Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 431, 13 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.

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 13, 1892.

THE FUTURE OF HAWAII.

            “The future of Hawaii lies with the United States.  The natives are on the road to near extinction.  In a generation more there will not be enough left to maintain their Kingdom.  Then the United States, being the nation nearest and most directly interested will take control.  The Hawaiians desire annexation even now.” – Mascot. Sisson, March 24, 1892.

            We quote the above paragraph as giving in brief the future of Hawaii, unless the Queen should by faith be blessed like Sarah, and, through the promise to the righteous, this nation of unbelievers should change their ways, accept the new condition of obedience and faith, when the will become as the sands of the seashore a vast and prosperous people.  Will they?  Ask Sereno.

 

WARWICK’S SPYS FALL OUT.

            Last Sunday morning as the train from Manana, Ewa, came in with the last of the Arion Picnic Party, hot words were exchanged between the Germans and a number of men employed on the Spy Force of the Kingdom.  This forced it must be remembered is a new creation, and is an auxilliary to the Civil Service of the country, and the men belonging to it are selected for that purpose on account of their knowledge and personal experience.  The special enemy to which this force is directed appear to be the foreign element of the Liberal Party, largely composed of German laboring men and mechanics.  As it was suspected at Police Head Quarters that Wagner’s Drei Hundred Shermans would be out in force, the Spys were on the qui vive, under command of the Major and the Electrocutor-in-Chief of the Department, (former Lieutenant of the Rifles).  They were at Manana, and what between gining and spying the force became brave, weak-kneed and warish.  This lead to an open rupture at Ewa which terminated at the Railroad Depot, with the rout of the entire spy force.  When safe in office, the Electrocutor was heard to say:  Henry, the major and me can do them Wilcox fellahs all up, shquick, make hed swhim – Ring up Station House.  No feze on old Bolabola.  Not there.  Tooshant there.  Shtan by guns.  Revl-lution Shtarted.  At this point he was taken home and put to bed, where the defeated hero lay like a dying gladiator all gory with beer conscious of having done a great public srevice.

 

“NOT YET RIPE.”

            Whenever the world shows an unlooked for tendency to move ahead, the monopolistic rises to point out that motion is a good thing @ abstract, and to urge the necessity of going slow.  In the last Legislature the bill to abolish Konohikis, the abolition of plural voting and various other proposals of an honest nature to which no objection could be urged, were met by capitalistic legislators with the admissions that all these things were good in the abstract, but at some remote period the country might have the means to buy out the konohiki, and as for the rest, owing to the dangers and possible evils of velocity they had better be postponed till the country had gone through a ponderous process of preparation; and when at some unfathomable remote period of the future the human mind is ripe for the @, then if it prove advisable it may consider the possibility of starting afresh to deliberate whether the country can safely dispense with the leech . fanged konohiki by paying him for a claim to which he never had a just title.  It, of course, never occurs to the political turtles that a long suffering public may become exasperated and may rise in its sense of right and might knock the konohiki on the head, - metaphorically speaking.

            The disasters which arise from haste – the necessity for calm consideration – the fearful results of revolutionary impatience – the demand for well-weighed changes – are the stock phrases of Toryism.  It seldom is so foolish as to denounce a popular reform in direct or unmistakable language; it merely points out that the time is “not yet ripe” for its accomplishment.  And happily the time never seems to become ripe; the charges are never sufficiently “weighed,” and after a lifetime of placid consideration things remain just where they were.

            Every reform which was ever propounded has been met by some slow going obstructionist who urged that the matter should be dealt with in that inexpressibly gradual manner which is indicative of true wisdom; and when centuries later the long debated project became a reality, the original obstructionists great great – very – great grand decendant, has invariably been found at his post pointing out, as his ancestor did before him, the absolute necessity of prolonged thought and calling on the world to go slow.  This prophetic cry against over hasty legislation is one of the completest of all empty devises.  The abuses of to-day are mostly as old as man himself, and for a hundred thousand years or more of profound contemplation has not left the world ripe for action then it is time that some one among the apostles of stagnation should point out when the time of action is likely to come.  The curse of the land monopoly was already ancient when the pyramids was unbuilt, and when the first glimmer of the oldest known civilization was dawing under the shadows of the Himilayas; and if the world requires to sit down today and consider whether it is a curse after all, then sixty centuries of experience count for nought; and if sixty centuries have produced nothing then six hundred centuries more will be wanted before the world, travelling at its accustomed pace, is fit to arrive at any definite conclusion.

            The complicated disorders of Monarchy was a worn out @ before Solomon and Confucius and Hermes of Egypt were in existence, yet professed Christian moralists and Tory litterateurs of to-day request an interested and long suffering people to go slow, lest the velocity of its movements would expose and possibly endanger the existence the venerable wrongs.  No Tory Royalist protests against the undignified speed of rushing an appropriation bill through which will bleed the revenue of say a thousand dollars a day for the support of an effete institution; and when the utter uselessness of said institution is laid bare some venerable defender will arise who will beg for a respite on the ground that society will come to grief if it attempts to travel without the pack-saddle of royalty on its back, and in another century of solemn reflection becomes at once apparent.  And as the end of that century the Tory of the fortieth generation will rise, as his ancestors did, and implore a stagnant earth to go slow.

