Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 359, 4 Ianuali 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO O KA LAHUI

 

John E. Bush.

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1892.

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OUR REASONS.

 

            @ country, there are times @ there are serious reasons for taking the community to task, @ for the evile and vices that exists in the land to the detriment of the @ welfare.  The argument is often put forward that a man's faults or vices are his own and is therefore nobody's business to criticize or to find fault with.  This may be all very true where the vise or fault extends no further than himself, but we hold, on the con@ that when a man's life or @ becomes examples of vice and a source of danger to the welfare of every one in the community, the public has the right to put a stop to such pernicious examples, by every legitimate means at its command, and it is especially the duty of the Press to bring to the surface such defects in the life of the community.  More especially does this become a duty with them, when the law is so administered that vice @ at a premium and virtue placed at a discount as it is in @ Hawaii nei today.

            For the foregoing @ we feel it a duty to call the attention of the community to the @ ignores or @ before it is too late, or @ the putrefying excrescence has distorted the vitality of the People as a Nation.

            In doing our duty, however, we find the immoral pest has so far nestled in the community that, aside from individuals, it has nee fastened its leaden and deadly influence upon the public prints of the city, more especially in the case of one of our city dailies, whose hookers @ to squirm and to feel our but faint expose, and in @ and champions its @ by @ voice, @ that @ out the wicked @ and @ of other @, fairly illustrated by @ of @ and @ as it @ in vice until they were destroyed.

            While these @ are busy with editors and newspapers, and their @ we are pleased to read of the fearless young Emperor of Germany, taking a hold stand against what is termed the fashionable vices of the period.  -the social evil and gambling -both of which have reached such a stage in the fatherland, that it is found to have a @ population.

            It has been found that in Germany and also @ that the increase of the social evil and alcoholism has @ so demoralizing that the regenerative power of these nations have @ and that it is @ will @ and reduce them to a third rate @ in the course of a century @ not stopped.

            We are afraid that as things are going on here, this Nation will be extinct in about twenty five years, and for that reason we say, let us mend our ways and avoid the natural and impending doom of such a course of living.

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Gambling in Honolulu

            We are preparing an elaborate essay on gambling and its evils, and will profusely illustrate the article with @ examples, wherein many of our first class people are participants.  We are saying this  beforehand in order to give the Bulletin a chance to step in and make another protest and endeavor to shield gambling as a fashionable past time.

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A New Minister of Finance.

            We hear from very good authority that Hon. H.A.Widemann is appointed Minister of Finance, and that he has appointed his Carl Widemann to be a Clerk in his Department.  Whatever may be said about the new minister, he is generally very prompt to look out for his interests and those that are near and dear to him.  Well why not?  Echo says: Why?

            The same cannot be said of his predecessor, who it is said is so scared of doing right for fear of its being remarked, that he would rather appoint a nomination of the little major" of some boon companion than one that would suit the people.

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Have You Seen Him Lately.

 

            Frank Dowling the alleged false pretense man, too policeman for a walk looking upa one thousand dollars bond.  After visiting some friends to no purpose, they called upon Chinese aikane, went in the front door, and has not come out yet.  A Paradise of the Pacific, P.D. has all in hand except the missing sport Dowling.

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POOR HON. KALUA HOOKANO.

 

            His record is so bad, that the people of Kohala occluded to shelve him, and thus the Reform Party, are without a candidate for representatives.  They propose however, to substitute a @, Mr. @ a plantation lawyer and a churchman, or missionary pre@ Mr. @ @, for refusing to @ rest of paragraph.

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QUERY

 

            The following corresponded was handed for publication to the P.C. Advertiser, and we were verbally informed to the Bulletin also. As an independent paper, we give space to the correspondence, holding ourselves in no way responsible for the @ as report ed in the letter.

Editor of the P.C. Advertiser:-

            I witnessed @ Tuesday Dec. 22, p.m., on board the steamer Canadian which gave rise in my mind to the following @ it customary or allowable for the employees of the @ S.S. Co. @ willfully @ citizens who go on board departing steamers to bid farewell to lady friends?  The circumstances were as follows:

            A gentleman in company with a couple of ladies went on board the Calaudine to see a party of friends off.  After bidding the ladies good bye, he stepped on the port ladder leading the the main deck, when the Chief Engineer, of the steamer came rushing up and gave him a violent push evidently intending to send him heading to the iron deck below.  Fortunately however he caught the rail then turned and struck the engineer, when a most disgraceful melee ensued, in which the assaulted man, the engineer, captain and dock suplendent all participated.

            By inserting this in your next issue, you will greatly oblige.

AN EYE WITNESS.

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A Clash.

 

            We hear that a communication by Vice-President Wolters, international Liberal, was send to the Mechanics Union, asking for a conference of the two Associations.  This letter was sent on Mr. W's own responsibility, and we hear that the invitation was treated with contempt by the latter, just as we expected.

