The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-18
WiIcOx'S Abilities,

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% inst, we again have the pleasure
(?) of hearing from him whom you
have named ID. l.. Placehunter, but
who seems in some way to have been
lost in the shuttle, or "stayed out"
after the first deal. With him, per-
sonally, we have no fight. We some
time ago asked him through your col
umns how it came about that he was
such a wonderful man on examina-
tions in different places in the States,
but made such Il poor showing in
Hilo, in April, 1889. We told you just
where the information of his grade of
81 could he had Files of newspapers
and reports come in handy. He now
informs us that "WilcOX is a gentle
men," and also a profound scholar,
having 'gone seven years journey
beyond Ca missionary sons cOurse) III
the fields of learning" AS we are not
personally acquainted with Mr.. Will
cox, no one can accuse us of prejudice
in the following remarks. The place
where he spentthOse seven years may
be good school. Two other similar
schools are the Military Academies of
England and America, in either of
which he would have dropped out at
the end of his first year, as being be
low "merit," as the following grades
he made on examination will show:
Italian language, 80; mathematics,
80; history and geography, 10;
physics, So; military instruction,
20; conduct, 100. He has some
excuse for poor grade in Italian
language, but on the examination the
following year he did not improve,
and again made so, and only gained
1.6 per cent. in science, and fell back
in mathematics to 71.65. Again, in
his third year, as the lunar eclipse was
approaching, he went back still far
Their in mathematics, and landed IN
$685.. That was on differential and
integral calculus. In the first part of
descriptive geometry he graded $685..
On the next examination his mathe-
NAUTICAL grade dropped into the half
way station of so. Science, so, and
conduct took n tumble to 50 as his
visions of home and great deeds began
to expand. But that is enough. Mathe-
MATES is the backbone of q military
education, and in that Mr.. Wilcox is
the very poorest, and had he gone on
for seven years more his mathematical
grades would likely have been 3nfni-
te8imdIIy small. 1t has been said of
him that he could not, when he re-
turned home, reduce the French, or
metric, system of measures into En-
glish, or the measures in use here in
his own country. That is very likely
overdrawn, but we have no doubt but
that he can calculate the next lunar
eclipse more accurately by that old
standard work, CDR. j. G. Ayers AL
manac, 1892" than he could with q
surveyors transit. We doubt if he
can solve single practical problem
requiring applications of calculus, and
it is dollars to dOughnuts that neither
| Mr.. Wilcox nor his new found friend
| can give the correct solution to the
famous "cup and ball problem" in
calculus.
Now, Mr.. Editor, just want to call
your attention to one point of ID. LIS
| letter 1t was stronger and more
striking contrast when he stood be-
| fore the ignorant, vicious and Vindic-
| tive missionary Judges, who tried all
| they knew of craft and cunning to
| kill him (WilcOX) because he was a
4 OliNC anu BGtUIIOls ANOMI II
| d. l.. is not in contempt of court, and
/ subject to fine or imprisonment, OF
| both, then we are free to confess we
| are unable to distinguish contempt.
| IL is mistaken idea that contempt OF
court only occurs in the courtroom
Some cases may arise in the face Of
the Court, when the punishment is
swift, and others may arise in the
absence of the Court we mean those
not of the usual order of refusing tC
obey an order, rule or process of Court
as, for example, by speaking or writ
ing cOntemptuOusly of the Court o.
Judges acting in their judicial capa
city; attempting to influence Jurors
by loud talk in order to let them hear
or anything that demonstrates a gros
want of regard and respect, when one,
courts of justice are deprived of, thei
authority is entirely lost among tn,
| people. Laws without cOmpeten
authority to enforce them from dis
obedience and contempt are vain, an(
worse than no laws. In all lands tn,
Supreme Court is looked upon as th
mainstay of the very foundations o
government, and the one solid rOcl
that all parties, factions and creed
must look up to and respect at al
times, and especially such times a
our little country are now passin!
through, when it must be tn
one thing that saves us from
anarchy and ruin. Courts have grea
deal of discretion in the manner G
dealing with cOntempts not Occurrin!
in the face of the Court, which is jus
enough, but in this case it certainl
seems that there can be no eXtenuat
ing circumstances to be found. MI
: ID. J.. is an alleged lawyer, and as sue
knows the respect due Judge and hi
actions, and especially judges of tn
: Supreme Court, from whose decision
there is no appeal. He should b
among the last to do such n thing, an
the judges in justice to themselves, W
, | think, should issue an attachment O
Mr.. d. L. to appear and show caus
) why he should not take up his quar-
tiers at Iwilei for a short period {
about ninety days.
We may call attention to the case
on trial that Mr.. d. l.. vents himse
on, and say that in many countrie:
among them the one that both of u
hail from, Mr.. Wilcox would hav
never stood before those same judge:
but would have fallen on his coffin q
sun rise the second day from his SUI
render, with siX'.bullet holes thrOug
his heart, and none ought to know
better than Mr.. w. himself after seve
years study of the subject. The sam
judges sat on n similar case against
foreigner, and he got death sentence
: aud yet no one howls himself hoars