The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16
econd the resolutions which have been

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOR5: |
When History shall have entered the
full record of the Supreme Court of
the Hawaiian Islands, story will be !
told unique among the annals of the
courts of the world, that is, that prac-
tically the same judicial tribunal with
in an epoch of half a century shall
have interpreted and eXpounded the
laws of monarchy with various de-
grees of limitation, of a provisional
of small republic, of a
transitional period, between the annex
alton and the enactment of an Organic
Act by the United States, of Terri
tory of the United States, and of al
State of the Union, and that too for a
mixture of races in proportions,
strength of character and interests
rarely witnessed.
I'VE are now passing through the
last period but one, the last period is
still before us. If the completed rec
ord should show, as it already has
shown and will show to the end of the
epoch, that those laws have been uni
formly interpreted so that even-handed
justice has been melted out to all class
es and conditions alike, with equal
protection to life, liberty and proper
ty, all hail l say, to the names and
memories of the men who have occu-
pied those honored seats of justice.
History has chronicled a portion OF
this record. A brilliant professor in
one Of Americas leading universities
writing a study in social evolution
with Hawaii as his theme paid this
splendid tribute to the Supreme Court
of the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii fur
nishes a striking illustration of the
social value of competent and con-
scientious judiciary. That her institu-
tions have developed so steadily amid
circumstances of continuous change
and confusion when foreign processes
and presidents were being adopted, ap-
pears to De due in considerable meas
ure to the ability, the candor, the cath
olicity, the uprightness, the steadiness,
the dignity and the courage which
have in general characterized those
who have sat upon her Supreme
Bench
Let it further be noted that the
universal acquiescence with the courts
decisions is not only high encomium
to that tribunal but is likewise a mag
nificent tribute to that respect for the
law inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race,
implanted by them in the body polite
of these Islands and contains the
strongest assurance of the stability OF
our institutions in their development
along American lines.
This days installation ceremonies
begin the forging of one of the links
in the historic chain. We meet to hon
or the men whom the President Of
the United States has deemed worthy
to occupy these honored seats, and
of whose choice we do most heartily
approve.
Before extending our Fluctuations
to the honored justices now installed,
it is fitting that we should express the
regret with which the bar witnesses
the laying aside of the judicial ermine
by the honOred justice who has pre-
sided over this Supreme Court for the
last seven years. These feelings of
regret are not unmiXed, however, with
the consolatory thought that, though
the Supreme Bench may lose him, the
Territory will not be bereft of the ben
etiit of his scholarly attainments, that
his sphere of activity will be simply
changed, not abandoned.
ITO the Honorable A S. Hartwell
and the Honorable s. M. Ballou, APP
pointed and installed respectively Chief
Justice and Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the Territory of Ha-
wall, the Bar Association of the Ha-
waiian Islands sends greetings and ex'
tends its warmest welcome. We are
gathered here this morning with high
hopes and witness your installation in
your great offices with pride.
With feelings of the deepest graft
fication we view the elevation to high
est judicial post of honor in this Terri
tory of a man VINO buckled on his
sword to preserve his country's unity
one who has twice served as an asso'
clate Justice of this court, and one who
will uphold the dignity of the Office anc
fully maintain with the same pro
nounced ability and the same fearless
and courageous integrity the high
standards which have marked tho
careers of his predecessors.
with similar feelings of gratiiica'
ton we observe the robes Of office iof
the first time resting upon the shout
ders of the newly appointed associate
Justice As codlder OF the laws OF
the Islands, as a practitioner before
the same bench he now adorns, the bar
has often noted the skin, energy and
fearlessness of his acts and deeds, and
we confidently assert that these sam,