The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-23

The statement made y the Gs-5ls-" ,Lere are
TOO MANY IN -l-- community who remember tie Ey-
azs ~ tile mea-,% ---- twenty years ago. not O.
te alarmed y the aivelt q the disease q e-s more
ces.rur-frs f--a re sl1fl-a-= Etl.Ict o. q s-ss.-
4as1f 1zfs"-we pronounce O. te ~sa;tTsls rl.ss ana
without :-ulf--1u. The wl-..--E-u--1 and mel
s.s prevailed extensively - The group during three
or four months ~ ISIS. and much sickness and -ui-
.rEu- were endured by reason % them But there
T. DO evidence o. show tLt- tie -t---s --.-- ltl---e
il the entire Eruuu amounted O. even one thousand
Tie census statistics show that some I'VE ,r * thou
stui must have del from s~----Irx. and o. assert
tl4t the q. u~el--<" wls tLe more destructive % the
two. : . -rl-- u-s--l-emen-- Tie measles may have
brought Ga other disease, and thus increased tie
d-el,h-rte u the native population
= much f- ;lc Coates @arblel rerublica-
ton.
Withholding up the foregoing we have been
struck with the fact that the B1ari Of Health
were then guilty of the same b.unieriuE. v~acil!at-
IN policy ttat it has displayed of late. ana Tor
which tLry viii in all PROBABILITY lie remarkable -
I'm. as tLey remain under tie direction of IT,
present head. We may he Tard5ned for repro
du,ing Mr.. Emer>1u's letter u The Minister Of
tie Interior and Beard of Health. in support u
oar statement.
SES - 10 not willingly publish 70 tie civilized
world the private grievances l and M family suffered
under Your iesrotic rules. tut l wish 10 warn ny
cogutrymcn who may hereafter visit the little sVecS
% Gods Earth which yol inhlbit. IN respect 10 the
character you bear. should they have the misfortune
T. fall into your hands
II : well known that when I landed ~ Honolulu
from the steamer Idaho, one u my children vas sick
with the measles II i also well known that / readily
as~eutei q remove 20 any place designated by You
On the island, and that / ~as willing 10 pay, every
day, al necessary expenses till the danger was passed.
Your aEcut. IN obedience O. your INSTRUCTIONS, - he
informed me, furnished me with quarters out II town,
assuring me that l should be subject 10 no expense,
excepting for what l wished to purchase, and n the
same time invited the adult members Of my family,
including my child who had had the measles, TO 20
trisre and UieH irs pleased, urging Us 10 ride with
him. and giving US sHfirs freedom. This invitation
we accepted. rishiHs at has request the public insti-
tutions and other places Of interest FOR two days.
On the morning u the third day l received a letter
from this same agent, written by authority q the
Board Of Health - fJrbid1ing me 10 leave the preuH-
SIS | occupied, accompanied by threats in case Of
violation. The restriction, be il remembered, you
placed upon my liberty, b.fOrs any physician had
COME near u u ascertain what the danger was, Or
wNther there was any danger. In addition you en-
plOyed a herd OF your minions on the premises, and
kept themselves doing little or nothing, and in your
letter Of restriction u me, informed me that | should
be expected TO hear al these EXPENSE myself,
after you had informed me that | should be suIjec;
10 no expense, only a. before named.
And what reasons did your agent assign for these
restrictions; The plea that the measles were fatal 70
the natives. But look at your consistency. Had
you even suspected any danger, why did you not for
bid us to 20 among the people at JiTSt? Why give
Us an opportunity By i~ariiIiiOH 10 infect the inhd6i-
fuHfS, anu after having assisted u tor TWO whole days
in spreading this fatal malady, in doing all the evil
in our power, why TuEN did you restrict US:
Had You really believed, a. you pretended, that we
carried about our persons The seed Of death, the neg
lect on your part to instruct your agent To restrict
our liberty from The FrSf was a criminal neglect,
and, had death ensuel a. a result Of such neglect, !
