Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 287, 24 September 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

 

KA LEO

John E. Bush.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku

THURSDAY, SEPT 24, 1891

 

            Working people should be protected by law, if they are not capitalists will require just as many hours of labor per day as human nature can bear. For a man to get up before day light and work till after dark like is of no paticular importance; he simply earns enough one day to prepare himself to work another.  His life is spent in want and toil, and such life is without value. We cannot see, in justice, how any man who does nothing can insist that others should work ten or twelce hours a day; neither can we see how any man who lives on luxuries of life can find it in his heart or in his stomach, to say that the poor should be satisfied with the crusts and crumbs they get.

 

            The first great remedy is in the ballot. The poor are in the majority. If the law opresses them, it @@ their fault. They have followed @@@@ and drum of some party; no man should go with a party unless it is going his way.

 

            Wealth is not a crime nor is poverty a virtue, athough virtue has generally been poor.

 

Hui Kalaiaina Meeting

 

The Executive Committee of the

 

            The Executive Committee of the Hui Kalaiana met yesterday at the International Hall. Bethel Street, at the call of President Kahoonei. After the meeting came to order the object of the call was stated to be the consideration of "Declarations of Principles of Hawaiian National Liberal Party."  The document was read and acted upon by articles, and adopted in its entiretly, every member present at the meeting voting it adoption, as the platform of the organization.

           

            The "Declarations" treats under different headings, of the (1) Principles of Government and Constitution; (2) Independence of the Country; (3) Judiciary Reforms; (4) Taxation; (5) Monopolies; (6) Public Servants; (7) Protection to Home Industries; (8) Local Self-Government; (9) Protection to the Laboring Classes; (10) Small Farming and Homesteads; (11) Electoral Rights; (12) Internal Improvements.

 

            The principles adopted by the Executive Committee of the Hui Kalaiaina, we are credibly informed, are the same as those submitted to the Mechinics Union of their consideration by the National Executive Committee, composed of Noble and Representatives elected throughout the Group at the last elections on the National Ticket, men who have stood unwaveringly by the principles of the Hui Kalaiaina and Mechanics' Union, under the Party name, "National Hawaiian Party," and who are still devoted to the cause of the People. The "declaration" submitted is a document that will no doubt meet the approval of the masses. It is based upon equal rights and upon liberal and progressive ideas of administering the affairs of the country; it is opposed to tyranny, monopoly and trust and favors the elective system for offices and decentralising of power.

 

            We note with extreme pleasure, the unanimity and business like manner in which  the committee did its work, particularly when a pool example was set them by the Union, who if the real call of their meeting last Thursday, was known, had the same object in view as the Hui. Unfortunately, however, for the latter, the "bulls" and "bears" and "wolves" and "lions" got mixed up together, and the result was a "draw."

 

            This decisive and limited action on the part of the representatives of the Hui Kalaiaina, indicates true unselfish and patriotic spirit among the Hawaiians, and we hope that its companion associations will be moved by the same desire to do right.

 

The Curse of the World.

 

            It is useless to deny that ardent liquors, wines, and bears, are inurious to man; and it is equally as undeniable that alcohol, the product of decomposition, in some form, leads to mental and phisical premature decay.

 

            Though differing on many subjects relating to moral, social and political matters, with our cotemporary the P.C. Advertiser, yet there are certain things which that newspaper writes about and publishes that, when truthfully said, we cannot disagree upon.  Thus is is in speaking and publishing a translated article, from a French Journal, denouncing alcoholic drinks as a curse, the LEO is in accord. The only fault we find with the P.C.A. is in the the publication of the article, on the last page, on so important a subject to the welfare and mankind.  It seems as if the more serious matters, that should have the greatest consideration with our journalists, are only slightly adverted to, and in most cases published with timidity and fear and in some out of the way corner.

 

            We can only attribute this fearfulness on the part of those whose duty it is to direct the public mind to a fear that it my give offence to its partrons. This is particularly the case, when speaking of a fashionable sin or indulgence such as prostitution, drunkeness and other equally beastly, and degrading habits. @@@ KA LEO is not being hampered by any fear of losing friends and patronage for speaking the truth nor does it put on any any affectation. We know that wrong habits and wrong doing are no man's friends, and if, from interested motives, or other reasons we are taken to task for holding up the mirror, so that people can see their character or actions reflected, in clear and unmistakable light, and as other see them, we do not feel at all  annoyed, but rejoice, that it has called attention with the prospect of doing good.

 

            As we have said, we agree with our cotemporary in holding up to the world that alchohol is any form is a curst to mankind. Alcohol never was created no plant upon the face of the earth produces it and no bubbling spring affords it. This deadly and destructive agent is one of the products of vegetable decomposition and decay. It is made by fermentation. Thus, the fermentation of wine and beer @@@@ and the raising of bread, are familiar illustrations of the production of alcohol. By means of distillation the alcohol may be separated from the wine and is then known as brandy.  In the case of beer, the barley and hops from which it is made, is steeped for hours at a moderate temperature, and is allowed to germinate, during which process the starch contained in the grain is converted into sugar, which is then fermented with Hops and yeast by which means the sugar is turned into alcohol.

