The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-29
HAWAII AND LEPRosY.
More About Leprosy.

annex HaWaii"' l have only to say on this head that I suppose if we make flicker with them they will be generous enough to say "Well! never mind, let the tail go with the hide," and we shall hardly be able to refuse it. But what sticks me the worst, or did till I searched 1t out, was what some doctor said about it, that it was no doubt Communicable disease" That word of five syllables was too much for me and I attempted to analyze it, and began at the wrong end of course, though it seemed to afford key to the solution of any difficulty. On board ships of all sorts had seen various kinds ofcables; in some mystic books a "cable tow' had been mentioned, and had read of certain cable which parted in a nasty squall up at the head of sloop naviga- tion on account of piratical craft that anchored alongside, but received no light till I did what wiser and better men have done before me. I slowly spelled it out and asked my wife what 1t meant. With look of superior wis., dom that is so very becoming to the up to-date woman she said Why, don't you know what that means? It means that it is ketchin'!" Well, my dear, I said, how do they "ketch it." or does it ''ketch" them? With great dignity she declined to answer any more TOOL questions" So I unused and queried solus. Do they pursue it with raw hide lariat as the kanaka does the bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, or the wild asses colt vulgarly called a mule? Do they take it by guile as the sly trapper does with large or small game, and do they use "fgure-of- four' or fox trap, or snare with which Brer rabbit sometimes finds himself yanked high in the air by the innocent looking sapling that seemed bowed to the earth in its humility? Do they follow it as the wicked man does the flea that has been backbiting him, and when he comes within hailing dis tance proceed to moisten the tip of his forefinger and bounce on the victim of his wrath and roll and tumble him till the jumping gear is so out of gear that he can no longer make those leaps that in all ages have excited the envy of all athletes?
 But why wrestle with this subject any further, since learned M. DIS from the time of Moses even to this day have locked horns in a vain struggle to determine the whyness of the where fore. We might perhaps be allowed to ask as to the relative number of those who die annually in Hawaii of leprosy and the victims of lung diseases in this city with it's great medicine laborato- ries, its four score drug stores, its hun ,,N+ ing D. D.'s and LIDS, it's two hun dred professional nurses. it's hospitals and all other aids for the sick? And you know that of late we are told that lung troubles are "ketchin' for dead sure, and that in the good time coming all the consumptives will be set off by themselves very much after the manner of Ieper colonies in this and other lands.
 Yes! we must annex the trifle of 1ep- rosy there is in Hawaii, and even worse things of which that is only an outward and visible sign. We must annex a right smart sprinkling of sin of every kind known to theologians, including considerable original sin and some total depravity besides. There is sin per alum and sin per se-mortal sin and venial sin, sin of omission and sin of
 
 sin of the blood curdling sort, but a considerable amount of the amiable sins or sins of weakness rather than brutal sins. Not much football nor other sorts of prize fights called by courtesy ath- letic sports. And it follows that with the sin there must be sinners and as they are quite numerous it is not prac- ticable (another cable here) to segre- IL. +1,o, ok dn dn xxyi+ h the comparatively small number of lepers. We must take them in.
 The numerous objections of which you only give a hint are no doubt too desperate to mention in detail, and we are left to imagine something very dreadful. But whatever they may be, where is the statesman who will state them in the eloquent words that poured forth from the mouth of the Godlike Daniel Webster fifty-one years ago, when he so vigorously opposed any thing that looked like an attempt to se- cure and hold the territory now known as the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho? With all due difference to MT. Palmer of Boston, who is natural admirer of royalty, and ought to have long since renounced his allegiance to free American institutions in favor of the putrescence of monarchy which was buried in Hawaii by the republic, it looks as if the statesmen both here and in Hawaii are very nearly unanimous in favor of annexation of Hawaii now and that of Cuba when the conditions are right for such movement. We oc- cupied and held the northwestern terri tories without consulting the Hudson Bay company traders and their squaw wives and the Chinooks. We annexed Utah, California, New Mexico and Ari- zona without asking the "Greasers, ' the Digger Indians and the Flutes whether they wanted to come in or not and were they not aboriginal squatters and owners of the soil? And why shall we trouble ourselves over much about the kickers in Hawaii whom we propose to benefit by hoisting the stars and stripes over them in place of the em- blem of the monarchy which has served its day and generation and fallen asleep and been gathered to it's fathers?
 M. M. COVER.
 NAVIGATION TO HOLYOKE.
 Congressman Barrett gave some mod flied aid and comfort on Tuesday, to