The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-13
DELEGATE KUHIO'S PROTEST. !;
HE TAKES EXCEPTION TO STATEMENTS MADE BY
SERENO T. BISHOP IN A WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER
BISHOPS EXPRESSIONS OF SURPRISE AT SUCCESS
OF THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

hameha tile Kew Bishop Dr. Bishops letter
"HoNofuLu April rqot Gov. Carter seems after the
general surprise and qualification b be having things entirely his
way with the newly met legislature This only their fifth day OF
sion and all things smoothly they have begun, they will
has been and in financial strait The governor has been
giving himself most rsoute and believed with skill to devise the
best financial methods solve its difficulties Having elaborated his
plan has convened the legislature session give legal
hor 1t is the same body Of who eccssy squand
time and money months rutessy majority dis
played the greatest disregard for legislative popre and honesty 1t
expected from the men in acting upon the difficult financial cond
Wisely would appear the governor discarded that policy Of
dsru and summoned the Legislature He has preferred
the popular WILL the people largely incompetent Pone
suency would together with full powers seemed bet
ter act in accord from the beginning with the popular body however
defective their past record.
And they answering very noby worthy
fdenc These who in the lower house. both Re
pubans and Home Rulers pursued course both unreaon and
corruption together last week with full purpose accept
entire the governor financial schedule and railroad through without
discussion alteration This they actually carrying There
three dssenen who prominent evil workers last
by the overwhelming majority the governors supporters
marabe phenomenon The only tendency to difficulty the senate
where majority very intelligent whites These naturally
points where the governors figures and plans might be amended and
incline make such amendments But rather than interfere
with the wholesome disposition OF the lower house the Senate will prob
ably foegO urging their amendments.
Atogetheit phenomenon incline by what
peculiar Hawaiian trait gather enthusiastically about leader
who gains their confidence Soon after assuming the officer
Of Hawaii and Maui There he diligently very successfully got
himself rapport with the native and their leading He
evidently exercised large personal magnetism and fully got the con-
hdnce OF the people large Now they enthusiastic his sup
them do not know how else to account TOR It, have myself lacked
any full confidence Carter from any serious fault in him. but
from his youth and hasness 1t growing evident that there
certainly something Importantly valuable in the young man In Wash
he succeeded gaining the confidence OF Pde RoOse
welt and we may be glad that he seems not likely to dred it
Among heaviest of these public expenses which impossible
greatly abdge is that OF maintaining due comfort the per col
road NOT over ff niles ana T. orne low nnnns Of about
eight square miles the foot of nearly impossible pecpce
800 feet which wholly soae from the OF the island 1t
lovely by the bracng trade winds copiou supply OF
valley Here dwell great comfort nearly victims eposy the
great majority whom quite suffering
Most Of the epe native Hawaans. Not per belong
other although Hawaans from only oneour OF the inhabitants
Of this group This doubtless due in less tendency Euro
Asa maady which ages existed
those that they comparatively immune But is
much more the effect the utter absence among aWaanS OF any
precauon against communicable diseases Hawaiian always mnge
with injected persons OF with absolute carelessn They
seem incapable OF grapg the idea that contact with diseased person
impair ones safety have personally witnessed the
carelessne the OF eposy. have receiving station
between the well outside and the deousy dhgued faces within
from the dishes have children in remote country school
with arms enwned with epous child whom neither parents nor
The only salvation eprosy rigorous segregation tho
afflicted Yet find this day apparently learned writers main
peculiar bacillus well known and its common test o1
ncpen lePo whose symptoms are often simulated by other maa
dies To like myself who has watched the development OF large
thought omen to the slightest d9b Beteen tbr and ffy Years ago
which the infection spread Laana the home of the native chief
who contracted the mady in China about sixty wears ago and brought
home with him. In that could trace its transmission from per
person, and its often rapid spread individual households 1t
until about 1883 the strange maay became
known through the visit physician China although before that
time had attracted attention. and had noticed the peculiar ubee
the faces and of pupils school which taught.
81 well satisfied that the chief method of communicating prosy
among natives by kissing which they fond praccg Hence
the frequent injection OF young children The saliva per DondS IN
the bacillus prae than other secretion of the body There
have been notorious where white infants have thus
been injected by native nurses Apparently the danger small
of being infected by ordinary with lepe Else ma
foreign population would have fallen victims during the
period epers slightly segregated Leposy doubt
less much less readily disease than pulmonary tuer
cuos Segregation much ctne the
epers the settlement carefully hidden have met
none for many years. "KAMEHAMEHA"