The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-22
Or. A. MaurItz. After Twenty
Years Of Labor Among Ha-
Waiians Gives Opinions.
DRINK is THE ONE CURSE
If We Love Them We Men Ought
to Abolish Liquor Or We Are
Rank Hypocrites."

Editor Advertiser:-In Fridays is
sue appears the following statement
credited to Bishop Restarick:
"Sexual excuses, Iasciviousness and
other irregularities are the main agents
in killing Off the Hawaiian people"
I maintain that sexual excess with
out the aid of its twin brother Alcohol)
can not be held solely responsible for
the decrease Of the Hawaiian people.
Previous to the advent of the For
eigner and his Alcohol, the physique of
the Hawaiians was excellent. History
and tradition all 90 to prove that sexual
excuses We're rampant; yet in spite of
famines, wars, interneeine strife, in
fanticide, the race amounted to at least
100000 souls. The aboriginal popula-
ton today is less than $4,000.
Sexual excess and irregularities with
out drink to brace them up is rara
avis. Who ever heard Of brothel
existing without whisky, gin, winef
The lurking destroyer in the house Of
ill-fame is King Alcohol. Whether it
be the enticing Jezebel of Kakaako,
the painted harlot Of Iwilei, the
smiling courtesan of Punchbowl, or the
siren Of Palama-All these lairs con-
tain one thing in common-Drink.
If venereal disease and sexual excess
were the main factors at work sapplng
the vitality of the Hawaiian rage, we
certainly should expect to see this con-
dition set forth in the vital statistics
of the Territory. The figures all argue
f, the other way.
Mortality from July l, 1906, to June
, 80. l909-All races, S633. Pulmonary:
, Hawaiians only. 311S tuberculosis, 1908;
| Ieprosy, PIG: venereal disease, all races,
! Ga
Mr.. Editor, these figures speak for
themselves Such reckless and random
statements. that the Hawaiian race
is being killed off by sexual excuses,
lasciviousness and other irregularities
can not be true in the face Of the above
strong evidence.
The Hawaiian race is not saturated
with svphilis-to assert this is a most
unjust calumnv.
NenereaI disease is generally mild
amongst the Hawaiians. Their daily
food: fish, shell fish and limu, give
them certain immunity; these arti-
cles Of diet contain sufficient iodine to
hold off the disease.
Let them poison their systems with
gin, then this immunity no longer holds
good.
In the late evening Of their lives the
cry comes to protect the Hawaiian race
! from the liquor curse, it is very late,
and I question if it can be done. The
Hawaiian is like an overgrown child,
easily led easily tempted and easily
Hattered. It is cruel and merciless to
match him against the crafty white
man.
Expose the shrewd keen-witted Eng
/ lander, the canny Scot, the cold calcu-
lating Englishman. the elusive, eau
tious Irishman the stolid level headed
German. to the same temptations that
beset the Hawaiian, and lure him to
! his doom, these races viii and can re-
sist the tempter; the Hawaiian can not.
Our mothers, wives, daughters and
sweethearts are appealing TO Us to rid
them Of the surly drunken brute, who
comes home with curses. abuse and
blows, and possible murder IN his
trail.
If we love them, we men ought to
40 il. otherwise our professions Of love
and regard are rank hypocrisy.
4 MOTRITZ,
Physician.
T-1r On ION