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TURNING nUM.ETIN, HONOLULU, T. 11, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1909
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CLOSING SENTIMENTS OF ATTORNEY LIGHTFOOT'S
PLANTERS PROFITS
IMPRESSED ON JURY
FIGURES 07 SrEECH IN
JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS.
Stories From Pickwick Sycophants
Should Be Run Out Whnt
Was Done by Negoro at Kahu
kit. Pillowing me the inning remarks 1
nf Mtnrucv I.Ik Itfont before llie
Jur) In llie iimsplrnij trhl
Mr l.lghtfoot Mid It please me
mint nnd gentlemen (if the Jurv
Prior to tho .iiljoiirnmont for lunch
con we bid discussing the real nicit
nf this quistloti numclv the ques
t Ion of lonsplrai) We saw tint
We were tiling thee defend ints for
ponds upon icrtaln details ,- ct italn
wit. Kiuiblnliig togetheiywo hands together side b) side, tint
lliltiKM. In
lo preMiit these the plantations!
fi nm earning on their uuslnis.
that nnd iinlhlliB else We weie
seeing that tho prosecution. In or
der to tl this cilnie upon us, de
penls upnn certain details, certain
i.aucs. one of whli h was the reli
l Ion In tw i en tint was supposed to
elst between the Higher Wage
Ansoilition of Honolulu and those In
the outside dlstilits, the rehtlon
tint was snpiiosed to exist lietwien
the Higher Wage Association and
Lino's mom the resnonslblllt) of
thp Higher Wage Association for
the play that was found In Mr No,
goros mom the responslblllt) of
the Higher Wage Association for the
plan of campaign which Mr Klnne)
In his opening address to )ou said
was the plan of the Higher Wage
Association anil whlih ou saw
reutlcmui of the Jur was not mo
ttling of the l;l ml but n plan for
some oilier organizations which are
pmbsblv now being formed
And now we are coming to a
feature that the prosecution relies
upon ver) much Indeed, and that Is
these oklntama men, these glorious
BMophants We linc heard "sjco
phants" and ")cophants" nnd
' s)cophnntH" until we lime been In
deid sltk of the ' phants" nnd ever)
thlng else Wc hne had s)io
plinnts to breakfast, and s)iophants
to luncheon and s.wiiplinnts to din
ner, wo bnc nte and slept with
"s)iophnnts ' and it has bien pour
rd Into our ears morning, noon nnd
night until I will take n solemn
oath that when I get out of this
inse If an bod) conns to me and
bnvs 's)cophants," I will "boltuiue
tun ' him just ns sure as Clod made
little apples, 1 won t stand It
Those Sycophants.
Now a great ileal Is m.ulc about
these s)cophants You know, gen
tlemen, don t )ou, from )our own
expel lence, that a great deal do
puids upon the wn) )ou look at
things You inn take the simplest
things, sometimes, nnd look at them
so Hint the) 'Oh, the) are dread
full), and jet at the same time they
are quite simple It all depends up
on the point of view, doesn't It
Does not over) thing lU'peinl upon
the point of view ? When Professor
Denlng came to these islands as nn
expert on Japanese ho came here,
didn't he? with his mind mndc up
It Is not a fact that the Japanese,
Government sent him here, ns Mr.
Klnne) sn)s, that Is, It Mr. Den
Ing's statement Is true. His state
ment Is that ho Is a school-teacher
teaching school In some place called
something or other, I can neer
bo n good Japanese scholar; fairl)
good, but never a good one; 1 tan't
lriiicmber tho nnmo nf tho place.
