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

ana down 70 the 1SIn OF NOFem Der, 1851
He was not and is not a coward, but a man
of he highest courage. and he will be rep
resented by me throughout this argument
in no her light. do not claim, and il il
not true. unler the evidence. that he went
to the ChrOd5cte office to whine or TO solicit
favors from Michael II. de Young | have
no doubt that he intended TO tell Mr.. DE
Young in plain language that the attacks
on his father and his family must cease
that the limit of his possible endura Ice
had been filled, and hat he would not sub
nit to the endless iteraJiO and reittra ton OF
the false and scanualousaccusatiOn which
the ChTOHict4 was circulating ali over and
beyond the Coast. But ne did not go
there to shoot. and the fact that he did
shoot Is owing to on of twoTeasons e Their
that, on being COnTented by the author
OF 30 much misery 10 those t. whom he
was bound by the ties OF blood. his impulse
was Irresistible. or that he was acting in
self-dsfsnse. Both reasons may have con
CURED. There Is 40 lncJnsiSteRey between
them, so far as the act itself is concerned
But the fact that more than three
years the defendant had not in ured Mr.
DE Young by look, word or deed. cOnClu-
sively proves that there was no premedi-
tated violence on his part. He could not
have been controlled by a passion. of the
existence of which there is no evidence,
but which, if it had ever existed, he had
successfully withstoOd for that lengthy
period. Either his i'm ulscs passed beyond
his control. as they might well have done.
and he became incapable of distinguishing
between right and W.T. ng, which is the
very test Of mental disease un err the au-
thOrities most favorable to the State, or
HE WAS FULLY JUSTIFIED
by the conduct of Mir De Young And,
as | have said, there was no necessary
lash whatever between the TWO p sItions.
The fact that he was Immediately after
ward III an equable frame OF mind and
atistied tn t he had done no wrong. does
not weaken, but strengthens the Try of I'M
pulsive insanity. If he had designed the
assassination OF Mr.. De Young be would
have been either silent or
morose, or flied with remOrse. But he
was neither. The force OF the impu sc had
expended Itself. or he had done only
what VS. necessary under the circum-
stances. You are to Judge which But
not look. not a word. not an act upon his
part has been shown which is consistent
with the rme charged IN the informant IN
DIT with any otfense it inc udes. must
not, moreover, anticipate too fully.
throw out these ideas for your cOnsid era
ton as we progress with this analysis of
the testimony, which, however prOliX it
may appear. IS brevity itself when COM
pared with the transcript of the evil
dence. and / wish to say here that l make
no reference for which l cannot fur
nish on the instant the very pages OF the
record. and that | endeavOr at least to pre-
sent the facts with the same fairness
which we have a right to demand and to
expect from the prosecution. | assume,
then, that the predisposlng causes are es-
ablished. and L now proceed to consider
the exciting causes as they were made by
the stream of libel that flowed or oOzed
from the Chronicle establishment for more
Than three years, and shall ask you, gen
-lemen, to decide what effect it ought to
have produced upon man with per-
fectly healthy brain, who possessed self
resEect and was not ii stranger to the COM
mon obligations of manhood. and what it
may reasonably be presumed to have de-
p sited in the wounded and irritated brain
Of this highly wrought and sensitively-
young man, Those of you who
have sons in whom your hopes are cOncen-
Lrated will b able probably to realize not
only the condition of Claus Spreckels him
self, but how that condition would steadily
operate on this defendant.
/ ad pit, as part OF my argument. some of
the sentiment ind in an editorial printed
no farther OHck than last Sunday, June ~
1885, under the head OF The Najysnaner
IF To-Day, in a paper cSsIied the Sli1ld07J
Chronicle, publishea-fn San Francisco. 1t
would apPpSSa ar That this can scarcely be the
same journal from which the messages
lpon which / am about 10 comment were
taken, and, conscious as l am that as long
ago as 1854, and for years thereafter, a
vigorous, decent and perfectly independ-
emit newspaper existed in San Francisco,
IF which the late Frank SOule, an intel
ectual, educated and hlRh-mlnded gentle
man, equally without fear and without
was the editor, and which bora
no relationship, direct OF indirect, to the
~
proprietor. L am disposed to hope thatwe
nay reach
THREE LITERARY CHRISTENINGS
In this community by the Same name, and
hat the first and the last have some re-
alton to the public good, while it would
1e forgotten. In the editorial to which ]
.ow invite your attention the exact Ian-
,uage. which adopt as the expression OF
ny own views. is a follows:
The pAinciple on which an independent
ournal is conducted. is that al the news
i leave out four words here" shall be
Dublisht d: that nothing of moment shall /
10 suppressed merely because 1t seems TO
ell against the party views of the editor |
+ proprietor, but that the subscriber who !
Jays his money to get the news, shall get J
all without mutilation or distortion. |
journalism has made vast pr gresS In !
and Blair and James Watson |
Webb and James Gordon Bennett, the !
lder and ThurlOw Weed and young |
1Orace Greeley. But there is room for |
Who has written and talked more on |
journalism than any other editor in the |
ountry, put his finger on a sore spot when |
e la ely said that the chief aim of modern !
.astly. such errors" abiding to false |
foods, seldom in ure the party maligned, !
tut they invariably damage the newspa'
Ter which commit them, and they lower the !
OF the press. All 0llcCllN6 COL-
rove-sialist will shrink from them with !
orror. He knows how lie recolis. Test
he libels upon Claus Spreckels and his /
amily by this standard, which Is both &C |
urate and we'll stated, and | will not say
hat the prosecutor here is convicted out OF
lis own mouth, but | will say that he is
onvicted by journal of the same name
8 his own.
claimed that hundreds OF articles
n the various topics on which | am about
D dwell have appeared in the Chronicle,
ut of these we have introduced as sam
les for your inspection ten printed In 1881,
We of which were extracted from country
ewspapers in one day, nine printed in
S82, six printed in 1888, and three printed
q 1884, or altog Their. exclusive OF the card
Z Mr.. SpreCkels, and the admission under /
:, twenty-eight. running from and includ'
lg October IL, 1881, to and including No
ember II, 1884 or a period of three years.
ne month and six days.
PERSONAL JOURNALISM.
Now, let us see what these articles are |
nd find out what personal Journalism has !
cen in San Francisco in the last quarter |
[ the nineteenth century, in an Opulent |
ity. possessing a refined society, g free ,
nd independent press. schools. colleges, ;
braries institutions of learning, churches. !
II the evidences of advanced American |
Utilization and progress. And as read /
nd comment on the utterances OF the |
chronicle L trust you may take them nome !
D yourselves anu lSdTlcSSll
3 becomes twelve representatives of the |
ody of our citizens. answer the question /
How would you like to be dealt with or |
D have your families dealt with as Claus |
preckels and his sons and even his wife !
ave been treated by the Chronicle How
rould you like to be the passive victims
t sarcasm and mendacity, as I shall be |
compelled to bring to your
ara! How you do like. or how you would |
Ike to have your own wives and daughters
rawn into contact with that peculiar
lyle of literature which divides personal
rom respectable Journalism 2"
During The testimony of Mr.. Walter, Mr..
dcAllister inquired whether the defend
mt had ever spoken to him about publica-
Ions in the Chronicle against his father
nd his family.
Judge Campbell OBJ ected on the ground
hat the publications. which were subse-
,,nnflv infrndrnad Nsrnra not hafnra the