The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
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disease 20 further sagregate them but
/ would be the last, this government
would be the last, to take the pleasures
of their homes from these unfortunates
who have so little to make life happy.
Senator Burton pressed the question as
to whether or not the people might not
be made happy without having homes
and home surroundings, and after lit
tie colloquy over the statement of Sen
ator Burton that there are now in the
entire Z. S. Only one hundred lepers,
which Mr. Dole questioned, the senator
said:
well, I know, whether right or
wrong, if these people We're under the
United States the sexes would not be
permitted to mingle.'
1.-The Hawaiians are a kindly, child
| like and enotionalN people," responded
| the Attorney General, who are torn
from their homes and surroundings, it
| is often heartrending, and I cannot but
| feel for them the deepest sympathy"
| Continuing, be showed that on his last
visit there the number of lepers was
| S67 of whom seven were CaucaSians
and seven Portuguese, or only fourteen
out of the entire number white persons.
There were So per cent of the lepers
Hawaiians, although only 25 per cent
| Of the population were of the native
| race. He attributed the spread of the
disease to the fact that the natives eat
out of the same bowls smoke the same
pipes and kiss each other frequently.
The questioning took the form of in
CURRY into the status of non-leprous
children, and w. o. Smith said that of
the children taken away from leprouS
parents. IN thirty years not one in a
hundred developed the disease, and it
was a mooted point as to the transmits
sion of the disease. He also went over
medical opinions as 30 the belief in con-
tagion and showed that a British COM
mission reported against segregation in
India. He said that the number of
white people here who had taken the
disease was inconsiderable, in forty
years being less than Ito of l per cent.
Attorney General Dole showed that
Gov. Dole had twice refused to appoint
him to an office when requested to do
so by prominent men, and it was only
at the last moment that he consented
to take Office. In speaking of the con-
tract labor laws he showed that under
Kamehameha III the fourth article of
the constitution provided that slavery
should never exist, and this more than
a decade before it was abolished in A
merica. He declared that the contract
labor laws were even less stringent
than the American shipping laws
As to persons who have lived here for
many years being citizens of their ma
tive country, he explained that they
t1rra-a n AZ. II
many offices, serving the State Speak
ing of the dynasty Of the Kamehame-
| has he said no dark skinned race ever
| before produced such remarkable one.
| He declared he was in favor of cutting
| up the lands so as to get them into the
| hands of home-makers. AS to the Nc
Bryde lease he showed that it was for
| the purpose only of reservoir sites, and
that the company could not use water
from the lands, but must bring in wa
ter from it's own lands.
| There was a long discussion over the
Act to Mitigate and Dole showed thai
there had been no requesting of Judge
| Estee to wink at the law but only a re-
quest for advice. The facts about the
tleper settlement were set forth, the en-
tire matter of the change of administra
tion being brought out,
Lorrin Andrews was given a hearing
and presented the request of the Portu
guese for some action which would en-
able them to get options on their home
or be allowed to purchase them by som
work or Improvement as in the States
and the committee will receive a brie
later.
1 IL al onrfro6iNtinQ AttOr
ney General Dole as to some statement
referring to the Act to Mitigate, aGvls
t ed changes in the organic act permit
/ ting the Territory to sue and be sued