The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-08

'No employee Of McBryde plantation
has broken the peace at any time
during the present imbroglio with Ko-
ioa plantation said w. 4. Kinney
yesterday afternoon. Eat least, so far
as I know. and Sheriff Rice admitted
that none of them had But we have
thought we were justified in taking
such measures and making such feints
as would develop the full extent to
which Koloa plantation was ready TO
go in it's seizure of our water. They
have shown that they are ready to go
to any extent of force and violence,
making 1t clear that unless we were
ready to employ japanese in numbers,
and to proceed to any length of force,
We would have to rely on the slower
processes of the courts to get our
rights. We felt that we would not be
justified in massing Japanese and re-
sorting to force, in view of the rights
of the community, and it has been our
purpose since Monday not to do so,
though we have not felt called on to
announce our plans. Suit will there
fore be brought to enforce our rights.
'It is humiliating to be compelled
thus to forego undoubted rights which
have been seized and held against you
by physical force, when it is not a
question of ability to mass the force
and regain your property, but simply
because the other side are determined
to use Japanese and force. We can
not induce them not to endanger, even
to break, the peace, by the use of Jap
anese, and as we won't use them out
of regard to the rights of the COM
munity, and because we do not care
to assume responsibility for violence,
we shall bring suit and trust our
rights and their defense to the courts.
on Kauai. There have been large
forces of men marshaled by Koloa
plantation. They drew on their plan
tation forces to the extent that they
We're obliged to shut down the mill.
But Koloa has receded from a part
of the claims made at first. Koloa
plantation first built a dam in the
easterly branch of the Omao stream,
and later dam in the main stream.
the one dam diverting a million gall
Ions of water day and the other two
millions. and when we destroyed both
dams, they rebuilt them, using giant
powder to blast sections of the bank
into the stream to maintain the dam
in the main stream. They are no
longer attempting to maintain that
dam. But they are guarding with a
large force the dam across the east
erly tributary of the stream
when I got to the scene of ac-
ton" said Frank z. Thompson,
everything was quiet. There were a
few men on guard, and 1 heard stories
and saw some evidence that there had
been the romance of bivouac, and the
distribution of coffee from sentry to
sentry: there were shacks that indi-
Gated that there had been the alarum
of camp if not the shock of war. But
there was no situation when I got /
there or when I left. / saw no large
bodies of men. Everything was APP
parently peaceful
Independent advices from Kauai are
to the effect that the situation is still |
tense. Koloa plantation is maintain |
ing a considerable guard at the dam
in the easterly tributary of the Omao
stream and at the mill pond, and is
ready to marshal its full /
orce of japanese and use force to
prevent the dams from being seized |
On the other hand, nobody seems to
know what McBryde intends to do, /
and so the whole community is in I'M
certainty.
Sheriff Rice is reported to have said I
that he was prepared to prevent any
k.reach of the peace. No arrests had /
been made up to the time the W. G.
Hall left Kauai. Sheriff Rice's younger
brother, Philip, is an employee of Ko-
loa plantation.
IT seems altogether probable that
the determination of McBryde to bring
their rights to the arbitrament of the /
courts, instead of to the arbitrament /
of the Japs, viii settle the present
situation, and that the physical war
is over.
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