The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30

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formity with the requirements of both, or either
as Grimes. He hold that legal liberty NAV be
moral wrong; but he gives no clue to diseove,
the peculiar code OF ethics by which his ideas OF
morality are governed-not by the Old or New
Testaments, l presume, as neither would SUD-
port such views; and it Is evident that the
Christian Scriptures have not affected his heart
with charity towards his erring brother.
He alludes to the fact that vendors of LIQUOR
ere required to pay a license of $1,000 a wear,
and says that this g brands it as an illegitimate
business Are Bishop & Co. carrying on an
Legitimate business because they also have to
pay a license of $1,000
The writer says: Hawaii licenses certain
prostitutes in Honolulu, F" and asks, docs this
change the moral character of the act of fornica-
tion?" 1 answer, Hawaii has never licensed a
single prostitute, and therefore the moral char
acter of the act of forpication has not been thus
affected.
Chief Justice Judd is quoted as having said
81 The mere possession of opium, no matter how
small the quantity, is a violation of the law.
The law IN reality holds the possession of
"opium, or any preparation thereof" to be
criminal. Accordingly the man is a criminal
who administers a dose of paregoric, or who
keeps it in his house.
But, after a preface of half a column of stuff
which is utterly irrelevent to his subject as set
forth in the caption of his letter, and which, be-
sides, in many of its sentences is utterly unin-
teligible to any one but himself, he at last
arrives at the discovery of his mares nest. He
Ao SAoI DS tHC ONSOI oo hCl
as the seller, is a partner in the wrong, and
that to punish the enc and not the other is un-
just" The fact here to be inferred, that dealers
in liquor are punished for carrying on a legiti-
mate traffic, is perhaps as new to them as it is
to myself or the public, and equally so must be
the suggestion, that persons who use liquor
should be punished, irrespective of any other
consideration.
He thinks Temperance workers and orators
are largely responsible for the Misrepresentation
so prevalent on this point " (if the reader can
understand what that means). He says the Ii
quor traffic is wrong, and yet objects to the en-
deavors of temperance workers to curtail
that traffic by inducing drinkers to abandon the
use of acohol according to the only means that
has ever proved successful, viz: by the exercise
of Christ-like charity and an endeavor by de-
cent and humane treatment to bring such back
to their proper senses. He speaks of 'the Ii
quor buyer as though he were jealous at seeing
him ''petted" and "coddled' and reformed"
This man can doubtless smell a dIinker as far
off as Jeffrey could a Protestant (and that was a
good many miles, according to Jeffrey's own state
ment) and he is evidently in favor of treating
those whose exhalations are unsavory to his olfac-
tory sense, much after the anne fashion as that
of the illustrious Judge. Such a one could have
bounded for the Inqusition without a peer. Even
the "buyer''of liquor, simply, he would have pun
nished-but what would he do with the man who
some times drinks to excess: AS it is, there ex-
lists in Hawaii a law against drunkenness, which |
provides a penalty of five or six dollars for the
first offence, and for the second Imprisonment at |
hard labor, not to exceed three months. This
has been often carried into effect and in
one notable instant, the claims of an embezzler
in the Oahu Jail were considered before those of
drinker, in the distribution of soft jobs"
According to this modern Jeffreys, however, this
is not enough-perhaps he would like to see a
law providing q ten years sentence and a little
physical torture might be added by way of pas
time for such reformers as he would be able to
Iead, such as faying or disemboweling the
offender.
In conclusion, let me say that I have never
heard of any one being "lionized {" or IS exhibit
led, a." because he had drank liquor to excess and
vas making an effort to reform his course, I'M
ess it were in the instances of a few who had
Joined the Fort Street church, and who lost no
opportunity to remind people of the solidity of
heir intention to keep strong in the armor of
A few others who have fallen by the wayside,
is true, have been tolerated ; these are such as
nave money, station, or influential relatives, or
md rare. are of necessity tolerated, and some
lines sought after. =.
Mr.. EDITOR The barrel beer is a legal mea-
iure, filled with water at g. F., it weighs 500
BIS. Beer of a gravity of Is pounds - is q
correct technical expression. If it did mean, as
: $50 - supposes, that a barrel of beer weighs
6 lbs. more than a barrel of water, we could
asily deduct from it the specific gravity for
316 300 equals 1.0533, for ale Us lbs }
.0S33. Mr.. Cruzan gives parts in weight in 1G
'arts IA water, 1 alcohol, "a little extract of
Or in per cents. 6.25 per cent. alcohol,
rs per cent. water, specific gravity of that
quals 0 1856. Different from beer, O.0647
rom ale, O.O947. To make up that difference
re have a little abstract of malt. Extract of
IS mainly grape sugar, its specific gravity
scarcely differ from that of. sugar. l will
substitute sugar for extract of malt.
'peciic gravity of water 1000, of alcohol, 0.80,
t sugar 1853 (British) or 1885 (Maumene).
Will the "%**" -thematic tell me if in
,nglish elementary school books there is a
roblem like this A merchant has IA bushels
( wheat weighing so lbs. per bushel, i bushel
f wheat weighing 40 lbs. per busheI, how
lany bushels of wheat, weighing 60 lbs. per
ushel, has he to mix with these Is bushels to
ct a mixture weighing So lbs. per bushel ? If
here is, he will probably be able to find out
ow much sugar he has to add to Mr.. Cruzan's
4 water and l alcohol to bring the solution up :
, the specific gravity as given Gas he under
i) by Mr.. Lee. Leaving the "*#*'
'athematician to his problem, we will proceed
1 another way. Mixing sugar with water is |
Ike mixing potatoes with VIII at, the small kernels s
t the wheat slip between the potatoes, and one
ariel of potatoes, mixed with one barrel of {
heat, do not make two bushels of the mixture. t
he water molecule has an atomic weight of Is,
ne sugar molecule of $40. The small water
lolecules slips between the big sugar molecules, :
he mixture shrinks in volume, and thereby :
{ higher specific gravity. To Is ounces of j
ater we have to add 3'75 ounces of sugar to 1
ct a solution of the specific gravity of ale. An '
unce of alcohol has a slightly larger volume
ian one ounce of water, we should therefore
ave to add even more than 3'75 ounces of a
agar. The fact is, we do not understand Mr.. q
statement. What does he mean The !
nglish revenue officer has Il measured bottle, :
hich filled with water would contain 1000
rains; he fills it with wort, weighs it, if he 4
nds that its contents weigh 1016 grains, he I
nd the brewer fraternity, will name the beer
lade from it, Is pounds beer. Now, after, I'M
Mr.. Lee, we see that Mr.. Cruzan's
.atement and Mr.. Lees statement of gravity =
re perfectly reconcilable. The following
nalysis of Speyer beer, is by Halenke:
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