Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-09
KUP|HEA BITTERLY DENOUNCED
IN HOUSE Committee REPORT

found them place 10 live in a 1T.
ticpd porch. in The ortiun o. the MonSt
COntfOlled by her
Left GirIc Alone.
Representative = kupiAea was Well
d ware OF the character Of these tWO
girls yet he permitted Them ~
occupy alone room in a house a hun
dred yards ava from his own nome
separated only by 2 wire screen door
from rooms where drunken soldiers
were almost nightly inducing in the
widest Gebauches. and ther" is little
W"nder that these yOUn4 girls finally
became dISSDlutc aud fallen. Other
evidence shows that these Young girls
On many occasions and at night wee
seen In COmpany OF soldiers and Mrs.
kulhman. whose reputation. 1CrOrdlnI
to judG" Whitney, VAS not OF the best.
undcr circumstances and conditions
that pointed ont but one end. and that
was their downfall. Policemen t"stl
fed 10 these facts. and also as TO send,
ing them nome, and further that they
had told the father Of all the facts.
Yet with all This knowledge, W. lind
their father placing them in a place
whore further acts OF similar char
artpr We're bound t. occur. There is
evidence of acts OF sexual Intercourse
by these girls and the soldiers AT Mo-
analuo park and at the pineapple can
merry in kalihi. and at least on one
occasion in the house herPinbetOre
mentioned, hut there is no evidence
that the father knew anything about
it.
I'VE fully agree with .Iudge Ash
ford, that under such unwhOlesome
conditions as these, and domestic con
ditions Of such a vicious character as
that, there could be but one result. and
that the downfall of these young girls
and the rUinatiOn of their lives. De
priVed at an early age by death Of 4
mothers guiding hand and Watchful
care, it became the bounden duty Of
their father to watch the more closely
over them and by his advice and in
terest mold their future
Took No FatherIy Interest"
In this instance, however, it hap
pens that the father of these girls
never appreciated that fact. for from
the evidence we find that there is an
absolute absence of fatherly interest
and advice or parental control. When
the law steps in to throw the mantle
of protection around these young girls
We find the father, by practically false
promises, setting it aside, and later,
being aware of their weaknesses and
downfall, placing them in a position,
not where they would reform, but
where they could again and actually
did fall.
AS stated by the court, there was
only one thing to expect with regard
to these girls from such a state of
affairs and that was that they were
bound to go astray, and the lack of
interest of their father in their well
fare was help towards that end
ut i'll becomes the man who, know.
ing that his daughter isswayward, per-
mits her to associate with degraded
and dissolute persons, to run around
at nights unrestrained, to mingle with
drunken men in their debauches, and
places her in a position where her
young mind and body may become pol
luted and defiled, when these facts are
made known to the community, to com
plain when his reputation for decency
and morality is QnestiOned.'
The report concludes with the state.
ment that the committee fails to find
authority for offering any recommen-
dations; that the house itself is the
judge of the fitness of its own mem.
bers, and able, by a tWo-thirds vote.
to eXpel a member The majority of
the committee thus leaves the matter
in the hands of the house, after pre-.
senting the facts