Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 171, 14 ʻApelila 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

HARBORING LEPERS.

 

Six Afficted Chinamen Discovered

in the Center of

Victoria.

  OTTAWA (Ont.), March 20.--Word has reached here from Victoria of the discovery of six new cases of leprosy right in the heart of the city, which the Chinamen were endevoring to conceal. It appears that it became necessary for the municipal authorities to drive a large number of Chinamen out of their hovels, which were erected on ground required for the building of a market hall. The stampede disclosed the fact that six Chinese lepers in the worst stages of the disease have been dwelling with their countrymen in the vacated hovels. Two of them were subsequently found, but four of them are still in hiding and their friends refuse to disclose their place of refuge. Upon hearing the facts Deputy Minister of Argiculture Love ordered an investigation by the local medical officers and a medical expert, whom he dispatched to the Pacific Coast to follow the matter up.  The worst feature of the case is that the Chinamen who have been secreting these lepers do washing for the citizens of Victoria, and it is impossible now to say to what extent the disease has been communicated in this way among the white population.

  It is said that the first case of leprosy known in these islands was that of a chinese cook in Lahaina about 40 years ago. How many years he continued handling food, which probably carried the germs of the fatal disease to hundreds is not well known.

 

  About a year ago Dr. Schultz then government physician at Lahaina was requested by a police officer to see some Hawaiians who were convicted under the contract slavery law and then in jail. Among them the Doctor found two lepers--one a South sea Islander--in an advanced stage of leprosy--such cases are not uncommon, and suggest the question of whether, with our large chinese population would it not be better to have a house to house examination than relying on the haphazzard information sent to the local sheriff that so and so may be a leper, and by which a large number of people are now put to considerable annoyance through the ignorance or malevolence of irresponsible parties.

 

NO REPEAL INTENDED.

 

America's Treaty of Reciprocity

With the Hawaiian

Island.

  Collector of the Port T. Guy Phelps yesterday received the following circular from the Treasury Department at Washington:

                 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, }

           OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,   }

    WASHINGTON, D.C. March 14 1891. }

  To Collectors and Other Officers of the Custom: The following act of Congress, approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An Act relating to the treaty of reciprocity with the Hawaiian Islands," is published for the information of officers of the customs and others concerned.

O.L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary

  An act relating to the treaty of

reciprocity with the Hawaiian Islands:

  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congreas assembled, That nothing in the act approved October 1, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," shall be held to repeal or impair the provisions of the convention respecting commercial reciprocity concluded January 30, 1875, with the King of the Hawaiian Islands, and extended by the convention proclaimed November 9, 1887; and the provisions of said convention shall be in full force and effect as if said act had not passed.

  Approved March 3, 1891.

  The aobve has been published in the San Francisco press, but we fail to see how this act passed by the Congress of the United States can help us into any better position than, as the result of the passage of the McKinley bill, we occupied immediately before it passed. "The provisions of said (Hawaiian) convention shall be in full force and effect" but the bottom has been knocked out of it, and it will have to be considerably tinkered and patched up again before it can be of any service to the Hawaiian side of the house. As it stands now it is decidedly a sone-sided bargain.

 

HAPPY AUSTRALIANS.

 

A Decision Allowing the

Restriction of Chine

Immigration to British

Colonies.

  SYDNEY (N. Y. W.), March 20.--The decision of the Privy Council, allowing the British colonies to restrict the admission of Chinese, gives great stisfaction in Australia, where the subject has been a burning one for a long time. The provision by which customs officers are permitted to reject any immigrant, though tendering his poll tax, will be immediately extended to cover the Chinese, and will check the flow of Chinese immigration. It is expected that the Chinese Govennment will protest and appeal to the treaty between China and Great Britain for the protection of its subjects. But it is not believed it will get any more satisfaction than it did from the United States.

