Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 219, 19 June 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO

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FRIDAY JUNE 19, 1891.

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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.

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"For the Good of the Country."

 

            We regret no to have heard from the above non de plume, before closing our career in English, but any communication from him in the future might still be useful.

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OUR EXIST.

 

            We regret to announce this morning that owing to unavoidable circumstances, we shall be unable to continue the English page of the reading matter in the KA LEO.  We have every reason to feel satisfied that during the short period that English has been published in the KA LEO, it has done some good towards correcting some of the evils and corruptions that have been tolerated in our community.  In endeavoring to do our duty as independent journalists, we have necessarily incurred the ill-feeling of many, but we are free to say, that we have had no other feeling in the matter than to do good, and to save those who were doing wrong and setting bad examples from a course that was injurious to themselves and the community.

            We have enjoyed persecutions in a few instances for being too outspoken in our criticisms of men in public life and their doings.  In our efforts in English, many may have thought that we were growing rich from the popularity and rather large circulation of our paper among English readers, -this is an erroneous opinion.  No daily can ever pay here without a large circulation and an extensive paying advertising patronage.  We have not had the advertising patronage and about four-fifths of our large circle of readers favored us with their custom by reading from borrowed copies of KA LEO, and who will, as is generally the case, be the first to miss the paper.

            To those who have patronized us and helped us, we would say, that we have labored assiduously late and early, at the desk and at the case, in the hopes of establishing a live and independent paper, intending to make a four page daily newspaper of the size of the KA LEO,  or at least two pages, if we could possible do so.  Our efforts have been aided by able and fearless writers, who have contributed their writings without any remuneration, being instigated more for the good of the public than for their own personal interests, other than what they can justly derive through good government and the general prosperity of the country.  To Those gentlemen, we public tender our thoughts.

            As we have said above, we regret stopping the English portion of our paper, because we sincerely believe, that, with past experience and our intention of doing what is right as an incentive, we could make and English paper interesting and useful for good to the community.  Being without the necessary means and help to go on, our good intentions have to be circumscribed to within the limit of our Hawaiian subscriptions and to pure hard work.  How long we shall be permitted to do this it is hard to tell, as it is very evident, from the numerous efforts specially directed against us by the missionary and moneyed parties in the community, it being the intention to muzzle the only free and independent Hawaiian newspaper in the Kingdom, and universally so regarded and supported by the Hawaiian as their paper.  How far this glorious puritanical spirit will be permitted to prosper in this country, it is very hard to prophecy, but no longer, however, we hope, that 1899, according to Lieutenant Totten's calculations.

            In retiring we thank our English readers, -who have still that spirit of freedom and justice in them to recognize our efforts - for their patronage and good christian feelings.

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LABOR VERSUS CAPITAL.

 

            The arrival of another horde of Asiatics recalls to mind the necessity, in the future, for the voters of this country to study well the character of the men whom they intend to represent them in the Legislature.  There is no denying the fact that the laboring man of the country was badly sold by nearly all the white men who were elected by them.

            The necessity for promoting the interests of the sugar planter, does not require that we should be flooded by cheap labor at the sacrifice of the future welfare of the country and its permanent population.  A continuation of the importation of cheap labor will simply tend to cheapen the labor to help enrich a few men, who are ready at any time, if necessity should arise, to leave in case of any future trouble.  Those who cannot help themselves and get away will have to take the results as they crop up.

            One of the effects of this immigration is the bringing in of men whose mode of cheap living will enable them to work for less wages, and thus force out of employment honest white and native laborers, that are permanent residents.  The rich is enabled to make everything at the cost of both our permanent and floating population.  All this is due to the legislature of the country, and no where else can legitimate remedy be obtained for this state of affairs, except by legislation.  Thus the remedy is in the hands of the electors, and the are the very ones who are being oppressed through their own negligence and want of honest effort to choose the right men to represent them.  A few months hence the laborer's opportunity will come when he can correct all this trouble.

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AN UNPLEASANT TRUTH.

 

            At a lecture given at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, by the Rev. Hammon, on Africa, the lecturer, after giving his hearers the benefit of this experience and travel, and illustrating them with a collection of mineral, birds and insects, he related some of the religious ideas prevailing among churchmen in the Cape Colony Settlement.  He said, he was once cautioned by a preacher for shaking hands with a colored man.  On a enquiring the reason, the doctor was told that it was degrading.  This feeling, of course, showed the true state with most of our professing christian preachers, which is noticed here in Hawaii.  The only difference that we saw with what the doctor related was, that there they were outspoken and honest in what they felt, while here they dissembled a little.  We regret to say these are some missionaries living in Hawaii nei, who differ from the Divine Example in his being no respecter of persons.  If it were not for appearances sake they probably would prefer to hold intercourse with a kanaka brethren at the end of a pitchfork.  The lecturer also stated that nearly all the deacons of the churches there were wholesale liquor and beer dealers.  This he went on to say may be surprising to his hearers as it was to him when he heard of it, but it was explained to him, that owing to the wealth of this class it was necessary to admit them as such.

