The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-20


particularly in those cases where
the offense might be called OF a
private character, and where the
charge is laid by private informa-
ton, as in libel, nuisance, etc. In
cases of libel, it has had an excel
lent effect. Bad men whose public
crimes have properly been exposed
through the press, have been ar
rested and lodged in jail at times
when bail could not be procured |
for hours; the object of the arrest
being simply for revenge, with no
intention of further pressing the
case.
1t is stated chat large expense is
incurred on account of our labor
laws, and that if no arrests were
allowed, a considerable decrease of
the police force would be possible,
with a corresponding decrease in
expense. 1t is not stated, however,
what proportion the costs collected
from these 5706 contract labor
cases bears to the additional ex-
pense made necessary by them. If
the costs collected averaged $3.50
in each case, it adds over $14 900
to the revenue from fines and costs,
but there are no figures to indicate
the cost in extra police, etc, to en-
force the labor laws.
Attention is called to the sup
preston of illicit distillation. To
this is appended the recommends
ton that retail or saloon licenses
be granted throughout the country,
five for the suburbs of Honolulu
and one or two in each district.
We may perhaps be allowed to
suggest that for Honolulu, one
might be located next the Moana-
lua Church, one at Kamehameha
School, one at ST. Louis College,
one at Punahou and another say
at the School House at Waikiki.
Then we might have one at the
Industrial School on Kauai, one at
Lahainaluna, another at the Maka-
wac Female Seminary or at the
church, one connected with the
Boys Boarding School in Hilo, and
one with Mr.. Davis school in Kona.
By all means let the saloon bles-
sing be given the eminent respect
ability it needs, in order to decrease
the work of the police, as intimated
in this excellent report.
1t further appears from the re-
port that the whole trouble with
the gambling business arises from
the impossibility of procuring hon
est and gentlemanly informers.
1t seems that these perverse and
unseemly persons are in the habit
of coming Ito the Marshal's and
Deputy Marshal's offices volunta-
rily," give information, and then
go off and tell the gambling dens
what they have done and get
money from them by way of black
mail. Then 10! When the officers
come around to break up the
wicked business, everything is Sc
rene, the gamblers receive the en-
issaries of justice with smiles of
welcome and the premises wear a
sort of Sunday look. Now if the
Marshal had added that some
times while the informer is in the
Office telling what he knows-his
conduct is so bad that an occa-
sional officer or other person slips
out to the sidewalk and removes
his hat, or does something else in
a perplexed kind of way, where
upon some Celestial or other on
the Post Office veranda or vicinity
rushes off towards the gamblers
headquarters-no one would have
been in the least surprised. But
after all it appears that it is the
unseemly conduct of these inform
ers which gives rise to the false re-
ports of corruption and bribery,
so says the Marshal on page As.
In view of the notorious fact of
open gambling in Honolulu, it
sounds like joke to be told that
gambling is only checked, not put
an end to entirely. But some
suggestions of useful character as
to the suppression of gambling are
made, as that the proprietors and
lessees of gambling houses should
be made liable to the punishment:
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