The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-04-07

eled after the one he had read, because
ours was enacted five years before.
Prostitution is not legalized in Ho-
nolulu, nor does the Government say
that the Act to Mitigate reduces the
number of prostitutes, but it certainly
ameIiorates the evils which go hand in
hand with it. Women who make it
business are to be known, and for that
reason are registered. They tell us that
to make the Act to Mitigate effective
its provisions should be inflicted upon
men. This would be impossible, because
men are not prostitutes.
A. B. Loebenstein spoke against the
repeal of the Act, and pointed out
wherein the act was benefit to man
kind. He refuted the statement made
by Mr. Peck to the effect that it was
not carried out in. outer districts. He
said when the whafers were at Lahaina
years ago the law was enforced, but now
there was no necessity for it there.
Referring to the movement on the
part of Mr.. Peck, he questioned if law
could be enacted that would kill the
lust which exists in the average man.
To get at the evil it was not enough
TO trim the leaves; they must go deeper.
Let the spiritual members of the COM
look to their duties as preachers
and bring the morals of the Hawaiians
and the whites up to a standard
where lasciviousness would not be a
component part of the composition of
humanity. When that was done there
would be no occasion for an Act tc
but until the clergy and the
workers in the Lords vineyard had ac-
that which human kind had
been working for since the creation,
the Board of Health conld not do better
than enforce the provisions of the Act
to Mitigate.
At the request of Attorney General
Smith, David Dayton, who was here
when the Act was passed in 1860, and
who has served as President of the
Board of Health and District Judge
many years since then, answered
of questions put to him.
He deplored the attempt of portion
Of the community to repeal law which
he had positive evidence had wrought
1ondrous beneficial changes in the san
itary condition of the prostitutes in Ho-
nolulu. He would not say that it les
sened the number of women, but it did
improve their sanitary condition. In
olden times he had found entire fam
lilies suffering, from venerial disease,
but the Act to Mitigate had stopped all
that. He did not think it possible that
there were as many prostitutes in Ho-
nolulu as Mr.. Peck had stated.
Frank w. Damon spoke feelingly of |
the evils of prostitution and the effect |
The women of this class in the crowded |
part of the city had on the morals of |
The young boys who are growing up in
Honolulu. He made an earnest appeal
10 the Legislature to act upon the bill !
promptly. The chart that had been
published in the Advertiser was like a
bomb shell to those of the community
who had lived in ignorance of the con-
1ition of affairs.
Mr.. Bowen, of Castle & Cooke, spoke
n favor of repeating the act, and ably
Mr.. Peck in his movement to-
ward reforming the city.
DR.. Andrews opposed the repeal of the
ict quite as strongly as did w. o.
smith.
The men who through their profess
'ion or as officials of the Government
anne oftenest in contact with this class
If women were loud in opposing any
Lttempt to repeal an act which they
new had done much good.
At tha ol0co of tho rnaatipU fau,
minutes before o'clock, vote was
aiken, which showed a large majority
d favor of repeating the Act. The other
ill, in which the hackmen are the spe-
ial target, will be considered in open
leeting today.