Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-06

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en-. Of divers mathematics, have resort,
ed. for the practise Of their vocation
as common prostitutes. That said
women have rented premises AT IWilei
in which they reside and conduct their
Illicit profession That. as a result OF
their location al said ,1oirt. many hun
dreds Of meR constantly. and es seciaL
Is at nisht. resort 10 said neighbor-
hoGd, and that much crime and dis
order has attended and now attends
the presence Of the women in ques.
.tion at said POINT That in addition
to our local and civilian population
there are now garriS0ned on the Isfand
OF Oahl from 5000 10 10000 Iuiers
of the different arms Of the United
States service, the vast majority of
whom are in their early youth, unmar-
ried, and socially unattached, and with
rather restricted means provided for
their rational entertainment while off
duty ".
Location a Menace =.....~
That the district OF Iwilei. besides
being the home of the red-light deni-
Zens, is the scene of a great majority
of our manufacturing establishments,
including the manufacture of lime, fer
tiliZers, gas ami tin cans, besides lum-
Der yards and pineapple canneries, in
some of which, especially the last
named, large numbers of young boys,
women and girls are employed, whose
duties frequently necessitate their
passing to and from their places of
after dark.
1T is further notorious fact that
the women in question have been and
are being permitted to ply their vi
cious calling under what is virtually
the protection of the police of the city,
and it is locally understood that the
police, in thus granting immunity to
those women las we'll as to their
landlords) in the premises have done,
and are doing so in virtual continual
ton of policy which, with varying
degrees of publicity, and in various
localities of the city. has obtained in
Honolulu during many decades past
the statutes il such case made and
provided to the contrary notwith-
standing 1t is further locally under
stood that the police have been, and
are, actuated, in their attitude toward
the offenders in question by what |
they regard as the necessities of the
situation, that is, under the eonvic-
ton that the practise of the vice in |
question is necessary evil, and that, |
as regards our city, the necessity of |
this condition has been largely in |
creased and intensified by the recent |
to our local population of
such large numbers of young and un. /
attached men, wearing the uniform of |
he United States.
seek Law enforcement
But it is also locally notorious that |
/ movement has been recently |
in our city by a considerable
ind influential element of our popula-
ion, having for its purpose the strict
of our formerly unen-
orced statutes in this regard. There
lave been spaSfnodic local agitatiOns
If similar character in past years, but
lever under conditions at all APP
lroaching those at present existing on
his island
Wherefore, the community is face
o face with the problem, as it has
leverSpreviously been, of how to deal
With the so-called social evil and
'efore the problem shall be finally
ecided it is probable that the whole
round of whether the vice in ques-
ion shall be absolutely prohibited or
under conditions of restric-
ion as to locality and regulation as to
anitary conditions, etc., will be again
ully canvassed.
AS judge of this court, however,
am Obliged to instruct you gentle
len, as forming the grand jury, and
he grand inquest of the county, that
either you nor |, nor any member
t the police force, or of the staff of
he city and county attorneys office
ave or has the right to suspend, or to
ender nugatory the written law as it
as been enacted and now stands upon
ur statute books. No officer of this
nor any number of such
Ulcers or of citizens has or have
he right to violate the law as it
lands, to habitually tolerate such vio-
ltion, or to grant immunity to Of
enders against the law If the law is
MUST or unwise, in view of all pre-
ailing conditions, it should, neverthe-
,ss, be enforced and obeyed while it
emains among the statutes. To the
.gislature alone, and not to any po-
&c or prosecuting officer, pertains {
lie privilege of amending or repeating :
ur statute laws and, for the reason
lat the legislature of this territory
i'll, in the course of few weeks, !
onvene in regular session, and chiefly ,
acause of a request to this effect I
lade to me in writing by the city and
ounty attorney, / have deemed the {
me opportune for the submission to {
our body of the entire subject of the 4
resent method of enforcement or t
of the laws in ques- '
on by the police, and the further I
lestion whether, in your Judgment, f
ny changes in, or repeal of, the laws '
ere under discussion should be enact v
| by the incoming legislature? And, a
you shall be Of opinion that
ranges should be made in the law i
meet changed conditions, the court q
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