Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-08
AT(HERLEY SIDE TALKS
DOCTOR SAYS he IS NOT
SEEKING ANY MOI 0RlETY
THINKS HE KNOWS WHOSE SIDE
THE BULLETIN is oN-MRS.
ATcHERLEY HAS ANOTH-
Err LAST WORD.

Editor Evening Bulletin:-I have
said my last word on every subject ex-
cept one and that is Just word con-
corning the threatened spread OF
plague last year in North Kohala. For
other matters as | said before and as
your recent correspondence-more mo-.
derate writer's suggest am content
TO walt till the April jury term.
Had all previous communications
been as temperate as these last, i
should have had no violent attacks to
reply to, in equally violent language.
You say the affairs In Kona remain
neutrality-suspicious. they do; for all IL
not out yet and II cannot be made
public till after the trial-for fear OF
prejudlcing our cases, In giving the
opposite parties the evidence they have
to meet. There were undoubtedly
cases OF plague in North Kohala. We
lived there and knew II TO be so, while
you friend Editor resided In Honolulu.
Had not drawn attention TO them,
would DR.. Pratt have come over TO
investigate and clean up Mahukona
and so prevented its spread? To fol-
low up the advice in your paper that
the plague spots should be covered
over and not word said would be, az
every knows, the worst possible meth
cd OF procedure.
1.-THE Bulletin refused 20 publish
Mrs. Atcherley's letters stirring up n
plague scare, because the Federal and
Territorial authorities were fully in
touch with the Kohala situation and
looking after it.-Editor Bulletin.l
As for interferences-l admit | wrote
the contents of my letter from Presi"
dent Roosevelt TO several members OF
the Legislature last April. which un
doubtedly. preeipitated the reappoint
ment OF Government physicians.
Again, the leper talk has resulted
in regulations forbidding the arrest OF
any one as leper, without obvious
specified signs.
II seems incredible that any one
should pretend to deny that many pe'-
fectly healthy people here in Kona
were arrested as iepers; or that, our
school land case is the only occasion
in which Mr.. Scott (the North Kona
school AGENT has made trouble Tor
the Board of Education. There Is trou'
BILE now, in this same district, where
Mr.. Scott has in two or three places
built Government school houses on
land which the Government has no
claim. In these cases, his (Scott' 81
own safeguard is the poverty of the
owner who cannot afford to go to law
TO protect his property. and may be
glad enough to get small proportion
of the amount paid by the Board OF
Education to Mr.. NJ, +, Scott.
II this is not corrupt oiiicialdomS ]
don't know what is?
We only call corrupt officials, cor
rupt and can rest easy under your
babyish charge of accusing all officials
Of corruption"
Where II exists we have In replying
10 attack, taken the liberty OF point
| ing II out As in the case, where ona
Official declared a petition not genuine
when he knew perfectly well that II
was genuine; and again, another OH
cial, arresting and locking up in lepeT
len, a perfectly healthy man.
In another case, where an official Is
sues warrants, unsworn to and unsigD
ed by complainants.
DO not these cases illustrate corrup'
ton, or are they only amiable excen'
| tricities? All must now wait for tbs
April term, and In the meantime, lei
those who wish TO supply their owT
premature verdict to their own TASTE
plume themselves on their clevernes'
and enjoy their breathe Paradise.
The Davises and ! only await pay
ment for our property and in the mean
time, strong newspaper attacks viii
get a strong reply. That is all oul
position.
You insinuate political motives-bu
who dragged in politics?
Did not the insulting treatment o
over 200 voters (by the Goard OF Health
and its Presidency In Ignoring thei