The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-06
WEATHER YESTERDAY.
THE GRAND JuRTs REPORT.

THE GRAND JUHYS hEPOhf.
After a session of exactly one month
the Grand Jury for the February term
of court made its final report yester-
day. While the report deals with
number OF abuses in the community
people who believe that morality
should be placed above immortality and
money making viii be greatly disap-
pointed in Il. That a body Of thirteen
men chosen from the body OF the citi-
zens of Honolulu could see nothing
TO condemn in such an open den Of
vice as the notorious stockade at Iwi-
lei. certainly shows a most lamentable
state OF affairs in this city. To the
believer in morality and Christian
virtue ii would indicate that the moral
sentiment Of Honolulu is at a deplor-
ably low ebb. II indicates that inn
morality is looked upon as something
not only TO be tolerated but rather to be
encouraged If il is only carried on
under certain police regulations. II
indicates that respect for swomanly
virtue Is at low ebb among the men
of this community and that equal
morality for both sexes is something
to be looked upon with ridicule and
contempt We only wish that the
members OF the Grand Jury and hun
dreds of other parents of this com
munity could read Helen Gardeners
two books: is This Your Son My
Lord" and Whose Daughter"
In the last named book machine
politician of the Tammany type who
has become as calloused to crime and
brazen immortality as a large portion
of the men of this community seem
TO have become. opposed q bill in the
legislature. to which he had been
elected. raising the age of consent
from fourteen TO sixteen years. The
Tammany legislator had a young
daughter little past fourteen who
wished to go into store as a clerk.
AS the legislator was poor he consent
cd. Scarce a year passed until the
awful facts came home to him that
his daughter was about to become
mother. He was wild with rage and
wanted to kill the seducer. But the
truth came home to him most directly
that he himself was one of those who
opposed the bin in the legislature TO
raise the age of consent from fourteen
TO sixteen and thus opposed throwing
the protection around his own daugh-
ter that should have been given her.
In taking the stand members OF the
Grand Jury take with reference to
Iwilei they are failing to throw the
protection around Their homes. around
their wives. around their sons and
around their daughters that they
should AFFORD them and sooner or later
the awful penalty for such action will
come home to them as it came home
to the Tammsny legislator
During the visits of the grand Jury
to lwilei no children were seen within
the enclosure" says the Grand Jury.
Why bless your innocent hearts, gen
tlemen. of course they were not. Any
one with the least bit of ~savey"
knows that on such occasions the po-
lice make IL their business to have the
place put on ITS best appearance and
minors are strictly excluded. This is
shown by the small number OF inmates
there when the Jury visited the place.
The jury found but l43 inmates when
II is fact capable of proof that the
average number OF inmates of Twiiei
the year around is upward OF 100.
Since the Grand Jury has been in ses.
sion members of the Protective
League have visited Iwilei and found
there young girls leading lives OF
shame who were not TO exceed twelve
10 fourteen years of age. while several
gave the appearance OF not being over
ten. Boys frequent the place almost
nightly as every man who has ever
taken the trouble to investigate knows
and the Grand Jurors If they visited
the place with their eyes open must
have known this. or course II they
only went there in company with the
High Sheriff and let him know in ad-
vance that they were going these
sights would not be witnessed. In the
very oroer OF things the High Sheriff
would put them out of the way. II the
foreman Of the Grand Jury had ap-
pointed a committee OF three to FIVE
Of the Jury to visit Iwiiei |
some evening without notification TO |
anyone and report back to the full |
Jury the committee would have no
ioubt found some things that the full |