The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-09-24
PACIFIC
commercial Advertiser.
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admit into your columns articles disapPro'inS
nxnuf4cture Of and traffic in intoxicating
and also q, times modest COMMUNICATIONS OF
T-,,osite tenor, which was all very well IN lang
a sort Of hebdomadsl pastime; but cow the
-, II things hss changed in the sudden Forward
t-snen, in sugar plantations, and above ala, SINCE
-.,.ez has turned, not sour but anphlo' ana
=, 10 the sea like shad, or at best 10 the manure
an Can't moIasses be put to some better use tina"
E.roloring the Sc! Have We a right to destroy 'nuS
hat Ie bon Dieu has given us' Is there ~ g
,r,b, faint Of crininality about nt Are We w
,, AZ or rather coIIuding with the best-inten-
,one! people in the world to do wrong Don'
t,oz-we are IN a quandary we have trusted nAe
In 70 the sugar refinery, hoping that they m'gnt
i, mon. some process TO stay the present waste OF
-.t,sses II il rumored that they have already zone
=. and that quite a nice profit can be made out OF
..ond moIasses- That is encouraging, hut unless
The uIanters can make something too. they Will not
,s likely 10 90 into ecsiacies about It. l; IS notice
able that the oil planters are getting very shy Of
srperimeuts, most Of them are desirous of making
,ssir molasses into rum or pure spirits. as other
.upar countries do. l have my doubts aoout the
rrosfs Of that even; however that may be. the ques-
ton Of disabling OF no dlstilling has Decome' He
I,hor 10 the planters, a vital one to every person on
the islands. ana must De iAceu oVt'eA
,5;ournment Of another Legislature. The Supreme
Court has settled the constitutionality OF (not) FUR
,;.bino Intoxicating drinks TO the natives. | decided
IL approve Of that decision. and az to distillIng mere
.sif, I disapprove OF that more decidedly still. But
the distiI1ation Of alcohol or pure spirits Tor exporta-
ZION seems 10 me another question, and has nothing
whatever to do with the great principles OF temper
,n,e or Of furnishing natives or any one else with
49, NTLo -~aotHan Ta--Ea rnrp
sniri,s be distilled from molasses and ex ported from
the kingdom without increasing the present amount
Of drunkenness here . 1t would be imtecile to cay
:, can or cannot, for no one can possibly know until
il has been tried-I only think it can be surrounded
With such safeguards as to prevent It's consumption
here If thought best. Some planters aver that they
could prevent drunkenness much better on their
limitations II they were allowed 10 dist;ll their mo-
I,sses skimmings, ~washings and bad CAM. and keep
the spirits under lock and key till exported, than
now. since the laborers have free access to al these
AZ present, and one eau easily guess The use they
make Of them. It would be useless 20 deny the
l.borers these waste articles unless the PLANTER had a
brigade of policemen to enforce his orl$rs, besides it
would appear mean, and q reputation for meanness
is not desirable on a plantation. There IS a wide diff
ference in distiIling pure spirits on a slgar planta-
ton for expectation. aud dis;illing pOt,:o whisky IN
Ireland, for independent ueighbors. The latter is
interested in selling every drop he can gor his pecu-
mary benefit, while, on the other hand the planter
is interested 10 not selling a drop to.ei%er %neighbors
or laborers in order to keep peace ~anSFkeep his men
in the highest possible working conditGI, and there
is little doubt but be would second tEs government
in the severest preventive measures.
Is ii morally wrong to distill alCohoi; Let US con-
slider that a iIttie. Is It necessary mention the
million and one purposes for which It is used in
medicine, sciences and arts. in order ~ establish its
claim as a necessary of life and civilization? With
ous it the doctor would have to abandon his lotions,
tiuctures and liniments, the chemist his laboratory
and the perfumer his trade. 1t is the solvent of
every variety Of resins, the uses Of which are counted
by legions. Mrs Tidy would have to forego polished
bureaus and tables. and vanished beisteads and
chairs; Miss Folly her rosy-cheeked pigments and
the jeweler his trade and the old bache-
Tor gluttOn his tea, for the want Of r. spirit lamp to
and to warm. Thermometrical observations in
Arctic regions could not be performed. The hun
dred Thousand cheap and now Indispensable uses of
India rubber and Gutta perc6a would never have
been known but for alcohol. DR.. Jayne and all other
temperance quacks would quick lose their
were il not for their fiery friend. Why,
the Friend stated, sometime since, that Dir. Garrett,
the American naturalist, used three hundred gallons
o; alcohol in the last three years preserving Pacific"
6sh for the use Of the department of natural history
in "OId- Harvard presided over by Professor
AgassiL. II such Is the case, these islands will not be
able 10 produce alcohol enough from IT'S mollsses for
tie next hundred years to preserve specimens of new
hsh which are being created daily for the benefit of
silence. 4 big-souled, benevolent temperance radi-
cIl may say that we could get along very we'll with
cut specimens of spirit 6sh. En- 5isr l.! perhaps so;
l honor his opinion because it is my own. but per-
haps again I have no right to dictate to men OF
science how they shall preserve fish. In short. aIco-
aol nowadays enters into every department aud svo-
ntOu of life, a sort OF familiar spirit, a presiding
genius. one may say, as it is used for more purposes
than water. and without il civilization would roll
back Eve hundred years. Is such Il lean tee total
calamity desirable! Would there be less drunken
ness then ! Guess Tot. The Roman Emperors and
Vikings got beastly drunk on wine and beer before
Christian prelates took TO - Arabian dew"
Well, If alcohol is Indispensable and must be
maie, Why should not we do it out of good-foI-
nothing else molns-es and other ~rubbi9h. rather than
II should be manufactured out of good digestibIe
corn supply and demand requisite themselves
With the Rightly of fate. The useless stuff we man.
daeture at this end Of the world H5ill be Gust 90
much bread served at the other ty feed starving
lancashire AMI Lyonuaise perativeE1zupon This is
'euo'olence broad as humanity, md the sugar
growers Of the South should make ii : teeming corn
sI0"lng millions of the North undfIS and this kind
economy. The manufacturers of &C: mental Europe
-A-e oeets into sugar or alcohol, n, ;ording to the
'especive demand and don't seem - have any con-
-ehu0us scurples in the matter. The sane in
-'sFpOoI-there corn is made into spirits or bread