The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-10-04
THE FRIEND EXPOSES ESSOME OF
THE UNTRUTHS OF HUMPHREYS
DOLE GOVERNMENT PURE.

The article referred to abcve as hav-
ing been sent by Dr. Bishop TO the In
dependent is as follows:
The object of this paper Is to repel
certain aspersions against she present
government of the Territory of Hawaii.
which have been published by Mss Jes-
sic Ackerman, and widely circulated in
the United States.
In recent letter to the Woman's Jour-
nal, Miss Ackerman, writing from Japan.
uses the following expression: Three
hundred women have nov at least tho
right to claim their bodies as their own
personal property, and to withdraw from
what became a State fostere1 industry"
The officials of the Territory.
who are probably as corrupt set Of men
as ever bartered public morals for
price, etc"
| l have no doubt that Miss Ackcrman
is entirely sincere in these expressions.
But / wish to assert that she has been
entirely misled. and has made accusa-
tions which are quite untrue. There has
been no State fostering of the "indus-
try" The leading officials of the Terri
tory are not corrupt" but are Zen of
eminent personal and political purity.
They have never taken any price" for
the "bartering of public morals which
is charged. Every one of the cffenses
alleged Is absolutely untrue.
ten. Honolulu is a large seaport, fre-
quented by great transient population
of seamen and travellers and in later
years, of soldiers. Thers IS also a resi-
dent population OF white, native, and
AsiatiC males who are az least fifty per
cent in excess of the fema'es Most of
these men are determined to crafty their
dominant appetites. Four fifths of ihe
| females of Honolulu are of Polynesian
Act 10 ,Nl nt
tions of chastity have slight weight.
| Now with so much fire and SO much tin
| der, is any man such a fool as to sup
pose that the suppression )f the evil
| ira fiic is within the limits of possibility?
1t is not.
The problem of the govec uncnt is how
best to regulate and restrict I. -cne
| of your great cities make any attempt
to suppress II. There is more or less
Regulation of II by the uoiice. In Ha-
wall, for forty years there has been
4 practical licensing of the foul traffic un-
der medical inspection. The present gov
ernment inherited that system from the
monarchy, and uiI not change 1t. Ono
OF our ablest and purest r1en maintains
! that Il is the best System available. The
officials have been absolutely honest IN
pursuing that course. Whether th,y
have been wise, is Of course open to
question.
OF late years the traffic has fallen
chiefly into the hands of Japanese pro-
| curers or masters, and their female VIC
| Tins who are slaves only 50 far
their moral debility renders them such.
During some recent sgtu, the traffic was
conducted mainly in the slums of China
town, within one-fourth mile OF the post.
| office. Being spread over considerable
area, there We're NAM Siievous abuses
ana expressions which We're beyond the
| reach of the police. The burning of
Chinatown one year and Il half ago. scat
tered those brothels sli over the city,
where they became an insufferable nus-
ance to the decent residents.
| What happened then was that certain
private parties ere tied stoCkades and
barracks in the district of lwie one
mile from the postoliice. There the whole
traffic was concentrated. The police
gave it especial supervision and man.
tained order. The inmates occupied the
barracks only two thirds Of the night.
living elsewhere. They were IN "sla,-
cry" only as most OF their lass in Amer
lean cities live "A a species of slavery.
which is voluItnry. Altogether, It was
of course II most fou. aud vile condition
of things. The vice OF the city was con-
centrated into "A small area There Miss
| Ackerman visited and observed it with
most natural horror year earlier she
| might have passed amid the same
amount of vice in Chinatown, and scarce
| ly have perceived it. Today she might
traverse various slums of the city and
not perceive the same vice, which is now
widely distributed through the city by
the abolition of the lwilei stockades.
| She rejoices in that abolition. and her
| own part in 1t. If the actual traffic and
| its horrible pollutions had been at all
diminished there would be more reason
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