Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 427, 7 April 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.

 

THURSDAY, APRIL, 7, 1892.

 

WHAT IS IT TO BE THEN?

 

  In reading over the late correstpondence on the subject of annexation, by Bull Frogge and Eagle, and Basil, in the P. C. Advertiser, we find quite a diversity of views on the subject of annexation. In the letter of Basil, criticising the two former, reference is made as to what would be the result to the Hawaiian race if the country was annexed to the United States as follows:

  "Who shall say, when the artificial excitement of recent annexation shall have had time to cool down, whether the poor Hawaiians shall not be left incomparably worse off than before, unable to call their souls their own? What has been the result of annexation, this balm for wounded pockets, in the case of the Indian nations? What will be the outcome to the native Hawaiian race when the stars and stripes shall proudly wave over Punch-bowl? Ask the Cherokee. He hates the stars and stripes. Must the Hawaiian be hoodwinked into the belief that this flag shall of neccessity bring him plenty and peace? If ever that shall come to pass, the native will sigh for the days gone by. He will speak to his child upon his knee of the happy years, when his nation was a sovereign race, with a queen of his own blood to sit upon the throne of the Kamehamehas. He will marvel how he eveer allowed himself to be cajoled into parting with his independence, his heart will ache to see his lovely home overrun, not by American politicans--there can be no sufficient inducement to attract them, but by hoodlers and carpetbaggers."

  Judging by the light of the past no boom in Hawaii nei has ever done the Hawaiian any real good whatever. To them all booms have had but one result, i.e., to make them poorer than they were before, both as a Nation and as individuals.

  The situation of the native today, is akin to that of the poor everywhere. He has nothing left now that he can fairly call his own. His liberty is limited, his poverty places him at a disadvantage before the law and makes him a prey to the wiles and chicanery of his organized white brethen. His education was never intended to be of any use to him; it has served to destry him, by exalting him with false notions of life. Under wrong ideas he has hartered all he had to gratify his pride -- something he has readily picked up from his modern tutors. He has and is being dispossessed of every avenue of labor by the importation of peons into his country. Every vestige of his birthright is passing out of his grasp. He has to be content with the crumbs that fall from his new masters, table. In fact, he cannot be made worse off than he is @v any change, whether it is annexat on to the United States, or England or republicanism.

  Annexation with the United States, or Great Britain would give the Hawaiian the freedom of citizenship, equal with others, which @is no@ n@w, nor is likely to @ under a personal government @as at present. In the case of the United States. he would have a mos@ powerful government to pro@ @ia@. He would be ruled by @ of the people, of which he @ Every office, from the @ Executive to the lowest, would be open to him. The United States, treats the negro and the Indian races in America in the @indest and most paternal manner, and whenever, either of the races have adopted and embraced all the advantages open to them as American citizens. they have grown wealthy, learned, and respected, and many of them are chosen, and entrusted with posts of honor by @ people and govenment. Compare all thes advantages with what the Hawaiian has to-day, and we see only advantage by the change; thus we differ with "Basil." Ask the Cherokee that adopts decent civ@zed life what are its advantages, and he will tell you, he loves it under the stars and stripes. Ask the Southern freedmaen, and he replies "h@ worships the stars and stripes." But ask a lazy, murderous Indian, or a lazy Hawaiian, and the reply is the same, no matter how much may be done to elevate and better their condition. that no govenment, however good, can be appreciated by either of these two classes.

  The Hawaiian, whom "Basil' represents as one who "will sigh for the days gone by," should a change come, has already sighed himself out of existence, and has passed away with the last of the Kamehamehas. The class of Hawaiian which were under the apron strings of pharisaic power, have died out, and with it all priestly influence. The present Hawaiian is a different man from his ancestors, who lived under the Kamehmehas and who passed away in tears sighing for the good old times of go as you please, and live as you can, and when might ruled the @ He now aspires to live and to @e not as then. He sighs for what he sees it is possible for him to have and to enjoy in futur@ @EDOM, PROTECTION, EQUALITY, al@ of which he has only a taste under his present existence, but wh@ a majority of them feel and r@ is also his to enjoy, as he s@ his future countryman enjoy@ -- under the STARS and STRIPS. How soon the Hawaiian desires the change to come is a question for them to decide. This we @ know, however they are rea@ @ate calling loudly for a good government of the people, by the people and for the people," who will give them justice and equal rights, a@ @era@ which they do not enjoy now.

