Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 358, 1 January 1892 — 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 mea Hooponopono a me

Puuku.

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY I, 1892.

 

UNTRUE.

 

            EDITOR: --- I am asked, to @ice of letters printed abroad, and attributed as mine, and do so reluctantly, as these letters are so foolish and so incorrect.  The letters said to be mine printed in the Herald of New York, are not mine, and my information from the States are that some one represented himself as Mr. Moreno, passed those letters in to the sub-editor of the Herald, and thus that paper was @ to publish a canard.  I send @ a clipping from the S. F. Examiner, that shows the attempt to @ me as false, and as the work of some of these reform tools and renegade petty kanaka lawyers.

                        R. W. WILCOX.

            HONOLULU, December 8. --- There is no change in affairs here as yet, nor does there seem to be any indications of a political upheaval in the near future.  The interviews with Celso Casar Moreno which have been published only show him, as he is well known here, as an agitator.  Moreno was, in Aug. 1880, Minister of Foreign affairs of the Hawaiian Kingdom.  He enjoyed the honor for only four days, when he was deposed through the exertions of the foreign residents, irrespective of race.  His knowledge of Hawaiian affairs is considered to be limited.

            Robert Wilcox, the Hawaiian agitator, is taking a hand in the preliminary movements of the coming political campaign, but he is regarded by the community as very harmless, especially as his following is entirely Hawaiian, than which there is no race more peaceably disposed.

LOYAL OF THE QUEEN.

At a meeting of the Hui Kalaiaina Society on December 4th a resolution was introduced that the proposal of converting Hawaii into a republic was entirely disapproved.  Mr. Kaulukou, who introduced the resolution, said there was a rumor in circulation that certain persons were conspiring to overthrow the Queen, and that some statements had been made to the effect that Queen Liliuokalani herself favored the project.  The speaker emphatically declared that republican form of government would be sure destruction to Hawaii and the natives.

            Wilcox replied to the speaker and said he believed the subject was brought up to catch votes.  Papers at New York and Washington had said that Hawaii was in favor of a republic.  Such idle talk was circulated abroad because of the utter mis-government of affairs at home.  Education, he said, was not appreciated by the present government.  To form a republic the bayonet would be necessary: it would not be accomplished by idle talk.  He closed by saying: "We must all be loyal Hawaiians, and tell the Queen that her present government is unjust and a disgrace to the nation.  We must not flatter her, but point out her wrong doing to her.  That is the only way to strengthen her position and continue her throne."

            After some further discussion the Chairman close debate, saying that Hui Kalaiaina will ever be for a monarchial form of government for Hawaii.  Kaulukou's resolution was indefinitely postponed.

            Honolulu papers referring editorially to Wilcox's utterances express doubt as to his position, but refer it naturally to the approaching elections.---S. F. Ex.

 

A Coaltion Meeting.

 

            The meeting of the Mechanics Union and the Hui Kalaiaina, which accidentally took place on purpose at the Robinson Hall, failed to materialise.  The object of this coming together accidentally was to see if they could possibly get the native Hui Kalaiaina to swallow another platform of principles, which, in case it was done, would make three of the latter.  The meeting was so slim, with even the combination of the two political organizations, that the Vice President McKenzie, who has been presiding, gave out after waiting until 8 o-clock P. M. that the Mechanics Union would withdraw, which left the balance of the evening and the hall to the Hui Kalaiaina, composed of a few disappointed reform native lawyers.  We pity these people, and hope they will mend their ways.  The Hui Kalaiaina's meeting ended in gaseous vaporings from Kaulukou and Testa.

 

The Hon. R. W. Wilcox.

 

            We welcome back the honorable gentleman from his tour to the windward islands, of Hawaii and Maui, in the interest of the people and in advocacy of the principle of popular government, and also to confer with the native Hawaiians in making their selections for Representatives and Nobles.  While representing the popular Party, composed of the Hawaiian National Liberal and the International Liberal League, his present tour has been undertaken more in the interest and at the request of the country people.  Mr. Wilcox is very popular with the Hawaiians, and they looked upon him as one of their special advisors, and whatever he suggests to them is readily accepted.

            We are particularly pleased to note that all the calumnies that are being attempted to injure him, and through him the party of the People, has had no effect in the mind of the masses.  The man, is very naturally idolized for his attempt to restore their lost constitutional rights, and the risk which he took in doing so.  These things tell with the Hawaiians, more than anything our wealthy Hawaiians can do towards him through their wealth or through the few lawyers who have sold themselves like Judases for pelf.