  The determination of the Australian provinces to restrict Chinese has now advanced to total exclusion. Thirty years ago there was only six know cases of leprosy in Australia, every one of which was a Chinaman. Now each of the seven provinces has its leper hospital for the segregation of its lepers, and nine out of ten of the inmates are Chinese and even the affliction of the tenth patient can be traced to Chinese contagion.

  Add to this the evil of the opium habit which was proved to be spreading among men, women and even girls of tender age, and we have the sufficient argument of Australia for Chinese exclusion without introducing the question of labor competition.

 

ONE MAN, ONE VOTE.

 

  One of the effects of the property qualification vote was to secure enactments which would enable members of the legislature and their friends to get possession of enormous properties from the public lands. The whole history of our land legislation has been to make it easy for the land holdings of the native people to pass into the hands of syndicates, and speculators, or those who already were wealthy and influential land owners; and it is beyond denial that by this means not only the present generation is improverished, but the rising generation is deprived, we could say swindled, by legal process, out of their birthright.

 

   The British government threw a cordon of protection around the natives of New Zealand by reserving to them tracts of land held on the tribal principle, which the natives cannot sell or mortgage. But scarcely had the ink been dry on the parchment by which Kamehameha the II partitioned the land to hsi people, than some pios morgager was ready with his blank and bait to hook in the kuleana. So the robbgery--legal of course--has gone merrily on, until the adventurous carpet-bagger hs secured the natives' land and as a consequence of his landless condition, the native himself is largely held in mortgage as a chattle-slave. by the said smart carpetbagger.

  "Because the good old rule

Sufficeth them, the simple plan,

That they should take who have

             the power,

  And they should keep who can."

 

  In the matter of transfer of property, things are changed more in appearance than reality since the days of Rob Roy. The "power" of the freebooter in the legislature has more ofthe semblance than the reality of honesty; and where he can club together to get a water right north $50,000 a year for a hundred dollars a year, or a valuable Crown land lease, or any of the hundred and one other means by which the political freebooter robs that vague personage known as the public, he does so with the white of his pious eyes turned up to heaven.

 

  But to the lands that are now left--whether government or Crown lands--every citizen has an equal share, and that right alone requires that every man should have an equal vote as to how they should be disposed of. To argue that property entitles a man to plural voting is to contend that manhood is a less qualification than wealth.

  Let us start a hereditary nobility at once, if we are to submit to this incorporation of the dregs of feudalism to remain in our "Reform" Constitution. "One vote for a ser--Two for a Duke." How does that echo? Not well, but then its there all all the same, and it has got to be changed to "One man, one vote."

 

ON DIT.

 

  That the Queen's visit to the country, will we afraid, not be very pleasant to her womanly weaknesses, and that her popularity among the people will only be proven by the manner in which she exercises her governmental powers, otherwise, we hear, she will receive the cold shoulder.

  That the Queen wishes to reinstate Dr. Lutz as Medical Superintendent of the Leper Hospital, but Carter, who Superintendents the Board, does not.

 

  That the discharged policemen are going to bring suit for their clothes, which was paid for from their salaries.

 

  That the Rev. H. H. Parker has opened the religio-politico campaign last Sunday evening, by a sermon condemning the LEO and its Editor as unchristian. besause it says things about them without a coat of varnish.

 

  That Rev. Parker's sngar plantation has proved as unsuccessful as his career as a preacher.

 

  That His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, is improving in health, and can be seen mornings and evenings taking an airing.

 

  That an alliance, we hear, has been perfected between the Minister of the Interior and the Superintendent of Road Works. offensive and defensive, called and understood as the dual alliance in the manner as that between Damon and Pythias, and that nothing short of a danamite bomb can break the alliance.

 

  That because Road Supervisor Hebbard said a revolution put him in office, nothing but a revolution can put him out, and that saying has reached Charlie. and his colleagues, and has scared the quartette. Good for Hebbard.

 

  That even abroad Uncle Sam's floating territor, the most popular litature read is that "Vocie of the People" (KA LEO).

 

  That orders from Hilo have been recived for the KA LEO in considerable numbers. Hurrah !

