The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-18

all the plantations we had What3 The
teamsters were Hawaiian, very often
the lunas were Hawaiians or other citi-
zens or denizens of the then Kingdom
of Hawaii; white men were bookkeep-
ers, white men were engineers and
carpenters and blacksmiths; around ev-
cry plantation there was a 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 I say, gentlemen of the jury, that
if the plantations, by means Of this
strike, are made to pay proper wages,
so that if 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 paving a decent
wage and here are nv services for your
compensation. that is a 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?
~ 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
criminal proceeding brought by the
Territory of Hawaii for the punish
ment of crime or whether it is the
IL m
get these leaders of the japanese in
Jail so that they can force the rank
and file to work; I say it makes abso-
lutelv no difference. This is mat
ter of the greatest Importance to the
prosecution, whether it really be the
Territory of Hawaii or the Planters
Association. How does it appear? How
does it appear? First of all we have
the employment for this prosecution of
the most learned firm of lawyers in Ho-
nolulu or in the Hawaiian Islands: Mr..
Kinney, gentleman who has practised
law at this bar for twenty-five years
or more; Judge Ballou. very recently
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Territory of Hawaii; Mr.. Pros
ser. recently Deputy Attorney General;
Mr.. Anderson, young man Of great
learning and great promise. These gen
tlemen, this expensive firm are engaged
by someone (lawyers do not work for
nothing: don t you ever fool yourselves
in thinking that they do), are engaged
by someone for this prosecution. We
have the police arm of the law-I am
not permitted to talk to you very much
about that, because several things that
Of tbo+ 4nnlr 7Nlnaa bnTp
are instructed by the court to disregard
so I cannot 60 into that, but we have
had, oh. so much the police arm of the
law. Arrest after arrest, arrest after
arrest, both in this court and, when
they could not get it in this court,
bring in the services of the District
Court of the United States of America,
if you please; day after day, arrest af-
ter arrest. bond after bond, and bond
after bond, and the police arm of the
law has been kept in motion, ever since
the beginning of this strike.
Regarding Dening.
CITIZEN we have had Mr.. Dening. Mr..
Dening, doubtless a very learned gem
tleman, came here all the way from
the Empire of Japan, at an expense of
d TWO tuOuSoHu tlcIIdi 1tS anu HIS CA
penses. Our treasury is low; we can t
afford to pay, for instance, George
Smithies salary
Kinney objected: Zone moment. I
think that is the limit and l object to
that. -
"There is no evidence here before
the court, Mr.. Lightfoot, of that, said
the Judge.
cit is not matter of general his
tory, either said Kinney.
The Judge cautioned: ''Let us stick
to the facts.
cit is fact of common knowledge, -
resumed Lightfoot, "that it is neces-
sary for every department of the Terri
tory of Hawaii to economic to the ut
most limit; but we can send to Japan
for the valuable services of Professor
| Dening, even though it costs US $4,000
and expenses. And when Mr.. Dening
comes, what have we7 What is the
prize packet that we have paid $4,000
and expenses for? He comes here,
| gentlemen of the jury, as an expert,
doesn t he2 Now, has an expert any
| thing to do with the question before
| the c0urt2 His business was to trans
| late those letters and to translate them
| impartially, but what did he doc Bare
! ly has Mr.. Dening landed on our shores
! than he HES himself to Waipahu and
| there harangues the laborers; makes it
appear. if you please, that it is the
wish of the government or of the peo-
pie of the Empire of Japan that they
! should go back to work
"Here we find this gentleman. this
expert, coming here, at the expense of
these defendants and at your expense
and my expense, coming here with his
mind absolutely made up for q convic
ton before ever he sets his foot on
our fair shores.
"The result was to be expected
There was absolutely no more use fol-
Professor Dening in this case than {
dog would have use for two tails.
"We had the Sheha translations. and
I submit to you. gentlemen of the Jury
Won have seen both the Sheba trans
lations and the Dening TRANSACTIONS
and I submit that the Sheba transla
tions are the better of the two.
Translates Hawaiian.
= 'F0r instance. Mr. Sheba under
= stands our conditions; he understand,
: things as they are R great deal bette
than Professor Dening.