The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15
STILL IhCIT|NG
ACTS Of VIOLENCE
NIppu Jill Whites Rivals and
Threats of Arson and
Death Come.

The arrest of the editor of the Nippu
1iji mas had little effect on the course
OF that journal in its attacks upon the
euitors OF the two rival newspapers, the
Shinpo and Chronicle. Vicious attacks
upon these men, MEETINGS of the ignor-
ant to act against the persons of these
editors and fiouting of the law per.
sist. During the past week the editor
OF the Chronicle, Mr.. Kimura, has re.
eelved threatening letters, in one of
which he was informed that a bottle
Oh kerosene and match was all that
was required to put the Chronicle out
OF business, while Mr. Sheba, of the
ohlnpo, has been warned that his head
would shortly be severed from his BODY.
such threats from ignorant Japanese
are ia be expected in view of the arti.
cles appearing daily in the Jill. Among
people where a traitor is held in alb
horrence, what could be the effect of
the following, which appeared in the
1t be before some of the threats of
violence made are carried outs
Under the heading of "The Traitor. )"
the Jill prints:
I" man who forgets his own eoun-
try and betrays his own people is call
ed traitor-a man most disloyal and
untrue!
There are men among American
people who seem delighted in insulting,
distressing and depriving us of our
livelihood and obstructing our progress,
such as the Californians and some of
the Representatives of the Hawaiian
Legislature. They are heinous wretehes
who make it their sole object to disturb
and perseente peaceful foreigners. Yet
they cannot be called traitors, for their
persecution is against alien people. A
traitor is one who dare do to his own
country what these heinous foreigners
would do to US. He is most abomin-
able of all creatures.
1.-THE Californians and some of the
Hawaiians prosecute our people be-
cause there half-educated politicians
believe that our disadvantage is their
advantage. In their heart burns fire
for their kin whom they wish to help
in spite of Inconvenience to foreigners.
cit is not so with traitor. There
is nothing in his action that is pardon
able. He thinks only of the advantage
of foreign government and its people
He is ready to sacrifice the interest
of his own government and people for
the sake of foreigners He is not ignor-
ant; nor is his motive justified. He
acts upon his malicious and premeditat-
ed intention which is most corrupt and
vicious. He is a knave to be most
despised.
ga traitor cannot be distinguished
from his countrymen in his appearance.
Therefore he is ofen taken into the
confidence, and is made accessible to
the secrets, of his people. But, a
traitor makes known to foreigners
what he hears from his eountrymen in
secret. He betrays his countrymer to
foreigners and allows the matters most
vital and important to a nation S well
fare to be killed.
''Of traitors. those who give out
military secrets of a nation are danger
Gus, but more dangerous are those, who
misrepresent one nation to another, his
countrymen to foreigners, thereby cans
ing misunderstanding and breach of
peace between nations and people
they are most dangerous. Unfortunate
ly, we have among us traitor who IS
more dangerous than military spies. He
is Sometaro Sheba We are indignant
and regretful of the fact.
HIae is a Japanese who sacrificed
the right and interest of his country
men to the United States and to the
Hawaiian sugar planters. He is the
traitor who welcomed the law that re-
stricted our immigration to the main,
land and denied it to be disgrace on
our nation-the law that ignored the
treaty right of our countrymen; the
law that deprived the resident Japa-
nese of the freedom of residence and
travel; the law that enslaved all Jap
anese of Hawaii to their employers; the
law most wicked and unjustl
SIS he not the japanese who tried
to vindicate Mr.. W. o. Smith IN his
opinion with reference to the increase
of wages? He tried every way to OBJ
struet the cause of higher wages and
did everything to ensiave the Japanese
laborers to the planters. He is the
man, who knowing too well that the
higher wage advocates are pressing the
demand for higher wages on the plant.
ers upon just and fair arguments and
with due respect and civility to them
contends and misrepresents them as
agitators and irresponsible. He is try
| ing to dig chasm between the Amer,
leans and japanese, to mlslead and
| misrepresent one with the other.
eff there were not the opposition
i the Hawaii Shinpo-the resident Jap
anese would have been all one and the
higher wages would be thing OF the
| past.
"This traitor as the head of the
Shinpo obstructed the cause OF higher
wages, and now. even in the middle
/ of March. we have not secured the IN
crease of wages. Surprising the wage:
! were raised in last January, as we de
manded. we would have been $4l0,Ooo
ahead now. The wicked and vicious
plans of the traitor proved successful
and we have lost the amount we are
entitled to. All this loss is owing to
the treaehery of this ominous traitor
F, Oh. what vilenessi
| ~-s-----
college has done Lowdon a world
Of good. = s1He doesn t impress one
as carving excess knowledge. - . DC
| doest't t. But four years on the root