Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 285, 16 August 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

What more than anythiiig elae confirtus the Hawaiiana in their misgivings as n'g.inls the inten4 * >•“! fV» »Ti ar»l ♦*•*»» rwtr if t* • • ■ »■ • » • •• • %w »-* regime, though is the editorial in this morning's Advertiser whieh advocates the abandoning of Haw&iian juries, We are well aware that Ihe Advertiser neither represents the government nor the conimunity at large, but we are also aware that the editoriat this morning was peoned by a lawver who in his disaDDointment at having been ?helved now tries to re/orm lh« practice of our courts and the whule system of administration of j jstice in the country, and therefore we consider it necessary now to take nolioe of the attempt to even deprive the Hawaiians trial by their countrymen—by their peen.

We do not propose in lhis to take the matt*r 'if the eonlinuar.ee of the Hawmian jurv up in extens>o. \\ e wi!l wail until the \dvert’ser pr duce* ‘*the detai.? f r s’;ch a rcf rm” w hieh were proni I ;?edin itsis- ;e ftod *y.Alt»T;iH that h;i!j l>vn d >ne by the t rtsent govcrnment, neare perfectlv preparetl to see them ab.»!:sh the present 1 j :rv pystern :»nd leave to it any aC- | e:dentally resrdirg f >reiguer to air ; his h; trrJ Pgiii:>t tho *’danine) I kanakaa” fro:u thc jury-bench. The luwyer who writes t>r the Ad vertiser uud ad vocatea thisextreme ly dangermi3 etep is well kuown as a desj>erate inan. Tliis vacileating attitude both p»»litically. socially. aod professiunally, has deprived hini of a lucrative practice, in f;«ct of the meana of keeping op un existence iu a luxurious and eaay raannrr. He is naturally nbly siipported by tho AttorneyGeneral. This peraon has shown him8elf so utteriy a failure aa a prosecutor that he naturally kicks against the junes whieh throw his badly conducted cases out of eoun.