The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-01-09


work at night. II is the duty OF the
prison physician TO see that the food
is proper. In this connection let me
speak OF an episode that happened
during the plague outbreak a few years
ago. one baker has for years made
our hard bread and during the quar-
antine we were shut out from him and
had to put up with a makeshift that
was anything but satisfactory. / went
among the prisoners and explained the
situation to them and added that they
would have to put up with the condi-
tions for while, to break up the bread
and put it into their tea. for / would
have to do the same thing. Well sir.
when they did so the weevils floated
on top and naturally there was kick.
told them skim off the weevils and
drink the tea and they did so with
apparent gusto. This talk about mag
gots in hard bread is all buncombe:
have seen too much hard bread In all
the stages known to that commodity,
but / never saw a bit that had any
thing more than weevils in II, and come
to think of 1t / have heard 1t said that
right here in Hilo a few years ago the
weevils were as plentiful as the leaf
hopper and about as troublesome. You
see there are two sides to every ques-
ton and it is only honest and fair for
an inquisitorial body like grand jury,
and it had the power, but not the in
clination, to get at both sides. What
that body overlooked l propose to
take up, and that before / leave Hilo.
There has been so much talk and
knocking here about the prisoners that
l am tempted to take all of the Grim
inals to Honolulu, where they really
belong, and leave the mjsdemeanants
here. 1 am getting tired of this
knocking and l am going to find a
way out of 1t"
THE HERALD'S COMMENTS.
Editorially the Herald contains the
following remarks on the jail scandal:
"The charge that the accusations
against Jailor Maby were instigated by
some of the members of the local polit-
ical organization does not seem to be
borne out by the facts. The attention
of one of the prominent workers in
the Young Mems Republican Club was
called to the abuses of the institution
some time ago and about the only at
tention paid to it was the question:
| DO you want them fed on tenderloin
steaks and ham and eggs?' That the
| prisoners are not well fed has been
clearly demonstrated by the evidence
adduced by the grand jury and 1t is
in evidence that the men are, or were,
given n piece of hard bread and a cup
of tea before being sent to the rock
N
other words they are expected to dc
hard work from six o'clock until 1l:3C
on a breakfast Of a piece of hard bread
and a cup of tea taken at $3.50. TINS
paper would ask If the prisoners of tine
| Territory incarcerated in Honolulu are
given this same diet? The government
pays for wholesome food for the pris
ons and the prisoners are expected Il
receive it, The Herald does not believ
the contractors for prison supplies fur
nish maggotty hard bread and tea tina
is merely tea in color and without an!
nourishing qualities. IL they nav
done so then the prison physician ha
failed in his duty to see that only sup
plies as per samples submitted wit
the bids are furnished and the jailo
has duty to perform in reportin
such matters to the physician If tn
food was bad when furnished. The in
vestigation will have a good effect L
many ways; If the men have beel
beaten, as it was stated to the jury
they know now that such treatmen
can not be inflicted upon them witt
impunity and without danger of tn
men who do the beating being brough
to book"