Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 348, 18 December 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

 

@@ L@O O KA LAHUI

 

John E. Bush.

 

@@ Hooponopon@ a me

 

Puuku.

 

Friday, DEC. 18, 1891.

 

 

Pearl Harbor.

 

            President Harrison in his message says:  “I strongly recommend that provisions he made for improving the Hardor of Pearl River and equipping it as a naval station.”  Who is ceding the country away, the Bush-Wilcox fation, or the Queen’s Government?  Bulletin parasites please answer.

 

WHAT THEY GOT.

 

            “And why should it end?  Is @rty history not one of which the country is justly proud?  Have our elected exp@nents been re@reant to their trust?  It is not rue beond @avil that when momentous questions were before the country they sank their political identity and legislated with the Reform members for the public welfare?”

 

-E@.

 

            Yes; it is true that the National Reform members voted with the Reform; they sank their political identity soon after the meeting of the Legislature: in other words, they proved turn-coats; they betrayed the trust reposed in them by the people; they deserted their standard to legislate for the good of the Reformers, and of their own respective selves.  No sooner had the traitors entered upon their infamous line of conduct, than the two daily foreign newspaper began  to give them every encouragement, and call them the respectable element who were working against the interest of the people who elected them, and nothing too bitter against the Bush-Wilcox crowd that “did not sink teir political identity with the Reform members,” but were true to their pledges to the people and to their principles.  These two scribblers havae got their reward; one Post-master General and the other Secretary of the Board of Immigration.

 

            The advantage of being respectable and white is seen in the employment of Mr. Lucas’ relations.  @@ Mr. Crabbe being employed in a lucrative situartion by members of the Reform Party, and of his son as Port Suveryor at a good salary.  Of our old and very respectable friend, Mr. Hermann Widemann, who became Minister of Finance, in the same Cabinet with the respectable Hawaiian whom he refused to support in the last Legislature.  That Mr. McCarthy was Mr. Bowler’s thirth-fice thousand champion, and the latter has become so “respectable” that he has become part owner of a political Elele, and is now trying to guide the Mechanics Junion and the Catholic vote into the hands of the “respectable” element, with an eye to a renewal of another claim of eleven thousand for no services rendered the government under a verbal contract – possibly for damages done the Emerald yacht Akamai in carrying mud for the Interior Deparmtnet.

 

            These are a few examples.  It is impossible to point out a single nominee of the Mecanics Union, who after te election, turned out to be of the “respectable class” (except the patriot Bowler of course) of the National Party, who is not in a better possition to-day than when he was intrusted with the Peoples’ power.  On the other hand not a single thing has been done for the benefit of the People and good of the country by that element.  Let their apologists tell of one act or how they helped the country in any way.  The dissatisfaction with corrupt and oppressive government has been growing day by day till public sentiment and endurance is about exhausted.  The “respectable” element is flourishing; but the government is worse off, and in a more advanced state of decay in consequence.

 

The Electon of Officers.

 

            The P. C. Advertiser evidently find ithard to kick against the pricks, when endeavoring to shield the old system of appointment and patronage in the distribution of public offices.  In its labored effors in an editorial of the 16 inst., it advocates the principle of election by the people as good, then qualifies it as no good by saying “that the carrying out of the principle of election by the will of the people does not necessarily do so,” and consequently it is to be inferred, can effect no good.  Immediately following this equivocal position, it says in a second paragraph, that “there are two advantages to be derived from the plan of direct election, one is that it will involve an extension of local self-government.  The other, that it will decrease the patronage of the Executive,” but only of sufficient advantage, so says the writer, to limit its application of certain officers.  To a certain extent, we coincide with our cotemporary, but not in the recommendations which he offers as to which office shall or shall not be elected.

 

            The highly educated writer of the P. C. Advertiser reviews and enumerates the situation, by commencing with the subordinates, such as policemen, and other unimportant and minor officers without direct or extented control or responsibility; members of the Board of Health without any salary, and so forth.

 

            Naturally the P. C. Advertiser, the champion of plutocrats, singles out the irresponsible subordinates as proper subjects to advance and starts an argument upon, it as to the feasibility or not of applying the election system in the choice of public servants, and by that means insinuates and inveighs against the principle, by advancing that part or machinery of government least in the calculation of the advocates of the elective system or as will operate the least in curing the @ill effects of the appointing system.

 

            The difficulty aimed at for correction is the abuses of appointments to office, and the only just and proper way to make th etrial on the plan of election by the will of the people should be by making the heads of appointments, of bureaus, and of every other office of responsibility elective; to have them feel that their choice is due to merit and worth, and that the choice and managment ia their conduct of their departments must necessarily require that supervision and selection as will meet the popular will.

 

            It probably never came into the minds of any of the advocates of the elective principle for choice of public servants to start with irresponsible policemen, soldiers, cantoniers, etc.  They differ unquestionably, in this respect, from the veiled championed of the old system, our friends of the P. C. Advertiser.

 

            To make the trial, the system, should be started, economically and fairly, and every well wisher should give his aid to assist the test.  It should begin, not with the offices first enumerated in the leading article of our cotemporary, but with the two principle departments of government, simply mentioned in the said article, withour comment – the Cabinet and Judiciary.

To be Continued.

