The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-16
BROWN TO CARTER


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The only chinese hackman that I
know Of whose dinners I attended was
the Chinese hnckman. Ahoo who. on
his birthday and certain Chinese anni-
versailles, has been IN the habit OF en-
PERTAINING I'm a public and open way
members Of Territorial and Federal
officers. II / mistake not Governor
Carter was invited TO al least one Of
these functions and sent his regrets
because he was about TO make a trip
to waiaiua.
These dinners have taken place per-
haps, twice a year and 1 never thought
any more about going to them than I
would to a Chinese "ko lohi' dinner, and
now I want to reiterate my denial I'm
regard to the silver gifts and I want
the Governor to make good that asser-
tion or take It back. On Chinese New
Years, different Chinese have sent me
presents consisting OF lichee nuts and
the usual ''konohi' gifts and this In no
marked profusion, nothing more than
any other citizen with a reasonably
wide acquaintance amongst the Chinese
might expect, and II the Governors ac-
cusation is intended to charge that
Chinese secured undue or any influence
upon me in my official capacity by rea-
son of these konohi presents or other
wise I unequivocally deny such to be
the case.
Continuing the Governor charges that
Il may not have known of the tremen-
dous extent to which gambling had
taken hold of this community and has
been so openly conducted"
Replying 1 can simply say that gam
bling during my incumbency in office,
had not taken hold of the community
to a tremendous extent, nor was it be-
ing openly conducted except as hereto
fore explained. It was no more open
than now.
Continuing, the Governor charges that
81 may not have known that this gam
bling caused great suffering, and forced
Hawaiian women to appeal to those
who employed their husbands for part
at least of the wages earned in order to
feed their children, complaining that
their husbands gambled away all their
earnings, the Governor saying in this
connection that it is not usual for Ha-
waiian women to wait all day on pay
days around the Office so as to be there
when their husbands were paid, to
plead with them to save part of their
salary"
Replying to the foregoing I state that
1 have no recolleC ton of any complaint
having been made to me by any Ha-
waiian women. number of times l
remember Hawaiian women having
come to me and complained because
their husbands drank up their wages
around the saloons and did not provide
for their families, and in these cases
recommended that they go to the en-
ployers of their husbands, and secure
an arrangement by which part of the
! pay could be given to the wife directly,
and as a matter of fact for years past
antedating my term as Sheriff: l have
| known Of arrangements of that kind be-
ing made, particularly by steamship
companies. In this connection 1 should
like something more definite from the
governor. Who are the employers
whose offices are haunted by these Ha-
waiian women? That gambling causes
suffering goes without saying, but that
! l have caused this suffering or
that any such condition of general des-
titution arose among Hawaiian wo-
men during my term of Office and from
an impetus given to gambling under
my incumbency,I did not and do not
know and I submit that the Governor
does not know.
, Continuing the Governor charges that
I may not have known that my subor-
! dirates, while on duty in uniform and
drawing pay were often wasting their
/ time playing cards for money and
drinking in saloons.
/ Replying 1 state that one of the re-
gulations of the Police Department
while l was sheriff, and which I made
it a special point to enforce provided
I that no officer Of the force while on
duty, nor any officer in uniform while
off duty should enter a saloon for the
purpose of drinking, and this regulation
was lived up to. off duty I considered
had no right to prevent an officer IN
citizens clothes taking a drink in a
/ saloon if he saw ft--I considered it his
/ business not mine, and I do not deny
that a number of my officers while of
duty and in citizens clothes freQuented
saloons, and it was my judgment ther
and now that by so doing they gather
ed knowledge and Information that en-
abled them to keep much better track
and control over the criminal element il
the city. An officer in a saloon who
became intoxicated or otherwise con-
Quoted himself in a manner unbecoming
an officer was subject to reprimand OF
discharge. 1 deny in connection with
the foregoing that my subordinates
while on duty in uniform were often
wasting their time playing cards fol
money. Invidual cases of that kind
may have occurred but when detected
have been severely dealt with,
The Governor proceeds to criticize my
attitude in regard to the liquor clubs
already referred to. That has been al
ready answered and wish here simply
to point out the unfair and partisan
character of the accusations of the gov
ernor. Reading his charge against me
in reference to these liquor clubs who
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