 

THE BULLETIN AND LABOR

 

  The Bulletin has of late b@n calling attention to the labor question, and an article in its issue of the @ inst@ is l@g of c@rf@ peru@a. The Bulletin @ and draws its inspiration and an@gy from the Austrani@a weekly paper published in Melbourne, and known in Australia as an extra Tory organ maintained in the twin interest of Capitalism and Jurisprudence. At the o@t@t, we m@ ask the Bulletin, why travel nearly half way @ the Austr@ ha@ next @ far as the coast line as from here to California from the North of Queensland to Melbourne, in order to obtain an honest expression of opinion fro m the press and public of Australia concerning the sugar-labor problem in Queensand? Is it @aual for o ur own press to quote the extra vagant things said of ourselves thous nds of miles away, and endorse them as gospel and found arguments theron?"

  the Bulletin is aware that right in the Colony of Queensland there are scores of newspapers which should know thier own local business best. and some of them are in point of literary merit equal to the Australaman; but even such capitallistic organs as the Brisbane Courier and Brisbane Telegraph will not endorse a return to that institution which the
Australasian respectfully styles; "Polynesian Immigration," but which in Queensland is know by such titles as "blackbirding" man-stealing," etc.

  The burden of the article from which the Bulletin quoted in an eulogy of Sir Samuel Griffith, who having gained popularity in the past by denouncing Polynesian labor, now owns in the manifesto, "that he was precipitate in bringing Polynesian immigration to the close." In short Sam Griffith, who twenty-five years ago entered public life as a Democrat, and who in 1872, as Attorney General of Queensland, dared the Imperial Government of Great Britain to reject for the second time the anti-Chinese bill passed twice by both Houses of the Queensland Legislature, and who has for twenty years been heaving anathemas at contract labor of any kind; as now trying to turn his back upon himself. Such has been the melancholy ending to many an otherwise brilliant colonial statesman's career. Sam Griffith the once briefless lawyer, the working gold-mine's representative in Parliament, the Champion of Democracy, has had his heart hardened by much wealth, his human sympathies hardened by the Imperial lasso of a ti@ael decoration of sham knighhood. and his head softened by @aring a silk stovepipe hat, and insignia of Australian snobbery. Griffith, and Polynesian man stealing are politically dad, and the Melbourne organ of absentee Queensland plantation stock owners, can only lament the fact that it can't help either of them.

 

ON DIT.

  That although the scandals are very bad about the polics headq@rs @ver since the present chief ass@ @aty. it should not be overlooked that very grave charges were constantly current on the streets, that former occupants of that office were not much better.

 

  That there has been a row among the a@ers on about police headquarters--all caused by a dispute about their pedigre@s! And of the putting on again of a man who was once a reform police officer.

 

  That an insane carnival was held in a certain government institution in the western part of the city, given by a certain rising young white chief, to a select 150 and a few distinguished officials on last Saterday night. Court custume, and strick etiquette were dlap@ed with. it being understood to be an all round pupule arrangement, the whole under the management of the prophet, or Itu Ha'i, of the old Baal Worship, who is familiar with all the ancient rites and ceremonies of the dark ages before the deluge and as praticed in Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

  That the question is going the rounds. why is steam kept up in the "dredger," and since smooth weather has set in, why is she not towed out and tested? The only answer is: The darned thing is rotten from the time  the idea of carrying out the deepening of the mouth of the harbor was conceived; and it has been gtrowing worse over since. "Something is rotten in Denmark" is sweet beside this dredger business.

 

  That among the list of stock owners in the new Palace organ stands the name of Sam Nowlen for $50 while the grave digger is down for $100. Sam can't have much faith in a venture which he backs up with only a week's pay.

 

  That three distinguished dope men are in the Special Police Force, beside ordinary opium smugglers.

 

  That B &. Co. are trying to get up a rifle company in order to dispose of a consignment of rifles imported in the year 1889

 

  That for inconsistency the Hawaiian Government is a broad farce, and the acts of the Ministry a Comedy of Errors.

 

  That there is a dread in official circles that that "dredger" if tried will prove a fizzle and thus expose something very much worse than any administration every did before.

 

  The the Elele was bought and paid for by a company of natives some time ago for @3000, and if the proposed sale by its present alleged proprietors take place, the courts will be kept busy about it.

 

  The the Lunatic Asylum will soon receive a convy of military invincbies.

 

  That "Basil" is a genius in logic: In one place he says we are about as desirable a possession as a mosquito in August and further on he he says we occupy a possition of ever increasing strategic importance.

 

CURE FOR CANCER.

            Honolulu, March 24 1892.

  I, George Campton, carpenter, have been a r@ientd of those 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 see it. I suffered the most excr@ciating pain and has confined to my bed for weeks, when Mr. Lowel 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 d@. Any one desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

 

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.

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 regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Govment, 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 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 -- satisfactirn 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

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 pe encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by which the ownership of small tracks of land and the settlement thereon of families of our present population,--and especialily of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in there country,-should be rendered possible. To that end, the Govenment 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 internationa,--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 consti-@ 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 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 Hawaiian 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 Qahu and other Islands: school, railroads and harbors and wharves, public light, and also a thorough system of res@reirs 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 @ection 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 adaquate compensation for the sarvices rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all @inecures or superflueus offices abolished.

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 lasws 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 in the interest of the better protection of the poor, ask for more liberal exemptions of their property from forced sale on execation, and from seizure in bankruptcy proceedings.