The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-13
TOWN TALK
~ TEH NAN ADoUl TOWN.

Prince, Kuhio, natural leader of his
race. Everyone knows that he is not
narrow, not a Prohibitionist, but he
has never missed a chance to fight to
restrain liquor-selling, and has freely
declared such restraint necessary for
the salvation of his people. Unless
miss my guess very much, an anti-sa-
loon campaign in Honolulu is going to
be very hard to beat.
If there were a Federal law to pun
ish anyone who, anywhere within the
national bounds, published defamato-
ry libels of any American community,
such a law would probably be oftener
useful to Hawaii than to any other
part of the nation. DR.. O'Day, with
such a statute in existence, would not
be returning to these Islands, but in
all likelihood-had the law not de-
TERED him from the offense-be flying
the country. That is, if he said about
the treatment of the Territory's UNI
fortunates what he is reported to have
said
Probably it would be impossible to
find, in the forty-four years since the
segregation of lepers began here, a
single instance of malicious commit
ment to the Settlement on Molokai.
Then, with regard to commitments on
empirical advice, the cases must be
exceedingly rare of people sent to
Molokai who, at the time of sending,
were not in appearance or condition,
whether really lepers or not, at least
in a class whose humane segregation
was the self-protecting duty of the
community. In a large majority of
the cases segregated, too, it is well
known to every intelligent resident of
the Islands that they were made more
comfortable at Molokai than they
would have been as charge upon
their families at home. Both in
housing and regimen, as well as in
sanitary conditions, they have been
maintained throughout all these years
upon a steadily rising scale of liberal
ity.
Instead of being a hell-hole," as the
quoted DR.. O'Day and the whole ilk of
libellers of Hawaii represent, the Set
tlement is a model of internal good
government and humane administra-
tiOn unavoca11ad bv op1y IoDar oo1on1,
on earth. That is fact acknowledge
ed by many scientific investigators
from abroad who have visited the
place.
With regard to Dr. ODay's reported
claim to be an expert authority on the
disease, DR.. O'Day himself may be
cited as witness to prove it's absurd
ity. 1t is credibly stated that on his
one visit to the Settlement, which was
with the legislative committee this
year. DR.. O'Day, in reply to a question
by another visitor, said: 81 don't
know anything about the disease. l
am only newcomer"
Among the many unintelligible re-
marks attributed to DR.. ODay is
where the ministerial crisis on Liliu-
okalani's accession is rung into con-
nection with the then lOng-established
policy of segregation. That event had
no more relation to this subject than
the Cook-Peary controversy has with
the Manchurian open-door question.
Indeed, had Queen Liliuokalani made
a move to abolish the segregation sys-
TEN, either her throne would have
been upset within twenty-four hours or
most Of the able-bodied supporters of
civilization in Honolulu would have
been carried feet first up the valley.
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Satire to be palatable must have
the salt of wit as well as the pepper
of reproof.
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There are cities elsewhere which
have good sidewalks among things
first considered, so there should be no
faar of a riot Of tovnovarc in Homo