And t'ho Government telephoned to
the editor of n paper, Captain
llilniklc), and asked Captain
IliliikIo) I think that Is Ilia
nnmo to iiime here nnd do this
work, and tho learned captain could
not come and sent n telegram to Mr
Denlng, Professor Denlug. nnd he
came He got permission fiom his
government to iiime ami I suppose
will get permission fiom tho govern
ment to keep the $2,000. Hut he
enmc hcio with his mind made up,
didn't he? And when ho told )ou
when lie hold up his hnnds In holy
honor nt this word "oklntama," ho
was holding up his hands nt some
thing that ho didn't know tho first
blessed thing about; something that
In tho Teirltoiy of Hawaii had n
local muinlng, nnd It nil depended
on tho way you look nt It. I nm re
minded of n storj, told of the Into
Samuel Wllborforce, who was Illshop
nf Oxford for many )enrs. The
story Is told by his nophovv, who
nftorvvnrds Illshop of Newcnstle. It
seems that Simuol Wllberfoire, a
splendid old gentleman ha was,
was alwajs going nfler spoiling per
sons He had n lot of parsons who
were sports, they would go to pilze
flghts, I suppose, nnd hnvo a good
time genorull). Well, he talkd up
one poor uiifoitunato parson, whom
e will cull Mr, Illnck, ami ho Bald,
Mi lllnck, Mill have a good time In
Mmr parish, iliin'l jnu''" 'O )es,
mj loul Mr) pood time" 'You
enjn) the hutillng and the shooting,
etc 0 vis in) liinl. verv iiuiili
Indeed ' (So for Iiuiitlng7" "0 )es,
mv hud ' "Now let nic sec, I tlilnk
I lime ho.iTd Mr Illtick, that im
drlvo tandem' that is driving one
home In fiont of the other, )ou
knntv - Yes, m lord, I drive tan-
drill I'mli, well now, Mr. Ilhck,
do wni think that It Is quite. )ou
know cleilcnP ou know 7 Of course
Iheie Is nothing wrong in driving
tnniUm but Is It finite clerical?"
Mr lllaik sild. "Will, no loul. 1
don t think there Is .nothing wiong Isn't It? Isn't Hint what ou would
I about It I notice that when mylo If )ou felt Hint )ou wore being
1. id lllslioi goes out bo drives his'
i"nmKe nun iwir, uim u mure ran
, be no harm In dilvlng two horses
side In side I don't see that there
(,iii be uio hnrm In driving
lioise befoie the other "Oh
otic
said,
llie hl-ilinp that's so, that's so, but
there Is a little dlffercnie, and let
me show ou. Mi Hlnilc. that there July, as these Japineso were, In de
ls n little illffeiencc It nil depends "landing an Increnso of piy.
upon the point of lew )ou put the'
wn). (showing) and that s n com-
monlv uicipted attitude nf devotion.
Isn t If but when von put one be-
fore the ntliei like that ((thumb of
olio baud tombing little linger of
the other), wli) It Isn t, all depends
upon the wa) )nu look at it"
Wold of Local Origin.
.Now lint that nil there Is about
this wind okliitnma'" It was tin-
ported It had, evident!), some lo -
c.il use In Jap in, Just the sime ns in
ineilea and pnitlcularl) in Kng
latid, theie nrc little villages there.
Utile dlstilcts there, that use a woid
that would be unknown to people
living In an) other district; not
slang but a wind of loi.il origin.
Vow these people coming from this
dlslilit Inought the word with them,
nnd It has now tome to bo lommnn-
I) used as rcprisentlng the word
'sMophnnt "
Now what Is n ijcnphnnt A
s)cophnnt, ns described In our die-
tlonar). Is derived from two Greek
words, nnd In course of tlmo the
word has iiime to mean n person who
goes to the councils of one party,
learns tljelr secrets; then goes nnd
reports those secrets to the councils
of another, for the sake of some re
ward I think we might, If we do
not want to use the word s)cophnnt,
use the word "sneak;" for a sjco
phnnt is n snenlt fiom beginning to
end Now, gentlemen of Hie Jury,
I nm frie to confess to )ou that I
hnte and detest n snenk, and I dont
'iclleve that there Is one gentleman
In tho Jur) box who does not feel
Just the same ns I do. In )our boj
hnod. those of jou who pln)cd foot
ball, didn't )ou hnve the scophnnt
In votu class' Didn't )ou have
ome miserable little beast who
would tome when )ou vvcro pla)lng
football and hear )our and learn
our signals nnd then go nnd tell i
Hum to the next class thnt )ou were
ttnlng to pla) against tho next week?
" , n". ,.u ltl Vt:il. 1
You were luck) If )ou didn't hnvo
siidi n little Bnlpe, because, they ex-
1st In nearl) nil tchools. And )ou when the) said, ".Mr. Sheba, )oti
know tho treatment that they get; have cast in jour lot with the plnn
thnt when tho little beasl Is found, ters; go to them. Wo will hold no
out, going and telling these tnlcs. i
the Lord help him!
Planters and Strikers.
You have seen It nfter )ou left
school; jou have seen It In business
matters; jou have seen people comOjful picture, of tho Buffering this
to jou time nftcr time, or go to poor ninn must hnvo undergone by
otheis nnd try to get their secrets , reason of his being excluded from
nnd then use it for their own ad
vantage It Is one foim of scandal
niongerlng. n thing thnt Is not by
nn) mi'ins confined to the gentler
sex; men do It ought to bo nshnmed
of It Just as well ns women do It.