 

            The desire and habit in man for alcohol is unnatural and is the result of our perverted natures. Alcohol is the putrefaction or death of vegetable matter, and when taken  into the human system must eventually destroy it. But the greatest misery involved in its use is not to the consumer alone. It permeates his family, society, a nation, the world. In the Unites States alone, this deadly curse, according to Statistics collected at Washington reachers the enormous sum of $7,000,000 and over annuallly, and is increasing. Liquor and it allies, tobacco, tea, coffee and opium cost nearly $1,600,000,000 in the year. 1887, more than $30 annually for each man, woman and child in that country. The sum expended is nearly $250,000,000 more than is expended for bread, meat, clothing, educaiton, and Christian missions.

 

            Thus it is that alcohol is a curse, in absorbing the vitality of the human family, and robbing man of his and his families support and taking away a large @@@@@@@ of money that would otherwise be useful for the am@@oration of the human family.

 

            That Rev. S.E. Bishop tells his American readers in the Review of Reviews that J.L. Kaulukou is our leading (@) Hawaiian. The next elections will prove what an @@@ Bishop is on political matters.

 

THAT GIRL FROM THE SISTERS SCHOOL

 

Just read these few line if you will,

I'm trying to keep sober and cool,

Tho' it makes my hair curl

When I think of that girl,

Who attended the Sisters' School.

 

But I want to wran others who might

Be wound up on the very same spool

Get caught on string

By the sweet little thing

The girl fromt he Sisters' School.

 

Oh why should a mainden so young,

Want an unfortunate fellow to fool,

Get him madly in love

And then give him the shove,

Like the girl from the Sisters' School

 

The first time we met I was sure

That she would my darling @@le

It was we at the f@@@@ @@eigt

And I dreamt all that night,

Of the girl from the Sisters' School

 

I had known her for more than a week.

Found out that her pet name was Jule,

When she gave me the kick

In a way that was slick

For a girl at the Sisters' School.

 

What I too poor for a buggy and pa@@

She was not going to ride any mule,

Oh darn up old socks

For a man with no rocks,

Said this maid fromthe Sisters' School

 

So this is the end of my wail;

Don't you think that her treatment was

cruel

Now no longer I wait

Near the entrance gate,

For that girl at the Sisters' School

 

MORAL

 

to impecunious clerks and all other;

Who dare fortune comdemns to a stool,

Just go easy and slow

With a girl, if you know,

That she goes to the Sisters' School

W.G.F.

 

ON DIT

 

            That the same Rev. parson is eminent in science but makes himself rediculous when he discusses political affairs and men, for he displays a narrow and biassed mind.

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That the hack drivers all say that Marshal Charly is a tyrant, and they will all vote ag'n' him.

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That Sereno Bishop is not a competent judge of the character, capacity, and standing, of our public men, and his photograpic collection in the Review of Reviews is an incongruous jumble. His villification of Wilcox, --and laudation of Kaulukeu cause a smile among Hawaiians and give color to a that he has the "brave" who wanted Wilcox hung when he was a prisoner and alone.

 

            That the Hui Kalaiaina recognizes and remembers the faithful few @@@@@@@ honestly and faithfully by their colors in the Assembly @@@@@@@@ nominate and vote @@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@.

 

            That the fossilized and @ranky Te@@@@ @@@ was also faithless to his par@@@@@ still the false mascot to the Premier whose actions are governed by that little family com-@@@

 

            That the lullin the opium scandal would be seen to indicate that a compromise has been effected between opium smugglers and opium catchers.

 

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That to Sam Parker and Hermann Widemann belong the glory of obliging a youn Hawaiian to renounce his citizenship and to see occupation abroad as an American Citizen.  Hurrah all you expatriated kanaka boys, a few more such lessons, and this cabinet will drive us all under the American flag.

 

            That an @@@@@@ @@@@ Smith has approached our merchants with a view to a compromise. It won't work Billy unless you approach and conciliate the proper men, the real workers and leaders, and even then????

 

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            That frauds and failures of the Nationals are striving hard to capture the Mechanics Union, but that intelligent body of men, will not be wheedled by the crow of the wheezy bantam, or the growl of the vary tame little red lion.

 

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            That the mechanics are mainly honest men, and want honest politicians to represent them, not such treacherous schemers as pulfed their votes last time. The Union learnt a lesson by experience and will look well to their ballots this time.

 

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That the Advertiser castle is really a silurian affair of antique bigotry after all, and not a liberal nineteenth century structure as we imagined.

 

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            That the Bulletin is worried because we are inditing diatribes against some of its old pals who tried to play the fool with the National Party. We want to replace them with better men, Dan.

 

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            The E.C.M.  is striving hard to get himself elected as President of the Mechanics' Union. He has a few misinformed and misguided followers, but his electiong will mean the disruption of the Union for the majority will not tolerate him, knowing that he is but the echo of the head of the Boston mescantile missionary home.

 

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That the ministerial patron of the Bulletin has evidently ordered that sheet to fire one shot every day at KA LEO. The inane and pointless efforts of little Dan to obey his masters orders are noticeable by their purility and "ridiculosity."

 

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            That KA LEO is rapidly prosecuting the useful work of unmasking treacherous politicians and strengthening the intelligent following of the Workingmen's Union, the Hui Kalaiaina and League, the nucleus of the National Party.