Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 437, 21 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

 

THURSDAY, APRIL, 21, 1892.

 

A Printers Plea For

Annexation.

 

  We have just received a small case of fancy type from the Coast the cost of which is $9.54. On this the maintainance of our precious and glorious independence taxes us as a royalty of one dollar as consul's fee in San Francisco: Two dollars and fifty cents as another royalty in the Honolulu custom House, and another dollar royalty as duty. In addition to this our lot of type weighing twenty two pounds is charged for freight two dollars and fifty cents. If this is the schedule rate of the Oceanie S. S. Co. we don't see how they can have the gall to ask for a subsidy from the Hawaiian government.

 

BAISIL" THE "BRICK."

 

(Co@uaicated)

  Basil knows all about the Indians of America. Basil says that he knows more about the Cherokee Nation that Anglo-American. I do not dispute the fact, for I take it that he does. It has been intimated that this same Basil was a teacher among the Cherokee Nation, and was paid by the United States government to teach the young Cherokee, not how to shoot, but to read, write and cypher, but that he failed in his labors. The Cherokee did not take to him. He is correct when he says he knows the Cherokee and the latter knows Basil, thus he can "speak knowingly." Basil "changed his rapturous notes" when he left Tahlequah, therefore, he is correct when he says, "I know whereof I speak." Basil has "raiseded his feeble voice," -- he did the same at Tahlequah, with the same result, possibly, that his feeble voice will have here--"warning the people less they should allow themselves to be caught by unwise and thoughtless sentiment." How considerate of Basil, who has nothing at stake here, but his bread and butter, and a very late arrival on the Islands, to volunteer his wise counsels to our islanders, born and bred upon the soil; and who know their wants, and are as capable as the Cherokee teacher is to know his.          B.

 

The Electoral Law.

 

  The failure of an attempt to elect a Representative for Hamakua carries with it a lesson for the people whose interests are being trifled with by one or more unprincipled tricksters. Thast there was a determined plot on the part of Ricard -- when he found his nomination papers arrived late -- to in validate the election is a part of a well grounded belief as to that gentlemen's methods. We exonerate the minister and officials of his department from any complicity in this disgraceful business and trust that a parliamentary inquiry will be authorized which will reveal at least some of the hidden springs of action; not forgetting the large consignments of liquor which went forward to Laupahoehoe and other ports, and to whom they were addressed.

  The obvious remedy against a recurrence of such methods in future elections is to throw the entire responsibility of registration and the general conduct of the election on the principal government officials in each district, such as the Sheriff or his deputy and the District or Police Judge or School teacher. Such men are expected to be above petty tricks and any glaring violation of trust should be deemed a penal offence for what no mere money fine could condone. It should be well understood; or better, expressed by law, that such officials should not be removed except for good cause. In fact our electoral law is the offspring of, and only successful in countries where the civil service official can administer its provisions with impartiallity and strict integrity, and such can only be the case where government employees are not the creatures of political bosses.

 

KEEP THEM OUT.

 

  The above words are the heading to an article in the S. F. Examiner of the 12th inst. dealing with Chinese exclusion as embodied in the Geary bill which has passed the House of Representatives. The following quotation was given from the New York Sun, as illustrating the logic of some of the Eastern papers on this vital question. It so nearly represent the thoughts and partially expressed sentiments of certain of our own rulers that we print it:

  "The anti-Chinese extremists are overshooting the mark when they try to keep out all Chinese who are not representatives of the Chinese Government. There is humbug enough about anti-Chinese fanaticism already, and there are Poles, Hungarians, Russians and Italians landed at this port who are more objectionable and more dangerous immigrants than Chinese have ever been. The great hue and cry against the Chinese is ludicrous in view of the fact that criminals and paupers from Europe have been dumped upon our shores for years without much protest or objection. and that laborers other than Chinese have been allowed without restriction to compete with American labor."

  The Sun would have some trouble to explain why the European races mentioned "are more dangerous than the Chinese have ever been." and therefore it has not undertaken the task. One thing, however, is certain, and it is, that California is now backed up by Congress in support of Chinese exclusion, and from that position neither California nor the United States will ever recede.

