Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-02
CLAIM MISREPRESENTATION

sion" by one who signs himself zone
Ebo is feeling the dull lines" and /
hOre you will allow me the favor OF
GrsW ering 1t in your columns although
somewhat tardily from unav oidabln
circumstances.
Judging from the tone and language
of the said writer, the elderly but en-
thusiastic schoolmarm' would infer
that his early training as n gentleman
had been something quite different
from that of any of the business men
or physicians that she has met IN Homo
lulu; and she thinks that he mas vet
much to learn II he despises the vencl-
able class of women in which would BE
included his own mother. But she
cannot understand what age has to do
with the subject in question.
He begins his attack on unoflcnding
parties by saying: Considerable in.
dignation is felt in business circles at
the persistently foolish course of the
Advertiser in constantly harping on
matters connected with leprosy. and
thereby forcing the fact of OUT having
a large amount Of leprosy on these
Islands prominent on the notice of
| tourists and other visitors" This re.
mark is in itself forcible way Of PRO.
claiming the painful circumstance,
| which. however, the Board of Health
has not tried to concede, in proof OF
which read the long and frank article
written by Or. Alvarez, government
specialist, and published side by side
with the offending articles on the tua.
tua as an antidote for the terrible
scourge, intended TO extend a ray OF
hope to suffering humanity in general,
and bringing into prominence no land
save far off Tahiti.
The complaining writer of the Use
less Discussion" says. The silly boost.
ing by the morning paper Of the tua.
tua plant as a remedy is on par with
their other folly in regard to leprosy,
and finding the letters and articles on
the subject "wearsome," ne has con- |
tented himself with distortions of the |
statements and remarks therein con-
tanned. While he throws disCredit |
upon the assertions OF the elderly but |
enthusiastic sChoolmarm" he says she |
claims she has a relative who was
cured by the use Of the tuatua in Ton
ga" whereas what is really in print !
states that a young lad in Tahiti mot
a relativeD, under the treatment of DR.. |
Camp. is almost cured o! leprosy with |
that medicine. He continues, Nov no |
scientific observer verifiies this story. |
Nor is 1t either certain or probable |
the case was one Of leprosy." The best |
French doctors in Tahiti after putting /
me boy to the usual scientific tests, |
pronounced him leper three years
ago, and DR.. Camp whom the president
of the Board Of Health designated
some time ago as a physician of noto-
riety, and one fitted 20 eXperlmentalizc
on patients with the tuaiua, required
tangible proof Of the existence of the
malady from the father of the boy now
mounted on glass in his laboratory.
The school teacher in question, ac-
credited as such by the government OF
this land and also in her own land
from whence she came. holds too dear |
ly her long established reputation for
veracity to put it at stake by publish
ing Misrepresentation, but from
faithful reports sent up and also from
verbal statements made by persons
from Tahiti who have seen the boy as |
he was and now is Dr.. Camp exclaim- |
ed not long ago, There is not much |
more the matter with the boy"
The One who Is feeling the dull
times" goes on to say, careful en-
quiry made by the Agricultural Depart
ment in Washington results in proving
the story OF q priest having cured a
case of leprosy in Venezuela many
years ago to be untrue and yet in the
same breath he states that The Homo
lulu Board Of Health has done quite q
lot OF experimenting with tuatua it.
self and is still continuing the expert
ments, having planted large numbers
OF tuatua bushes at MOlOkai, and in
struCted the superintendent to begin
the trial of this remedy when a sufii-
| cheney is on hand to enable the expert
ment 10 be fairly tried" Why does
the Board take all this trouble, II the
record OF Father Valderrama of Venez-
uNiu NC LuisN anu l4l' NNh'tl blO'NiN'l
at great cost from thence. by the Unit
ed States Government, and sent here
be useless?
In his concluding paragraph the as
sailant writes; 1t Is strange but true
these wonderful cures get started by
parsons and old women, the same class
OF people, by the bye, who write the
testimonials which boost up the thou
sand and one quack remedies and nos
trums which are spelling the inside OF
so many of our fellow Countrymen."
Let him cite one instance of parson
| (perhaps in this instance meaning
PRIEST, or old woman, boosting" up
such quacks, the Board Of Health,
which is constantly pestered with
would-be leper healers recommending
/ their quack remedies, can furnish him
with ample opportunity OF doing SO,
And of the editor OF the leading pa.
per OF Honolulu and his stan, persons
who have made their mark in their
profession, he adds; IF the other old
women on the Advertiser staff who
write sensation paragraphs and slop
over about tuatua would only realize
that beyond giving undue prominence
10 the fact OF the existence OF leprosy
in the Islands, they are absolutely do