The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-04-07
THE SHAME OF IWILEI,


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certificates are based Is such q farce
that there il no certainty that disease
is not present
The examination as carried ON Mt
present Is, for all practical purposes.
a bogus one, and instead OF being a
protection from disease is more likely
to be the means of Turing the unwary
to their destruction. under the false
belief that the certificate insures
safety
The system of. official examination
and certificate of health should be i'm
mediately abolished.
3. As now conducted, the business
is not only open and shameless. but is
conducted in such a wholesale and
organized manner as to make 1t not
only a public scandal, but such pub
lie disgrace as would be inconceivable
were 1t not in existence.
Most Of the buildings occupied by
the women at Iwilei are small discon-
nected cottages; but there are two es-
Establishments where the number of
women is so great and the transact
tions so public that they are 'prac-
tically public show places. One of
these, the old stockade, is shielded
from view from the public street by
building and board fence.
The other the premises of the
Fidelity Insurance Company, referred
to in the report herewith, is so open
to the public street that the conduct
and procedure of the inmates can be
hp he irt "
odd inmates of the premises are to all
intents and purposes plying their trade
In the public street; and, until this
committee began its Investigations
they were doing so in the constant
presence and with the full approval of
a regularly salaried police officer
DEMoRALIzING AND VICIOUS.
These organized, wholesale, public
and open shows should be Immediately
and permanently closed.
4. The smaller establishments should
be compelled to keep their doors closed
and the inmates out of sight from the
, public street.
The inmates now sit in their door,
ways, immodestly clothed, and accost
| the passers by, inviting them to enter.
Even If there Is to be regulation, such
| conduct as this Is wholly demoral izing
and vicious.
All publicity should By vigorously
prohibited and the prohibition strictly
enforced.
5. The women engaged in the bust
ness should be kept out of residence
districts and main thoroughfares. This
can easily be done by adopting the
Chicago method of putting a police
man in front of premises which are
being used for unlawful purposes and
keeping him there until the occupants
are driven away, as they will speedily
be under such circumstances, for no
man will patronize an establishment
which is under the direct surveillance
of the police, with the chances of a
raid being made while he is in the
house.
Prostitution cannot be ended by the
methods that we have indicated; but
it's evils will be far less than under
the present system, which not only
does not accomplish the protection
from disease. which is its sole excuse
but is directly responsible for spread
ing disease by giving out false guaran
tees of good health and thereby in
ducing the patronage of those whC
might otherwise be restrained through
fear of disease.
The methods which we have sug
gested will also relieve us of thu
stigma which We earned at the tim'
of the stockade regime, and which W.
, cannot afford to again attach to tn
name of Hawaii.
MAJORITY REPORT.
} The report of the majority of tn
committee, Senators Hayselden, Gan
dali and Hewitt, differs radically fror
that of the minority in that, while
finds the facts practically the same
| fails to reach the same conclusion.
, The majority. report says, in par
taking up in their order the question
asked by the McCandless resolution:
1. What rules and regulations hav
| happ mazda mr. r,,ada o,- use6 for tho aY