Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 215, 15 June 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

MONDAY JUNE 15, 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.

 

THE PEOPLE.

 

            Living in the United States one hears the word “people” pronounced with nearly the same respect and intonation as the word sovereign.  There the people are sovereign. All political power rests near where it originates – the people.  It is true that two men are more honest collectively than either separately, except always they be accomplices.  The selfish, sordid, motives of individuals in a way cancel each other in communities of men.  Very few men could be found who would separately give up their lives and fortunes to rescue negroes from slavery; but tens of thousands were ready to sacrifice everything for the principle of human liberty.  It is the people and the people alone who have ever shown any real love of abstract right and justice.  And every reform and every step in the line of human advancement has had its origin in a sentiment of the popular mind.  Great ideas and noble thoughts have come from isolated individuals who have usually suffered for them; but nothing has been accomplished until it has taken root in the slow brain of the average man.  The masses have a sense of right and justice which is usually quite obscured by self, but let self be illimated and the moral sense will show inself. 

 

            For this reason the people are the safest trustees for all political power, and also because they are the real source of that power.  Suppose it were a question of electing a justice of the supreme court, an office that, it is usually held, should be appointed and be above the influence of public opinion.  If he is to be appointed by the sovereign how many influences for evil may have full play.  The individual preference of the King or his prejudice may determine the nomination.  Money influence, influence of favorites, a word whispered in the bed-room; a thousand unhealthful influences determine the choice.  And the nominee is more likely be and continue an intreguer than if selected by any other method whatsoever.  But suppose the elective power rests with four men, the cabinet, will not the chances be diminished for any utterly unworthy individual getting in.  The members though seperately willing to put in their own man will object to the choice of the others.  They will say he is identified with a church or commerced interest, he is a man of no ability, he is a man of shady record.  So a certain selection of the least objectionable must take place.  But for the planters or any strong faction it is an easy thing to buy or influence four men.

 

            Suppose the power to elect were in the legislature it would usually happen that only a few votes would be required to determine the result.  The kind of men who came to our legislature are eminently purchasable, the candidate himself might buy enough votes to elect him.  Amongst the petty politicians of legislative assemblies political jobbery and corruption exists.

            Suppose again the power to elect were in the hands of the people, and a free press were at liberty to give the fullest information about the candidates.  No man whose reputation were not spotless and whose attainments were not respectable would dare to come forward and stand as a cadidate before the country.  If he belonged to some aggressive or narrow religious, politiccal, social or commercial faction no matter how rich or powerful, he could never receive a majority of the votes.  To bride or influence a large body of men is impossible.  Five thousand dollars will buy a legislator, but it will not purchase enough votes to elect an unpopular or unfit man.  Wholesale bribery is wellnigh impossible with the secret ballot.  The man who is mean enough to take the small sum that a single vote is worth, is mean enough to vote against the man who paid him when he is in the little box where no one can see.  Bribery must be very unsatisfactory where the buyer can never be sure that he gets what he pays for.  Let every officer and every servant of the government high and low be elected by a popular vote, and we will have an end to corruption, favoritism, nepotism, persecution and intestinal disorders. 

 

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

 

            Since the reduction in the profits on our sugar industry, those who are engaged in the business are only now seriously studying retrenchment.  The necessity for doing so is imperative since the operation of the McKinley tariff law.  We believe, among other things, that the question of labor is one of the most vital that has to be studied by our sugar planters and others interested in the prosperity of our main industry.  The planters experience is ample to enable him now to run a plantation successfully.  They are nearly all free of heavy debts, have less to pay in interests and commissions, and the majority have the best machinery known for taking off their crops.  Excepting for the change in the tariff on sugars in the United States, our sugar planters and plantation owners were in a fair way to become wealthy. 

 

            Now the scene changes, the profits has suddenly stopped and we are all beginning to suffer in consequence.  The question arises, what is to be done?

 

            Cheaper labor has been the planters cry in order to avert final ruin.  The government has done all it is authorized to do by law, and we have now a large labor immigration pouring into the country.  But unless this labor is properly used, it will not be of very much benefit except to a few.  Forced and unwilling labor never can be made profitable, to either master and servant, nor to the general good of the country.

