Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 161, 31 March 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

Australian Plantation Labor.

  In the sugar districts of North Queensland an agitation for the division of the colony into north and south is being maintained by the sugar interests.  The Queensland legislature which has its seat in the southern city of Brisbane, has legislated the importation of 'black labor' out of existence.  Recently the Premier, Sir Samuel Griffith has been making a tour of the North, where the sugar men demanded "that they should have full control of their alien labor;" in other words, that they shall be at liberty to again reopen the man-stealing business in the South Seas to supply them with labor.

  The Southern press and people are firm in declaring that the "blackbirding" trade is at an end, that the black question belongs to Australia and not merely to North Queensland.

  The planters had some hope of getting labor from Italy, but the Italians of Australia have united in a memorial to the Italian government protesting against their countrymen entering Queensland in any other capacity than that of free men, at liberty to choose their mode of living.

  Next in sight, as a plantation laborer, appeared the Lascars of East India, but the Indian government will insist on much the same protection and supervision that the same government intimated to the Hawaiian government in 1882 when the question of East Indian labor was considered by this country.

  To this, the Legislature of Queensland will not be a party.  The Sydney Bulletin says; "It is not a question of hating or loving the Lascar.  We don't hate him.  We love him - at a distance.  As interlopers amongst local white labor, we don't want them at all.  It is no question of love or hate, but merely one of protecting the right of our whites to live up to a free man's standard."

 

  The largest land-owner in the world is Russia's Czar, whose private landed estate comprises an area equal to nearly the whole of France.

 

  In North Queensland the plantations make most of the local rum which may account for the manner in which editorial complements are uncorked in that warm region. A cooktown editor describes his local rival in big type as "a prime sniveller, driveller, liar, uneducated blackguard."

 

  Bill Nye says Battenberg bolted away from home, because ma-in law used to employ him to rub her imperial back when she had the lumbago.

 

  The "loyal" British editor who fills his paper with joyous knowledge about the shirts and hair and hash of the aristocracy, is a weariness and a desolation.  He suffers from an incurable conviction that the solar system revolves around the pimple on a monarch's spine, and that the axis of the earth passes through his big coarse feet and that his sore ear is the principal decoration of Paradise, and when some superfluous potentate or his son or his eleven hundredth uncle is graciously pleased to pick his back tooth with a carving knife, he prints the information or telegraphs it over the earth.  Also he cables about the ointment that was used on the royal corns and appeals to the nation to bear up and meet misfortune with christian fortitude when Battenberg's dog's brother has got a cold; and if some royal flunkey has lost his deranged aunt he states that an unscrutable Providence has been pleased to inflict a heavy sorrow on the nation.  The following from London VANITY FAIR is a decent sample of this most awful sort of slush:

  "I notice that my contemporaries say nothing of the fact that Prince George did really dine with the Prince of Wales on the night of the first levee.  Prince George arrived at Marlborough House from Portland at 7 o'clock that evening.  Yet when VANITY FAIR said beforehand that Prince George would dine with his father on this occassion VANITY FAIR was violently contradicted in the usual fashion."

  And yet there was no wild crash among the stars, neither did the sun tear its hair, or the planetary system break its neck as it bolted in affright.  In fact nobody cared whether George raged like a devouring pestilence among his fathers hash, or whether he ate a pie under a tree, or consumed a carrot on top of the great pyramid, or assimilated a stolen hen down a coal-mine.  The paper that worries over things like these ought to buy a rattle or some candy to get washed by its mother and put to bed.  No wonder England is at heart, Republican.

 

  An Austrian warship is sent around the earth in search of a missing son of the Emperor,  Has anybody seen an Archduke?

 

Has anyone seen an Archdook

  Secreted in corner or nook?

  His name in Hawaii is

  Doultess an alias -

Possibly Simpson or Snook.

 

By his royal expression alone

  Can such a young person be known.

  If, like Nauki Poo.

  He adopts when on view

The disguise of a "second trombone."

 

If anyone drops on his nibs,

The hero of scandalous squibs,

  (With freedom and jollity

  Don't mind his quality)

Give him a dig in the ribs.

 

And say with a nod and a look

"You've got to go back my Archdook"

  Then write to his puppa

  "He's coming for supper.

The calf that is fatted, please cook."

 

DUE COURTESY.

  It is with pleasure that we print the subjoined letter, expressive of the warm appreciation with which the heartfelt outpourings of the Hawaiian People and Representatives towards the People of the United States of America, were received, and to mark the distinguished consideration, through the United States Minister here, her highest officials are ever ready to accord to the People of another country, no matter how small, without being a respecter of persons.  What a lesson this should be to some of our little politicians, whose regard for others is embodied in the amount of wealth they possess without any regard to any other qualification.  We therefore publish this letter with greater appreciation, as much as a lesson to the uncultured of our community, who see no good can be derived through any other source then through them.

