Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 420, 29 March 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO

John E. Bush

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1892

 

THE PALACE FORTIFIED

WARLIKE PREPARATION

            Yesterday morning, people going past the palace wer surprised to see a wall of sand bags  three deeps built on the coping of the ground wall immediately surrouding the Palace.  On inquiry we find, that the rumors that a partyof revolutionists were intending to raid the Palace and all the Government Buildings, with the intention of declaring a republic.  Just think – Republic of Hawaii! with a flag composed of the Iron Cross of Prussia, on the English Cross, the whole filled in with the white and red stripes of America.  The idea of a Republic with a flag representing three nationalities, America, English and Germany, was too much for the nerves even of our Butcher Cromwell, and the result was the Cromwellian spirit aroused in the Blacksmith and the Navvy and displayed in the energetic barricade surrounding the Palace, called up as it were by magic in the twinkling of a night.  The sand was stowed away in 1887, to defend the Palace with but was not used, owing to the treachery of the same parties who are engaged at the present military show.  Owing to R. W. Wilcox’s having resided since the revolution of July 30, 1889, in the rear, front and Waikiki sides of the Palace, at different times, thse sides were barricaded as being the most vulnerable and likely to an attack.  We also hear that the Invicibles or Wilson’s Ironsides, under command of and ex-road builder, were on duty, ready to scoop up anything and everything, even the shadows of the departed kings and chiefs, which have been seen lately hovering about the place, were not to be spared.  Auwe ka make!  Nuinui pilikia with me now!

 

            At first sight one might have imagined that Claus Sprekela had hired the Palace as a sugar warehouse, as the number of bags scattered on the outside indicated.  But viewed as a matter of strategy, the placing of the sand bags is not of much value.  If the Household Guard of sixty men, were placed behing the bags they would be like so many men in a hole, and any man outside of General Mowlein can see that, even if the guards and police could be relied on to shoot down their brothers and fellow citizens, their numbers do not amount to anything.  We think the Queen has been very badly advised in allowing a scare to be created at the present time, just on the eve of the assembling of Parliament.

            It appears as if the governing party, who have been so long talking of a revolution are afraid to meet Parliament and want to smother their @ and incapacity and other qualifications in a cloud of smoke.  It is highly improbable that if anyone initiated an armed insurrection – which we do not believe – that the Queen or palace would be in danger.  The people will discuss what is likely to be for their good, whether Monarchy or a Republic or Annexation to the United States or any other power and they wish to do it in a peaceful way, so that the discussion of the matter, or the change in the form of government – should it happen – may not disturb the Queen’s afternoon drive.

            We are at a loss to understand whether the Cabinet has advised the Queen to place this barricade of sand bags around the palace or whether her most gracious has undertaken the direction of military affairs a la Queen Boadecia.  If the latter, which we incline to believe, the material selected to ensure stability is suggestive of the reverse.  That there is really nothing on which the authorities can ground a suspicion of armed insurrection is proved by the fact that not a single arrest has been made of any suspect.  Several of our leading business men among whom at Hon. L. A. Thurston, Hon. Henry Waterhouse and our solid Railroad builder B. F. Dillingham are leaving by tomorrow’s steamer on business connected with the development of our industries, and we fear that this absurd display of a few sand bags may have a tendency to give sensational writers in the States an opportunity to say things which may injure our enterprises.  We have in this country no hoodlum class who would injure life or destroy property and foreign residents can rest assured that investments in this country are perfectly safe.

 

SOCIAL SCIENCE

SOCIALISM

(Continued)

            The great English Chancellor Sir Thomas More in his “Utopia” deals with the question of land monopoly, and in reference to the class driven from the land he says: no punishment however severe is able to restrain those from rubbing who can find no other means of livelihood, which must be the plight of many under an economic system which drives men from the land, and does not provide employment for them.

            Apparently Sir Thomas had not come to the Elizabethian alternative of levying a portion for the unemployed poor from the rest of the community.  In a remarkable passage near the close of his book we find the eternal argument of the communities given in the clearest and most striking words and the plea of the modern Socialists anticipated.  Excepting only with the Utopiana, he says: “May I perish if I see anything that looks like either justice of equity, for what justice is there in this, that a noble man or goldsmith or a banker, or any man that either does nothing at all, or at least is employed at things that are of no use to the public should live in great luxury and splendor upon what is no ill acquired; and a mean man, a carter, a smith, or a ploughman, that works harder than even the beasts themselves, and is employed on labor so necessary that no common wealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn @ poor a livelihood, and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs.  For the beasts do not work so constantly so they feed almost as well and with more pleasure, and have no anxiety about what is to come, whilst these men are depressed by a barron and fruitless employment and tormented with the apprehension of want in their old age.  The government does ill to be so prodigal of its favors to the high placed and idle, and those who minister to the satisfaction of the rich, and on the other hand to take no care of the meaner sort, such as ploughmen, colliers, smiths, without whom it could not suheist.”

And when the public has used up their bodies and their services it leavs them “to die in great misery.”  Not ony so:  “The richer sort are often endeavoring to bring the hire of the laborers lower, not only by fraudulent practices but by the lawn which they procure to be made to that effect: so that, thought it is a thing most unjust in itself to give such small rewards to those who deserve so well of the public, yet they have given these hardships, the name and color of justice, by procuring laws to be made for regulating them.”

