The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-01
CAMPAIGN LIES.


is a proper thing to have a war cry
and it is right to yell that slogan
whenever opportunity is given. Thus
we have the anu-ENpansion and anti.
Imperiaist cry of today on the main
land. and we have the cry against
Smith of Samar. In Belgium we have
the anti Clerical cry. In Great Britain
there is the cry against heavy taxa
ton; in Italy against heavy taxation
big ornaments, and so forth. There
are honestly based upon supposed facts
and believed in by those who raise the
cry. Sometimes the cry is good one,
sometimes it is a poor one, but at all
events it is truthful and is honestly
put forward.
1t is reserved for Delegate Wilcox
in his campaign to start up a cry that
is most vicious and most baseless. 1t
is cry Of utter dishonesty and one
which no man claiming an honest repu-
tation would put forward. It is well
to know the line of campaigning which
Wilcox has taken up, for we must
meet the charges and refute them from
one end of theIslands to the other. In
a speech made at Hanalei, Kauai, he
said: "ita .... .......
Il see that there was a general howl
when l introduced the noted Wilcox
Leper bill and yet if we just stop a
moment and think you will see that my
idea was right TWENTY YEARS
AGO THEY HAD ONE THOUSAND
LEPERS At THE SETTLEMENT,
AND TO-DAY THE NUMBER Is THE
SAME. WHY2 BECAUSE OF THE
DAMNED MISSIONARIES VACCIN-
ALTON; THEY USE THE LEPER
MATTER WHEN NEGOTIATING.
Is THERE ANY PROOF? JUST
LOOK AT THIS, THE FATHER AND
MOTHER WILL SHOW NO SIGN
OF LEPROSY AND IT WOULD
BREAK OUT WITH THEIR chill
DREN. Who is responsible for most
OF this inhumanity? The missionaries
and especially that long legged white
bearded ghost at our head
There could be nothing more vicious
than this. 1t is a charge that vaccina-
ton is deliberately used by the author
tiles to spread leprosy, charge made
against people who have done their
utmost to curb the ravages of that
dread disease. one would think that
- ,,.os ir,rossihra i'm this
.a,.,,.,,,. oa,I+,,r,, bocansa If couId only
e,,a,,ato from, the grossest ignorance
or from the most grovelling prejudice
Yet it is calmly made by man who
seeks reelection to the floor of one OF
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.oa, ,,,,,ana,,o,. ,hsr. was an apidemi,
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CON-, bota1 mr. desnfsad section of the
,,,,i4,. ,,,,l =, ha charged with
,,otsorino, rbe wells and this usually
I'D IN O ,oassacra Once or twice
~, ,,o,,ss tio, was brought against the
Iao.. +ba,,sal,,es and thousands OF
tbasa noo,. creatures were killed in Eu-
rome Rut those We're DAYS of the most
rayoIrtne Ignorance ana the most de-
GRADED creduIftv Does the Delegate
desire to class himself or the people he
addresses as possessing these attri-
hutes He would class himself with
arvtbine.. if he Thought he could regain
the mower which is Shining from his
hands There couId moi be a more alb
surd charge. there could not be a more
insidfousIv cruel charge. and the at
tempt at argument is worse thar
puerile.
Delegate Wilcox charges in so many
words that the children in this Terri
tory are deliberately inoculated with
the virus of leprosy. What does this
mean. 1t means that the Board of
Health and the Physicians of the
Board of Health have entered into a
conspiracy to inoculate the children of
the Territory with leprosy 1t can
mean nothing else. And can any sane
man believe such paIpabIe and eyre
rious lie? Can any one believe that
gentlemen of high culture and appre-
.ciating their responsibilities could be
brought to ehter into any such vile