The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-19
OPEN LET TER
FROM THE
HEALER
]. Lor WaIIach Calls
for a Square
Deal.

| ? In anticipation of the mass meeting
| to be held tonight at Aala park at
the call of the Hawaiian leaders of
the three political parties, an open let
ter has been given out by J. Lor Wal
lach, addressed to these leaders. The
letter, which is Illuminating and self
explanatory, is as follows:
OPEN LETTER TO THE HAWAIIAN
LEADERS AND THE BOARD OF
HEALTH FROM J. LOR WAL
LACH.
Gentlemen:-This evening you will
have a big mass meeting to discuss, in
all it's relations, my position with the
public and my cure for the so-called
leprosy. In all probability thousands
of people will listen to you and at this
eleventh hour 1 will again make a
statement by this letter. The Hawai-
ian people are depending upon you and
the cry of the suffering comes up to
you from the living tomb on Molokai.
Think, Hawaiian leaders, think of the
anguish of bereaved parents, brothers
and sisters. parted as by death and yet
living. Consider the tears of the peo-
pie, think of the soreness of a mothers
heart when a child of hers is parted
from her never to be seen again. Were
the child dead, the mother would be
satisfied, as it is at present the mother
is conscious of the wrong undergone
by her child from letters received. Did
you ever see mother when she re-
ceived a letter from Molokai; the un-
conscious stabs given to a tender
heart, simply by describing the suffer-
ings undergone in the living grave.
Hawaiian Leaders, I tell you needless
sufferings. You can read in the simple
letters from Molokai, the tragedy OF
the Hawaiian people. A noble race be-
ing ruined by this disease, which is, I
claim and I will prove durable. If you
have any tender feelings; if your heart
is touched by the sufferings of your
unfortunate relations and friends, then
for the sake of these relatives and /
friends, give me a chance. If you have |
any heart, and read of the progress Oh
this disease, read of the dropping ears, |
bending fingers, loss of feeling, loosen |
ing of flesh, and loss of finger nails, |
can you give me chance? When, IN |
the patients in whom you have no in /
terest, save that of nationality and i
sympathy, you hear of them as losing
limbs and going blind, do you not want
to let me try my cure? My appeal to
you is Give me chancei and l can
assure you that this disease which has
had such bad effects upon the Hawai-
ans will vanish like magic. The Board
IF Health officials, pronounced me a
'raud Nothing will change my deter
nination that 1 will not leave this Ter
'itory until 1 prove to the Hawaiian
people and the majority of the white
'esidents that the Board of Health is
wrong.
At the last meeting of the Board of !
Health, was not treated fairly, there
ore / appeal to you, leaders of the
Hawaiian people, for a square deal.
1t that meeting, DR.. Baldwin said 1
vas liable to do so much that not even
medical man would find traces of the
isease. Then will have the author ;
" as the first man who discovered the
ure of this so-caIled leprosy. By ;
uring this disease, I shah not take
way the doctors bread and butter by {
Ding something they cannot do.
The invitation of the Board of
Tealth to give them my secret is alb &
urd. Would they cure you after they '
ossess my cure? Ny opinion is that S
1ey would not do so; that their in t
erests are opposed to it. All I ask t
!, Give me an opportunity to prove $
the fairminded honest citizens or
awaii that I can cure this disease! !.
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