The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-11

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conditions. (Applause.) We are iaclin-
ed TO think that in any epoch greater
difficulties have arisen than before, but
be that as it may, the difficulties have
been and are now, met. Governor Car
ter has the good viii of the people of
these islands. He has capacity, which
gratffies his friends, and he promises
| well for the future.
1T is a matter for congratulation that
he has the example and the influence
, of President Roosevelt to guide him.
L think he is governing himself by the
same principles which govern and con-
troll the President of the whole United
States. It is gratifying that a young
man has been found in this country to
take up this work, which has been car
ried on we'll in the past few years by
his able predecessor Blowing in the di
rection of Judge Dole, at the mention of
| whose name there was prolonged ap-
! pIause) The whole history of the past
! ten or twelve years has not been writ
| ten. In that time there were many
! problems which were met with degree
of high intelligence which has resulted
in great things for this country 1t is
! a gratifying thing that young man,
/ born in these islands, has been found to
! take up this work. 1t speaks well for
| the young men of this country, and
without being personal l would refer to
our worthy POSTMASTER, Judge Stanley,
who became a member of the bench at
the age of twenty-five years. Our es-
teemed and respected Justice of the Su-
preme Court, Judge Perry, became a
judge when he was twenty-five, and the
Chief Justice, Judge Frear, at twenty
seven. Our brother, E. A. Mott-Smitil,
became Minister of Foreign Affairs at
twenty-five. L. A. Thurston was the
! leader of the cabinet when he was
. twenty-seven. Judges Gear and Robin
son are young men, and then there was
our brother, w. r. Castle, in harness
when he was 15-no, 26-and then there |
is our Attorney General, Andrews, a |
mere child Oaughter). The post of re-
sponsibility, that of Governor, is repos- |
ing with Acting Governor Atkinson, |
young and fresh in his early manhood" |
HON. FRANK ANDRADE-THE
LEGISLATURE.
'"The Legislature" was responded to
by Hon. Frank Andrade, in part, as
follows:
I'm response to this toast 1 want to
say that the legislature has been cri-
of them have been just and some were.
I consider, not just. The legislature of
1903 did more work, honest work, than
this Territory has ever known of a leg
islature." ooh, Noi'' said several.)
Mr.. Andrade specified the number of
bills passed, resolutions looked after
and extra labor of committees, etc.
The relation of the Bar Association to
the legislature was of great Importance.
With the assistance of the Bar Associa-
ton L feel sure that the work of that
session would have been entirely a fiz-
zle. 1t prepared nine-tenths of the legal
measures presented. 1 say that some
of these criticisms were unjust when
you pause to consider that the legiSla-
ture was something unknown here be-
fore 1S41. The laws before were passed
by the chiefs. When you consider that |
only sixty years have elapsed in which
the natives have had time to learn of
legislative proceedings they have done
very well. What has taken other coun-
tries centuries to learn, we have done
in a little more than half a century,.
At this juncture Judge Gear hung
one of Closed tin signs from the ele-
vator, over the speakers breast, Great
ing considerable amusement.
JUSTICE PERRY-THE BENCH.
1.-THE Bench" was responded to by
Judge Antonio Perry of the Supreme
Court, as follows:
1.-THE founders of our system of gov
eminent rightly accorded to the judi
ciary very high place in that system.
They did not overrate the Importance Of
this branch of the government. The ex-
iStaDpe or non -eXiStpnre of an directive. !
Independent judiciary is a good cri-
terion of the degree of civilization to
which a nation has attained. 1t is not
difficult to imagine the conditions pre-
vailing in a community where there is
no recognized tribunal for the settle
ment of those controversies between
individuals which will arise as long as
men are composed of the materials of
which they are now composed and sub
ject to the frailties to which they are
now subject. 1t is a matter for con-
graduation that submission of differ
ences to the judiciary, followed by ODE
dience to and respect for its DEGREES, is
now the rule and a taking of the law
into their own hands by those aggriev-
ed the exception. For the reduction of
the number of those exceptional cases,
two classes, at least, of remedies sug-
gest themselves, one of the education
mentally and morally of the individuals
composing the communities directly
concerned, so as to create in them
better appreciation of the principles in
volved, and the other Improvements in
the system and in the administration of
the law, which will render adjudications
more speedy and the enforcement of ex-
act justice more certain. Under the
latter head of improvements in the adj
ministration of the law, much room is
left to judges, especially those who
have the active conduct of trials, to
play an important part. Il refer, of
course, to judges generally and not to
those of this Territory in particularly
The duty is theirs to make use of their
opportunities in that regard. 1t is not
often that a real, irreconcilaple conflict
will be found between justice and law,
and iMdges. when extended research