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our streets spitting to the right and to the left, just to assert his 
proud and free and independent spirit. Unless we can create a 
public sentiment against this custom, and unless an educational 
campaign is started, that condition of affairs is going to continue. 
Now as to the remedy: Hawaii is indeed a Paradise of the 
Pacific, and you gentlemen, here before me, representing the chief 
industry of this Territory, are the very bone and sinew of our 
niaterial prosperity. What you want, you get. Your interests 
and rights are paramount in the affairs of this Territory. 
Is there one individual here of you sound, hard-headed busi- 
ness men, who believes that you can carry on with the greatest 
success your work as sugar planters, unless our health conditions 
are niaintained ? Is there among you anyone who throwing aside 
the dollars and cents, is willing to sacrifice Hawaii's present 
reputation — the most beautiful and healthful place in the Pacific 
Ocean? Gentlemen, I do not believe that there is. You .gentle- 
men are today straining every nerve to extend your acreage and 
increase your yield. 
I come to plead with you for Hawaii's future, because once 
yellow fever gains an entrance here it will start an epidemic that 
will claim hundreds, perhaps thousands, of victims, an epidemic 
that will blast Hawaii's reputation abroad, cost hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to eradicate and no man can estimate the 
cost to our commerce and your business through the quarantine 
restrictions that would be imposed against us. It will be equally 
as disastrous should malaria gain a foothold here. 
]\Iauritius was known as the Paradise of the Indian Ocean. 
It was a place where England sent her officers and regiments 
from India to recuperate. Yet from a paradise it became a pest 
hole. Sometime between '61 and '65, malaria was introduced and 
in the next few years 350,000 people perished from the disease 
and those islands have never recovered from the blow. That is 
what will happen to Hawaii if we do not take the necessary steps. 
I want you to appreciate that you are men who get things, and 
I want you to act as disciples and go back to your homes and talk 
about what I have told you until there will be created such a 
sentiment in favor of this thing that it will have to come, for in 
no other way can we get it. It is a fact that every great move- 
ment has to be preceded by a campaign of education. 
The Board of Health for three years has been carrying on a 
campaign against rats in an effort to make this place plague- 
proof, and if in addition to this campaign against the plague rats, 
3'ou will use your influence in a campaign against yellow fever 
and the mosquito which is here, and also against the conditions 
which make their breeding possible, you will have done for Ha- 
waii the greatest and most beneficial piece of work you have yet 
attempted, and you will have safeguarded your own future, for 
I assure you, most candidly, you cannot carry on your work with 
the same financial success unless Hawaii's health conditions are 
