Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 331, 25 November 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush.

 

I una Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25, 1891

 

America for the Americans.

 

            The Chairman of the Republican Convention at Rochester, New York in a speech made at the opening of the State campaign said: “The Republican principle is ‘America for the Americans’ not in any narrow or restricted sense, but for the naturalized citizen as well as for the native born.”  This is exactly the spirit of the party cry of our National Party of ‘Hawaii for the Hawaiians.’”

 

CHEAP LABOR

 

            As we anticipated, a few weeks ago, we hear, that a grand smash up in the pumping gear attached to the Manmoth Pump on the Ewa Plantation.  This break down is due to cheap Asiatic labor employed on the plan of economy as urged by the “barons.”  It appears that the cheap laborer has been set to work to steal knowledge of skilled mechanics, in about three or four weeks, with the view of supplanting the latter.

 

            This has been done and the result is as we state them above and comes under the head of expensive repairs, to be done by skilled mechanics.  What a pity that these “barons” are not compelled, for the sake of economy, to go back to Chinese labor and primitive implements of agriculture and ways of cultivation, so as to fully test the economy and profits which they calculate to receive from cheap labor.

 

The Police.

 

            We thank the P. C. A. for its manliness in coming forward and endorsing our principles of national reform more especially in regard to the purging and purifying of the police department.  This part of the government machinery needs an executive officer of sound and intelligent judgment.  We did hope that Mr. Kenyon would furnish the needed talent to carry the office successfully and creditably.  @ the motive power seem to be at a loss to maintain the good standing of our police department.  Perhaps it would be better for Mr. K to attend to the office work and help to keep the department clean, instead of attending every political meeting in the interests of his brother officials.

 

That Treaty.

 

            The cry against [unreadable] ... to is nature is a natural one and none but those whose interest @ involved are afraid to have the Hawaiians know what this @ @.  There is no occasion for secrecy if the treaty is just and honorable in its provisions, it being supposed to be only for our commercial interests.  If, as we are informed the treaty is to cede away territory and to establish a protectorate that will be subject to the call of the powers that may be right, right or wrong, we certainly think that Hon. J. E. Bush is right in protesting against any such underhanded work in the interest of a few rich people. 

 

            We are adverse to any alliance with the United States under these terms.  The Advertiser, knows full well that when the time comes that the country has to change its for of government the LEO will not be found perched on any halfway measures for the benefit of a few moneyed men, but will boldly advocate a closer alliance than that of being policed for the benefit of the sugar barons, closer than the P. C. A’s friends would perhaps like the Islands to be allied to Uncle Sam.  In the meantime, we do not want to run as a slave state under a Treaty with the United States, for the sake of aiding an – as they say – unprofitable industry. 

           

That “Mate.”

 

            We are astonished to see as mate of the Morning Glory the gentleman who was mate at one time of the Le Lacheur.  We think, in fact, we feel assured, that he is here to ascertain what has become of his interest in some of the Le Lacheur’s cargo which was thrown overboard off Waianae, and picked up by some craft ready for that purpose.  We notice that a Customs official and an ex-port surveyor were nearly all day employed in securing an interview with the now good missionary mate we pause for a reply. 

 

POPULATION.

 

            The greaatest need of these islands is population; not a population of degraded coolie laborers working in herds for the support of the few capitalists who own them and the lands they till, but an intelligent peasantry engaged in agricultural pursuits upon holdings of their own, and having their little homes and families.  This is the initial point of civilization, and the only true basis of a prosperous state.  This can never be accomplished until we have a government competent to grapple with the question and with courage enough to take posession of the public lands and cut them up for homestead settlement; and for which there is already ample law.

 

            Of all the peoples who have been  brought here as labor immigrants, the Portuguese are certainly the most desirable, being the most civilized, and have proved to be a valuable addition to our population; witness the thrifty little homes that covers the slopes of Punchbowl, and elsewhere.  And it is greatly to be regretted that so many of them emigrated away again simply because they could not procure lands to settle upon as independent agriculturists, by reason of the policy of the government and planters who prefer to keep the lands @ @ @ large estates.

 

            During the past few years over @ Portuguese have left these islands, each one carrying away an average of about $600.  All these people were anxious to remain and would have remained if they could have acquired homestead.  An intelligent government ought to have kept them here and alloted them some portion of the lands which have been given out wholesale to those fortunate sugar-planters who had the “pull.”

 

            There are many unfortunate traits of character in the Portuguese, but less so perhaps than with other classes of people brought here.  For the purpose of repopulating these islands we know of no available people better suited for the purpose than the Portuguese.  Let us enumerate the points of excellence we find in them for settlers.  They are a sturdy and hardy race of people, with an illustrious past, and contain the blood, bone and sinew that will build up a new race of Christian, civilized and industrious people wherewith to multiply and replenish our depopulated kingdom.  The are naturally domestic and raise large families of children:  They are industrious and economical and not much given to the criminal vices.  Their earnings are banked and invested in this country, and not hoarded and sent away, as is the case with the Chinese and Japanese; and in fact they came to make this their final home if they have the least encouragement to do so.

 

            Their highest ambition is the landable one of acquiring a homestead for the family which they may cultivate independently.  They are not a turbulent people and they appear to live in harmony with our natives; the domestic feuds which make the slopes of Punchbowl ring out some nights with wild cries, injures no one but the party, whose hair is getting pulled, but these disagreeable peculiarities would probably die out with the new generation who would be better educated. 

