The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-17

wages was reasonable, but II all de-
pended on the tariff and on the way
Cuba was going to turn. You can sec
that W, O. Smith would never havs
committed himself unless he knew
about what he was going TO do. There
is no evidence that the Sugar planters
would have tried to evade the inspired
interview of their own secretary. Sheba
wanted to wait,
"But they started their own ball
rolling-unjust TO the laborers who
have toiled early and late : who now
stand besmirched before the world with
their tickets and their passes aud the
Lord knows what not-by the hands of
these men.
Good for Hawaii.
s'It may be it is the best for us; that
il is the hand of the Lord; that they
have opened the door to citizens to
come into the Territory. But these men
did not plan that. They violated the
laws of the Territory, and that IS why
this jury is here today.
! "What did they dot Why, they
drove those planters. What answer
could be givenl What did they ex-
pectl Why, even the weak. kneed man
saw that to yield to that kind of
demand would be his own undoing.
They made the weakened strong.
1t was an agitators move
ment from the start and had the bull
doing note in it from the beginning
and must inevitably lead to violence.
"Now, what did they plant Clear as
| crystal-to make these thousands of
men a weapon in their hands. They
| filed them up with appeals from the
| Jill until they had them infamed.
Those man, barring the gamblers and
loafers, We're perfectly honest. The
most dangerous man il the world is
| the honest ignorant man. They are a
menace and danger from the very
| fact that they are honest.
'They made them n unit, and they
could turn them as man can turn 4
hose. And they turned their animus
upon Sheba. He'd got to be brought
into line. No use to reason with these
men, they had been inhamed until no.
body else could reach their ears. They
were like mad bull with his eyes
closed.
"When they had got the laborers
in that frame of mind, they could
ruin any man. All they had to do was
to point out 'So.andso is a sycophant,'
A Solid Front.
"Their next plan was to force every
Japanese into line. See how they went
at it. They warned these laborers
about spies, etc. They told
them they were surrounded by spies
until they had them saying This man
must be spy-and this man and this
one All, gentleman, never
forget that Mr.. Negoro certified here
to the honesty and integrity of Sheba
against whom they were trying to
inflame God knows whom and God
knows what
"The program was not to get after
the planters until they had the Japa-
nese in this Territory solid unit.
They issued a manifesto finally to all
the japanese stating that the time had
come when strikes We're inevitable. In
that manifesto they said, 'All syco-
plants shall be ostracized relentlessly.
If they planned to do that, that closes
the case right there. That's the case.
The truth is, the case for the prose
cution is made over fifty times.
81 am now showing how with that
weapon in their hand they whipped
man after man into line on that issue
an issue so impossible that they have
no support from their own government
or from their consul.
"Gentleman, plan that contem-
plates getting 10000 men in line means
something greater than the strike.
They were going to do more than raise
wages. They were going to dominate
the commercial life of this country.
And they wanted every man in line.
Whatever the plan was, it required n
solid japanese front before they NOV
ed. The ostracism of syco-
plants is the first step before the de-
, mand for higher wages"
"Did they succeed in getting every
japanese in linei Mr.. Negoro is the
man who swears they got every man
in line with the execution of Sheba
and his little coterie.
The Allegory Jury.
HThey say their threats of blood
shed were mere allegory-to Stay, to kill.
Good Lord, if this jury were to swal-
low that, it would go down in history
as the 'allegory jury!'
Negoro's Mistake.
"They would have crushed the plan
tations like an eggshell but for one
thing that Mr.. Negoro didn't figure
on--the question of finances. They
! had the plantations by the throat They
figured that only three kanakas would
90 to work in the cane fields. They
: figured that there was a japanese
spirit, but they didn't know there was
an American spirit. That is one of the
things Mr.. Negoro didn't know.
"Who could plan to bring 10000
, men together without force7 There
are not 10000 men in God IS world who
!, can be brought together without coer-
9 cion. Don't you suppose there were
Z a good many japanese who didn u want
to come in on this movement
I This fool proposition came in here like
!. a black cloud to smash the careful,
/ elaborate plans of Japan to send her