The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1912-10-15
TUBERCULOSIS
CAMPAIGN ON
A Paper For The People, On
tuberculosis.

The world is buckling on the
fine armor Of modern research
and knowledge and is sending its
combined strength into the field
against tuberculosis. tuberculosis,
an ancient enemy mankind,
which for thousands of years has
ruled master over h e fate of
thousands of lives has been an in
eXorable task-maker w h the
power o f the high justice, the
middle and the low, and there
has been no appeal. Armed insur-
rection against it is an incident of
moderrity, matter of only few
years.
l wish to impress you with the
fact that in Hawaii, the board of
h t h, the Anti Tuberculosis
League, private institutions and
private philanthropy have combin-
ed to muster their forces against
tuberculosis. Feeble are the
arms Hawaii has to offer against
tuberculosis the invasion of the
white plague, these bodies have
hopes of attaining a moderate sue
cess, of checking the invasion, of
saving many lives and of prevent
ing the soaring of many others,
eventually to place the people of
Hawaii in a position where tuber-
culosis. will Fl II d scant welcome
and bad fare.
The work against this disease
in the Territory has been growing
for several years. A number of
valuable points have been gained
a IL d advances have been made
that help assure to Hawaii an ul-
innate complete success. Briefly
the stage n ow reached is that
W h er responsibility h IT
Shoulders. 'HE Sc
If / may term the ardor with
which certain individuals have de-
voted themselves to this work as
fanaticism of philanthropy, I will
say that fanaticism has taken the
Territory as far as it can. Enthu-
siasm is the force that must move
it hereafter and enthusiasm is
weapon of h e masses, Just as
tuberculosis is a disease of the
masses.
So TIE responsibility rests now
upon those w h o constitute the
mass of the people in this Terri
tory. 1t is a cosmopolitan popu-
lace to which the antituberculosis
workers now appeal, a mass of
many alien component, but w e
hope that Il enthusiasm that
must come to the assistance of the
now active workers will be the
stronger and more direct because
it will be shared by numbers who
have little other ground in COM
mon. tuberculosis, it may be re-
marked, considers all grounds
common to its activity.
The point is this. All nations
of the globe which amount to any
thing are joining in what may be
the greatest popular crusade since
that limited Christian one which
had for its purpose the attaining
of the Holy Sepulchre. Is Hawaii
to share this spirit, which is the
spirit Of generosity and human
feeling, or will it wait until the
other independent states straighten
up from their tasks and after a
moments rest point the finger OF
housewifery at us and say, Now
we must clean that place?". l do
not think that Hawaii will wait
once the people here become out
wardly educated IN d inwardly
conscious of what the crusade
against tuberculosis means to all
of us.
tuberculosis is a peculiarly in
innate thing. Is resides at our
doorsteps and when it is not kill
ing our neighbor's children it is
killing our own. 1t does not prevent
that terrible form which lik
plague or cholera casts its black
shadow a Cro o $ human minds,
striking terror into the hearts of
men and moving them to frantic
endeavors to rid themselves of the
awful burden. tuberculosis comes
as silently and as inviduously as
Inconsistencies t o n injured
man, remains quietly and goes
away as noiseless and as sure as a
hearse. The Great White Plague
is a terrible thing 1t offers no
grip to the struggler. 1t took great
minds and the essense of human
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