The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-13
Lihne. March 16. 10O0.

Lihue, March 16. 1900.
Editor Advertiser: Your contempor-
airy, the Star has seen fit to publish
an interview with Mr.. Cooper after his
return from this Island.
AS the statements therein are so
absolutely false and misleading, | beg
permission to use your estimable pa
per to dispel the illusion Mr.. Cooper's
assertions may have created in the
minds of the public
The Star says the Attorney General
was received by the people of Kauai
with open arms, double team Being
in readiness to drive him from the
landing, etc. Now, as matter of fact,
nobody on the Island, with the excep-
ton, perhaps, of Mr.. Coney, knew or
believed Mr.. Cooper would come, and
the greatest indignation prevailed
when it became known that the sheriff
had allowed Mr.. Cooper to land with
out even taking the trouble, or having
the good sense, to consult his fellow
members of the local Board of Health
before sending carriage for his chief
in the Police Department. l can as
sure you, Kauai people do not feel hap
by over such high-handed proceeding
of member of the Board of Health,
which they feel all the more as this
Island has so scrupulously avoided to
embarrass that body during its many
trials.
| doubt not that other pens have al
ready or will yet be used to condemn
the action of the Board of Health, es-
pecially so as the members of that
Board seem to have been so impressed
with their own wrongdoing that they
had to propose as an excuse of sending
their august colleague-Board of
Health business.
Has it been considered what 1t
would mean to have the plague brought
to this Island? If Honolulu, unfortu-
nately, cannot cope with that disease,
what are we to do here with one med
ical man for every 1000 or 5000 people,
should the plague break out here"
Yours truly,
KAUAI"
The writer of the above-given letter
sends us his name Herewith, as a
guarantee of good faith. 1t is that of
Kauai.
The following letter touches another
phase of Mr.. Cooper's visit:
Honolulu, March ., 1900.
Editor Advertiser: Your interview
with III. T.. Cooper makes that gentle
man say that all but / 200 acres of the
land of the McBryde CHARACTERIZATION
he seems to have been inspecting while
away on Board of Health business-is
held in fee simple. According to Allan
nrt ,D1n
think, after the Presidents land order
was issued, there are 1000 acres OF
Government land in the midst of Nc
Bryde, held rental of $3.50 per
year until 1909. How then, can all
but 1900 acres be held in fee simple?
What | want to ask of the Advertiser
is whether the Government can have
made any secret transfer of the greater
part of the 4,000-acre tract since Nc
Kinley interfered?
HOKU.
certainly not. Were such thing
possible the transfer would be good for
nothing. Mr.. Cooper, who was report
ed accurately, probably slipped a cog
of lection.-Editor.
Evidently the writer of the follow
ing communication had not seen the
statement in the local press that Mr.
Cooper's departure for Kauai was not
preceded by either personal quarantine
or fumigation:
Lihue, March 10, 1900.
Editor Advertiser: Please inform
your many readers here whether the
time of quarantining the Attorney Gen
eral was shortened to let him catch the
first steamer to Kauai? If so, we want
to kick and kick hard. At last news
from your city, Mr.. Cooper was attend
ing meetings of the Board of Health,
and as we figure it If he went into camp
just after he was heard from at the
meetings he could not have spent more
than six or seven days in quarantine
anyhow. Please investigate. If some
people are detained full time and 9TH
ers allowed to travel after short de-
tention or none at all, We want to
know about it and set up a shotgun
quarantine.
None of us know why Cooper came,
anyhow. He was not needed or want
ed, and his Board of Health business
was a blind. He spent most of his time
inspecting plantations. Whether he
got any letters In favor of making him
Governor l do not know, but judging
from the indignation his coming caused
| guess he didn't, SYREX.