Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-27

small country we have all possible
of dry. wet, hot an, cold
There are regions hot s.d
dry, others cold and dry, others hot
and wet, wet and cold. This fact alone
renders any universal assertion like
the one above stated preposterous.
even in regard to cane planting, which
planting is made nowadays az high as
5000 feet.
Lowland Conditions.
There is some truth In the assertion
oniy in reference t. loTian]s. mostly
nat coral fields oil the cast It IL true
thesc are the most ,opulat " regions.
On account of caLe, rice and taro plant.
ing. Gnd fishing. Their unwholesome
climate is due only and exclusively TO
malaria, which is the result Of total
lack of drainage. of numerous swamps
and marshes, breeding mosquitoes.
Still, even the malaria Of these low
lands is of the same mild character as
in any temperate country under the
same conditions. Neither pernicious
forms of malaria nor enlarged spleens
are observed. II produces but a GER
tain debility of the system, with those
whites who do not possess any natur-
oil immunity. Thanks to a remarkable
porosity OF volcanic soils, already at
the elevation of 500 feet one is gener-
ally out of the reach of malaria. Since
malaria affects men only between sun
set and sunrise, the mischief could be
easily avoided even on these lowlands
by providing the white laborers with
headquarters above 500 feet, which ell
evations are always at hand in the i'm
mediate vicinity.
As for attitudes over 500 feet, unless
under exceptional circumstances of in
reference with the drainage, they are
totally exempt from malaria, and the
ability Of white men to live and work
there could not be questioned.
High temperatures do not cause any
trouble. because there are none. In
the hottest sea coast, leeward sections
1t hardly ever reach 80 degrees Fair
enheit in the shade. The surrounding
ocean and mountain breezes and the
trade winds moderate the temperature
so that even continental summers of
far more northern ATTITUDES are hotter.
In ten years of medical practice have
not met with single case. of sun
stroke. At elevations of 1000 to 1900
feet the temperature on hottest sum-
mer afternoons never exceeds 81 de-
gres Fahrenheit. The fact that from
200 to 300 Galcians from Austria, all
white men, are working in all parts
OF the country, is sufficient illustra-
ton.
Review Of Diseases.
An endemic disease, a variety of ty-
phoid fever (called enormously ty-
phoid-malaria). very prevalent in the
country among Japanese as well as
natives and whites, is due to infection
OF drinking water with typhoid fever
germs. The infection takes place In
the mountains. covered with cattle
ranches where primitive methods OF
cattle raising are practiced. The
mountain streams and rivers, practi-
cally the only sources Of drinking wa
ter for the country below. are filled
with the rotting carcasses of animals.
The sanitary service, like nearly every
other public service, being nominal, no
attention has ever been paid to this.
and typhoid fever continues to deci-
mate the population.
A dangerous intestinal parasite call
ed Anchylostomum duodanale is an
other local scourge totally ignored by
the Board Of Health.
| mention these diseases without
any connection with the question of
white labor, since they do not discrim-
mate between Asiatics. whites and ma
tives; all nationalities and colors are
equally likely to be affected.
Concentration Of Power.
All real reasons why small farming
and diversified industries can not take
root on these Islands may be traced
to one source-the concentration of
economical and political power in the
hands of a few.
PIatonie Sympathy.
/ Neither small farming nor diversi'
fed industries are in the interest OF
those few. The sympathy Of some OF
them with a system of small farming
and diversified industries Is very pla.
tonic. To admit such elements into
this country In any degree worth
speaking OF would mean competition
and curtailing of the supreme power
OF the Hawaiian Sugar Planters As
ISOLATION, on all sides-production
commerce and politics.
The production Of variegated indus
tries Of small farmers would mean the
offer on the local markets OF great
numbers of articles which at present
ill the bottoms of returning sugar
ships, which ships otherwise would re
turn with ballast. II also means the
curtailing OF commissions realized In
buying those goods on the Coast. and
the curtailing of good profits to sugar
planting mercantile corporations
Wholesale and retail, In selling then
here 10 consumers.
Abolition OF Monopoly.
Such small farming and variegatet
industries would mean the creation o.
q class of independent small farmers
lndustrials and merchants, the aboli
ton of commercial monopoly, 1t would
mean the establishment of new steam