 

 

Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense

 

            Henry C. first accused us of advocating the hula, in the P. C. Advertiser, because we credited the teachers of the Latter Day Saint’s Church at Laie, in our speech before the people of Koolauloa with teaching something that was far in advance of the native hula, or Hawaiian dance.  Be it remembered that hula, means dance, and that Mr. Castle knows what it meant, and when he insinuated someting entirely different from what we meant, and in his pharisaic manner endeavored to show his superior Christianity over the people of Laie, and our greater depravity, though under the cloak of a little joke, he simply was showing a deeper debusement than that which he accuses the “editor of the Bladder, yclept Ka Leo,” as tghe choice and immaculate linguist has it.

 

            We like a joke, and took our select and undefiled friend’s little scurrility at us and his sly thrust at the Mormon Christians of Laie, as one, and returned it in like coin, when, lo @ horror of horrors, we are dubbed a “Bladder,” (very chaste) and “debased.”  The heart of our friend, we are afraid, is inclined to be “desperately wicked,” as shown by the little insinuations which bubble up to the surfact occassionally and shows its jaundiced color on the feature of the immaculate Henry and in printers gall in the P. C. A.  We, however, syspathise with Henry, as a promising though over educated young man, whose education has educed all the sap in the young sappling, and has left nothing but conceit in an empty Castle, that might otherwise have proved a sturdy roundhead after the ancient ancestral true.

 

Harry and the Hula.

 

            That Henry being all legs and arms declares himself physically incapacitated to learn the poetry of motion or hula kui, and that he is only fitted to be a high kicker.

 

            That we sympathise with our fellow editor of the P. C. A. in his physical defection for the hula kui, but have hopes that if he will go over the one of C. B’s lady tenants, a daughter of a famous hula teacher, he may overcome the difficulty as others as ungainly before him have.

 

            That yesterday morning’s Advertiser say that Harry, the cancan teacher, tapped a “Bladder” in his ire, and got its limpid contents in his face; and how blames C. B. for the whole affair.

 

            That Harry is an aggressive joker, but takes a repartee.  Puritanically.  See Hula.

 

 

The Church of the Devil

 

New York Herald

 

I went to the Church of the Devil to-day;  The doors were wide open, the pews were all free.

 

An usher with bows, quickly showed me the way To a seat well in front, where I failed not to see

 

That the alto and tenor were “sister” and “brother” And the Sexton and parson spoke well of each other.

 

Beside me a beggar was muching a crust; Behind me a wide awake millionaire sat;

 

A lady in front; “You’ll pardon I trust My offense in obstructing your view with my hat!”

And before my slow tongue a reply could command

 

Her head was uncovered, her hat in her hand.

 

The sermon was all about living at ease; It scouted dull care and for pleasure pronounced;

 

Though I couldn’t agree with quite all that was said, Who follows that path will be pleasantly led.

 

A collection was taken and gold fell as fast As showers in April or seed corn in May

 

A confession of faith was then quickly recast, And they praised their old parson and doubled his pay.

 

In theory bad, but in practice right level, There’s much to admire in this Church of the Devil.

 

 

ON DIT.

 

            That the place huntsman is a half century too late to obtain a show, because all places are pigeonholed in a Castle, where neither moth nor rust nor place hunters can obtain a show at them.

 

            That C. W. Ashord has set the Castle is an uproar, and all the counsins are rallying around to defent it.

 

            That Mr. J. L. Kaulukou was heard to say after hearing Mr. C. W. Ashford’s address before the national Liberal League, that it would kill the two National Liberal associations that have advanced the only platform of principles that has been advaned thus far of merit and which has met universal approval.

 

            That since the little major has threatened to withdraw his account from Bishop & Co. that institution ought to quake.

 

            That E. C. Macfarlane writes for the Elele and in the confidence of the plasterer and his pals in C. O. Berger’s office.

 

            That the little major is opposing the National Party on Maui – with all his might and that is mighty little.

 

            That Henry is not only German, but is posted on French, and can give the can-can a la Francais or in Yarmane mein himmel! Yah ! Yah!

 

            That drunkenness among high official is on the increase, which is another argument in favor of the election of high government officers.

 

            That the eleven-foot in the Mechanics Union stuck out in a pair of clod hoppers.

 

            That the Privy Council meets to-morrow at 2 p.m.

 

 

            That our “publican friend and sinner” is excusable in betraying his friend “Abe,” since it was not long ago that he was running with the goats in the campaigh of 1890.

 

            That the fallability of any human being, man or woman, subject or ruler, is a vistage of ignorance, and is recognized or bolstered up by no one except a toady.  Bulletin please copy.

 

            That the Executive Committee of the Mechanics Union was practising the “tug of-war” last evening, having for a rope to tug on, the “declarations of principles” of the Libral Reform League.

 

            That the dependent protege son-in-law who accidentally got honorable to the his name, contemptuously asks his pals, what do those miserable Mechanics want?  Vat yu dink now shentilmen’s of dat Mechanics Union.

 

            That tose whose perveted tastes lead them to love swine, will do well to apply for this four-footed scavenger at the Kapahulu Ranch where the animals are properly fed and cleanly housed.  How hard it must be to a domesticated animal to give up his life and have his carcass done up as food, for his higher brethren in the social scale, and yet we demur to being eat up ourselves by those who prefer human carcasses.

 

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Public Notice.

 

Kn@w 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 posssesion 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, O@hu.

KAPIOLANI.

per Jos. Nawahi.

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