The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-14

places which are difficult to find.
The great profits in it enable those
who carry on the business either to
suppress all evidence, or bride the
officers in the distant districts. In
some parts of the Kingdom the peo-
pie unite to oppose any prevention
of this illicit trade. The only way
to suppress it is by employing u
superior order of men for police
duty" With regard to illicit selling
the same gentleman said, "convic-
tions for the offense of illicit selling
are constantly made, but it is so
difficult to obtain evidence that the
great majority of those who are en-
gagged in the business arc not de-
tected and punished. There is
neither ambiguity nor hesitation
here. There is no installing what
is meant. The confirmation of the
story was made to the Legislature
of 1884 in equally emphatic terms.
This state of affairs has been adj
duced by the Government as q reason
for legalizlng the issuance of licenses
to the other islands.
But other conditions are neces-
sary to render the legalized business
hot lucrative, which it can not be
with present high rates of license
and duties-but simply paying for
the time and outlay incurred by the
person cmbarking in it. Is the popu
lation in the country districts sufli-
GENTLY large to support a public
house, or if the name should be pre-
ferred by some gentlemen, a rum
shop? In the opinion of the writer,
in most cases it is not. The person
taking out license in most of the
districts in which licenses are legal
lied would in all probability waste
both time and money. The people
do not require such an establishment.
They would not patronizc it. They
have not the means. They are regu-
lar hard workers at not high rate
of wage. They have not time or
money to waste in public house,
nor, being under contract, would
their employers suffer them SO to
waste their time, even were they ever
so inclined. The supporters of a
public house are generally found in
a large floating population, being
men of no fixed habits, loungers,
fond of gossip, earning easily and at
irregular intervals the money they
get, and spending it as they get it.
This is not the character Of men
working on plantations. Provisions
of the law not easily circumvented
prevent any one from running him
self by frequenting those houses, us
trust bills can not he collected, and
the keeper of the house is liable to n
heavy penalty should he take any
thing but cash in payment for his
wares. This is going about as far
in the way of protection as is com
patible with the freedom OF action
which is the natural and constitu-
tional right of every man. Educa-
ton and intelligence must have some
influence in directing lives and ac-
tions. Men are not to be used as
machines or treated like dumb ami
mails, nor is their individuality to be
swamped by some few others, we'll
meaning no doubt, but who have not
monopolized all the sense and con-
scientousness in the world.
Would-be ultra rcformcrs, who
would deprive whole community
of what are necessaries for many, in
order to put an end to ovcr-indul-
gcncc in few, should remember
that the strongest nations from time
immemorial used fermented liquors,
and that the strongest men and
nations of the present day do not
abstain from them. 1t has never
been shown that the vitality Of any
people has been injured by their
lawful use. On the contrary, it has
been precisely in those countries
where they have been freely used
that the populations have most in
creased. Wine was said to have
been made from rice by Ching
Noung, Emperor of China, 1898
years b. G. The art Of making wine
was said to have been brought from
India to Egypt by Bacchus at very
remote date. a colony Of vine
dressers from Ionia settled at Mar
settles about GOO years b. e., and
taught the people of South Gaul the
art of cultivating the vine. Ale was
known as beverage at least 4OO
; years b. G.. 1t is mentioned both
by Herodotus and Zenophon; and
since those times has been in con-
tnuous use by Anglo-Saxons, Danes,
and Germans. Pliny, the great ma
turalst who persisted at Pompeii A
ID. 70, says, "All the western nations
of Europe have liquor made OF
, corn and water with which they in