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

We know what orderly strikes are, with
the burnings and assaults. If these
people were not orderly, not stick of
cane on these islands would be safe.
He says we are an army. If Mr.. Kin
ney owns a share of stock, he ought
to be glad we have discipline. Why
shouldn t we combine together, as the
planters combineF
The Clutch of the Planters.
eco from Hawaii to Kauai and
you'll find everything within the
clutch of the Planters Association. No
wonder the Japanese had to combine!
There isn't an employer that doesn t
know that the japanese are worth more
wages than they are getting, and l
hope to God they will keep at it until
they get them. The 10000 japanese
look to you. Let them know that, al
though the flag may have been dragged
in the dust these, past few weeks by
the police, the flag gives the laborers
protection that is their right.
81 leave the case with you, and ex-
! pect that within very few minutes
after you go into the jury room, you
will bring in verdict for these de-
/ PENDANTS. 1 have done"
Kinney Replies.
At $3.50 LightfoOt concluded and
Kinney began his reply. He charged
that Lightfoot had devoted himself one
| fourth of the time to the law and the
| evidence and hreefourths of the time
to attacks on the sugar planters. =" lie
has got his orders from his clients and
| has stood up and said that all they
have done is right He has promised
| that these things shall 90 on. There
is no installing their policy. They have
! justified and praised themselves for
! what they have done. This conspiracy
| is not ended; it has gone right on
| through this trial. They are not tired
of taiji and bukumetzu. They intend
to keep right on until they have the
will in the Territory of Hawaii.
Silly Talk.
Gle has given us a lot of silly talk
and silly gestures and silly intonations
of his voice that might belong to
school of buffoonery, but whether
Sheba in the future shall have peace
and security, not one word. If he is
tired of this language, what think you
| of Sheba2 1t would be infinite rest
to nae, he would say, if, by the verdict
of this jury, that kind of language
would be taken out of that paper. That
has to do not with chops and tomato
sauce, but with the issues of life ano
death. Away with such talk. 1t brings
discredit upon the man who comes here
| and thinks that with such talk he car
influence this jury. There never wa:
more contempt than in thinking tina
with fool talk and silly stories he car
influence the minds of this jury.
1.-The learned counsel says these mel
| have been prosecuted, not by the Ter
ritorial courts alone, but by the Fedora,
| courts The Federal courts don t fol
low on the reckoning of the Territorial
courts. The Territorial courts are swad
! died children in comparison with the
, Federal courts And the Federal court
has arraigned japanese who put one
word traitor in mail sent to Sheba
"'You represent the people Of Ha
wall. 1t is for You to choose whether
you will be led by gush and will-o the
/ wisp like that. | am sure it went IL
| one ear and out of the other
/ Kinney reverted to coercion anC
tyranny. as he said they had been prac
ticed by the defendants. and dwell
upon that at considerable length
i-Speakin of the branding of certain
men as sycophan-s, he demanded
What kind of law and order is that
What kind of justice is that?"
Counsel predicted if the plantations
! should go down before the attack o.
the strikers, citizen labor would bt
swept away as by a whirlwind. Kin
nev stated that he had allowed his op
ponent to go all over the ground anC
make what attacks he pleased on thu
sugar interests because he wanted th'
position clearly before the public an'
the jury.
| Referring to the bringing Of Jap