The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-25

fortunate lepers at Kalaupapa He
has broken faith with him. He went
to Kalaupapa and promised them that
he would send Wallach to them. and
he comes back here and goes back on
his word. Pinkham has lied. He is
not fit man to be president of the
Board of Health ana, gentlemen, 1
venture to say that never again will it
be safe for PiRkham to attempt to
land at Kalaupapa.
wait till the unrortunates at the
Leper Settlement hear how Pinkham
has thrown them down, how he has
lied to them, how he has played them
false. What kind of man do you sup
pose they will think this president of
the Board of Health?
Mister bingham, you have not only
thrown down Wallach; you have not
only lied to Wallach-you have thrown
down the Hawaiian people, you have
lied to the Hawaiians. You have lied
to those poor, unfortunate lepers Of
whom my dear brother is one. Cen
tlemen of the Board of Health, my
dear brother is becoming blind from
the disease and the Board of Health
refuses him the privilege to be cured
How l must suffer, you can imagine,
when | see here in Honolulu cures OF
leprosy that Wallach has effected and
there is no chance for my brother to
get the benefit of this wonderful rem
edy. He has been there twenty years,
he and six others who were inoculat-
ed with leprosy by vaccination and the
cries of the seven of them, unjustly
afflicted, come to us from the Island
of Molokai, calling for chance to try
this cure and the Board of Health, tor
political reasons, blind to the justice
of our cause and Indifferent to the well
fare of the Hawaiians for whom they
now clearly show they have no love,
stand as enemies to the lepers, refus-
ing them the right to be cured since
they cannot themselves cure them.
"Hawaiians, we must stand together
as a unit in this great fight. We must
stand together at the next election to
work to take away this law of segre-
cation so that we can give these poor
Hawaiians the opportunity to be cur
ed, for they will never have the cnance
to be cured while the Board of Health
holds the whip hand. 1t is now fight
to the bitter end between the Hawaii
an people and the BOARD of Health,
y,{4b tb{c mon Diplybor, Of +ba hand
this man who has gone back on his
word so shamefully. They are the
people who are responsible for taking
this matter into politics Why, wha
do they ask? They will not let Wal
ZACH have a trial until they are pre-
scented with a cure and as soon as we
present them with a man who has been
cured, what do you suppose they would
do? Would they believe? No! They
would go pol1ing around with their eX-
aminations for bacilr and inject the
bacilli of leprosy. The Board has
shown that its object is to hurt the
Hawaiian people, they want to cut out
their votes; they want to put the Ha-
Mdlldnb
vote. Cha les X. Motley.
This was after the Board of Health,
yesterday afternoon, had met and vot-
ed against Wallach being given a trial
with his medicine supposed to cure
leprosy, until he gives evidence in sup
port of his claims. c. X. Motley, leader
of the Home Rule party, manager of a
Hawaiian paper and brother of one OF
the subjects at the Leper Settlement,
raised his voice in the corridor outside
the Board room, brought his hands %
gether with emphasis, marched up and
down and waved his arms and launch |
ed at the head of President of the !
Board of Health Pinkham the accusa-
ton that he had deliberately lied to
the lepers, that he had broken faith 1
with them in promising them that
Wallach should be given a chance, and
then coming back to Honolulu and
throwing them down. Pinkham sew
eral times passed through the hallway
and once or twice attempted to mildly
state that Motley was not saying what
was correc but Motley, backed by
some dozen sympathizers, among
whom was one who says he has been
4 leper, but has been cured, did not
give Pinkham a chance to be heard.
Half a dozen representatives of the
press were on hand and Motley, turn
ing to a representative of one pa
per declared that the reporter himself
had told him that that paper was
lighting against the Hawaiians END
Wallach. "Your paper by its
own mouthpiece to me personally
las admitted that it is fighting the Ha-