The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-09

and il he II what they say,
there rise up cloud of witnesses,
and the circumstances that carry Mum
chau.en along and would carry the
truth along whether he was there or
not against a very much more substan-
tial evidence than was Offered in de-
fense. II II q police court defense. 1t
is an "lrish alihi' to the effect. that
this lady having eyes to see and ears to
hear ami an understanding to grasp.
neither saw. heard nor understood,
though treason 10y the undisputed evi-
dence enwr.pped that house for
months fitted out of those doors dav
and night and rested in the shape of
/ that guilty shell in the privacy
of her own room, and upon her own
| testimony.
TINS raises decided presumption
! that as soon as we introduce the evil
dence of Kaae, of Nowlein, or Clark,
and Of kaauwai, it clinched the matter,
and ended all possibility of denial or es-
cape. The learned counsel surprised us
a good deal with the contention that 1t
was not treason; there has been some
remarkable advice given to these native
rulers and at this hour
looking back it must strike them
with peculiar force. II il matter
of history that the royal brother of the
lady who nov stands accused at this
bar. wrecked his throne with carefully
drawn opium bill and an courageous
opium bribery. Backed 10y white people
who are lost to the. light but who
wrecked his throne, and when the peo-
pie arose in resentment and demanded
their rights stood aluof. but when peace
had come again, stood like Absalom at
the Kings gate and sid would that we
had been here that We might do justice
to this poor deiud, d people The
lady herself has referred to the 10th
of January when she stood with the
Lottery Bill in one hand and the New
Constitution in the other, when she also
wrecknd her throne, and again, Absalom
has been at the Queens gate whispering,
would that might right your
Wranga.' And the Absalom who aC,ed
as a party to it and brought 1t about
now stands before this Commission and
contends that the situation as 1T stands
today is the result of the guilty advice
of those now IN power.
She has testified in that portion Of her
statement which is not stricken out, that
she promulgated that constitution in
1893 with the al vice aud consent of her
. .blutt. showing squately on the face of
j. that she had unquestiunably been ad.
Nlsed with the consent and advice of
her cabinet, that she could abrogate the
constitutional law Of the land What
world of infinite mischief, designed
mischief. there was in that advice, the
records of the past two years have shown.
il Is to he hoped, has been shown to her
who stands arraigned before this tribu-
nal today. We are not responsible for
that, and | submit that all the blame
lies with the man who contends here in
broad daylight, that what this accused
has done is not tretron to this Repub-
lie; that she could do all this within the
limit of legitimate right aud who also
makes the contention that Kaae, a man
who was there, and testified, was
guilty of subornation of perjury
anI was levylng war, hut
/ that she was not. His conten-
1 tion is that the man who saw this
guilty thing 20 on and testify to the
/ fact aud who took no part in 1t lis not
guilty of treason; that the accused is
not guilty, but this man is guilty of
subormIion OF purjury That learned
counsel for the accused has taken fire.
B quenI occasion to refer this Com mission
! 10 the oath he has taken; allow me th.s
once To refer him to, and let me in
| Justice remind him of his oath to this
I Republic, ami his responsibility as
counsel of the courts of this country
/ and as one who Is before this commnn-
/ ity. This course Is ON par
with the guilty advice of the
past; if the counsel has from association
with those charged with treason or with
the Accused has so mingled their con-
fession and SO blended in his mind their
ideas of their guilt and his idea of trea-
son. that he does not know where he
stands. well and good, but to charge
here that Government in an hour like
this cannot do what, has been done
with the provocation which the Repub-
lie has had is simply nonsense.
There is good deal of the heroic IN
this paper. She waves all right to any
immunity or any consideration for her
self. There is a good deal in the heroic
line that has been put III here, but the
lady knows, If she knows anything, that
with the men sue is dealing with she can
file packets of papers of that kind with
perfect impunity, and 1t will be consid-
cred for what II lis worth Everything
ia lhis line is outside of the issues of this
case. The lady knows, as all men
: know, that the object of this
) Government is not to crafty any
personal vengeance or spite against
= her. but simply to prevent repetition
, during the next two years, of the pur
!
such as she has pursued during the past
two years, and that outside of that,
! they do not intend TO raise their hand to
do her any harm.
5 This is all very well for an extra
5 edition to 90 abroad, it may have effect
: there, but it wont have any effect here,
D either to h Up her or to hurt her.
Z What the present Government wants
c is peace. They are looking for peace,
2 and they are holding the situation with
! eyes still strained and turned to the
D Mother Country under whom this
I country has lived, moved and had
j its being, with the belief that
G ere long her eyes will be opened and
she will take us to herself and give us
G the peace and prosperity which she ha:
stood for the past and which W,
s hope will do in the future, and Civ,
Il to us ali what is right and Just and re
store prosperity and peace in the land
u The accused has remined us and it i
e well to put it to the Commission, tina
u she is woman and much that IS in he
e statement may well be passed by
II leaving to your consideration whethe
Is this is any statement to make to tn
IN charge ON which she is on trial | sui
re- nit To the Commission that by all tn
ia rules of evidence she is guilty of tn
y charge preferred against her and that
~ should be so found.
I. A Term MisappIied.
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