The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-09
SERIES Of CROSS
MEASUREMENTS
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come after limited residence.
cdr John c. O'Day makes the ter
rible arrangement He was at one
time physician for ex.Queen Liliuoka-
lani, and bespeaks her sentiments in
| this respect. as well as his own con
victions, when he says Molokai is the
most appalling tomb for the victims
| of oppression the world has ever
known Doctor O'Day is now studying
! under DIR. A. f. Rockey in the special
line of stomach surgery. More recent.
| ~ he has been located on Coos Bay
| but intends to make this his future
home. His investigations at Molokai
were prosecuted in the interests of
science and to satisfy himself that
what seemed to be a scheme of greed
was being actually consummated.
First Ten Released.
"The first ten natives confined there
whom he selected as non-leprous were
released as not being tainted with the
| disease, after his protest was made
| known. The present inquiry that the
| government is prosecuting, which the
| dispatches of yesterday said resulted
| in the release of fifty out of the first
| 100 examined, grew out of the pro-
| tests that were being made by the de-
| posed Queen, and of the vigorous work
that the Portland doctor took up when
| he was a resident of the Hawaiian Is
| lands.
:" This investigation now on in Ha-
wall grew out of the work l began,
said Doctor o Day this morning. Il
| had the distinction of releasing the
| first persons ever rescued from the
awful fate of leprosy after being SEN
fenced to Molokai. 1 did my part be-
cause / was convinced that a large
number of people had been sent there,
victims of the sugar trust and plant
ers' greed. Back of these interests
condemning innocent people to Molo-
kai were the missionary element of
the Islands and the Provincialists who
overthrow the old Hawaiian govern
ment. The work had been commenced
by the ex-Queen's brother. 1t was
continued afterward, but she opposed
it so bitterly that it was found nee
essary to dethrone her to make the
way easy.
MANY Not Lepers.
: Z" 1.-TWO years ago l went from thu
East to the Hawaiian Islands and tool
up scientific work among the leper
of the colony on Molokai. While en-
gagged in this 1 made up my mind tina
there were many people confined oil
: Molokai who did not have lepros.
when they were sent there, nor hat
: they contracted it since being incar
: cerated in the miserable hole. My re
A ports and protests commanded sue
f attention that | was permitted to ST
g; lect ten whom I believed were nc
s. infected for another examination. A
t. of the ten / selected were proved nC
Y. to have leprosy and were permitted
IS depart. From that time on the rel
# tives and friends of the unfortunate
a who are wrongfully confined on Mol
s. kai have been agitating an eXamin
= tion, which has just commenced. I'll
h, dispatches state that out of the fir
n one hundred applying for another e
& animation, fifty were released as NJ
}; being infected, although they hay
s. been confined on Molokai for a loI
y, time, perhaps years.
it 90 'The last King of the Hawaiis
al Islands stood in with the sugar int
j. ests, in the effort to secure for Il
TX planters great areas of land for sug
ID growing. He worked directly for Il
sugar trust and what is known as t
ID missionary element. When a landow
r err proved intractable, and could N
be persuaded to part with very
IN sirable holdings, he found himself {
at dered to Molokai in too many
e. stances. People were robbed of tn,
lands. with this dreadful fate pendi
2 should they prove too refractory. CO
=. fscation was the sum and substan
n. of the proceeding. Once the Wet
r was landed on Molokai, the wol
effectually than in the tomb was
Ii, swallowed up, for no one wanted
ii, visit Molokai for even a post mort
Ir. or any inquiry. Sentenced to
A. leper island. the courts were closed
Sc them, officers merely fastened exc
n. ton and after being landed in
nd leper colony, infection was sure
come in time.
Nd "Queen Stops Injustice.
f. "'After the King died, his sist
RS. Liliuokalani, seeing the methods p
rs. sued in behalf of the trust, refu'
to accept the cabinet of the dc
nd monarch. She has told me that
d. troubles began developing immedia
&c, ". She had made up her mind to s.
r. the iniustices to the natives in
W. matter of acquiring their land and
Ill determining who We're lepers. 1t '
these things that prompted my
M No quiry, which I made from scient
u motive. i am glad to see that
eV' natives are being dealt with justly
on last, and that there is prospect of
n "a who have been sent TO this liv
ia, death, escaping at last with Il
GO lives. hope the inquiry will be
-, and fair, and IL so know there will
IA many more released
~ Z" Doctor o Day has leetured mi
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