The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20

one, learns what ne can ana goes and
reports it to the councils of another.
II we don't want to use the word
sycOphant,' we might use the word
SNEAK. And / hate sneak. When
you were boys, didn't you ever have
any sneaks in your classi And YOU
have seen it after you left school,
men who went to Others and got secrets
and used them to their own advantage,
1t is scandal.mongeriug,-the tatt1e
tale tit business. That is what we
mean when we say the sycophants
should be ostracized And why should.
t they be ostracizedi Here we have
a body of Japanese trying to get more
wages. But they don't get them. The
planters say 'By.andby. By.and.b
you may get raise of wages. Be good
children, keep on working in our cane
fields while we make our enormous
dividends, and by and by, when you
are old men, or are dead, we may grant
higher wages.
Sheba a Sneak.
"But the Japanese didn't want to
wait for golden crown. They wanted
something to wear now. So they got
together and they said, wen try to
get more wages; it may be that we II
have an interview with w. o. Smith. )
And then some little fellow runs to
the planters and says, MFR. Planters,
do you know what my countrymen are
doing' They going to demand better
wages, and if they don't get them,
they're going to strike
"He was pstraciZad And hadn u
they a perfect right to exclude him
from their councilsi He had it coming
to him. He deserved it. When they
said, Mr.. Sheba, you have cast in
your let with the planters, you cannot
come into our councils, they were
right.
''Look at the thing man fashion
Sheba made his bed and he must lie on
it. He cast in his lot with the planters
and against his own countrymen. =
He's a sneak; he s sycophant and
he's where he belongs, excluded from
the councils of his countrymen. He
got what he deserved, and he has no
sympathy due him."
Referring to the Shinpo and the
Chronicle, Lightfoot said they had in
deed been pretty severely chastised.
They made their choice as business
proposition, and their circulation is
pretty nearly pau. They took their
chances. But to whine, to say. I'VE we
lost our circulation; won It you be sorry
for us; won't you come into our back
yard and flood it with your tears!'
Bah!
The Right to Ostracize.
"Would not the japanese of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii be blithering idiots if
they didn't get rid of the sycophants9
81 have spoken of Sheba. One of the
things that has been charged against
us is that there was poem. We have
heard that and we have wept and wept
and wept because of this poor little
girl of Mr.. Sheba s. who is mentioned
in the poem. But who in the name of
Heaven ever did go to that little child
and say a word to her about her
father2 1t was poem in newspaper.
There was a bitter newspaper contro.
versy, and the Jill in order to express
completely its idea of Mr.. Sheba that
he was sneak printed that poem. I
submit that it was no cruel or heartless
thing, as if any one had actually gone
to the little child and said these
things about her papa.
About the sycophants.
"Now, about the sycophants of Ka-
huku. 1t appears the laborers had
meeting and elected four sycophants or
sneaks. But they went further. They
did what they had no right to do; they
I'd off he ala -
they gave them each 5000 tear money.
If they had had the learned Mr.. Kin
ney to advise them, they might not
have done that. But we are not charg-
ed with assault and battery. We are
charged with conspiracy. If this act
was done in pursuance of conspiracy
between these defendants and the
ghosts then we are guilty. But there
is no evidence to show that they even
knew anything about it. There is abb
solutely not word of testimony that
they knew it. What is true of the
sycophants at Waipahu is true of the
doctor at Kohala and the interpreter
Shimizu at Waipahu. Wash t Shimizu
sycophant? He was-a sycophant of
the worst kind, and they did well to
exclude the sycophant.
Bokumetzu..
CHOW, we come to the last of the
charges, the use of bitter words Bear
in mind that there was a violent news
paper controversy The papers were
written in the japanese language, and
the japanese language lends itself to
fgurative expression. 'Wela ka hao'
doesn't that mean a hot piece of
lronY But we hear it used in a diff
ferent sense, don't we?
we saw the statements made by
the prize fighters the other day. Cor
dell said, Il am going to take the scalp
of Dick Sullivan to San Francisco in
my belt But he wasn't actually 20.
ing to scalp Mr. Sullivan.
Mr.. Dick Sullivan said, Il am in prime
condition and I'm going to get rid Of
lust think of it-get rid taiii'-I
Mr.. Cordell before the fifteenth rouad.
The sugar planters should not have al.
lowed Mr. Sullivan to use such Ian.
guage.
"Mr. w. A. Kinney said the other