             

            Their unfortunate propensity to petty thefts is the result of direct teaching in their native land, and would probably disappear after a more intimate acquaintance with our police and police courts, and the eduction of their children in our schools.  Their necessities of life are such as to create quite an active trade with retail dealers of dry goods, hardware and provisions, and those whose prosperity allows them a little luxury are generous patrons of our dealers in California wines; a weakness perhps which is far from harmless.  The are Christians; Catholic Christians of course, and we are aware that this is one reason why our orthdox missionaries object to them; but their Catholicism is far from fanatical and rather of a liberal and non-serious order.  Their government does not interfere with them, and does not bother with officious red-tape inquisitions concerning their welfare here, such as hamper Japanese immigrants and would hamper East Indians.  The Portuguese government trusts to our Christian laws and civilized government to give their people ample protection: they have no navy, and no inclination to meddle in the petty affairs of the people who choose to wander to other parts of the world, unless perhaps some serious outrage were committed. 

 

            In many parts of Africa and Asia, outside of the Portuguese possessions and in Brazil and the United States are many colonies of Portuguese who are almost unknown and never interfered with by the home government.  Their children born here are just as absolutely Hawaiian as the veriest kanaka for their government relinquishes all claim to them when born under a foreign flag.  The are essentially an agricultural people and in the Azores where most of our Portuguese hail from with climate and soil almost similar to ours, they are familiar to ours, they are familiar with the cultivation of such products as grow here: Wine and sugar are their staple productions; but they also cultivate oranges, limes, guavas, mangoes, loquats, figs, bananas and pineapples; the last two forming articles of large export to the London market.  Grains is also cultivated in the uplands.  To be Continued.

 

 

ON DIT.

 

            The “Elele” writings are as cold as Stone plastered and mixed with Bowl(d)ers.

 

            That the Bulletin Editors squirm – loudly – when their corns are trod on.

 

            That the meek and humble Kenyon bears all the blunders and other things laid at the doors of the police Department.  Well done good and faithful servant, your loyalty is worthy of many sovereigns.

 

            That it is a query, whether that Blooming 250 calibre shot gun was intended for the Museum or for the Marshal to pull the tricker.

 

            That the new sign at E. O. Hall’s only needed A. L. C. O. H. O. L. to complete it, and as a sign to commemorate the enterprise of the firm in supplying Uncle Sam’s antipodian offsprings with something to mix with pemican to preserve animal heat.

 

            That the Hui Kalaiaina, by some of its committeemen, are obtaining money from the Chinese by giving a piece of paper, which professes to given them the power to vote.  We are sorry it is so, but we must speak out and protest.

 

            That a native Hawaiian have true friends in Bishop Willis and Rev. Mr. Barnes of the Anglican Church.

 

            That Bowler says that neither Bush nor Wilcox stands a show at the next election while he carries Kahoonei and the imaginary Catholic vote with him.  We feel sorry to hear no zealous a @ of the Church drawing its name in the vortex of the political pool.  Though we ourselves are not a son of Rome, yet we have a deep regard and respect for anything that emanates from the Church that is right and proper, but not such blatherskites as put themselves forward as the oracles of a large and respectable class of religionists. 

 

            That at a meeting last Monday night the Hui Kalaiaina Executive Committee agreed to keep Independence Day at Thomas Square, by addresses to be given by Messrs Wilcox, Bush, Nawahi, Pua and White, and not as had been announced in our contemporaries by boodlers and interlopers, whom we forbear to mention.  This is a Tester sure, these speaker being popular and acknowledged leaders of honor and principle in whom the Hui Kalaiaina have great confidence.  They are also the officers and members of the Hawaiian National Liberal Party, thus showing the breach hoped for by the unprincipled political demagogues and boodlers is healed. 

 

PUBLIC SERVANTS

LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT

 

            8.  We desire a more liberal policy towards the different Islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public moneys for the development of their resonrees 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 tending to improve the condition of the working classes and consequently, without injury any vested rights, we will advocate laws to prevent all further importation of employment of contract labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a ruinous 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 HOME STEADS.

 

            10.  The wealthy 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 parcelled 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 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 Crown lands, (in so far as can be done without invading vested rights) should be devoted as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred upon bone-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.

 

ELECTORAL RIGHT.

 

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood and not the posession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should constit-

the right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be accorded to the ballot of the rich man than to the ballot of the poor man.  The discrimination in favor of wealth now made in our Constitution is contrary to all the eternal principles of right and justice, and must be abolished.  To this end, we will favor a leveling of the present distinction of wealth and classes which blemish our laws with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiians privileges which pertain to them in their own country, and of which they have been unjustly deprived.

 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

 

            12.  We favor the expenditure of sufficient sums to secure a number of needed public improvements on Oahu and other Islands: school, railroads and harbors and wharves, public light, and also a thorough system of reservoirs and water-works, not only for Honolulu, but through-out the other Islands.

NOTICE.

 

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

 

            LADIES wishing to purity their complexion and eradicate tan and freckles will be instucted by MRS WERTHERN free of charge.  103 Beretania Street past the Armory.

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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 as an agent for me in any sense whatever in the charge and administration of all my property and in the collection of all dues and rents upon any and all my estate in this kingdom.

 

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

KAPIOLANI per Jos. Nawahi

Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891.

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