Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 274, 7 September 1891 — WAILUKU WATER. [ARTICLE]

WAILUKU WATER.

For years past the town of Wailuku—whieh is situated be]ow the sugar mill —has been receiving its water supplv through the conduit of an onen ditch into whieh every abomination of dogs and other uncleanness could wallow —in fact it was no better than an open sewer. As a consequence the mortality of that part of the town was high and fiucceseive inedical men have for years animadverted on the state of the water supply. The Legislatnre 4)f 1890 passed an act toremedy the -eviL Ohap. ss. of that sessioni3 en--titleu an act "to establish and regulate the Wailukn Water-Works." The government yent i supplv of pil,>e and a staff to Wailuku to eoinmenee work. but the Minister of In»' terior has heen warned bt the Manager of the Wailuku Bugar Oompan\% that said company owns all the water 'in lao' Yallev—ahout ionr miles fron> the town, to dn-ert the whole w;»ter eour>e by a <iit<;h to be r.onstrueted on the Waiehu side of tlie stream. If the people of Wailuku eannot do without water so mueh the worse for theni, and i? all the sugav plant-ations elsewliere elaim to own sll tlio water ulso, we do not see that theve is anywhero around a gugar plantation where the Wailui people ean move to, and be anv better ctf. The Minister says he did not iaow when the pipo.< were ordered, t"iat thn whole of the water belonge 1 to iho plantfttion: aml secrct, V?ry soeret rum »r sa\v, that the new 3finistor of Finain*e says tho

i govemment had better let the Waii luku Plantation have all the water or they might serid in a bill for a million or so for the water consum~ ed by the thirsty Wailukuans in the past in whieh they had no right. What a bappy people we ought to be with a minister who looke carefully to what might happen to the Treasury for water consumed in the sweet gono-by; while another tells the people to wait, in the sweet mahope they might get water, Here is another illustration of missionary hypocrisv. The owners of this plantation eame here on the contributlons of the church miseionary box, and received from Kamehameha lIĪ land for a livingfor the missionarv and his suceeseors in the missionary service in Wailuku, and never intended to go to any heir in the fleeh unless as successor in the ministry, whieh by craft was bo artfully drawn so as to enahle the holder to sell it. And to-day this famih T , like others who eame here ostensibly as Christian teachers, elaim the right to deprive the people of the water of tfie hills and valleys in whieh they were born. Verily, thc missionary enj terprise of these islands* has been characterized by every species of hypocrisy and frand: biit a day of reckoning is at hand and Dlease remember it most %noble Marquis of lao.