Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-23
PLANTERS PROFITS
IMPRESSED ON JURY
FIGURES OF SPEECH IN
JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS
Stories From Neutrality-suspicious.
Should Be Run Out - What
Was Done by Negoro at Kahu-
ku.

Following are the closing remarks
of Attorney LightroOt before the
jury in the conspiracy trial:
Mr.. Lightroot. May it Please the
court and gentlemen Of the jury:
Prior TO the adjournment for lunch
con we had discussing the real meat
Of this question. namely, the ques-
tion of conspiracy. We saw thal
We were trying these defendants for
pends upon certain details certain
things: to wit. combining together
To prevent these five plantations
from carrying on their business
that and nothing else. We were
seeing that the prosecution, In or
der to fix this crime upon us, de-
penis upon certain details, certain
causes. one of which was the rela-
exist between the Higher Wage
Association of Honolulu and those In
the outside districts: the relation
that was supposed to exist between
the Higher Wage Association and
goro's room: the responsibility of
the Higher Wage Association for
the play that was found in Mr.. Ne
gurus room: the responsibility OF
the Higher Wage Association for the
plan of campaign which Mr.. Kinney
in his opening address to you said
was the plan of the Higher Wage
Association and which you saw,
gentlemen of the jury, was not any
thing of the kind but a plan for
some other organizations which are
probably now being formed.
And now we are coming to a
feature that the prosecution relies
upon very much indeed, and that Is
these okintama men, these glorious
sycophants. We have heard "syco'
plants" and "sycophants" and
"sycophants" until we have been in
deed sick of the "phants" and every
thing else. We have had syco'
plants to breakfast and sycophants
to luncheon and sycophants to din
ner: we have ate and slept with
"sycophants" and II has been pour
ed into our ears morning, noon and
night until | will take solemn
oath that when ! get out of this
case, II anybody comes to me and
says "syCOphants," | will "bOkume'
tau him just as sure as God made
little apples; won't stand 1t.
Those Sycophants.
Now great deal is made about
these sycophants. You know, gen
tlemen, don't you, from your own
experience. that a great deal de
ponds upon the way you look al
things. You can take the simplest
things, sometimes, and look at then
so that they-"Oh, they are dread
fully, and yet at the same time they
are quite simple. 1t all depends up
on the point of view doesn't IT,
Does not everything depend upor
the point of view? When Professor
Dening came to these islands as al
expert on japanese he came here
didn't he? with his mind made up
1t is not fact that the japanese
Government sent him here. as Mr.
Kinney says,-that Is, II Mr.. Den
ing's statement Is true. His state
ment is that he is a school-teache
teaching school in some place Gale,
something or other,-I can neve
be good japanese scholar; fairl
good, but never good one; can
remember the name of the place
And the Government telephoned I
the editor of paper, Capital
Brinckley, and asked Capital
Brinckley--l think that Is hi
name--to come here and do thi
work, and the learned captain coul
not come and sent telegram to MI
Dening, Professor Dening, and h
came. He got permission from hi
government to come and | suppos
will get permission from the govern
ment to keep the $4,000. But h
came here with his mind made vi
didn't he? And when he told you
when he held up his hands in hol
horror at this word "okintama," h
was holding up his hands at some
thing that he didn't know the frs
blessed thing about; something tha
in the Territory of Hawaii had
local meaning, and It all depende
on the way you look at 1t. am +,
minded of a story, told of the lat
Samuel Wherefore, who was Bisho
of Oxford for many years. TT
story is told by his nephew, WI
afterwards Bishop of Newcastle.
seems that Samuel Wilberiorce,-
splendid old gentleman he was,-
was always going after sporting pc
sons, He had a lot of parsons WI
We're sports; they would go to priz
fights, | suppose, and have GOO
time generally, Well, he called U
one poor unfortunate parson, who
we will call Mr.. Black, and he sal