The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-27

his ownership of this place.
The general regulations governing the
place are about as follows:
Every woman occupying room with
in the stockade shall have a certificate
from the examining physician of the
Board of Health stating that such per-
son has computed with the requirements
of the law entitled AN Act to Miti-
gate and that the person was examin-
ed on the dates set forth on the back
of the certificate. The evidence present
ed to your jury shows conciusively that
there is nothing to prevent any Japan
csc woman from engaging in prostitu-
ton at this place. The examining ply
stefan performs his duty when he exam
ines those who present themselves to
him. His clerk or assistant makes
record of the examinations, issues GER
tificate cards and endorses the same by
date only at each examination; yet this
clerk does not know and no regulation
requires him to know that the certificate
cards presented at the examinations
were originally issued to the persons
presenting them and he cannot identify
these persons. The cards may be wrong
fully transferred from one woman to
another for one night or many nights,
and while the collector of rents is sup
posed to know that every female occu-
pant of a room has her proper certifi-
cate card and the physicians clerk is
supposed to know that all such occu-
pants appear at least once each week for
examination, yet it is fact that this Is
supposition only. for females are found
in these rooms who have no certificate
card and a certificate was produced by
a girl, admittedly only Is years of age,
who was occupying room in this place
showing the date of tue last medical ex-
animation to have been ninety days
prior to the time the card was shown,
thus establishing the fact that there is
no protection from disease to the patrons
of this place under this system. The
occupants of this place found by the
examining physician to be diseased are
taken by his clerk to the Queens Hospi-
tai and receive all the benefits of that
institution until they are cured The
care and medical treatment of these dis
eased persons is free of charge to them
selves, but paid for by the taxpayers of
the Territory through the appropriation
made for this hospital. Evidence shows
that number of women of this 1wilei
resort become pregnant and when found
to be so by the examining physician are
dismissed from the place, and no further
trace. under the present law, can be
kept of them, except as they may re-
turn to the stockade to renew the life or
prostitution, and there is no record OBJ
under these conditions.
There are many hundred persons, Wis
itors and occupants of Iwilei, who are
guilty of the crime of adultery or forni-
cation your jury have no doubt, ana
that the evidence of such crime can be
obtained is also believed by your jury,
vet at this time such legal evidence as
would lead to the conviction OF even
few of these violators of the law was
not procurable.
Your Jurors find that under the laws
of the United States it is impossible to
find indictments against the persons VINO
own and maintain these places or pros
tuition, this coming directly within the
Jurisdiction of the officers of the Terri
tory under the direct control of the Gov
ernor thereof.
Under the instructions of the Court ito
make any recommendation you wish to
suggest" we would, in view of all the
evidence presented, make the following
recommendations:
That the public exhibition which is
made of human depravity in the pens
of prostitution at 1wilei and which exist
solely for the pecuniary advantage OF
few persons as promoters and the numer-.
one nirnns and masters that live on the
earnings of the unfortunate inmates OF
the place, be abolished. The evidence
elected with greatest difficulty from I'M
willing witnesses, while not suincienl
upon which to return an Indictment In
80 individuaI case for the practice of
slavery. showed that while this mart for
traffic in human beings exists, its de-
nands will be supplied by the host OF
nrocurers who intimidate and drive
these. in many instances, helpless wom-
~ and pirls to this shameless vocation
that they may be supported in idleness
from their earnings. We cannot believe
that the many Japanese girls now In
this den, scarcely more than children,
are there from their own will. The very
ouportunity afforded by the existence of
this place under official recognition by
the Territorial authorities is an invitation
TO the lower classes of Japanese here to
force their women within its precincts
for nurposes of gain. and hence it d.
rectly encourages vagrancy.
+ In concluding their report your jury
feel that they would be remiss in their