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Hui Kalaiaina Meeting.

 

            Last Saturday evening this society met, and after wrangling for a long time, President Kahoonei left the Chair in disgust.  The attempt was made to bring the Hui under the influence of the Son's of Hawaii, which so disgusted the President that he left the Chair, and on his departure the rest followed.  President Judas repents.

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A Hireling Press.

 

            The servile and sycophantic Bulletin in order to shield the scum and mud and the @ into which our people have been driven into through the lack of courage of the dial Bulletin to expose it and to bring it to the surface, steps to the front and like the whited sepulcher and with the voice of the phar@ cry "all is well," in the face of the acknowledged truth of our statements about the rotten condition of our @ from palace to @, which every body knows.  The Bulletin and its stock holders we @@ rest of paragraph…

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CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

 

"Get ye up from the wrath of God's terrible day!

Ungirded, @, arise and away!  Tie the vintage of blood, 'tis the @ of time.

And vengeance shall gather the harvest of crime!"

 

The warning was spoken; the righteous had gone,

And the @ of Sodom were @ alone;

A@ was the @, the revel was @,

@ whole sentence.

 

'Twas an evening of beauty; the air was @,

And mostly the delicate @ was heard, like the murmur of love are the notes of a him.

and beautiful maiden moved down in the dance,

With the magic of motion and sunshine of glance;

And white arms wreathed lightly, and tresses fell @

As a plumage of birds in some tropical trees.

 

Where the shrines of soul idols were lighted on high.

And wantonness tempted the lust of the eye:

Midst rites of obsceneness, strange, loathsome, abhorred,

The blasphemer scoffed at the name of the Lort.

 

Hark! the growl of the thunder - the quaking of earth!

Woe, woe to the worship, and wee to the mirth!

The black sky has opened, -there's flame in the air, -

The red arm of vengeance is lifted and dare!

 

Then the shriek of the dying rose wild where the song

And the low tone of love had been whispered along:

For the fierce flames went lightly over palace and bower.

Like the red tongues of demons, to blast and devour!

 

Down, down on the fallen the red ruin rained,

And the reveler sank with his wine-cup undrained;

The foot of the dancer, the musie's loved thrill,

And the shout and the laughter, grew suddenly sill

 

The last throb of anguish was fearfully given;

The last eye glared forth in its madness on heaven!

The last gross of horror rose widely and vain;

And death brooded over the pride of the plain!

-Whitier.

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ON DPT.

           

            That after an occasional indulgence in ginger ale, the M@ are heard to boast that, "us two kin @ the whole @ vernmint better than any four @ them and don't you forget it; shire ant we runnin the anterior department as its-do you @ now.

 

            That the Maui pugilist who is always on top in a woman fight, is to be @ as Colonel, and in the near future paha as a Brevet Brigandier in command of the ladies-in-waiting.

 

            That for unblushing check and @ commend us to the @.

           

            That the man Friday of the @ is to be @ with long distance @ so that he can see from the Roof of @ around @ and so have an eye on all the @ that is @ in that snug little @, from all the double topmast schooners.

 

            That some of the old firm can look out for all that is landed on the Koolau side from the Barkentines that trade between Frisco and Honolulu and that occasionally lay long enough to build a raft to float ashore the stuff - peer Mary Wink leman, as she lay for twenty four hour in distress on a lee shore.

 

            That the @ was heard to say that he was going to Wailua, and that he would see whether Hon. R.W. Wilcox would get @.

 

            That Mr. A. Apukai is the coming Waimea, Kauai, Representative for the next election.  That W.O. Smith, stands best at Koloa and Lihue; and that J. Kahilina ia likely to carry Hanalei.

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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 in parveiled to suit favorites, and @ farmers and planters have been driven out by corporations of combinations of capitalists; but as small farming is @ to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new @ 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 he deveted as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred upon bona-fide settle@ 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 on conveying the product of the soil to market.

            ELECTORAL RIGHT.

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and set the @ of wealth, a@ fixed, should @ the right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be @ to the ballot of the rich @ than to the ballot of the poorman.  The discrimination in favor of wealth now made in our Constitution is contrary to all the eternal @ of right and justice, and must be abolished. To this @, we will favor a leveling of the @ distinction of wealth and classes which blemish our lawn with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the @ Hawaiians privileges which pertain to them in their own country, and of which they have been unjustly deprived.

            INTERNAL DEPROVEMENTS

            12.  We favor the expenditure of sufficient @ 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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NOTICE.

            LADIES wishing their feather dyed or cleaned and @ can have it done by MRS WERTHERN.  @ Beretania Street.

            LADIES wishing to purify their @ and @ will he @ by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge.  106 Beretania Street past the Armory.

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Public Notice.

 

            @@@ whole section

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THE PACIFIC NOVELTY WORKS,

 

A. HERING   Proprietor.

 

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