U. S. LEGATION, HONOLULU, H. I.

March 27, 1891

GENTLEMEN:

  I have received communications from Hon. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, Washington, from the Governor of California, and from the Mayor of San Francisco, warmly appreciative of the Revolutions adopted by native Hawaiian citizens expressive of thanks to the people and government of the United States, for the kindness shown the late King Kalakaua during his visit, sickness and death in California, and for bringing back his remains to his country in the Ship-of-War "Charleston."

  I am truly your obedient servant.

JOHN L. STEVENS

E. E. & M. P. of the United States.

  Hon. John E. Bush

    "     A. Marques

    "     R. T. Wilcox

   "      D. W. Pua

  Mr.  J. A. Kahoonei

   "     C. W. Kamaile

   "     J. Kanui and others.

 

ON DIT.

That the Marshal is in harmony with the movements of royalty.

 

That "we." in the future political talk, myself and the Queen, who will make the tour of the islands in June.

 

That a game of Pedro was interrupted in order to be created above all my other subjects.

 

That the opium cove was not visited by royalty, as was announced by the organ of the owners of the Cove and the Volcano (House).

 

That for long and faithful services.  John Owen Dominis, has been created a Royal Highness and placed above all my other subjects - poor subjects.

 

That all the Chief Clerks have been honored, except Henry Smith, presumably because he is of the same nationality as the Queen.  This is merit versus favoritism.

 

That Her Most Gracious Majesty was wrongfully accused of being a haole hater and partial to her countryman, but on the contrary the facts are vice versa.

 

That when Marshal Wilson sticks up for what is right, without fear or favor, the KA LEO will always support him, notwithstanding that he is a haole.

 

That obstruction to the policy of the party in power, on the part of subordinate officials, is held elsewhere as sufficient cause for immediate removal.

 

That we hear they are three republican syndicates at work, which reminds us of the growth of lantana, pleasant for the eye, and deceptive to the touch, and impossible to weed out.

 

That a pension should be made for the Sheriff of Maui for long and faithful services, as the service requires a younger and more energetic man.  The new regime reneeds young Hercules' to make clean the Augean Stables.

 

That it is well-known that the country will receive a new Prince, who was born of honest Scotch parents, but as his services has neither been as faithful, nor as long to Her Majesty, as the late creation, he will simply be dubbed a Highness.

 

That necessary changes are imperative in the Police Department on Maui and Hawaii, and that we hope that the Chief of the Department will not be daunted from the discharge of his duties, through favoritism or family influence.

 

That for long and faithful services:  Messrs. Pinehasa Wood and H. Kuihelani, were not created Princes, but were fired out of the Privy Council, to make room for Her Most Gracious Majesty's personal friends.  This is to make a greater distinction between merits and demerits in late distinctions.

 

That all the appointments, so far made by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Liliuokalani Kamakaeha, have been all foreigners to wit.  For the Privy Council: J. O. Carter, J. S. Pratt, W. H. Cornwell, C. R. Wilson, and R. F. Bickerton.  Honored with medals: W. H. Whiting, Charles Spencer, Frank Hastings, Charles Creighton, Jas. Smith, and by a mistake Samuel Parker.

 

  Mai puiwa oukou e na makamaka i keia kakahiaka, oiai he moolelo hou ka makou o keia kakahiaka, e nana ae ma ka aoao ekahi oia okoa no a e ao.

  O ka elua keia o ko olua mahuka ana, e ao olua, hana hou aku, ku a hele loa ilaila, aohe nana no kauhale.  Malama, mai hookuli o eha.

 

I na Luna Lawe Nupepa a pau.

  Ke poloai ia aku nei oukou apau hookaa pono mai ma keia keena i na @  o na Nupepa i na Poalima a me na Poakahi, i ka mea nona ka inoa malalo iho, aole hoi ia ha'i aku.  E like me ka nele mai ia oukou, pela no e nele pu aku ai ka nupepa.  Ua hana ia keia rula i mau ai ke ola o ka maka a me ka Wahaolelo hopo oie no ka'oiaio a me ka pono o ka lahui.

J. E. BUSH.

Luna Hooponopono Nui.

 

Hoolaha a ka Hui Kaa Ahi.

  UA HOOHOLO KA HUI KAA Ahi i ko lakou manawa holo, ma ka la Sabati ae nei, Feberuari 18, 1891.

 

EHA MANAWA HOLO ILOKO OIA LA.

KA MOLO ANA A HOI MAI.

                                               A. M.                P. M.

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W. G. ASHLEY

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