The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-07

December 13. 1900, says: The courts
OF Hawaii have in this method OF US
ing sacred funds been guilty Of the
most glaring transgression of the law.
Such matters as this lend color to the
claims of favoritism, if not corruption
on the part OF Hawaiian courts and
judges sometimes advanced in the past
simply because the men on the
bench In Hawaii heretofore knew SO
little of law and of legal practice and
these very necessary record books. Is
no reason for going on forever without
them"
January 81. 1901: THAT he, Judge
Frear, has shown his narrowness and
bigotry and partisanship to such an
extent as to show that he is utterly
unfit to occupy judicial position"
May IS, 1901: How nice and conve-
nient 1t is for a lawbreaker to have a
compliant Supreme Court at his beck
and call to keep him out Of Jail by
postponing hearing on case that the
court could not decide in his favor
without stultifying itself"
HUMPHREYS IS RESPONSIBLE.
There is no doubt whatever that the
bar of the Territory has held and now
holds respondent directly responsible
for the foregoing publications, as their
direct instigator. They are In line with
his well known animus against the
Territorial Supreme Court displayed on
the bench as well as off of 1t, and in
line with his desire to injure its stand
ing before the people both here and on
the Mainland. The contention of re-
Spondent made public for the first time
through his answer to the charges pre-
ferred against him that he has sought
to restrain his editor from making
these attacks upon the courts of Ha-
wall, have not and cannot pass mus
ter. either with the members of the Bar
Association or any other citizen who
is loyal to the courts OF our Territory
and Jealous of their good name and
honor.
In this connection your committee
proved that on the very day that re-
spondent personally passed vote of
confidence in the editorial policy Of Mr..
Gill against the protest of the minority
stockholders, to wit, November II, 1900,
leading editorial appeared that morn
ing in said paper making a severe and
personal attack upon the integrity and
good name of the Territorial Supreme
Court. (See summary hereinabove
contained)
Such evidence of dissatisfaction on
the part of respondent with his editor.
and of unavailing efforts to keep him
in check in his attack on the courts
when respondent was absolute master
of the stock of the company, your COM
H0eQ CfaIIn Is
unsatisfactory, in fact. unworthy OF
consideration, except as they show that
respondent does not scruple to make q
scapegoat of those who have done his
bidding, and to pull them in front OF
him in looking out for himself
AMERICANISM IN HAWAII.
The charge of un-Americanism pre-
ferred by respondent against the courts
of Hawaii, already referred to, coming
from an official source, has undoubsed-
ly touched to the quick that large
nected with the annexation movement,
and including in its number many of
the members Of the Bar Association.
The history of annexation in Hawaii
is one that presents a continuous con-
nected struggle for upwards of sixty
years. Thrice during that time the
Islands were seized by European pow
ers. American citizens then residing
in these Islands, now dead, but whose
is still treasured by those that
have followed them, played a conspicu
Gus part and did arduous service In
these movements. During the
Civil War on the Mainland so domi-
nant was American sentiment in Ha-
wall that disloyalty to the Union was
as unsafe here as 1t would have been
IN the city OF Boston. Hawaii, con-
,idering her population and remoteneSS
from the scene of war, may well be
said to have contributed her quota to
The Union armies from among her ma
tive sons, both of Hawaiian and for
.ign blood. Fourth of July and Thanks
giving day, and later Decoration day,
nave been unquestlonably observed
1ere as they have been in the mother
country, and later when 1T became
manifest that the native monarchy
Gould no longer exist and that the ISL
lnds would have to pass under the
protection of some outside power, and
when annexation thereupon took def
lite shape, followed by the administra-
ion of President Cleveland, hostile to
he movement, these same citizens lit
rally slept for years on their arms in
heir determination to see that the
OF the hopes of a gen.
ration past should not fail in the final
lour through the want of sacrifice or
vigilance on their part. And now that
he long struggle is over and We are
;afe within the Union. to be charged
rom official sources with un-Ameri-
.anism is hard. The citizens of Ha-
vail, included with the animadiversions
II respondent would not be human II
hey did not feel and resent his at
ack.
COURSE vOLUN-
TARY.
And II must be borne in mind that
he appointment Of respondent to his
resent office was not contested by the
Bar Association or it's members In
act, ne solicited the support of many
f them, and it was freely given him.
70 one begrudged him his position. and
lie took the bench with the best wishes
practically of the entire bar. He hao
lot been on the bench q week when
any provocation so far as
ould be observed. he initiated the sys-
EN- of intolerance and attack and or
making political capital out OF ms po-
ition that he has continued ever since.
after the first surprise and when IL
ecame apparent that respondent hao
efnitely settled down to such course
Ie was in turn attacked by section
+ the public press, and the warfare
as continued ever since. The charge
made by respondent in his answer, that
he members of the bar have by looks
nd motions of the head in court, indi-
ated contempt and insult for respond
Mt. Is untrue The general feeling has