Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 332, 26 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.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

 

THURSDAY, Nov. 26, 1891.

 

Our Friends.

 

 We have always declared ourselves in an open manner, that we are republican in  feeling and practice, as against the one man power which the two little antipodean waifs that came to Hawaii on a shingle, and who advocates. and who runs a paper that professes to belong to no sect, party and we can add, is influenced only as loyalists to sovereigns whenever there lustful little souls can be benefited by its glitter.

 Mr. Bush has always declared in public, (that is more than can be staid of the Bulletin editors.) that he is for no bayonet clause annexation and never will be, but it is the rotten way in which this country is being administered, and supported by two column articles in defence of high handed collusion, are to be the causes for the subversion of our government then let us have no half way steps towards good government.  Then, Bush, will take his share of the responsibility not as a kangaroo or a beaver, but as a Hawaiian and native of the soil.

 

A Dilemma.

 

 The Marshal, who seem to be well understood in the community as the Queen's pet and advisor, has again felt called upon to set himself right before the public.  It is a good thing for public servants, when placed in a doubtful position to rise before the people and repent or explain what may appear inexplicable in their conduct.  In this light, when anyone makes a clean breast of his errors, it should be accepted as a sufficent penance, and when fortified with tears and a promise of future good bahavior, should be accepted as coming from a broken spirt and contrite heart.  How far the Marshal and his man "Friday" ia under the ban that would necessitate an explanation of "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain," the public is the best judge, having all the needed light on the matter, through the columns of the Bulletin and Advertiser, from an interview and susequent explanations from the Marshal, and presumably from his "Joseph."

 We sympathize with her Majesty, that her name is unavoidably connected in the public mind, whenever a scandal occurs in the official acts of those whom she has specially favored against public opinion.  We hope it will be a lesson to the Chief Executive, to avoid further cause for the public mind to connect her, with the errors of officials of her own making and that she will take as an example the public and private life of Queen Victoria.

 

POPULATION.

 

 With the portuguese then, we could build up a population of free and independent people, adopted to our climate and more or less familiar with the cultivation of the various semi-tropical products which will constitute our future industries; and as we have before shown they are industrious and thrifty and will readily assimilate themselves to our methods of civilization and government.

 From information at hand we are assurde that at the present time it would be possible to obtain at least 50,000 Portuguese if wanted.  Portugal is practically bankrupt and on the verge of revolution.  She is so intimately connected with her colonies that they suffer from the same bankrupt condition as the mother country, and there is distress everywhere.  The tide of emigration which started for Brazil has stopped and began to return home again, for they found the conditions of life in that country too hard. The emigration to Africa has ceased for those colonies are suffering from stagnation and paralyzed trade caused by the recent treatment of the English.  Such a prolific people as the Portuguese cannot all stay home; some must push out, and we could have no better opportunity than the present to secure an immigration hitherward.

 But we are told that the planters don't want them.  That's different! as the Hon. Brother Lucas would say.  They are two expensive to obtain and we can no longer pay such high wages as heretofore; they are not as tractable as oriental coolies; are good workers, but inclined to be independent of control after the hours of labor; they resent the whip and the driving process which it is necessary for our lunas and riding boses, to use with field hands; when their contract term is up, they refuse to recontract and demand higher wages or a plot of land to cultivate on shares, which we will not give them.  So say the planter.  The country needs, and to be prosperous, ought to have, an agricultural population.  The planter needs cheap and servile labor.  And this brings us to the Seylla and Charibdis of the situation, where we shall leave it for the present, hoping to return some day and attempt to discover a passage through these frowning rocks of necessity.

 

When Reformers and Nationnals Agree.

 

 When any one of the missionary reform leaders gives utterance to sentiments that are in accord with the principles we are contending for, we cheerfully give further publicity to them, and applaud the writer who has the courage to put forth sound and patriotic ideas, even though they ba at varinée with the political faith of those with whom he has affiliated.  Rev. S. E. Bishop in the August number of the "Paradice of the Pacific" under the title of "Prospects of the Future" says:

"There is unquestionably room in these Islands for many times the present population.  In climate and in scenery this country, we have learned to think, surpasses every other.  The soil is resonably productive.  It is becoming more and more in the track of commerce.  With a transit for shipping across the American Isthmus, it will become the chief way station of the Pacific.  Every natural gift fits this group to become the home of one of the noblest population of the world, and one of the very happiest.  This bright possibility will be realized or will fail, just in accordance with the social tendencies that shall prevail here. those that lift men up into purity, wisdom, intergrity, or those that drag them downwards into bestiality, and worthlessness.  The evil tendencies are strong, and find large elements favoring their growth.  The upward tendencies will prevail and save our future, only as their supporters continue devoted, determined and enterprising.  We confidently believe that this will be the case, and therefore look forward with much assurance of hope to a bright and honorable political and social future for Hawaii nei."

