The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-17


hose. And they turned their animp,
upon sheba. He d got to be brought
INTO me. NO use to reason with these
men, they had been infamed until no
body else could reach their ears. The,
We're like mad bull with his eve,
closed.
When they had got the laborer:
IN that frame of mind, they could
ruin any man. All they had to do was
TO point out So-andso is a sycophant.
A Solid Front.
Their next plan was to force every
japanese into line. See how thew wen,
at it. They warned these laborers
ABOUT spies, etc. They told
them they were surrounded by spies
until they had them saying This man
must be a spy-and this man and this
one. All, gentleman, never
forget that Mr.. Negoro certified here
to the honesty and integrity of Sheba
against whom they were trying to
lntiame God knows whom and God
knows what!
The program was not to get after
the planters until they had the Japa-
nese IN this Territory a solid unit
They issued manifesto finally to all
the Japanese stating that the time had
come when strikes were inevitable. In
that manifesto they said, sAll svco-
phants shall be ostraeized relentlessly.
If they planned to do that, that closes
the case right there. That's the case.
The truth is, the case for the prose
cution is made over fifty times. :
81 am now showing how with that
weapon in their hand they whipped
man after man into line on that issue
AN issue SO impossible that they have
no support from their own government
OF from their consul
Gentleman, a plan that contem-
plates getting 10000 men in line means
something greater than the strike.
They were going to do more than raise
wages. They were going to dominate
the commercial life of this country.
And they wanted every man in line.
Whatever the plan was, it required a
solid japanese front before they NOV,
ed. The ostracism of syco-
plants is the first step before the de-
mand for higher wages
s'Did they succeed in getting every
japanese in line2 Mr.. Negoro is the
man who swears they got every man
in line with the exception of Sheba
and his little coterie.
The Allegory Jury.
"They say their threats of blood
shed were mere allegory Stay, to kill.
Good Lord, if this jury were to swal-
low that, it would 60 down in history
as the 'allegory jury!'
Negoro's Mistake.
"They would have crushed the plan
tations like an eggsheIl but for one
thing that Mr.. Negoro didn't figure
on-the question of finances. They
had the plantations by the throat. They
figured that only three kanakas would
go to work in the cane fields. They
figured that there was Japanese
spirit, but they didn't know there was
an American spirit. That is one of the
things Mr.. Negoro didn't know. =
who could plan to bring 10000
men together without force9 There
can be brought together without coer-
cion. Don't you suppose there were
good many japanese who didn t want
to come in On this movements
This fool proposition came in here like
black cloud to smash the careful,
elaborate plans of Japan to send her
people out across the Pacific so they
could earn money to build up the en-
pre- Don't you suppose there were
who understood this7 But the only
man who dared to oppose their plans
had to have police protection.
Gentlemen, don't belittle your
selves here in the eyes of Hawaii by
any such fool acceptance of such a
foolish verdict It was coercion, they
planned and they knew they had to
use it. They carried on campaign of
coercion that brought every man to
his knees except Sheba and those who
held to the skirts of Sheba. Seventy
thousand of them stood back of that
campaign that was merely part of a
piratical cruise against a friendly
people.
A CoerciVe Society.
'FThey made all their plans for
coercion at the start. 1t was coer-
Give society. It had an open front,
which was a demand for higher wages,
which was their right. Behind the
curtain it was a coercive society. 1t
had no control of its officers. The
names of the committee of twenty
were never even published. All power
was vested in the hands of the eXecu-
tive committee that can not be in
vestigated. That public meeting was
TO disarm the public, but it was a
Janus faced proposition. But in Mr..
Negoro s room were found the real
plans.
FThese arrests in connection with
the strike were not included in the
plans. No records kept! Talked about
a few lines in a book, Those weren t
the records of what this association
was doing. The records were locked in
the breasts of these men.
"They needed a newspaper; they had
one, just as the anarchists in Chicago
h a Sn;oe ,,ooar The Til received the