The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-11-04


than the conduct aud actions Of
many foreign jurics in this country
are ground for nbolishing our whole
jury system. Some verdicts of for
eisn iuries have been sharply criti-
cised in the pIess. without any at
tempt having been made to justify
or defend them. lnd il is uuneces-
sarv to relate here the more dagrant
occasions for such criticism arising
within the past few years. There
have been instances Of individual
misconduct of foreign jurors, some
exposed. to the public but Others
concealed by persons who did not
wish to be talcbearcrs 10 The authO-
rites. which should arrest the hand
about to throw stone at native ju-
rors. A foreign juryman has been
heard in the purlieus OF the court
room in Honolulu, while the injunc-
ton of the judge to preserve silence
outside about the pending case was
ringing in his ears, TO declare that a
certain party to the casc had "no
show with that jury"
Then, foreigners cannot refer with
out hlushing to the records of iuries
in the lands of their nativity. Even
in England, lately, we have seen
the jury in the MAVERICK case con
iemned by public opinion for obey
ing the instructions of the Judge to
render verdict of guilty, when the
evidence was such as to create a
reasonable doubt in their minds,
which doubt was strongly confirmed
by public information subsequent to
the conviction. How many people
are there in the California peniten-
tiary for engaging in the business of
iury-bribing? Would such a bust
ness ever have been started without
the raw material to work upon
These wrongs abroad do not justify
wrong in Hawaii, but they should
| make people of foreign origin mod
est in their censorship of native
Hawaiian Jurors.
The foregoing extenuating con-
siderations are such as will occur to
any thoughtful observer from the
outside. "A knowledge of the pre-
vailing sentiments among Hawai-
ians, in regard to the state prosecu-
tons and their cause, will tend still
further to mitigate censure of the
native jury. The natives reason
thus: "When the foreigners parad
ed with arms to secure what they
deemed their rights in 1887, we Ha'
waiians did not interfere with them
but when band of our people die
the same thing in 1889 they were
remorselessly shot at and six OF
seven of them we're killed. We con
slider the lives of these our country
men more than balance the accOun
against us. One way TO make &C
counts even would be the raising o
another disturbance, but for this We
have no inclination. This, however
we are determined upon, that, so ia
as we have opportunity, We will ex
ert all the powers we have as peace
able citizens TO prevent any more 0
our countrymen from being punish
ed" 1t is no answer TO this direct
acting logic Of nature, to say tina
the account of bloOdshed in the in
Surrection should be against the in
surrcctlonists. The Hawaiians ut
terly refuse TO look at the matter i
this light, rs the editor of the HON
mission department Of the "Friend
makes very clear. "Bloo2 is tbicko
than water" and human jurisdiC
ton cannot overrule the first law Q
nature. Spartan justice does nc
grow on the lauhala trees. lie
foreigners put themselves in lii
same position as their Hawaiia
fellow citizens and answer this Ques
ton: Suppose the revoIutionists c
1857, instead Of emerging in es
panded political privileges, la
landed in similar "bad scrape"
that of Wilcox and his followers
could there have been panel {
foreign jurors obtained to consiS
them to the scaffold, to penal serv
tude, or to exile?
: While we have called the verdi
n miscarriage of justice, and Co
: slider it besides a matter of bad p
! Icy on The part of the Hawaiian
| we cannot regard it as tending
! encourage another insurrcction
: some people do. 1t is rather to
3 considered as the chosen form of +