The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-15
TOLD POLICE AFFAIRS
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regated. l would be loath to take the
last unite of comfort from these peo-
pie. Doctors can theOrise on leprosy,
and I don't know but what l am entI-
tied to my opinion. The children OF
lepers are not always tainted. w. o.
Smith knows more than 1 do. Leprosy
is jerky in it's methods. 1t would be
hard to take away the bulk of the lit
tie happiness that remains to these peo-
pie by breaking their family ties. Last
year out of 900 people, there were Ia
white people, Portuguese, some 9TH
ers, but So or 81 per cent of them are
Hawaiians, while Hawaiians constitute
only 20 per cent of island population.
'Hawaiians eat from the same poi
bowl, smoke the same pipe, kiss each
other l do not think segregation is
needed"
senator Burton: us it your phloso-
ments be made and happy ones with
| segregation of the sexes to prevent the
birth of children without materially
detractng from their pleasure?'
! Witness: Their human nature is as
ours"
Senator Burton: us it your philisi-
ply that human nature produces the
most happiness in that way?"
Il believe" said the witness, that
we, having gone further than any 9TH
er people, have gone far enough in seq
regation. The remedy l think is too
severe"
Senator Burton: You would think
that leprosy should be allowed to stay
rather than enforce the sex segregated.
There are only 100 lepers in the eighty
millions of the United States. Suppose
you give these people every pleasure,
at any expense without the one pleas
ure of cohabitation, could they not be
made happy"
Witness: The Hawaiians are sim
pie, kindly race. 1t is a heart-rending
| thing to do, and they have feelings
perhaps different from no other races.
AS l understand the children are not
always lepers.'
Senator Burton: But like produces
like, that is truth"
w. o. Smith; THE children are not
compelled to go away to schools. Here
ditary leprosy, even from parents when
both lepers, is extremely rare. In the
girls taken away in the last thirty
| years not one per cent had shown lep-
rosy The same in leprosy. The set
Element was started in 1864. Only in
the late fiftes was the disease sus-
pected. The first case l saw was in
1857. The marriage relations ana the
| tearing apart of families was always
a hard one. The cottage system with
| the homes for children as handled by
| the BelgiC sisters and lay Brothers has
| been found the best. The report by
the British commissioners to India was
| against segregation. LeprOsy is not
| very contagious. Few children are
born to them. If taken away within d
year from their parents, hereditary
| leprOsy seldom shows over there with
schools, Y NJ. G. a. and the devoted
| Sisters and Brothers, everything is
done to aid the morals. Compared with
other islands the morals there are
equal.
Senator Mitchell here left the Com
mission for a few minutes, and the
! leprosy incident closed. Further statis-
ties of the department were read.
non comments on my relations TO the
Governor, and being so appointed by
him, | want to say a few words Some
! years ago there was a vacancy on the
! supreme bench. The Governor was urg-
! ed by the other members of the bench
and the prominent members of the
bar but answered on this and later
occasion not to let a relationship stand
in the way. At the time of the Terri
torial act the Governor told me he had
decided to set aside relationship for
what he thought the public good, and
offered me an office which l accepted
after stpulating that l was not to be
the president of the Board of Health
according to public precedent"
The witness described the necessity
of the grand jury attending to petty
cases, adding both to the expense of
the judiciary and Attorney Generals
departments.
There is a rule in my department
that Inequalities shall not be accept
ed. 1 myself have only stayed at one
| planters house, a personal friend of
mine, and there paid for my boarding
expenses. The deadhead system is
| barred with us.
About the labor law the Supreme
Court did hold that the 18th amend
ment of the United States was not eX-
tended here. The question of the 9th
and 9th amendments as regards annex
alton is still pending before the Su-
preme Court of the L. S. The Su-
preme Court of Hawaii had just decid-
ed that they did not The Supreme
. Court in the Honomu case made de-
cision which was bad law.
I'm 1910 Kamehameha of his own will
gave these people a voluntary and roy
al gift of a constitution recognizing
| elemental rights. In 1852 an amended
! constitution was given in which was
stated that all men were free and
equal, and that no slavery should be
]
passed, gentlemen, twelve years before
! the abolition of slavery in America
| Now the mercantile marine system of
| America today and our contract labor
| differs only i'm the difference of land
or sea. If our iaborers We're slaves,
then every mariner shipping in the
mercantile marine is equally a slave
with severer penalties. The factory la
Dor of today is another equivalent
Judge Humphreys spoke Of prom
inent persons who have lived here for
twenty TO forty years as non-citizens
Now up to the time of annexation we
had what was known as denlzation.
Flfty-five years ago a young, but cele-
brated lawyer came here when Kane
hameha III was king. Now / believe
that no dark-sklnned race ever produce
ed a dynasty of such great and public
spirited men as the Kamehameha dy-
nasty. Kamehameha III trying to lead
his people to AnglO-SaXOn civilization
asked this young man to stay here and
help him. Under this denization sys-