Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 423, 1 ʻApelila 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.

FRIDAY, APRIL, 1, 1892.

 

That Appointment Again.

            The appointment of the imported "Johnny Crapeau" from the South Sea, as Deputy Post-master of Honolulu is more insulting and outrageous than at first sight appears.  This man was so intimately allied to the Gibsonian administration of the Board of Health, during the worst days of the old regime, that he was incontinently "fired," upon the advent of the new constitution party.

            His connection with that branch of government did not specially commend him as either a purist or a prodigy.  Then why should he re-imported, and hoisted over the heads of hundreds of deserving residents, both native and foreign born, into a billet that has gone empty for some years, without detriment to the public service?  In fact, if appearances are reliable as a guide, the present Postmaster General might, (for all he seems to be doing towards earning his fat salary) be much more reasonably dispensed with, than loaded with an expensive and superfluous Deputy.

            What is the secret of this importation and appointment?  What secret and unholy "pull" does this alien in race, residence, sentiment and interest possess over the quartette who are drawing ministerial salaries?  Especially, what is his "pull" over the antique Teuton who, in the interest, chiefly, of his own family, is administering the affairs and dispensing the billets of the department wherein the Post Office is located.

            Is there a social or official scandal somewhere demanding a mask in the shape of this unwise and unmerited appointment?  Or is there poker scores to cancel that can be more conveniently cancelled at the public expense than at the cost of those individuals concerned?  Come gentlemen!  speak out!  what are the claims of the new appointee?  and wherein are they superior to those of hundreds of our genuine residents?

 

THE NEW FLAG AFLOAT.

            Early yesterday morning, the eyes of Honolulu people were pleasantly surprised to see a new flag waving on the staff from at PunchBowl Hill.  Many conjectures were offered as to the cause of this new departure, as the flag was not Hawaiian, but was a mixture of English, German and American, the latter quite prominent.  The appearance of this new flag upon the Hill caused no little astonishment to the maoli and lead to explanations among the natives as to its presence there, the most plausible being that relating to the story of Kaopulupulu, an old prophet, whose staid and pure life in the @ of superstition and all the loose characteristics of the Court of the King of Oahu, and of his people, was a constant rebuke, and eventually cost him his life and also that of his son, who was heir to the priesthood according to the A@ type, which still existed at the time with many of the forms of worship set forth in Leviticus.

            The story related was as follows:  Kaopulupulu, lived about three hundred and fifty years ago, a man, who must be biblically termed, an Israelite indeed.  He started in to correct the errors of the day, much as Ka Leo is doing at the present time with irregularities of monarchies in general and of Hawaii in particular, from sovereign to peasant.  This in due course of time brought a large number of leading people to see the dangers of immorality and it s effects in undermining the vitality and durability of the people as a nation.  The teaching of the prophet eventually lead the people under his inspiring and solemn admonitions to take up the cause of good government and to prevent the further degradation of the race.

            The uprising, however, was unsuccessful, though it had the desired effect of bringing about a change later on.  In the meantime, the prophet was sought for by the successful opponents of revolt, and the old man found at Ewa, where his life was sacrificed, a martyr in the cause of right and justice.  As the old prophet was expiring, he turned to his son, and said: "Flee thou for the sea, and let the waters touch thy body before they kill thee.  The land shall then be possessed by people who will spring up from the direction of the sea."

            This explanation appeared to the Hawaiians to be the most satisfactory and to their childlike and impressible minds, the flag was looked upon only as another of the many omens and signs of the final fulfillment of the prophecy of the old seer of Oahu, - to the stranger shall the land belong.

 

THE BULLETIN HOWL.

            The Bulletin has been shrieking itself hoarse for months past over concealed insurrection.  It has alarmed the foreign bond-holder and sent a tremor through earthly Finance, and Wall Street and the Bourse and Lombard Street are eagerly enquiring whether there isn't a government and a force in this country able to cope with the Bulletin's picture of armed bandits.  And just when the Bulletin narrative "of burnt houses and cut throats," as depicted by C. Burnit of the Bulletin has struck terror all round the government, happily for the nervous and the foreign bondholder, steps in an makes bare its arm and the hysterical mothers and bondholders feel they have at last, something to lean against.  Without the military displayed their sand or dug up some other warlike display the whole Bulletin yarn might have tailed off into dismal silence and the story of the court journal about Republicanism or Annexation might have fallen dead for want of any reasonable conclusion, and the foreign bondholder might have suicided in bal@s for want of anything to lean against and the whole cycle of calamity might be laid at the Bulletin door for it incoherent ending of what might then be termed its own melodramatic gag.

            That "Messrs. Anderson, Cooke and Dillingham were particularly anxious to have the news in question (about the sand) withheld" was a remarkable stroke of business sagacity.  We suppose on the same principle they would beg all the passengers and crew of the Australia to pledge themselves to silence, and the Postmaster in Honolulu would guarantee to detain all of the hundreds of letters daring to write sand.

            For ourselves-as the gentlemen named did not visit us with any request for silence,-we simply published what happened, exonerating the government from any complicity in the silly display, and assuring our foreign readers that investments here were perfectly safe as we have no hoodlum element who would injure life or destroy property.  We mailed Ka Leo as usual to the leading Journals and our assurances in print will have a better effect in anticipating and neutralizing the false rumors of sensation mongers, than the silly silence imposed by any trio of press-censors. 

            The "parcel of adventurers" and "band of freebooters" may be found among the Palace favorites of the Marshal's body guard and nowhere else.  Will the Court Journal provoke the honest free press of this city to write up Court Life as it is?

 

THAT LUAU.

