The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-02

We "bulu luTnlNU tUem a statement over
our own signatures, OF the actual condi-
tons. The Board Of Health considered
the matter carefully, the statement was
prepared carefully and they signed IT,,
the idea being to assure the community
that there was not an epidemic; that
they had the matter fully In hand, and
to state plainly to them that there was
merely a suspicious case. For that the
Board has been abused members Of the
Board, personally, by people who did not
understand II nr d'd not care to under
stand IT, and It has also been abused and
misroprcscntod by one OF the newspapers
Of the CITY at least; ! will say. two
There was no abuse In the third paper.
hut a MEASUREMENT Of facts throwing
blame on the Board for having made any
statement whatever without having nrst
confirmed Il. No positive statement was
made hv the Board can he seen by
any one who WI carefully read the pa
uors Of Friday morning Thev win soc
that It was intended to give irformatIon
10 the public OF an authentic nature.
Governor Dole: understand In San
Francisco the newspapers agreed not TO
publish anything on the subject when
there was plague there. ! do not sup
pose that IS possible hero Z is not INC
way we have been accustomed TO do. We
have hoen frank with the p"hl'c, hut
would It not he aE ocd plan II the news
papers would only agree TO tt don't
know hut what thov would-to take all
their information from the Board and
for the Board 10 npree to furnish them
with such information when there is
ANYTHING to furnish and that thew will
! publish nothing else. / think II that
agreement could be arrived nj II would
he a verv q cd thing II would he the
best thing that we could reach.
Mr.. w. @. Smith: Mr. Chairman, as I
was present at the interview the other
night renresentIng one OF the papers 7
should IKE to say something on tho side
Of the press OF our connection with IT,.
Before leaving the office I wrote an edi-
toral on the events OF Friday night,
putting 1t in my pocket, wishing IN con-
fer with some of you gentlemen with re
gard TO II. II touches some OF the points
in controversy. and with your permission
| should like to read It. saving that II
is an editorial that is subject to revision
possibly and some OF the points might
be prontably discussed here.
OIere followed the editorial printed
elsewhere in this issue)
low, gentlemen, we were not disposed
to make n sensation of this matter. Had
we wished to inuulge in yellow journal
ism, we surely had the opportunity, and
we had plenty of material for the pur-
pose. Instead of that, we asked for n
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