The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-15

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were their PERSONA auaIs. 40 not
know WEgn the tease Was made nor tine
equities
senator Burton: DO YOU think the
government should 80 out OF the pubic
land businessy'
Witness 81 think l differ from the
Governor in that r,suect. / DO not be-
'lieVe in sudden changes, but l think
that land should be converted into lee
held by individuals to heIp the stabil-
ity of the country.
Concerning the McBryde water
rights. Here is a land which would be
OF vaIue providing water could be Sc
cured upon it. The deed provided for
the storing of storm waters and other
sources on the McBryde property, with
right of way, but not with any privi-
lege of taking water from the unirr-
gated land.
There was a law that none who
could not read or write should marry
For siXty-tWO years COmpulsiOn has
been necessary here. The law has been
pretty generally enforced. Tine parents
are prosecuted and fined, there are tru-
ant officers out now. All races are edu-
Gated in the same schools and there has
been little race friction. | cannot give
you the percentage of illiteracy is very
much smaller than that of the United
States. You will hardly ever find an
Hawaiian who cannot read or write,
and write like COpperplate.
About the act to mitigate, forty-one
years ago the whaling fleet made this
port a rendezvous Disease brought
here by Captain Cook were greatly
aggravated. With the civil war the
whaling fleet passed away. The Chi
naman came and the Japanese The
male population exceeded the female,
and the act stood under a general feel
ing that a repeal would make matters
worse. Before the fire a street known
as Pauahi was the rendezvous of the
demi-monde. If / know anything then
Sheriff Brown and his Deputy, Mr..
Chillingworth, with the unpaid Board
of Health, and the administration are
honest in thought and effort. When a
town is severed, the concentration Of
, it is filthy A movement to abolish this
street was on foot. In the office of Mr.
| Cooper, then attorney general was
gathering of representative Christian
men, clergy, pillars of the church. The
cOncenSus of opinion, Mr.. Humphreys
was then, was that the evil could not
be stamped out. \ local clergyman
and others, advocated the building Of
stockade, Pauahi street being too
public. After the plague a stOckade
was built, carrying out the regulations
of this act under the police regulation
as Mr.. Humphreys has charged. Any
statement of charges Of $3.50 made by
| officers of the Board of Health is not
true, as far as responsible officials We're
concerned. In two or three cases dis
cONred with minor officials, prompt
discharge followed.
"As soon as the Edmunds' act was in
my department l stated to the Cover
nor and to a committee of clergymen
that the stockade had to go, Act to
Mitigate or not This was before the
injunction spoken Of During the leg
| islature a petition was addressed ask
! ing for the Act to Mitigate. I told the
| chairman of that reputable committee,
| the Rev. Mr.. Kincaid, that l did not
think prostitution could be done away
with, but that | believed the law must
be carried out.
Regarding the connection between
Judge Humphreys resignation and the
Act to Mitigate, / knew nothing of it
until he said so. 1t has been the fac
that since the abolitnon of Iwilei the
diseases in relation to this evil have
doubled, they exceed the aggregate of
all other diseases. A committee was
appointed in relation to this fact NV
position was that as an official body,
we could not do anything but recog-
nizc the law. Then a conference with
Judge Estee and the District ATTORNEY
might throw light on the staying of the
ravages of disease, legally. With the
High Sheriff l waited on these gentle
men and asked them If they saw any
light on this matter. That is the whole
| truth of the matter. There is not a
! word of untruth in the statement that
we applied to Judge Estee for help to
evade the law.
MY promise to act against the demi-
monde has been carried out These
women have been raided repeatedly.
With regard to slavery, every effort has
been made to secure evidence against
these masters of women. The latter
have come into the practice here of Gus
toms usually practiced in Japan. Cases
have been tried, but evidence is hard,
most hard to secure. Slavery has new
er been tolerated by Territorial Off
cials.
Government physicians have been
appointed by the Board of Health from
500 a month down to $25. Their duties
are to look after the poor of their dis
trict. In plantation districts, they pay
them a salary and they have private
practice. Without this system the peO-
pie of these districts would be without
aid.
Il report annually to the Governor
and biennially to the legislature. In
regard to the statement of Judge Hum
phreys concerning the physicians at
the leper settlement. Some months ago
leper died under shocking circumstan-
Ces. A committee of the Board of
Health was appointed and went to Mo-
lOkai. ! was a member. We satisfied
ourselves that the policeman and jailer
were in partial fault, that the super
intendent was While a good man, want
ing in tact and on this occasion, in
good sense. We found neglect on the
part of the medical officer. He has
since died, The majority recommended
the dismissal of the superintendent,
unanimous one on the instant dismiss
sal of the physician. The question Of
the new physician came up. 1t was felt
that a younger man, a scholar, inves-
tigator and thinker would have a
chance to make a name for himself as
an expert, and that, although the sal
airy was small, we could get man of
the proper Calibre, Medical inStitll-