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

Who ia meant! 1t charges political COT,
ruptlon, and after 1t has accept the ex
PLANTATION OF Claus Spreckels about An
tonic Medeivas de Ascension, in the nexf
Gay repeats substantially the same accuse
ton.
Now is this personal or is it HbeIousl
The other side of course says not In q
leading article headed Hawaiian Sugar
Frauds published October %, 1882 and
found in record pages ~ and 1872. some
allusion Is made TO the punishment of
Portland merchants by a foreign sugar
monopoly. Whom does he mean? MIR.
Spreckels!
ATTACK ON NEUMANN.
The next article Is one of October %.
1882, and also a leader entitled The Slave
Drivers Candidate.
I his attacks Paul Neumann aRain-says
that he owes his candidacy TO the Ha-
waiian sugar monopoly: that this monon-
oily is in close alliance with the railroad
monopoly. Now. is the identi. cation com
plete here! 1t goes on to say that this
monopoly fosters system of white slavery
and that 1t Trauduiently imports refined
instead Of raw sugars, and that the Gov
eminent is helping the monopoly, among
'ther things, to eSta bli5h slavery on the
islands and crush the refining business on
this Coast. and 10 reduce the wages of
employees TO the levels Of slave labor in
Hawaii"
This last quotation answers Mr..
Lloyd question a. u whether there was
any charge of Getting the persons EN-
p Dyed Dy Mr.. SpTeckels or by the Ha-
waiian Commercial and Sugar Company
on this Coast. Of c IurSe this article is
no. personal or HbelOuS although il is Tn
true.
Claus Spreckels states explicit that he
exercised the right of suffrage by voting
for Paul Neumann for Congre 5, but that
he did not contribute a cent toward his
election, and used no influence to proaur
his appointment 10 his . esent position Of
Attorney of the sandwich i d..
l read from his cross examination, page
This answer in q nutshell the false nc
Gu >aL.Cna that +, Spreckcls had sought
70 corrupt politics and 70 introduce
the la n OF the Hawaiian slave
would be an anomaly in American
politics for a Republican citizen 10 be
deprived OF the right of voting Tor the reg
uldr cand date OF his uqrtyf Congress Oe-
cause the Car0HjcLe Itself, professeGlya Re
publican newspaper, chose to apply its
coecclve power to force him to vote under
its dictatiOn.
NEUMANN AGAIN.
The next article is also an editorial pub
Ished October b, lSS2, pages 1919 and I7zO
OF the record, entitled, The Candidate
for Hawaii. 1 wish u read that article.
because 1t is very shot. and / wish to
make comment upon it:
Paul NeumRnns candidature repre-
sent5 nothing but ii foreign sugar monopoly |
whose head quarters. slaves plantations
ana principal rein tries are all in the king
knows that the Hawaiian system en>lhves
white men and women in the most
abOminaOle way. He has read abundant
proofs of this in the columns OF he CHTOnl-
cfe during the present year and the last |
year. Witnesses whose testimony would
be accepted in any hODora BILE Court have |
stated that 1t IS common practice among
the patrons of Hawaiian slavery 10 sell !
men and women to the highest bidder at |
public sale; and to sell white women as |
slaves To white and black men for in |
famous purposes.
Does this article, when it refers to the |
-orelgn sugar mon Poly, include Claus |
or does not Who are meant |
by patrons of Hawaiian slaveryE' Who |
cell white women as slaves to white and
black m, for infamous purposes! The
patrons are the sugar monopoly" of |
which Claus Spreckels, under the articles
winch have been published in the ChrOni-
ae IS the head.
L know OF no better place than this to
peak OF the horrible libels of the ChY'Oni-
te upon Claus Sprcckels and the Hawaiian
JoImerclaI and sugar Company, but up
laVeEy and its consequences i'll the king
m of HAWAII. Fairly driven to the wall
" the comprehensive deni Is of Mr..
'preckelS, the prosecution offered an old |
ompIation of the Hawaiian statutes, |
With which Mr.. Spreckeis was unacquain-
ed. and which was promptly ruled out
record, page l4D and then Introduce
,harles kIemme, Bertha klemme his |
1ife,. c. Up; Murphy. Karl Helm and
august Schuldt, three of whom were car
enters, all of whom had arrived in
his city. recently and had been di5cov-
red by the Chronicle few days before
1eY testified. and from not one of whom .
,uId the CHTOntcLe have obtained a parJl-
e OF the alleged information upon which .
8 false words against Claus Spreckels !
ere ost ensibly founded.
FORENSIC AND THEOLOGICAL. }
as forensic as it is certa My i
Geological, and l feel very conf g
INT that it expresses the fate which !
Justify lib Is that should have been us
liable when originally printed. by fag b
Ids or information gathered years after \
ard. But | am erring on the side of char il
On, because the testimony of tho i've
illnesses named only proves that
'lther Claus Spreckels nor the Hawaiian
and Sugar CompanyiS a slave
vner, or implicated in any system of in y
)luntary sorVitude. But, on the con- D
airy, they are the patrons Of free and we'll Il
lid white labor. and indorsers even in the :
ngdom OF Hawaii, of the distinc ion -
hich exists in this stat between the eau q
sian and the Mongolian. Now, let us p
e for moment. without spending much =
me- on this topic. While Mr.. klemme -
as on the stand. and after The Hawaiian Z
ode had been excluded, tn Court hit the 81
Ill directly on the head by this observa- >.
On: Il take the articles all taken to- -
.. |
Ow. if you desire to Tebut. you can do it q
showing that he had slaves on the isl SC
IDS. lRecords. page I44Z.) ~
Mr.. klemme then went on to say that he y
as Hanoyerian : that he worked on the Al
lands for four months under u contract SC
r Heckfeld & Co, who are totally dis u
INJECTED from Mr.. Spreckel5 or the "
awaiian Commercial and Sugar Com n
my hat in May or June, 1854, two years n
I'd half alter the Chronicle had COM 1T
enced to libel MIR. Spreckels, he had gone n
the Maui plantation where he worked, | ~
use his own words, las every free n
ere were no women there u4l6l that 'e
ere were l,500 men employ ed there and lt
at one of them told HIN he was under
ntract, as thousands and tens of thou lie
nds of our counjrymen, including law ar
rs at the TAR. and even District Attor- %
Us and Judges frequently are rec I'd, a
ge l44); that the Chinamen did most N
the work in the sUgarcane; that he 81
ew OF no men on that plantation being N
t in prison. g.
THE CARPENTERS TESTIMONY. ~
:. P. Murphy was a carpenter on the he
aul planiatI n, receiving from SO TO % 80 as
r day, for two years aud a few months Sr
q he only arrived in this State about FL
rec months before he testified. He OBJ
rved III t the Chinese were divided up ii,
10 gangs OF frlm-5U to 10, and thew we q h
ken to thciG9Hork every morning from q
dely separated camps which they occu- II
ed, IN charge of bosses or Iuuas whom [ mr.
ppose the pro ecutlon considered to be An
1-ttCs, b cause they did not allow these ( m
1ngOllans to go as they pleased Zach
Ia wa on hOrsera K and carried a
lcksnaae whip. which IL would have
en- dangerous" for him [, have used CT
the wi ness trecOrd. page 1879, whose Al
lnhOod did not seem To be seriously III
we'd by his long res .dence on this planta- an
n, and. on tICO occasions Mr.. Murphy hl
y Cinnamon. who were tagging behind m'
eir companions, struck. one stroke being ce
ivered each time. This fairly and com NJ
tely represents the evidence of Mr.. pc
lrphy. which covers nine pages of the 81
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