It Is the going nnd sneaking up to
nnother person and telling him
tales, tnttle tules tit business, jou
know, thnt Is the sjcophant; and
that Is what It meant throughout
theo articles when wo sny the
"s)cophonts must be ostracised."
And mustn't they be ostracised? Is
thero nn) thing wrong In ostracising
them'' Mr Klnne) would have )ou
oolleve that It Is tho most terrible
thing In tho world that theso s)co-
pnnnis snoulil lie ostracised. Now
Is It? Let UH look nt tho thing ns
man to man, Heie wo have n verv
large muiihei of Japanese who nio
sieklftg b) legal nnd pioncr means
n legal nnd piopei advantage, to wit,
an uiciinso or tlio wages Mind )ou,
the planter im knoVvlcdge; It has
been ndmlttcd before jou In this
(oiiit-miim thnt thoso Japanese nro
entitled to moio wnges, but they
don't get them, it Is n cuse of hope
on, hope on, for the) huvo been Irv
ing, trjlng and tnlng, nnd tho plnn
teis say to them, "Well, contlnuo to
hflvo hope: jou wait, nml liv nmi
b), when wo find nut whether Cuba
will be good, and whether It will bo
necessnr) to bend troops thero again,
nnd when wo find out whether Cubn
won't bo nnnoxed by nnd b), and
then when wo lind out In the ense of
annexation of Cuba that the tin Iff
on sugni will not bo affected, then
It may bo that jou shall hivo n
l also of vvagis He good, my chll
dien; keop on woiklng In our eauo
fields, and while we will continue to
mnke our dim minis dividends, per-
Imps b) and li), when jou arc an
old innn or dead and hurled, then
the wages will be raised. And bo
the Jiipnnoso said, "Well, wc don't
llide that waiting proposition; we thc two great scophantlsh news
want something now. It Is nil right papers of Honolulu, we hac chas-
enough to tell us that wc shall hne
n golden uown when wo arc dead!
we want something to wear now."
And so wo band ourselves together.
Wc will demand Mr. Klnne) Is ter-
rilled at the word demand "Wo
will demand," and I say rightly the
Japanese said, "Wc will demand
higher pa)." That Is what )ou do,
oppressed, if )ou felt that )ou were
" '""" " ""'" "" "'"" "'
and week nftcr week nnd )car after
!"ai and no itspect was paid to jour
ii-iiueum tur iiiereaso (fi pa), ui-
ri'imesiB lor increase oi pa)
though jou arc Informed that )ou
arc entitled to them? I sii) ou nro
perfectly justified, gentlemen of the
" they get together nnd they
'alK the ninlter over; "Wc will do
"lla; wo win no mat; wo win no
'"'c other." It may be that they
ne Bnld. "Well, we will tiy and
haw nn Interview with the planters;
"my be that wc will see Mr. W. O.
Smith, ma) be that wc will do this
r It ma) be nccessnrj to go out on
stilkc." and then wc II ml Hint whllo
are discussing this thing thero
' ""o '"tie fellow In our midst who
j'3 Ruing every tlmo nnd tnttle-tallng
to tho planters, sn)lng, "Mr, Plan
ters' Assoilntlon, do )ou know whnt
no countrjmen arc doing? Do )ou
know what )our laborers aro doing?
They are going to demand higher
wnges, and If they do not get higher
wages the) arc going out on strike.
Now wc had a meeting Inst night
at Mills house' or wherever It may
bo "and Mr So nnd So spoke nnd
ho said this, and Mr. So nnd So spoke
nnd he said the other, and tho plan
is that they arc going to do this and
do Hint, so )ou prepare )ourselt and
get read) for them nnd tnke what
means )0ii enn do cither have these
men put In Jail where they will be
out of the way or take some other
steps to frustrate tho plans of these
Horrible people my countr)inen."
He became ostracised and he desorv-
en an lie got In the wn) of ostra -
ctsni; for what Is ostracism? It has
neon explained to )ou over nnd over
and over again, until )ou nre ns Blck
of It ns )ou are of sjcophnnts, that
ostracism means to "exclude from
our councils." Haven't they n per
fect right to exclude him from their
councils? Wouldn't tho) hnve been
blithering IdlotB If they had gone
on, holding their meetings and plan
ning what thoy should do to get
higher wages, having n little sneak
there who would leave their meeting
nnd go strnlght and report It to the
plnnteis, ever) tiling that was said
and who had said it?
