Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 185, 4 May 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO.

Monday, May 4, 1891

 

NOTICE.

Copies of the Ka Leo O KA Lahui can be found every morning at both the News Agencies in town. Price 5 cents a copy.

 

SOLITUDE

LAUGH, and the world laughs with you,

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough for its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer;

Sigh, it is lost on the air; the echoes bound to a joyful sound,

But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoicing, and man will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all year pleasure,

But they do not heed your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all

There are none to decline your nectared wine,

But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded,

Fast, and the world goes by;

Succeed and give, and it helps you live,

But no man can help you die.

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a large and lordly train,

But one by one we must all file on

Through the narrow aisle of pain.

Ella Wheeler

 

ON “APPROPRIATE REBUKES.”

            The Bulletin of Thursday last, after patting itself violently on the back as the custodian of national virtue and the expounder of the moral code; intimated that the “San Francisco Chronicle of April 21 ^st . condemns the misrepresentation of Hawaiian affairs abroad.” and administers “appropriate rebukes to Honolulu editors.” With the joint aid of a miscroscope, an electric light, and a well peeled eye, we have failed to find in the Chronicle of the 21 ^st . any referen@@@@@@ from any Honolulu newspaper beyond the friendly notice of Ka Leo which we reprinted in our Fridays issue.

            Why does the Bulletin fail to report local news? events of prefound interest which are stalking  ‘round on @@@@s as ‘twere, begging some one to dish them up? Here is one at random.

            Just before the Duke of Waikapu sailed from Malaeaa Bay, a Maui Judge. Was bowled out by that lynxeyed Nobelman, and forthwith interrogated on a breach of the Rabbit Act.        

            The Judge owned up like any official caught red-handed, and lest the rabbits might be ferreted uot by a jury, he proceeded to deal summarily with the culprit and fined himself in the sum of $11.85 with three dollars costs. It was evident from the astonished expression of his countenance that he had expected a smaller snetence, and he was just rising to protest when he ordered himself to sit down. Then there was a lively struggle between himself in his private capacity and the other part of him, and the language he used was so violent that he ordered himself to leave the court instantly, and when he refused to go, and said he would see himself dashed first, and used disrespectful language to himself, he got so mad that he rushed down from the bench and started to throw himself out. In the combat which ensued he struck himself several times and got in heavily on his nose, but ultimately he lifted himself bodily by the hair and threw him-in his private capacity-down the steps and left him partially stunned and using strong language on the sidewalk. Then he returned and went on with the business till, afterwards hearing himself still cursing in the street, he sent the police out to warn him to desist, but the officer presently returned and stated that he had been unable to find him. He then instructed the captain of police to keep an eye on him. and in case of any further disturbance to rush in and drag him apart, and he further added that if he saw himself doing anything of the sort again he would fine both of him. A coolness has sprung up between him in consequence of these events, and that night when he was going to bed he assaulted himself violently when he was not looking and hit himself a severe blow from behind.

 

THAT UTOPIA.

            The following is from the P.C. Advertiser of Saturday, and indicates that the officer on the quarter-deck of the semi-slavery frigate on Merchant St. is “taking sights” in order to be ready for local “nostrum” labor paradox orators.

            “Yesterday, May 1, was the day appointed a twelvemonth ago for the great “Universal Labor Demonstration.” The idea was originally to hold simultaneous monster meetings of the handworkers throughout the world in every great capital and labor center, when the leaders of the various associations and combinations should speak and the assembled muktitude express their approval or the reverse of the various schemes so put forth with the idea of a speedy realization of the promised “Utopia” @@@

            Foremost among the topics is the difficult question of the relationship between labor and capital which, however perplexing to stateman, statist or philanthropist, is easily settled, in theory at least, by any average street and park orator, with usual nostrums, componded mostky of paradoxes and impracticabilities, seasoned with a few stale commons place and a good deal of a strong language.”

            How nice it must feel, to have been born a nice clean, sleek, well fledged Tory.

 

Our Hilo Correspondence.

Editor KA LEO:

            The people of Hilo have witnessed two wrecks this months. It was that th “Hilo Wreckord”, was not posted in its usual place, but as the glass case which held that delectable sheets was covered with a years’s dirt, people crawled up a little closer, but there was nary a ‘Record.” The poor thing passed from this world of sorrow last week; when last seen the Editor was mounted on a Missouri mule, with a bundle of manuscript under his arm bound for “Ho! for Boyamide!”

