The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-11

Editor Advertiser: In your issue OF
the 5th instant. appears again an ar
ticle entitled THE Bow Wong's Come
Back at Their Ants in which state
rnent I would ask your indulgence to
present the following reply, in justice
tn myself and members of the Mum
Sung shea. Before I make any re-
marks for publication / beg to say
that we highly appreciate the work
did by your reporter concerning a cor
rect statement and reliable inforna-
ton which he gave to the public
It is a cowardly act for the Bow
Wong men to try TO misguide the gen.
eraI public through an English paper
claiming that the fellow-members are
all peaceable and law-abiding people
This is a scheme of the Bow Wongs TO
control everything by maliciously
publishing slanderous and libelous ar
ticIes in their Chinese paper against
all persons who are not their own. As
they are not satisfied in publishing
nbelous articles against the peaceable
citizens and merchants they also tried
10 publish the so-called Defence OF
the Bow wongs'' in your paper.
They claim that we have not shown
a list of our officers in the Merchants
Association Peoples Lives Assoc1a-
tion). I beg to say that if the name
less editor of their paper would take
the trouble to read my article which
was published on the End instant. and
the advertisements of the other two
Chinese papers of this city, he will
find the list of officers of which he
speaks.
Allow me to inform you again that
the person whom they mentioned in
their issue of the 5th instant named
Yee Ping is not member nor as
sistant treasurer of the Kak Ming
wui, but a member and assistant
treasurer of the Nun Sung Shea. Is
this not a cowardly act perpetrated
by the Bow wongs to mislead the
public into the belief that Yee Ping
is member of the revolutionary
party?
II is their duty to know that the
Nun Sung Shea is an organization
with its objects to protect the life of
the Chinese people and to suppress
the outrageous actions done by name
less editors and predecessors. 1t is not
my intention to insert any remarks
relative to gamblers. AS the Bow
Wongs take the trouble Of mentioning
this class Of people. but I must say
frankly that remember three or four
wears ago. certain prominent persons
Of the Bow Wong faction ran whole
sale che-fa bank right in the midst OF
the people Of Hilo town. Four OF FIVE
bankers were arrested by the former
sheriff Of that town. They were tried
convicted and substantially fined: and
further let me refresh their memories
that there was still another raid made
DN the pDliCc VI LCt IAN -
above society. whose names I do not
care to mention; they were charged
with brutality. the assault was upon a
weI9-known Chinese at Makapaia, ka-
uai, the. whole trouble arose from a
che-fa bank at Hanalei. OF the Island
of Kauai: they were tried before
iurv who unanimously rendered a yer
dict Of guilty against every one OF
them: the judge Of the court Of the
Fifth Circuit imposed a heavy SEN
tence on each OF them: they ap-
pealed their case to the Supreme
Court under heavy bonds filed by one
Of the rice planters Of that place.
whose name I likewise care not to
mention. Shortly after the appeal was
fled in the court. two Of these peace
able and law-abiding citizens, Bow
wong.s defendants. skipped to China,
leaving the bondsman in distress.
Their appeal in this case is still pend
ing and the bonds are still in force.
And in reference 10 the sixty gamblers,
there were a number Of the Bow
vong's mixed up in this too
7 rhink the nameless editor has been
long enough in New York 10 kno"
something Of the laws and statutes Of
the United states Of America il ref
arence to a certain case where the per-
son is charged with crime or offense'
that one is presumed 10 be innocent
unless he is proved otherwise: as tbs
Bow wongs persisted in asking me the
question. I am duty bound to re1ef
them to the American law
I may repeat the same phrase as the
Bow wongs did. that It is cowardly
act 10 attack persons who have never
been convicted Of perjury. The case
N question was simply committed to
the Circuit Court, and they are as
free as any Of the Bow Wong gentle