            We heard a few small witlings on the Post Office steps yesterday making puns in their way, over Theresa's Luau.  Unlike the punsters we were there, and can echo the general verdict that it was a bountiful spread, at which about a 150 select friends sat down.

            There was no ardent spirits present and there was no need of any, for harmony and flow of should engendered the best of spirits.  Unlike the so-called palace banquet or ball the gate were opened to all, even to Wilson's spies who passed up and down.  The U. S. Navy was represented, and the High Chiefess Owana (Theresa)-who according to the edict of Kamehameha III in 1844 (see Polynesian of 1844) takes precedence of any of the late lady denizens of Iolani Palace, was hostess, and personally saw to the comfort of each guest.  It was with regret that each visitor took his or her departure, and the very pleasant sea-side party separated about dusk.

 

CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu, March 24, 1892.

            I, George Campton, carpenter, have been a resident of these islands for the last 14 years.  In the year 1891 I suffered from cancer in the leg, and through the advice of a friend I had, Mr. Lowell to @ it.  I suffered the most excruciating pain and, was confined to my bed for weeks, when Mr. Lowell saw me and told me he thought he could cure it, and to my utter astonishment, in one month from the time Mr. Lowell first saw it, it was cured.  It is now nearly three months since and has all the appearances of a complete cure.  In three weeks from the time Mr. Lowell first saw me, I was able to go about my business.  Anyone desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

 

ON DIT.

            That the real, @imon-pure secret of the gin-slinging a@jer having scooped up all the sand from the Palace walks was to supply his "duggery" with a "body" for its chief article of co@, viz: sand-paper gin.

 

            That no end of entertaining official scandals will invite the attention of committees of inquiry on the assembling of the Legislature.  Opium!  Paka pie!!  Che fa!!!  Bloom and Douglas!!!!  Auwe!

 

            That a libel suit is now in order against the publishers of the "Paradise," for having maliciously and wantonly inserted therein a cut of vicious-looking specimen of the "missing link" labeled with the name of a high official. – Gott in Himmel!!

 

            That another scare is probable, owing to the American flag being hoisted on Punch bowl his.  Oh my, what are we driving to?

 

            That it is well known that Sam was to have been the first Governor of the Hawaiian State, if he could only have induced the Queen to join in his little game of "sell 'em out" to his Uncle Same, for Claus.  Yes, Claus.  Sam's relations, the Hawaiians, are terribly down on him for trying to play the little Joker in the game.

 

            That Kawaiahao Church will be known hereafter as the old Stone Theatre.

 

            That the misuse of the Stone Church, has so disgusted the Rev. Hiram Bingham, son of the donor of the Grounds upon which it is built, that he has left us with his family to save his wounded feelings from being harrowed with reading notices of theatrical and musical entertainments given in the once sanctified building.

 

            That the Liberals had a full and enthusiastic meeting.  The sandbag scare, the American flag on Punch Bowl Hill, were fully dilated upon by the speakers.

 

            That Police Scout Parker was dispatched to reconnoiter the vicinity of the flagstaff on Punch-Bowl Hill yesterday, which had the dreaded anti-royalist flag flying in the breeze.  The valiant Scout, after approaching the pole carefully and finding no formidable foe worthy of his lasso, ordered his squad of one to pull the offending flag down.  For once the flag, whose stars enlightened the world, and whose stripes thrashes the ocean, had to lower before the prowess of one of her Majesty's officers.  Where, oh, where were the Eagles to permit such an outrage!

 

            That a coalition cabinet is rumored as prominent before the Court, composed as follows:  C. B. Wilson, Interior, and Chief; C. Brown, Finance and Navy; F. H. Wagner, Foreign Office and War; D. L. Huntsman, Law and Order;  Joe Kaheleluhe, Chamberlain and Private Secretary.

 

            That the country will be infected with a roach, which, when once settled in it, will require an army of ladybugs to clear away.  This orthoptera insect is destructive to stamps and books, or anything that has gum or paste to lick up.

 

            That the Judge on @ though not much to be @ the comple @ will for the dead for all men are not alike.

 

            That the people has the @ of one of the judges of our superior courts in the operation of the validity of the Noble Veto, and are anxious to test the three remaining judges.

 

MONOPOLIES

            5.  We shall use our efforts to obtain laws by which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, bonds and privileges to special classes shall be rendered improbable by full, definite and mandatory statutes.

PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRIES

            7. We are in favor of @ of 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.

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS.

            10.  The wealthy fraction of our population have hitherto prevented the development of an independent class of @; the public lands have been acquired and have been tied up in a few hands of parceled 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 their country-should be rendered p@.  To that end, the government and Crown lands, (in so far as can be done without invading vested rights) should be divided as soon as possible to homesteads and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of taxes for a limited period.

            It should be the further @ on government to, at once, so far improve the means of transport then, local, national and international, as to provide, in all the districts, cheap means of conveying the product of the sell to market.

ELECTORAL RIGHT.

            11.  We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the pro@@ of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should contain the right to vote for nobles as well as representatives, and no more power should be accorded to the ballot of the rich man that to the ballot of the poor man.  The dissemination 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 @ 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.

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 that one office of profit, whilst @ should be adequate compensation for the service rendered.  All excessive salaries should be reduced and all the c@s or superfluous office abolished.

PROTECTION TO THE LABOURING CLASSES

            9.  We shall endure all measure tending to improve the condition of the working classes, and consequently, without injuring any vested rights, we will advocate haws to prevent all further importation or employment of contract labor of any kind, upon conditions which will @ it into a re@ and degrading competition with free Hawaiian or white labor.  We shall also, in the interest of the better o@ of the poor, ask for her more liberal comption@ of their property from forced sale on or eviction, and from @ in bankruptcy proceeding.