Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 350, 22 December 1891 — Page 4
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KA LEO O KA LAHUI.
"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."
KA LEO O KA LAHUI
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John E. Bush.
I @a Hooponopono a me Puuku.
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TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1891
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Reform Nominations.
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The nominations made at the conference at Rev. Wm. H. Rice’s residence. Lihue, Kauai, are: For Noble, August Drier, owner of the Eleele Plantation. For Representative W. O. Smith for Lihue; A. Wilcox for Hanalei; Apukai for Waimea. These candidates represent the plantation interests. The people have yet to be heard from. Reports gives the name of Ikaaka Kahilina for Hanalei; W. A. Kiha @ Mika for Lihue; J. Holi for Waimea.
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The See-Saw Game.
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While speaking of the good services done by Wilson detectives in this issue, we were reminded of the good work that had been imitated with the chefa gamblers, and its sudden collapse. The question naturally arises as to this sudden cessation in the suppression of crime, when it is as it were openly done. The Chinese are indifferent as to consequences, saying so long as they pay assessments it makes no difference to them. The Hawaiians, we understand, are learning this peculiarity of his heathen brother, and, we opine, from this inexplicable freedom of arrest, that there is an almond eye view of seeing the hossifers in order to escape detection.
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The Future Representative from Kohala.
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The future Representative elect from Kohala, will likely be Mr. G. P. Kamauoha. The advent of the Hons. R. W. Wilcox and Wm. White at this place has undoubtedly secured the popular sentiment in favour of this gentlemen for Legislative honore. He stands in favour of the so-called Bush-Wilcox-Huntsman platform of principles, which favors, among other things a new constitution and the re-systematizing of the civil service in its higher divisions. He stands really as a candidate of the Hawaiian National Liberal Party, composed of the International Liberal League and the Hawaiian National Liberal Party.
His opponents is the young renegade and traitor to the Party last session of the Legislature, Hon. K. Hookano. This young gentleman has a record that is esteemed equal to any of Boss Buckley’s gang. He has an eye like that of an owl’s which cannot stand the scrutiny of light, and a claw equally as firm in its grip. In fact, he is a rare genius. In manipulating two masters he is a diplomat, having been known to have see-sawed two of our Foreign Office statesmen about two years ago. This peculiar characteristic, however, though excellent and useful to its possessor, has not found favour with the people of Kohala, and naturally they do not care to be represented by such a deft and nimble diplomat in the next Parliament. In additional to his other delectable traits, he is an expert in small law business, and will probably be a very acceptable adherent of the so-called Native Sons of Hawaii, which now consist of an ex-premier and about twelve Hawaiian lawyers.
With such a character for an opponent we cannot help feeling, that our readers will agree with us that Mr. Kamauoha will carry the district, the native voters having discovered that their interests are best served with men of smaller mental calibre and less of that peculiar genius that is generally ascribed to the law profession.
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The Police.
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The department has at last found two men, who are not afraid to do their duty. These two officers, detectives, and presumably well paid, after drawing their salaries with a number of others in the same class, has suddenly discovered themselves to the public that they are real, live detective, by pouncing in the most ingenious manner upon a native woman who keeps a little devil’s shop on Merchant Street, distinguished from others of the same character by its gate being painted blue.
The exports dressed themselves as tars in the most clever way danced a horn-pipe to lull the suspicious of the only woman of their kind in the place. The dancing is said to be far ahead of that of the two bears that were temporarily locked up at the Police Station about a week ago as revolutionists or republican orators sent by Uncle Sam in disguise, by possibly the same two detectives that made the raid on the blue gate hostelry.
The dancing of these two Wilsonians were equal to any Hawaiian hula, from the description given in the P. C. A., and by impartial observers, it was said to even excel the can-can. It stole the heart of the unfortunate woman and caused her to stand the beer for the Wilsonians. The beer and the pieces of silver proved too much for the woman, and like the bears, she was placed in limbo. The rejoicing at the Police Department was great, and will be remembered as a red-letter day hereafter in official circles.
This wonderful feat by the detective section of the police force, calls for the deepest expression of gratitude on the part of the public, and we think, the Press should unite and call a public demonstration, embodying its appreciation in illumined letters, embellished with two dancing bears to commemorate the event.
