Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 428, 8 ʻApelila 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO.

John E. Bush.

I una Hooponopono a me Puuku.

FRIDAY, APRIL, 8 1892.

 

Bishop vs. Bishop.

     That when Rev. S.E. Bishop blames Bishop Willis, of the Anglican Church, for allowing the late King Kalakaua to take the sacrament, he places himself in God’s place as Judge, who only knows who is or is not acceptable in his sight  This is a characteristic piece of blasphemy on the part of our professing religious teachers, but more prominent with such blind leaders as Rev. S.E. Bishops, who are occasionaly startled to hear their errors published or to see it pointed out to them.  It is no wonder that the Hawaiian is a hypocrite to-day in religious matters when such anti-christs, who profane the Holy Spirit and pervert the Word of God. assume to teach them the true worship.

     As a Nation, the Hawaiians were sincere and devout worshippers. and had principles and good traits of character, but since they have been fed upon an imitation of the Truth by imitators of the author of the all Saving Truth, they are now afloat on a sea of uncertainty as regards religion.  The teaching and the precepts of such characters, as S.E. Bishop who are worldly wise, have thrown them into chaos, and he is the first man to preach that the Hawaiians are idolaters still None but those who made them so are best able to tell.

 

ON QUARANTINE.

     After a calm survey of all the circumstances connected with the detention of Port Surveyor Clarence Crabbe, and the other officers of the government.  we are compelled to say that the action of the Board of Health appears to us to have been an unwarranted proceeding.

     The removal of the passengers for this port to the quarantine ground, in order that they should undergo the period of isolation and inspection required by law, was quite proper; but as the Port Physician had made his examination and pronounced the vessel free from any contageous disease, and allowed the officers to go on board; from that moment they were entitled to pursue their official duties without let or hindrance from the Board of Health.

     Mr. C@lburn’s letter presents no intelligable solution of the difficulty.  If the Board passed a rule of which the public are ignorant and which would justify such a proceeding, so much the worse for the rule. and the Board which acts under it.

     The common sense view of the matter is:  was there any danger of contagion by the officers going on board?  To which the reply of the Port Physician was ample.  And secondly:  Is the public subjected to inconvenience; and on this point we are certain the Board of Health can rest assured of an emphatic reply.

     It would appear as if there were @o many doctors on the Board.  We would rather think that, than to suspect a plot to get the Port Surveyor out of the way just at a time when his presence and his liberty is most desired by the honest portion of the public.

     Two or three ships from Japan in a week would---under Board of Health rules---use up all the available office seekers and prove a perfect god-send just now.  Perhaps such were the benevolent intentions of Mr. Colburn and the Board, and if so they may yet prove to be angels in disguise.

 

THE “FRIEND” IN POLITICS.

     The Editor of the “Friend” in the April number laments the probability of “sensational and injurious reports” being sent abroad over the sandbag scare, to “our financial injury.”  We regret to have to record our belief that we do not know of any correspondence in recent times which is saturated with more “unscrupulous” mendacity than the billiou@ emanations of the editor of the “Friend.”  Recently that literary lamp of Fort Street Church had an article of his inserted in the “Review of Reviews,” and in so far as it professed to inform people about public men and affairs in Hawaii, it can only be characterized as a lying production from beginning to end.  The “Junta” of public men which Sere@o Bishop informs the British public are looked up to in Hawaii are:  L.A. Thurston, B.F Dillingham, and Cecil Bre@@@.

     For the ben@@@@ of our readers who may not have seen this precious production in the “Review of Reviews.” we will shortly find space to reprint a part of it.  It will then be seen that the essay was got up for the purpose of helping a pair of financial jugglers.

     “So far as we can learn” writes this “Reverend” expounder of Truth “it is true that Wilcox wants to dethrone the Queen and set up a republic, with himself as a president. but that he is totally lacking in the neccessary support and knows it.” This is the same old yarn dished up with about the same old surroundings of “so far as we @@@ learn.”  that has appeared in @@@@ Friend almost regularly for years.  Somebody is for ever being “deluded: and “tatally lacking in support” and it never occurs to @@@ infallibility who inspires the Friend. that the@e peculiar qualifications may be centred in himself.  But the one thing he ought to know is that as a Christian he is a pretty good hater, and unlike the master of whom he is won t to write so g@ibly --- when he starts out in search of an enemy he never fails to find one, and having found a Junta of them he hugs them to the end and never lights up on them in secula @@culorum.  Amen.

