The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-07
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HYSTERlA VS.. FACTS.

Iamnsbire Then YOU have too much |
niazza Don't YOU know that such
| outside halls are draughty and that
YOU may get your death of cold sitting
| in them? I do believe you don't keep
your cellars dry. No cellar? VINO ever
heard of such a thing? Why, you are
heather and when 1 get back home
shall probably have to crltlclSe you III
i some hundreds of newspapers and mag
iazines And what is that you are wear
ling? A Mother Hubbard! why, don
YOU know that the American society
for Winding Other Peoples BUSINESS
long ago blacklisted the Mother HUI
bard as an article which no selI-re-
Ispecting woman would wear OUTSIDE the
privacy of her own chamber! Peopie
who are as far behind the times as you
are and as defiant of public OPINION,
fought to be sharply dealt with; anu II
I can find an audience here big enough
Ito get any sort of a collection from,
i'm tell it what I think about you IN
set terms.
Impertinence from household guest
could hardly go further, and no lnolVlu-
Iual host would care to extend his nos
pitality to one who had so abused II
Vet the collective host, meaning the
inhabitants of the city, are expected u
NOT only tolerate but to encourage
strangers who, after the most supern-
cial view of things Hawaiian, denounce
or condemn whatever customs or laws
thev find that do not dovetail with the
lcnstoms and laws they have been used
to elsewhere Aunt Ophelia could never
nut up with the ways of the Southern
home where she found Miss Eva and
Uncle Tom Those ways were wrong
because they were different. The world
is full of such well-intentioned but
meddlesome people; and just now Ho-
nolulu has more than it's fair snare
lof them Women come here VINO, AFTER
a weeks study" make up their nasty
minds that this or that method OF deal
ing with public offences is vitality wrong
or shameful and that.~for the good oil
society. it must be changed at once.
They do not credit the wise men ana
women who have dealt with Honolulu $
social and racial problems for years
with any capacity to settle them IN the
Eway best suited to the welfare OF TINS
connunity. Experience counts for
nothing; racial conditions are never
thought of; human nature is not con-
suited the history of past experiments
is never read the reformer simply
swoops down like wolf on the fold ana
declares that because Honolulu deals
e with crime and the social evil and
t few other things differently from
+ Bangor, Maine, ora Princeton, New Jer-
sew this place is a Sink-hole OF inquiry
infested by criminals who are protected
D and encouraged by hypocrites II they
:. find this view supported by the talk o.
some local political demagogue on OF
n off the bench-some man on whose prl-
= vate character a lump of coal woule
: leave a white mark but who makes loue
! ipublic professions of honesty and pur
y Iity-they at once begin to plume them
selves upon having the support of {
I..healthy public sentiment" and so be
come twice as obnoxious as they wer'
u before.
L. We are led to these remarks by tn
k hasty concentrations which VISITING
"A strangers have made about the plac
known as Iwilei Iwilei is a depot ia
removed from the business or residenc
4 quarter of the city where women be
he longing to the submerged classes carr
30 ION their trade under the eye of physi
. clans and police. 1t has not long bee
: in existence: before the Chinatown fir
ne part of street in that quarter was use
Ill as Yoshiwara, and decent peopl
lg found themselves much too close TO tn
{. half-world Urged by men like Thee
dore Richards, the Advertiser asked TO
- the removal of the women to an unfre
ly uuented suburb: and in course of tim
removal was brought about by fire. AS
no Isuming that the social evil had to i'm
- q Judgement somewhere, no better plac
- could be had for it than Iwilei,
~ Now we come to the main questio
Ell raised by the visiting reformers: VIII
r lis not the social evil prohibited by la
id land suppressed by the police? What
- the necessity of giving it official sane
ton? The answer is that but for sue
eu a place as Iwilei no good woman coui
r. venture into the streets at night WITH
lis out running the risk of assault: no III
od tie girl could safely trudge reach {
country road on her way to school; a
ei honorable womankind would have
tie be guarded even more carefully tina
C. they are in the black belts of the Soutl
- These jealous agitators who want Ivy
n lei wiped out as with "a sponge, jude
% our conditions by those of New Ems
er land and the Middle West. They do M
as stop to learn that there are five ar
or perhaps ten men in Hawaii to one We
man and that these minated males il
clUQe tens Oh INOuSinuS OF the lOWe
'er class of Chinese and Japanese. hui
ed, dreds of shore-leave sailors, hundred
ng more of beach-combers and vast raj
= BILE of men of mixed breeds and III
bridled passions. Does any one SUI
pose that this rude and virile male POI
ill lulation could be cast loose in Il
ma streets of Honolulu to seek that whic
it might devour without turning Il
no city into hell on earth? The dome
of tic peace and order of the town d
St mands Iwilei and the best citizensh
nd of Hawaii has ordained it as a prote
ton to the home. Such defenses wou
''i' not be needed in any New England cit
aps for there the people have no hordes
ant minated barbarians to govern. B
,lic every man who knows anything abo
:. these Islands is aware that they a
- indispensable here. 1t is question tn
uio lies between private Iwileis all over t
ian city with beetle browed ruffians lurkil
ont in the shadows of every street, and
H. organized and regulated Iwilei, hidd
- in the suburbs, guarded by the poll
the and the Board of Health and made
in little offensive to the moral public