Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 414, 21 March 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 PAUKU.

@   MARCH 21, 1892.

WHAT SHALL IT BE?

         The question applies to our present situation, and our existence as a government.  Within the past few months the subject has grown in importance and has received attention from all classes.  Even the natives of the @ who take the least interest in the subject, are being interested in it, from many causes prominent among which is the form of government which shall give them the best guarantee of equal rights and best promote their welfare.  Self preservation and self interest are the two prominent stimuli that has aroused the people’s mind to study closely the present situation and to avert the inevitable disaster that is bound to follow the decline in our main industry.

     The community, after having lived in luxury for over ten years, has been rudely awakened from their dream of continued prosperity and find themselves on the verge of bankruptcy, failure and want.  This sudden change is due, as everyone knows, to a change in the trade policy of the United States of America, with whom we have had commercial relations that has made us rich and wanton, instead of being wise and prudent.  While our treaty relations remained favorable to

@ capitalists should have provided for such a change in our affairs, by developing other industries with the immense profits which they were receiving from the bounty of a friendly people, who were led into it in the belief that their kindness were benefitting the native of the country instead of a few men, made up principally of Europeans.  The unmanly  principles of our moneyed men, avarice and selfishness, taught them that the success of sugar depended mainly on the continuance of the commercial advantage which are enjoyed by treaty with our great and good neighbor, was not likely to last forever, instead of seeking to maintain the prosperity of the country and avert disaster by studying greater economy in the products and manufacturing of @ and of developing other industries, has been quietly withdrawing and investing their surplus coin in other countries, and many have retired from the country and are living at ease upon the products of Hawaiian soil and labor like an Irish landlord.

     The expected change has come upon us, it has reached many of our capitalists in the very midst of large sugar enterprises, it has fallen upon some who are still struggling under a heavy debt, and upon others, in a forlorn condition.  The result is financial distress and inevitable bank-

ruptcy to many; an exodus of our @ population, that is largely reducing the laboring force of the country; the bankers and agents are withholding further advances; everything to our disadvantage seem to be concentrating around our main industry ready to swoop it under for a time at least, until a wise, more prudent, and less selfish administration of the industrial interests of the country is inaugurated, which will no doubt revive it again.

     We attribute our present trouble to no one else, but those who will suffer the most by it.  The inordinate desire to amass sudden wealth has developed an unjust system in the management of our agricultural interests.  Not satisfied with the immense profits to be derived by legitimate means from a generous soil, and wi@ hands to till it, the capitalist has been unscrupulous in the use of this advantages.  The government has been used to assist in every possible manner to help the culture and manufacture of sugar.  Every other interest has been sacrificed to it.  Officials have been appointed to office for scarcely any other purpose than to look after the welfare of the planter and to help him, even to the subversion of our laws and suppression of men’s freedom.  All everything has been subordinated to serve sugar.  The chief executive was not above being made a flunkey and to lose his life eventurally to serve this great industry, which was controlled by two bankers and their satellites and tools.

     And now the question arises:  “What shall it be?” next.  The query in regard to the best means for protecting our interests and of averting impending disaster is now the general study and subject of conversation among business men and people in general.  Plans and schemes are being formulated and pressed upon the sovereign and government, without any consideration for right and for justice.  Annex the country; sell it; make it a republic; bring @ into it; bury every vestige of everybody’s interest out of sight; make laws to enslave the people; spoil the Treasury; do any thing right or wrong, only save our bankers, agents, sugar planters, and the host of menials who stand at the beck of their masters – the capitalists.

     But how about other industries?  and how about other peoples rights?  Echo says How?

VACCINATION.

     “Scientific evidence shows therefore, that leprosy, like all other bacterial disease, is inoculable.  This inoculation can be induced in various ways, but it is doubtful if in any way @ easily or with such certainty as at the point of the lancet by Vaccination, and Vaccination is believed to have been a prolific @ of the increase of leprosy in the Sandwich Islands, the Leeward, Windward, and Virgin Islands, the West Indies, in British @ and in other countries.  Dr. R. Hall @, formerly @ General of Trinidad and Superintendent of the @ (who gave evidence on this subject before a select Parliamentary Committee in 1871.)  Dr. John C. Hillis, of Georgetown, British Guiana, Professor W. T. Gairdner, M.D., of @, Dr. C@ Taylor of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, have not only expressed their conviction on this point, but have also furnished particulars of cases of leprosy due to vaccination.

No one has spoken more emphatically on this subject than Dr. G. F. Castor the Medical Superintendent of the Leper Asylum in British Guiana.  In his report to the Surgeon General for 1887 he affirms us a palpable fact which should be made known far and wide in countries where Leprosy is endemic and wide-spread as with us, that there is every certainty of inoculation through Vaccination.”  In the Journal of the Leprosy Fund, Surgeon General C. R. Francis, formerly Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Calcutta, declared his belief in the propigation of Leprosy by Vaccination, advocates the investigation of this point.  Dr. George Hoggan, a scientific investigator, who, together with Dr. Francis Hoggan, has carried out important researches on Leprosy and published them in some of the journals both at home and abroad is strongly of opinion that the vaccine virus is a flux by means of which the Leprac bacilli are easily conveyed to the blood, more easily than by any other mode of transmission, and he considers that a large portion of the recent increase of Leprosy is mainly due to Vaccination.”

