The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-07
ENTIRE BLAME
BELONGS To
PINKHAM
F-om sundays AdvertiserO

fraud. triclzery or laziness on the part
OF the president Of the Board of
Health is the reason given by A.
/ C. Atkinson for the neglect to have
somewhere q home for the boys born
in the Lyeper settlement, a home where
-hev might be taken care of away
from constant exposure TO the dread
disease from which their parents
suffer
Time after time. practically every
sfne President Pinkham reported on
the work Of his department to the
Executive. ] brought up the question"
said Nr. Atkinson yesterday. Time
arte- r-rns he promised me that it
would be started right away. Time
after tine he came back with ex-
cu=es. one appropriation was passed
sld allowed 10 lapse and nothing was
zone Another appropriation was
passed. and still, a year later, nothing
has been done
Every minute. every day, every
month. every biennial period that is
allowed 20 pass without this matter
being pushed through is a crime, worse
than murder in my mind, and should
law heavy on the conscience Of the
president Of the Board Of Health. He
IS The man that is responsible. 1t was
not Governor Carter. for he urged the
matter right alsng: It was not 1, for I
have urged and worked for something
O. D. done in every way 1 could.
The LEGISLATURE Of 1905 voted six
Il -,wL- Dfr,l-
ham told me over and over again that
De was getting ready to use this, but
De rr1erastinated. shifted and evaded
ErsuE anything. The Legislature of
1g-- voted fifteen thousand dollars for
This work. seeing for themselves after
their visit 10 the Leper Settlement the
awful necessity. but not a move has
been made by Pinkham except that
ridiculous Waimea trip Of his. made
as ca ErauLstand play when he was
u1llluE his campaign for the Govern
,.-shlr Why has he not done some
1----7 can it be that he does not
want t1 bring those boys away, or is
So tEl- be does not care2
When a public official has reached
thl- stage that he neglects a plain
L--y ike this. consider that his days
of usefulness are over. He talks about
h6u he saves up the nickels to build
places al the settlement and he COM
plains constantly of the way he is
famue-ed for money. while all these
years money has been lying available
Tor This work and he viii not spend it.
7 venture 60 say that if Pinkham is
uaaupaiu,ed, this present appropriation
zr5l not be spent and he will not build
that home while If the matter were
turned over TO a man like Marston
Campbell the plans would be out, the
site selected and an advertisement for
bids published before two weeks.
Il fees very strongly on this point,
as any man must feel who has visited
tle settlement and seen the boys
there. the little bright-eyed chaps,
some az them yet clean, some of them
showing the signs Of the disease, and
a- clean and diseased alike, exposed
every minute Of their lives. Three /
gears ago I talked to a little boy
tEara. He was clean. one year ago
J talked 90 him again and he told me
tIa- since had been there last he
had contracted the leprosy. That such
q 6au1able thing could be, makes my
blood boil
I'm his annual report, Pinkham says
thar $1,000 was inadequate to COM
usnce on I know that 1 could have
bulk something with that much money
GO bring some Of the boys away from
cH--aEi1n- would not have allowed
che amount 20 go unspent, anyway. L
did my best urging upon Pinkham to
On something. kept urging the mat
Ger with Governor Carter and he in
turn spoke many times To Pinkham
about b. But we were put off and put
OF with excuses. And there is no ex-
C-sa- There can be no excuse. There |
was none then and there is none now
why The home was not built.
Bishop LEbert has offered a site in
Ea-ri valley. he has through much /.
Cr-aSr1n5ence and great effort Sc
Cured The promise Of Sisters to take /
ca-a ~ the home and he has urged .
The matter. But Pinkham, so far as |
any v-aercal results go, has not even I
considered the offer of the Bishop. 1 /
went ur NaGhi and selected a site
Cor rhe home under the first appropri
alton which was voted specifically for
oahu. but Pinkham never moved.
Then he came out with his big
s---a5 about starting an experimental
s-a- farming place on Waimea with
-Ea hrys We don't want any such a
place The experimenting for small
farming has all been done. We have
tested what we can do and we have
won a-r On that. We don't want any
more Erlndstand playing, either. What
we want is something done with the
money lying available in the bank,
something done to rid the Territory
~ The blame Of leaving little children
exposed % a fate compared with
which death has no terrors.
There are fifty-four non-leprous
children ar the Settlement. A few of
these may be girl babies. not yet
brought 10 the Kapiolani Home, but
nearly an Of them are boys. for whom
there IS little hope until some place is
provided where they can be kept The
records show that a very small pro-
PORTION ~ the girls brought away
from the Settlement ever have to be {
sant back there and that large pro- {
PORTION Of the boys. so far left to their ]
TATE contract the disease early in their {
lives. leaving them there is a crime