Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 438, 22 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, 22, 1892.

 

Opera House,

            Don’t forget to secure your tickets at Levey’s for the real treat in store at the Opera House tomorrow night.

 

A Growing Idea.

 

            The idea of annexation says the Boston Globe, as quoted by the Bulletin, last Wednesday, appears to grow in favor with the jounalists in the United States.  “America will try, in all fair and reasonable ways, to make it pleasant and prosperous for her, if her annexation idea is finally realized.”  How pleasant the idea of realizing annexation to the United States must sound to the down-trodden and disfranchised Hawaiian.  The oil that ran down Aaron’s beard could not have been more pleasing to the old Saint, than does the sound of a smoother and pleasanter prospect for the future of Hawaii, no matter in what form.  The people of Hawaii feel the degrdation under which they live, and the abuses heaped upon them; and whenever anything is uttered which gives hope of better and cleaner government it naturally gives them comfort.

 

Bulletin Royalty Logic.

            The Bulletin is constantly on the hunt for terrible examples of corruption and other scare-crow illustration which will deter the public from hoping for any moral improvement under any kind of government outside of our heaven-born form of monarchy.  It sometimes gets hold of a boomerang which returns and hits the editorial champion of monarchy bad, and lays him and his subject out.  The following from Wednesday’s Bulletin is a case in point:

            “President Harrison has dismissed from office C.M. Leavy, chief appraiser in the customs service at San Francisco, for participation in smuggling.  The extent of the frauds in which Leavy was concerned is believed to be great and the period covered by them a long one.  This “Frisco incident is commended to those who believe annexation or an independent republic is all that is necessary to inaugurate the millennium in Hawaii.”

            It may be due to a perverse instinct on our part that we believe as matter of course, that our contemporary cannot speak the truth, as the truth is not in him.  The well paid champion of royalty and monopoly shines forth conspicuously in this effusion.

            We will undertake to correct the moral obliquity of the Bulletin by printing the true deductions to be drawn from the dismissal of C.M. Leavy by the President as follows:  The dismissal of Mr. Leavy chief appraiser at the port of San Francisco, for participation in smuggling is an evidence of the fact that the arm of government is strong enough in the United States to reach corrupt officials.

            In contrast to this action of the President of a Republic in punishing malfeasance of office, sands the open corruption of monarchial Hawaii where officials notoriously corrupt are retained in office in defiance of public opinion.  Poor Bulletin, thy poverty in Truthn should be very embarrassing to the cause of Divine Right.

            O, lisen to our tale of woe!

Republicanism has not got a show

            ‘Gainst royal carnal sham;

For sweet bulletin truth sublime

            (Which ought to “get there” everytime)

The “Reps” don’t care a – Clam.

 

Italian Laborers on Queensland Plantations.

 

            The following clipping from the Sydney Bulletin of March 12 ^th , may prove instructive to the planter as well as to our working classes and all who object to making these fair islands a dumping ground for the offscourings of the earth:

            The Italian immigration scheme in Queensland is already showing signs of collapse, and in its collapse another woe is added to the troubles of the province.  The Roman organ-grinder is on strike and the country has only the satisfaction of knowing that is has imported, at the expense of the overburdened taxpayer, several hundred unemployed in addition to the great army already in existence.  As the event proves, this cheap alien is much less fitted than the Australian to work in the malarious atmosphere of the tropical cane-fields.  The one and only reason for his existence in Queensland is his alleged capacity for toiling 12 hours per diem for an infinitestimal pittance per week and a microscopic ration, and now that this alleged capacity is utterly disproved, there is no reason for him at all.  All over Central Queensland gangs of destitute and desperate Italians are tramping southward, ready to work at half wages and thus cut down the pay of the distressed Australian still lower – ready to beg, borrow or steal, or to do anything, in fact, save go back to labor at less than Chinese rates on the Northern plantations.  Most of them will presently vanish into the scums of Brisbane and Sydney, and help to swell the chronic demand for relief works or public charity, and their places will be taken by fresh swarms of Italians who will be sitted through the planter’s sieve in like manner, and then go out to be a burden on the community at large.  The country pays the freight upon these strangers, the planter gets one month’s work out of them, and then the nation has to support them for ever afterwards; and if all Italy were imported by instalments into Northern Queensland, the plantations would presently be as bare of employees as they were when the operation commenced.  The story of cheap tropical labour is all a hollow deception and an impossibility.  The very term implies that there is somewhere on this earth an insane community, which actually wants to work in an unhealthy atmosphere for nearly twice the ordinary hours at less than half the customary rate of wages, and it is about as reasonable to assert that there is a nation in existence which wants to be flogged, and rather prefers being hanged than otherwise.  The only solution of the sugar problem lies in the adoption of the same scale of hours and wages as in other industries of a similar character, and in the treatment of the plantation laborer in the same manner as applies to any other citizen of a free country.  So long as the planter insists upon having the loan of @ uncomplaining beast of burden, who will work double hours for @ per week, who will accept @ rations and allow his wages to be stopped when it rains, and who can be arrested and @ for three months on a charge of “deserting his @ @” whenever he fails to turn up in the morning, so long there will be a @ throughout the land that the white Australia is utterly unfitted for the sugar industry.  And now that the race of the @ is instinct there is something who @ for it.  It is contrary to @ that there should be.  The only hope of the planters is that by the lavish importation of cheap British paupers, Italians, Javanese, and the like, the customary rate of wages may be no reduced, and the hours of toil be so lengthened, that the terms offered by the great sugar monopolists will become universally acceptable through pressure of necessity.  Until then the importation of labor is merely a vain and purposeless attempt to sift the whole world into Australia through the medium of the Queensland plantations.

