The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-07

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| (Signed) J. F. McCANDLESS,
Chairman.
JOHN C. LANE.
APPENDIX TO MINORITY REPORT.
The resolution upon which the report
is based does not involve the question
of the policy which should be adopted
toward prostitution in this Territory;
but the evidence produced before this
committee and the wide publicity Civ
en- to the subject through the publlca-
ton of such evidence, seems to US to
require that some declaration of policy
should be made, and that such policy
should be radically different from that
now in force.
The present policy is precisely the
same that was discredited and aban-
doned several years ago.
The objections to it are briefly
l. 1t is so thoroughly under police
control and protection that it is prac-
ticalfy a government institution. There
is no department of the government
which has as complete supervision and
control of its employees as the police
department has of the prostitutes at
Iwilei. Irrespective of the morality or
otherwise of such recognition and pro-
IecIlOn, 1t Is uiSCEeUlldDIG 10 lue guy
eminent to become practically an ac-
tive partner in such a business.
AS a mere matter of policy, the gov
eminent should at once terminate
connection with the business which
cannot but have the effect of dis
crediting it both at home and abroad
FIDELITY'S OPEN SHAME.
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recognizing and protecting the carry
ing on of the business of prostitution,
but it is also authorizing and COM
polling the issue of certificates of
health to the women in question, which
certificates the report filed herewith
shows are absolutely unreliable They
are worse than unreliable. They are
an advertisement by the government,
through it's recognized agent, the doc
tor, that any one may consort with
the holder of the certificate without
danger of contracting disease, whereas
in fact the inspection on which such
certificates are based is such a farce
that there is no certainty that disease
is not present.
The examination as carried on at
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
IL Ii n
organized manner as to make it not
only public scandal, but such a pub
lie disgrace as would be inconceivable
were it not in existence.
Most of theh buildings occupied by
the women at IwiIei are small discon-
nected cottages; but there are two es-
adjustments where the number of
women is so great and the transact
tons so public that they are prac-
ticaIly public show places. One of
these. the old stockade. is shielded
from view from the public street by
a building and a 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
seen a hundred feet away. The thirty
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 saIaried 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 demoralizing
| and vicious.
All publicity should be vigorously