Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 263, 21 ʻAukake 1891 — A BRILLIANT IDEA. [ARTICLE]

A BRILLIANT IDEA.

Fiat Sacharrum, Ruat Cajiuml It is the first duty of the government tō fōster our chief induBtry. All that we now are and all 'we hope to be we owe to sugar. Tlie sugar magnates have long run jbhe government.

Nbw when tlie foundatione of the state are āhaken by the action of | our great ānd good friend in refus- i ing to contribute sonie miUions a to oūr five or six, mis|ionary inuiionaries, spmething must be done i'or the relief of capitalists. Th'ē X7niied States gives her planlers a bounty in plaee of the protection of the tarifL Eet us do likewiae, Let the next Legislāture mak« an appropriation to pay two cents. for pou nd qf sugar .• expcoecL The country ought to show thfit it is not ungrateful to its nob.le benefagtors. j The whiie people who. are still m the c©untry know the time is at hand when they inust make room for Asiatics. Why Bhould we part in anger? Better pay this last tribute to High and vM?ghty Acqui9itivenessv then start out to find sonie- eountry whfire tbe ejements are upt owned. Perhaps there is some remote corner t>f the globe where the rightsof Hogs are not eonsidered sacred, where men- may cultivate the soil, the fruits of his labor ftnd increase, multiply and replenish the earth.