The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-27
SOME REMARKS
IN PASSING
Honolulu. July oath. 1903

Wherever 1 use a mild expletive, you
will understand that L mean something
so insulting that you would not dare
to publish il. Imagine the worst that
could be said, without excluding pro-
| family and vulgarity, and you will be
! somewhere near the mark. I restrain
myself slightly, on this occasion, be-
| cause you do not quite understand me,
and for once 1 use policy in order TO
secure publication.
| You have had the imDudence to
criticise two or three OF the lawyers
and one or two of the judges of Homo
lulu, and thus you have assailed me
and you must bear the consequences.
1 am not only a lawyer, but the ablest
turist and the greatest statesman in
the United, States. Modesty would re-
strain this public eulogy on myself, but,
for several years, every one in Honolulu
has known it to be true. If elsewhere,
| it is unknown, that is my business and
not yours. I am still a young man,
but. sir, the time will come, and it is
not far off, when the world will ring
with my fame.
Naturally you are chiefly occupied in
contemplating my transcendent ability
and influence, which a hundred such
editors as you are and such newspapers
as the Advertiser could not affect, and
you may be surprised because, years
| ago, determined to abide in this Ter
ritory, until L had reduced it TO sub
mission. Such a thought would evil
dence your own narrowness and inn
becility. 1 came here for reasons pecu-
! liar to myself. 1 am too large for the
| mainland. 1 stand alone, though, in my
double character of jurist and states
need no following, but, whenever I
choose, can impress every native and
every politician into my service. in
| five minutes 1 can hypnotic any mer-
| chant, banker, or capitalist in Homo
lulu. 1 can say what please, do as
| please, and live as 1 please, for, not
only on this globe, but in the universe,
1 have no superior. For me public
opinion has no existence. If it conflicts
with my purposes, down it goes. am
far above the Constitution, the laws,
and all social and professional usages
and habits, and I intend to prove these
facts, quickly and effectually, in a
small arena, where my power can be
manifested without check or hindrance.
Someday I may hang you. If you are
not of sufficient Importance for capital
punishment, 1 will invite you to my Of
flee, and you could not decline. There
1 will lacerate you with my tongue, I'M
til you will think st. James an ass.
and will depart, a skinned scribe, red
bloody and sore, and glad, as a relief,
to expose your uncuticled body to the
cauterization of the sun. while you
soliloquize:
why I was never so be-thump'd with
words,
Since L first called my brothers father,
dad"
But for your mental stolidity, you
would realize these things. There are
some truths about me, however, past
your finding out. 1 may furnish you
few glimpses, to which even your
obtuseness may respond. There is
rule termed consistency, acknowledged
by finite minds 1 am above that-be-
cause 1 am myself. Eternity is one
eternal now, of which 1 am the center,
and for me there is no tomorrow. My
will presides over individuals and COM
munities, and is always supreme. 1t
regulates every matter it touches, with
out regard to antecedents or conse-
quences. Therefore, in my case, con-
sistency is not jewel but dross. 1 am
bound by nothing. For me there is no
record In my professional life, take
any client I please, and do with him
as I like. If charges were preferred
against me, 1 would laugh at them and
would sweep them into limbo. 1 would
beard justice in its den, and would
make the judges think that the Su
preme Court of the United States is a
police tribunal. At the roar of my
voice, the stupendousness of my
epithets, and the virulence of my casti-
CATION, they would shrivel in their
robes.
Investigate me! Bah! am the Gov
ernor, the Acknowledgement, the Su-
preme Court, the Merchants Associa-
ton, the Board of Trade, and every
thing else, in the Hawaiian Islands, and
am the only Investigator. Again,
Bah!
1 hope you begin to comprehend. If
you don't, I will settle your hash.
am a wild Apache and a Bad Man from
Bodie. combined with the mightiest in
| tellect on earth or in heaven. Be care
full what you say or I may annihilate
you.