 

HIGH RENTS.

     Rent is the tribute paid by the workers to the drones, and in Honolulu it can be safely said that it @counts to over one-third of the entire wealth produced by the workers before providing for themselves and families for the landlord comes first, and in most cases demands his rent a month before it becomes due.

     The landlord belongs to a class entirely parasitic.  The house lots of a city owe their value to the industry of the workers, but the ground owner is carefully cultivated by a capitalistic law until he becomes a ravening wolf on the toiling masses.  He may be doing some work of social utility, but he receives his rent as an absolutely idle person and as the tribute of industry to idleness.

     The income of the manual labor class in this city is just now unusually low and precarious, but the landlord class are more exacting than usual, and as there is in this country a law which gives a landlord the right to sweep every vestige of property, and to seize and sell even every tool of a person owing rent; the landlord can if he chose play the despot to his heart’s content.

     The rent question has within the past week been brought under our notice by two instances peculiarly distressing.  One is that of a European who while working at woodchopping injured his foot.  He is simply penniless with a family of five to support, but the landlord reminds him that the rent must be paid.

     The other is the case of an industrious Portuguese, who while working for the government injured his hand in blasting, and whose family numbering seven persons were entirely depending on the father.  His landlord, who is wealthy, and a fellow countryman, still requires his nine dollars a month, and no abatement, for a hovel.  The kid-gloved citizen want to know why are the poor discontented?

 

The New Fleet Getting Ready For Action.

     That the floating abortion, called a dregder, is proving worse than a fizzle, as we said, and mahope people will begin to believe it.  The patentee of the Schmit Dredger has been about fifteen years trying to deepen a body of water at Oakland with the same means, and for fifteen years it has shown itself a failure.  Notwithstanding this fact, our treasury has been or will be called upon to pay say $60,000 to help the company out of its pilikia, The only other thing that excels this is Bowler’s claim, except that we can reasonably hope to be free in In@@re from the latter. while there is no telling where this floating nondescript will land us.  Unless it is made a source of war with the United States. so that we can annex her, we will never forgive Mahope for the discredit he has done this community.  No prosperity will ever follow a man that will allow such an incubus to be attached to a sinning nation,---it is like a mill stone tied to a sovereigns neck.

 

ON DIT.

    That Chinese and Japanese spotters are employed to watch their countrymen and any one of the barbarians that may come under the almond-eyed @@@@ of the Mongols employed.

    

     That a member of the Board of Health was out in full blast in defence of his colleagues and also of his professional friends.

 

     That the late King’s memory is receiving the same dose of abuse that was lavished upon poor Damien from the same local newspaper and from the same crowd of traducers.

 

     That Kalakaua’s memory will be green in the hearts of his countrymen, and many others whom he helped, while the stony-hearted editor of the Friend will have passed away into oblivion.

 

     That the Bulletin is evidently in favor of South Sea “kidnapping.” judging from its quotations of articles favoring the same business.

 

     That the “dredger” was hauled out yesterday morning to the entrance of the Harbor.  The sea was as smooth as a mill pond.  She was hauled back to her berth in three or four hours time; as we have always stated and believed she would be a dead failure as dredger for the harbor.  She is hardly fit for any other purpose except to get up steam, to play hotwater on those revolutionists that have been threatening the monarchy and then bury it in sand.

 

CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu, March 24 1892.

     I, George Campton, carpenter, have been a resientd 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 see it.  I suffered the most excrueiating 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 me dusiness.  Any on desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

 

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 endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to propertp, 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 Hawaiian Kingdom never has had the approval of the People, but was establisded 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.

 

JUDICIARY REFORMS

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 patisan spirit, and to render 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.

 

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 @e encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by whch the ownership of small tracts 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 Government 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 international, ---as to provide, in all the districts,                 c      cheap means of conveying the product of the soil to market.

 

ELECTORAL RIHGT.

11.     We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should cons@@ 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 Hawaiians 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 su@@icient 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 syatem of reservoirs and water-works, not only for Honolulu, but through-out the Islands.

 

PUBLIC SERVANTS.

6.       Better laws should regulate the Civil Service.  The principle of the election 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 adaquate compensation for the sarvices rendered.  All excessive salaries should be reduced and all sinecures or superfluous 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 laws to prevent all further importation of employment of contract-labor of any kind, upon conditions 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 execution, aud from seizure in bankruptcy proceedings.