The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-30

republican. the first Governor Of the
neE Territory Of Hawaii The Rep7b-
Hczn. the same as every other good
citizen. wants 10 support your admin
is,rz;ion and uphold pour hands. but
II cannot do il unless yoa take the
same high stand President Mckinley
has set for you-
In the city Of Honolulu today there
exists open and notorious vice AZ Twilei
which Is under police protection; aye.
more, under direct governmental sa-
perrision- The late grand Jury said
in its report that this place was under
the general management and superyi-
sion OF the Police Department and
Board Of Health"
Governor Dole. you as the guberna-
torial appointee Of President Mckinley
are the chief executive OF this Terri
tory. The High Sheriff. who is directly
In charge of the police force. is an ap-
pointee Of yours. Every member OF the
Board of Health is creature of your
will. One word from the Governor of
Hawaii and the evils OF Twilei would
disappear in a night VIII you say
that word, Governor, and set your ad-
ministration and your public conduct
on the same high plane as President
Mckinley has set his public life and
public acts?
In your official family, Governor, is
a Territorial Treasurer who is a stock
holder and director in corporation
owning FIVE retail saloons in this city
and this officer has the passing on the
applications for license presented TO
the Government by others who may
wish to embark in the same business.
This same Territorial Treasurer, Gov
ernor, is a stoekholder and director in
the corporation owning the buildings
at Iwilei which are leased for immoral
| purposes and in a conversation last
Monday admitted that he knew the
buildings were to be used for purposes
of prostitution when they were being
erected.
Is it to your credit, Governor, or to
the credit of your administration that
member of your official family il
financially interested in two of the
most degrading callings known to hu-
manity? That he is profting today
not only from the wrecking Of mems
lives through drink, but from the ever
lasting damning of both men and wo-
men through their moral and physical
degradation
What do you think President Nc
Kinley, with his pure and spotless life
and his eminently clean and unsullied
public record would think of you, Gov
ernor Dole, were these facts laid before
him at Washington? After the ex-
periences with Messrs. Rathbone and
Neeley, do you think he would retain
in office as Governor Of Hawaii man
who fails to say the one important
word to his High Sheriff that will stop
open and notorious vice that is eating
at the very heart of the public and
private morals OF the city?
Do you think he would retain as
Governor of the new Territory Of Ha-
waii a man who has for a member OF
his official family man whose income
is largely drawn from dram shops and
from houses Of prostitution and Of the
very lowest and most degrading houses
J of prostitution ever known on Ameri.
can soil?
These are not hypothetical questions
Governor Dole; they are earnest, burn
ing questions; questions that every de
cent man and woman in Honolulu ant
, every Christian man and woman IL
Hawaii are intensely interested in
! How will you answer them?
If the prostitution business at Iwile
is so well conducted and run in tbs