The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-09
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LuREMENTs.
Senate Minority Report Of the insoxi.
can, Committee Reeeived-or.
Russell Charges Plagiarism Upon
the Part of the Majority.

The minority report or the Senat,
committee on Intoxlcants was submit
TED 10 the lawmakers yesterday NOR
ming BY Dr- husseL In the documen
the Senator from the second distric
took occasion TO pay his respects Il
MS colleagues II the opposition rank,
IN no uncertain terms de CHARGE
| plagiarism in the report OF the major
ity, which was submitted some day:
| ago. The Senate took no action III
the matter, the report being laid oyel
awaiting translation intos Hawaiian
in substance it reads:
| The main features Of DR.. RusseI's
minority report, presented in the Senate
this morning, are as follows:
| While the largest part Of the objec-
| tons OF the majority constitute but
/ haphaZard assertions devoid of any
| foundation and may be passed over
| without notice, there are some, due
to ignorance of the subject or misun-
derstanding that are worth refuting.
1 begin with the objections coming
| from the business quarters, and espe-
cially from the capitalists, who have in
vested their capital in the liquor trade.
and challenge the majority Of your COM
mittee TO show where and how the pro-
visions OF the bill, in any manner tres
pass upon vested rights. There is not
a trace OF such infringement, since:
LIST. All licenses issued until the pas
sage of the bill are allowed to run their
natural term.
End. All stocks of liquors, that are
not injurious TO the public health. and
which remain on hand after the ex-
piration of the license. are taken over
by the Territory at cost price. AS for
those liquors. that on account of in
furious and poisonous ingredients, will
have to be exported, the Territory can
not admit their sale here under any
conditions. if the Board of Health is do
ing it's duty. Were not certain brands
of beer condemned and the right to
sell refused by the Board of Health not
long ago on account of the adultera-
ton with salycilic acid? Not only in
law. but in equity, there is no infrac-
ton whatever, just the reverse. While
shutting off relatively smah private in
vestment in the liquor trade. Bill No.
~. opens wide field for the produc-
ton of liquors. Vfni-culture, brewing.
distilling and a large number of new
industries depending upon cheap alco-
hol such as manufacture of varnisheS,
extracts, perfumery and fruit preserv-
ing which would furnish employment
TO the people.
At present, Germany controls the al
cohol market and nine-tenths Of the
alcohol manufactured is used in the
above named new industries and ex-
ported in the shape of new goods. Why
could not we follow their example?
For whatever useful purposes the
government may see fit to apply these
new resources it will relieve, by so
much, the burden of taxation.
1t lies with the people to make the
bill temperance measure if they see
fit to do so. The bill is advanced only
as public health and public morality
measure, and as such it will certainly
be very effective.
1t is different thing, whether a man
consumes his pint of beer or wine
every day at dinner or whether he fills
himself on Saturday evening with the
whole weekly ration at once. 1t pro-
duces different results although il
might not materially alter the annual
consumption.
The statement of the majority Of
your committee. that the amount of
consumption of liquor in South Caro-
lima since the Introduction of the Dis
pensary System has increased is not
correct, as it does not take into consid-
Grafton the increase of population
and other circumstances. But even il
il were correct, ii would only prove
that the irregular consumption has Civ
en- place to the regular and inoffensive
one.
1t is said, that reform in the liquor
traffic was not mentioned in the party
platforms. l contend that it was a
part of the principle of lf-government.
A th.a Toe faIe fhAv cnlt- 10
provide local disagreement. This
bill, by putting the whole question of
the sale of liquors in the hands of the
voters of each precinct gives the peo-
pie the right of self-government in one
of the important domains of their eco
nomic and moral life, which is even
more important than the political one,
and goes as far as 10 confer the right
to vote TO their wives and daughters.
By this provision it fills the most essen
tial part of the program of self-govern-
ment. which is exactly the reverse of
'-Paternal Legislation
In regard TO this "Paternal Legisla-
ton" of which many old-time residents
of Hawaii have so recently become
alarmed. and which has prompted so
much patriotic resistance on the part
of my honorable colleagues on the COM
mittee. However / desire to remind
them that the state control of the man
ufacture and sale Of liquors has been
for years adopted by such ultra demo-
cratic countries as Norway and Swift
zerland
From the point of view of public |
morality. a view entirely distinct from
that OF temperance. I will state, that
the very existence of such a trade
which brings $50 per cent profits. is
dangerous for the community. especial
ly when 1t concerns liquors. Such enor-
nous profits necessarily result in pub
lie corruption. The saloon people as
sert themselves as State within the
State" debating the state policy. Since
there cannot be two managers in the
same concern. the question of state con-
troll OF liquors is merely a question Of
an alternative, whether ii is the State /
that viii own the saloon. or. whether
the saloon will own the State.
ANY further prccrastinatiou to as
sert the rights of the state is danger
Gus. because the power OF the saloon
viii soon outgrow the power Of the
State and no Legislature win be able
The Legislature Of 1886 appointed . |
special commission TO investigate the
liquor question and recommend the best
system This commission collected q 1
good deal Of information which was In
corporated into a good sized report fav-
orable enough to the Gothenberg sys-
TEN. Did the majority Of the commit
tee read this reporfg II they did. how
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