common talk for some weeks past, that his successor is already selected. That such haste in the selection of successors still living officials, in anticipation of their demise, is indecent, but none the less characteristic of the present regime . That the person whom Dame Rumor names as such successors, is not fit for a judicial position, because of his past and present connection with opium fiends and gamblers. That if the government persist in appointing him, they may expect to bear something drop.

        That while "Haman" was fittingly represented, in Bradbury's cantata at the Makawao Church, "Mordecai" was no less well personated by Mr. Dickey. We can imagine the satisfaction, inborn as an actor, that lit up the countenance of Mr. Dickey as "Mordecai," after having suffered and rolled in ashes before the Palace of Abaserus, to see his enemy Mr. Baldwin, hanging by the neck, with ten of his lunas, representing "Haman" and "his ten sons." The piece was undoubtedly very lifelike and well presented. Maui has talents in this respect that would go well together with Thurston's panorama of Kilauea, to be exhibited at the Columbiah Fair; scene and actors dancing in the burning lake would draw well, and attract more tourists to our islands to see the m@@@ and matural phenomenas of the kingdom.

        That our little country has, advanced more in fashionable civilized life in the past few weeks, than at any like period before. if judged by the number of murders, infanticide, suicide, moeklohe, burglaries, accidental deaths, AC.

CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu, March 24, 1892.

        I. George Campton, carpenter, have been a resientd of these islands for the last 14 years. In the year 1891 I suffered from 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 has confined to my bed for weeks, when Mr. Lowel saw me and hold 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 dusiness. Any one desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

Platform of Principle

of the

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION.

      1. We deem that all Government should be founded on the principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; we hold that all men are born free and equal before the law and are endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to propertp, to the pursuit of happiness and to self-protection against arbitrary concentration of power, irresponsible wealth, and unfair competition. We believe that just government exists only by the consent of the People, and that, when it becomes necessary for the public welfare, they may abolish existing forms and establish more advantageous and equitable system; and, as the present Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was established by intimidation and fraud for the benefit of a certain class, therefore, we favor the adoption of a new and more liberal Constitution, to truly secure a Government of the People, by the People and for the People.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

        2. Out of consideration for the inferno rights and present opinions of the native population, we desire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy, under a liberal and popular form of government; but our Treaties with Foreign Powers, and y@@@ with the United States of America, should be revised, so as to better meet present necessities and to obtain more equitable advantages in exchange of these 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 pat@@@ spirit, and to render 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

        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, @@@ 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@@ 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 hands or parcelled to suit favorites, and small farmers and @lanters 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 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 the @@@ of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should @@@ 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.

        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 @@@ 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 @@@ 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 @@@@ bankruptcy proceeding.