The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-10

Z and is not ibeIous! At the close of the
article the position OF the luckless pur
2, readers of the Chronicle are Informed thai
Il Claus Spreckels has lost money he will
l get 1t back by some of the reconcile
Is so familiar"
This article also, suppose, ia not per
SonaI and Is not hbeloUs. though an ex.
tract from the paper itself.
The next article is that of December 10
1903, and Is headed The Spreckels Grab.
IL announces that Sir Claus Spreckels had
; secured the product of ali of seyepty
except the ma and eight or ten small
Affairs. and that he has also received a mo,
S Sig OF the carrying trade. Speaks OF
him the Hawaiian Knight, and refers to
the scions of his noble house" The arIi.
Gle seems to think it injurious to this State
TOT MI Spreckels to exhibit his enterprise
oy extending his business to the territory
occupied by Eastern rehners, and thus in.
sreasing the
| EMPLOYMENT OF SKILLED LABORERS,
The next article, published January Is
| 1884, Is an extract from the Carson OI1s1T
have already referred to the fact that the
| Chr0RtcLe 1Seven more esponsible for the g
extracts than for its own publications. This
article states that Sir Claus SprcckeIs
ls negotla'i ing with King kalakaua Tor the
purchase OF the crown of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, with the oh ect of transferring
| it to his own sons and that in cOntemnIa9
lion of this event. which is regarded as
| sure to happen, the kanaka orchestra
| Is rehearSlng 8 new opera, the chief al cl
which will he. The King of the C..nnI5a
! Islands.
THIS of course is funny. but it is insu.
| ing.
Inquiries were addressed to Mr.. Spreck
| On the cross examination by Judge i'a..I
! bell which so In = eniuusly skipped he =,
| terIal paris Of his Statements and elici.t
| the information that he had made sCn,.
| loans to the Hawaiian Government p,
/ DnrCh0S tthn IN q
| S2UO LOO. The purpose of tho in ,uiries Il
| of all similar and far fetched e.iorts dur.
| the crosseXamlnal n. was to get som
| tnlng oelore TINS ury which might appe
| TO Justify the IllngS or the ChrOHlcLe a o,,.
| the StreCkels ha-akaua or kalakaI.
| SprecH els dyna ty.
creilt, IN convinced that the LEARNT
| coun ,el underestimate d your intelligence
/ 1t is quite apparent that whatever Nj.
Spre kelS did for the Hawaiian Govern
nent va done no. only for the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Company, but for
| this ), ate. for this city, for the country
Itself and am intent to let this refuta
ton OF enc OF the emphasized libel5 OF the
CHF0nlcte re upon the pithy suggestion OF
my friend and associate, Mr.. Taylor:
do no thin K m n becomes member OF
d. nasty by IN king loan to the reign
Ing 'amIly. tRecord, page S60.b
TORTURING Personal JOURNALISM.
Now we come to the article of Novem,
Der 10, 1854. on pages Oh to 6t9 of the rec
ord. This is not the last but the next to
the lat article before The shooting. 1t is
the ar lcle which produced upon the de.
fendant the immediate effect of which ]
sh Il hereafter speak. and it was supple
mented md underscored by the final at
tack OF the next day. 1t was published on
a sunday morning. on the fifth page of the
largest number If the Chronicle which
appears on the .rst d>y OF each week, and
which is presumed to be read by every |
body, Its heading. which in the last SON
tence is appropriate, if not prophetic is as
follows:
Angry Stockholders" "Sir Claus as a.
debtedness. "Spreckels' Hawaiian Com.
merclal Company Scheme" Approaching |
a Climax. climax which had b en- long |
delayed: and which, if 1t had grown GU, OF
irresistible passion, would have been
reached long before. was indeed approach |
ing-the climax of torturing personal |
sultlnR climax ID tho m in prosecutor in
this case. But t. the article itself.
remember the rule of law. which is
grounded on common sense-thatevery as
sertion OF fact in the article, though at
tTibuted to any anonymous individual, is
the assertion of the Chronicle itself, and
amount 10 statement of the fact which
the newspaper believed, or affected to be-
lleve. and, If the fact did not exist. could
not be justified. If belief" were a de.
Tense, tho country would be flooded with
lloels, which would entail no responsibility,
every day: A newspaper writer or pub
4lSIoL aSSeIL MS DeliPr - any
NO~cTROr-G
And under that cover. ASST LIEN indis.
crlmlnately. He might charge the most
irreproachRble men and women Wi, h arson
murder. unchastity and incur liability
II no could escape by swearing that he be
l1eVed his charges to be true. The Law
Goierates no such absurdity. The pro-
prIetor OF newspaper must depend upon
inquiry, and not upon petulant (
stockholders. who are indignant without
knowledge, or upon rumors, impressions
or lies.
But, as said before, to the article itself.
1t is Invisible into two parasitic first
to be an accurate account of
meeting, at which no reporter of the
Chronicle was present, and the second pur-
porting to give third person replete with
and libel OF the gravest character.
1t furnishes Spurious extracts from the
report OF Mr.. Spreckels, to which the
JhrOnicLe had no access. and puts into the
mouth or that gentleman words he never
used and which no witness has claimed
Int he used. These extracts and this Ian
yuage are put within quotation marks, as
t the one had been copied from the report
ind the other geographically taken
Town.
The SON of the "Kanaka Knight" who
asserted the privacy of the meeting. was
he defendant himself. The fabricated ex-
,ls in the attitude of stating not that his
lame was on the back of the paper of the
company, but that he had borrowed a
nlLllOu IOr IL from the N0PaQA |
sank on his individual note" If Mr..
Spreckels had said this, he. instead of the
Chronicle, would have told an untruth. He
s placed in the light of an importunate
reditor by subheading, when he con-
family backed up the company, and I
within short time after the meeting pur- q
hased its bonds to tho amount Of 81, l00,. \
90. 1
THREATENING sPRECKELs. I
The article impugns "the integrity of
he management" threatens the directors,
whom Claus Spreckels had been one,
Nth criminal prosecution, ubstantially
eclares the company to be insolvent-a
ice statement about business man or q
or -oration-and absolutely gives Mr..
preckles an imaginary lien for a million
ollars upon the machinery it owned. 1t l
&c AIRED That the stockno ders had been
roped In" and that sir Claus" will get
II the property and that nothing will be
'ft out the certificates. Among those
n We been cheated, q number of Ger 9
lans and the employees and - best !
lends OF Mr.. Spreckels arc included.
nd 5usive article, viii h was inserted in
l. rOnicte for the public good, and was !
It personal and not L.0eLOuS.
Bat have not yet done with this publ /
It ON. While. as l have not before suR- (
ten it Is immaterial, so far as the de-
n' ants mind is concerned, whether it is ! t
u Or untrue, nevertheless, by the pro is, t
It lily on one size, but on both sides, in 8
uClag the witness in rebuttal Hugh t
"a =. Its reckless falsincatiOns have been I :
IN st. ated. propose as briefly as s
acticaole to examine the testimony n
this sub ect We have introduced I
rec witnesses on this branch of the o
Sc Claus Spreckels, VIM. Center and
liph Z. Harrison, the last. one of the b
lorneys for the C mpany. The prosecu- 4
n has examined nVe-Hugh Craig, DIR. Fl
barkan, Andrew Baird, Otto tum Su q
n, who came to q sudden end on the wit d
stand. ~ "A GrnSSm0Var