The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
Resources of the Native in the
Way of Strong Drink.
THE GLORlES OF OKOLEHAO
Double Drunk Caused by Ava and
Maniacal Drunk by Swipes-Na-
tives Kept Out of Saloons
by High Prices.

'-N'ANe'eis 10 " thC pI party dHu u
prohibition in the United States are del
uging Honolulu with inquiries about tn,
J liquor traffic in the Hawaiian islands
The understanding of those to whom the
btionists intend to ask congress to pro.
hibit the traffic in the territory of Ha.
wall.
There has never been any active total
is very little of the sentiment that starts
such movements. The liquor traffic, 81
far as it has been the subject of legisa-
ton, has been treated in its political and
economic aspects. The moral aspect has
not received much con.dera ton, except
indirectly, as when it intruded itself in
the shape of a proposition for the benefit
or welfare or protection of the native Ha-
Waiian. Aloha, or love. for the native Ha-
waiian has been made to do duty in be-
half of all sorts of propositions in legis-
lation and in public. social and religious
affairs. If man has wanted anything
done. which he could not expect to ac-
complish on the merits of his proposal, the
attempt has always been made to put it
on the basis of benefiting the native Ha-
VAIN The assumption of aloha for
the native, meaning love or a sense of
responsibility for his welfare and of the
duty of protecting him as a ward from his
own weaknesses, has often been a more
potent instrument than the soundest or
most potent argument. Aloha for the
native. though it has become somewhat
discredited of late, because of the mani
testify hypocritical use to which it has
sometimes been put. has always been a
lever n irer
lost all its virtue yet
About the only effect it has had on
liquor legislation has been to restrict the
number of saloons and keep the price of
drinks above what it was supposed the
ordinary native Hawaiian could afford to
pay. With beer at % cents a drink and
other liquors in proportion, it was figured
out that the "haole,' whether "mala-
him. spending the money he brought
with MN, or a "kamaaina," spending the
profits of lucrative sugar stock. could
auench reasonable thirst; while no
temptation would be offered to the native
who had only suit of cotton clothes, a
lei around his hat and two or three fish
tled up in II leaves to show for the labor
Oh the day and his ancestral taro patches
now turned into rice fields by the Chinese
or sugar plantations by the missionaries.
And practical results justified the theory,
In consequence the liquor traffic legisla-
ton of Hawaii stands at present as fol-
lows:
Licenses to engage in the manufacture
pt olstllled or fermented liquors may be
issued at the discretion of the minister of
the interior on the payment of license
lees and internal revenue taxes about
equal to those required in the United
states. AS a matter of fact there have
oeen neither breweries nor distiileries in
hawaii for years, simply because the mar
rowness of the available market and the
cost of coal and other raw materials
would not make one profitable. A brewery
company has just been organized with a
arge capital and expects to begin bust
hess very soon.
Licenses to sell liquors of all kinds, sa-
DON licenses in short are issued on the
payment of fee of $1,000 a year in ad-
Fance. Saloons must close at 11:40 d. m |
md must not open before 6 a. M, and. |
Ike all other business houses except res |
auFants, must keep closed all day Sun |
lay. These requirements are observed |
mere are comparatively few communities |
n the islands large enough to make a sa- |
Don under these conditions profitable, |
mere are IA in Honolulu, island of Oahu;
ne each in Lahana, Waikiki and Kahu- |
ii. island of Maui: three in Hlo.; one in
laval; % in all. The last legislature
assed what is known as the light wine
nd beer act, which authorizes the issue
not to exceed three licenses a $3.50 |
ear each, in each judicial district to
ell light wines, beers and ales only six |
avs in the week, between the hours of r
M and s .. m.
There are % judicial districts in the is
anas and an exception was made of the
1strlct which Includes Honolulu, and
Which is entitled to nine such licenses
'hese licenses have all been issued, there
eing about three applicants for each. All
he places licensed have not vet been
pened At the most. therefore, there are
the islands not to exceed 10S places
'here intoxicating drinks can be sold
ne population of the islands is about
10000, including native Hawalians. Jap
nese, Chinese, Portuguese, other Euro
cans and their descendants, Americans
nd their descendants
Before the advent of the light wine and
eer saloon the % full licensed saloons
'ere not the only places where liquor
oIld be obtained. Every bathing resort
long the Waikiki beach sold LIQUID re-
'eshments in a semi-clandestine manner.
4 every plantation village and at every
"a coast landing some place could be
'und, and that without much trouble.
mere beer, usually warm, or a drink of
square lace. as gin is coiloquially
illed could be obtained. In addition to
rs the Japanese, of whom there are be-
seen 10000 and 10000 in the islands. OBJ
ined their national beverage saki.
trough certain licensed importers who
stributed it to their customers in orig
al packages. This branch of the traffic
as concession partly by way of COM :.
iment to the nation that was supplying
} large proportion of the sugar plan
ton labor of the islands and partly be-
ause when Hawaii was an independent
ut defenseless sovereignty Japan kent
man-of-war in Honolulu .harbor.
Still the native Hawaiian does not AL
avs go thirsty. Even in this Alice-in-
cumberland country, where beer costs
no bits a glass and the best cigars )
ants apiece, he has always managed to
1T some share of the exhilaration of in
With ava pronounced an
am, swipeS and okolehao foh-koh-lv-
ow), the 10000 natives who represent the
onulation of 100000 that Captain Cook
'und here when he discovered the is
nds 100 years ago, manage to furnish
leir quota of the DRINKS who find their
ay to the courts.
OF these three kinds of drinks only nne