I say that ho deserved ostracism
,f thnt kind nnd'he has no complaint
" ....it. ...... t.u ...o ,,u .uitl,,ll(llh
coming when he got ostracised, when
he got turned out of theli councils.
communion with vou: von can't
)ou; )ou
tome Into our tounclls because )ou
are an oklntama men."
Now learned Piosccutlng Attorney
paints a pitiful picture, oh, n drcad-
the conferences and councils of the
Japanese. I -ny to jou, gentlemen
of the Jur), look nt the thing man
fushlon, nnd If jou look nt tho thing
man-fnshlnn jou will say "rfheba
made his bed and ho should lie upon
It, Sheba elected to stand In with
tho Planters' Association ns ngalnst
ins own rounirjinen and he has no
kick coming when his own countrj
men refuse to have anything to do
with him, refuse to confide In him,
icfuso to let him know whnt their
plans nre or how they expect to pio
ceed to secure higher wages."
I say that thero Is no sympath)
ns far ns excluding from their coun
cils coming to Mi. Shelm. Let him
go nnd associate with the planters
Ith tho Japanese, who nro seeking
the benefit of nn ndvnnco of wages,
ho can hnvo no council, bcrnuso ho
Is n snenk nnd because he is n syco
phant, and he Is whore ho belongs.
Kxcludo him fiom tho tounclls of
the Jnpancse,
isn't Hint Just cxnctl) what "s)cn.
phnnt" mentis? In ono of the most
terrible nrtkles, one of tho most
frightful articles, that vvns written
In tlio JIJI, wo havo Just explained
wnat tho sycophants nic, In a
translation of Professor Denlng of
me Jljl of rebruary tho Cth, "On
S)cophnnts. Oct rid of them" 1
will speak of "get rid of them" by
mil by "There nro In tho plmln
lions teitnln noxious Insects," ns
Denlng translates them, "vlppis" ns
Sheba translates them, "i llled
's)inphnntH' Tho) iimstnntlv dis
turb tho peaceful relations of tho
plnnteis nnd the laboreis." Ihoy
"lo trnuble-mnkeis, don't ou boo?
"Thoj mo tho sourco of tho dUtord
nlnt exists In the plnntntlons. If
wo dcslro to restore conronl to the
plantations and to further the In-
leasts of the laboicrs we must get
r, f those s)coihauts," these uox-
0U!) Insects, these vipers "As for
Used thorn a good deal." Yes, their
circulation has irctt nearly censed,
They cannot complain about that;
ti,oy chose ns a business proposition
to tight higher wages nnd If, as a
iCsult of the polle) of their papers
tneJ lose their circulation, these men
nro not going to be sent to Jail for
consnlrncy on that account, nrc
the) ? Is that the wa) business men
do? Many nnd many n time tho
business man Is faced with n pro
position, "Shnll I tnke this course
or shnll I take that courser mo
does not qulto know which one to
tnke. "Shnll I give up this Job and
tnko that Job? Shall 1 tako Hint
contract nt such n price or shall I
tnke It nt another prlco?" nnd he
tnkes It, nnd when he has taken It
ho Is n baby If lie )elps and sa)s,
"Oh, I have lost monc) on that con
tract and I wish 1 had not taken It.
All )ou people ought to s)nipnthlze
with me so much because, I made a
mlstnlie In no buslliess venture, nnd
)ou ought to shed tears with me nnd
come nnd commiserate with me be
cause I didn't do the right thing.
What I did I perhaps did for the
best at the time, but I see It was a
mistake." You would say, "My dear
fellow, )ou took )our chances to win
or lose, and now, when )ou hnve
taken )our chances, don't whine;
swallow jour little medicine like n
little man and do better next time."
tint to whine and saj, "Oh, we have
lost our circulation; nobody will
subscribe for the Shtnpo nny more.
We used to be Hie lending newspaper
of tho Hawaiian Islands nnd now wo
arc not. Oh, won't )ou bo sorry for
us? Won't jou commiserate with
us? Won't )ou come Into our back
jnrd and flood the place with Jour
tears," bah!
"As for the two great sjcophant
Ish newspapers of Honolulu, we hnve
chnstlscd thorn n great deal. So
what we dcslic Is that )ou who live
on the plantations should exert
jourselvcH In getting rid of tho
isjcophnnts who arc to be found here
land there on the plnntntlons. These
fellows receive n little higher pay
than any1 other man, nnd because of
this the)' put on airs nnd treat you
with contempt." This Is the first
reason why they should bo got rid
of: "These sjcopliants Bccrctly dis
close to the planters the real state
of feeling among the Jnpancse. They
spread nil kinds of false reports
about people nnd thus Injure the In
terests of tho Japanese. Thoy nre
enemies to the lnborcrs. They nro
traitors." And they arc both.
