The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-16

Eplro8 or TIE COMMERCIAL AnvEBrJSER-DeIg
Sir--As the uoiiee | wrote of the murder OF Kalu,
under date of Dee. 2S. 1866. has drawn forth. fron
The Sheriff Of Kauai." rather "a severe criticism
on the same, it gives me an opportunity to explain.
and To remark further on the fearful prevalence OF
the sin which was the cause. OF more properly one
Of the causes, that led TO Kalu's death.
The attempt To deny that Hawaiian cous;abIes
are remi>s in their duty, 80 far as the crime in
question Is concerned. seems merely absurd to
those who see continual and repeated evidence to
substantiate the fact.
In the hasty notice l wrote. l could not he cy-
peeied 10 discuss the matter 80 much at length is
To define the " immediate cause in distinction to
those more remote. AN willing TO ALLOW that the
Is aap,o7trts" cause of Kalu's death may have been
d" owing" to a certain extent, 10 his own impetu-
osiY anG imprudeuce."
But the question is. what caused this d" impctu-
osity and lmprudencc " bat the tardiness exhibited
in bringing his wife and daughter TO their own
husbands. or 10 the penalty the laws should have
inflicted Allow me to quote a few lines from the
ar;ioie before referred 10
"Kalu has hal much trouble with his wife the las, two or
marriage con- pact, and doubtless love for his wife and only
daughter, he bad sought in vain, for the means Of their recoy-
cry 10 him ana to The husband 81 the daughter, who lived in
the same valley Of wainiha- What made the case more aE-
craNated to the deceased WAS. that the native WHO ahscuudcd
with his daughter, had lived for several years with his th"sas)
vile. But ct the time of the murder the wife was living with a
native hy the name If Amala, and within less than half a mile
OF Two eonstabIes. At this house the murierers had been hsr-
bored and within ten or hneen feet Of the same house haiu
was murdered"
The thought in my mind, when l penncd the
the above, was that had those constablcs. living
near. assisted the deceased. months before the
murder, in restoring to him his ,sye, the probable
ity is very strong that the daughter would have
been saved from the clutches of the villain who
scduced her. and thereby the life of kalu might
have been saved.
1t was not this case alone that was in my mind
when l wrote. But even here | can see reason for
backwardness in bringing such cases to Justice.
when some, and l think may say many, of the
Hawaiian constables are living in the ame way.
Is this not reason enough why these constables APP
pear - indoleat,' while they are E" puAe,cd." One
of the two constables, before spoken of in connec-
ton with the murder, has lived several years in
the same way.
l did not say the blame rests d" 3rhoHy ON the in
efficiency Of Hawaiian constablcs." or that there
may not be presumed to be other elements at
work besides the Penal Code and constables TO
lift the poor Hawaiians out of the moral mire of
their general existence &c, but that a large
share of the blame, in many cases, rests on them.
ii would be folly to attempt to deny.
This general and growing disregard of the mar
riage compact is n fruitful source of crime. and
surely it becomes all. who are Interested in the
OF this nation. to set their faces as n
Tint against it.
Yours. on the side of "HUNANIrY.''
AND THE PROSPERITY OF TIE AwAIIA NATION.
Hanalei, Kauai, Feb. -. 1867.