The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-20

of the Territory of Hawaii would like
to close their eyes to the fact, but there
is, as sure as God made this earth,
new era Of labor coming.
The Strike Good Thing.
81 say that / perfectly agree with
the learned counsel on the other side
when he says that the strike is going
to be a good thing for the Territory of
Hawaii. 1t, is going to be good
thing for the Territory of Hawaii.
When this strike commenced / pro-
phesied-I was the one who prophe-
sled that you could not get three Ha-
waians to 60 and work in the cane
fields. Gentlemen, l was mistaken.
You can get three Hawaiians to go
and work in the cane fields, for the
history of this strike has shown be-
yond the peradventure of doubt that
you have only got to hold up your
hand and you can get two thousand
Hawaiians in the Territory of Hawaii
to 90 to work any day you want them,
If you pay them decent wages. That IS
it; you can get them to go on the
plantations as slaves, but you can get
them to 90 on the plantations, and
thousands of them, if you will treat
| them as men and not as dogs, and
pay them the equivalent of their days
work; and that is coming, gentlemen
of the jury.
GA day is coming. When 1 came
here, nearly twenty-five years ago, on
all the plantations we had whatS The
| teamsters were Hawaiian, very often
the lunas were Hawaiians or other citi-
zens OF denizens of the then Kingdom
of Hawaii; white men were bookkeep-
ers, white men were engineers and
carpenters and blacksmiths; around ev.
ery plantation there was little settle
ment of citizens. Not so, now, but it
will be so again; just as sure as day
follows night it is going to be so again.
And l say, gentlemen of the jury, that
if the plantations, by means of this
strike, are made to pay proper wages,
so that it is every man for himself, and
the man can go to his employer and
say, whether he be japanese or whether
he be citizen, You are paying decent
wage and here are my services for your
compensation, that is time to which
every self.respecting resident and citi-
zen of the Territory of Hawaii must
look forward with ardent joy; be-
cause then we are not going to be a
colony Of slaves, we are going to be
free people.
Whose Prosecution?
az say it is important. This case
goes to the very heart of the sugar
industry of the Territory of Hawaii
and don't you forget it. 1t is import
ant to the prosecution. don't care
what the prosecution really is. 1t is
said to be the Territory of Hawaii;
/ don It care whether it is actually 9
criminal proceeding brought by the
Territory of Hawaii for the punish
ment of crime or whether it is the
effort of the Planters Association to
get these leaders of the Japanese in
Jail so that they can force the rank
and file to work; 1 say it makes abso
lutely no difference. This is a mat
ter of the greatest importance to the
prosecution, whether it really be the
Territory of Hawaii or the Planters
Association. How does it appearl How
does it apear? First of all we have
the employment for this prosecution o.
, the most learned firm of lawyers in Ho
l nolulu or in the Hawaiian Islands Mr.
l Kinney, gentleman who has practise'
/ law at this bar for twenty-five year
or more; Judge Ballou, very recent,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour
/ of the Territory of Hawaii; Mr.. Pros
, ser, recently Deputy Attorney General
Mr.. Anderson, young man of grea
learning and great promise. These gen
tlemen, this expensive firm are engaged
by someone lawyers do not work fo
nothing; don t you ever fool yourselve
in thinking that they do), are engaged
by someone for this prosecution. w
have the police arm of the law-I an
not permitted to talk to you very mucl
about that, because several things tina
+ YOU know of that took place here you
are instructed by the court to disregard
: so I cannot 90 into that, but we have
had, oh, so much the police arm of thu
q law. Arrest after arrest, arrest afte
I arrest, both in this court and, whel
they could not get it in this court
bring in the services of the Distric
Court of the United States of America
if you please; day after day, arrest at
ter arrest, bond after bond, and bon
> after bond, and the police arm of tn
law has been kept in motion, ever sine
/ the beginning of this strike.
t Regarding Dening.
= "Then we have had Mr. Dening MI
Z. Dening, doubtless very learned gen
:, tleman, came here all the way froI
the Empire of Japan, at an expense o
= a two thousand dollar fee and his eS
e penses. Our treasury is low; we can
=, afford to pay, for instance, Georg
Smithies a salary
e Kinney objected: "One moment.
= think that is the limit and l object t
c that. -
z, "There is no evidence here befor
g the court, Mr.. Lightfoot, of that, - sal
/ the Judge.
d cit is not matter of general his
n tory. either,' said Kinney.
Il The Judge cautioned: "Let us site
to the facts"
alt is a fact of common knowledge,
resumed Lightfoot, "that it is nece!
II sary for every department of the TER
o tory of Hawaii to eeOnomize to the u
L most limit; but we can send to Japa
e for the valuable services of ProfessC