The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-23
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Wallach has objected to two of the
eighteen Pinkham conditions on which
test of the Wallach powers may be
had, and l wish humbly to object to
another. 1t is the awaiting the COM
pletion of the new Kalihi station The
| quack doctor has perfect right to OBJ
ject to being made a prisoner during
the time of treatment, but Pinkham's
letter notifying the absurd committee
of ten of the Boards offer shows that
this was misunderstanding for there
is no Imprisonment more than is rea
| sonably necessary for the quarantining
of twelve lepers and the dispute over
| how the patients should be selected is
a very small matter. But the change
that is really needed is to provide that
| the experiment shall begin at once
| There are plenty of places in Honolulu
| that can be secured for such work. The
| Kalihi station contract is not let and
| the plans are not even finally approved
It will be months, perhaps a year, be-
fore the station is ready. In the
meantime we shall have the pesty
| hypnotizer Of Motley, dignified by a
sort of license from the Board, for
| he will be immune from prosecution
for practicing without license, as he
| has been all these months. during
which, in my poor opinion, the worst
! detective Honolulu ever had could have
| got evidence to warrant a conviction.
The responsibility for the inaction /
am told, rests with Attorney General
Hemenway,-it was probably lucky for
J. Lor that Peters and Chester Doyle
left the department. But to return to
| the experiment now that it has been
decided upon, why wait a year or 50
before beginning?
AS far as the political side of the
proposition goes, under the Pinkham
plan, the experiments will be starting
just about the same time as our next
campaign. Whatever effect the issue
has will be to the credit of Home
Rulers more than any other party
for, although, with what | regard as
puerile ana contemplate surrender tC
bugaboo vote-controlling power OF
= Wallach, some Republican and Demo
cratic leaders leaped frantically into
= the takers bandwagon, there is ne
matter of doubt that to Motley is due
most of the glorious discredit of vic,
tory for Wallach.
One thing the long, laundering folly
= of the Board of Health has made Ger
) tain We shall have leprosy running
1 all through the speeches Of the mex
campaign. If the experiments are be-
ginning, there will be a tiresome an,
> discreditable scramble to claim Gre
dit for making them possible; if they
are nearly over, we shall have dema
: Sogues bowling that they have been {
= success, no matter how great their rea
: failure. But that there will be any
real substantial victory to reward Not
ley for his work,-Notley has eithe
been almost hypnOtized by Walach o.
he is taking as deliberately as the
latter,-I do not for a moment be
lieve, 4 friend Of mine said durin,
the late San Francisco campaign tina
if he were a betting man, he woulD
wager his all on big majority for DR.
= Taylor, though nearly all those VIII,
came from that city told Of the grave
est fears that Mccarthy would win
/ and the press reflected it, while al
conceded a dangerously close vote.
: asked him what he went by and h,
said that it was granted by all thu
prophets that the solid, best people il