Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-01-20
some, and the wording is libel upon tn,
English language.

some, and the wording is libel upon the
English language.
The "False Alarm leader Of the Daily
Tier ofthe Isth, would not be worth noticing,
were il not for the fact that II is the organ Of
the Premier. President Of the Board Of Health,
and as such seeks to calm fears justly aroused
upon the condition Of leprosy on these islands.
It starts out with statements that are not borne
out by facts here, let alone in Norway, Cana.
da, China and India. 1t is piece Of bare
faced imposition on the credulity Of the public
to assert "that leprosy is scarcely contagious
in the remotest degree
The organ grinder kindly sought TO allay the
fears of the "dear people or the "white
invader" portion thereof-upon the matter of
"full dress attendance at the larcial proceed.
ure Of next month. A party discussing the
point held tha, "full Dress" for the ladies',
meant, all fullness on the floor, nothing above,
oh no ! It is hoped the l.. II. c. will publish
the rules Of dress, etc, to be observed on such
courtly occasions so as to settle these important
matters for the modistes, as, being fearfully
taxed, it is possible they will no, have time for
read djustments.
| To the narrow minded who hold that the
present TRADE by the independent papers upon
leprosy matters is doing great harm TO the
country, we would like to ask who does the
greater harm, they who see and know Of thi,
evil and do nothing, or they who call loudly tc
an inactive Board of Health to deal with the
matter for the saving Of the nation And to
charge us with dealing with the subject 70,
political ends" shows that the enormity o
the evil is not understood, nor the fact realized
that this journal is entirely free and ndcpen
dent and is conducted by its proprietor for tn,
common good.
A writer in the p c. Il. Of the 18th inst.
takes exceptions to the deductions in our re
cent article on mortuary statistics, and endeav
ors to show greater discrepancies in the stats
tics of the Board Of Education. This we viii
deal with when we have more carefully cola
ted all the facts, and would feel obliged If "K'
would assist us to carefully deduct facts from
the figures he presents and not take the death
of an admitted portion of Honolulu only to b.
divided among the whole district. The theor'
assigned for so many deaths from "unknown
causes may satisfy our critic, but has the Agen
of the Board of Health been careful to Obtain
any facts on this unknown feature of hi
table at the Government Dispensary1 We will
refer to this again.
The p. c. 4. of Nov 2sth, 1882, spoke O
the present ruler Of this kingdom as eth
most constitutional King that ever sat upon tn
throne of Hawaii" If this be true how can h
be made any more constitutional than he is
But look upon that statement and then o
this, which appears in the Coronation advert
isement in the Pae Aina, written by tn
flowery pen of the V. S. L., and found trans
lated in another column in to-days PRESS:
"That he may conform to the custom
monarchies, he is about to take upon himse
the ereinsisxncSs and the Sac,td,,ess Of yonr a,
fien hIney, o HaaOaii." (The italics al
ours.) Consistency, thou jewel Z!