Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 341, 9 December 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

@ LEO O KA LAHUI

 

John E. Bush.

 

I@  Hooponopono  a  me  Puuku.

 

WEDNESDAY, DEC, 9, 1891.

 

THE WEATHER.

 

            @resent indications forshadow a w@ winter. The past year having been unusually dry, and it is but natural to hope that the winter months now drawning upon us will @ng moisture to the parched ground, and contribute its wealth @lueing pearly drips towards the rehabilstment of the earth with its mantle of greea and also to reviv@y the drooping spirits of our @ barons.

 

OUR APOLOGY.

 

            The poor Bulletin, having received through one of its stock-holders and former editor something substantial from the Queen, as an act of grace and loving kindness, and hoping for more favors, (which by the way come from the public purse) @ us for being more truthful than courteous, and bags us to apologise to our most gracious Liliu Regina.

            We sympathise with the editor of the Bulletin, who seems to feel the isolated position of that journal as court jester, and is desirous that we should join him and thus form a pair of buffoons. Thank you, Mr. Editor, we have seen one sovereign of Hawaii nei made a sacrifice to such sycophancy as occasionally crops out in the columns of our contemporary the Bulleting. We prefer to be truthful and to point out the vanities and follies of this life in plain terms for her good, instead of screening them for the sake of gaining the sovereign's favor. We are not after the Beagle's or the Boodler's style of securing the sovereign's favor. Our loyalt ylies in an opposite direction.

            Dan, no doubt, means well, but is not posted with the ways of royalty, and thus ignorantly talks about one thing in palliation of another, and one of the grossest acts that one can commit against God and man--to turn a deaf dear to the cry of distress, to assist the children of the poor demented for@meteller, who had been a faithful @end and had held up the horoscope of the future, in an encouraging manner to her who refused alms to her children.

            We hope the Bulletin, will do us the justice, and apologise in a manly way,, for we take the stand for the poor without respect of persons.

 

The Sovereign's Charities.

 

            The Daily Bulleting takes us to task for criticising the sovereign's want of charity, and makes a few illustrations of her generosity. The charity which we alluded to in our comments, we are sorry to say, for the sake of the Bulleting, and its client, does not come under the pale of that embraced in the gift of the Queen. The gift of $20,000 to an association is good in its way; @ has a great deal of the "sounding brass, and clanging cymbal" to be of much profit to the needy. A great deal of her Majesty's benevolence is circumscribed. We know that the fruits of the philanthropic organizations under her patronage are not free, but much of it is for her servants and tenants, and more of it for her creatures. The benefits of the $20,000 is yet to be heard of; the needy are at her doors; and as we have stated. they do not receive the welcome that the Saviour said, should be given them,-- "the poor ye have with you always." When one have the evidence of poverty and want asking alms, it is not becoming charity to look at the nationality of the poor, and then turn them empty from and abundant store-house. To whom much is given, much is expected. Selfishness or want of charity is the opposite of Chritianity, of that "love that suffereth long, and is kind; that envieth not, that vaunteth not itself, and is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not her own."

 

The Firemen's Election.

 

            As we anticipated a week ago. that Mr. Julius Asch, and his Assistants, Messrs Hunt and Kalawaia would be elected, so it has proven.

            Mr. Asch has been for along time attached to the Fire Department, and is also a skilled machinist, two requisites that aid him in his capacity as Chief Engineer of the Fire organization of the city. His Assistants are also, like him, long standing members of the Department, and are active, vigilant and popular. In the hands of these men we feel satisfied that the "public good" will be well served, and no partiality shown in the administration of the affairs of this all necessary organization.