            Editor’s loss, is Hilo’s gain. Of all the crank editorials, nothing like since the “Nu Hou.” Why steer because the “City of Pekin” did not stop here on her way to China and carry off his surplus farming consisting of raspberries, rutabagas, and radishes, my, such gall was not heard of before.

            The bark “Amelia” arrived last week from the Sound with a load of lumber, consigned to one of our merchants. Because the native boys refused to work up to their neck in the water for a mere pitance the merchant and the captain discharged them all and succeeded in getting some thirty five prisoners from the sheriff. These prisoners were taken away from the Road Board, thus putting a stop to the excellent work the Boards was doing on the roads. I am told that all the sheriff charges per day for the prisoners is fifty cents.

            As Squeers says, “Here’s richness.” Is not this a nice state of affairs. This week, we see Hilo full of idle natives and Portugese simply because there is nothing for them to do., when the sheriff can let out the prisoners on private work to complete with free labor at such a low price. It is getting so now that the only way for a native to get work is to go to jail. Dischareging lumber in Hilo and in Honolulu are entirely different. Think of these poor fellows working up to their necks in water all day for fifty cents a day. It would be a good thing for the Marshal to order the Sheriff and his kind to try the job themselves at fifty cent a day. There is an old saying that the devil finds work idle for her hands to do, and if the authorities don’t be careful, somebody will get hurt.

            And here is another sample of the way they do thinks in Hilo. Two of our close-fisted citizens bought the wreck of the “W.O. Whitmore” for a mere song and coined money, by the operation. One might have thought that they would have given the natives and Portugese a chance to make a @@@@@@@@@, but no, the prisoners ever ready services, through the influence of the Siriff, who seems to take a hellish delight in doing so, were again permitted to be brought into use against honest labor. And not only that, but the town was placard with threatening notices of death and destruction to all who dared pick up a piece of wreck when thrown on the beach. We have seen some mean men in our days, but no think to equal these two fellows. Such work as this give just cause for bitter feeling to exist.

            What right, and by what just precedent.  does the sheriff let out criminal labor on pprivate woork against honest labor? There is plenty of road woork foor prisoners in Hilo and it is a disgrace and an intolerable piece of high handedness on the part of the Hilo authorities to permit such. It is to be hoped that the proper authorities will stop such dirty business.

            The office holders here are making great preparation to receive the Queen while the Hawaiians are looking on. In fact, so great is the anxiety of some of the haole officials to be at the head and get their work in, that they are tumbling over one another to the great amusement of the Hawaiian and Chinaman. It is said the Post Master goes to Maui as a committee of one to meet and escort her Majesty to Hilo. There are no flies on that ho@@er.   Yours.

                                                                                                                        HAWAII.

 

THE PORT SURVEYOR OF KAHULUI.

 

            Since the appointed of Wm. Place as Port Surveyor for Kahului, by the Collector General of Customs. Mr. Cleghorn approved by the Minister of Finance, the peculiarities of the man has been a theme for criticism.

            Is seems that these criticisms have reached the ears of those who put Mr. Place in office, and now they are endeavoring to blame one another for the appointment. Whichever way it is, no one can be blamed but the Collector General who gave him the position without knowing the man’s character and without having the courtesy to submit his nomination to the Collector at Kahului to whom the man was a perfectstranger.

            It appears that Capt. Trippp recommended Mr. Place and the man not belonging to the National Party was sufficient recommmendatiion in the eyes of the Collector General of Cuustoms for the position. We think that after such an exhibition, the Collector General had better resign and go to England as Governor of Maui.

 

A DOZEN MEN WHO CAN BE SPARED.

 

When woork is slack and busiiness dull the working force in an establishment must be reduced, the question arises, “Who can be spared?” And the answer is likely to include some of the following characters:-

1.       The man who occasionally gets drunk, unfits himself for labor, and is missing when he is wanted.

2.       The man who is afraid he will do more work than he get paid for, and who shriks, and idles, and loiters, and watches the clock, and always gets ready to quit before the hour appointed.

3.       The man who is backbitting and slandering his employer, trying to stir up strife, and make others as dissatisfied @@ he is.

