The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-22

III VI AtrftsAAE -44-@E-A $780, -
and on application TO the United
States District Aftorney-coI Baird
that gentleman replied that whIls in
fun sympathy with the purpose. he
had 10 authority 10 incur in behalf Of
the United States the necessarily large
expense OF such 3 proceeding.
Nr. Fitch reported the conditions 10
the clergymen. and suggested that an
injunction IN 8 civil case might Be Oh
tained if q plaintiff could be found who
could prove that be suffered from the
maintenance Of Tsflei a private injury
differing in kind from the injury TO
the general public This was not an
easy task. for the buildings surround
ing the stockade were mostly Japan
csc and Chinese shops and manufac-
turing establishments The little
branch RaumakapiIi church building
offered the only available weapon of
attack. and after several weeks delay.
incurred in procuring evidence Of
title. and the consent Of a majority
Of the trustees. the suit was brought
In the meantime the special agent
r the United States who haa hives
tigated IwiIei. made sucn report that
the authorities at Washington deter
mined to- act. Instructions were sent
here. and Acting Governor Cooper
called a meeting OF his executive
council at o'clock in the afternoon
and invited the Associated Clergymen
to meet him TO devise ways and means
u close Iwilei. But at noon the same
lay Judge Gear granted temporary
injunction closing Iwilei The clergy
men informed Governor Cooper of this
at the meeting. and it is said that he
seemed more Disconnected than pleas
ed at the information; but at the close
OF the conference he instructed the
High Sheriff that the Act to Mitigate
was unconstitutional. that police pro-
lection must be withdrawn from the
women, and that they should be so
notified.
Before this could be done however,
the injunction was served. deputy
had notified the women-as they came
at the usual afternoon business
hour-that they were hencefcrth for
b-dden to ply their trade there. and
they departed. and when the Cover
uoE's order came to notify the occu-
pants thai police protection was with
Drawn. there was nobody to notify
TOR the slave pen was at an end. But
It was the clergymen. and their law
7er. and Kaumakapili church, and
!udge Gear that ended it, and not the
Iovern or any of his council.
The lessees of Iwilei did not sur
render without a struggle. Both at
The hearing of motion to dissolve the
preliminary injunction. and on the
trial of the case. they made a strong
light. but were defeated at every point
by the attorney for Kaumakapili
church.
During this contest the attitude CT
the Advertiser was peculiar. 1t ex-
pressed no opinion editorially. and did
not even report the proceedings in
the injunction suit in its news col
umns
Whether the Japanese lessee Tadeo-
mo otzuma will appeal from the final
judgment of Judge Gear to the Su-
preme Court remains to be seen.
Probably not for even a reversal of
the judgment would not. under the
present attitude of the Federal gov
eminent, restore Iwilei, and indeed
Mr. Otzuma will be fortunate If he
escape Indictment by the Grand Jury
for perjury. for at the trial of the
Iwilei case he testified with unblush-
ing assurance that although lessee of
Iwilei. he did not know either personal
Iy or by common report that IwiIei
was bawdy house. and that when he
received the rents daily from his agent
he understood that they were the pro-
ceeds of a reputable lodging house
belonging to him which he supposed
was being conducted there.
Maybe he had watched the proceed
ings in the Smith perjury case. and
felt confident that Attorney General
Dole would dismiss any indictment for
perjury that might be found against
him.
A comical side of the business is
the attitude of Secretary Cooper in
posing as the destroyer of Iwilei.
There is nothing like it since the clas-
sic controversy as to who killed Cock
Robin. unless one paraphrase the Ian
guage Of Falstaff when he flung the
hsdy OF Percy-whom he had picked
up dead upon the battle field-at the
feet OF the Prince who had really slain
him. and we mag nee Cooper laying
before the Department of Justice at
Washington a photograph of the
PROSTATE walls Of Iwilel and saying:
If the President viii do me any honor
| for this. so. If not let him cfesa the