Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 319, 9 November 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.

 

Hooponopono a me Pauku.

 

MONDAY, NOV. 9, 1891.

 

            GEO. B. STARR. At Y. M. C. A. Hall, continue his readings of Paul Epistle to the Romans.

            For the benefit of our friends, and with the view of encouraging those who are suffering from the use of intoxicants, we publish the following in regard to a country and people, whom some are ever holding up a s examples of temperance - the French: -

            “It has been said with truth that, the dangers menancing our cultural population at the pre- , the gravest and most difficult to fight against is alcoholism.  No one can have been a resident of a country district without being struck with the development of discourage during the last thirty years.  The habit of saving, that was so long the strength and the glory of our tillers of the soil, is gradually disappearing.  The money box of the liquor seller swallows up, sou by sou, the wages that formerly, in the form of silver pieces, were hidden away in some corner of the clothes-press to be brought out when enough was accumulated to buy a little piece of ground.  The peace and harmony of families is seriously impaired.  In the villages the women are reduced, like the wives of workmen in the towns, to haunt the doors of the drink shop in order to rescue the bread of their children from the alcoholic gulf.  In most of our hamlets the drunkard, who was the exception, has multiplied by contagion.” – Fr. Paper

 

WHO IS WHO.

 

            A letter from the people of Hilo Waena, has been sent to us through one of their leading men asking that Hons. Nawahi, Wilcox and Bush, make the nomination for them for Representative for the coming Legislature.  This we thoroughly “understand” and know secretly what it “mean,” “notwithstanding” “Cephas.”

 

A New Temperance League.

 

            We are pleased to announce the formation of a Temperance League, in Honolulu, which we hope will spread its influence for good to every nook and corner of this highly favored group of islands.  In making this announcement we do not wish it understood, as was said at the inaugural meeting, with the temporary chairman of the meeting, Mr. George Castle, last Saturday evening, that the present organization was the first of the kind in the country, or was intended to cast any rejection on the work of any existing temperance institution, but on the contrary, the formation of the present society, was prompted with the view to co-operate with the untiring and loving work undertaken by others in the cause of temperance in Hawaii and more especially to supplement that of the ladies.

            Ten to fifteen minute addresses were made by Rev., Olsen, Mrs. Whitney, Miss M. Green, and Mr. B. Hoan.  The tenor of these addresses was an appeal in favor of the establishment of the League, in view of the rank growth of the evil in the community, and the increasing danger in which the young were particularly placed in, as they became detached from their teachers and from paternal influences.

 

The Beagle Smuggling Case.

 

            While some are making the effort toe encourage visitors to come to Hawaii, others are doing their best to prevent them.  We are forcibly reminded of this in the trumped up allegations made by some obscure person, who came here from Australia, and went on to San Francisco, with the view of obtaining some authority to charge the owners of this vessel with something.  This idea was left behind, and as evidently received credence by the credulous and lustful, and thus the authorities of the government has been called in to do, what seems to us, an unusual act of interference and meddling with other peoples affairs, without any substantial evidence for this action.  This government has a costly lesson before it in the Madras case, wherein there was some cause for the steps taken to suppress the freedom of that vessel.  While this case is entirely different, the vessel being as appears from evidence, to have received her clearance papers, and the point of proceeding to sea, when the owner of the vessel were summarily summoned before our police tribunal on an alleged attempt to defraud the government, because these gentlemen had spent ten to twelve thousand more or less, in American and English coin, in a liberal manner, for their expenses, while they and their vessel were in Hawaiian waters.  The vessel was detained in consequence of this action, and we understand, that a search was ordered and was being executed, when the Minister of Finance stopped the whole proceedings.

            We further hear that no money in bulk has been found in all the search thus far made.

 

Co-operation in Cane Culture.

 

            In the Bulletin (Nvo. 4) editorials we notice and allusion made to the co-operation started in Hawaii nei ni cane culture which we quote:

            “Practically the same thing has been tried on cane plantations on Hawaii, but usually some master hand would get control and force the small contractors t retire.”

            The above furnishes a text upon which a volume could be written that would explain awa the needlessness of seeking to more cheap heathen labor in this country.  The Bulletin never altered truer words and fuller of meaning than control and force the small contractors to retire.”

            The experience was never honestly on the part of the “master hand” except in only one or two instances.  The “master hand” always played in double part and the result is that wit exception of one or two plantations the co-operative system proper has passed away, let a loss to the small farmer.

            The natives and many foreigners lost all their lands and years of labor, through the tricks and chicanery of the “master hand.”  We know of one individual native planter who was forced to sell out at a loss just as he was about to realise on what had cost him over two hundred thousand dollars, the same estate realizing a net profit from the immediate crop thereafter to the new purchasers of at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.  The master hand was banker and agent in this instance, and they have been and are the master hands in partnership with the plantation or mill owners.

            Had the co-operative plan been carried on fairly as is done in the French West Indies, and other sugar producing countries, and not as patterned after the Spanish West Indies, co-operation would have been successful, our plantations would be running on an independent bases, irrespective of treaties, tariffs or competition, and without any difficult as regards more cheap labor.

