Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-06-26
RESULTS OF FADDIsM.
Sentiments Applicable TO " Recent
Question in Hawaii.


Ii the following article had
reached Hawaii when a certain
question was pending in the Leg
islature, it might have added
weight to the views that ultimate
ly prevailed:
In vigorous article on the
smallpox outbreak at Gloucester,
the London Daily Telegraph says
it is due to nothing else except
the neglect, or rather the political
prohibition, of Jenner's benign
prophylactic- vaccination. 1t is
idle to pretend that the foul water
of the Severn, or any other cause,
has propagated the dread disease.
1t has sprung up in logical and
relentless punishment of those
local wiseacres who think them
selves wiser as well as better than
men of science and practical leg
islators. and who have, among
other bigoted crotchets, q belief,
stupid though sincere, that vaccin-
alton is wicked, and that the ex-
perience of a world delivered from
one of the worst plaques of hum
anity by a happy inductive dis
covery, is to count for nothing
against the prejudices of
theory and bigotry. By the
development of social legislation,
Parliament has, unfortunately,
placed this power for mischief in
the hands of local bodies. 1t is a
power of Life and Death-and we
do not hesitate to declare that the
Gothamites of Gloucester have
used it so as to positively bring
about. the present defamation of
their city. Too late are their
miserable victims-the townsfolk
finding out the ignorance and
imbecility Of their political and
social guides. We read with pity
aud shame of ten, twenty, thirty
thousand citizens, old and young,
male and female, rushing to be
vaccinated in and around the in
fected spots. TIE figures weekly
published of the number Of the
unvaccinated who suffer or sue
cumb, compared with that of duly
protected persons, are so over
whelmingly demonstrative that
the whole population is today con-
vinced of its past error, and shuts
the municipal stable door after
the steed has been stolen.
And those (says the Telegraph
who observe and mediate upon
these melancholy facts are only
too we'll aware how little would
be told of the deadly evils
wrought by unbridled and over
indulged Faddism if we looked
only to the curse and mischief OF
smallpox. Painfully, mournful.
ly, are the chiefs of the Army and
Navy at home and abroad alive tc
the terrible fact that a whole third
of Her Majesty's forces may al
any moment be regarded as tenn
porarily invalided and unfit fol
the defence of the Empire, be-
cause of the senseless, insane, anC
fatal repeal of certain protective
Acts, and the consequent free dis
semination Of malady even NOR,
preventable than smallpox. We
challenge contradiction of th'
statement that, in consequence o
concessions made to the section
represented by Sir James Stans
field and some American ladie
who visited India, the garrison
of that peninsula are never, a
they once were, at their recorded
strength, but, so far as militar,
service goes, permanently from
thirty to fifty per cent, below il
The subject is not one that cal
be pursued in columns destined
for British homes; but those VIII
are we'll informed know that ther
exists no deadlier peril to thos
homes-abroad and here than i
the guilty and feeble indulgenc
with which preceding Govern
ments have allowed silly an
prudish faddists to compromis
the health of our cities, and t
strike of the roll of the Imperif
forces third-in some instance
moiety--of their nominal eff
clients.
Seattle beer is the proper foo
for old and young. 1t restore
the elasticity and bloom of yout