4.       The man who lies, deceives, and has two faces.

5.       The man who quarrels with his fellow-workers,  and abuses and torments the weak and the young.

6.       The man who is more careful for his own interests than he is for his employer’s.

7.       The man who swears, and smokes, and defiles the whole establishment wiith tobacco smoke and tobacco juice.

8.       The man who “don’t care.”

9.       The man who is particular never to do any work which doesn’t belong to him.

10.   The man who will not lend a hand in an emergency to accomodate others.

11.   The man who is so tied by oaths and promises to some secret clan than he is afraid to do what is right when he knows what right is.

12.   The man who gets cross and neither fears God nor regards man.

            When these men are got rid of, business is likely to run more satisfactorily. But the men themselves uusuallly wonder why they are discharged, and try to raise  a tumult, start a strike or is some way revenge themselves on their employers.

            It is a good deal easier to keep clear of such men than it is to get clear of them. If men instead of rushing and straining every nerve to get wealth, and calling in every sort og ungodly and undesirable help to spread mischief thruogh their establishment, would do less business and be more careful whom they employed, and decide with the Psalmist, “ Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the Lord, he shall serve me,” they would save themselves much loss as they go on, and much trouble at the end.

-Safeguard.

 

ON DIT@@

            That a relation-in law of the Fren@@ is disgusted with high life and prop@@@ to go into the hack business.

           

            That Place got upset as soon as he got to Maui due to a weak stomach and to consequent weak knees.

           

            That Marshal Wilson has shown himself worthy of office.

           

            That the anxiety about the desired May day changes in the civil service severely tries the health and nerves of the Minister of Financce. It is so difficult to please everybody, mein Gott!

           

            That a huge mass meeting will take place this week.

 

            That signals from the smugglers ashore to those afloat have been going on for weeks past.

 

            That “hogomy” was committed upon two young boys by young animals called men, in the mission district of Kohala formerly under the direct teachings of pastors of the A. B. C. F. M.

 

            That the Sheriff of Hilo takes criminal labor from government road work and uses it to boycott free labor. That as a result the Hawaiians and Portugese laborer are vowing vengence against the administration for allowing this to be done-which is just what the Sheriff is working for.

 

            That a small sail craft dodged in one day into Thurston or Smuggler’s Cove, dropped a box overboard which drifted on to the beach; a native man and woman picked up the box and found 150 tins of opium, which they packed into two bags and threw into the sea when they saw two haoles coming out of a cab which then hove in sight; that the shore pirates hunted around for awhile and asked the natives if they knew of a box drifting ashore; that the native plead ignorance, and when the pirates left, dove after the opium where he and his wife had left it, and then sold the boodle and bagged the spoils.

 

            That the tourists to Mecca’s shrine are to be entertained at Waialae Ranch, by the genial Minister of foreign Relations. With the astute statesmanship of our young Premier, no fear need be entertained of a rupture of our foreign relations.

 

            That Thurston Cove or Smuggler’s Retreat will be connected by triangulation with the Kilauea House.

 

            That the P.C. Advertiser has only just found out that there is opium smuggling going on somewhere within a hundred miles of the officed, and is justly indignant about it; and that the Bulletin is mad because the Advertiser was ahead of that paper in maing known the tact.

 

            That “mammon is a Syriac word meaning riches. It is riches personified.” That it means that “Ye cannot serve God and riches.” How many of the richbrethren who profess to teach in our churches are willing to give up riches and trust God.

 

            That a change in the Chamberlains Office will suit both the Queen and the people.

 

            That a patrol waggon in the night is now very necessary. That the Marshal had better drop the opium schooner and look after the night hawks who disturb Beretania street at night.

 

            That suspicious looking craft that the Marshal was after was sent off Makena late on Friday night by the Claudine. This time she had a bout lowered.

 

            That the Hawaiians like the Chinese will no doubt learn, like the ther nationalities, the use of opium. That the Chinese have to thank the philanthropic efforts of England in forcing the deadly drug that unwilling nation; and that Hawaiians have to thank the philanthropic efforts of the gospellers in opening the way for the drug to be introduced among them. That the natives and their friends are of the opinion that the only way to check the hellish traffic is to license the sale of opium, or grow the poppy as the Chinese are compelled to do. That if this is done the good people will then step in with a long petition praying so that the business will be kept on as it is at present.