The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-04
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RxA+++ very material of statement
1t is all the more remarkable too,
DR. Bishop only careful writer but carefully obevan Of
He says
Or Kncaid reported as saying When went IawaiD
sponsby. Dr. Kncad arrived here September 1893 three
months after the Newand which established American
here involving abolition of the system He could
have witnessed its working He most naccuatey calls slavery be-
his mental attitude such hastily adopt the statements
of extremists without due verihcaion"
Dr. Bishop has evidently forgotten about the transition period Of
history period supreme court
that time much banded epth Island poll
Penal enforcement labor continued until the
aon of the Territory June DR. Bishop will recall the
quence Of he will remember that the whole GaCian incident
passage the Newlands Resolution If he will
look the records the District Courts here and elsewhere the
Islands, he will find many OF penal enforcement OF labor coD
tracts after the passage OF the NeWand Resolution and before the
ganahon OF the territory The Newands Resolution most decided
y did establish American government here involving abolition
of the system Hawaiian laws and Hawaiian system of gov
eminent including customs regulation and Hawaiian jurisprudence
continued until June So that Dr. Kncad had nearly
years which witness the working the labor system
as it existed here.
law relating penal
the Penal Laws Hawaii under the title Masters Servants
This whole chapter repealed creating the Territory
ton, the Commission including Justice Frear and Judge Dole
Whether the system including did penal enforcement
OF contracts amounted slavery depends how defines
slavery 1t may be question of mental attitude Dr. Bishop
suggests But here the provisions OF that Masters and Ser
Act part 1885, any person any per-
lawfully bound ev shall refuse according the
provisions the last section or the terms OF his contract his
may apply any District Magistrate where may reside shall
he authorized by otherwise send for the reus
ing and such refusal be persisted commit such prison
there to remain hard labor until he will according
law
very likely that that section the whole be read
the Mohon Conference gathering Americans
mental attitude OF the whole gathering would predpose to size
up the system slavery.
The truth that American community glad system
has been abolished whether slavery probable that
would have been abolished whether annexation had for
there growing feeling against it. feeling in which of the
planters shared That the from abuses due
at least the sturdy of fairness and justice which the New
England missionaries brought ncucaed and
strengthened by aCcession the
population Americans and others mbued with liberty
also doubt represented
contract abor represented here also by officers dip
omatc consular rank whose duty that their fellow
citizens subjects subjected abuse treatmen
However, it is not for the American the finger of
accusation the Hawaii the Hawaiian government
cedng annexation for the United States has its book
day almost the identical provision of law which
Kncaid declared slavery. Sailors aboard American
bound their service by exactly the penalties
able in practically the that borers in Hawaii used
to be In fact the obsolete Hawaiian modelled
suggested by the American law relating the service
And Associate
ed States Supreme Court has declared this slavery.