The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-04
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Letters From
the People


Editor Advertiser:-It really Seems
that our evening Bulletin is hysterical.
Hysteria occasionally becomes a weak
hing, as means Of defence, but the
Bulletin need not assume the attitude
OF one who has been denied something.
In believing l was addressing Mr..
Geo. Beekley, take it a Bulletin man
was present, although it was my opin-
ion, that the gentleman was of The
Advertiser staff.
10 Mr.. Beehley | expressed my regret
that the Portland paper had failed to
quote me correctly. | further stated
that The Advertiser had been square
IN the matter insomueh as it had pub
hshed the interview in full as it had
appeared in the Portland paper This
/ stated was a clean way of putting
1t because it would afford me an oppor-
tunity of making a reply. ''But," I
stated, latter going over the files of
the Bulletin (the files that had been
placed on my desk). I was vexed that
1t should presume to be court, Judge
and jury and ask verdict before my
side had been heard. - | then stated
that | had deferred making a reply
until / could get some statements from
Portland, and which l intended to offer
to counteract the miserable statements
of the Bulletin.
Why didn t the Bulletin man say
what [ did say2
Why didn t he say: "O'Day says
that he will have the proof from Doctor
MacKay, president of the Portland
Academy OF Medicine, that when he
(O'Day) presented to that body a
series of leper pictures that it was with
the restriction they were never to be
taken outside of the Portland profes-
sion.' Why didn t the Bulletin man
quote me as saying that | was SO anx
ious nothing be said to hurt Hawaii,
that l requested Doctor MacKay, to
make sure no newspaper men, if pres
ent, make any mention of the pictures
coming from Hawaii? Nor did they.
Why didn t the Bulletin man tell what
[ said regarding the lecture | was asked
to give at st. Michels lecture hall on
the life of Father Damien. Father
Vasta, of this church, thought such a
lecture might help little toward a
give, because, and as I told the priest
Gather Nasta, St. Michels, at the cor
ner of Fourth and Mills street, Port
land), it would only make the wrong
kind of talk about the Islands
Why didn't the Bulletin man tell
what I had said regarding my lecture
at st. Mary's academy, Portland, where
| was introduced to my audience by
Father Tom Sherman, son of General
Sherman, and who was good enough to
prelude his introduction by many state
ments which were really very compli-
mentary to Hawaii, and which he did
at my request?
Now as to my saying. "The physi-
clans are determined to ruin me- I
never thought it. No man. or no set
of men, could do it, with me, or any
one else. Life is a battle, and we
must stand or fall according to the way
we muster our forces. Why didn t he
say what / did say, which was; "Not-
withstanding the fact that the ink had
been dry several days on the signatures
of Doctors Brinckerhof and Mcdonald,
before | was called to sign the same
papers, papers which set free the first
ten from Mplokai, | was jumped on,
at the next meeting of the medical
society, by two of its members, as if
had been the whole cause Of the
affair. Was accused of posing as
Hawaiian savior, etc, and that while
in Portland, I said lin the interview:
If there is as much trouble for some
one over the fifty, as l had over the
ten, some one is getting hell there
Again, why didn't the Bulletin man
say just exactly what | said about
the hospitals and the missionaries If
there was any one thing I was plain
about, Il was this, yet he just made it
particular stunt of putting it the
way he would have it appear.
This is what | said and he knows it
'' The clique who have kept me out Of
the hospitals here are spoken of as the
missionary bunch, but personally I do
not like the term, as it would tend
to reflect discredit on many who, as
missionaries, have done too much
good, but, I said further, 81 know
who they are, and why it was done,
and l am not the kind of man to run
under fire. I shall stay here, and there
is going to be another hospital,r This
is just exactly what | said, and it is
exactly what | said in Portland.
Why did he say that | attributed
the hospital trouble to my work in the
leper controversy l never thought il.
Now who Is to blame--the Bulletin or