The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-22

| Board of Health; not to show that the
| majority of the voters feel as we do
| in this matter; but we come as humble
servants of the people to ask you as
| president to use your influence with
| the Board to grant Wallach an oppor-
/ tunity to demonstrate whether he can
cure or not. The time has passed to
argue as to whether Wallach can real
| ly cure or not. The majority believe
that he can and as Hawaiians who
| feel for Hawaiians we say that this
step should be taken. Every Hawai-
ian here, even the delegate, feels that
this is not a question Of the glorifica-
ton of Wallach but a question of what
the Hawaiian people feel Our duty
is to respectfully ask the Board of
Health to grant him the permission he
asks.
II do not come here as a champion
of Wallach. want that distinctly I'M
derstood. But 1 come here as a humble
servant of the Hawaiian people to ex-
press their wishes to you.'
do I understand that there is any
question of the sympathy felt by the
Board Of Health towards the Hawai-
ians?' asked Pinkham.
II do not believe that there is" an
swered Chillingworth, but I am glad
that you have asked. 1 think that
matter ought to be cleared up now"
II think so, too," said Pinkham. eff
there is any such feeling amongst those
present 1 want to hear it now"
The president then went on to refer
to the various occasions when charges
had been openly made in the Legisla-
ture against the Board of Health. He
referred to the fact that in the Settle
ment now was one Hawaiian woman
from whom Dowie, the late 'Proph-
et," had secured $1,000 for a cure. He
also explained the principle of medical
ethics in regard to the making public
of medical discoveries and showed
clearly why such was necessary. "I
take back seat to no one in the mat
ter of sympathy for these poor people,
he said. There is no man among you
who has shed more tears for the wo-
men and children of the settlement
than the President of the Board of
Health. There is no harshness any
more in the matter of treating iepers,
neither is there any hal1ng of suspects
away to Kalihi. On the very day fol-
lowing the last meeting here a man
and his wife came to see me. The
woman is the mother of three children.
with one yet to be born. She suspected |
that she was a leper, but she had con- |
fdence in me and came to see me. |
We talked the matter over the same |
as it would be talked over in a family
and I told her to go back home until |
her baby was born, then to come and |
we would talk the matter over again.
She was not chucked into the leIer
wagon, as some people think we do.
Other people come to me. They have
in me. At the Settlement the
very first man to express indignation
at the reflections made upon their law
and order was William Motley. 1 slept
there with the doors and the windows
Unattached. I know those people. They
know me. When l passed over the
pail on my way back, and that pail
Is dangerous, there We're many prayers
that 1 might pass it in safety. If the
Board of Health were properly repro
sented to the people there would not
be this feeling against the board that
is abroad. In doing what I shall prop
ably do in the matter of this resolu-
ton and petition, I shall not probably
be guided by my reason
ALL PRAISE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The remarks of the president were
by short speeches from near
ly every member of the delegation,
every one of whom stated that the
Board of Health was doing all that was
possible for the lepers and was worthy
of commenda ton in practically every
thing the members had done, with the
exception of the stand they had taken
on the Wallach matter. Charles Not
ley said that the Hawaiians were
clinging firmly to this one hope and
urged that their hope in Wallach be
not taken away without the man being
given a trial. Senator John Lane re-
minded the president that if the Ha-
waiian electors should be forced to it
they had it in their power to elect a
straight Hawaiian ticket by drawing
the color line. He stated that Wallach
was not to be considered in the mat
ter at all, but the wishes of the Ha-
waiian people. H. j. Mossman, Frank
and J. NJ Poepoe followed
along similar lines, and Supervisor
Fern concluded his remarks by saying
that the Hawaiians would know what
to do with Wallach if his trial should
prove him faker.
William White informed the presi-
lent that this was a case where he
1ad to exercise his faith and not keep
insisting on proof of Wallachs cures
being presented. He stated that he had
seen neither Queen Victoria, George
nor Jesus Christ, although
lie believed that there had been such
people. He wanted to have another ,
Meeting between the president and the
delegation, something which was sat
Town on severely by the other men,
,ers of the delegation.
At the conclusion of the meeting Mr.. .
Iossman moved vote of thanks to
he president, which was seconded by
senator Chillingworth and carried.
WAYS AND MEANS. {
After the meeting had broken up, !
President Pinkham discussed the mat t
er in an informal way. He called to 7
he attention of the delegates the fact
hat the monthly appropriation for
medicines for the settlement was S1250,
While last month the expense had been
y-ar S1-00