 

            We are of the impression that what seems to be hard to our planting and commercial interests at present will be the very means of bringing about a cure.  Necessity is a hard school to submit to, but in the end we hope it will redound to our prosperity.

 

DIED AT HILO

 

            Professor H.R. Hitchcock died at Hilo on June 6th.  This gentleman was born at Lahaina July 22 1845.  He was the second son of the Rev. H. R. Hitchcock, who was located as missionary for many years on Molokai.

 

            The deceased was a man of ability and considerable energy.  He was one of the most energetic and successful Inspector General of Schools, that we ever had, and it was during his time that many standard school books were rendered into Hawaiian and printed for use among the schools of the Kingdom.  He was the author of the English-Hawaiian dictionary, an invaluable work in which he took a great interest to have published especially for the good of the young Hawaiian.  The deceased was well liked by the Hawaiian.

 

ON DIT.

           

            That Mr. J. J. Williams proposed to pay $25 to any one who will identify the person that mistook himself for Mr. Williams on the 11 ^th of June last.  Mr. Williams only wants to get his camera pointed at the fellow, -- that’s all, -- somebody else will attend to the rest of the business.  Chance for a cheap photo.

 

            That a respectable young man is “anxious” to find employment and he says, he is alive and not dead, and can be heard from by communication addressed “Anxious,” Bulletin Office.  Desirous of being a “Good Samaritan,” we take the privilege of urging some one in need of a young man to try “Anxious,” as it is so seldom that people are really anxious for work in this climate.

 

            That our Mr. Barnes has returned from China and Japan not with a cargo of opium, as some of the wags on Maui said he probably would, but with an elegent choice, and large variety of silk handkerchiefs, which he offers to sell cheap at the Corner of King and Fort Street, opposite E. O. Hall & Son’s, Ewa side, to any one who will call and see.

 

            That Superintendent Wm. H. Tell of the Leper Settlement at Kalawao is reaping favorable opinions from the Lepers for the humane way in which he treats the sick and for the clean and healthy food they get.  This is one step in the right direction.  The next is to provide a humane Board of Health.

 

            That people are complaining because there is a scarcity of water, and are ready to blame the Superintendent of Water Works as the cause of all trouble.  To be abused is a part of official life here and every official must expect more or less of it but the blame in this instance is not due entirely to Mr. White, not being a prophet he can neither pray to stop or to bring rain, in fact he has forgotten how to pray.  The trouble might possibly be explained by scientists.

 

SALES OF BUILDING LOTS.

 

            On the Corner of Pensacolo St. and Wilder Avenue, Corner of Thurston Avenue & Green Street and on Prospect Street.  Honolulu, Oahu.

 

            On Wednesday, July 15, 1891, at the front entrance of Aliiolani Hale, at 12 o’clock noon, will be sold at public auction 13 Lots on the Corner of Pensacola Street and Wilder Avenue, 2 Lots on the corner of Thurston Avenue and Green Street and 5 Lots on Prospect Street, varying in size from 158x200 feet to 81x150 feet.

 

            Upset price – Varying from $200 to 400 each lot according to size and location.

            The terms and condition of sale will be cash or at the option of the purchaser, one-fourth cash and the remainer in equal installments payable in one, two or three years, with interest payable semi-annually at the rate of seven per cent per annum.

 

            The purchaser may within one year from the date of purchase enclose the land bought by him with a good and substantial fence and lay on water from the Government pipe.

 

            Royal Patents will be issued for the land upon final payment of the purchase price.

 

            A map of the Lot can be seen and full particulars learned at the Land Office.

 

            Streets have been laid out and graded and water mains have been or shortly will be laid adjoining all of the above Lots.

 

C. N. SPENCER.

Minister of Interior.

Interior Office, June 15, 1891.

215-4t

 

700 DOZEN LADIES’ Silk Handkerchiefs

 

IN ENDLESS VARIETY,

 

From $1.75 to $3.50 per Doz.

 

These goods were never before Equalled in either price or quality.

 

Cor. Fort and King Sts.

 

(NEW STORE).  215-2w.

 

OLELO HOOLAHA.