 

  An enterprising ameteur has sent us three dozen pictures of the American Minister chaperoning an American Admiral to the Palace on a state occasion, driven by a Chinese coachman. "How does this harmonize with the stenuous efforts of the American people in discouraging Chinese competition in the labor market." asks our correspondent. We shall have much pleasure in acceding to our friends request to forward these photos to our American exchanges. We must say that Admiral Brown wears a very "far away" look as he sits behind his country's Ambassador's Chinese Jehu.

 

Opera House on Saturday.

 

  Miss von Gerichten promises a very entertaining evening at the Opera House on Saturday next. Miss von Gerichten will perform on the violin and piano and will also dance a sailors hornpipe and as the lady is the happy possesso of youth, beauty and a charming figure we propose to take in the whole of that performance, and the whole of KA LEO staff echoes the sentiment, and will go and do likewise.

  Absorbed in Miss von Gerichten as a whole team of terpseedhorean and musical talent, we had almost forgotten to mention that she will be assisted by the best local artist in addition to some very clever pupils. We wish her a bumper house.

 

ON DIT

 

  That another heir apparent was born a few days ago. making the hopes of annexationsist and republicans further away from realization. How the gods of the Grecians are waring against one another and dividing their favors between Greeks and Trojans, and all on account of Helen.

 

  That a young man, is discharged from a certain missionary mercantile house in town, because something went wrong with the till. The party discharged is a sober, steady young Hawaiian, with good character, and who is evidently made a scape goat to save the reputation of another young man, who also was employed in the same house, but has relatives who would be horr@d, if they knew that the young @n was a visitor at the Fort Street Monaco, where no doubt the contents of the till disappeared. How the young "saint@" have f@l@n!

 

  That the S. F. Bulletin of the 6th  @nst says "Chief Wilson" is commander of the Hawaiian army. If the Bulletin only knew that Wilson's army is composed of the bums, ex-barbers, vagrants and jailbirds of Honolulu it would offer a premium for a photo of Wilson and his army. The Household Troops are composed of honest men and lately too hard worked by far.

 

  That the Bulletin claims that its owners-even if they belong to the beef-trust and to every shade of business usury under the Hawaiian Heavens are not in the mortgage business, and therefore retorts on the Gazette as the "sheet of the mortgagees." Why in thunder don't the Advertiser come to the rescue@ Ah, why indeed. both in the same boat; See by and by, if they are not solid in advocating the same old swindles, such as "increasing legal interest to twenty per sche@t." Konohikia to have' their rights extended to @en miles from land." A "cable to the coast" in which Parker, Castle, Widemann and Baldwin dance in the same quadrille, but not a cent is invested by either of them. Editorial by play is not thick enough to conceal the fact that both papers are owned and run in the interests of exploiting syndicates, it is like the motto of the new Palace sheet, "Soverign, Country and People." The Sovereign paper owner comes out on top of the editorial heap every time.

 

  That when a Judge takes sides in a case, there is a remedy--slow but sure.

 

  That the Electrocutor and the Major have not been driving around in company lately.

 

  That the American paper say that Kaiulani is soon coming baok to her people-poor suffering people.

            Haste ye back lassie,

            From Scotlands awa;

            Ye'll be a Queen yet,

            In spite of them--aw.

 

  That a recently defeated candidate from the sacred lands of Kualoa, will be consoled with the shoes of Judge Richardson of Maui (deceased).

 

  That the censorship of the Press has not reached KA LEO but has the Bulletin evidently within its grasp.

 

  That a married woman afllicted with kiepfomania got into trouble at Levy's auction room yesterday. Could not resist silk bandanas.

 

  That Paul Isenbeag was the hair-weight that broke the Australia's gang-plank as he stepped on to it, to reach his generous stepmother, Wahu, after an absence with is father Germania of fifteen months.

 

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL

LIBERAL PARTY.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

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 established 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.

INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY

  2. Out of consideration for the inherent rights and present opinions of the native population, we dersire to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy, under a liberal and popular form of government; but our Treaties with foreign Powers, and especially with the United States of America, should be revised. so as to better meet present neceesities and to obtain more equitable advantages in exchange of those granted by us.

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 Constituntional 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 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 reserviors 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 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, whist salaries should be adaquate compensation for the sarvices rendered. All excessive salaries should be reduced and all @ine cures 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 laws 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.