Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-23

fields, and while We will continue to
make our enormous dividends, per-
haps by and by, when you are an
old man or dead and buried, then
the wages will be raised" And SO
the Japanese said, We'll, we don't
like that waiting proposition; we
want something now. II is all right
enough to tell us that we shall have
a golden crown when we are dead
we want something to wear now. "
And so We band ourselves together.
We will demand-Mr. Kinney Is ter
rified at the word demand-"We
will demand" and I say rightly the
Japanese said, We will demand
higher pay" That is what you do.
isn't 1t? Isn't that what you would
do II you felt that you were being
oppressed, II you felt that you were
being forced to work day after day
and week after week and year after
year and no respect was paid to your
requests for increase of pay, al
though you are informed that you
are entitled to them? say you are
perfectly justified, gentlemen of the
jury, as these japanese were, in de-
handing an increase of pay.
Now they get together and they
talk the matter over; I'VE will do
this we will do that; we will do
the other" II may be that they
have said. We'll. we will try and
have an interview with the planters:
may be that we will see Mr.. w. o.
Smith; may be that we will do this
or II may be necessary to go out on
strike" and then We find that while
we are discussing this thing there
Is one little fellow in our midst who
lis going every time and tattle-taling
to the planters, saying, Mr.. Plan
ters' Association, do you know what
my countrymen are doing? Do you
know what your laborers are doing
They are going to demand higher
wages, and II they do not get higher
wages they are going out on strike.
Now we had meeting last night
at lshiis house"-or wherever It may
be--'and Mr.. SO and So spoke and
he said this, and Mr.. So and So spoke
and he said the other, and the plan
is that they are going to do this and
do that. so you prepare yourself and
get ready for them and take wha,
means you can do either have these
men put in Jail where they will be
out OF the way or take some Other
steps to Illustrate the plans of these
horrible people my countrymen.
He became ostracised and he desery
ed all he got in the way of ostra
cism; for what is ostracism? It ha
been explained to you over and owe
and over again, until you are as sicl
OF II as you are OF sycophants, tina
ostracism means to exclude from
our councils" Haven't they a per
feet right to exclude him from thei
| councils? Wouldn't they have beel
blithering idiots II they had gon
on, holding their meetings and plan
/ ming what they should do to ge
, higher wages, having a little snea
there who would leave their meeting
and go straight and report 1t to tn
planters, everything that was sal
and who had said It?
say that he deserved ostracisr
of that kind and he has no complain
. coming when he got ostracised, whel
he got turned out OF their councils
when they said, "Mr. Sheba, yot
|: have cast In your lot with the plan
tiers; go to them. We will hold n
communion with you; you can
come into our councils because 20
are an okintama men,"
t Now learned Prosecuting Attorne
5 paints a pitiful picture, oh, a dread
Q full picture. of the suffering thi
D poor man must have undergone b
S reason of his being excluded fror
: the conferences and councils OF tn
= japanese. lay to you, gentleme
y OF the jury. look at the thing man
r fashion, and II you look at the thin
4 manifestation you will say "Sheb
;. made his bed and he should lie upo
D It. Sheba elected to stand In wit
a the Planters Association as agains
1 his own countrymen and he has n
4 kick coming when his own country
t men refuse to have anything to d
e with him, refuse to confide In hin
- refuse to let him know what the
S plans are or how they expect to pre-
8 coed to secure higher wages"
Il I say that there is no sympathy
e as far as excluding from their cour
= cils-coming to Mr.. Sheba. Let hi
v 20 and associate with the planter
$ With the japanese, who are seekin
y the benefit of an advance OF wage
e he can have no council, because h
IS Is sneak and because he Is a syc,
t, plant, and he is where he belong
|, Exclude him from the councils I