This Is the second reason wh)
they should be punished: "Theso
sjenpliiintB tl) to Interfere with the
flow of good feeling between tho
planters nnd their employees. (They
endeavor to separate the planters
lUllllUIIUI IU BC'(ll 1UU MIV IMUUIUIO
nnd the laborers nnd to pievcnt tho
latter from knowing what are tho
real intentions or motives of the for
mer. Thoy do their best to keep the
planters In Ignorance of the reason
able expectations of the laborers. So
these sycophants, because of the con
stant discord In the plantations, they
are enemies to peace. The strikes
which have concurred have been the
lesult of the base and malicious ar
tifices of these sycophants." This Is
the third reason why the) should be
got rid of. ,
Get Rid of Them.
Now, gentlemen of the Jury,
shouldn't they be gotten rid of? I
lepent, would not tho Jnpancse of
tho Territory of Hawaii bo blither
ing Idiots If they, did not get lid
of the s)cophnnts? And there is no
reason why theso four men should
be tonvicted of the crime of con
splracj because of these Bycophants.
I have spoken nbout Sheba. Now,
In this connection, there has n great
effort been made to draw tears from
jou on account of Shebj's little girl.
Theio was n poem, nn alleged poem
I must sny I cannot understand Japa
nese poetry; I hope )ou enn one of
the things Hint we are charged with
snjlng Is, "If tho cuckoo does not
sing I will not dare to nuilio It Blng,
Now if jou can mnke nny poetry out
of thnt you nre welcome to It. Hut
thero vvns n poem, and that poem
has boon brought befoie jou almost
as regulaily as tho sjcophnnts have.
We havo wept and wept nnd wept
until our torn s have ill led and we
haven't nnothor tear to shed, be
cause of this poor little girl of Mr,
Sheba. "Mama, how Is It that fleo-
plo s.ty that my father Is a dog, that
ho Is a traitor, thnt he Is a spj ?
Why, my child, It Is because ho Is "
And just Imnglna the cruelty of go
ing to that child nnd talking to It
In thht vvnj; but who In the nnme
of heli ven ovei did go to tho II 1 1 lo
thing nnd h.ij an) thing of tho sort?
Do jou know? Is thero a woid of
testimony thnt mi) body over mild n
woid to tint Innocent -little ihlld?
'llils was nu ui tide In the news
paper; no ono clnlms that an j ono
was bo heartless, bo brutal, ns to go
to the little child nnd pay tills about
her father; It was the poem In the
newspapct. There was a newspaper
controversy at that time, a bitter
newspaiicr controvers) as the tcall-
mony Is, waged between tlio J I J I on
the one hand nnd the Shlnpci, JIJI
nnd Chronlcto on the other, and they
were each tr)lng their best to down
each other, Just the same ns tho
iVdvcrtlscr and tho I) u 1 1 a 1 1 n ,
Just exactly the same, Just exactly
the saino; and the JIJI, In order to
express completely Its opinion of Mr.
Sheba, thnt he was a snenk, gave
this poem.
Different in Japanese.
we should not consider It In good
form; we1 should consider It not nt
nil n proper thing to put In our
newspnpers and we, English speak
ing people, hnve no sympathy with
that kind of thing. Hut this was
not an English paper; It was a Japa
nese, paper, it Is their wny of look
ing at things, nnd 1 submit that It
wns no terrible thing; not nt nil as
if nn) ono had actually gone to the Isn't It so In Hawaiian? "Wela
little thing and said these cruel or kn hao!" 1 think thnt menns, "The
heartless things nbout her papa. (Iron Is hot," but don't jou hear the
Now ns to the sjcophnnts of Kn- word used many nnd mnny a time,
huku, we nre responsible! It seems meaning not thnt at nil but somc
thnt tho laborers on Kaliuku had a thing else, having some other mean
meeting Mind jou, the Knhuku Ing to jour minds except a piece of
Higher Witgo Association having nb- hot Iron? Whj of course. "Hukl
Bolutely nothing whatever to do with mal ka ulual" which I am Informed
the Honolulu Higher Wnge Assoc!- means "Pull away nt the fish nets,"
atlon They had a meeting, nnd nt but In common parlance I undcr
thnt' meeting they elected certain of stand that It means something very
these sjcophnnts or snenks, nnd they very different, whnt, I am sure I
went further nnd did whnt they had don't know; I am not n Hawaiian
no light to do; they said, "You must scholar. I have heard tho word
get off the plantation In three days, used many times, nnd so I believe
nnd to show jou thnt wo aro sorry It Is throughout jour language, that
for jou we resolved that we will give ol o In Hawaiian figures of
each one of you tenr money to the speech, nnd very, very extensively,
amount of $300." Now they had We do In our language, don't we?
