Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-24
LIGHTF00T'S LAST WORDS TO CONSPIRACY JURY

They believe in the ultimate victory
of right and the law and they look to
your hands. gentlemen of the jury, to
support the law. They look to your
hands to stand between them and the
Planters Association so that they
may not be rairoaded into jail on such
a fool charge.
Mr.. Kinney says, "Why are they all
banding together? What Is the mean
ing of It? II lint an ordinary strike:
| II Is something else"
II isn't an ordinary strike. We
know what ordinary strikes are, with
their fire and their murder. This
isn't anything of the sort. And
wouldn't Il be easy. oh, wouldn't 1t be
easy, for these people to be disorder.
ly! Would there he a stick Of cane
on the island of Oahu or on any isl.
and Of Hawaii mel that would be safe
If they were disorderly?
Mr.. Kinney accuses us of being an
army. a perfect army. They have
got discipline in their ranks!" Why.
Mr.. Kinney, II he owns one share of
sugar stock. ought to go down on his
knees and be thankful that they have
got discipline that these people are
kept under control: that these people
are constantly told as they are told
In the Nippu Jill time after time and
time after time and time after time, as
1t has been read to you In the exhibits
until You must be tired Of hearing It,
that they must be orderly.
Mr.. Kinney says, "Why must all the
Japanese Of the Territory of Hawaii
be brought into line?' Let me answer
Mr.. kinney's question by telling him,
why must all the sugar employers
OF labor be brought into line?" Al.
most without exception every planta.
ton belonging to the Planters Asso-
citation. Our action in banding togeth.
er.-"according TO the Spirit of ia.
pam II you like, to get higher
wages. Is made necessary by the fact
that the employers of labor In this
country are Theoretically sealed to-
gether; that the interests of one is
the interest of all. You go to the
manager Of Aiea plantation and say,
Il Will do certain work and I want
certain wages" Planters Associa.
ton fixes the wages. have got moth.
ing to do with It. am instructed to
pay you SO much and can't pay you
any more. You may be a good man
or bad man or Indifferent man, but
the Planters Association has said that
you shall get so much and am power
less to do anything else
And so 1t is throughout the islands
Go from Hawaii to Kauai and you will
md exactly the same thing,-every.
thing within the clutch of the Plant.
ers' Association. Can you wonder that
all the Japanese had to combine? Is
there anything threatening or danger
Gus In their combination? On the 9th.
er hand, gentlemen, no.
There isn't japanese that draws
the breath Of life In the Territory of
Hawaii who does not know that the
japanese laborers in our fields are
worth more than they are getting.
There isn't an employer of Japanese
labor in Hawaii Mel who does not
know that IN our cane fields the ia.
panese are entitled to more wages
than they are getting.
They have perfect right to strike,
and hope to God they will continue
In their efforts to get higher wages
until they succeed!
Gentlemen, These 10000 Japanese
look to you. They believe in law:
they believe In order. Don't disap.
point them. Let them feel that the
American flag is here that the Amer.
lean flag, although II may have been
trailed In the, dust In the last few
weeks from the actions of the police
department, Is supreme here and that
under 1t there can be no permanent
oppression.
Gentlemen Of the jury. have finish.
ed. Mr.. Kinney has the last round
and | haven't any opportunity to reply
to what he says. Try to meet the
arguments that he will present to you,
and remember that ! have no way of
helping you.
We leave the case In your hands,
gentlemen of the jury. and we ask and
we expect and we believe that within
very few minutes after you go into
your jury room you will return with
verdict of mot guilty"