The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-05-31
JUDGE LITTLE ENTERTA|NS
THE H|LO GRAND JURY
Tells Them About Patrarchs, Panama Canal,
Republican Prosperity and Some Of His
Personal Experiences in His Last Charge

his enemies be scattered! 1t is
sometimes true, when grand jurors
have performed their duty. when their
work is finished, that those enemies to
law and good order are scattered.
| But in the presence of all the pros
perity to which I have referred we
must not forget that the spirit OF law
lessness, in n great many ways, is
abroad in the land. like the grinning
skull of the skeleton, ever present amid
the flowers and wines and music. and
the entertainment of a Roman banquet.
Your duty is, therefore, like the mari
ner at sea, to take your progress on
the course of civilization and It's in
fluence on your fellow man.
II would not harrow you by the evil
dence that a revival in the enforcement
of law and in the punishment of crime
is Indispensable to our present and our
/ future well-being. We all recognize
that fact. and evidence might be Of
fered mountain high to establish It.
A single illustration I will give to indi-
cate in a measure the necessity for the
, performance of your duty, unhesitat-
ingly and faithfully:
But little while ago. by accident,
1t came to me in voice out of the
night speaking the anguish of a wo-
mans heart. Who was she? I know
not, nor do care to know. I was using
a telephone, when, by the mysterious
induction of electricity, this message
to another came to my ear. 1t was to
her husband she said in tones whose
pathos will ring ever in my memory:
Here 1 am late at night, alone with
the children; am lonely and frighten-
ed as can be, and there you are gam
bling. Won't you please come homer
These pathetic words accidentally
heard upon this particular line Of crime
are but family expressive of the agony
of many thousand gentle hearts. Hearts
of mothers, wives and children, occa-
stoned by the many forms of crime
which go unwhipped by Justice. Why?
Because the laws enacted by the repre-
sentatives Of our people, not in one
place but in many places, are practical
ly a dead letter. What evangels of
civilization! What advance agents of
prosperity yet unknown would be the
grand Jurors and other officers of the
law who would, as they easily can do.
stamp into nothingness the various
hydra-headed monsters of crime, who
fatten on the anguish of deserted wives
and the cries of starving children"
After outlining the law relating to
their duties as jurors and govern
ing their deliberations as Grand Jury,
the Court closed his remarks as fol-
lows:
you should be most considerable in
dealing with your fellow men; by your
actions you should teach the poor I'M
fortunates who break the law that the
greatest of all things on earth Is to be
good man; that glory cannot glorify
it; that wealth cannot enlarge it; that
empires cannot increase it. for whose
is man, good man, and a good citi-
zen, carries within his own breast the
essential principles of all greatness And
when wealth is gone, glory faded and
empires wrecked, the man, if he is
a law abiding citizen, stands amid the
ruin great as before.
Let your actions as grand jurors
and your recommendations III your re-
port be not harsh or convulsively OPP
pressive, but to the extent of your abil-
ity let those who look upon you with
terror be compelled to respect you in
the loyal discharge of your duty. Teach
the wrong doer to look higher, to be
man of ideals. Teach him by your ac-
tons as grand jurors that the only
failure for man possible is in infidelity
to himself. If he be law abiding citi-
zen and have the fear of God in his
heart he will be incapable of such fail
ure and the grand jury will have no
terrors for him" -Hilo Tribune.