The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-06-23

evil then fight it always and neve,
make it legal to do evil And so they
dispute, and there is gin sold on the sly,
and there is opium smuggled and gamb-
ling goes on all the time, and it costs
large sums of money to hunt down the
rascals and no revenue coming in to do
it with.
Now, the plan is or should be to make
all evils pay, as they cannot be entirely
suppressed. First try murder. This is
an evil that the world has been making
the most stringent laws against, and still
murders are committed every day.
There can be no doubt but the laws
against the evil of murder is failure,
for 1t does not entirely suppress the MUIR
ders. Then license it, and don't try to
prohibit it and not succeed Arson
comes IN here, and should have a license
high enough to make it profitable to the
Government. Ii man wants to burn,
and perhaps destroy lives in so doing,
make him pay well for the privilege.
Treason, this evil can be fixed all right.
1t generally means big money to the
traitor, so make him pay we'll for his
license.
But leaving all these crimes and evils
OF this particular class, in which compe-
tent judges can classify and arrange the
proper license fees, let us consider adul-
try, fornication and such like, and they
certainly ought to be licensed, for
they can never be suppressed, for so
long as man and woman live, these
evils will exist. So put on the license,
and let US have our taxes paid by those
who will indulge in these sins. And
gambling-why, there can be no ques-
ton about this. Men will bet, they will
play cards for money, they will gamble
in many ways, and the laws won't en-
tirely stop them; so what you cannot
suppress, license and rake in the
revenue.
And, as lar as saloons, of course there
can be no question about them. Men
will drink, and if you don't have plenty
of open saloons they Will drink on the
sly, and that teaches them to be deceit
full. So let us have them supplied with
plenty OF saloons, and don't put on
great big license fee, for some could not
pay it, and that would be a prohibitary
measure, so far as they were concerned.
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chance in supplying these necessary
means OF preventing men from being
deceitful. Just think of the amount OF
revenue coming in from heavy license
fees.
AS regards opium, why it is folly to
attempt to suppress it. The Cinnamon
will smoke the stuff, and, this being the
case, why make them pay for the fun,
and don't prohibit its use or traffic in
any way, as that makes him do it on the
sly, and who wants to be instrumental
in making a Chinaman deceittul in a
matter OF this kind? Then comes the
good old argument, THE REVENUE. Every
body knows that in Honolulu there is
SOMETHING in the opium traffic. His
tory has taught even the stranger that
fact.
But really trying to stop all these
many evils, and they continue TO exist,
is folly, and as sensible men let US take
the course suggested by some editors,
and license what cannot be entirely sup
pressed. But evil is evil, and if one is
licensed it is unfair, it is manifestly un-
just, not to license all Let justice be
done though the heavens fall.
FAIR PLAY.