The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-07-20

Turn out Gibson and the whole Board
OF Health, and give rs Wilder" were the
last words that were shouted by the lepers
as the boat containing the Legislators put
of from the leper settlement the other day
In another column Will be found detailed
account of the visit up there, our business
Is but 10 show how the bubble reputation
which Gibson has built up for himself. has
been fairly pricked and now lies as fat as
8 founder.
If there Is one thing that Gibson has
posed for. it is his love for the sick Ha-
waiian. He has now been in charge of
the Board OF Health for over four years,
and the Hawaiians most to be pitied hate
him and express their hatred publicly.
From the accounts received, it is evident
that while posing as Z philanthropist IN
Honolulu. the unfortunateS at MolOkai
have been shamefully neglected. Their
bread has been OF inferior quality, their
poi insufficient in quantity; their rice
disgrace Instead OF being fed on No. 2
rice, they have been supplied with stuff
which ordinary people give their chickens,
and this has been charged at 34100 cts.
per pound No l rice could have
been purchased for this 1t Will not sur
prise people to know that these things
have been contracted for under the super
intendence of a member of Gibson's fam
ly- OF course, the President OF the Board
Of Health can get up in the House, and
rubbing his hands together say, chem
hem-I have never received commission,
my hands are clean" But the Molokai
story shows that If those hands are clean,
there has been some other means by which
the poor leper has been robbed, and the
tax payers OF the country have been rob
bed TO lie soma ones pockets.
That Mr. Gibson knew what was re-
quired IN the settlement Is plainly eYi-
denced by his report to the Legislature of
1878. At that time the place cost just half
OF what it does now, and the number of
leper5 IN the settlement was about the
same. His report called attention to the
need OF a professional superintendent or
governor" He has not appointed such
person The same report showed that
money for clothing was insufficient, and
yet after four years incumbency and
double subsidy, the clothing ration remains
the same that It was IN 1878, ration which
Dir. Gibson condemned. The proper ad-
ministration OF law was another point
which Dir Gibson called attention to IN
1878. but from all that can be learned,
Law Is worse administered now than ever.
Lastly, the manner in which permits to
stay IN the settlement have been issued IS
a positive crime. The LiEeliLe brought
down three women, non-lepers, who had
been staying with friends at the settle
ment- OF these, one was young married
woman from Hilo, who had rs1,ained Nth
Tie IspeTs m0Ht6i After this can anyone
wonder that leprosT spreads, that the Ha-
Eaiian is being gradually drawn TO a
hghtful doom and that those who live
beside him stand IN danger for their loved
ones and themselves
Words cannot tell how great crime
Walter Murray Gibson has committed
He has wrecked. and viii wreck home
after home IN these Islands, he has cast,
and viii yet cast gloom and anguish over
many heart For the evil which he has
done cannot be undone IN a day. That
the tax payer and the poor leper should
have been robbed and sWindled Is a small
matter But far worse has been done.
The day viii come when the veil viii fall
from all eyes and no name be more exc
Grated on these Islands than MS, when he
VIII have 10 hide his head IN ignominy as
he did when returning from Molokai on
Saturday Leprosy with him has been a
political lever, upon It he raised himself TO
power and then kicked It away IS broken
toy, letting the unfortunates at Molokai