The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-12

connection with newspaper work that
KzspzFsfSaszEfF sstFscsS5 1yE5-
tiOn has bef the TfsiOp oi slngs,
Everybody toi9tsHr5st$Ae09
question provided 3 reporter VIII not
US ,asir s.4ss bt not s1Ae& lers.
+A Aki nAns ba ansH Ay awEII
SnAn a reporter comes around This
has struck me- as ridiculous. having re-
sryFA RpnT6aper .y1laEE ~n7Ess II
where men talked as fseely for pabiiSs
tioa j stHHslId asSafaa
to their friends al the club. an told
that the condition OF afsfshsyeia l. tl-
past Is accountable f5stfhG1t-t meh
were afraid to openly criticize tne gov
eminent. particularly after the -.on-
archI gas .oEeE4sTows I,haysi useel
Ftold. an 4 -that, TOO. rot simply u e13Sht 3htt
os ,tSe, but by ApIlerc1is men ~.
women thatiJhe pods wnitf Eralsd
here did not alloy any talk about --o1E
CHERISHED SEgd5s lfaAs a. new 1na8i
who came IN TO the community was
quickly given 10 tehSssssasiriiIa ne
must tack on to the controlling set
or else get out of the country ana that
on more than pne occasion a, yerdaut
etiItor, fresh frU1F the states. -wnC an
dertook TO scEigirise- 'what he,,a-.msd
TO: be wrong was quickly called Gown
dn1 fact IN one --oi- two 9fnstsr1ltes. ne
Fsas i'iadllc cesi.J TO Faeks his .trpna. ana
quietly take his departure. OF c6 Ifse.
AN tt44 'sotrndsSlike- "a S sentieY -.u lths
,communlty,. Dgt-,thsEs. are men and
women who positively deu.are dat II
is true. Iftthat tEcofress. n651. on aer
the people shy, al, pewspaper inter-s
views. But tfaeiff ali itf his VIII grad ially
right itself now, With; vigozoaea, d.:
mlnlstratlon OF justice, fearless pews-
papers that have no strings % theui
anu the iRtrQductieife az fFssn -Aas. lean
blood all these old conditions viii be
transformed Ss.-'- lfits-'-' ->,i - ~
cft.li ,s;.ts - - x-..t, ISL
> am inclined to think there is q good
deal OF truth in these statements v Mich
have. been Inade'-to me. An INSTANCE,
Of the fact that tho odd powers. -lFied
to make it tropical now and then came
under my own observation once upon
a tfme.,sA certain newspaper was
critcisiig the police department for its
non-enforcemept of the law or rather
for its rank favoritism in lis alleged
enforcement Of the law. About this
time man was arrested for running
blind tiger. The man went TO the
newspaper in question and made
statement to the effect. that he had
been RAINING his place because of an
agreement with the police and said be /
proposed to expose the Whole thing in
court the next day But the saloonist's
lawyer became frightened at his eli snt |
statement in the paper after the police
had called his attention to it and TO the !
fact that the police could make il in
terestinstfor the attnTney=and he rsfus- /
ed to allow his, client to take the wit
ness stand when the case came up in |
court. Following his sentence. which !
was a very heavy ena, the head, efs The |
police and his deputy. presented; an ,af- |
fidavit to the keeper of the blind tiger, |
which they had drawn up and tried |
their utmost to con1pel theimaR to sign;i
it, it being 10 the effect that the state-
ment which had appeared in the paper |
as an interview with the blind tiger I
keeper was all false and that he had i
never said anything of the, king 20
anyone, connected. with the paper. in
question. But keeper, Of a blind tiger
though. he was: the man was net so
base and low as the police officials and |.
they, could not make him sign their
prepared AFFIDAVIT.
: My friend never. told me what the
object of the police was: in trying, 10
SECURE this affidavit, but it looks as
though they thoaght they could cinchi
seme one if'they eoald only have -gdts |,
ten their prey to have perjured him.
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