The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-17

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the final chapter of Arthur NJ. Brown S
attempt to refute the criticisms of his
conduct of the office of High Sheriff,
] made by Governor Carter, has been
given out. Its full text follows:
! Brown may not have realized that
| Chinese hackman does not present
handsome silver gifts or literally en-
| terrain the police and Judiciary with
champagne dinners without expecting
some consideration in return
| / challenge the Governor to show
that 1 have received any silver gifts,
or gold ones for that matter. hand
some or ugly, from any Chinese Chack-
| man or otherwise) and 1 call the
| governor down point blank on his as
| sertion to that effect, that is, l assume
] that ne intended to charge that l was
| the recipient of the silver gifts re-
ferred to in his arraignment.
| The only Chinese hackman that 1
know of whose dinners 1 attended was
| the Chinese hackman, Ahoo, who on
his birthday and certain Chinese an
| niversaries, has been in the habit of
entertaining in a public and open way
members of Territorial and Federal
officers. If / mistake not Governor
Carter was invited to at least one of
| these functions and sent his regrets
| because he was about to take a trip
to Waialua.
These dinners have taken place, per-
| haps, twice a year and L never thought
any more about going to them than
would to a Chinese 'konohf' dinner
and now 1 want to reiterate my de-
NAL in regard to the silver gifts and l
want the Governor to make good that
assertion 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 is no marked profusion, nothing
more than any other citizen with
! reasonably wide acquaintance amongst
| the Chinese might expect, and if the
Governors accusation is intended to
charge that Chinese secured undue or
any influence upon me in my official
| capacity by reason of these konohi
presents or otherwise I unequivocally
deny such to be the case.
| DENYING EVERYTHING.
| Continuing the Governor charges
| that Il may not have known of the
| tremendous extent to which gambling
had taken hold of this community and
| has been so openly conducted"
| Replying I can simply say that gam
bling during my incumbency in office,
| had not taken hold of the community
| to tremendous extent, not was it be-
| ing openly conducted except as here
| tofore explained. 1t was no more
| open than now.
| Continuing. the Governor charges
| that Il may not have known that
| this gambling caused great suffering,
| and forced Hawaiian women to appeal
| to those who employed their husbands
| for a part at least of the wages earn
| ed in order to feed their children COM
planning that their husbands gambled
| away all their earnings, the Governor
| saying in this connection that it is not
usual for Hawaiian women to wait
all day on pay days around the office
so as to be there when their husbands
We're paid, to plead with them to save
a part of their. salary
| Replying to the foregoing / state
| that 1 have no recollection of any
complaint having been made to me by
any Hawaiian women. A 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 L recommended that they go to
the employers 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, 1 have known of arrangements
of that kind being made particularly
by steamship companies. In this con-
nection 1 should like something more
definite from the governor. Who are
the employers whose offices are haunt
ed by these Hawaiian women? That
gambling causes suffering goes without
| saying, but that l have caused this
suffering or that any such condition
of general restitution arose among
Hawaiian women during my term of
office and from an impetus given to
gambling under my incumbency. 1 did
not and do not know and L submit
that the Governor does not know.
| OFFICERS TAKING A DRINK.
Continuing, the Governor charges
that / may not have known that my
subordinates. while on duty in uni
form and drawing pay were often
wasting their time playing cards for
money and drinking in saloons.
| Replying. l state that one of the
regulations of the Police Department
while I was sheriff, and which I made
it a special point to enforce. provided
that no officer of the force while on
duty. nor any officer in uniform while
off duty should enter n saloon for the
purpose of drinking, and this regu-
lation was lived up to. off duty
| considered I had no right to prevent
an officer in citizens clothes taking a
drink in saloon if he saw fit con-
sidered it his business, not mine, and
, do not deny that number of my
officers while off duty and in citizens
! clothes frequented saloons. and it was
my judgment then and now. that by
50 doing they gathered knowledge and
! | in form fi4To b1eJ them To l-on-