no right to do that. If we had only Did )ou seo the statements made by
had Mr. Kinney there nt the tlmo Cordcll nnd Sulllvnn tho other day In
in uuviso mum inai mis wns a very
wicked nnd u very terrible thing for
them to do; thnt they hud no right Sullivan In my belt to San Frnn
to order these peoplo off the plnnta- Cisco." Ho did not mean thnt nt nil,
tlon, then I hnvo no doubt that did he? Ho was not going out
things would hnvo been different; scalping for nnjthlng. He didn't
but unfortunately that learned gen- "nve a knife bb far ns I saw; I didn't
tlcmnn was not there; unfortunately see him make any attempt to scalp
these people were Ignorant nnd did D'ct Sulllvnn. It was said In a rc
what doubtless they thought they l"rt the other day that there wero
had a right to do, but which they trouble nnd dissensions in President
had no right to do. (Taft's Cabinet, nnd thnt Mr. Wicker-
Now then, let It be granted that sham, the Attorney General of the
that was n terrible thing for them United Stntes, was after the scalp
to do, how does thnt affect this of 'r. Harrows. After the scalp!
case? Just let us understand each Ju8t Imagine seeing the Attorney
other. Wo nro not being charged encral of tho United States snenk-
with fnlso Imprisonment or nny
charge of that nature; we are not
being chnrged with nssault and bnt-
tery; wc aro not being charged with
making these men leave the Kahuku
plantation. We nre being charged
with conspiring together to undo or
to prevent the five plnntntlons named
from carrjlng on their business, nnd
conspiring to Impoverish them. Now
If this unlawful act of sending these
thrco men for they were sent from
the plantation la traceable to a
conspiracy between these four peo-
pie nnd the ghosts, or the ghosts
If It vvns done In pursuance of that ,nat fellow, and to see that you do
conspiracy, when these men nro.not we nre going to lock jou up."
guilty ns charged. Ilut they knew
absolutely nothing nbout It. There
is evidence that Mr. Ncgoro was
over there and the question of ob
tinclslng these three, or wns it
four? sjcopliants came up, and
thero was some doubt as to this sky
pilot ovor there; was he a sycophant
or wasn't he a sjcophant? and tho
lnborcrs enmo to the conclusion that
he vvas a sjcophant. Now when the
good peoplo from Honolulu went
over there, three of them said, "Well,
. . ... . . . .-
mis parson isn i sucn a linil fellow;
he Is a good man; he Is a good man,
and wo don't think that jou had
better put him on tho list as a syeo-
pliant." Mr. Negoro Bnld, "That Is
none of our business. We como here,
Invited by the good people of Kn-
huku to address them. Now they
have decided that the reverend gen
tleman Is a sjcophant. It Is up to
them, and If they aro satisfied that
the roverend gentleman Is a syco
phant, that he Is tale-bearing, that
he Is causing trouble between em
plo)cr and emplojeo, that Is none of
our business. .Tliey know better
than wo do, and no matter though
we do like the reverend gentleman,
no matter though he be our bosom
friends, jet, If tho laborers of Ka-
nuiiu nro sattsned that he Is a syco
phant, It is their business and not
ours."
And Isn't thnt all? Is there a
word of testimony In this trial that
theso people told Mr. Negoro or Mr.
Makino or any of tho other defend
ants thnt those three or four men
wero to be driven from tho planta
tion? Gontlomen, not n word, ab
solutely not a word. When Mr. Ne
goio said that this man, this rever
end gentleman, was to be put on the
sycophant list It the luborers of Ka
liuku felt that ho was a jycophant,
ho wiib nctlng within his rights, and
ho never did ndvise that this gentle
man or nnj other gentleman should
be dilven nvvny fiom tho plantation.
Ho did udvlso that ho should be
ticatcd its a sjcophant nnd excluded
f i oi)i the counsels of the laborers,
and thnt Is nil.
