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

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/ Or his newspaper had been extrieatec
| from the threes Of its meiodr matte Oh IN
| in frauds and Grim S which. II they had
! been perpetrated by them, snould nave
! Gronchad their names with iufamy-h0w
Ter the CantOnneSS of the arch end, they
! charged him, the father of thirteen chill
| dren the fond husband. the devoted
! father. with panoerng coaFsely 10 the
| Righteousness IF - dissoluLe king how
! thew directly connected him with the deep
| est degradation to which women or our
! race could be subJected-hoW generously
! and falsely they represented MIN IN sue
! e+an+;aI conflict wi the dearest Sympa
| thies and the strongest opinions OF our pop,
! nIetion. as resurrecting the putrld form OF
slavery, as the friend OF the aesres sldst {
! Nnng6Iian. as pouring the virus OF ieprosy
! into the veins of American citizens. How
! thay placed him in antagonlsm 10 our sys
! tenn of Government and loentlheq MIN
| with an effete kingdom, in which the
! seeJs NJ death were planted by men or our
! race and iineage-how they ridiculed q d
| setiriZed him for 6n assumed vanity
! and a pretended male ostentatlon Wh!cti
! gssumDtions of Asiatic grandees - how
thev sneered al his wife and his sons and
class them with 'liliputian magnates,
while hey attributed to Claus Sprecke!s
himself ali the grotesque vulgarity OF Gull
liver How in short, they aSSalled ms
heart, his mind, his character his motves;
his acts his life, in every conceivable ana
inconceivable relation, and for two years
and a half. with unremittent t1endlshness,
sought to hold him up to the scorn, con-
tempt and hatred of his fellowmen.
And yet these articles were not rsonai.
not libelous. God in heaven! what BRITISH
beasts we should become II we adopi ed
that standard of personality and libel
Not PERSONAL Not ibelous! What Joint
in the individuality of Claus Spreckels
what point in the individuality of any
member did they not reach! What sane
tuary OF the heart, what recess OF the mind
did they not profanel What appeal to
pride did they foregol What tongue OF
rumOr did they not hear!
Open your ears; for which if you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumor speaks,
]. from the Orient to the dropping West
Making IN wind my post STILL unfold
The acts commenced on the ball OF earth;
Upon my tongue continual ISLANDERS ride;
The which every language L pronounce,
Stufing the ears OF men with false reports
Rumor is pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures;
And of SO easy and 20 plain stop
That the bland monster with uncount ID heads
The still dscordant wavering multitude
Can play upon it.
EFFECTS OF THE ARTICLES.
That these articles did not actually pro-
duoe their designed effect upon the public;
that they fell impOtent and harmless in
business and social circles; that they illus
trated the relative influence OF hardly
earned character upon the one hand, and
of vicious journalism upon the other
hand, is no argument in favor of this prose
intent that deunes the act, and in this re-
spect no element OF atrocity was wanting.
The articles were as full of cunning as of
diabolism. They were popularity and
graphically written. They purported to
represent opinions outside the Chronicle
office, though we can easily divine with
what facility interviews and correspond
ence could have beenmanufactured inside
of that Office. They deceived and enlisted
reputa bic members of the country press.
And one result, at least, they accomplished
they hurt the feelings and excited the in
dlRDatlon Of Claus Spreckels and of his
whole family, including the mother of the
children, who, by the common law of
America, by virtue of that thivalrOns de-
votion to woman which is the finishing
grace of American society, even though
the att cks themselves upon the male
members of his household had been Justi-
tied, should never have been even Incl
dentally mentioned. But worse than this;
they accumulated and worked and ranked
in he sensitive brain of the defendant
until they effected a serious and marked
change in his disposition and conduct.
Remember how this young man was
brought up. He could have said with
Hector:
Mine honor keeps the weather OF my fate;
. Life every man holds dear but the dear
Holds honor ar more precious dear than life.
And though his own honor was not uninl-
peaChed by the articles in the Chronicle,
his fathers honor was still dearer and
more precious to his soul. If he had been
q man to yield to his irresista ole passion,
which, outside of the law. men might even
then have termed righteous indignation,
he would have shot or injured Michaed
ii. de Young long before November -,
1884. His temptations and opportunities
were ma nj old. hu O"V"arS ~ - wp
cessfully resisted. The testimony shows
no violent anger, nOthreats, no preparation
for deed of blood, because 1t Is quite evil
dent that pistol which he had carried for
four years. long antedating the Eruption OF
Chronicle biliou5nesS upon the honOred
n M
purpose of inJuring Michael ii. de Young.
What does appear is that he became pos
sessed by sorrow, by melancholy, by
comparative indiSpOSltlon for social pleas
ures, by tendency toward silence, by oc-
casional wandering from the social points
OF business, observable doubtless when he
was filed with gloom and pain, when he
was, so to speak,
STRUGGLING WITH HIMSELF.
Remembering the original accident and
is consequences which nave been eX-
planned sto you by. gentlemen as dis
inguished FOR their integrity as for their
learnlng-realizing the intimate connec-
ton between the inner part of the external
ear and brain, compromising the IN
creased irritability of that leading organ
Of the human body, which in the ordinary
course of events and with no obstruction
TO placid life, it would have taken years
10 overcome and then bringing home to
yourselves the ever intenSifylng pressure
Of the libelous articles in the Chronicle,
and adding even to that pres the
weight of steady resistance to sons
natural prOpensities - bearing all these
things in mind who can tell the thoughts
and the feelings that agitated this young
mans heart and mind, when on tuesday,
November Is, 1881, he could not sufficiently
command himself to sell to his old friend
Samuel Sussman a lot OF otf-suGar
1t would seem that this intelligent
Harm-hearted and, though impulaive, self
'eStra1ned young man was himself some
what oil his confer then.
Each substance of a Grief hath many shadows,
Which shows ike grie' itself but is n I so;
For Sorrows eve, gla ed with binding tears,
Divines one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives which, not riEhtly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion.
The operations of the human minds of
the best balanced, best regulated human
mind, wholly unaffected by abnormal con-
ditions, are to great degree inscrutable,
but. when acting, however temporarily,
through the machinery OF brain lrrl; ated
by physical causes. ana when to this
is when to this is added a succession Of
unnaturally exciting causes, the motions
of the intellect, except in their result. are
beyond all human dIscernment. Some
things we do know. This defend
Is no lover of cruelty. lie has not an
abandoned nor a malignant heart. He
has no tendency, inherited or acquired,
toward crime. lis associations and habits
haveelevatedandn otdegraded him. He has
had the advantages OF education and OF a
refined and pure domestic life. He has
e&nlOlIeu, OeJoho InOSI men VI MS age, OF
of any age, the power Of self-c 1ntrol. He
has endured for years, in silence and in
patience, what would have driven many
sons to frenzy, and that. not through in
difference or stolidity, but on prin iple.
lie has at no time had murder in his heart
and he must have had murder in his hearE,
if, on Wednesday, November 10, 1884, he
perpetrated the crime of assault to
murder upon the person of Michael II.
de Young.
during
THE IIBELs OF THE CHRONICLE
For three years and a half, without making
m nttacL nnnn the nrnnriet II If thai