            There are plenty of working people, who are in the country to-day, who will willingly relieve our plantation owners from the difficulty in which they imagine they are in providing they are willing to forego a portion of the unprecedented profits which they have heretofore unjustly sapped out of the soil and from the labor of their peons.  We know of a large number of our present free Chinese population who would willing contract to do all the planting on the co-operative plan, as has been done all along at Waimanalo, if the “master hand” will, as we say agree to forego some of the profits that are and can be made out of sugar even under our present difficulties.

            The difficult of our sugar industry is not so much the want of cheap labor as it is the want of a little more fairness in the division of profits between the “master hand.” Who works a little and wants all, and his co-worker, the “peon,” who does all the delving and pinching, and starving, for his share of the work.  No amount of cheap labor can ever relieve such a class of people as our “master hands.”  The want of cheap labor is chronic with them, as is the chronic desire to get all, and so long as this last so long will the cry be heard.

            The Bulletin has, perhaps, inadvertently told the truth, but it is nevertheless the truth, that the means of avoiding the present difficulty was and is in the hands of the “master hands” without any legislation.  If the “master hands” will only drop a little of their relationship and connection to the genus , the pililia will soon dissolve and pass away, and things woul resume their natural sway and regulate itself without this whimpering about aniani pilikia for a few more and a cheaper cheap Johus.

 

ON DIT

 

            That it is very well for J. A. to say that he is Cummin in on the Hela-ana; too late we fear; alas for poor Mahope!

 

            That it was a Boardman that caught a Crabbe that boarded a Falcon, who boarded the beagles, and who was all sent to grass Parker.

            That a doctor “Ham would have made a hit as an early day missionary bird, when corner lots was to be had for a (Hymn) song, but now as a speculating divine and secular land shark, he has a hard road to hoe in boggling up what’s left.  Too bad D. D.

 

            That a new Hawaiian political association is in the field, with more than a corporal’s guard on its roll, and if “Cephas” of the “Messenger” will attend their meeting some evening, he will probably get a key that will unlock his “understanding” so that he will be able to apprehend, what he is apprehensive, as to KA LEO’s apprehension in the matter in which “Cephas” is unapprehensive.

 

            That Mr. E. Kekoa, a law practitioner at Hilo, was discharged by a Jury at the Waimea Term of the Court, from some high handed charge preferred against him by the authorities on Hawaii, i. e., granting a marriage license, &c., which he claimed he had the authority to do, having a license for that purpose.  There is little justice in Hello, after all Horatio, for the political unbeliever.

 

Platform of Principal

 

            OF THE

 

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

 

PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION.

 

1.       We deem that all Government should be founded on the principal 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 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, as the present Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdome never has had the approval of the People, but was established by intimidation and fraud for the benefit of a certain class, there, we favor the adoption of a new and more liberal Constitution, to truly secure a Government of the People, by the People and for the People.

 

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

 

2.       Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population, we desire 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 met 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 into a thorough revision, so as to secure a cheap and prompt administration of justice, free of all sectarian or partisan 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 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 of entirely escape taxation; we shall therefore demand the passages of laws that will more effectually subject the property of corporation 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 on valuation, which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil  We shall also favor the establishment of a gradual income tax, and thus expect to obtain ample funds the government and attending to all ments without any further calls on the masses.

 

MONOPOLIES

 

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

6.       Better laws should regular 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 than one office of profit, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All excessive salaried should be reduced and sinecures or superfluous offices abolished.

 

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

 

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

 

PUBLIC SERVANTS, LOCAL SELF-GOVERNEMNT

 

8.       We desire more liberal polity to wards the different Islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public money for the development of their sources and the satisfaction of their wants.  In fact, the principle of local self-government should be extended, whereby giving localities may choose the most important of their local executive officers, and levy taxes for the purpose local improvements of a public nature.

 

PROTECTION TO THE LABOURING CLASSES.

 

9.       We shall endorse all measure trending to improve the condition of the working classes, and consequently, without injuring any vested rights, we will advocate laws to prevent all further importation or employment of contract labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a ruinons and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also, in the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemptions of their property from forced sale on execution, and from seizure in bankruptcy proceedings.

 

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS.

 

10.   The walthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the development of an independent class of citizens; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands or parceled to suit favorites, and small farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but as small farming is conducive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by which the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement of thereon of families of our present population, - and especially of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in there country, should be rendered possible.  To that end, the Government and Crow lands, (in so can be done without invading vested ) should be devoted as soon as possible to homesteads, and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of taxes for a limited period.

It should be the further aim of government to, at once, so far improve the means of transportation – local, national and international, - as to provide, in all the districts, cheap means of conveying the product of the soil to market.

 

NOTICE.

 

LADIES wishing their feathers dyed or cleaned and curled can have it done by MRS. WERTHERN. 103 Beretania Street.

LADIES wishing to purify their complexion and eradiate tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WETEHRN free of charge. 103 Beretania Street past the Armory.

317-d3m*

 

Public Notice.

 

Know all men by this notice that from and after this date, I have this day discharged Mr. H. C. Ulukou, from acting agent, for me in any sense whatever, in the charge and administration or all my property, and in the collection of all dues and rents upon any and all my estate in this kingdom.

Any one who holde or is in possession of any property or who has any business or payments to make, will transact the same with me personally, at my place at Hounakaha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

                                    KAPIOLANI.

                        per Jus. Nawahi.

            Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891           3-3ne.