The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-23

PLAN IS SHOWN
IN Thar.day.. AdvertI.erl

court yesterday and under the new
session hours agreed TO, a solid four
hours was spent in the trial, the court
meeting az $3.50 and adjourning at
1880. The greater part Of the morn
ing was devoted to the reading Of arti
cles from the Nippu Jij advocating
ostraeizing, boycotting and personal
violence TO all those. whether on the
plantation or in Honolulu, opposed TO
the program of the Higher Wage AS.
ISOLATION.
james Hakuole was the first witness
put on by the prosecution TO testify
as TO the organization of the Higher
Wage Association at a mass meeting
held for that purpose last December.
The objects of the meeting were openly
avowed but when it came to the ways
and means of securing the desired raise,
Negoro suggested that this be left to
the discretion of a committee of twenty
to be appointed by the Officers elected
at the meeting. Maxine was elected
president, Negoro, secretary, and Yama.
shire, treasurer, and these men appoint
ed the committee who were to conduct
the plan of campaign.
Upon crossexamination Lightfoot
brought out that Negoro in his speech
had made some reference to the duty
of citizens to obey the laws of the
country in which they live. AS to who
was to do the obeying the witness said
Lightfoot must judge for himself, Ne.
goro having used the pronoun "we. X"
| The crOss-examination soon dTifted into
a question Of the exact meaning of GER
tain japanese words which had been
used at the meeting The "methodp
or means which were to be left to
the appointed committee was represent.
ed by the japanese word "hOho,p and
| LightfOot tried hard to read into the
| expression the inference that the means
were to be lawful, but the witness gave
as his opinion that the word contained
no suggestion as to the lawfulness or
unlawfuness of the means.
Another question of translation came
up with respect to Makino's speech.
He had said that higher wages were
to be obtained by an exhibition Of a
"patriotic spirit or the Esprit of old
JAPAN The witness thought this was
a very strong expression of determine.
ton TO win anyway.
| Another expression Of Makino's the
witness said meant that they were to
proceed "regardless of consequences, !"
"A phrase which the witness said implied
that they must not care for death but
must go ahead in the face of every
| thing.
| In answer to another question Ha.
kuole testified that there were some
merchants at the meeting, but none of
| the thigh tonedp merchants. He also
remembered clergyman or two. Ne.
goro had made lengthy statistical re-
port, but the figures were too numerous
for the witness to remember
sheba on Stand.
s. Sheba, the editor of the Hawaii
Shinpo, was the next witness called.
| Kinney brought out his history as an
editor of both English and japanese pa.
pers in the Territory and qualified him
as an expert translator. Sheba had
known Negoro before the latter went
10 California to attend school. Soon
after NegorO came back he present ID
an article on the higher wage PROPOSE.
! 1t was too radical and refused to pub.
| lish it. 1t afterwards came out in the
Jill.
The first talk of higher wsgca ap.
peared in the Chronicle in August, 1905.
The Shinpo had an article on the sub.
ject on September -, and the Nippu
Jiji also took it up. All three papers
were in favor of obtaining higher
wages, but the Chronicle and Shinpo
advocated "A conservative course while
the Jill was in favor of pressing the
demand Immediately and resorting to
a strike if necessary.
The editors of the three papers were
invited TO n conference at the house of
Mr. Ishi with view Of reconciling
their differences and agreeing upon a
common policy. At this meeting Ma.
kino and Negoro appeared and staid,
over the objection of Sheba who in,
sisted that they had no business at a
newspaper conference. Maxine sug.
! gested n mass meeting and the lorna.
| ton Of an Association and there was
talk of n strike. Sheba argued for n
campaign Of education among the
| planters, who were the persons who
needed to be converted, instead of a
campaign among the laborers which
would only stir up trouble. A second
meeting was held in November at
which the japanese Wholesale Mer.
chants Association was represented.
The merchants reported that they ad.
vocated higher wages, but were in
favor Of peaceful methods and wanted
more time, and the meeting resolved to
take more peaceful course and TO
study the situation more thoroughly.
In the form Of correspondence from the
plantations showing that the campaign
was bearing fruit among the labOrers.
Here ARE some of the extracts which
were read 10 the jury;
owe hope that there will appear a
man with q chiyalrous spirit who will
come forward and carry out 70 compile
ton this question for the seventy tlOn.
sand japanese. Men like Mr.. Kono at
the conclusion of the Portsmouth
treaty"
Early In December however, the
kiDUu ,Iiii came out boldly Ina nd va,