 

ON DIT.

            That General Nowlein had better find out the local correspondent of the Associated Press and fill him up with best gin as the said correspondent gives the commandership of the army to Chief Wilson.

 

            That if the General will send us a barrel of German Beer, we will give him the name – in confidence.

 

            That Basil’s Royal Hinglish is truly organic and sounds of the deep diapason.

 

            That two dollars a ton for freight by the W.H. Dimond, is slightly different to two dollars and fifty cents for twenty-two pounds in the steamer.  The difference we presume comes from the steamer receiving a subsidy of two thousand dollars a month.  A little opposition from the fast Canadian Pacific Line would be an excellent antidote for this state of  mis-carriage of freights to and from foreign parts.

 

            That all subsidies and monopolies should be discouraged by the Legislators the in coming session.

 

            That quite a number of members of the last Legislature will sadly miss the opportunity of serving clients in Committees.

 

            That one old veteran of the last Legislature having secured the exchange of Crown Land Leases for one of thirty years, is quite content to stay out this time.

 

            That a tax such as is levied in other countries should be placed upon unused lands, which are now held for speculative purposed and to prind the poor.

 

            That the banks are willing to admit a third one here to advance money to sinking sugar – barons, and thus get back their investment and advances; but for this object, another lot of jannissaries would be in existence to-day, if it were possible.

 

            That the Bank’s War Contingent, under command of an old revolutionary soldier, is not filling up fast, owing to the knowledge that it is to be in support of a couple of miths – Vulcan and Venus.

 

            That at the rate the dredger is pumping up sand, it will take, working day and night, about a century to deepen the sand-bar.  But we still have our doubts whether it will be able to work at all.

 

            That according to the contract made by the Mahope Minister, the other Party to the contract, claims that they are not to dig away any coral, except “coral sand.”  What is coral sand?  Well, as the Yankee said:  I guess it means only a big loop hole for the contractors to fleece the public purse, and time and investigation may prove it.

 

            That the dredger parties to the contract need not fear that the LEO’S Representative in the House will be put on to any investigation Committee.  The friends of the people (the monied mafia’s) may be injured thereby – only lawyers, with slim long fingers, and slim elastic consciences are adapted to such work – it is a profession, a life study with them, don’t yer moind.

 

            That there were five lawyers on that scandalous opium investigation committee last session, and we know, that while that Committee was playing with the facts in the matter, the culprits were huddled together for hours, ready to fly in a schooner prepared for that object, and when one of them acting as runner, dropped in and announced that his last appeal had saved them, there was joy in the camp.

 

            That tour of the lawyers, who figured largely on the original opium investigation committees in the Legislature of 1890, did not receive an election, nor even a party nomination this year.

 

            That the ex-honorable from Makawao is an applicant for the vacant judgeship.

 

            That the following are among the applicants for the vacant judgeship on Maui:  J.N. Kalua, Wm. H. Halstead, C.H. Dickey, M. Kepoikai, D. Kahaulelio, J.L. Kaulukou, and C.L. Hopkins, and others too numerous to name.  The first three were stricken out from the list at sight.  N. Kepoikai is now leading in the race by a length followed in a bunch in the following order:  C.L. Hopkins J.L. Laulukou and D. Kahaulelio.

 

            That about thirty-five thousand dollars of public moneys, has been spent for building the breakwater, a companion fraud to the dredger.  That would be at the rate of thirty-five dollars per foot.

 

            That the Bulletin cannot explain why the Mahope which has been completed two months ago, is still a matter of experiment and not delivered over to the government.  Why?

 

            That the Constitution of our new Republic has one popular idea in it, and that is one man one vote, irrespective of the many mules and asses he may have.

 

            That Mr. Lucas has gone in to the liquor business, i.e., dealing it out for the benefit of anti-prohibitionists, and his relations who do take a nip.

 

            That opium smuggling is encouraged because the vesels bringing the opium here are allowed to go free, contrary to law.  A purser of one steamer has been enabled to buy an interest in a firm for thirty thousand dollars, and that his partner here would have been a millionaire, but for horses and women.

            That five thousand dollars at least was paid to save a number of dope officials from being exposed during last Legislature.

 

            That Basil’s Oxen don’t have any flies ou ‘em but they failed to draw the Tahlequah team, and Che-no-qua the chief said unto him:  Verily my Son, this Amerikan continent is small for thee.  Hie thee to the great water of the Pacific and on the Paradise islands thereof find they congenial occupation in raising controversial and meddlesome and saccharine Cain for thyself.

 

A B CHEROKEE @

Hush a by Basil

Anneraton’s on top;

Find a new @

And the Cherokee drop.

 

“B.A.Ba-‘Basil’ have you any wool?”

Yes, yes, Gov’nor I’ve three @ full

One for Excellency, one for the Maid

And one for the Misses, and hope to be paid.

 

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 excruciating 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 dusiness.  Any one 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 end wed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to property, 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 in heron rights and present opinions of the native population, we @ to retain the independence of the Country and defend its autonomy, under a liberal and popular form of government; but out Treaties with Foreign Powers, and yes@ with the United States of America, should be revised, so as to better meet present necessities 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 mere liberal interpretation of Constitutional guarantees of the freedom of speech @ the @.