Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 302, 15 October 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

John E. Bush.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1891.

@@@@@ MECHANICS AND WORKINGMEN.

The Mechanics and Workingmen's Political @@@ective Union will hold a meeting in Robinson's Hall, corner Nuuanu and King S@@@ Thursday evening, Ot. 15, at the usual hour 7:30 p. m., all members are requested to attend, and the public are invited.

Per Order.

From Abroad.

@@ aspirant to the Abysinnian throne was met by the government forces, and at the end of a severe encounter, was killed and his adherents routed.

A better understanding seem to have been created between France and Italy due to a fraternal feeling on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the Italian Patriot Garibaldi.

Serious labor troubles had transpired at Wapping, London. Work on the wharves have ceased in consequences.

Thousands of people did honor to the memory of Victor Emanuel, marching in procession and depositing upon the tomb of the dead sovereign a wreath, where the Friday previous a number of Catholic pilgrims had made insulting demonstrations. The occasion gave an opportmitiy to a number of Radicals of denouncing the Vatican and shouting "down with the Priests!"

An excitement was created at Trieste, by the discovery of an attempt to blow up the Episcopal palace with a petard or bomb. The structure was saved by the timely discovery of an attempt to blow put the Episcopal palace with a petard or bomb. The structure was saved by the timely discovery of the bomb, and the extraction of the burning fuse by the porter.

A sensational article in the Pester@loyd declares that the Russian Government is concentrating an enormous body of troops on the banks of the Pruth, at which place swarms of Russians are housed in capacious huts erected temporarily for their accommodation.

In consequence of the severity of the famine in Poland, workmen have paraded the streets of cities and towns and looted the bakeries and other places were eatables are obtainable. At Jewerike the troops fired upon the rioters killing some and wounding many.

Stand Firm.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the missionary planter element has recognized the necessity of creating a split among the workingmen in this city, as a means of letting themselves down easily, in the coming electoral tournament. It is plain to their vision that the late lamented Reform Party has degenerated into a contemptible "rump" too impotent to even effect an organization for the coming campaign. Seeing their own utter lack of power, they hope to so far divide the workingmen, that they can put forward one of the wings of that element and, by falling in behind the disaffected mechanics, stand some chance of defeating a few of the National Liberal candidates. to accomplish this end, the pious politicians are sedulously engaged in creating discord among their opponents and especially among the members of the Mechanics Union.

We wish to warn our friends among the workingmen against the wolves of the Fort Street fold, who hope, by treachery and intrigue, to attain a success which can never be theirs by any fair and above-board methods. We fail to see any necessity for the difference sought to be injected into the councils of the workingmen. those honest citizens stood nobly together in the last campaign, and carried their ticket to victory. this they can easily do again, if they will give traitors their just dues, and when solicited to desert their party colors, send the solicitor to the right about face, without ceremony.

Several of the ex-members of that organization have got comfortably seated in fat official places, and at least one of these latter is popularly credited with spending much of his time in sowing discord among his late co-workers in politics, than in attending to his official business, for which he draws a salary. The apparent object of this political office holder, (a being that he so lately professed to abhor,) is to say divide the opposition to the present nondescript Cabinet so as to insure their contiunance in office, coupled - of course - with the continued incumbency of our political officer afore said. It beats all how these political purists and "mugwumps" change their tone, when once they have got their hands into the Treasury.

Let "Harmony" be the watchword of all lovers of and wishers for better government than that which is now being imposed upon us. To the Mechanics Union we say-compose your differences, if you have any, gentlemen. Do not allow personal likes and dislikes to enter into your deliberations and control your actions. Take your stand upon a set of principles, and having done so co-operate cheerfully and cordially with all and sundry who will assist you in carrying those principles into practice. Of the Declaration of Principles published in KA LEO, as the basis of a proposed platform for the National Liberal Party is, in the main correct, clasp hands with all who will agree to forward those general principles- subject to such modification or amendment as further discussion may suggest.

But above all, gentlemen, look out for spies and traitors. The present administration has subsidized a number of that style of gentry, and they are busily at work among you.