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THE WAR MINISTERS CRY PEACE:
The following from the Montreal Weekly Star, under date of the 20 th ultimo, is a good commentary on some passages of Scripture. One referring to Christ’s second coming, is “For when they shall say. Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” @1 Thess. 5:3. Another is Joel 3:9, 10 which reads: “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up; beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.” Others might be given referring to this very time, but these are sufficient in connection with many such utterances as that which follows, to show that we are living in the last days, and that before us but little space is the great battle of the day of the Lord:
“Whenever one of the European powers gives the world a new proof of the strength of its armaments with every new ironclad build, with every new battalion put on the field, it feels bound to proclaim through its statesmen and newspapers that all these improvements means peace, that its only aim is the maintenance of the European equilibrium. And all at once, from other countries equally improving their armaments, you hear as an echo the same utterances, ‘We want peace, we are working in the interest of peace!’ This has been the cry (keynote?) of the last few weeks. France, whose latest diplomatic successes are not to be contested, and whose recent grand manoeuvres have been particu. @ brilliant, has declared to Europe, through Mr. Ribot, minister of foreign affairs, that their only ambition is the peaceful development of her resources and the maintenance of her dignity. . The German chancellor Her Von Caprivi, has not lost time in answering (in his speech at Osnabruck) in the same tone, and the German and Austrian papers have echoed it. So, all goes for the best; but we have been hearing these things so many times now that we will finish by not believing in them. Without doubt, peace is secured until next spring but after that --. The new situation created by the Franco-Russian alliance makes war more imminent than before; not that it has resuscitated a new cause for war but because the old causes always exist and have been aggravated.-Ex.
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ON DIT.
That Boston Smith’s Hawaiian treaty with Uncle Sam is by latest news accepted at Washington. But where does the consent of the Native Hawaiian come in.
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That Hon. R. W. Wilcox will return by Friday, after making the circuit of Hawaii.
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That the Hawaiian Sunday School teachers at Kaumakapili are being supplanted with white missionary teachers. A correspondent asks, is it because election is coming on. Echo says very likely.
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That “Hunger-Bread,” made of tree bark, powdered peas, goosefoot, and seasoned with dried dung, is what the professing Christian world feeds starving Russia with.
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That there is a deficit or difference in the accounts of one of the subordinate bureaus of the government, of $12.000, at least; and it is no wonder that there has been so much anxiety and feeling in the success of certain elections lately, and cry for more.
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That Captain Ross drew out the response from Johnny that the Helele or Messenger was bought by “we” to keep it out of the hands of decay.
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That Pete says that the Chief Justice is the biggest politician in the country: which is true almost more reason for the adoption of our plank in the platform to elect officers. We, says Pete, have to pay their salaries, but we have no voice in their appointment; thus argues Peter, and his arguments are sound.
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That Bowler if absent from the street corners down town boring some one, can be found at the door steps of a certain Stone Cathedral, begging for political blessing.
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That Ah Young is nominated a Noble for Hawaii, to demonstrate to the uninitiated the beauties of monarchical and the usefulness of republican principles. Young is old in some of his hydeah’s.
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That at last Thursday’s meeting of the Union, people on the streets thought that Bowler was being murdered, when really the latter was only squirming under a straight forward soft impeachment made by John Ross that the Union should deny as a body, what the Elele published as a fact, that the Union wanted to be in collusion with the Reform Party. This of course touched a raw spot and made Bowler howl and froth at the mouth, that’s all, nothing more. The devil will have his little jokes, anyhow.
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That the friends of our contemporary of the P. C. A., subscribed for and bought him a keg of sugar, in order to sweeten his surcharged disposition, but were astonished to find out that it had an irritating instead of a mollifying effect.
That the International League will hold their regular meeting this evening as usual.
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Platform of Principle
OF THE
HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.
INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY MONOPOLIES
5. We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by which all favouritism 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 to 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 favour 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 give preference to national products over imported ones.
PUBLIC SERVANTS.
LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
(: We desire a more liberal policy towards the different Islands of the Kingdom, outside 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 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 contractlabor 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. oi @
SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS:
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 famers and planters have been driven out by corporations or combinations of capitalists; but as small farming is conductive 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 their 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 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 favour 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 favour a levelling 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 favour 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.
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Public Notice
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Honolulu Nov. 3, 1891. d-3m.
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