The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-30
.SHEBA DISL|KES
COMPROMISE OF
:. PLANTERS SUIT
Editor Was Victim Of MurderouS
III Assault At Time of
Great Strike
CASE SHOULD HAVE
.'s- I - BEEN FOUGHT TO END
Moral Effect of Settlement Out
OF Court will Not Be
r + Beneficial

The compromise Of the Maxine Sugar
Planters snit, 10 which the plaintiff
Withdrew his, demand for $4,000 lam
ages for incidents arising on, of the
Japanese strike Of several years ago,
receiving an unannounced amount N
full Of all damages, real or alleged,
was received with expires, IONS of ~:
isfaction by the court, by tae plain
tiff and by the defendants. but II has
failed to make any favorable impress.
ion upon 3. Sheba, editor Of the Ha-
wall Shinpo.
Mr.. Sheba, it will he remembered.
used his paper and his own personal
Influence in the side of the planters
during the strike one result of which
was to make him the victim of mur.
/ derous assault on the street by a jam.
' nese fanatic from Maui, whose knife
/ just missed the editors iuSlar vein
and made wound that sent him to the
hospital for several weeks,
No Chance To Reply
The editor of the Shinpo figured in
he char9cs made bv Maxine In the
papers fled in the suit and n III the
celebrated publication issued during
the period Of the congressional visit
/ giving n review Of the strike and tie
plaintiffs alleged injuries during the
time. Sheba was accused in this OF
first selling nut to the planters AMI
next Of Having double crossed one o.
his associates, the editor or the Hawn-
iian Japanese Chronicle. With the
compromising of the case, Sheba ha,
had no onuOrtunitv of defending him
self on these publicly made CHARGES
land he feels that the planters have
treated him unfairly
In = letter to the editor of this pa
per. he writes:
Patchwork Result ~
| Editor Advertiser: -Upnn , nv re
turn. from a short trip to Hilo lonrnri
that the suit betw"cr Fred Maxine
and the members of the VI. s. p. A. had
been compromised. | am sorry that, il
ended in patchwork after all. thd"%h
understand hat it was in certain
quarters applauded as q mnnifqStatjon
of true 'gettogetber' spirit. .,a IN
EE"I regret the compromise becansc
1T eanpot buttresult in'ar appreheRsioR
with it--a moral defeat for planters rs
well ~ Maxine. The planters, shoMt
have fought it out if thew ka,ieVeI
\ their action was justified in laVIy,or
thev should have swallowed a full tdps~
II they thought they were wrong. Brt
they should have made it plain why
they stand pat or give in. |,
"Makino proclaimed he was fighting
FOR Japanese rights and was oven
"a"k"d M with fake resolution
thought out by his learned but fanat,"
lieutenant. Doctor Neguro But as soOn
as Maxine swallowed the bait he hos
cam" muto as to the Japanese rights
'"NO high object was gained by
either Dartv in the draw
Beclouds Issue
az am disa nuointPd because the com
promise has blocked the wav 10 prob"
Ianvthing. It has bcrIOudcd the issue
of right or wrong. which, if fought IN
/ = court should have been decided
Maxine accused me of dishonesty, srt
ting down certain accusation made
/ by Mr. Tsurushima, former editor and
manager of the Hawaiian JaDan"Se
Daily Chronicle, as the sole basis fol
it. This accusation, which by the way
was thoroughly thrashed out in Jana.
nesc papers years ago, was incorpo.
rated in Makino's complaint against
the planters, and the documents were
sent broadcast damaging my character;
and, AZ the whole affair has ended in
a draw. no chance was given me to
have tn" "har"cs probed in open court
Should Remember
81 stood at the risk of my life by
nv conviction. during the labor strike
of l90S0, and | believe 20 this day
my stand was right The planters
rcaped III" benefit Of NV f"ht, and
th"v might have remembered me as
their only friend then. thOu"h my
Ifght was not fought for any love of
them, but for principle. 4.
" however when / had cveTv chance
to disprove the charges against me,
the planters were only too willing 20
bury their own troubles by paying
Maxine, right or wrong.
"Thcy have seen fit to &c; out OF
the tronDlc themselves. hut they did
not care whether by doing 20 they
ignored other right-the right of one
whom they considered as the only
| friend in time Of thCrr trouble
'Thc compromise now will be taken
% tn" planters moral drfNat. and
their bowling down before Maxine, by
the mass of Japanese. and it will smr',.
" have II far reaching effect, The
PLANTERS have not tried to ctpar their
friend and now they will be misuhder,
stood.
"As ~ Nr. Tsurushima + aceusa.
tons a"ainst me. hnh an ample cou-
collation. in tn" fact that inst before
bis paper went to bankruptcy he came
to r,"- rot to MAKING or anvOne else
IN hcln him to Vivid M his affair. r.
he believed what h" sail ',r-or" wouIi
he hnv" com" to me in tir." OF his real
t"nnhlr! Tn" fart su"aks ulain"r tina"
words. and that will sntTi"" FOR TO
present $. SHEBA."
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK