Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 256, 11 August 1891 — The Masses against the Classes. [ARTICLE]

The Masses against the Classes.

\ r t,he prea»r\t form of governinenl in this country ehal! hf»ld to« geth*r until the Wednesdav in February, 1892» thero will then t>ecar an election of Nob]es and Itepresent»tivsB of die People,. Those then electedy tegetheff with ihe hoM-over Nobles dow in ofiiee ? wiil c(institnte tke Le£iBlatHre $or a period of two years fro«Q the date of tbeir eleetion. 11 it» r»ot too early to discern the •*Jrift of polHieal sentiment whieh will dominate the c;wipaign. and it reqnires no peer to observe the oollime of the field npn»n whieh the will be fought. Beyond doubU (unl«sg tfee presen)fc indica~ t;o*is 9h&ijMbe4iBttsrbed by loeal eoii; va] or Boaaetfeifjg unexpected i n o«r foreign reiaiions). the war-cry of tbe campaign will be, in the agai&st tlw ciasse»/' īt is appareat that the rich and roling chM|res have carried their policy of plonder to Btich lengths that the p2undered {and who bave uot beea plundered by theoi ?) i»Q6t now stand shou!der to should-, er. if thev would aroid being ground with politieal pōwder. The ,4irrepregsible conflict" between wealth and poverty has proceeded to a rfi*ge in Hawaii eei. when a decii?ive grapple is itiovilable and imij?ent, and woe unto those whose *feaehery and greed have precipitai?d this condition.

The preying of the rich upon the )>oor has been ceaseipss and heartiess in Hawaii. Those Who eame t> our shores in the long ago, with the Book of Truth in their handB, a,nd ats text» upon their lips, prot€9ting thedr devotioo to the spirit®al iotmste of tl»e Hawaiian. did not kng ecmtinue wHh an eye single to the \aytng i*p of tr€«6ure in Heaven. Tb* decl«ree it impo<»Bible to at ouee sen*e<iod and Mammon. If that propogition be accurate, of the onginal mis:sioi»ftri«. and a2i of tbeir descendantu ultitnateiy renounced the serTice of God, —st least they entered, and have since continue«l in the «nthusiatie service of Mammon. Tfee Hawaikn is. or ivaB. unsuspectin& attdlWitftiJ ofand toward th« white Juiesionary, and thoj?e who have, in litnr t yeare eame from abroad to their bright shoreB. The uiisfiioiiariea and their descendftnts promptiy recoßnized «nd proceede«i to pmfit, (in a wrdly way) by this f imp!e characteri«tic of tlio ownere of th« eoiU In t||6 proce*s of a few years we find that the godly eoinVpany who eame hfpe ostenpibly to peap a barve«t of gou!s for the Lord, have conducted thc I«tter avocation, if at all, merely us an ineident of the more congenial tark of harvesting and vorrall;ng the )ands of the un6ophi."ticatvd native. " Against alī decl«n"iatior,B of thc i> ous gnild and their apolopial®, whieh teek to deny or rt-fnte the /oiVfzt ;ng ;iFserticnB, tht-re »rc cer-

tain wKieh^ ghost, will rt dowfs ? * at their biddinp. Among ihem are tfecse — that the miB6!dnaries ar-1 rived bere poor; and ni.«\terial wealth of tlie country were by the njfKves, no4 #ftēr a lapae of a few decades. such of Ihemiffcionariea as remj»n, and almostt nithout exception, their descenda ntP, are rich. — pome ofj them enormously «o: the lands of| TTyē~lvingdom have been — j from the ftboriginees until eompa-1 rativel v few of thetn own the roofs ! that sheiter thein; those wbo'hftve | taught the sinfui and distrseting tendency and infiuence of woridly I w£altb, have relieved th» HaWalian i6f danger from «uob candiuons. bv j | taki«g urito themselveB {they be- ] iiig 4>etter equipped for the burdeti ) | the wealth that el»e tiBd crusbed out from the native sonl the true | spiritual eseence, In brief to-day i i the luis?ionaries, tbeir descendant£ v and secular eo-plunderers own practically all t!je !and. and are neh, — i while the Hawaikn owns uratic-: a!ljr none of the soil, nnd is in i |wiv€rtv. Jt seems to *ts that the &bove facCs will i»t*ieast an fnferehce. \Ve know penal i?tatute whieh forbids one to drjiw j an in£ercnce Uan such inferenCe i he favorable to the godly guild ? f The conditione above sketched, have inevitably resulted in the for* I mation of v, classes" interests I are at war thoge ot" the u njas- i ses." Tue latter. (by no meaas| confined t« Hawaiiane, but coinpriB- - thou.sands of while foreighere) have awakened to the fact that their verv ffeedom from Berfdoui 1b now; involved, and that tbe few seores ōf! wealthy mi>at be un- j equivocally i; downed» w —and thp.t ] at onee.—if fieedom is to be more | than a phrase in Hawaii. # ; Henee, 111 the coming campaign. ] the thousands of plundered poor | willbe banded togcthf>r in honds; more strong than ever| emith has f>rged, to Mtrike a deei- j sive hlow against the ]>connge to | whieh the combination of thegodly j and ungod[y rich woula subject! them. |