Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 336, 2 Kekemapa 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush. luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1891

 

REVOLUTIONS.

            Henry Labouchere of the London @@@@ says of Canada and the United States: "It seems to me a very grand idea that one continent should have one government -- not the des@@ism of one individual, but the @@liberate will of one nation."

            These liberal and advanced expressions from the world's leading @inkers, are giving scope and freedom to the masses everywhere.  They @@@cate and elevate in one short ut@@ance the millions who have re@@@ned awed and subdued by the @@@@@ings of centuries of selfishness @@@bigotry.  While such language are being scattered in other countries, speaking of freedom and equality by such men as Labouchere, and such newspaper as the T@@@h , we are having here in Hawaii the very same sentiments presented by a Huntsman, a Wilcox @@@yde, and other men, from all professions, who have been cradled and nursed in the lap of freedom.  The seed of freedom, no matter where sown, is sure to grow, -- it has been planted here as well as elsewhere, it only needs an Apollos to water it in order to its future growth.

            The mail again brings us information of an usurper, an would -- be dictator, President Fonseca of Brazil.  This is the second uprising of the people of the South American continent, and is an indication of a more comprehensive and just idea of liberty among the Nations of that continent that they have hitherto shown.

            It seems, as if there were revivals all over the world, to restore all things to there primitive state.

 

Koolau Harbor vs. Pearl Harbor.

            Did any one ever look at the map of Oahu or ride over the pali and note the extensive barrier reefed harbor on the Koolau side of this Island?  And did any one ever think to enquire about it's depth and heath and it's possibilities as a rival to Pearl Harbor.  In due course we will tell our readers something more about it.

 

Universal Sufferage.

            A strike is imminent of the working men in Belgium if the universal franchise is not granted to the masses by the government.  This is about the way the matter stands in Hawaii nei and it seems suicidal for any one to withstand the restoration of this fundamental right.  The advance of knowledge and the education of the masses demands the restoration of this scared right and we pity those who try to prevent it.

 

Political Issue.

            The Advertiser of the 27th November in a very sensible article states what it considers to be the issues that are before the nation.  The point which the Advertiser makes do not entirely cover all the reforms and needed legislation that the National Party sought in 1890 and still hopes to realize in a coming legislature.  But such as they are, the leaders of our party have already, by public speech and through KA LEO, announced their views in very clear terms.  For the benefit of the politicians of the P.C.A. we will recapitulate the pronounced views of National Party leaders, in response to the points as stated in the Advertiser:

            1.  Shall the Constitution be amended?  The Constitution of 1887 will never be acceptable to the native Hawaiians, by reason of the revolutionary method in which it was obtained by and in the interests of an unpopular faction, and its disfranchisement of native Hawaiians on the vote for noble.  It secured some excellent reforms, but being hastily devised is full of errors and idiosyncrasies.  It is not in an exact keeping with the spirit of modern constitutional government.  It conflicts in sections and lacks sequence and classification.  It needs complete revision on the lines of the American and British Constitutions.

            2.  Shall class legislator be authorized?  Our peculiar position and circumstances under this is necessary for the preservation of peace and independence.  The first law of nations as well as of men, is self protection.

            3.  Shall relations with the United States be made closer?  Yes.  A new treaty should be made, similar to the reciprocity treaties which the United States is negotiating with some other countries, permitting a freer interchange of commodities; especially securing on our side the free entry of refined sugars, in order to place our sugar on equal footing with the best sugar of other countries:  Also free entry for such tropical and semi-tropical fruits and other products such as we are liable to cultivate, and whatever we may manufacture from such products.  But we will denounce any treaty that contemplates giving the United States the privilege of policing this kingdom with her troops and marines as part of her "protection?" and allow us to remain undisturbed in our autonomy.

            4.  What can be done to avert impending ruin to the great industries of the nation?  Let the platers combine as do the planters of Mauritius and from a joint stock corporation to handle all the sugar product jointly and distribute supplies at cost; let the foreign shipment of sugar be made from some central port on each island by an agency of the main corporation.  The saving in high rates of compounded interest of extortionate and necessary agents, commissions, of high inter-island freight rates, and expense of numerous handlings, will be a very large percentage of the expense to the planter between mill and market and we believe will afford him a profit.  Furthermore we believe that if the planter instead of trying to be a general over a herd of ignorant coolies, will allot his land in small sections to a more intelligent class of labor to cultivate under a co-operative system he will realize more with less expense and trouble than he does at present.

