Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 425, 5 April 1892 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

John E. Bush.

I una Hooponopono a me Puuku.

Tuesday, April, 5, 1892.

WARLIKE NEWS.

The steamer Batavia arrived Sunday evening from Japan, bringing later news from the outer world of considerable interest.  It appears that instead of a millenium, as our theologians are forever preaching will soon set in, we are on the eve of great trouble.

By previous mail, information was received by the papers of a peaceful settlement of the trouble between Great Britain and the United States of America, though we did no believe the information as entirely correct, especially as England was concentrating her fleet in the vicinity of the Bering Sea, the seat of trouble.  We then published our belief of impending trouble as imminent between the two countries, for the perusal of our Hawaiian readers, knowing that to say so to our English readers would be looked upon as being ridiculous as most English readers and writers do not take the trouble to look at the underlying cause that produce effects below the surface.  The calling away of the English war-ships from where they lay, as in the case of H.B. Pheasant and from other places, indicate plainly that England at least was serious in what she was doing.  Today’s news gives us confirmation of this.  Some people, however, seem to think that trouble is impossible between England and America, no matter what the difficulty may be.  Such a theory may do with States like Chili and America, but with the two former, it is a mistake to be too sure that no war can ever arise between those two countries.

For the benefit of our readers, and to support our views, we publish the following from the Boston Journal, as only a small portion of the evidence which can be produced that trouble is not unlikely to arise, and that wherever English fortifications are being prepared it is with the view of anticipating possible trouble with that country around whose borders she is endeavoring to form a cordon of outerposts for future military operations:

“John Bull is preparing to make things pleasant for us.  He has been of late especially active in strengthening his outposts near the United States.  Six of the most powerful modern warships are to be sent to the North Atlantic squadron, the summer headquarters of which are at Halifax and the winter quarters Bermuda.  Halifax is close to the American line and only 300 miles from Boston.  Bermuda is only 650 miles from New York and is heavily fortified.

“At Port Royal, in Jamaica, within one day’s sail of Florida by steamship, Mr. Bull has some very powerful batteries.  On the little island of St Lucia she has a dry dock, a naval station and a heavy battery commanding one of the approaches to the mouth of the proposed Nicaragua canal.  On all these strongholds money is now being spent.  We all know about the arsenal, naval depot and fortifications at Esquanalt, and the warships is these waters.  Uncle Bull has industriously fortified his outposts as near as possible to the Untied States.

“The increased activity in this work is only two or three years old.  It must be costing a great deal of money.  It manifests a very friendly interest in our welfare and shows that our jolly old uncle has his benevolent eye on us.  We have to watch Uncle Bull too, in the friendliest way.  We must not let him outdo us in polite attention.”

England and America left alone might easily settle the Bering Sea trouble, but when Russia’s unestablished exclusive claim to the World, with the Bering Sea included, is put forward as part of the American claim to the Bering Sea, the aspect of the whole question is at once changed, and this no doubt has produced the attitude of the British Government, through Lord Salisbury.  There are always two sides to a controversy and the inwardness to the movement of governments is best understood when both sides are fully heard.  We are assured that Salisbury is not going to say things that appears precipitous and arbitrary that would involve a general war throughout the world without ample reason for so doing, neither will the British Nation submit to Russian dictation by or through any misunderstanding she may have with the Untied States Government.

 

GOVERNMENT BY CHAOS

Continued.

“Under this system it could appoint Mr. M.MILLAN to be Treasurer, if it had faith in his arithmetic; and yet enforce a Protectionist policy, and the fact of the House adopting such a policy and directing the Treasury to carry it out would in no sense reflect upon his sincerity as a Freetrader.  His position would be just the same as that of the Freetrader policeman who continues to run in drunks with his old vigor under a Protectionist regime, or the Freetrader Governor who continued to be a governor under the same conditions: his private sentiments would be his own affair, in which the Legislature took no manner of interest. 

One of the most noteworthy features of the system is that the people have practically no voice in the election of the Minister.  When a politician attains a certain distinction – no matter how- he becomes in fact a practically irremovable incubus. .

“The present system of government is a combination of so many impossibilities, contradictions, and hopeless anachronisms that its endurance for so many years is one of the great political phenomena of the ages.  In the first place, it presupposes that every legislative body will @ naturally and permanently divide into two parties – a supposition which is, in itself, a manifest absurdity – yet in a scheme can work successfully on no other basis.

