Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-18
+ THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
VIEWS OF ONE WHO WAS MANY
WEARS A DEALER.
Agreement on Some oints with Chief
Jusaioe Judd--ABolish the Treat
ing system.

ALOliVh ASObhhAe -
issue of the 18th inst. Chief Justice
Judd favors the public with his
opinion on the liquor question,
and attaches a report of the ar
rests for drunkenness made during
several years. These figures in
themselves amount to nothing or
very little. as the learned judge
failed to show in how many cases
the arrests and convictions were
executed on one and the same
person, and consequently the
stated increase does not prove
that the liquor habit has claimed
a greater number of victims over
the foregoing year.
Some of his ideas are really
good, others are entirely too arbi-
trary.
In number /, combining the
hours for the sale of liquor to
from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. he is en-
tirely wrong.
These hours may suit the pro-
fessional hobo or those whose oc-
cupation allows them to absent
themselves from their place Of
business for such q purpose dur
ing the day, but what about the
mechanics, laborers and others,
whose duties do not permit such
leisure? Surely those are entitled
to some consideration in this
question.
In number 2, he is perfectly
correct. No Legitimate business
needs any hidden entrance any
more than screens before their
doors and blinds before their win
dows. Let everyone wishing to
take drink of any kind go into
saloon through the front door like
a man, and no decent person needs
to be ashamed to be seen taking
harmless glass of beer, etc, by
those passing outside. In object
ing against pictures and decora-
tons in saloon he goes too far,
as 1 presume that even saloon
keeper has a right to spend his
money as he pleases. Besides he
seems to overlook the fact, that the
contingent that furnishes the
DRINKS is rarely to be found in
handsomely furnished saloon, as
such place is not congenial to
them.
The Judge is right in Directing
against games and sports OF any
kind in saloon. Prohibit these
and the private rooms in saloon
and you will clear such places Of
the professional sharp and hobo.
But in forbidding the chairs and
tables in saloon, the Judge
speaks of what he knows nothing.
Let anyone make observations on
this point, and he will find out
that around the bar the noisiest
crowd and the most DRINKS are
to be found, while in that part OF
a saloon where ample provisions
are made for the seating of the fire.
auenters of such places, rarely
any disturbance occurs, for the
simple reason that the persons
therein use the saloon for what ii
was originally intended-a place
accessible to anyone for the pur-
pose of friendly conversation
with the pleasant interlude OF a
J drink of what may happen to
tickle the palate of the individual
in question.
Ii changes are to be made, !
would advocate the abolition OF
the gaily decorated bar. Let there
be a liquor room, where no one
has the right of entrance, except
those connected with the estab-
lishment, let all customers sit
down at tables and be served by
walters with what they desire
and, above all, abolish the "treat
ing system" Fourteen years ex
perience in the liquor trade have
convinced the writer, that thu
root of all drunkenness is to b.
found in this abominable habit
L know of no greater absurdity
than paying for another man.
drinks and expect that the SAM
shall Immediately afterwards pa.
for mine, or that any man SHOULD
treat q saloonkeeper or his barker
er to portion of their own mer
chandise; one might as we'll trea
a shoemaker to new pair o
soles. By enforcing the anti
treating law those without mean
will be kept out of the saloon, tn