And what Is true of tho sj co-
ADDRESS
phants at Kaliuku Is also true of
the doctor In Kohala and the Inter-
prcter at Walpahu, the man Shlml-
zu; Wasn't he a sycophant? A
sycophant of the worst kind, and
they did well to exclude these s) co
phants from their society
Now then, wc come to the last of
these charges that It Is claimed by
tho prosecution go to make up, nnd
from which you can Infer, tho crime
of conspiracy; that Is, the use of
certnln violent words.
Hear In mind, gentlemen, that
here was a bitter newspaper con-
troversy; thnt Is tho first thing to
'get In )our heads, and let It remain
thero, good and deep. A bitter news
paper controversy, thnt is the testi
mony, nnd bear In mind also thnt
these newspapers, the JIJI, the Shtn
po, the Jl)u nnd tho Chronicle, are
written In the Japanese language.
Now bear In mind also that tho
Japanese language, like every other
language, lends Itself readily to
figures of speech
" newspapers; uoruell snjs, "I
nm going to tnke tho scnlp of Dick
lnB around with n sharp knife to
Kot the scalp of Mr. Unrrows! isn't
,l ridiculous; Isn't It foolish!
I So In thnt same paper that I have
referred to before, Mr. Dick Sullivan
says, "I urn In prlmo condition and
' nm Going to get rid of" Just Ima-
B,nc- "TalJI!" "I am going to get rid
of Cordcll beforo the lGth round."
Now Isn't thnt awful! Mr. Dick
Sullivan ought never to have been
allowed to fight; the Planters' Asso-
elation ought to have come In and
said "Now Dick, my boy, jou mustn't
i these things; jou mustn't tnlll
The learned prosecuting attorney
the other day said that ho was going
to "nail Mr. Negoro to the cross.'
Heavens! Oolng to nail him to tho
cross! Why, gentlemen, do jou
know that Is an awful thing. Didn't
It make the cold perspiration run
down jour back? Just Imagine Mr.
W. A. Kinney, the Nestor of the
Hawaiian liar, engaged busily with
hammer and nails fastening the poor
beggar to the cross. Weren't jou
scared to death?
I wasn't; I didn't
' -. ...
lintnK mat Air. Kinney was
'dreadful man as that. I ha
such a
lureaiiuu man as mni, i nave ueen
In many n hnrd battle with hjmliut
1 never jet knew of Mr. Kinney or
any member of his Arm, committing
such n crime, never once, gentlemen,
I glvo )ou my word of honor, and I
don't believe that Mr. Kinney ever
did nail an j body to tho cross nnd I
don't think Hint in the future he Is
going to nnll anybody1 to the cross
If you were to come to me tomorrow
morning and say, "Mr. Kinney nail
ed Mr. Negoro to the cross," I should
deny It, I nm very sure.
Now what did he mean? We
know what he means, don't we?
Don't we use expressions over and
over and over again such ns "boku
mctsu" In our language, "Oet rid
of," "Nail him to the cross," "Get
his scalp," "Put him out of busi
ness," "Give him his sleeping
draught," all sorts of things we
use and we don't mean that at all.
Although the words have a mean
ing, other than tho actual words
When Mr. Kinney snld ho was going
to nnll Mr. Negoro to the cross It
wns not Just Idle words. You knew
what ho meant nnd I knew whnt ho
meant. And when Cordell said that
ho was going to take Sullivan's scalp
In his belt we didn't think for a
moment that Cordell wns going
nrmed with a scalping knife. Wo
know what he meant, thnt he was
KQlng to get the victory In the fight.
Now Isn't that so? Now don't
wo look sometimes through colored
spectacles? You know that If you
havo on a pair of red spectacles and
jou look out, ovorythlng Is red. And
If jou go nnd pick out words, words,
Just one word here nnd nnother
word there, "Oh, what n dreadful
thing this Is! What a dreadful
thing this maltesi"
I don't know If mnny of jou hnvo
fend n very Interesting book by the
great author Dickens called tho
"Pickwick Papers?" Pickwick was
an elderlj gentleman, n fnt old fel
low, Jovial chap and a good sort,
and ho engaged lodgings nt Mrs.
