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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, July 29, 1901, Image 2

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TEI3PHOKE MAIN 241
P O BOX 81
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Jlntered at Uio FoBt Office at Honolnlu
H 5M as Second Class mall
tJUBSOBIPTION BAXKB
Per Month nnywhore In the
wniipn Islands 60
lor Year 6 00
Ecr Year postpaid to Foreign Goun
ttlea 8 00
7 wyablo Invariably In Advonoo
S jr S2SSTA JPropriotor and Pub-
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EiVKUZO NOEBIE Editor
KorlrtlnE In Honolulu
MONDAY JULY 29 1901
THOSE BEFOKMEBS
la looking over some old files of
newspapers the other day we found
a copy of Th Polynesian dated
March 30 1861 It contains an
article of which we take tbe liberty
to produce a portion for the speoial
benefit of the reformers of the
Azbill and Humphreys dans The
article was written in those doyB by
pious missionaries in response to
8 letter signed Old Yankee and
evidantly emanating from the same
ilk to which our present reformers
belong
A very suspicious looking Old
Yankee but who uudouotelly in a
Beceder in disguise propounds a
Btring of questions in the last Ad
vertiser touching the Maw to miti
Bate o which if not always very
clean in either language or ideas
and sometimes profoundly unintel
ligible yet bear within themselves
unmistakeablo evidences of coming
from a quarter of the coniruunitj
who are professionally seekers
after truth but who seem hitherto
to have been singularly unfortunate
either in not fiudiug it when sought
for or not knowing it when found
But as many of those seekers are
thought to bB men above suspi
oion and profess to be the friends
of this people and the Government
we feel it our duty to accommodate
them with an answer though under
other ciroumsta ices we would have
treated tho questions as frivolous
impertinent aud iudecorouB and tbe
questioners as political agitators of
less than nrdinnry oapacity and
morn than ordinary obstinacy
The inquirer asks
Tor whose benefit was tl is law
made Wbb it to protect and com
fort tho virtuoui or to shield pros
titutes from the old laws and bo ac
commodate libertines
Jt was to protect tho whole com
munity tho inquirer included their
wives and their husbands their
children nnd their childrens
dran from the evils arising from a
Bin which no law ever yet devised
has been able to banish from a
country least of all in places visited
by a large yearly transient popula
tion It is for the benefit of tbe
State whoso first duty touches the
health of thn people irrespective of
auy religions creed or observance
with whicli this or that portiou of
tho peoplo may eutertain tbem
selves It is for the benefit of the
Ohurob inasmuch as the distinction
now made enables the pastors to
purge the Church of those who
formerly onjoyed its privilege
while pursuing without opprobrium
and without check the osine sinful
courses
What Is ilmrit y in it fullest
broadest eonee See Report la St to
feel tendor towards brazen faced
harlots but to have no pity for
deserted husbands and parents i
We always thought that Inquirer
nnd his olass did not kuow charity
or at loast had a pigeon hole per
ception of its extent and beauty
Tho objects of charity in this oee
have been pointed out in our reply
io no jl lei wo uuain cnarny uue
to even the brazen faction ons
the charity of pulling them out of
the ditch even though tkoy fall
back into the next moment If the
questioner lives in a state of conti
nual backsliding and wears tho
mask of hypocrisy instead of the
brazsn face are not Gods charities
constant to him Trui we might
prefer to help tho worthy but our
perforences do not release us from
our duties
How shall the clas of people
who for a time used their utmost
endeavors to mike this law on po
sition a dead letter pnciio j a
little of that ohority about whinh
they preaoh so much Shal they
enroll a full complement of vile
females for the supply of Honolulu
market shield them from tbe lgl
penalties of prostitution employ
a physician to heal their
disease keep them in good
working omdition and then Ux the
hard hearted puritans to help pay
tbe bill
They maycpractice a little by
not misleading their hearers about
the import and practical effjots
of a law for the truth or untruth
of which they have chosen to take
the wori of prostitutes see qns
tion 6 and refuse the repeated
testimony of honorable
men who mingle more with the
people than they do or the officers
of the Government who exeoute the
law by not turning prayer meet
ings into political hustings and
by a proper application of 1
Cor xiii
Can you tell us stupid growlers
why charity in its fullest and
broadest sense needed a govern
ment appropriation of 4000dollnis
to help it in its work of love Was
not the broad oharity euough to
work without Buoh ample pay
No the broad oharity mferred
to has been sucked dry to enlighten
the heathens abroad to kep tbe
peace in Europe and for other
equally commendable spiritual ob
jects and has gone to look after the
