The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-09
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1885.
SILL MORE REASONING.

longer keep down what has been
bubbling up all the while he was
reading my correspondence, comes
to the front with the grand flourish
of selected bubbles, misconstruc-
tions, and groundlcss charges, with
which he confidently seeks to send
me flying from the helm of truth
and correct understanding. To seize
upon and strangle in literary sense,
each and all of his erroneous as
sumptions and stereotyped prohibit
tory flights of unreasonable exag-
gerations, would be quite an easy
task for me, provided l had the
time and the inclination to do so. 1t
was my intention not to reply to
"Aloha's' letter, but as he writes
very much after the manner of q
newcomer to our islands, dependent
entirely upon information derived
from a numerically small class in
our community, who are prone to
picture everything and everybody
in the darkest colors that refuse to
be dovetailed into their ricketty and
creaky platform, l deem it duty L
owe to mankind generally, and our
friend in particular, to steer him
into the path of truth and correct
understanding. He says: " He
determines, not only to open wide
the flood gates of ruin through which
the Hawaiian race is passing to-day.
but also to knock down every man
who attempts to close these gates"
To this fragrant and foundationless
charge, l will merely say that
"Aloha" does me a gross injustice,
and that he has read nothing in my
correspondence to warrant him, or
any intelligent reader, in arriving at
any such conclusion. My primary
and chief object in entering upon
this controversy, was to disprove
Misrepresentation and false state
ments set on foot by unblushing and
fanatical sticklers for the prohibit
ton muzzle, which they fain would
fasten over the mouths of their
fellow men, and to prove that pro-
hibition in the liquor traffic had
been, is, or may be, attempted to
be forced upon an enlightened COM
munity. Having accomplished this
"commendablc mission" l propose
to gracefully step back to my legi-
innate pursuits, after imparting to
"Aloha" the truthful information l
promised him, and which he appears
to stand so much in need Of.
With sort of inflated turkey
gobbler strut, he pompously puts
the question: "But has he ever
heard anything of the decay of the
Hawaiian race?" Now, Mr.. Editor,
after an unbroken residence of
nearly forty years among the Ha-
waiian people, feel myself pro-
perly qualified to answer this ques-
ton, and state that l not only have
heard but know of the real causes,
which have led to 1.-THE deep damna-
ton of their taking off," and if
"Aloha' will have little patience,
l will set before him few incon-
trovertible facts. In the year 1913,
there arrived here the United States
frigate Independence, Commodore
Shubrick, having the measles ON
board, which disease found its way
on shore, spread rapidly among the
natives, carrying off several thou
sands. Anyone conversant with the
habits of Hawaiians and their ideas
on the preservation of health knows
well enough that upon the approach
of the slightest aceIa, Or fever, up
to within few years ago, they
would Immediately plunge into the
coolest water procurable, thereby
aiding the deadly effects of the
measles. No rum there, "Aloha !"
In 1858, the clipper ship Charles
Mallory arrived from San Francisco,
having the small pox on board, and
though the ship was Immediately
placed in quarantine in suitable
position off Waikiki, the deadly
plague, which was secreted in lot
of secondhand clothing which had
been brought here for speculative
purposes, was disseminated among
the natives, breaking out and raging
in its most virulent form, carrying
off over 10000 of them on this is
land alone and entirely depopulat-
ing many districts-cold water, as
in the case of the measles, lending
its aid to lengthen out the death
list. No rum there, "Aloha!"
Again, some ten years ago, or
thereabouts, mysterious disease,
which puzzled the doctors to find a
proper name for, so far as l am
aware, was introduced and spread
rapidly among the natives of the
whole group, and this malady also
succeeded in carrying off vast num-
beers. No rum there, "Aloha J"
Later on, during the so-called Car
ter Administration, the smallpox