you would have been ~adjudged by the community as
guilty of crime, If not of murder. But your subse-
queut conduct proves one of two things: either thai
you did not believe any danger existed, or, if yOu
did 20 believe, that you are guilty Of a INDUSTRIOUS
outrage on the Hawaiian people; because, during 10
day that you kept Us isolated, a. you claimed, was
any officer placed ut the gate Of the premises, nor
were Hawaiian children, from the ages of four to
fourteen years, prevented by you from coming within
the enclosure, and playing with my boy who had the
measles, although l notified, first, your agent, then
the Marshal, and thirdly, your own physician Of the
fact BY this neglect Of yours you have botLlA
laiel your oath Of Office and the statutes OF your
government.
But the fact IS You kHelc rsry 'rsH that the danger
Was slight, if indeed any NJ all existed. The weather
was cool when we landed, and you felt more vigorous
than usual for the exercise Of your brief authority,
ami you tundly suppose, doubtless because the sub
jet Of your petty d~espOtism did not come on shore
with kid gloves and quizzing glass and gilde1 cane,
AMI a SILVER trumpet to sound his own fame, that he
would not, therefore, take full notes Of every step
which your crooked feet have trodden and set forth
70 the world abroad how much diplomacy you could
display on one poor innocent child sick with the mea-
sles ! l viii not naUseate the public taste by stating
how many meetings you called, and how many times
you refused the request made by some Of tine best
ctltLtLs q HONOLULU, (lncluIluE Your own physician
and others, who said the danger had all passe1,)
that | be permitted 10 have my liberty so ~ to attend
70 other important business and provide for my
family, and although I offered To- give bonds in the
sum Of $500, that, If permitted to have my freedom,
/ would not return 10 my family till You should per-
init me @, how you refused 10 yield even then until
General Smith, the American Consul, nobly offered
10 become responsible for my good conduct, although
he had never seen me.
But, my official sirs, your previous caution ia this
measles case, may have warranted all this delay;
and, moreover, | am assured that DIR. Iiilebrand,
being no quack in metaphysics n well as in physic,
had, by q most profound analysis, based on the occult
and incomprchensible principles which control the
trituratiOn OF the iudiyisible essence of the seni-ma-
ieTial substances by whose agency the geruinal prin-
ciple Of incipicut disease is supposed TO be implanted, .
determined exactly how much Of the rirus Of measles
the father Of a child which had nearly recovered from
them, could communicate to people on the public
street; and also, that DR.. Hutchinson, 4 more practical
man, had arrived ut the conclusion, that said virus,
20 communicated, would carry off more Hawaiian
females than one hundred m~en-of-wars men, such as
he once pursued over TO Hilo with his pop-gun fleet.
But, gentlemen, after you hal released me with
the spondaic and or1Icular injunction that | ''mUSf
mol Te-eHfsT he saul premises HHfI OTfsTef 50 IN dO,H
please allow me to ask you in all sincerity and with
the kindest feelings in the world, why you showed 50
much Partially. During my expatriation you did
allow a great many Of the good people of Honolulu
To- 20 there, for which / am very grateful. But, gen
tlcmen, that family belongs to me as much a TO
anybody, and ! wouldn't injure a hair Of their heads,
and II you DO not believe that | am sincere in these
declarations, go to California and ask Governor Low.
Gentlemen, please remember, hereafter in your
treatment OF strangers who come here with the best
Of intentions and willing TO obey all your laws, that
consistency in your reception Of them is a jewel in
your character. The only sin | ever committed
against your government, Is the sin Of having mel-
sles in my family. But l won't do so any more.
Did the thought ever enter your minds. gentlemen,
q suppose, you know what thought and mind mcan)
there does exist a kind Of universal law Of hu-
mInity which has reared it, majestic form high above
all written coles, regulating and controlling their
administration, and, when stern necessity requires,
delivering over 10 dcrisi0n and scorn the cxccrablc
ministers Of unrightcousncsS, or, else, grinding them
10 dust and ashes under the iron wheels Of the car Of
Justice;
a the fact that your agent ruinel about
80 worth Of cl.thfur 10 garftr-tfiup - nth .l1.,iI.