   Pub. Health

ON DIT

     That there are six or seven clerks in the Marshal’s @, where only two are required, and live in the Foreign Office where two @.  What it is to be royal @; a few more such @ will land the government over the reef and into bankruptcy.

     That there is cessation of imported school teachers from America, in view of a change from China.

     That quite an influx of Chinese artisans came into the country lately, who have exchanged places with the @ laborers @ about to @ take @ the plantations.

     That Mrs. J. @, was the admiration of the men and the envy of her sisters at the State Ball, and Monsieur was quite happy.

     That the royal  @ at the State Ball was better adapted for the frigid than a tropical zone.  It had a hilarious effect.

     First it was an outrage that the wine for State Ball was used @ the royal pets and their friends, and was kept in the @.

     That Dredger will be a failure, we hope is not true @ experience the Government in the future, if it is not already @ a large sum for @.

     That divers will be employed by the Government to work with @ to break up the sand bar at the mouth of the Harbor in order to operate the new Dredging Machine.

     That the Chamberlain visited the U.S.S.San Francisco @ by the Humble Prince @ on the same day as the Queen.

     That their High@ the @lators accompanied the Chamberlain on his visit at the same time in another boat.

     That the U.S.S. San Francisco will remain in port until her bottom needs cleaning, when she will return to the Port of San Francisco, in the meantime her officers are paying assiduous attentions to our fair sex.

     That there is a vordant correspondent in the Bulletin who objects to the made respectable

by being annexed or made a free citizen of a republic, he probably is a bigamist or is under the control of petticoat government.

     That a correspondent of the Bulletin is carrying favor with its patrons in order to be supported as interpreter for the Legislature.  Oi hoi ha!

     That many were invited but few felt the call to go to the ball at all, at all.

     That the Hon. D. W. Pua, in the newspaper Holomua, took up two long columns to explain himself.

     That an honorable gentleman was advised by a couple of his would be friends to sue for libel, when someone else – a lawyer – explained that he would make @ headway with either Wilcox or Bush, both Rex and Regina having tried it and failed.

     That His Honor Enoka Johnson, Magistrate of Ewa, in rendering his decision on an election suit brought by the successful candidate against the Election Inspectors, showed pure Hawaiian blue blood, @ the haole members of the Board.  He is a full fledged protege of the judiciary.

     That a Coloneley was given an attendant for serving the late King @ position is a tide @ to maintain it.

     That the Duke of Buckingham has been seen practising by moonlight how to give a military salute is a @.

     That ever since the Ewa plantation started to make sugar, the principal work of the Honolulu Iron Works has been repairing the Ewa Mill Machinery – they even @ Sundays not @.

Platform of Principle

OF THE

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY.

TAXATION

     @ just and perfect ordered.  Taxation must be inaugurated @ by which the property of the @

while much of the rich man’s @ under valued for @

    @

PROTECTION TO @ INDUSTRIES

7.       We are in favor of @ agriculture and industries @ our native products, like rice, cotton, wood, tobacco, @ should be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulations and also it must be the duty of the government, in its contracts and @ to give preference to national products over imported ones.

LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT

8.       We desire a more liberal policy towards the differnet islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu:  they should receive a fair @ of the public moneys for the development @ and the @.  In fact, the @ self-government should be @ whereby giving local @ most important of their local @ officers, and levy taxes for the purpose of local improvements of a public nature.

PUBLIC SERVANTS

 @ should @ the Civil Service.  The principle of the @tion of officers of the government by the people should be established, and no man should be allowed to @ than @ office of profit, @ should be adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All executive salaries should be reduced and all @ or @ officers established.

PROTECTION TO THE @ CLASSES

9.       We shall endorse all @ tending to improve the condition of the working classes, and consequently, without injuring any vested rights, we will advocate laws to prevent all further @ or employment of contract labor of any kind, upon @ which will bring it into a ruinous and degrading competition with @ Hawaiian or white labor.  We @ also @ ask for more liberal @ of their property from @ sale on @ in bankruptcy @.

SMALL FARMING AND HOMESTEADS.

10.   The wealthy @ of our population @ eventual the development of an @

@ have been driven @ capitalist, not as @ conducive to the stability @, it should be encouraged by @ more liberal @, by which the @ of the native Hawaiians who have been left almost homeless in their country – should be @.  To that end, the Government and @ in so far as can be done without invading @ rights) should be devoted @ as possible to @ and conferred upon bona-fide settlers free of @ for a hundred @.

     It should be the further aim of government as @, so to improve the means of transport @ local, national and international, as to provide for all the districts, cheap means of @ the product of their soil to market.

@ RIGHT.

     11.  We hold that @

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

     12.  We have the @