The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-28
Honolulu Found Guilty

lulu generally WAS concluded nj tneIedeldl ulSulSI
court yesterday when DR.. K. F. Ii, Chinese ply
sician was declared not guilty Of having violated
the Harrison Antidrug Act an act passed by con-
gress to provide weapon whereby those demons
who create and eater to drug fiends could be halted
and put out of business.
The question of the guilt or innocence of the ,
Chinese physician, however, was but an incident OF
the trial 1t affected him directlys and the members
of his family, for whom his counsel pleaded so eo-
uuenty and with such evident success.
Doctor Ii was not found guilty But society
was. And the accusers OF society paraded sorrow
fully across the stage in drama more sordd than
any ever written by Brieux
White OF face, with nerve-wracked bodies, their
hands trembling in the palsy of death in life, their
eyes staring muscles twitchng, their memories
now sodden, now drug-excited into weird imagin-
ings they marched, one by shaken one, across the
stage set up by human justice for trial of human
iustice-and they convicted human justice of hay
ing violated itself
Dore painted no more horrid picture than that
set up in the federal court for Honolulu to look
upon and be ashamed. Pander and prostitute
they came, pmp and procurer, drug slave and mas
ter who ensaves by drugs. All the protect
ed scum of Iwilei coughed up from the nav
of that sink of infamy. All the mental moral and
physical filth and disease carefully nurtured by
Sheriff Charles Rose and defended and protected
by word and deed of Chief of Detectives McDufhe,
OH the theory that theirs is necessary" business
good for Honolulu" was flung in the face of the
jury-and of the good people of Honolulu who
ask themselves: cam l my brothers keeper"
1t was not DR.. K F. Ii who on trial so
much as it was the obque police department OF
Honolulu the United States marshal and the cody
who shudder at the word prostitute" and with
uplif.ed hands declare that such things SHOULD
not be discussed"
And. above all, it, was society, Honolulu, Hawaii
that was on trial And they were proven guilty
though the verdict returned by the jury did not
mention them.
For it was conclusively proven that there eN-
lists in this fair Paradise of the Pacific enormous
traffic in the brain deadening drugs that stife the
souls of men and women. 1t was demonstrated
beyond the shadow of doubt that between this
hdeous traffic and the principal business OF lwiei
there exists close and intimate relationship
The prosecution showed that this Doctor Ii IN
about three months dispensed more than 10000
grains of suIphate of morphine l7l7 grains OF CO.
caine and quantities of heroin In the face OF the
iury's verdict it is not to be said that his sales
of these deadly drugs, mostly to the women OF
Iwilei and the parasitic monsters like Harry Roth
berg who live off the earnings Of their shame, were
illegal. But Doctor Mitchell OF Schoheld Barracks
testified that the entire medical contingent OF Lei
lehua does not administer all together as much as
one grain, of cocaine day in the medical treat
ment required by six thousand men. 1t was teStl-
fed that Doctor Lis sales Of narcotics amounted
to more in a few months than those OF reputable
white physicians in several years.
1t was demonstrated conclusiVely that the use OF
habit forming drugs is spreading with starting IA
pidity throughout Hawaii Heron, drug rarely
used by decent physicians in their practise cocaine
the most deadly drug of all the forbidden list known
to its victims as "snow;' morphine, the limited USE
of which is recognized by the medical fraternity bu
the dangers of which are equally recognized and by
all decent practitioners carefully guarded against
these and other deadly poisons, it was shown, arr
traficked in in poce-protected lwle almost as tree
ly as sugar or -four.
And there was no showing that soclety-the peOpl
of Honolulu-is making any efficient effort to stam
out the vicious practise insist upon an enforce
ment of the law that will eliminate its main breeding
grounds In the background of the trial OF Docto
hung ever the sneering shadow of the chief OF de
tectives of this city, for whom the people OF thu
city stand and for whom they must therefore be he'll
responsible. Always there was intangible eNldenc
of official obstruction of the efforts of the inerns
revenue department to wipe out the illegal tratlc /
drugs lust as there intangible evidence Of an off
ciaI protection of lwiei, with its white slavery, II
crimes of violence and its deadly and foul disease
As to Doctor Ii himself it was testified by Malz
CRYSTAL woman of the underworld; by Harry Roth
berg human vulture who lives IN lwIlel,-and b
other inmates of Sheriff Roses protected dlsrc
that he had sold her so-called medicine for II
cure of the drug habit And physicians who ha
analyzed his "cure" testified that it contained mo
'phine, combined with other drugs which might hay
beneficial effect if properly administered but tn
his method of administering them was unskiltuI II
professional and dangerous.
LoFo aI he left la