803000 furnished by the broad
oharity of the United States to
civilize and this people
and so the Government w ob
liged to set upcharity on its own
account Some Pastors in every
age and country kill their shop to
save them from tho murrain the
more humane and more successful
treatment now is to cure thra
If these men of full and brod
charity found themselves iusuifi
cient to the work of Jookinir after
200 or 809 prostitute why did hey
not call on mora of the benevolent
and charitable for them are many
in the land to contribute of their
funds to this labor of love Wby
extort by laws from tho surly and
flint hearted od bigots who hite
prostitution tb rnriuiy neede 1 in
this charitable enterprise1
The principle of being released
from a tax on aoenuntof individual
opposition may be a familiar 4P
tioe or a new dodge with the en
quirei we refer it to tho Ohanuellnr
of the Exobequer or tho Chief
Justice How tho loafers won d
hail the application of the princi
ple to themselves
Mr Editor did you ever see
Blue LawaV An antiquarian ban
searched all over the
state and through the puri
tanio regions and he declares that
be can find no Buch Ibwb Please
tell him th it if lie wished to see a
Hpecimen of that genu 4 he must
come to the Hawaiian Island and in
the ants passed by its Legislature iu
I860 he will find not a dofunt but
a living Blue Law Some at loast
think it looks blue snjeJU bub
od burns blue
Yen nnd it has given the inquirer
tho blues That tho worse of it
Aud now Mr Euquirer permit
us iu our turn to oak if all this sense
leas uas about a law that js prov
v 3iagseaqBsspfrrpgmirax
ing itself in spite of your clamor is
anything more than a religious
sham for the political purpose of
carrying tho nexteloutions Believe
us sir the people are growing un
grateful for your sympathy You
failed to make them virtuous vou
now object to make them decent
You hold yoilr hand too high and
the wind bew the sejd away You
have tried jour experiment and the
nation can not bear two such
ordeals
Editorially the paper quoted
says l
We really beg pardon of our
readers for again referring to tho
law to mitigate c but the sub
ject is forced upon us and it dees
eeom as if our opponents would like
nothing better than to compel us to
silence by tno crossness of their re
marks and the apparent gusto with
which they again and again return
to tho subject We promise to
stand a great deal of abuse how
ever ere we agaia condescend to
uotice them
rt
Tho New Stoamer
The P M S S Korea will soon
be here The steamship is 672 feet
1 inr sixty three feet wide forty
fet deep draws twenty seven feet
of Mr md hns a displacement of
18 600 tou She has aocouimoda
tious fur 1530 passengers U00 of
whom art p ovided for in the first
cabin tinny in the steerage and
1200 in the Chinese or Oriental de
partment The Chinese quarters
are so arranged that the space may
be used for freight if unocoupied by
passengers
The Korea will have a speed of
between eighteen and twenty knots
an hour This power will fur
nished by two seta of quadruple-expansion
four cylinder vertioal en
gines having cylinders thirty five
inches fifty inches siveuty inuheB
and 100 iuchea in diameter respec
tively by sixty six inobes stroke six
double aud two single ended Scotch
boilers sixteen feet in diameter
working at a pressure of 200 pounds
to the square inch There are two
three bladea propellers nineteen
feet in diameter
With her Bister shipthe Siberia
recently launched the Korea will be
put on the run between San Fran
cisco aud Hongkong calling at Ho
nolulu Yokohama and Nagasaki
These two monster vessels will come
to the Pacific Coast together some
months hence and will be put into
commission at the same time To
gether their conttajt price is
4000 COO
A Lovely Story
James Love allege frau I on the
partof J A Maroon iu a supplement
edpetition for thi termination of the
spendthrift trust and claims thtt
Magoou is administering tbe pro
perty in the interest of Ljvhs
daughter MrAiauie K Hart with
whom he is no on good termi He
further alleges that when ho was
declared a spendthrift iu February
1895 it was at th instance of
Magoon who told him that all
charges of drunkenness idleness
and debauchery bad baen rtrickon
from the petition on file He furth
er claims that iligonn is renting tho
property for less than is being paid
for taxes In ooaolusiuu states
That in miouer and form as afore
i t i
nam a raua wai wuiauu uji yuur
petitioner by said J A Magoon and
your petitioner was tricked into
admitting that he was guilty of
drunkenness idleness and debauch
ery an admission he would never
have made for tbe same was not
true then or evpr
Hence the term
do you say the wedding was patriot
ic Algernon Well the bride
was red the groom was whjte and
her father who had all the bills to
pay was blue
Oh you cruel bny to take those
eggs out of tho nest I Think of tbe
poor mother bird when she
comes Tho mother birdn
dead rass How do you know
that I eoo it in your liotl
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Zinfand Port Etc
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