Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 167, 8 April 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

Official Tyranny.

 

            The Constitution under which our laws are supposed to be made edeclares that no person shall be arrested without due process of land.  How can the theory of the Constitution be reconciled with the practise in vogue every day all over the islands of officials arresting persons on the plea that some irresponsible person told the Sheriff or some on under him that so and so was a leper.

            This is how the protection of the glorious Constitution works for the Native.  Information is given to the local deputy sheriff by some person, may be – often is an enemy of any man or woman, to the effect that the person indicated is a leper.  The official then without any warning goes or sends a deputy to escort the indicated party to the Government Physician where they undergo an examination, which to a modest girl or woman is an abasement and humiliation, and should never be performed without a female relation or friend present.

 

            In four cases out a five the local physician does not hesitate to declare the perties so brought before him free from any taint of any disease.  The persons so examined are glad to be allowed to return to their homes and ask no question, but none the less it is a crying outrage that some ill disposed person has been enabled to indulge malevolent propensity, without any fear of legal consequences.

 

Betterment of the Laborer.

 

            A great truth frequently lost sight of is, that nothing in this world is final, nothing susceptable of adjustment for all time.  As in the fixed sciences the student never reaches a stage where he can say there is nothing beyond, so the social science struggle is as a very condition of progress incessant and perpetual.  The natural tendency of civilized society is towards betterment and it is through this law that the man who works for wages shall be endeavoring to better his condition through his employment.

            Every demand which labor has made since it became an organized force has been accompanied by an assurance that if it carried its point a finality would be reached.  But this has generally proved delusive, ans finality is still seen to be in the distance.  This is simply a natural law of progress.

            Whenever a class rests satisfied with what it has done and ceases to try to better itself, it stagnates and begins to retrograde.  If man of science were to conclude that discovery and invention had reached their limit of progress, the world would begin to decay and human activity would come to a standstill.

            It is only by constantly aiming at betterment that mankind can maintain its hold on the gains it enjoys.

 

            We hear that the Hawaiian Tell. Governor of the Leper Settlement, Molokai has to be satisfied with a third of what was paid his Anglo Saxon predecessor as salary.  We are only astonished that Tell gets even as much as that.

 

Parson Oleson.

 

            The irrepressible donimie with the “Rev.” prefix who volunteers to do the political bullying for the holy gang of Fort St., is again to the front.  In a letter to the Advertiser of Monday last the holy man takes that journal to task for publishing Sister Rose Gertrude’s letter to the Ladies’ Home Jounal, and has the brazen impudence to write, “Residents of Honolulu know well enough that that communication is misleading.”  Then follows the logic of the cheap and servile pedagogue: “If the * * * statements were cold hard facts were you justified in printing them,” etc.  Which reminds us of another antique pedagogue who set up on his own account as a cheap tribune named Dogberry.

 

            We suppost that in the exercise of that office by which Oleson came by the prefid “Rev.” he has in his time preached from Pilate’s words, “What is Truth?”  As a preacher of political terewth, when fact requires to be dexterously blended with fiction, we know Mr. Oleson best, as a failure and a howling frost for his party.

            Wearing as he does the livery of a wealthy man and feeling thereby financially proof to honest scorn, be probably deems it good and safe to shoop now and then especially when one of the faithful is touched – to make a showing for his screw.

 

            Evidently Oleson would like the holy guild of Fort St. – whose fugleman hs is – to have a censorship over the press, with himself as chief Inquisitor.  How lovely everything would go then!  What pleasant pictures we should have of Kalihi as a paradise when at the time it may be a very charnel-house.

 

            It would be a cold day especially for the submissive Hawaiian when men of the Oleson stamp have any considerable share in the management of the Hawaiian affairs; as for the foreign working class they find a ready way of dealing with the Oleson brood.

            To give Oleson honest advice on the subject of truth andmanaliness would be throwing pearls before pigs, the double iron of narrow sectarianism and servility has eaten into his soul.

            We congratulate our contemporary in the manliness of it shcallenge to Oleson to substiture proof for ineundo; an invitation which the holy dominie is in honor bound to accept.  We shall see.

 

England’s Future King.

 

            The Sydney Bulletin replies to the anxious enquiry of the Melbourne Age, “Will the Price of Wales ever come to the throne?”  Of course he will come to the throne if he lives long enough, and when the joyous event occurs the Age will burst out with a “loyal” leader, to the effect that all England is yelling the National anthem and the utmost enthusiasm prevails.  In what manner Tammy will get off the throne is quite another question.  Probably he will dissolve himself by the exercise of his own royal prerogative in reply to a deputation of 10 millions or 20 of his able bodied subjects, who will then raffle the Crown at a shilling a member and hand over the proceeds to His ex-Majesty less 10 per cent.  The government may be expected to give him a grand farewell dinner, whereat several dukes and things will express regret that the King business has been wound up, and the House of Lords is about to be turned int a coffee palace.

            The end of Tummy, in a monarchial sense is likely to arrive in a peaceful manner, with a grand fireworks display to follow.  But to suggest that he may not come to the throne at all is absurd.  How else could he pay his debts?

 

Italians in America

 

            For years the capitalists of the United States, especially those engaged in manufactures, have been importing laborers from the slums of Europe in order that the American workmsn might be content to live on a minimum while the boss makes haste to get rich.  The Italian element entered largely into the cheap labor thus imported, and in every effort of the United States mechanice and laborer to obtained better conditions, the Italian who was formerly imported under contract has proved a thorne in the side of American labor.

 

 

            The erection of the “Worlds Fair” at Chicago is a recent illustration of the imported Italian hampering the American workman.  The contractors put on non-union Italian carpenters at $2 a day when the union scale was 37-1/2 cents an hour.  When this state of affairs was discovered a delegation of carpenters gave them fifteen minutes to quit and those who did not move quick enough were thrown off the scaffold.  “The contractors have appealed for police protection” so we read, and as the labot laws of the United States like the same sort of laws here, were made by a majority of capitalists in their own interests, the contractors will no doubt hunt round to see if they can get enough Italians at $2 a day to finish the entire job, and would be entitled to call on the government for police and soldiers to protect them in excluding the America workman from employment on his own nations structure, until he can learn to fee his family after the plan of the cheap Italian, on maccaroni and stewed cow-heel.

 

 

            O oe anei kekahi i komo i ka ahaaina lele koali a Hukamakani ma o ka lae akulikuli?  Ina aole, e pono oe e komo koke, oiai, e nui ana ka lealea, a mea hoi makou hoonaue aku.

 

Hoolaha Hookapu.

 

Ke papa loa ia aku nei na kanaka a pau o kela a me keia ano, aole e hele wale e kiki i na ano manu a pau ma an palena a pau o ka aina o Halekou a me Kaluapuhi ma Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu, o ka mea a mau mea paha e kue ana i keia, e hopu is no lakou a hoopii ia ma ke kanawai.

MRS. C. I. HIRAM.

Haimoeipo, Honolulu. Oct. 8, 1890

3ms. – d.

 

 

OLELO HOOLAHA.

            Mai keia la a mau loa aku, aole loa au e hookaa i kekahi a e i hoopaa ia ma ko’u inoa, ke ole e loaa kekahi ae ana i kakau ia e a’u.  MJAES H. KAPAHU.

Aleamai, Hila, March 9, 1891  43 w3ts.

ON DIT.

 

            That government officials are liable to impeachment before the next Legislature for their arbitiary misapplication of appropriations; the Legislature specifies that number of clercks; their positions, and pay, the Freddy tries to ape Bismark and hold Legislature and Ministers in contempt.

 

 

            That a prominent German firm in Honolulu has an established regulation that none of its employees shall marry a Hawaiian girl under penaly of dismisal.  That is sour-krautz with a vengeance, sure.

 

 

            That the Finance Department has more machinery than any other department of the government, but the new motor seems to be always out of order, and need to be regulated.

 

 

            That G. B. J. A. C. and the three stags are going to start a new journal.

 

That a late Premier imagined himself an Admiral of the American navy and sought to have naval forces landed to protect him in his indefensible position.

 

 

            That Paul Neumann gets all the credit for the Japanese Immigration, but the public forget that Col. Iaukea and his secretary, H.F. Poor were the first to secure the assent of the Japanese gobernment to the immigration upon which all subsequent agreements were based.

 

            That the editor of the Bulletin had a stag party at his ho8use the other evening: that the stag had a lionel expression, but was cowed by the Texans quill and laid down a full hand of clubs: this stag is associated with two other unmated stag who are so timid that they one another keep under cover, but the whole now butting their brainless @iums against.

 

 

KUAI HOOPAU NUI.

 

 

Mai keia manawa aku a hiki i ko Makou hoonee ana aku iloko o ko makou

HALEKUAI HOU

Ma ke Alanui Papu, -(NA HALE BURUA.

E hoolilo aku ana Makou i ko Makou waiwai a pau o na ano Lole.

NA LOLE NANI, NA LOLE I HUMUIA, KAPU A ME PAPALE PAHU LOLE, a pela aku

No na Uku Hooemi Loa Nae.

Egan & Gunn.

ALANUI MOI kokoke i ke ALANUI PAPU.                      tf – d.

 

Hoolaha Hou!

 

B. F. EHLERS & CO., - Painapa.

 

Ua loaa mai nei ia makou he mau waiwai hou loa, ois hoi

KAKIMIA, KINAMU, KEOKEO HALU’A CHALLI, VIKOLIA KEOKEO

-           A ME NA –

-           Mikilima e na ano a pau, a me na paku puka aniani o kela a me keia ano, no na kumukuai haahaa loa.

 

B.F. EHLERS & CO.

Alanui Papu, Honolulu – 25 – d3m.

 

 

Ka Buke Akeakamai.

..... A O .....

KE KI GULA

NO KEKAHI MAU MEA HUNA PO H@ I HULUA E KA NOE AU O KE KANAKA.

 

 

KAKAU mua ia e ka Mea Hanohano

DAVID KALAKAUA a me kekahi poe e ae he nui, a i Hoouluia, Hooponoponoia, a Hoomahuahua hou ia e Levi-i-Levi ole ia ka Akeakamai Hawaii o ke Kenetura 19.

Mahele o ka Buke.

MAHELE I.

ZODIALOGIA – Hoike Ouli ma na kaulana Mahina.

MAHELE II.

NAEBIALOGIA – Hoike Ouli no ka Ila o ke kanaka.

MAHELE III.

METRAGARATIMA-Ka hoike Ouli ma ka Hoonohonoho Huahelu ma ka Helu Kabala.

MAHELE IV.

ONEIROLOGI.

MAHELE V.

Ka Papa Konane Hoailona Pomaikai.

MAHELE VI.

Ka Arimatika Kamahao.

J.M. POEPOE.

Mar, 26, 1891. lm-d.

Ua oluolu i ke Alii ka Moiwahine e kauoha e hoopukaia na Palapala Hooia malalo o ka Sila Nui o ke Auponi e haawi ana i Kona Kane ka Mea Mahaloia ka Hon John Owen Dominis, ma ke papa a ma ke kulana o ke Alii ka Mea Kiekie ke ‘Lii Kane me ke kulana mamua o na kupa e ae a pau.

Aliiolani Hale, Honolulu, Mar. 26, 1891