The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-10
WHIPPING POST
Unconstitutional
Judge Robinson Informs Citizens
Protective League--Workers
Receive Advice.

tu1t tha establishment of the whip
ping post in Hawaii won 4 be unconsti-
utiuual was the opinion OF Judge Rob
inson, expressed 40 the meeting of the
Citizens Protection League ia tho
Parish Han Oh 81. Anhuw - Church
last night, an up1mon that was received
with regret los many of those present.
Bishop Rcstarick led in the advocacy Of
whipping post law, announcing that
he would be prepared TO carry out any
lashing sentence the court might inn
pose, ii no one else would do IL.
The meeting last night was attended
10y number of the members of the
bench and lar, those addressing the
meeting being Judge Robinson, Judge
Whitney, Judge Monsarrat, High Sher-
if Henry and City Attorney Cathcart.
The former ran afoul of some of the
ladies of the committee by referring to
'society ladies who crowd my court
room TO listen to salacious testimony
that l would not allow my mother or
wife or daughter to listen to-"
He was ierked up with short turn
by Mrs. Macfarlane, who said that it
was with no iuea of listening to any
thing salacious that the ladies went to
court, but in order that they might So
cure knowledge oil the crimes from
which they desired to shield the girls
of the city. The Judge took back his
sweeping statement but reminded
the committee that "even circuit
court Judge has feelings and sensibil-
tiles, like other people,
City Attorney Cathcart made the
longest address and got down to facts
perhaps better than the rest. He denied
that crimes against girls and women
were on the increase, explaining the
recent exposures by saying that the
mission workers were now exposing
these crimes and bringing the guilty to
justice. He also announced that he re-
quired no particular help in the prose-
cution of those charged with crimes
against women and girls, because he
felt that he was better able to handle
the eases and convict the guilty than
any who might volunteer to prosecute.
The committee could help him, he said,
by assisting in the securing of evil
dence.
Judge Whitney outlined n number of
things needed in the way of legisla-
ton, including an amendment of the
juvenile law giving the court charge of
girls up to twenty years of age; the
raising of the age of consent to
fourteen: an amendment making
marriage voidable if contracted with
out the parents consent under the age
of eighteen, and n law prohibiting the
lettering of girls in coffee shops and
restaurants.
The Chinese coffee shops came in for
mention by practically every speaker,
the city attorney referring to them as
the places where many of the Hawai-
ian girls are defowered. The city at
| torney also said that it was an irony
of fate that there should be any idea
abroad that he ever failed to press
prosecutions in cases of crimes against
girls, because in these cases he always
prosecuted to the limit, having n per-
sonal hatred of the criminal to such an
extent that he feared at times he lost
that mice discrimination of Judgment
so necessary to n prosecutor"
Bishop Resterick declared that edu-
cation of the young girls and boys on
sex questions was most necessary. Ig-
noranee is the greatest cause for the
downfall of young girls. He knew, be-
cause they came to him when in trouble.
During the past ten days, he said he
had had one to see him every day, and
in many cases the girls plead ignorance
OF the consequences as their excuse for
falling.
Mr.. Rath took the stand that crimes
against women were TO be expected be-
cause of the rapidly increasing male
population without n corresponding in
crease in the female population. He
declared that the streets of Palama
were less safe for unprotected women
today than they were seven years ago,
despite Mr. Cathcart's opinion that
crime was not increasing.
Mr., Mackenzie, another mission work.
err, believed that much of the trouble
came from the lack of industrial edu.
cation given the young boys, with the
result that we have the various street
gangs of idle hoodlums. He urged the
committee to assist the Y. NJ. C. A.
industrial committee and the plan of
having industrial schools in connection
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