Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-03-04
Saturday Press Supplement, Mar. 4, 1882

WiuhkHros, they VIII not value the Independence.
NO more jealousy. no more regrets, no more love
| OF country. They will he ready then to saw Give
me drink of whisky Johnny, and I'll vote for
ANNEXATION anne or anything else" So will be accom-
piIshed the strong desire of the foreigners
| There is nm ancient saying, Whom the gods
Wish Wish to destroy they first make mad" and so, Mr.
Editor ! request yon to keep quiet; don't again
| oppose the views of the Hawaiian people and
don try to instruct them. Perhaps out OF their
ruin We shall see somebody else benefited It's
an Ill wind that blows nobody good. Yours.
PLANTER.
tfrom the Houdii Pdt Aina1
We have read in the Haraj;av Ga.e,t. of We'd
iiesday last, nm attempt to docry DR.. Fitch on ac-
count OF the great number of natives who 90 to
the Dispensary to be treated by him, and because
the hope has been given that he can cnre Ionars
That Journal insists that there should be nm ELAN
inntion of the grounds upon which such a hone il
based seeing that DR., Fitch is an entire stranger
in whom, however. the people have great conf,
dence. When he was asked what he proposed 70
do. he discarded the old system of treatment, and
snid ne should try an entirely new mode, also
to himself. He should, he said. treat leprosy bv
n method discovered by him. He did not think
he conld cure leprosy, but he should treat for
ssyphiiis, which was the cause of leprosy The
Doctor opposed haste i'll bundlng off ltpers to
Mookai without first trying Notwithstanding
them to the living tomb of Kaawao without an
effort to cure them And the journal in question
opposes the Doctor for causing II great deal of
expense in the erection of the leper hospital at
Fishermans Point.
We are of the opinion that the people will not
he deceived i'll regard to this opposition by a GER.
tain ring i'll the community, who have made no
great Efforts IN their time to treat this disease.
We shall rejoice If n single l,per is cured by DR.
Fitch or even partially cured, and returned to his
family. During the period when the doctors
whom Tins newspaper supports were III power, we
have never known the Hawaians to crowd to them
for treatment But when Dr. Fitch appeared lie
very soon became famous and the people
come TO him from the remote districts to be treat
ed by him. Lepers who have heretofore been en-
tlrely hidden, now come forth and show them
selves to this doctor. From the commencement
OF his incumbency at the Dispensary up to the
present time. we can say that DR.. Fitch has ad-
ministered twice ~ much medicine as the total
quantity that has been given by all the doctors in
all the years past, i'll these Islands.
We trust that this attcn pit of the foreign journal
to injure DIR. Fitch will result in his increased
popularity.
From the E,eis Podkoiul
VERY SIcKEsING.-lt was with wonder and
anlazement. mingled with disgust, that We read "A
lsnans nF Man in tine opposition journal the
statements respecting what DIR. Fitch said ut Il
meeting OF physicians of this city held at the
office of the Minister of the Interior. on the sub
ject of leprosy. Not satisfied with applying To DR.
Fitch terms of ridicue and detraction, that jonr-
nal also assails him, inferenaly, unfit to treat
leprosy. and as not understanding what he talked
nbont.
BY this style of opposition, fault finding and
conspirng of this foreign paper, is conspicnously
apparent It's motive for raising its voice and talk
ing against Dr. Fitch it is supporting n ring of
certain medical men in his city who jealous of
this doctor. This is II shameful state of things to
exist among people of intelligence and good in
tentions and who ought, individually, to be in
earnest for the welfare of this nation.
f9r twenty years the management of the medi-
cal department OF the Government has been in the
hands of this medical ring, and they have been
trusted without limit. They have had in their
own hands full power as to medicines, and ample
means have been placed at their disposal but
after the lapse of many years, with ample time
and opportunity, and the expenditure of large
sums of money.-tbe Eieie propounds to-day this
question: Under all these favorable circum-
stances, what ON their side, do they show as the
e Saes OF ss 81 tfa he
ENTHUSIASTICALLY nothing' The many voiced
echoes OF kaawao say--it Is death! From the
isle of the long-leaged poyer mingled with the
sound OF the surf aud the death wall, comes the
groan--me shirsr! And everywhere, from the
homes OF our land, comes the complaining cry of
the sick, sick, sick!
On the 25th Of February, meeting of n number
Of native gentlemen of prominence was held ut
the room of Engine Co. No. 4, for the purpose of