The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-07-15

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marchioness. They said she had been sick, for some
time, and that having been separated from her nus
band, she had come to their house rs a lone woman
without any decent means of gaining a livelihood,
and that she would not consent to their calling in a
doctor because she could not see where the money to
pay him with was to come from in case she died. Ii
she had recovered she might have earned lt-some
how or other. Only fancy n poor creature having to
look to prostitution, when she got well again, for the
means of purchasing a little doctor stun, ana after
all being too honorable to call the medical gentlemen
in, for fear death might intervene IN spite OF MS good
offices and convert her liability to him into what Is
called a bad debt! Her disease was not of that class
which minds full of holy hatred toward every thing
that is frail have no doubt already liked upon. we
are not skillful at a post na0rfem examination, put IL
seemed to us from the description we received that
| her complaint was in the liver. Perhaps a few blue
pills and a pound of EPSON salts would have saved
her life. We honestly disbelieve that her doctor
bill would have cost so much as her CONN Itis
hardly necessary to say that her ~obsequles were SUD
| seauently conducted with the greatest economy. Two
or three men undertook to dig her a bit OF a grave,
and to save the sections fees Tor whatever else the
charge may be called) the place chosen was not con-
nected with any church of any denomination, nor
were the offices of a minister required to return that
dust to dust and those ashes to ashes.
Could we ever achieve the position OF statesmen,
we should adapt to the population OF this country ana
use as a motto, n very sound old saying about imam
cial matters Take care Of the pence and me
pounds ,ciH take care of themselves" The inferior
coin of the Hawaiian race is being lost-It Is passing
away-that which remains is being defaced- ana tne
image AID superscription of Him who made /. IN ms
own likeness runs a fair chance of beng altogether
obliterated. Those diseased people who pass their
DAYS and nights in moaning-poor wretches there Is
no Nightingale to MARBLE comfort TO them. we have
no HOSPITALS and no dispensaries to which they might
crawl for relief. They must just lie down and Dear
it-in a great proportion of instances that means to
say, they must just lie down and die.
Let us have hospitals and nurses and medical men.
Let us commute a duty that our common nature, no
-. H. raxaalol ,aluyion fmpnSpS on us. for so
much a year subscription money. Let US demand
something of the Government, but let us claim our
private rights and privileges and insist upon having
the qualification of contributing with our own means
to the alienation of suffering and the preservation OF
lives as dear to their possessors as ouc own to us.
With the story of the death of the young
woman. which no doubt is true. we have nothing
now TO say: but with the hypocritical remarks
accompanying it we have something to say. LET
us have hospitals, nurses and medical men, says
the government gazette. But whose fault is it
that we have now no hospital for these helpless
but worthy creatures? Let the government jour
nal point, if it dare, to the only reason why we
have none. Let it stand out and say, if it dare,
that had the unnecessary expenses of government
been curtailed, we might this year, aye this very
day, have had here IA hospital dispensing its life
healing balm To the natives, who are fading away
like the dew before the morning sun. Let 1t
come boldly forward and say, that if we will only
cut off ii few of the excrescences which have grown
on to our treasury vault and sap its contents.
something can be done at least to try to arrest the
rapid decrease of our population. What the gov
eminent has already done and what it proposes
still to do in the way of reducing the public ex-
pensesi is all well. and they deserve credit for it; but
why stop half way and before any good result is
Let Us have a practical demonstra-
ton of the very sound old saying about finan-
ciaI matters, Take care Of The pence, and the
pounds ciH take care Of Themselves.
The report Of the President of the Board of
Education, just presented to the Legislature. gives
IL picture truly disheartening, which we trust will
arrest the attention of cur very philanthropic
Ministry. In a table, it shows the number of
and deaths in these islands for the past
seven years, or from 1851 70 1857 inclusive. and
that the ercess Of deaths over births amounts to
the alarming number of TEN THOUSAND SIX Hun
AND FoRTY-FoUR SOULS. Great as this de-
crease is. it probably is not beyond the truth.
Although it includes the year 1853 in which tire
small pox ravaged the islands. vet the decrease is
no greater than in the seven years pre-
lptic u ICol- "h'h If'hIuii' Hhrp iNNdiitb
And vet, in spite of this great excess of 10. 64
leaths in seven years, we see ministers calmly
looking on, drawing their pay from month to
month, and coolly reporting to the Legislature
that the fault of our not now having a hospital
with the latter body, and not with them, AS
will be seen by the following extract from the In
,erior report, when a~lluding to the subject of
providing for the prevention and cure of dis
This much l would take the liberty to suggest.
hat, i'll whatever manner you may choose to provide
or this crying want, you will avoid the evil of half
measures, or an inadequate appropriation for the pur-
What more could the Legislature do than to
an act authorizing the establishment Of hos
Ditals and then voting a sum amply sufficient to
an establishment of some kind. We
nfer that the Ministers had given up the idea
IF a hospital for the present from the fact that
they omitted to ask for a re-appropriation in the
of estimates presented TO the legislature,
# the sum of $1,000 voted in 1856. The finance
of the lower house, however, detected
he omission ,-and had the same amount re-voted.
And all this while they have the effrontery to ask
he enormous sum of SO 600 to continue the
worse than useless newspaper they now print,
'urdensome alike to them and the public, and in
of whose continuance a page or two of as
ute reasoning is devoted. We instance this item
the treasury budget not because it is the only
ne, but because it is the most conspicuous. There
re thousands of dollars wasted in useless district
nd circuit Judge salaries and in other ways. If
biennial saving of SIC, 900 can be effected in the
department, and $4,000 more in the
press, and so, 600 more perhaps in the
var and other departments, cannot hospitals be
established?
Let it not be asked in future, ,chy we have no
~ospitals. Let it not be asked, why I. the infe-
Tor coin of the Hawaiian race is being lost and
ying off at the rate of 1900 souls per annum.
IS long as a useless public press is maintained as
50 ~nolitical necessity.'i at an EXPENSE of SO. 600