The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-19
AND
IWILEI
CONDUCTED HENRY THE BUSINESS is NOT ONLY
SHAMELESS BUT CONDUCTED IN SUCH A WHOLE
SALE AND ORGANIZED MANNER AS TO MAKE IT PUBLIC
SCANDAL. A PUBLIC GRACE"

The effort is being made in this cam
paign to make it appear that there is
moral issue involved, and that Will
| liam Henry represents all that is good
and excellent Henry's supporters en-
tirely overlook his Iwilei record: the
fact that he announced that he could
not enforce the existing laws against
prostitution, and would therefore make
prostitution a police institution and
regulate it himself, and this I'm the
clearest violation of the Edmund's act
and without even the justification OF
the "act to mitigate" which has been
! declared by the courts invalid. They
forget that he it was who issued orders
which forced the business into quar-
/ ters that benefited his own property:
that he resorted to a subterfuge in the
matter of-,the pay warrant for Paul
Smith who was the police officer in
charge of the place.
A Senate committee investigated the
matter and brought in a majority and
a minority reports. The two were al
most identical as to the disgraceful
facts. one of the reports added an ap-
pendiX of which the following is a por-
ton. In the face of this report, which
Henry has never denied, where can he
stand on the moral issue?"
The resolution upon which this re-
! port is based does not involve the ques-
ton of the policy which should be
| adopted toward prostitution in this
Territory; but the evidence produced
before the committee and the wide
n Io
| the publication of such evidence seems
to us to require that some declaration
OF policy should be made, and that
such policy should be radically differ
ent from that now in force.
The present policy is precisely the
same that was discredited and ADAM
doned several years ago.
The objections to it are, briefly:
1. 1t is so thoroughly under police
control and protection that it is prac-
tically 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 of
Iwilei. Irrespective of the morality or
otherwise of such recognition and pro-
IeClOl, II is ulSCTeulIaDle TO the gov
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 a
connection with the business which
cannot but have the effect of discredit-
ing it, both at home and abroad.
2. Not only is the government recog-
nizing and protecting the carrying on
of the business of prostitution but il
is also authorizing and compelling the
issue of certificates of health to the
women in question, which certificates
the reports filed herewith show are alb
solutely unreliable. They are worse
than unreliable. They are an adver-
tisement by the government, through
its recognized agent, the doctor that
any one may consort with the holder
of the certificate without danger of
contracting disease; whereas in fact,
the inspection on which such certifi-
Gates 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