 

“THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY.”

BY MRS. R. C. BAKER.

(Colony, Kans).

Though burning eloquence were mine,

As might befit an angles tongue,

Though listening multitudes entranced

Upon my words of wisdom hung;

Yet were they void of life and soul

As tinkling cymbals empty sound,

Unless sweet love pervade the whole,

And stir my soul to depths profound.

Although mine eye with prophets glance

Into the distant future looks,

Can comprehend all mysteries,

And all the love contained in books;

Though mountains move at my command,

And launch their bases in the sea,

Yet all were vain and profitless

Without thy grace, sweet charity.

Although I never turn away

The destitute that throng my door,

Although my goods I freely give

To food and clothe the suffering poor,

Though with a martyr’s fiery seal,

I give my body to the stake,

Yet I am naught in heaven’s regard

If’t were not done for love’s sweet sake.

Love envies not the rich and great;

It suffers long, and still is kind,

Is not puffed up with vanity.

Nor of a proud and boastful mind;

Commits no rash unseemly act,

Seeks not for selfish gain or ease,

With patience bears life’s countless ills,

Nor soon a brother’s failing sees.

Over the sins of men it weeps,

Yet lifts a firm, dissenting voice,

Dark deeds of shame will favor not,

But in the truth alone rejoice;

All things it bears for Jesus’ sake,

Hopeth, endureth to the end.

All pain, all shame, all grief endures

Which God’s wise providence may send.

Prophetic visions all will fail,

Hope shall in glad fruition cease,

And earthly knowledge be forgot,

Lost in the wondrous reign of peace,

But charity shall never fail,

But in that glorious perfect day

When we shall see as we are seen,

Shall reign enthroned for aye and aye.

 

ON DIT.

            That the Collector General of Customs and Port Surveyor, will be made ex-office members of the Board of Health, to avoid being quarantined in future.  The Board is not going to Crabbe the Custom House any more after this.

 

            That the public is pleased to learn from a P.C. Advertiser correspondent that the Queen loves her late brother.  It would take a great deal more than the bare assertion to convince the brother of the fact if he were alive.

            That a cheap stimulant can be had for five cents at Queen Emma Hall Coffee Saloon, every evening except on Solsday.

 

            That pure unlimited water sweetened and four slices of bread would be more consistent with philantrophy and charity than one cup of coffee and two slices of bread.

 

            That every native naturally supposed that Lono Peder would die when it was known that he was taken to the Queen’s Hospital.  That was the way how it got reported in the papers that Lono was dead.

 

            That since the employment of so many idle hands as police spys, the city has been quite free of burglaries, but now, since the spy force has been largely reduced, robberies are getting more common.

 

            That the dredger is housed for the southern winter, and no visitors are allowed on board, except the Bulletin reporters.

 

            That the letter signed In Memoriam in the P.C. Advertiser will commend itself to the reader.

 

            That it would be more consistent with true charity to give a whole 3 cent loaf and a mug of coffee for five cents than two slices of bread and a thimbleful of coffee, which they propose to give under the head of charity.  Ladies, don’t be picayunish, but make a good start.

 

            That a certain new fledged member of the Board of Health aired his authority by exclaiming “I represent the Queen.”  Hurrah!

 

            That the Board of Health should study the laws of other countries, and they may not be so dead in earnest in injuring the commerce of the Port.  They are simply heaping blunder on blunder.

 

            That the legal profession is about to establish a law trust, where clients will be served at the Bar.  That Messrs. Neumann, Foster and Smith are a committee to prepare a plan of organization.  This organization is evidently for the purpose of counteracting the W.C.T. U. cheap coffee trust.

 

            That the sum of five hundred dollars per head should be charged for each Asiatic that comes into Hawaii – a plan followed by other and more able countries to compete with Chinese.

 

            That Wilson’s Spys are a conglomerate mob according to Brotder Thurston’s idea.  The average Jehu, some of whom are included in the number, have done well for themselves, and is reported as making splendid police pimps.

 

            That all Inter-Island Sea Captains are to be made honorary members of the dope trust to keep mum.

 

            That the Spy Department Electrocution-in-Chief, got knocked out by a mutual friend from mit de drei hundred.

 

            That the departure, by the steamer Zambesi of five hundred Chinese and Japanese for the land of their birth, is bailed with satisfaction by many.

 

MONOPOLIES

5.  We shall use our efforts to @ laws by which all favoritism in the government and all monopolies, trusts and indvileges to special @ shall be rendered impossible, by full, definite and mandatory statutes.

 

DUSTRIES

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 @ it must be the duty of the Government, in its preference to national products over imported one.

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 satisfaction 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 HOMESTEADS.

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 be 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 especially 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 developed 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 at government to, at once, so far improve the means of transportation, - local, national and international, - as to provide, in all districts, 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 @ 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 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.  Bette 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 adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All excessive salaries should be reduced and all @ @ 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 or employment of contract labor of any kind, upon conditions which will bring it into a ruinous end 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 exemption of their property from forced sale on or caution, and from seizure in bankruptcy proceeding.