Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-21

own as many as nine shares, and
the balance of the shareholders
have only one or two and a very
few three. In the association of
Christiania are 400 shares.
Make it an offence of no more
than one years and not less than
six months Imprisonment at hard
labor to manufacture liquor, sell
liquor or have in possession any
liquor not bought from the parties
authorized to sell and provided in
the Government Dispensary with
the proper labels.
Make it an offence with fine
of not over five hundred and not
less than one hundred dollars for
any steamer, railroad or public
carrier to convey liquor not
labeled with the Government Dis
pensary labels and received from
them or from an association of the
Government Dispensary.
Make it also an offence of equal
size to counterfeit or unlawfully
put out liquor not approved by the
Government Board of Control.
Before issuing a license to a
district association the Minister
of the Interior should have
petition from one quarter of the
voters of the district, that they
want saloon, and then he
should order an election saloon
or no saloon-to be held one
whole day from 8 a. m. till 9 p. IN.
in order to give everybody a
chance to vote. Plantation peo-
pie are not ready to vote till after
seven, when they have had a wash
and their dinner. Let men and
women of Hawaiian, European,
or American birth or descent vote,
and when the vote be declared for
saloon, the Minister of the In
terror shall issue the license.
The price of license should be
about 5000, that we may have
several saloons in districts of i'm
portance, so nobody has too far to
go to get drink, but the licenses
in one district should all belong
to one association only. The
drawback with the old licenses
has been they are too hight, and
there would be a very doubtful
profit in the business in the
country districts, and there could
only be supported one in large
district, and that one would have to
do his best to keep the population
drunk in order to make money.
This is all wrong. Get small
license, do not encourage drink
ing, give us good drinks, use the
profits for our public improve
ments, and have the whole retail
trade controlled by the law-abid-
ing and patriotic citizens, who
want always to have the saloon so
run, that it does not interfere with
their plantations or other inter-
ests, by their employees getting
drunk.
The country districts are not
troubled with too good police, and
this is another reason why we
must arrange matters so that it
will be easy for them. They will
have no use for a duty, that they
have forgotten anyway-catching
a Chinese store-keeper in selling
liquor-(no ka mea, ua oluolu loa
kela Pake, aole hiki.) When no
liquor comes to the other islands
except from the Government Dis
pensary to the local saloon the
policeman's wages will have to be
raised, as he will not be treated to
a drink as often as before. This
is one of the drawbacks with this
scheme. If a store-keeper now
does not sell liquor and opium it
is very hard for him to compete
with the Chinese, who make their
profit on liquor and opium, and it
is hardly right that the cou ltry's
citizens should work under such
disadvantage in their competition
with set of people, who are here
for what they can take away.
Let us therefore have both
opium and liquor legitimately,
but we'll regulated, so they do least
possible harm and l hope that our
now converting legislature will be
able to make good laws for the
regulation of the sale of both and
the result would be, | am con-
WINGED, the improvement OF the
nation socially and morally.
Neither can be kept out and the
best lawmakers can do with an