The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-12-12
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
at the mouth OF the Waiakea stream,
instead of going to keelikolani's house.
Just before going on board of the
steamer he called for the owner of the
house and gave him twenty dollars in
gold. The man exclaimed, What Is
this for?" and placed it on the mat.
The King said, Il have turned you out
Of your house for two days and | wish
to give you a little present for your
kindness to me-" The man declined,
saying. You are my King and every
thing belongs to you, and ! do not wish
anything" The King replied, Il am
not King to get whatever / can out
of the people. / receive my salary so as
to pay for what / need. / am not Civ
ing this to you as pay, but as small
present" he then walked off to the
boat leaving the money there.
Kamehameha would not take undue
advantage of others, but at the same
time he would not allow the natives to
hang around the palace without work
ing.
About two weeks after his father
Kekuanaoa's, funeral he called his
them, You have mourned with me for
my father, and now 1t is time for you
to go to work. Those of you who want
to work for me can have work, and If
you need money to buy clothes with |
7 will advance il on account, and ! will
pay you so many dollars month for
work" They replied, Your father fed
us all the time, and did not make us
work and you should do the same"
Kamehameha replied, II am not King
to teach the Nation to be idle, but 1t
is my place to teach the people to work
and support their families. / do not
want anybody to work for nothing:
: those who want to work for me will
be paid for 1t, and those who do not
want to work for me must go elsewhere
to live, as after n certain time no food
will be given out to those who are able
to work and will not work. You have
shown great respect for my father, and
now you can not do him or the Nation
any good by sitting in idleness and say
ing, we do this out of aloha for your
father" The King kept his men al
work, retaining marshes at Waikiki
and planting taro or fishing, and when
at Kaunakakai, on Moloksi. would sci
them building walls or fishing.
Kamehameha always claimed that
children should be educated to work as
well as in their books. That If they
were not taught to work with theii
hands while in school. they would moi
work after they left school, but the
young men would think that they mus
be lawyers or something of the kind
and get their living by rascality Il
money should not come in fast enough
to suit them.
Ka.GChameha may have encouraged
the hula in his younger days, but sew
cral years before he came to the throne
he found that the natives on his land!
on Oahu were travelling thirty miles {
day to see the hula dances, and wher
at home were sleeping around thei
houses in the day time and going t
dances at night, and neglecting to plan
ara cultivate food for their families
II reused his indignation. and he for
. bade their having any more dances or
his lands, ard turned off the hula dan
GERS. At the next session of the Lcgis
laturc he used all his influence TO hayu
r the law passed prohibiting the Hawai-
lam hula unless "A license was first oh
tanned. and forbidding any licenses e
Dc granted outside of Honolulu. Will
ue was Minister Of the Interior he ha'
the law enforced very strictly, and e
the day Of his death ne often said m
found II necessary 10 stop the hula, a
I 10 demor1lizcI the natives all through
! the country. ana broke up AN work
When the Kings sister Victoria died
. the natives performed "A good man,
, huIas around the palace grounds bcfur
the funeral Afterwards be told ~
hat he was sorry he had allowed II
! and that he would have no more ~
/. there, when his father died, the choir
4 were allowed 20 sing nj night, but lher
i were no scenes ~ hula like those thu
! Tad been neld there formerly
Having long known Kamehameta V
4 ana having been In his employ unit
y tho time 81 his death, I can say tha
, ! saw nothing In him that led me 1
! mink ~ kahunalsm nr snrprry, IN Jus
y tlcs a. him ID should be- said that b
\ was not a kahunn, ana that Kalakau
Z 4id not inherit his policy ~ kahuualsn
. from him That hr did not care I
! hHyr kahunas live nn his lands ~ nj
. ihr crown lands uH Hlupiirra, NJ show
: hY tho following extract taken frpI
\ one ~ hlH hiieH "iiaa has written {
i mr about hts having bren elected frpl
Ming IA lllh0nun. Happily s1usiinrI
y hr1 pot recognized ln law ana l ~
. n0 eilliruliy 10 ousllns nlm fIom "a