The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-07-30
RANDOM OPINIONS.

RANDOM OPINIONS.
Picked Up on the Street Corners.
"Suppose a lamp, gas-jet or cleo
trio globe burned all night in each
store, bank and place of business.
Suppose the front shutters were
taken down or had a hole cut in the
center. Then suppose patrolman
made regular rounds, looking into
the front windows or through the
shutter holes, every half hour. Sup
pose all this were done, how many
stores could a barefooted tramp
rob ?"
"Thieves love darkness. Thieves
love to have the front shutters up,
tight and strong. Then they slip IN
through skylight, and are perfectly
safe, althougP a whole army of
policemen loafed at the corner, or
directly i'll front of the looted build
ing"
Honolulu police ought to be able
to look into every business house, at
least every half hour. Merchants
ought to be able to have one light
burning all night. No thief will
rummage a store we'll lighted and
the front shutters down. If he turns
the light out, the patrolman will
know that something is wrong"
Each policeman should have a
beat, the boundaries of which should
be we'll defined. The same regula-
tons that are in force in all large
cities should be in force here. One
or two detectives of repute should
be attached to the force. It is the
duty of the police to prevent crime
but the detection Of criminals be.
longs to another branch Of the exc
cutive department"
"This duty on rice is all wrong
Rice should come in free. It isn't
to the rice plantations that this
country must look for its future vel
fare. We want cheap labor, must
have it, but when we get the labor
ers here we tax their food. The
truth is that the planters pay fol
this tax. If we want cheap labor
we must give them cheap food. And
no great harm would result, for oul
rice growers have protected mar
kot in the TJnitad Stataso
"Now, another point about cheap
labor. Coolie immigration from
China is forbidden in the United
States, Canada, and almost so in the
Colonies, but the coolies are as anxi
GUS to immigrate as ever. They
labor for 81 or SIS per month in
China, and they would be glad in
deed to work in these islands fol
that price. Planters should have ar
abundant supply of labor at not
greater rate than $3.50 per month
and with cheap rice and proper
management they could get it."
"There Is another curious fac
about this sugar business. No.
raw sugar will easily sell in the oper
market in the States for four or five
cents a pound. The entire crop Of
these Islands could easily be sold al
these figures, if it were put up in the
proper shape. Why can't it be done
Because the sugar trust won't allow
such action. The sugar trust says
no one shall sell sugar but us, anc
no one shall buy except from us
aud consequently the Hawaiian
Kingdom must suffer-"
Ct wanted an empty five gallor
wine keg the other day, and went tt
the different liquor stores to FIND
one. Quite number filled with
wine-so called-could be obtained
but the price was 81 each. Empty
ones would cost just as much. This
means that there is such demand
for wine, etc., on the other islands
that kegs cannot be obtained to fl
the orders. A five gallon keg Of
"wine is sold for ST. AS the wine
consists of questionable compound
worth about fifty cents a gallon, il
will be seen that the selling of kegs
is quite profitable. What is done
with the wine? Why, it is received
by Japs and Portuguese who bottle
the same and retail it out among
their friends. In this way thriv
ing trade is kept up, and no money
is wasted for licenses. The planta
ton laborers act as kind of sub