His visit has been very successful and we predict a grand victory for the National Liberals throughout the entire outer districts.

 

SICILY LEMONS

 

            We were handed a lemon imported direct from Italy by way of New York and overland to San Francisco , by the firm known as the California Fruit Market Company.  These citrus fruits come here in perfect condition in boxes of one thousand, box after box being opened without a defective lime to be found in them.  They are very carefully picked and packed in tinfoil paper.  These same fruit are produced here, and are raised on the Morris's ranch at Kalihi Valley, and at Mr. Emmeluth's at the rise to Nuuanu Valley, but not near sufficient to supply present demand.  The fruit raised here is as good as any imported and the tree is a good grower and prolific bearer.  It takes about three or four years to be in full bearing.  There is an unexhaustible demand for this article, and many other fruits, which we can raise here, that pays the investment at cent per cent.  The produce of pineapple, and other tropical fruits are lost sight of in the greater sugar scramble.  We know that pine apples are not to be had for less than fifty to seventy-five cents each, where they ought to pay at five cent each, as shown by the prospectus issued by the Pearl City Fruit Company.  Why whine about our prospects, when the market is limitless for tropical fruits which grows here prolifically and luxuriantly.  Bosh about sugar being the only stable product for this country, when all the sugar mills could be utilized as canning factories for pine-apples, alone, having the world for a market, and thereby giving employment to skilled and unskilled labor for a large and intelligent population.

 

THE VILLAGE CHOIR.

 

Half a bar, half a bar,

            Half and bar onward!

                        Into and awful ditch,

                        Choir and Precentor hitch,

                        Into a mess of pitch,

                        They led the Old Hundred,

Trebles to the right of them,

Tenors to the left of them,

Basses in front of them,

            Bellowed and thundered.

Oh, that Precentor's look,

When the sopranos took

Their own time and book,

            From the Old Hundred.

 

Screeched all the trebles here,

Boggled the tenors there,

Raising the parson's hair,

            While his mined wandered:

Theirs not to reason why

This Psalm was pitched too high:

Theirs but to grasp and cry    

            Out the Old Hundred.

Trebles to the right of them,

Tenors to the left of them,

Basses in front of them,

            Bellowed and thundered.

Stormed they will shoot and yell,

Not wise they sang, nor well,

Drowning the sexton's bell,

            While all the church wondered.

 

Dire the Precentor's glare,

Flash'd his pitchfork in the air,

Sounding fresh keys to bear

            Out the Old Hundred.

Swiftly he turned his back,

Reached he his hat from rack,

Then from the screaming pack

            Himself he sundered.

Tenors to the right of him,

Trebles to the left of him,

Discords behind him,

            Bellowed and thundered.

Oh, the wild howls they wrought.

Right to the end they fought!

Some tune they sang, but not,

            Not the Old Hundred.

                                    ---Andre's Journal

 

ON DIT.

 

            That a minister once wrote a letter to the Diplomatic officers of a certain Republic to land troops ashore and take possession of the country, because the sovereign did not care to have him.

 

            That poor Bowler was disapointed at the failure of their little plan to bag the Hui Kalaiaina, and is out of pocket by the operation.

 

            That the Bow(d)ler is anxious to become a peer, and is bold enough to hope for a nomination, in order to enter Boodle Castle with a handle to little "Johnny."

 

            That the bulletin editor finding himself, with its numerous assistants, unable to cope with KA LEO, says it ought to be suppressed.  That the Bulletin has been trying all along to suppress the native Hawaiians, under the profession of being their friends, and finding that the natives do not want any more such friends, would like now to suppress the only free and independent press in the country.

 

            That a reformer of considerable influence in Hilo, says, that all they are so anxious about is to get men in the Legislature to agree to the cession of Pearl Harbor.  And for what?

 

            That a letter was written by the present opponent of the Leaders of the National Liberty Party, who has the largest voice in the management of the Holomua, intended for the American Representative here, urging him to land troops and annex the country.  How is this for cumin events? who were these traitors then, and who are the patriots now?  Echo says that the traitors then are the same now and who wrote those letters.

 

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 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 one office of profit, while salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All executive salaries should be reduced and all @ares of superfluous offices abolished.

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 regulations; 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 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 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

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 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 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 RIGHT

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should constitute the right to vote.@ 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 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 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.

 

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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 d@ 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 Honuaoaha, at Honolulu, Oahu.

                                    KAPIOLANI.

                        per JON. NAWAHI.

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