("Huihalekuai", Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, December 9, 1865)
KA NUPEPA KUOKOA; GREETINGS:—Here is the news from Maui: a cooperative store for every district of the island. One thing is largely being heard and discussed among the people at this time, and that is the banding together of all people in this district to build a store.
People no longer want to farm or work in this or that way. Farming is hard, they say. A person will not get rich quickly doing manual labor. Rapid wealth and prosperity come by way of a store.
It is lazy people who are starting this effort. This is what they tell the ignorant and gullible: “You should join us so that together we can all build a store. Then you will quickly become rich and have a great deal of clothes and money. Farming is not profitable. It is hard work. Look at the haole shopkeepers. They are wealthy in no time at all.”
A district with 300 people can raise $10 from each person to build a store. And in a smaller district, it would be proportional to the number of ignorant people there. These gullible people suppose that each one will get hundreds of dollars for the $10 invested in the cooperative store. What do you think, wise ones? My prediction is that the architects of this plan will manage the affairs and may see some benefit. However, ignorant masses will be fortunate to get back the $10 they put into the cooperative store. With regards to the editors.
BY PUNIOLE.1
Kaupo, Maui, November 14, 1865
Note: For more on stores in Kaupo, see the article "Kaupo's many stores".