Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 380, 1 February 1892 — Page 5

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

Na Moho a ka Aoao Lahui Hawaii Liberala.

 

OAHU .

NA 'LII .

EONO MAKAHIKI-A. MARQUES; C. B. MAILE; CAPT. J. ROSS. EHA MAKAHIKI-E. B. THOMAS. ELUA MAKAHIKI-JAS. GAY.

NA LUNAMAKAAINANA .

AP.J. W.H.CUMMING. AP.2.J.W. BIPIKANE. AP.3.C.W.AKEPOKA. AP.4.S. K. AKI. AP.5.S.K.PUA. KOOLAU-POKO.J. E. BUSH

KOOLAU-LOA ME WAIALUA. R.W.WILIKOKI. EWA A ME WAIANAE. J. KAUHI.

 

HAWAII.

NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.

HILO IIEMA-JOSEPH NAWAHI. HILO WAENA- WM.MOSSMAN. HILO AKAU-JAMES MATTOON. KAU-J.N.KAPAHU KONA-CHAS.KAIAIKI

KOHALA-G.B.KAMAUOHA. HAMAKUA-Z. PAAKIKI.

 

MAUI.

NA LUNAMAKAAINANA.

WAILUKU AKAU-L.W.P.KANEALII. WAI@UKU HEMA-W.B. KEANU. MAKAWAO-J.KAMAKELE. HANA-P.KAMAI. LAHAINA-W.M.WHITE.

MOLOKAI-NAKALEKA.

 

KAUAI.

Na 'Lii .

E. LINDEMANN       6 MAKAHIKI.

Na Lunamakaainana.

KOLOA A ME LIHUE-W.A.KIHA. HANALEI-IKAAKA KAHILINA. WAIMEA-LIWAI KAUAI

 

Platform of Principle OF THE HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

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 @nd wed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to property, 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 becomes necessary for the public welfare, they may abolish existing forms and establish more advantageous and equitable system@ and, as the present Constitution of the of the Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was established 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.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

 

            2. Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population we desire 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 @ with the United States of America, should be revi@ed, so as to better @ present necessities and to obtain more equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by @.

JUDICIARY REFORM

 

            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 p@ti@an spirit @nd to @ender 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, wh@ much of the rich man's goods are under valued for @nent or entirely escape taxation; we @ therefore demand the passage of laws that will more @ subject the property of corporations and rich citizens to their just proportion of public burdens, while granting more liberal exemptions to the poor; and @ of discouraging the locking up of large tracts of uncultivated lands, a differential tax should be levied in addition to the usual @ 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 th@ expert to obtain ample funds for conducting the government and attending to all necessary public improvements without any further calls on the @.

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.

PUBLIC SERVANTS

            6. Better laws should regulate the Civil Service. The principle of the @tion 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, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all sine curve or superfluous offices abolished.

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

 

            7. We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, @ 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.

LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT

 

            8. We desire a more liberal policy towards the different @ of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion o@ the public moneys for the development of their resources and the @ of their wants. In fact, the principle of local Self-government should be extended, whereby giving localities may choose the most important of their loyal executive officers, and levy taxes for the purpose @ improvements of a public nature.

PROTECTION OF THE LABORING CLASSES

 

            9. We shall endorse all measure tending to improve the condition of the working classes, and consequently, without injuring any @ rights, we will advocate laws to prevent all further importation or employment of contract-labor of any kind, upon condition which will bring it into a ruinous and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor. We shall also @ the interest of the better @ of the poor, ask for more liberal exemption of their property from for@ sale on execution and from @in bankruptcy proceeding.

SNALL 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 @ or @ 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 stability of the the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by when the ownership of small tracts of land and the settlement thereon of families of our present population,-and @ 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 as far as can be done without invading @ rights) should be devoted as soon as @ 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 RI@T

 

            11. We hold that upright and @ manhood, and not the @ of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should @ 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 @ be abolished. To this end, we will favor a leveling of the present d@tion of wealth and @ which blemish our laws with respect of the right to vote for nobles, thereby restoring to the native Hawaiian privileges which pertain to them in their own country, and of which they have been un@tly deprived.

            INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

 

            12. We favor the expenditure @ufficient sums to secure a number of n@ public improvements on Oahu and other Islands; school, railroads and harbors and wharves, public light, and also a thorough system of reservoir and water-works, not only for Honolulu but through-out the other Islands.

NOTICE.

 

            LADIES wishing their feathers dyed or cleaned or curled can have it done by MRS. WERTHERN. 103 Beretania Street.

            LADIES wishing to purify their complexion and cra@ tan and freckles will be in@ted by MRS. WERTHERN free of charge. 103 Beretania Strees past the @rmory.           317-d@m*

Public Notice.

 

            Know all men by this notice th@ from and after this date, I have this day discharged Mr. H.C. Ulakoa, from acting as an agent, for me in any @ whatever, in the charge and administration of all my property, and in the collection of all @ 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 tr@ the name with me personally, at my place at Hon@, at Honolulu, Oahu. KAPIOLANI.

            per Joe Nawa@ Honolulu Nov 3, 1@1.         d-@.

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