The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-16
A VICIOUS REPORT.

The Special Committee of the House
on Road Contracts and Public Works,
has made a report to the House in
which they charge the Superintendent
of Public Works with ID negligence,
CD wrongfulIy Withholding moneys
due for labor done, CD bad construc-
ton of roads, favoritism in distri-
button or awards, incompetence in pre-
liminary surveys, illegal seizure of
private property, (D Withholding
money from applications to legitimate
objects, 90 private banking with pub
lie moneys, go wronging contractors,
Cd prejudice and fayortism, go
presenting an unsatisfactory and un-
reliable report, CO. ignorance of the
class of work done by sub-contractors.
This report is signed by A. B.
Loebenstein, J. d. Paris, w. F. Pogue,
and l.. l. McCandless.
Representative Isenberg refused to
sign it because, he stated, the Superin-
tendent had not had a fair hearing,
as we will show. 1t is a fact beyond
dispute that the Committee has been,
for some days, taking testimony, and
on one occasion, recently, called the
superintendent before it and examined
him briefly.
At no time during this elaborate
examination, did the Committee
furnish the Superintendent with a
copy of the testimony against him,
or with copy of any charges
against him. nor, did it even init
innate to him that it would make
any charges against him.
We do not discuss the merits of
these charges. The superintendent is
not now on trial before the public,
but the Committee is on trial for
deliberately convicting a man, without
giving him a hearing. The Commit
tee has acted as prosecutor, judge, and
jury, and made it's judgment without
charge, information or hearing. 1t has
made an effort to ruin mans charac-
ter, without permitting self defense.
What the true Anglo-Saxon, and
every righteous man insists on is fair
play and not foul play, that a man
shall not be convicted, as the Super
intendent has been in this report,
without definite charges and an open
hearing. The President of the Re
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boy who steals a banana. Fair play"
is the ring of the Anglo-Saxon cur
rent coin in the exchanges between !
man and man. 1t repudiates the |
''shinplasters" of underhandedness, |
treachery, and conviction without trial. |
On the facts as we have stated them, |
and which are true the Committee, |
excluding Representative Isenberg, |
has cut the ham strings of it's own
moral sense of right, if it ever had any,
and it wobbles and reels in the Legis
lative hall like a mutilated bullock.
1t seems to display only the ignorance
of naked savages, and the vindictive
hatred of justice shown by the Span
iards. The sooner these members are
run out of the country, through
Dewey's lines into the Spanish lines
of the Philippines, the sooner they
will get nearer to their natural and
congenial home. They deny to the
superintendent that, which if denied
to each of them. would make them
whine like whipped dogs.
For an outrage like this, there can
be no measured language The Anglo
Saxon never measures words. when
he sees fragrant, deliberate, premedi-
tated Injustice, and want of fair play
1t offends his moral sense with the
smell of thousand pole cats.
The monarchy did better than this
For the monarchy had some excuse in
the racial ignorance of the natives OF
the Anglo-Saxon way of doing things.
1t is natural enough that LOebenstein
should father these charges. The man
who deliberately indicted the Presi-
dent and his advisers with treason,
and failed to prove it, is naturally the
man to father them. The father of
lies, in the course of nature becomes
the father of liars" and breeds these
uncanny brats. When Representative
Paris loses sight of the KOna donkeys,
he is like a mariner who loses sight of
the North Star. and of course goes
wrong. Representative McCandless
will never find truth which lies at
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