How to Understand God's Will.

(Continued.)

This briefly, is the meaning of our being not under the law but under grace.

For to suppose that the Ten Commandments do not continue in force under the Gospel dispensation, is a supposition that the plainest utterances of our Saviour forbid. For on that occasion on which from an eminence He delievered to an assembled multitude the promises of His Kingdom, with the conditions with which they might be realised (Matt. 5.1-13) He at once anticipated the argument that the eight Beatitudes had taken the place of the Ten Commandments. For he added, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Weigh well the meaning of these words. What is it to fulfill? To "fulfill" may be understood in two ways. It means to accomplish, and bring to a predestined end. It also means "to fill up" as a painter fills up the outline which he first skitches on his canvass. Now, in respect of prophecies and the ceremonial law, the word "fulfill" must be taken in its first sense. Christfulfilled the Prophets by doing and suffering all that they had predicted that the Messiah, when he cam, should do and suffer. In the same way he fulfilled the ceremonial law. The whole ritual of the temple, the sacrifices, and ceremonies were full of figures and types of the sacrifice of Christ. and when that one sacrifice for sin had been offered, there was no longer any need of that which had foreshadowed it. Thus then the ceremonial law was fulfilled, when the purpose for which it was given was accomplished.

But the fulfillment of the moral law has a different significance. Christ fulfilled the moral law by obeying it perfectly and fully, so that the voice from Heaven could say of Him, as could be said of none before or since. - This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Having kept the moral law perfectly so far from releasing us from obedience to it. He has taught us how far reaching these Commandments are, how they embrace the words we speak, and the thoughts of the heart, as well as the action we do. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ fills out the moral of the law as sketched out on the two tables of stone If there are those, when they hear the Commandments read, say in their hearts with the young man in Gospel. "All these have I kept from my youth up," such do not yet understand what the will of the Lord is, their eyes have not been opened to take in the filling up of the Commandments by our Blessed Lord, and to see how wide a range the Ten Precepts cover in which the will of the Lord is contained. Little indeed can any understand the will of the Lord, if they think they have never transgressed the second Commandment, because they do not worship graven images, or that they have never broken the sixth because their hands are free from blood; or that they have never transgressed the seventh, because they have been true to their marriage vow; or that they are innocent of false witness, because they have never been guilty of perjury in Court. It is to little purpose that any enjoy the privilege of the Bible in their own tongue, if they have not digested this first principle of the Gospel, that far more than obedience to the mere letter of the law is expected of us, who being under grace have now the aid of the Holy Spirit, in bringing our lives into harmony with the Spirit of the law. In order to teach us the principle on which the Decalogue is to be understood, our Blessed Lord took two commandments, the sixthand seventh and filled up the outline. From His treatment of them, we may understand how He would have us apply them all. Taking the sixth, He made it very plain that none are free from the transgression of this commandment who cherish ceaseless anger in their hearts, or use provoking language to another. St. Paul is but following and enforcing our Saviour's exposition of this commandment when he wrote to the Ephesians: Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you with all malice; and be ye kind one to another; tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Similarly, taking the seventh commandment, @e brings it home to the conscience of His disciples, that it is not the final act forbidden by this commandment that alone constitutes the transgression of it. But that the underlying principle is violated, and sin committed by the entertainment of lust and the thought of impurity, even though no transgression in act ensue.

By thus unfolding the wide range which the commandment severally have, our Blessed Saviour has made it plain that the Ten Commandments constitute the Christian's rule of life, that they cover every obligation we owe to God or man, and reach to every corner of our lives. That there is not a thought in our hearts, or a word uttered by our tongue, or an act performed, but will be in obedience to or violation of one or other of these Ten Commandments. Only reflect, that you cannot say that you have kept the first commandment until you say you love God with all your heart, all your soul, all you strength, all your mind, you may form some idea how far you are from that perfect obedience which our Saiour rendered. And as your understanding of the will of the Lord is becoming more enlightened, your thankfulness will increase that you are not under the law, but under grace, - grace to help you to a truer obedience, and to obtain pardon for your failures and transgressions through the merits of the Beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased.

