The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-05-19
The Police Department
tttmea Responsible.
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| of Police and to do and perform all
and every act and thing in, about and
pertaining to said office in manner and
form as is by law provided.
Therefore, by virtue of this author.
ity in ]. X. Waiamau vested, he alone
is responsible for his and his officers
| acts. 1t is at the invitation or call of
Waiamau as a duly authorized agent
of the Board of Health that the Dis
trlct Magistrate, who lives on the 9th.
err side of this Island, can enter the
Settlement. His failure to ask the Dis
trict Magistrate to come to tie Settle
ment and hear cases for breaches of
Board of Health regulations, or the
laws of the Territory of Hawaii, was
to all apparent as a studied attempt to
cheat justice and to keep up a state of
terrorism of the inmates in this Settle
ment.
THE committee, in it's report of find
ings, contents itself to censure Of ].
X. Waiamau and Kea Kaehanui, the
jailor, on account of their being native
Hawaiians is only to lightly pass it
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tiers, which should not and cannot be
tolerated. 1t is an injustice to the rel
atives and friends of poor Pilipo Mi
kiIa.
"The failure of the Attorney Gener-
al, to whom l looked for Justice, to in
sttute legal proceedings, after the
nest evident proofs against these two
guilty officials, who ought to be ar
laigned and tried on the charges pre-
ferred against them is, the least to
say, an outrage of American justice
and compromising a felony. If this
matter is to be overlooked by the At.
torney General to clear his own de-
partment from any blame whatever in
that most infamous outrage on hui
manity and justice, then what protec.
ton have we inmates, confined in this
Settlement, isolated as we are, from a
recurrence of the same treatment, as
events have since proved by the ap.
pointment Of man who is pupule
to be our magistrate, which, in such
case, we are only getting out of the
frying pan into the fire.
"The Attorney General is prosecu.
tor against all offenders of the law,
and who judicially can call the atten-
ton Of Judge Kalua, of the Second Cir.
cult Court, in the matter, as we are in
his jurisdiction. Judge Kalua indie
pendently, if he wishes to see justice
done to those of his own skin and
kind, who are confined in this earthly
hell, can instruct the Grand Jury when
the court is convened in session next
June to investigate the Leper Settle
ment, this Pilipo case and other cases
of like nature, as well as the expendi.
ture of public money, which the tax
payers have a right to know how and
where the money is expended but as
Judge Kalua is a well-known bench
man of the family compact and is un.
uer their thumbs and pressure, may
not be ovor-anXious to give us justice. |
But that we native Hawaiians are
trammelled anu nelu uown by the |
necksI is no gainsaying, to have the
wind crushed out of us as well as our
very existence.
81 have very little hope from that
quarter although | may be mistaken,
but such is my belief. Therefore, mine
and my associates only hope for JUS
lice as American citizens, who have a
right to claim the protection of the
Federal. Government, is to appeal to
the Department of Justice of the
Federal Government, here in the Ter