            Here is the argument of the Socialists anticipated three hundred years ago; the following breathes the very spirit of Rousseau and the modern revolutionists: “Therefore,” writes England’s great Chancellor, “I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no notion of all the other governments that I see or know than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public, only purse their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out first that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil for them at as low rate as possible, and oppress them as much as they please.  And if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as ther representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws.”

            Sir Thomas More wrote his “Utopia” in Latin for the learned and consequently it made no impression at the time.  Near the close of the sixteenth century it was rendered into vigorous   English but it was still confined to the few.  The work nevertheless presents a remarkable example of suspended vitality which three centuries after its conception has produced effects; for the book is now read, and existing Socialists draw both arguments and practical hints from it.  It is in fact the first true work on Social Philosophy in the English language with the true marks of genius upon it, originality and the perception of permanent truth, moral and social, and though written of English by a great Lord Chancellor three centuries ago, is in part a true picture of the social ills of Hawaii today.  We shall next deal with the origin and evolution of Civil Society and Government.

To be Continued.

The Partiality of the Board of Health.

            We publish the following letter which is only one of a similar nature form complaints from all parts of the Islands, not however with any expectation of receiving the least @ from the honorable gentlemen who @ the Board of Health:

Kapapala, Kau, Hawaii

November 8 ^th , 1891

Hon. J. E. Bush

            Dear Sir: - I enclose you a letter form an afflicted one on Molokai which perhaps needs a few words of explanation to make it clear.  Some three or four months ago, this man Kanae was taken to Molokai, and at that time, asked the Board of Health permission to take his wife with him, which request was refused.

            Sometimes in the later part of July last, I met David Dayton on the street in front of Dr. Grossman’s office, and asked him if it was not possible to let the wife (Kalama) join her husband on Molokai, I also told him that the woman was older than her husband, and other things which would take up to much space here.  He answered that the government were under a great expense as it was, and that every well person who went to Molokai cost the government one hundred dollars per year to support them, and that the Board had concluded not to let any more well people go to Molokai.

            Upon hearing this I said no more, but now I find that the “Board” has allowed the wife of the Rev. Pahio to join him at Molokai, as you will see by Kanae’s letter.  Now what I would like to know is this: What is the “Board of Health’s” reason for allowing one wife to go and join her husband at Molokai and stopping the other?  Perhaps Kanae’s letter explains this in one word – influence.

                                                                                    Yours truly                             

                                                                                                JUTICE

 

ON DIT

 

            That a little feint has brought out all the sand in the Palace.

 

            That the troubles of King Beltshazar or of a later figure, the Czar of Russia, are hovering over poor Hawaii and is playing havoc with the rest of Madam and Servant.

 

            That the Target practice among the innocents at Wilcox’s Agua Marine Residence, was noted by a Special Police detailed for that purpose, and was immediately telephoned from the Waikiki Station.  That this was probably the immediate cause of the sand bags being placed in positiion at the Palace.

 

            That the fate of Balmaorda, of Chili, and his favorite is troubling some people in Hawaii, and is making sad inroads on the proposed good time and royal pagentry to be had in the future.

 

            The the Boo@ are taking advantage of the scare and will land @ from all points of the @.  Oh, what a time for the dope pirates.

 

            That the @ and its owners are knocked into @, by a Stone all account of a liberal war-whoop.

 

            That Hon. R. W. Wilcox had a house warming on the first day of the week, and the boys to the number of about seventy or a hundred, were amusing themselves shooting at the Chief of Police in @.

 

            That the @ but @ was something @ this @ and the @.

 

            That times are hard and the wages low and gives an opportunity for discontent, scares, week @ and poor appetite.  We had none for our breakfast yesterday morning, but made out by listening from afar to the Royal Band.

 

            That Frank has been @ for the return of his better half, and the lady has come.

 

            That @ two @ stamp Queen, @ is on the war-path, and has started the government bulls and bears all @.  Where there’s a will there’s a way and as Doctor H. used to say, “there is always a woman on the top of the bottom of it.”

 

            That General Marshal and Brigodier Know Nothing, were out all last evening in anticipation of trouble and had the guards armed with cartridges in their belts and cross-belts.

           

            That revolutionary reports given out in the past six months will receive credence by the Australia’s letters, and all on account of Terema’s little party and the four scare crows in the Cabinet.  How about our credit.

 

            That the Chief of the four knaves, was around buying all the cartridges at the different gun and ammunition stores in town.

            That Captain Parker of the Police force waso n scout duty at Waikiki, while the @ were practicing at 200, and learning how ‘tis done.

 

            That secret cacases are believved bu the Government to exists everywhere, even in the air.  That a troubled conscience sometimes creates phanthomes that makes night hideous.

 

            That Hobbard is promised a Colonel’s suit, a pair of top boots, and golden spurs.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

PUBLIC SERVANTS

            6. Hotter laws should regulate the Civil Service.  The principle of the @ 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 @ [rest of article unreadable]