The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-14


who dwelling there were unable or
unwilling to save the city OF their
homes from such contamination, Yet
this is precisely what our Legislature
Is asked to effect.
Another consideration to be ad
dressed to large body Of voters IS
this. who is TO get the prizes? L say
that it is possible-nay more, hlghly
prob.bIe-that the twelve monthly
drawings (Section g. may go on Tor
years without any prize ticket beng
held within this kingdom-unless
they be manipulated at first to IN
dnce Hawaiians 10 buy chances. In
In an Austrian lottery the chance or
the buyer was l to 511, 038 In the /
old United States lotteries We have |
seen that IS per cent. OF the receipts
were devoted to prizes; IN france
5-24 of the receipts went for expenses
and 10 "a TO subscribers; but the Act
now before the Legislature leaves
the projectors wholly unfettered as
to the proportion to be distributed
Here the proposed subsidy and
local expenditure reach S6l2,OOO per
anpum add to this, agencies and
advertising all over the world, which
must be paid for before prize fund
begins to appear.
By Section 6, Clause 2, there must
be a board of five directors, each OF
whom must own five hundred lOO
dollar shares, and majority of these
directors must be domlclled In HOMO.
lulu. It is pertinent to ask here II
these are to be paid up shares, SO
that our three resident directors must
each contribute $4,000.
By Clause the bond to be fur
nished to the Minister Of Finance
only amounts to one quarters sub
3 sidy.
q Section 7 makes all other lotteries
a illegal, and, by implication, constr
tutes this lottery company great
: detective and prosecuting agency.
: Section s authorizes the Company
4 to acquire "by purchase or otherwise
+ all lands or real property 1t can get
, hold of. A great deal has been said
O and written, and a little actually
4 done. towards the establishing of a
a class of small landowners. Home
steads and homesteaders have been
4 declared to be the one thing MOST
!. devoutly to be desired, but what
n chance would our small fry have
"a against such a shark as this. Why
n in few years the lottery company
"a would hold half the lands of the
% Kingdom in pawn or in absolute
,e proprietorship, and [ question II the!
a would prove very lenlent Landlords
s. or mortgages. -,
4 Section guarantees the use Of tn
m Hawaiian mail service for the lotter,
mail matter for twenty-five years
"a INDEPENDENT of the wisdom, or tn
"a reverse, of this guarantee, it may b
of questioned how far it is competen
es to this Legislature, in the tail end g
I'd its session, to bind its successors TO
an a quarter of a century to come, t
of sanction that which is forbidden a
n criminal by the principal members
IT. the International Postal Union.
al Those who favor Or who SILENT
oe acouiasce in the establishment j
'lu Hawai- + at this o.ah tla1w7se homeless,
= banished criminal are either those
who are hopelessly Ignorant OF the
4 economic effects and indifferent to
J. the mural consequences of such an
q Act, or those VINO cynically say 81
o shall buy no tickets, [ shall lose ne
;. money, I want no prizes, but
shall share in the anticipated intla
IS tion-let those lose who list" MOI
v very lofty morality perhaps, bu
!. not so uncommon as it should be.
o. I conclude with a few words from
IS a speech of the then Senator latter
3. wards PresidenN Garfield. He said
es in speaking against paying deb
20 contracted in gold with inconyertlbl
Of paper. eff public morality did nc
as protest against any such plan, e1
"a iightened public selfshness woul
RS refuse its sanction"
III I recommend this saying to til
in consideration of those who have ne
he yet made up their minds on tn
to lottery question.