 

            E ike auanei na mea a pau, eia ma ka Pa Aupuni lio o Makiki kekahi mau lio; hookahi ho kane, hao kuni[d] O F, akau, lae kea wawae keokeo 4; hookahi lio wahihe, lae kea ulaula wawae keokeo hope hema kiko keokeo hope akau, hao kuni JK.  Ua komo mai keia mau lio i ka la 11 o Mei, makahiki 1891, a ina aole o kii mai ka poe nona keia poe lio alaila e kuai kudala ia aku no keia mau lio ma ka la 2@ o Mei.

 

J. KALEI,

Mei 19.   Sts-d.

Luna Pa Aupuni.

 

Ka Buke Akeakamai

 

A O

KE KI GULA

KO @ EKAHI MAU MEA HUNA PO@@@@@ I HUL@@ E KA NOE AU O KE KANAKA

 

            KAKAU mua ia e ka Mea Hanoh@n@ DAVID KALAKAUA a me kekahi poe e @ he nui, a @ Hoouluia, Hooponoponoia, a Hoomai@@@@@ hou ia e Levi-i-Levi ole ia ka Akeaka@@@ Hawaii o ke Keneturia @.

 

Mahele o ka Buke.

MAHELE I.

 

ZODIALOGIA – Hoike Ouli ma na kau lana Mahina.

MAHELE II.

 

NAEVIALOGIA – Hoike Ouli no ka I’a o ke kanaka.

MAHELE III.

 

METRA@@RATIMA – Ka hoike Ouli ma ka Hoonohonh@ Huahelu ma ka Helu Kahala.

 

MAHELE IV.

ONEIROLOGI.

MAHELE V.

 

Ka Papa Konane Hoailona Pomaikai.

MAHELE VI.

Ka Arimatika Kamahao.

 

J. M. POEPOE.

 

Papale!  Papale!!  Papale!!!

 

            E loaa no maanei na PAPALE maikai o na ano a pau.

 

            Na Papale i Hoonaniia a Hoonani ola ia.

 

            I loaa ole ka lua ma keia Paeaina, a no na la hoomanao Kuluia, e loaa no ia oe ma na kumukuai haahaa.

 

            I na oukou e kuai i na PAPLE ma ko makou halekuai nei, alaila e loaa no ia oe ke kaulike.

 

C. J. Fishel.

 

 

 

 

 

Ka Hui Uwati Kaleponi.

 

            Na uwati gula o waho, hoopiha ia, me na mea hana o loko, o ka hana uwati kaulana WALTHAM, no $30 o ka uwati hookahi, ma ka uku palua dala o ka pule hookahi.  E kipa ae io—

A.     J. SCHREIBER—Agena  Alanui Hotele, malalo iho o ka Hotele Alonetona.

 

Hale Kuai Wati Nui HELU o No C. Ah Kau.

 

KA oi o na mea Gula, na DAIMANA, na POHAKU MOMI makamae loa, na WATI GULA, na WATI DALE & C. @ @ o kela a me keia ano na lako wehi GULA a me DAIMANA, na KOMOLIMA GULA a me DAIMANA, na WATI nunui ano hoa loa o kela a me ke ia ano, na PUPANAPANA a me na lako e ae e pili ana.

 

E hoomanao e na makamaka, o keia AH KAU no ka mea nana i hana na WATI a me na lako GULA oi loa o keia Aupuni, a i kamaaina ma kona hale mua i noho ai ma Alanui Nuuanu Helu 37 mamua, a oiai na hoolilo aku oia i kona kuleana malaila, na wehe ae nei @ he hale hou ma Alanui Mei na Waikiki iho o ke Keena o ka @upepa El@@, a oia no hoi ke Keena oihana mua o ka l@@@ Alahao Hawaii.  E loaa no na mea a pau e pili ana i keia oihana me ka emi loa, a o hana hou ia na wati @ me na lako gula me ka hikiwawe a me ke emi loa.  E hoouna mai i ua @ ma ka Pahu Leta Hele @@@.

 

            E naue nui mai, a e ike no oukou iho.  O na mea hou loa wale no i ike @ @ @ ia ma Hawaii nei.

C.Ah Kau.