            The electioneering among the members on either side was sharp and well faught. No point in election tactics was omitted by either party. The defeated ticket took their Waterloo like men, though astonished at the result. The defeated nominees were the elect of Company No. 1, who have been successful for a long time in their nominations, having had control of the Department for about eight years. After so long a period, in on party's hand, we believe, the change will beneficial to all. A great deal of tact is required in regulating the affairs of the Department in order to harmonise the several companies belonging to is, and direct the and zeal rivalry usual among firemen in the proper channel. We hope, the newly elected officers will be able to do this, and that they would do credit to themselves and the fire organization of our city, and maintain its present officiency as has been done under the able management of the retiring chief and his staff.

 

Complacency.

 

            KA LEO, voicing the sentiment of the National Party and of those most patriotically interested in the welfare of the country, has been making a consistent fight for the well known and well ventilated policy of our party. We are charged with inconsistency, which we deny.

            If we have admitted to our columns political personalities, it was for the purpose of discovering or uncovering the friends and the enemies of the people, and of luring the renegades. If we have given space to republican excerpts and speeches it was as political lessons, for the benefit of those on high, and to teach the people their power. Other topics that we may have introduced and commented on have been for the purpose of discovering the battle ground of party and the slogans of the campaign. But the editorial utterances of KA LEO have been conceived and put forth with a steadfast, planned and consistent purpose, having in view the best welfare of our country and our people, and the administrative and constitutional reforms necessary therefor.

            But since the Advertiser has conceived the idea that our policy is going to ruin the country and has given space in its columns to tell its readers so; will not the Advertiser be generous and fair enough to state its grounds for such a belief. We are impressed with a feeling that we are battling for the country's good and are curious to know what the Advertiser finds wrong in it. A simple denumciation is not convincing. Since you denounce KA LEO and its supporters, you ought in honor, to state your reasons why or else cease fooling with printers ink.

 

SPARKS OF FIRE!

 

            That The Ring is broken,

 

            That Balmaceda, of Chilean fame, and Marshal Wilson, of Hawaiian notoriety, got left on naming their (would be) successors to office.

 

 

            That the Mechanics Union connection, lost the fire election for Mr. Moore. Moral--better be alone than in bad company.

 

            That Wilson's boss rule does not suit the average Hawaiian.

 

            That the pile of Ashes was only smouldering, but got ablaze and destroyed More.

 

            That it was the office chasing the man, and the man got ahead. More-anon.

 

 

ON DIT.

 

            That the so-called Mechanics Union, will not come within a stone's throw of the winning post.

 

            That the Wilcox's blue--jackets dearly love to stay at Honolulu.

 

            That the American Eagle was very thirsty on Saturday night.

 

            That an orator's wind will be shut off, while reporters continue verbatum accounts. "Potash."

 

            That plastere's Peter Quinn says, he can plaster all round the Bowl(d)er.

 

            That men are only grown boys as will be seen at the national game called the "tug-of-war" to take place soon.

 

            Thst the old dredge's boiler cost $300 to be as-@ested. That the work was done with the cast-away stuff from the Eleu's boiler. Eighty dollars would have been a good sum for the job, but dear as done by a botch hand. Potash again!

 

            That the Mechanics Union is likely to come out soon as Reform supporters.

 

            That the Minister of Interior is very kind to the man he thinks controls the great woats of the byes.

 

            That after the elections J. B is going right straight to Ballymorne to plaster the old mud cabin.

 

            That the duty from liquors is our most important revenues.

 

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 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 beeomes 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 establisded 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 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.

            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 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 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 statutes.

            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 than on office of profit, whilst salaries should be adaquate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all @ or superfluous offices abolished.

 

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 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 l @ 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 exemption 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 driver out by corporations or combinations of capitalists: but as small farming is conducive to the stability of the State, @ 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 the districts, cheap means of conv@ing 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 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 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 law- 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 curled can have it done by MRS. WERTHERN. 103 Beretania Street.

            LADIES wishing to purify their complexion and eradiate tan and freckles will be instucted 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 transact the same with me personally, at my place at Honua@aha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

                                                                                                KAPIOLANI.

                                                                        per Jos. Nawahi.

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