ON DIT.

That His Succulency; the Honorable GUAVA JELLY THURSTON returned by the Australia last Tuesday. We note, with ecstasy, that the gods of preserves and politics have preserved his succulency to be Baronial Moses, in the leading of the "lost tribe" of missionary planters, out of the desert of despair, and into the - so@@.

That the Advertiser continues to tickle the political palates of its missionary constituents, by an insidious campaign in favor of our annexation to the United States. To this end it carefully reprints all the comments of American papers which even remotely favor such a course. But the 'Tiser, as ever, is quite too cowardly to avow its real object and sentiments. This cowardice is all we complain of, in the matter.

That an Hibernian shipowner and capitalist has had the check to offer to purchase the Eiele Establishment for the beloved kanaka and in the interest of the Hui Kalaiaina, on condition that he would be elected a peer of the realm, and a mortgage of the race and Hui be given to him as a pledge of good faith and security for his money. But the kanakas having had the hair taken off their teeth, through their experience with just such red mouth shyster, do not propose to be gulled any more in the future by any such friend and patriot.

That that "kahuna" who disclaims all knowledge of the Queen's health, also gave good reasons for a lack of that knowledge, but that does not disprove the fact that the Queen has a chronic ailment which she herself is known to have said is liable to a sudden and fatal termination. Thus the information given in the S. F. papers is in no sense disproved, and especially when the lady, as the "kahuna" states has to take horseback exercise, at past the meridian of life.

That some of the Police after all according to "Barefooted" Bill's testimony, was in with him, for a purpose in his past summer's raid.

That it is unprofessional for a "kahuna" to tell the truth, when deemed inexpedient not to. As an illustration of this fact, we give the incident of a certain physicians finding it "professional etiquette," to suppress the facts in regard to a certain affair, in which the "kahuna" acted professionally, about the first week of May, 1888, the truth of which lately appeared in the London Times.

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION.

1.   We deem that all Government should be founded on the principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; we hold that all men are born free and equal before the law and are endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to propertp, to the pursuit of happiness and to self-protection against arbitrary concentration of power, irresponsible wealth, and unfair competition. We believe that just government exists only by the consent of the People, and that, when it becomes necessary for the public welfare, they may abolish existing forms and establish more advantageous and equitable system; and, a@ the present Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was established by intimidation and fraud for the benefit of a certain class, therefore we favor the adoption of a new and more liberal Constitution, to truly secure a Government of the People, by the People and or the People.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

2.   Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population, we dersire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy, under a liberal and popular form of government; but our Treaties with Foreign Powers, and especially with the United States of America, should be revised, so as to better meet present necessities and to obtain more equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.

JUDICIARY REFORMS

3.   Our Judiciary system and Code of Procedure must be submitted to a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice, free of all sectarian or patisan spirit, and to render the Judges more directly responsible to the People; and we are in favor of a more liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech and of the press.

TAXATION

4.   A more just and perfect system of Taxation must be inaugurated, to abolish the present inequalities, by which the property of the poor is excessively taxed, while much of the rich man's goods are under-valued for assessment or entirely escape taxation; we shall therefore demand the passage of laws that will more effectually subject the property of corporations and rich citizens to their just proportion of public burdens, while granting more liberal exemptions to the poor; and as a means of discouraging the locking up of large tracts of uncultivated lands, a differential tax should be levied in addition to the usual assessment @@ valuation which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil. We shall also favor the establishment of a graduated income-tax, for conducting the government and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the masses.

MONOPOLIES

5.   We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by who all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, trusts and privileges to special classes shall be rendered impossible, by full, definite and mandatory statutes.

PUBLIC SERVANTS.

6.   Better laws should regulate the Civil Service. The principle of the election of officers of the government by the people should be established, and no man should be allowed to hold more that one office of profit, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all @@@@ cures or superfluous offices abolished.

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

7.   We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, andali our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tobacco, etc. should be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Govment, in its contracts and other operations to give preference to national products over @@@@@ @@@@@.