 And this printed in the August number of the "Friend" headed " The Mechanics of Honolulu."

 "In a morning walk up Punchbowl, looking off upon the city with its rapidly growing improvements, the thought strongly presented itself.  All this is the work of our Mechanics.  It is their trained hands and eyes that have fashioned all these beautiful dwellings, stores, and churches.  They have all been planned and devised by the brains of the mechanics who have risen in their calling by diligence and study.  Our mechanics have directly created this beautiful city by their skill and their labor.  Without their knowledge, their aptitude, their toil, it could not have been better above the thatched cottages that dotted these grounds fifth years ago.  It is well then that our mechanics should unite to promote their own and the public welfare.  To every such organization that they form, we wish the direction and highest efficirncy.  Our public affairs need the ablest and best organized aid of this essential and prominent element in the community.  Every public interest needs their active cooperation.  Every reform needs their assistance.  Especially do the personal intrests of our mechanics need this organized mutual active help.  They are a very manly class: they need a still higher manhood.  They need to more thoroughly rise above all that is sensual, animal, base. into life that is manly, strenuous, ambitious of worth and character.

 "Mechanics, organize yourselves; be true, first each man to himself, then be true to each other; and be true to the country you live in; seek its highest welfare.  Rise above petty aims.  Let your Union be noble."

 

ON DIT.

 

 That is nearly time for Reform colors to be hoisted.

 

 That KA LEO is willing to be tied to Uncle Sam by a telegraph wire, at least, for the present.

 

 That our thanks are due to Mr. Wray Taylor for complimentary ticket to the Tuesday night concert at Kaumakapili Church.

 

 That the hoodlers and bolters proposes, but Wilcox and Bush disposes, how the 28th of November should be commemorated.

 

 That the Advertiser thinks that the Marshal and his "Friday" would be better of "with love and a crust," than dar@ or gun@, or living in dishonor.

 

 That the "present " nauseating state of the country is due to favoritism and personal rule.

 

 That Thomas Square is allowed to be used for the celebration of Independance Day.  Many thanks to the Minister of Interior.

 

 That many natives and foreigners miss the charitable hand of Kalakaua.

 

 That Gibson's administration under Kalakaua as King compared to Parker's under his Sister as Queen, is respectively as sweet butter is to Limburger cheese.

 

 That the Brain Tester is still in town, and all communtcations should be sent to him Sub(ject to) Rosa.

 

 That all names of political aspirants should be sent in immediately if not sooner, so that their callibre can be Tested so says the Hawaiian Hamfat man.

 

 That we hear that the enterprising firm of E. O. Hall & Co. are to have a new sign by the talented young artist who executed the one which attracted so much attention this week.  It will represent a scene in the Artic Ocean with icebergs and deep blue water.  A whale boat in the foreground is loaded with kegs and carboys while a number of sailors are mixing cocktails for a large school of whales that have assembled to take a drink.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

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 property, 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 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 for the People.

 

JUDICIARY REFORMS

 

 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 automony, 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.

 3. Our Judiciary systems and Code of Procedure must ba 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 the press.

 

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 fostered by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Government, in its contracts and other operations, to @  to national products over @ ones.

 

PUBLIC @Y AND@ LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

 

 8. We desire a more liberal policy towards the different Iskands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public moneys for the development of their resources and the satisfation of their wants.  In fact, the principle of local Self-government should be extended, whereby giving localities @  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 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 ruinous and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also, in the intrest 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 especialily 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 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 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 possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should consti- 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 rights 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 nobels, 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 curied can have it done by MRS. WERTHERN. 103 Beretania Street.

 LADIES wishing to purify their complextion and @radiate tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge. 103 Beritania 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 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 possession of any property or who has any business or payments to make, will tr@t the same with me personally, at my place at Honuai aha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

  KAPIOLANI.

 per Jon. NAWAHI

Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891.  1-@