The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-05
DiSoRDERLY HOUSES.

DfSORDERLY HOUSES.
In the final report of the last grand
jury OF this circuit the charge pro-
ceeds, attention is called to the ex-
istence of houses OF prostitution in the
residence districts OF the city of Eo-
nolulu, and while the grand jury rec
ommends that the police department
take up this matter TO the end that
the better element of the community
be freed from daily contact with the
evil. it is not incumbent upon the
present grand jury to shift the burden
of responsibility for the continued ex-
istence of the evil complained of upon
the police department. The exist
ence of houses of prostitution or i'll
fame in any community and particular
~ if located in a residence district,
constitutes an outrage upon common
deeency and a menace to the peace and
well-being of the citizens of such conn
munity generally, and while it is the
duty of the police department, under
our laws, to apprehend and arrest all
classes of public offenders, including
the keepers and inmates of such houses
of prostitution or ill-fame, that de-
partment, without warrant of arrest,
NOQ1u -De dCllHS VI
law in invading the dwellings of this
class of offenders, whose offenses in
their nature are not overly or openly
committed, in order to apprehend such
offenders, and it is the province and
duty of the grand jury to aid the police
department in the effort to suppress
such offenses by investigating the mat
ter and upon sufficient proof of the
commission of the crimes charged, by
bringing in indictments upon which
warrants of arrest may issue"
AVOID USELESS EXPENSE.
Judge Robinson in conclusion re-
minds the grand jurors that the ex-
pense incident to a session of the grand
jury is borne by the people of this
circuit and county.
"Junketing trips he informs them,
"taken in the pretended investigation
of the management and control of
some public institution, situated in
this circuit, under Territorial control,
against the officers and employees of
which there has been directed no
charge or suspicion of mismanagement
or malfeasance in Office are expensive
and useless. All public institutions
under Territorial control, whether in
this circuit or out of it, are subject at
all reasonable times to visitation and
inspection by the Governor and other
permanent officers of this Territory,
the judges of the courts of
record, and it is quite unlikely that any
mismana cement or malfeasance in Of
fee, or any abuse of any kind, could be
long continued without the fact of such
of Oh
being brought to your attention by
this court in it's charge
The court says that investigation and
report by a grand jury will accomplish
little toward remedying a defect in
particular institution are likely to
jurors, and both officers and grand
jurors know that the defect can only
be remedied by legislative action
For a grand jury to expend $25 or
$50 of the funds of this Territory,
realized from it's citizens by taxation,
merely for the purpose of ascertain
ing and reporting that cesspool at
he Insane Asylum was insufficient in
point of size and capacity, when such
investigation and report could do no
possible good and when the same
of money-or perhaps a sum
put little greater in amount-if prop
srly applied, would remedy the defect
of. is too absurd to be
The grand jury which
vas guilty of this absurdity doubtless
meant WELL but it's efforts in this re-
gard merely served to illustrate the
saying, The mountain labored and
forth a ridiculous mousse