The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-21


evidence on which to base an opinion.
The faIsehoods of any blatant poll
tician, who is simply trying to ride
into power by means of melting his
race and unrefiecting people will not
disprove or hinder the kindly and soli-
citous care and consideration shown
lepers or suspects both here and in the
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 SGT
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
have this matter quickly settled and
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 o. its
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
ours come before US and in the petit
ton presented have justified the board
in it's actions, have presented condi-
lions equitable and fair and such as
! will appeal to every sincere and hon
! est man.
Permit me to say to the six gentle
men who on April 18th unanimously
rejected, to his great surprise, the pro-
posals of the president, that he then
believed and now believes that by al
scientific standards and public ethics
the six gentlemen were right and ne
: wrong.
If on October Path there were foul
members of thew board of the same
opinion as of April 18th I believe thai
by all scientific standards and public
. ethics such four gentlemen were right
/ cannot force myself to believe
, man who comes to me with salvF
and states that is his cure for leprosy
given in India to him at the age o.
eleven years and months later comes
to me with a small vial and hypoder
mic syringe and states these latter arr
his cure for leprosy given him in In
dia and used on him with pith sttcl
for a syringe is to be relied upon.
4 cannot believe a man who publicly pro
of lepers, and privately tells me he i!
/ not sure he has cured a single one i:
to be relied upon. 1 cannot believ'
= in a man of medicine whose lecture
room is in the saloon. 1 cannot believe
: in a man of wild assertions whose
veracity is questioned on all sides.
The parties to the issue in my opin
ion are no longer solely the Board o
| Health, the Committee of Ten, and j
Ior Wallach, but by the conditions
named by the 527 petitioners the issue
is between them the petitioners and j
Ior Wallach and his intimate hacker
that the lepers may know whethei
they have been deceived by j. Lo
Wanach and misled by the assertions
of their friends. Nothing short of tn
i test proposed will satisfy those petit
t TONERS. The duty of the Board o
Health and the Committee of Ten il
to see that the conditions named b!
ID the 527 petitioners are carried out II
letter and spirit and that ]. Lor Wal
ZACH acts solely under Section 1927 o
I r. L. of Hawaii on twelve lepers an'
: no more and from this day hencefortl
obeys the laws of the Territory of Ha
I wall as laid down in the petition pre-
scented as the duty of every person.
: 1 therefore vote to grant the petition
under the conditions named by the 80
petitioners residing at the Moloka
Settlement.
Q 1 request the privilege Of calling to
gether the Committee of Ten to NEE
l. at the office of the Board of Health
: at 8 o'clock, Friday, November 22nd
l 1907.
n THE OPENING MESSAGE.
h Mr.. Pinkham introduced the Wallac
: business in his opening message to tn
members. which on this occasion wa
e exclusively devoted to that subject. /
| was largely post norton document
which can only be briefly summarize
: here as follows:
o 1. Notices to John C. Lane, char
5 man committee of ten; c. F. Chilling
worth. of Republican committee; Chas
*. Motley, of Home Rule committee
Y and VIM. Motley, of Molokai commit
roo of seven on Oct. %, conveyln