            The church needed their help.  When the honest lecturer had said these things, he little thought of how many felt the rebuke, and how few perhaps was pleased to hear these facts openly stated.  The lecturer little knew that men, preacher, have been told in this community not to preach BIBLE TURTH but to teach what the congregation thought was proper, i.e., that they preferred the "doctrines of men" to the two-edged words of inspired truths.  Here we have in our churches for deacons - fat sugar planters, sugar coated agents and meld veneered lawyers, merchant and tradesmen, and occasionally a publican and sinner.  As the learned lecturer said, it all depended on the wealth and influence it brought into the church.  What a contrast indeed between the preachers of the gospel and the officers of Christ Church's of to-day, and those poor uneducated fishermen who the Saviour called.  There is quite a difference between the preaching and example of those who preach for a salary to-day and those who were called to preach salvation with out price.

            We are afraid that the gentleman's honest and unaffected preaching will relegate him, like others of the same stamp before him, to the more modest field of missionary enterprise in Fowler's yard.

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IS STRONG DRINK GOOD?

 

            We admitted for publication, a few days ago, a communication, favoring strong drinks, on the ground that our paper has been medium for the publication of any one's views, as far as we can conscientiously  admit them, although ourselves a total abstainer from all liquors, wines, and beers.  Every one is responsible for what he eats and drinks to himself and to his maker, and we do not believe that laws should be made in the matter of its use; but we believe that heavy penalties should be made against its use when the freedom is used beyond the sphere of the individual and detrimental to the peace and welfare of others in the community.  A man has a perfect right to get drunk, providing he does not invade the rights of others, and when he does, the public weal demands that stringent laws should be made to punish the offender for trespassing upon other peoples rights while exercising his own, and that law should be executed upon all alike.

            The quotations from the scripture, made by our correspondent, "Erin go Braugh," was given for the poor condemned culprit, and the wine which our Lord made at the marriage feast, is nothing like the Malaga decoction which "Erin go Braugh" probably takes for his stomach's sake.  Timothy is recommended to take wine by his teacher Paul, but not the wine that makes a man drunk, but the pure and unfermented juice of the grape.

            There are two kinds of wine mentioned in the Bible.  One of these was the pure juices of the grape, and was pressed into the cup as it was needed to drink.  Gen. 40:11.  It is this kind that is said to cheer God and man (Judges 9:13), and is dried up when the vine is destroyed.  Joel 1:10, 12.  The other kind was that which had stood until i fermented, and alcohol had formed from the decaying substance.  The kind of wine recommended by Paul and that made by our Saviour was that which represented the "pure blood of the grape," Deut. 32:14, not the impure, decaying, fermented wine that is recommended to the impenitent and condemned scoffer of temperance habits.

            Let us see what the wise man says, Prov. 23:31, 32,  "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.  At the last it bitch like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder,"  That is, when, in the process of fermentation, it may be seen moving from the bottom upward.  The original word here used -aright- means something upright.

            We could quote scriptures innumerable to disprove the idea that intoxicating drinking was urged or taught by the prophets, our Saviour or his disciples, but not he contrary.  We will take our won visual experience, and we have evidence enough to teach us that any material, the product of decomposition will lead to decay, -death.  It is always associated with "adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedations, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like."

Gal. 5:19-21.  This does not show that Paul recommended was the kind of hellish stuff they deal out as wine now-a-days, which leads man to do all these things.

            Now, if "Erin go Braugh" would only study scripture spiritually instead of spirituously, he will find that strong drink is not supported as good for God's creatures, but leads to a drunkards life and death, and as Paul again says, 1 Cor. 6:10, leads to a forfeiture of future inheritance, "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, no extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."  To show how far Paul is from recommending strong drink that will make drunk, he says in 1 Cor. 5:11, "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a formeator, or covetous  or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard.

            The reference to men's action and hypocrisy in their advocacy of temperance has no bearing whatever to the principle of true temperance with all its heinous vices.

            Our paper is always open to a discussion on any point or principle that affects the good of mankind.

J.E.B.

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SALES OF BUILDING LOTS

 

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

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            On Wednesday, July 15, 1881, 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 on-fourth cash and the remainder in equal installments payable in one, two or three years, with interest payable semiannually 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.

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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 pulehoakahi.  E kipa ae io.-

            A.J. SHREI@ -Agena

Alanui Hotele, malalo iho o ka Hotele Alonetona.