            5.  How can the general commercial situation be improved?  By the establishment of an agricultural bureau; securing the large tracts of government and crown lands to be divided up into small sections and the capacity of the various localities and altitudes tested by said bureau to determine the most adaptable crop to be cultivated; the introduction of a Portuguese population to settle upon these lands and engage in diversified industries.  The requirements of the new population and increased product and export of marketable commodoties will rapidly improve the commercial situation.

            6.  How shall the expense of government be reduced to correspond with our revenues.  There are many superfluous offices that have been created as political rewards that ought to be abolished, and the remaining officers required to do more work commensurate with the salary they receive.  Almost every department his officers who have too much leisure and could easily be dispensed with.  But if the government will adopt a policy of population of encouraging other industries and of aiding railroads and building roads to open vast tracts of idle land for cultivation, and will obtain a loan for this purpose, not only would the interest of such a loan be paid, but the revenues of the government would be increased a hundred fold.

            The men and brains of the National Party stand confidently ready to rescue the country from its present unfortunate condition and give practical answer to the political questions that are at issue before us.

 

ON DIT.

            That a certain Reform Minister stated that the F.T. opium boodlers were not brought to justice because they stood too high.  That certain evidence is forthcoming that may induce the next Legislature to reopen that opium investigation and bring proper punishment to those giddy opium manipulators who fancy they are safely protected within Bishops sacred cirlce of 500.

            That Thurston and Spencer raised Tophet in trying to provide this town with a new market: This is the result of placing the reins of power in the hands of inpracticable and incompetent men.

            That the utterance of the Elele resembles the braying of a troop of asses stumbling along blindly over a rough road of a Stone-Bowl(d)er; That their blatant blundering hibernian demagogy has no force or effect.

            That S.E. Bishop deceived the American public in the "Review of Reviews" when he placed the limit of our intelligent society at 500 that will wage that we can match Bishop's 500 with another 500 that will have more brains, honor, and ability, and less hypocrisy, treachery and pretence.

            That the boodlers party held in their band three of a kind and hope to bluff the pot with it.  viz: the man Friday the Beaver and the Kangaroo.  They look and act about as much alike as any three jacks you could pick out of the pack.

            That the premier fraud the interior incompetence and the general dunderfank of our political kettle are complacently basking in the last hey-day of their sunshine; but a big storm of ballots in February will begin the winter of their discontent.

            That the Advertiser is chasing the Marshal up a Kanyon , but he will seek refuge in a Beaver dam up the hill and the majesty of his environments will enable him to elude the pursuit; then the P.C.A. will take its pot of war paint besmear the beautiful whiting of the Queen's Cabinet of curios.

 

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 end wed 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 desire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its antonomy, 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 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 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 undervalued for assessment or entirely escape taxation; we shall therefore demand the passage of the laws that will more effectually subject the property of the 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 on valuation which should be in proportion to the fertility of the soil.  We shall also favor the establishment of a graduated income-tax and thus expect to obtain ample funds 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 which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, trusts and privileges to special classes shall be rendered impossible, by full, definite and mandatory statuses. 

            6.  Betters laws should regulate the Civil Service.  The principle of the @@@@tion 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 salaries should be reduced and all sinecures or superfluous offices abolished.

 

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

            7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, @@@@@ 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 give preference to national products over imported ones.

 

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 airer proportion of the public moneys for the development of their resources 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 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 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 @@@@@ small farming is conductive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by chich 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 bona-fide settlers free of taxes for a limited period.

            It should be the further aim of the 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 RIHGT.

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should @@@@@@ 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 @@@st be abolished.  To this end, we @@@@avor a leveling of the present dist@@@@on of wealth and classes which blemish our laws with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiian 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 throughout the other Islands.

 

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 cradiate tan and freckles will be instructed by MRS. WERTHERN 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 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 trasact the same with me personally at my place at Honua@aha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

            KAPIOLANI.

            per. JOS. NAWA@@.

            Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891.          d-3m.