The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-10

exist within the United States or any
place subject to their jurisdiction
Webster defines servitude TO mean,
The state Of voluntary or involuntary
subsection To . master, whereby one
thing or person Is subject TO another
thing or person for use contrary TO
common right" Ali forms of servi-
tude are contrary to Law. and against
common right; and any Illegal res
traint upon the free action OF per
son whereby the party restrained is
under subsection 10 another. is in
voluntary servitude.
In this connection the Court calls
your attention to an Act OF Congress,
entitled:
An Act to protect persons of for
or birtn against forcible constralnt
or involuntary servitude.r passed
June %, 1874, which reads in part as
follows:
"whosoever shall know
ingIy and wilfully sell or cause to be
sold. into any condition Of involun-
tary seryitude, any otner person for
any term whatever. and every person
who shall knowingly and wilfully hold
to involuntary service any person so
sold or bought, shall be deemed gull
~ Of a felony. and, on conviction
thereof, be imprisoned for term not
exceeding five years and pay fine
not exceeding FIVE thousand dollars. -
THAT every person who shall be
accessory to any Of the felonies here
in declared. either before or after the
fact. shall be deemed guilty of a fe-
lony, and on conviction thereof be
imprisoned for term not exceeding
five years and pay fine not exceed
ing one thousand dollars" See 18th.
United States Statutes at Large, D.
251.
See also the Statutes of the United
States Vol "a. p. 635, which reads in
part as follows:
THAT whoever commits adultery
shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the penitentiary not exceeding three
years and when the act is committed
between married woman and a man
who is unmarried, both parties to such
act shall be deemed guilty of adultery
and when such act is committed be-
tween married man and a woman
who is unmarried, the man shall he
deemed guilty of adultery
THAT IL an unmarried man or wo-
man commit fornieation each of them
shall be punished by Imprisonment
not exceeding six months or by fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars"
So it is prescribed by Section of
an Act of Congress, approved March
%, 1882. 90 Statutes of the United
States at large, page 81. "That if any
male person in a~Territory or other
place over which the United States
have exclusive Jurisdiction, hereafter
cohabits with more than one woman.
he shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine of not
more than three hundred dollars or by
for not more than six
or by both said punishments
in the discretion of the court"
II appears from the recent official
report of the Territorial Grand Jury.
published in the Honolulu Republican
for March s, 1901, that there were
then 143 female prostitutes in Iwilei,
IL of whom were French women, all
the rest being Japanese, and not one
Hawaiian or American among them
all, none were citizens.
That there are 225 rooms in Twilei. |
each room renting for from IL to Is
dollars month. and one man, a Mr. |
a Japanese, paid to the owner !
Of the property bonus of $4,000 to |
control it, and he does control it 1t |
Is thus a mere money making institu- |
ton, but its existence is all the more |
to society 1t is safe to say
that there is not another town of 49,
BOO inhabitants in America, where |
there are congregated in one place |
and protected by public officers, 143 |
ewd women (now 194) openly and |
publicly plying their calling as pros
flutes. 1t is not necessary to inquire
how this crying evil was first started
L is assumed that the public officers
who gave it the sanction of their APP
prevail, thought they were doing right;
but 1t is our duty to remove the evil.
because its existence is illegal and
The mere pointing out the
mistakes of those who created it will
lot alone do that.
1t seems past belief that in this
mall community, where there are so
many pure and religious people, there
should be found any number of per-
IONS, who think that prostitution
eases to be an evil, when il becomes
public, or when sanctioned by public
,fficers, or that official recognition
Il this social otfense does away with
is danger to society, or that author
zed houses of prostitution is any
more protection to good people. than
would the creation of dens of thieves
De a security against stealing. 1t
Ieems to be an admitted fact that the
presence OF criminals increases crime,
md that all forms Of public offenses
hould be eradicated by the punish
nent Of the criminals. Every crime
rhich goes UNPUBLISHED is dangerous
o the well being of the people. and
my crime like that OF Iwilei is an |,
tack upon the purity of the home.
here should be no debatable ground i
bout such q place as Iwilei, when
'ublic prostitution is maintained by
he public a. IL is at Twilei for the Il
money there is in it, it lowers the
tandard Of our home life, disgraces /,
he fair name Of our Territory. and
o some extent 1t makes every citi-
en.a party 10 the wrong done
Gentlemen Of the Grand Jury:-Thel
ficial records OF the Board OF Health
Z the Territory Of Hawaii. show that
turing the past year not less than
orty Of the one hundred and forty
hree women formerly at Twilei be
anne pregnant while there. Some
hildren have been born TO them snd
ave already become objects Of char.
n. .0tAeS are net yet born. In