The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-13
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tural bodies can afford to despise them.
Their facts are founded on the solid
rock of truth, while the vilifier found
ers in the foundationess sand of mis-
representation, malice, ignorance and
absolute falsehood
If the planters made labor their
pivotal point together with an oral de-
fence of their treatment of labor the
Merchants Association made the fire
claims their central point. Into these
they went most fully, showing how
they had arisen. The villainous char
ges, which the present Congressional
Delegate has made against the execu-
tive, are amply refuted by this docu-
ment though no mention is made of
the Delegate. But in his speeches he
has dwelt upon the wanton destruction
of homes, and the hiring down of sec
tions of the town purely for the sake
of rendering the poorer classes house
less. On the face of them such charges
are utterly ridiculous, but for political
purposes this lie was circulated, just
as for similar purposes the lepers have
been said to have been supplied with
rotten salmon and beef, or that, from
another equally ignorant or malicious
sources, laborers' houses were stated to
be unit for habitation, or they were
supplied with unfit food, when the
plantations do not supply the food at
all.
The able document from the Mer-
chants Association shows that the fires
We're sanitary that they were made by
the direction of the Board of Health
after careful examination, as the only
known means of restricting the ravages
of the buDoniC plague when it threat
ened to become a devastating epidemic.
That the fire started as a sanitary
measure by the Board of Health,
through no fault of theirs, and through
no tauIt OF the fire department., got be-
yond control. That the claims MADE
by the sufferers were not eNOrbitant,
and were claims for direct loss, ana not
for inuireCt loss, ana, in amount, as
allowed by the members OF the Fire
Commission, We're just ABOUT halt what
they reauy We're. Inc reason of the
inaDiuty OF the Government 10 Hqul-
date these claims was SHOWN. All was
a CAIN anu impartial statement OF the
actual facts, without rhetoric, Without
heated comment and without explain
alton. The facts have been allowed to
speak tor themselves, ana nOLnlnS
could be more cosent and more con-
vincing. Magma est veriCas ct preVa-
laDlt, great is truth ana it SHAH pre-
vail wrote a man centuries upon CEN
turies ago. he mad seen mucn OF lylnS
anu regeneration durlng mis- lie, ana
the times We're not particularly good
times, but truth always prevailed in
the long run, ana the lies and perver-
sions, and ignorance and malice were
blown away by its pure breach He
summed up his philosophy into the APP
horism and it is as true today as it
was when first written or uttered.
The men VINO have built up the IN
dustries of the country, who have de-
veloped the Territory, who have turn
ed the barren waste into fruitful fields,
having nothing to fear from venomous
attacks, and have nothing to hide when
they are asked for information. The
investigation by the Senatorial commit
tee will be productive of the greatest
benefit to the Territory, and will au-
thoritatively refute much wild, ignorant
and malicious talk which has been cir
culated about the real workers of the
islands.