The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-22


paid him. Yesterday, at his request
he was given advice as to his private
affairs, and was told how to conduc
himself on his journey. The keeper
of the Receiving Station has, been mott
fed to expect this gentleman and thi.
man viii in few days return, go t.
and enter the Receiving Station of hi:
own volition
Leper suspects and lepers are treat
ed with every consideration the law
our means, and the deepest sympathy
will admit
There was not the slightest danger
to single cured leper If Mr.. Motley
chose to produce one or more from his
multitude. Truthful friends. for all
men are not liars, could have given
privately their testimony as to the
cured lepers' former condition so the
officers of the board would have some
evidence on which to base an opinion.
The falsehoods of any blatant poll
tician. who is simply trying to ride
into power by imeans of melting his
race and unrefiecting people will not
disprove or hinder the kindly and soli-
citous care and consideration shown
1
Settlement. Such a man will unmask
himself eventually and his true char
acter will be known.
The president of the board has never
felt the slightest resentment for the
part the Republicans or Democrats
have taken in this affair, nor has he
felt like criticizing the rank and file
of the Home Rulers. He has never
belittled the Hawaiians for their stand
or belief in this matter because per-
sons of other nationalities with vastly
greater opportunities, and wider ira
vel and experience have more as
tonishing beliefs as to disease, cures
and personal powers than the Hawai-
ians have been led into.
The president of the board believes
if the Home Rulers, the Republicans
and Democrats find they have been
deceived for political purposes they
will register their disapproval, but it
will not be in the form of acts or
threats of personal violence, assassina-
ton, and revolution, or under the in
sigma of anarchy. the red flag, but they
will stand together for honorable and
sound government and men who strive
for honor in politics and good govern
ment.
AT the Molokai Settlement are 527
persons who believe implicitly in what
their friends have written them.
Whether their friends have them
selves been deceived or not it is not |
for the president of the board to de-
termine. They have been anxious to |
a
have felt hurt at delay, but they have |
overlooked other factors in the situa-
ton which concern the body polite.
They have failed to distinguish be-
tween assertions and proven facts.
They have to realize the Board of |
Health must go to the extent OF it's
resources to seek and demand facts
asserted to exist. The board has no
inquisitorial powers, cannot examine
persons under oath, and cannot sub
poena witnesses. The Board of Health
has gone to the very limit of its pow
ers. Once again these 527 wards of
0urs come before US and in the petit
lion presented have justified the board
n its actions, have presented condi-
lions equitable and fair and such as
EST man.
Permit me to say to the six gentle
men who on April 18th unanimously
elected, to his great surprise, the pro-
1osals of the president, that he then
believed and now believes that by all
standards and public ethics
he six gentlemen were right and he
wrong.
If on October oath there were four
members of the board of the same
pinion as of April 18th I believe that
" all scientific standards and public 1
thics such four gentlemen were right.
1 cannot force myself to believe
nan who comes to me with a salve
nd states that is his cure for leprosy
iven in India to him at the age of i
leven years and months later comes
0 me with small vial and a hypoder-
tic syringe and states these latter are
is cure for leprosy given him in In
ia and used on him with a pith stick l
Or syringe is to be relied upon.
annot believe man who publicly pro-
laims he has cured great number1
lepers, and privately tells me he is t
OF sure he has cured a single one is I
} be relied upon. 1 cannot believe
l man of medicine whose lecture
pom is in the saloon. 1 cannot believe
/ a man of wild assertions whose II
eracity is questioned on all sides. g
The parties to the issue in my opin- 4
IN are no longer solely the Board of
ealth, the Committee of Ten, and j.
or Wallach, but by the conditions r
AIMED by the 527 petitioners the issue I
between them the petitioners and j.
or Wallach and his intimate hackers :,
lat the lepers may know whether "
ley have been deceived by J.. Lor D
Tallach and misled by the assertions v
their friends. Nothing short of the d
st proposed will satisfy those petit :.
oners. The duty of the Board of =
ealth and the Committee of Ten is a
see that the conditions named by Il
e 527 petitioners are carried out in
tier and spirit and that ]. Lor Wal -
CHI acts solely under Section 112f of =
L. of Hawaii on twelve lepers and u
} more, and from this day henceforth al
'eys the laws of the Territory of Ha- II,
ali as laid down in the petition pre- =,
nted as the duty of every person.
therefore vote to grant the petition 81
lder the conditions named by the 527
titioners residing at the Molokai D