Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-23

with love and reverence by the reo
pie OF Hawaii. whether Of native OIL
Of foreign blood or, birth. His por
trait has long graeed the supreme
court room, and has migrated from
place to place. as the sittfngs of the
court have been changed. For sever
al decades after that portrait was
first hung in the court room, it bore
upon its frame a certain scroll upon
| which appeared the motto:
Fiat Justicia. ruat Coelum.'
Of which the accepted english trans.
lation is:
let justice be done though the
heavens. should fa1l.'
Il think may say that the motto
quoted has been adopted and is now
accepted ais the motto Of our Hawai-
ian courts. II Is an excellent and an
inspiring motto, and when, II ever, the
courts relax their zeal for justice, that
motto should be a trumpet CALL sum-
r1oning the defaulting court, jury or
other judicial body sor officer back to
q rigid sense of justice and of duty d"
" There can. be no justice that does
not operate equally upon aIl-the
high and the low, the rich and the
poor, and whether Of black, white,
brown or yellow skins. The law is no
respeeter of persons, whatever their
condition, creed or color. The law
has no fayorites and issues no license
to any whereby immunity may be had
for crime committed. The law de.
mands Of all its judges and ministers.
including prosecuting and defending
attorneys, grand and trial jurors, that
they should have no faVorites, nor
play any partial role in the admins
tratton of their several duties. We
are each and all ministers of justice,
while engaged In the administration
of the law; and il any branch offsuch
administration may fairly. be eonsid-
cred as imposing upon us q stricter
obligation to the impartial discharge
of our duties than, prevails In any
other branch thereof. / would: say,
without hesitation, that the admins.
tration of the criminal law calls with
a. sterner voice for the exercise of
impartial and conscientious zeal, and
than does any other branch
Of the law. -.
i .Gentlemen, it has lately become
Notorious In { this community that a
certain bank clerk. recently employed
In this CITY, has been guilty of a Sc.
ries OF embezzlements from the bank
By which he had been employed, and
which were committed under circum!
stances which tended to place, and
did place more than one of the fellow!
employees of the offending clerk under
the ban Of suspicion, the growth Of
which suspicion was assiduously pro
NOTED by. the offender. ~
1T Is further notorious that the
was and. is highly connected,
both socially and financially, and that,
because of those connections he was
after his delinquencies had
been discovered, and confessed by
him. toaleave the territory Without
any attempt having been made to pro-
secute or otherwise to bring him to
Justice. Nay, more than this, It is
The general public understanding
throughout this city that certain par
les, including one or more detectives
who were brought here for the pur-
pose OF ferreting out the criminal In
rolved In the peculations referred to,
Is also one or more of the leading Of
.icers of the bank IN question, under.
took to guarantee oFthe offender that,
n the event of his making a full con |
lession of all his deIinquencies, he
should be permitted to go tunwhipt
II Justice, and without prosecution. |
And this arrangement tif any such ar
was made or guarantee |
given. as to the truth Of which / ex-
,ress no opinion appears to have
,een carried into effect through the |
departure Of the offender from the |
erritory, and the failure of the Off |
;ials of the bank in question to insti. |
ute any prosecution In the premises. |
"On the occasion of your last meet |
ng in this building, one week ago. as |
,hown by your partial report submit. |
ed to the court at that time, you had
Inder consideration the matter herein |
,eferred to and, having failed to find !
in Indictment against the offender,
-ou reported mo bill' to the court.
Now, gentlemen, permit me in the
and most friendly manner |
to suggest to your honorable |
'ody that by your failure to indict
he man in question you have, pos
IDLY, committed a lamentable error,
md that the present status and con-
lition of the matter in question, re. |
ulting from your investigation and
our refusal to indict, is distinctly dis. !
redibie to the administration of JUS
Ice In this territory. Nay, more, l |
eel quite Justified in describing the
resent status of that case as consti.
utfng apublic scandal
THE court is presumed to be ignOr
mt of the particular reasons which /
nay have influenced your action, or
in the premises. Never
heless, 1t is also notorious throughout
he community that such inaction was T
induced through the commu-
lication to your honorable body of the /
act above adverted to, namely, that
electives and certain of the bank Of
Cials involved had resmed to prom
Sc or guarantee" immunity to the
ffender in question. The court can
ot repress the expression Of a Ger
ain degree of sympathy with. and