Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-05-26
DEMANDS RETARD HAWAII
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Washington? Well a talk | had with
Secretary Moody Of the Navy Depart
ment shows pretty well the status of
the Territory. | was talking with
Mr. Moody about the Pearl Harbor Inn
provemGnts and he said to me: Yes,
Hawaii used TO be all-important to us;
but that was before We mad the phil
ippines. Now we have the Philippines
we have no further use for Hawaii. as
those Islands answer all our purposes,
Furthermore, We will never have any
war at Hawaii AS far as the i'm
proyements at Pearl HarbOr are con-
Cerned II Is sure that they will not be
made for the present. One thing at
least is certain and that Is that they
will not be made before the fortitica-
tons of the military have been put
through. Once the Notifications have
been completed II is quite probable
that the Pearl Harbor improvements
will be taken in hand.
"Of other matters In Washington
there is but very little to say. 1t is
certain that the Territory will not he
allowed any importation of Chinese
labor. 1t is useless to try to put that
thing through now because II will not
pass. While | will not venture to say
that this may take place in the future
j am certain that il Is useless ~ urge
that matter now simply because this is
the wrong time for il. As far as Fed
eral buildings for Honolulu are con-
Cerned there is nothing 10 report as
there was no legislation at all of this
nature at this last session of Congress.
1t is quite possible that such matters
Will be taken up at the next session
The matter of Federal control of the
Jeper settlement is one which | did NOT
take up at all for the simple reason
that do not believe in II. In this con-
nection | might say that II is certainly
very poor way of advertising Hawaii
10 show pictures of the settlement and
lecture about IL. This is what w. n.
Armstrong was doing at Washington
while / was there. He was showing a
number of stereopticon views, among
which were pictures of the settlement.
l called the attention of L. p. Dole,
who happened to be in Washington.
TO the matter, but he simply pooh
poohed the idea, saying that there was
nothing in 1t. 1t is a great mistake,
However, to say that there Is nothing
in the fear of leprosy. People on tho
mainland have q great dread OF the
disease and 1t matters but little that
the people from Honolulu say that
there is nothing In it.
II will tell you an incident which
shows just how people in the mainland
fear leprosy. Some time ago Repre-.
sentative w. o. Smith at Washington
received by mistake by the post
Office a letter which was written from
Kalaupapa to our w. o. Smith from
Hawaii. Representative w. o. Smith
opened our w. o. Smiths letter and
discovered that II came from the leper
settlement. The poor man was scared
blue and Immediately began to take
the most drastic measures to prevent
any contagion from the letter to fasten
itself on him. He rushed to a physi-
clan. had his hands fumigated, his
clothes fumigated, etc, ETC., and II was
quite while before he got over his
scare. Leprosy is very much feared in
the States and II does the Territory
little good to call attention TO It's pres
ence here.
Regarding the appointment of judges