The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-31

Harrison Gray Otis, we'll known news
paper publisher, died his morning from
heart disease while sitting IT the break
fast table. He has been at his desk
daily for several weeks past, and death
came suddenly. ~.
hedeyick Palmer, well known writ.
er and now at the front, has paid the
following tribute to General Otis:
But industrially he is the dominant
mentor Of Los Angeles and IL bears his
stamp as probably no other city bears
the stamp of any one man. Once. a
"nion printer himself, he is proud to
be known as the most aggressive, sue
cessful, and unyielding foe of organic
ed labor in America. He has always
been fighting. He is No-quarter Otis;
an old walrus of a fighter.
He was with the same regiment as
Hayes and Mckinley in the Civil War,
and Mckinley made him Brigadier
and Brevet Major General in the Span
ish War. Before the Civil War he ran
little country newspaper In Ohio.
The precarious state of his wife Is
health prevented him from answering
Lincoln 3 first call for troops, but he
left her and her young child to 20 at
the second. He was in fifteen engaS e1
ments and was wounded twice. He
stayed until the last shot was fred.
Afterwards, he was foreman of the
government printing office in Washing
ton, chief of division in the patent
office; and in 70 he was sent TO the ISL
ands Of st. Paul and St. George, in
the Boring Sea-. where it was his bust.
ness as commissioner of the treasury
department TO see that only the legal
number of seals was killed each year.
In these dreary solitudes, with only
two white men for companions, over
hooking grim business, he may have
developed the walrus character. While
the noble lion sneals upon his foe and
sometimes sneaks away, too, in coward
ly fashion, the walrus takes position
on his rock or his ice cake, defying all
corners to the death for his principles
and his property.
No one win question that Harrison
Gray Otis left public service with a
record as clean as a walrus' tooth. He
was forty.four years old---forty.
before he began his real career which
has made him many times a million
aire and the anathema of every man
from sea to sea who bears union
card He caught Los Angeles young
with the avidity of mature school
master. That wonder city of three
hundred and nineteen thousand in the
last census-not counting twenty five
thousand colonists and all the babies
which have since arrived, say the real
estate boomers---had only eleven thou.
sand population ia 1881 when, with the
few thousand dollars he had in the
world, he bought the puny little Times.
4 He had no thought Of noh-unionism
then That came with the printers
kstrike of 1890. When his printers ser
we'd notice that they would walk out
and leave him to get out his paper
himself unless he acceded to their de-
nlands, he said: "Walkl will get
it out myself. l haven't forgotten
how to set type" When people walk
ed the streets with, ~ don't read the
Times in their buttonholes be an.
swered, "But you will" -.
The other papers submitted. Labor
established a boycott against Otis. He
lost Advertising His friends warned
him that he was making a mistake. He
was attempting the impossible. But
the general viii tell you that com
promises, diplomacy, and such folderoI
have nothing to do with winning a
fight. He would stand or fall for his
/ property and principle with his type
stick in hand. On the front page he
unfolded the standard of his crusade
"For Liberty and Law and Equal
Rights and Industrial Freedom" In
| bruised letters it was there in uncon.
querabIe defiance on the first hurry edi,
ton after the recent disaster to the
Times nIant az IL.