 

  That a new point has bee decided by the Hawaiian Court. When her Magesty goes out on ceremonial occasions, she must ride with one of her ladies-in-waiting, in the royal carriage drawn by a couple of ordinary hack horses, while his highness the Prince Consort must follow in a chinaman's hack dragged along by a third horse; for it is not "good form" that the Queen and her Consort should be seen together in the same carriage (return from Waianae). How would it be if "I" and the Queen were to go out together?

 

  That the Elele's ideal of fine literature for the moral education of the "masses" is the constant report in full of pugilistic feats; evidently according to that paper, the poor unsophisticated kanaka will never be "civilized," in the emerald's sence of the term, until he has learned the "manly" art of breaking is fellow man's nose and poaching his eyes.

 

  That the ladies in town,--and eslewhere,--declare that the LEO is the only readable and spicy newspaper of the Islands. (Hilo Record please copy) and their subscriptions go to prove that their opinion is earnest.

 

  That the Congregational Protestant pulpits and newspapers, editors and preachers thrown in, have been bought and hired for the election campaign, for a consideration. The Kawaiahao preacher an dpulpit started the game last Sunday.

 

  That the prematurely old Pastor of Kawaiahao took for his text, so we are credible infomed,--"And the Ka Leo o ka Lahui said that the young and rising m@i@ary generation had thrown off the mantle that disgused the action of their forefathers, having enough of the natives lands and money to stand competition with any new comers, they had been serving mammen openly." We are given to understand that he admitted the truth of the text, and excused himself for having taken par@in politics, and for admitting evil disposed people to shoot some of the natives which his father came here to save. The pastor in holding the door open for people to mount the chruch belfry and carry out his hellish design was only imitating Paul when he was looking on with a sardonic grin and urging the murder of the poor martyr--Stephen, for telling the then hyprocrites, just what the LEO is pointing out in the same way to the same class of sinners.

 

The Old Nick in Hilo.

 

  One fine morning in Hilo the police court was dispensing justice. It was a case of Sugar Co. vs Sref. A young lawyer, Mr. Huntsman, said that he wished to appear for the defendant. Then rose the plantation lawyer. Mr. Hitchcock, and said that Huntsman had no right to appear in the case; the defendant did not want a lawyer. The prisoner, being interrogated, said that he had employed the gentleman in question as his attorney. He was officially informed that he would have more pilikia on that account. He was cross examined, but persisted in saying that he wanted a lawyer. Again he was reminded that it would be worse for him. Then the judge asked the prisoner's counsel what plea he would enter in behalf of his client. Mr. Hitchcock aid th t t @e lawyer had nothing to do with it; the Japanese must plead guilty or not guilty. The opposing counsel insisted that, it being a civil case he had a right to speak for his client. The discussion grew heated; Hitchcock ordered the Jap to stand up; his lawyer told him to sit down. At this juncture Hitchcock's brother, the sheriff, rushed across the room in a cloud of profanity and seized the offending lawyer by the throat, and calling to the policemen, cried fiercely, "Another word and you go' to jail."

  After some difficulty Mr. Huntsman was allowed to leave the court roo m. As soon as he had departed the Japanese was quickly and expeditiously fined and the business of the court resumed.

  There is nothing remarkable in this incident; such things are comon in Hilo. Our reason for publishing that both the present Attorney-General and his deputy were present; and though they expressed their disapproval at the time, it appears that they officially approve of the botherly combination to prevent competition.

 

Olelo Hoolaha.

  Ke hai ia aku nei ka lohe i na kanaka a pau, o ka poe e makemake ana i mau eke paakai maikai a me ona nanahu kie we maikai a makepono no hoi ke kumuknai, e loaa no au ma Haimoe@, Hale Kaa o ka Moi, a i ole i ko'u home paha.

                 MRS. C. I. HIRAM.

Haimoeipo,  Honolulu,  Oct.  8,  1890.

3me--d

 

OLELO HOOLAHA.

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

Aleamai, Hilo, March 9, 1891.   43 w3ts.