“The system we indicate is one under which the nation would make its own laws and appoint the Government to carry them out, instead of the Government itself and then making laws on its own account; and it would practically abolish the device of party, because no Minister could do anything for his party nor could any mere party do much for him, and the old bond of self-interest would therefore soon dissolve.  Also, it would wipe out no-confidence motions, for the House would not be expected to have confidence in the Cabinet at any time; it would extinguish the practice of the Ministry “going to the country;” it would abolish Government policies, for the nation itself would supply the policy; and it would give every question a fair chance to be decided on its own merits irrespective of party interests.  For all of which reasons it is one of the most desirable reforms of the age and if only by reason of its desirability it will probably come long after Mr. G.D. Clark has died of extreme old age and natural decay.

 

Lantern Entertainment.

The series of slides representing the Highlands of Scotland given in Kawaiahao Church on Saturday evening was undoubtedly in point of excellence the best ever seen in Honolulu.  It was simply a delightful journey through classic ground, every foot of which is rich in historic lore and when we say that we had the Rev. Alexander Macintosh for guide it will be understood that everything of interest in the journey was told at the right time, and in a clear tone of voice, and in entire sympathy with the subject.  The same may be said of the views of the great metropolis,  London, which were not only excellent, but gave recent representations of the improvements in streets and other architecture.  A word of praise is due to the operators Messrs. Hedemann and C.W. Ashford of the Camera Club, for their excellent manipulation of the optical apparatus which was simply perfect.

A commendable feature, as an interlude, was a tantatia  on the Zither, by that king of Zitherists, Pro. Schmidt.  The introduction of Scottish airs told with the clansmen, and the instrument at times had the creseudo of a grand Piano.  The audence though large was select, and we think we can assure Church Goer, that the tabacco chewer was no in it.  We expect to see a larger audience at the next series Church.

 

ON DIT.

That her Majesty sent forty dollars to buy tickets to give poor Scots to see pictures of their native land, the Queen may not know that when Sandie crosses the Tweed he never wants to look at Auld Rookie again.

 

That the forty dollars may have been a royal hint to hie awa wi ye to the Opera House.

 

That the club says they have no poor Scotchmen now, the last one ye ken was sent to the MacMorrison on the new Scotch Plantation on Kauai.

 

That the boys are going to sink that forty dollars in Haggis and Peas brose, and will invite  Ka Leo’s Caledoman editor and proprietor to the feast.  J.E.B. had his last feed if haggis nearly 20 years ago in the vicinity of the Saut Market.

 

That rifle shooting about the foot of the Punch Bowl Hill is going on every morning to the terror of goats and small children.

 

That Hon. J. Nawahi simply called to see the Queen the other day to pay his respects, after being re-elected by the people of Hilo.  The suspicion that he was sent for a little political talk was due to Major Nowlein having been seen to accompany him to the Palace.

 

That painting for the Palace fence stopped for want of funds.  Stratemeyer says no mahope   for him.

 

CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu , March 24, 1892.

I, George Campton, carpenter, have been 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. Lowell 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 buinese.  Anyone desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

 

Platform of Principle

of the

HAWAIIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY

PRINCIPLE OF GOVENRMENT AND CONSTITUTION

1. We deem that all Government should be founded on the principals 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, liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness and to self-protection against arbitrary concentrations 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 desire 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 revisited, 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 partisan 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 INDUSTIRES

 

7.  We are in favor of encouraging all home agriculture and industries, and all our native products, like rice, coffee, wool, tabacco, etc., should all be protected and fostered by proper tariff regulation; and also it must be the duty of the Government in its contracts and other operations, to give preference to national products over imported ones.

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

8. We desire more liberal policy towards different Islands of the Kingdom, outside of Oahu; they should receive a fairer proportion of the public monies 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 conductive to the stability of the State, it should be encouraged by a new and more liberal Homestead act, by which 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 own country – should be rendered possible.  To that end, the Government and Crown lands, (in so far as can be some 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 of government to, at once, so far improve the means of transportation, - local, national, and international, - as to provide, in all the districts, cheap means of conveying the products of the soil to market.

ELECTORAL RIGHT

11.   We hold that upright and honest manhood, and not the possession of wealth, arbitrarily fixed, should construe 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 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. 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 a more than one office of profit, whilst salaries should be adequate compensation for the services rendered.  All executives salaries should be reduced and all sinctures or superfluous off ices abolished.

CLASSES

9.  We shall endorse all measures tending to improve the conditions 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 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 or eviction, and from seizure in bankruptcy proceedings.