Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-11
JUSTICE DEPARTS.

the Supreme Court mas uoht rs NV! ,
would wish
Enemies Of George A. Davis are over
ioyed. The majority of the supreme
Court has satisfied their longing.
Enemies Of Frank E. Thompson are
pleased A majority of the Supreme
Court has gone almost as far in It's
work of destruction as they could de-
sire.
In its first analysis and in its last
analysis the decision Of the majority
of the Supreme Court of the Territory
expresses the payment OF old scores.
II is devoid OF justice. Having the OPP
portunity, the power in its hands, the
majority played the limit. There are
not ten men outside the immediate
fractional following of the supreme
Court majority, or the faction whom
the majority of the Supreme Court fol-
lows. who regard the decision handed
down by the court Monday afternoon
as being the product of anything more
than revenge perpetrated by iaclionai
politicians in the name Of justice.
To any one who read the editorial
columns of l.. \. Thurston's Advertiser
on the morning before the decision was
rendered, the probable action Of the
majority of the court was as an open
hook, II might be possibl" that that
paper with its intimacy with the ma
iority of the Supreme Court solved this
problem of judicial determination by
that remarkable intuition possessed by
the Son Of Man and claimed jointly by
a few individuals resident in the Ha-
waiian Territory, assuming direct re-
lationship with his powers of superior
diyination of all things pase. present
and future. Such might be the case
Prejudices and passions have been
let loose The attempt to rise above
the dictates of politics and of faction
aIists has failed, II there were ever
an attempt. Drunk with power, gloat-
ing over the opportunity presented by
a war of attorneys and the viciOusness
of innuendO, bursting with desire
which found expression in the atmOs-
phere of the court and the method OF
addressing counsel, the majority Of the
Supreme Court in It's disbarmont and
suspension decisions rendered yestar'
day tell all too well the story Of a
thraldom into which justice for Hawai-
has fallen until the decenCy, the Vir-
tue. the purity of American justice
from the highest Territorial court mas
become a thing much to be desired but
not found.
Ii is no wonder that Justice Gal
braith dissents from the majority com
bination Of the court. Justice Gal
braith, schoCled in an atmosphere OF
even-handed justice, brought up in the
American courts a practitioner before
the American bar, came TO his task IN
the consideration of the action OF at
torneys in the Sumner case with an
education. backed by honest determin'
alton to weigh the facts and administer
Judgment as the testimony and the evi'
dence warranted. His was thorough
~ judicial mind lacking none OF thu
capacity or the keenness required tC
decry trickery or lay bare dishonest Of
unprofessiolal conduct, Guided by eX
mo
tives which fall to the well meaning
capable American judge and practi
toner as birthright he forgot the per
sonality of the attorneys before hin
and gave himself solely to the calm
unprecedented work that falls to the 10
and is the plain duty Of an American
judge.
Chief JuGtice Frear and Associate
Justice Perry draw their inspiration
from the gentlemen from whose office
they graduated as clerks direc
"a official life in the judiciar!
OF these islands, The desires o
these men have been futile,
though the statue Of Justice arises iron
the mlre crowned with the tomato cal
OF spite and smirched with retaliation
the political pitchfork rampant and tn
political bludgeon behind her back,
As part In a political game III
majority decision Of the court Is nm
doubleday well played. But the Amer
team people have yet 10 openly or GOV
Gritty esp0uae the manipulation of
court 10 satisfy purely personal or pa
lltlcal ends Nothing r. more fpreF
60 the American spirit NJ Justice an
lair play than tho seduction NJ ln
iiro ru gratIy tho lUHL malice on Dat