Ilnrdell denied his looms nnd at
tended to him ns a housekeeper;
cooked his meals and brushed his
coat, etc. Mrs. tlardoll formed tho
acquaintance of n Inwjcr, nlwnjs
n bad thing to do; jou always want
to keep nwn) fiom tho lnw)cr,
but sho formed tho acquaintance nf
a law)cr whoso name wns Sergeant
Iluzz-furz nnd he well deserved his
nnme nnd through the Influence of
Scrgennt llutz-ftizz MrB. Daniel 1 be
gan n suit to recover fifteen thou
sand pounds for breach of promlso
to marry ngnlnst Mr. Pickwick. And
In this "Pickwick PnpcrB" there Is
n very, very comical account of tho
trial, and particularly the opening ,
to the Jury mndo by Mr. Serge int
lluzz-furz. I will read some of thnt,
Just a Utile recreation; Sergeant
tluzz-fuzz' opening to the Jury:
"The plnlntlff, gentlemen," con
tinued Sergcnnt lluzz-fiizz In n soft
and melancholy voice, 'The plnlntlff,
gentlemen1, Is n widow, gentlemen, n
widow. The late Mr. Ilardcll, after
enjoying for mnny jears tho esteem
nnd confidence of his sovereign, ns
one of tho gunrdlnns of his rnjnl
revenue, glided hlmost impoircptl
bly from the world, to Beck elsewhere
for that repose and pence which n
custom-house can never afford.'
"At this pathetic description 'of
tho decease" Well, we will lcivo
thnt out.
" 'Sometime before his death ho
had stamped his likeness upon n
little boy ' "
It Is alwajs good to talk to n
Jur) nbout a little child, jou know
"'With this little boj-, the only
pledge of her departed exciseman,
Mrs. Ilardell shrunk from the win Id,
and courted tho retirement nnd
trnnqullitj of Goswell street; nnd
here she placed In her fiont parlor
window n wiitten placard bearing
this Inscription 'Apartments fur
nished for a single gentleman. In
quire within.' Hero Sergeant Iluzz
fuzz paused, while survcjlng tho
gentlemen of the jurj.
" 'There is no date to this Instru
ment, gentlemen of the Jury, but I
am Instructed to say that It was put
In the plaintiff's parlor window Just
this time three jenrs. I entreat tho
attention of tho Jury to the wording
of this document, 'Apartments fm
nlshed for n slnglo gentleman!' Mrs.
HnrdeU's opinion of the opposite
sex, gentlemen, wns derived from n
long contemplation of tho inestima
ble qualities of her lost husband. She
had no fear, she had no distrust,
she had no suspicion; all vvas con
fidence and reliance. 'Mr. Ilardell,'
said tho widow, 'Mr. Ilardell was n,
man of honor; Mr. Ilardell wns n
man of his word; Mr. Ilardcll vvas
no deceiver; Mr. Dnrdell wns once a
single gcntlemnn himself; to slnglo
gentlemen I look for protection, fqr
assistance, for comfort,' " etc.
And then there are two lovo let
ters,
" 'And now, gentlemen, but ono
word more. Two letters have passed
between theso parties, letters which
are admitted to be In the handwrit
ing of the .defendant, and which
speak volumes Indeed. Theso let
ters, too, bespeak the character of
the man. They aro not open, fer
vent, eloquent epistles, breathing
nothing but the language of effect
lonate attachment. They nre covert,
sly, underhnnded communications,
but, fortunately, far more conclusive
than If couched In the most glowing
language nnd tho most poetic ima
gery letters that must be viewed
with a cautious nnd suspicious eye
letters thnt were evidently Intended
at tlio time by Pickwick to mislead
and delude any third parties Into
whose hands they might fall. Let
mo read the first: 'Garrawaj's,
twolvo o'clock. Dear Mrs. II
Chops and tomatq snuco, Youis,
Plokwlck,' (Gentlemen, what docs
this mean? Chops nnd tomnto
sauce. Yours, Pickwick! Chops!
a melons heavens! nnd tomnto
sauce! Gentlemen, Is tho hnpplness
of n sensitive nnd confiding female
to bo trifled away by such shallow
artifices as these? The next has no
date whatever, which Is in Itself
suspicious. -iDenr Mrs. 11., I shall not
bo at homo till tomorrow. Slow
coach .' And then follows this very
remarkable expression: 'Don't trou
ble joursolf about tho warming
pan.' "
A warming pan is a little pan In
which little coals aro put, which is
put botween the sheets at nights In
cold weather.
(To Be Concluded Tomorrow.)
RATHER EMBARRA88ING.
"That nngllshman Is n funny chap,"
remarked the hat Balesmun In tho big
hotel; ' ho hasn't been out of his room
today."
"No, ho Is victim of circumstances,"
confided tho coffee Balosman.
"Victim of circumstances.?"
"Yes, he put his shoes outside his
door last night, according to tho Hug
llsh custom, and somebody throw than
at a pat down tho oreaway,"
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