Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-15

W ioI less tHdu the Ndlue-WnlCn, ny
the way, he did not believe-then
there was a slip which everybody was
liable to make.
Referring to the James Spencer
lease of piece of property at an an
nual rental of $50, Senator Burton ask
ed If the witness did not believe that
was very small price for such fine
piece of property In the city. Mr.. Dole
said he did not know much about this
matter, but that he would look 1t up
and report to the Commission.
Control Of Lands.
Burton-.ls II your opinion that the
Government should continue its con
troll of the public lands?
Dole-I believe the Government Is
holding the public lands as a source
OF public revenue. | believe the pub
lie lands should go out of the control
of the Government and converted in
fee to individuals, but would rather
have the change gradual. think such
a change would add to the stability Of
the country.
As to Education.
Witness stated that when Congress
man Hit was here, he expressed sur
prise that the country was so well
run. Sixty-one years ago by act of
the first Hawaiian Legislature, no man
OF woman since Lunalilo'sf time could
re married unless they could read and
write. Education was compulsory.
The law was put into force generally
Even now all nationalities attended
the public schools and they invariably
got along well together. The speaker
did not know but what the blessings
of barbarism were better than the
blessings of civilization. Among the
Hawaiians there was q much smaller
percentage of illiteracy than in the
United States.
Act to Mitigate.
Next came the question OF the Act
TO Mitigate. The bill was passed for
ty-one years ago, when the whaling
fleets wintered here and in Lahaina
and increased the diseases that haS
oeen brought here with Captain
Cook. The law on the statute books
today had undergone very few
changes from the time 1t was first
passed. After the advent of the whal-
ing ships came the Chinese and Jap
anese, and there was an excess Of the
male over the female population.
Before the Fire.
Before the fire Of January 20, 1900,
Pauahi street was occupied as the
prostitute section. The Act to Miti.
gate was in force and the witness be.
lieved II was enforced honestly and
conscientiously. A move was set on
,oot to abolish Pauahi street and
there was a meeting Of the clergy and
)thres. Witness believed Judge Hum.
phreys was there also, but he did not
mean to include him among the cler-
gy. The question was freely discuss
ed and the consensus of opinion was
that prostitution could not be stamped
out. II was also the prevailing opin.
ion that, Pauahi street was too public
A stockade was suggested and then
came the big fire, when Pauahi street
was wiped out.
after the Fire.
! A stockade was erected at Iwilei
and police were set to guard II. There
was only one instance Of corruption
On the part Of officers, this by minor
official OF the Board of Health. The
Institution was sanctioned by the Act
to Mitigate and was a sanitary meas.
ure.
When the Edmunds Act came into
force or soon after, the witness stated
that he had advised the Governor that
the Act to Mitigate was cut as soaps
made to the clergy without any knowl-
edge whatever OF any pending injunc-
ton proceedings. Witness here refer
red to a petition from Hawaiian wo-
men, asking that the Act to Mitigate be
not repealed. However, there was but
one thing to do and witness stated
that he felt when submitting to the Ed
munds Act as II he were giving his
vote for the extinction oTT-the Hawaiian
race. The first thing he knew Of Judge
Humphreys resignation having any
thing to do with the Act to Mitigate
was when the Judge had mentioned 1t
before the Commission.
The witness went on to state that
venereal diseases had more than doubl-
e dsince Iw'lei had been abolished. No
examination could be made. A COM
mittee Of the Board Of Health had gone
to Judge Estee but It was simply ia
see II he could give some light as to
how the ravages Of disease might be
stayed, consistently with the law. He
and Sheriff Brown had been Judge
There was the Edmhnds Act and that
was all there was to it. II there was
anything that could be done,'it was the
desire OF the Board to DO 1t. That, said
the witness, was the inside OF the story
OF Judge Humphreys regarding the at
tempt to Sisobey the laws OF the United
States. There was not word OF truth
In 1t. ut is up to the physicians now,
said Mr.. Dole.
Witness here stated that he believed
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