Hawaii holomua = Progress., 1894-11-06

least is doue in our plantation
ridden courts
But the interesting committee
composed Of n. P. Baldwin. c.
Bolte and f. NJ: Swanzy. We
mention their names again. staet
that 1t Is a matter for regret.
that the fseilities In the shape
Of free legal defence do much to
promote appeals to the law courts
on frivolous pretexts.
Did you ever hear the like
since the day when the slave
drivers whip cracked across the
the back of the poor Southern
niger!
The three gentlemen of this
committee place themselves on
record as stating that they are
judges of what frivolous appeal
means and that they can criticize
the legal action of Mr. Paul Neu-
mann whenever he thinks that a
higher court shall decide in a
case against japanese, decided
by an inferior district magistrate,
generally appointed by the near
est plantation.
We are not surprised that Mr..
II. P. Baldwin should sign such
report. His plantation record
is we'll known and he has always
had an inclination to write him
self; l, Henry Baldwin. by the
grace of God planterI of Hawaii
and autocrat on Maui"
We don't worry over Bolte.
Who is he anyhow
But we must say that the slgn-
ature of Mr.. f. NJ. Swanzy part
ner in the firm of Theo. II. Davies
& Co. in that combination and
under such expressions has been
a sumner to the community who
yet believes in British liberty
and British honor.
The following extract from the
report is the crowniug outrage.
The demagogic element among
the laborers kindles and keeps
alive an antagonistic sentiment
against employers which would
be non-existent but for the efforts
of the agitators, and when the
specially retained counsel of the
japanese government in open
Court iustifies the most fragrant
outrages by laborers - as was
done in the course of the trial of
some strikers from Eva planta-
ton in September last the pos
sibility of controlling the badly
among the laborers be-
comes q work of extreme diff
Guilty.
That paragraph means that the
Japanese government through its
representatives and through its
legally appointed attorney is en-
couraglng the laborers in COM
offences and justifying |
strikes among them.
We believe that the Japanese
representative as well as Mr.. |
Neumann is perfectly able to re-
ute the insinuations and slurs
preferred by this interesting com.
nittee but we desire nevertheless
o put on record that the COM
Dittee that wrote that report and
he assembly that accepted and
endorsed it have committed a
erious breach of decorum and
,ot themselves into most dis
greeable muddle.
If the planters in this country
ill think less of their dividends
nd not altogether make their
urses their God they will get
long better and have plenty of
aborers.
When they viii remember that
very man who works for them is
man and not a head of cattle
here will be no trouble with
apanese or others.
When they will realize that the
lghts of the laborers must be
rejected as we'll as the rights of
ne masters they will find that
hey viii have no reason 70 CON-
lent on the actions of govern
lent attorneys.
But if they simply want to be
aye-drivees with no other OBJ
ct than the smoking ofthe golden
lice of the soils. When they .
i'll do nothing to elevate or COM
'rt the men who work for them