The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-06-16
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MAUI, June, 1875.

MAUI, June, 1875.
| Mrs. Stoves amusing description of party
of negroes, trying in such way to catch their
masters horse, for pursuit of runaway, as to
only scare him away, seems to have found its
counterpart in the efforts of officials to arrest
distillers of ardent spirits on Maui. Going in
broad daylight on the public highways, in the
sight of everybody, they have been surprised
that they discovered no stills Meanwhile the
liquor business fourishes, as it did not for
merly. 1t is reported that thousand dollars
have been thereby made by single person at
Kula, and there is no good reason to doubt the
report. A feast, recently held in Hamakua, in
aid of Church, was poorly attended, because,
unlike the generality of native feasts now-a-
days, it was "dry" If serious evils have al
ready resulted from the liquor distilation, it
can be foreseen that, with its increase-like
the case of the camel, which put its head into
an Arabs tent, and afterwards got its whole
body in, and could not be persuaded to go out,
the monster of intemperance may yet effect
such an entrance amongst the natives, that our
not too powerful government cannot exercise
him.
1t has been gravely argued by intelligent
persons, that the licensing of an establishment
at Waikiki, for the wholesale of ardent spirits,
would break up this illicit distillation. Per-
haps it would be well at the same time to
license an establishment for incubation with
leprosy, scrofula and other diseases, in order
to thus prevent their prevalence in the COM
munity.
1t has been bitterly maintained by others,
tina laws against the use of ardent spirits by
the natives were an illiberal legislation; and
that also the cutlery against the sale of molas-
ses to the native manufacturers of 50 swipes,"
was interference with legitimate trade. This
matter will be understood by viewing it in the
light of the fact that legislation to protect from
overt wrongdoing is not perversive Of liberty, but
rather essential to it. If this is not true all civil
government is improper Now, If it is apparent
that the removal of the restrictions against the use
of intoxicating drinks BY the natives will ruin the
Industrial social aud moral interests of society," our
liberty itself requires that those restrictions be
tinued. If also the sale of moasses to natives in
variably results in their manufacture Of okolehao"
public opinion, If civil statutes ought to forbid
every planter from avarieiousIy seeking petty profits
BY such sales; Just as our government forbids the
indiscriminate sale Of arsenic 1t is to be hoped
that those engaged in this business viii now beware
lest when they fsrreted out, their names become
execrable as the liquor traffic itself Whoever
can feel qualification in this pandering temptation
to the poor, weak wasting native race for the sake
ola few paltry dollars, knows how devils feel.
Some who grIeve the present state FITTINGS,
hopelessly ask,-Can a stream rise higher than its
fountain !-thus boldly implying dereletion on the
part ofour government. Thereby to be made is
Agitatel Governments are governed BY public senti
ueut. Where virtue and morality prevail, there