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

deed. there was not vestige OF truth in
the accusations generally and outside or
Mr.. SpTeckels; but, with the nbets against
the Hawaiian Government ana against
the sugar planters who were under Its
protection, we have no concern here. The
very next day after its Tetra ton, with no
new facts whatever before II, aHu trans
narently governed by the worst coGCeIv-
able motiN eS, the Chronicle connects Clau 8
Spreckels with the most objecto able
features of the atrocIouS system slavery
it had conjured up as existing IN the land
witch islands. 1t does this repeatedly. Bul
let US see what it says now. he article OF
October % 1881, pages $50 to 40, IS very
long, containing many headings ana many
sub-headings, and real or spurious inter
view with an alleged euplOye &c III a mer-
camille establishment, whose name has not
been disclosed, and who is probably as
apochryphal as the statements with
which this interview aboundS' some OF
the headings were as follows:
"A Dead sea- Apple.
Merchants reduced to Vassalage."
Crushing Power of One Man.
"a Veritable Autocrat OF the Breakfast
Table
The Enormous Tribute He Levies."
Some of the sub-headings are: "A Ia.
bOOed Sub ect.
1.-The knights Vassals.
Millions in 1t,
This elaborate urticie is full not only OF
falsehoods about Claus Spreckels himself,
but of deliberate insults, and ask your at
tentiOn to This proposition IL Is full OF de-
liberate insults 10 every retail grocer
and every wholesale grocer IN san
Francisco who deals in sugar. 1t IS
based upon the ridiculous assumption that
in city of 230.UOU inbabit nts. and i'll an
American community, too. thousands of
educated and intelligent men could be held
by Claus Spreckcls IN
STATE OF vAssALAGE
AS complete as hat in which the contract
laborers of the Sand witch islands were
represented to exist.
Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Ma
poleon BonapRrte, Bismarck, the Roth
schildS, could not have survived single
day if, under our institutions and among
our people, they had attempted to exercise
O moiety of the power with which Mr..
SprecRels, plain, enterprlsing man OF
business, is thus maliciously credited, and
yet in its blind rage, because IL could not
control man who was independent OF its
induences and who did not subscribe to
the doctrines which the main prosecuting
witness has asserted and which the Su-
premt Court has repudiated in the case of
Fitch VS.. DE Young, the Chronicle darts
its poisonous fangs not only at him, but at
an entire class of reputable CT liens, in
Guiding especially those whom it anony-
mously cauterizeS for their lndisposltl II to
be used for its manufactured interviews.
1t has occurred to me occasionally dur
ing this trial. when the counsel on the
other side were putting their tests of in
sanity to our scientific witness, as they
were overlooking the fact that the testi-
mony would almost justify the inference
or insanity in the CHIEF prosecuting wit
ness himself. In the article now under re-
view, which, by its headings as well as It's
text, is pointed directly at claus Spreckels.
the Chronicle connects its immediate OBJ
ject with its previous articles, in which
Claus Spreckels had also been repeatedly
named and never for an instant left out OF
mind. and relates that, in King Kalakaua's
other
" The He'll of Hawaii, men of European
races are SO reduced, by murderous bru-
tality and abJec slavery, as TO be com
PEELED to surrender their wives and daugh-
ser5 to embraces of Chinese coolies in
order to escape actual starvation. 1t may
be argued that this is said with an If,
and that it Dies not in positive terms, and
In that special place, mention the name OF
Claus Spreckels, but on numerous occa-
,ions, fore and after the publication of
this Particular article, the Chronicle has
awarded TO Mr.. Spreckels
THE INFAMOUS DIsHONoR
Of controlling the Hawaiian Government
and being mainly responsible for al the
IurrorS alleged to be perpetrated under i
auspices and in its b adlingS now it has
him into the most conspicuous
attitude before the public.
Under these circumstances it cannot
svada the tran parent applica ion Of it's
obscure illusions by hair-spnttinR or chop
ogic. No rule is more familiar to law and
common sense tnhn nat writer intends
he III aiming which average readers would
extract from his compositions and under
this rule, in tn ms, ance before US, there
IS no loophole for the Chronicle to escape
from the proposition that 1t has ruthlessly
and uutruthfully identified Mr.. Spreckels.
% whom, in another part Of the same
article it attributes u great CD pacity for
business with crimes also, lower and |
more degrading than any which are com
nitted on tho Daroary Coast of San Fran
cisco or within the Five Points of New |
York. !
But the article proceeds to deal with the |
sugar interests of this Coast from the then |
IL. ndpolnt Of the Chronicle, nOtw tn stand. !
ng its publ :atiOn and Endorsement tn, |
lay before of Mr.. Spreckels card; and |
while containing few truths and half |
ruths-the m 81 dangerous kind OF false
lood5tO which the cToss-examination OF |
,Ir. SpreckelS was vigorously confined by |
means OF a fanCiful search by reporter !
lniong our local merchants aud by its i'm |
lginary interviews. ii undertakes to sup |
BORT is "a Dricated statement that there is |
lot retail nor 4 wholesale groCeryman in |
his city VIII dares t. say his soul is hi |
,wn when the subject or sugar is intro
iuced. If the research had been actually |
made, If the inter Jews were real and NOT |
purious, IL would have been very easy for |
he prosecution. aided by 8 ,ecial counsel |
ma by all the resources of an ex ensivC |
sta blIShment, y prove the fact, and il |
vas called upon to DO so under our chai.
enge.
In the futile attempt represented to havo
'een made 10 procure from h adquartera
nformatlon OF the over bearing conduct #
# thl, Orisk but courteous gentleman a
san IT .ncisco merchant is travestied al
an impeachment in his speech |
which would have
CHOKED THE WIT
And spoiled the eplgrams of Charles
-amo; IL is on when we come to the re.
,rted cpnvers >tiOn with an employee of
large mercantile firm that we find the
lngual disabilities removed and begin to
ncounter expressions and epitheti, the
ource of which an experienced reader OF
he Chronicle C an readily distinguish
Commercial Monar, H. Lord Sugar
Bar; ell" " Kanaka Knight" Sir Claus"
Nassas of Sir Claus "Abominable
oble Hou G of Spre kels.' Scion of the
f1use; The knight Subdued all Oppo-
ition he, Mr.. Spr ckels, is very proud
4 his title and of hi, eminent rank among
Boss .dI!l onaire.
ave it to you, gentlemen. as business
n n, TO decide whether a clerk, trained
Jerks are To plain and condensed nara
ives, would have used any of those ex-
'resSlons, or whether they cannot be as |
asily traced as u serpent with its trail to |
he Office OF tho Chronicle. But the arti
lie. using the imaginary clerk as its |
n dunn, contains statements impossible |
pon their ce. and which have been |
r0ved to be false. as for example, that
;lauS Spreckels at one time constituted
u h wholesale grocer his regular agent,
nus making MIN amenable to direct or
erS; that he pays the Pacific Sugar Re |
merry $1,000 Ier month for remaining idle. |
True the spurious clerk says he 81 My be-
cVes this, but the case Of Wilson VS.. Fitch
as been often enough referred to in your
earring 10 show what belief me ans in an
dit rial or an artic e pu bli he'd In d news
aper. They state that he pays the Golden
rate re merry - 90 per month t. remain
lie; that he continues to be citizen Of
his country from motives Of policy; that
70 is making G0J barrels OF sugar a day;
hat in truth all the sugar planters on the
stands are getting rich; and, therefore.
hat it is unnecessary that aborers there
hould be Morked and starved TO death.