The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-03-15

I Representative Beckley was called to
the chair by the speaker. The bill was
read section by section.
Aylett, the author or the bill, said
he could see the bill had created a
sensation In the House. His princi-
pal reason for repeating the laws was
because the rich people were. the ones
who broke them oftenest, but were not
arrested The poor man. however, was
arrested for the slightest infraction of
the law, According to section 1898 OF
the Penal Laws, the breaking of the
sabbath is prohibited He made the
foolish contention that the government
broke the Sabbath by allowing the
band to play on that day. The gov
Z ernment was breaking the law OF
Moses, but the poor man could not do
SO. The law was "A good one for those
who wanted to 60 to church, but what
about those who didn't want to go.
Would they have to sleep all day Sab.
bath? Before the band was allowed 4
play on sunday the Minister OF TIN
Interior asked them whether they
wanted to play on sunday. The boys
demurred. but finally acquiesced. Since
then, instead OF having Sunday n
their day of rest, the band boys ha6
Fridays for their Sundays. The speak
Ell thought the law of God still hclt
poor to do as they liked on Sunday.
Now that Hawaii is n part of America,
he himself, wanted to be whole Am
erican, ana not half n one, He had
travelled all over the United States
and knew they had circuses and al
kinds of sports, and those who wanted
to go to- church could do so. and thos,
who wanted to attend the circus could
do so. He wanted things done in Ha
wall as they were in the United States
He wanted to go ahead and do exactly
as they did on the Mainland. That
was his idea of progress
! The train that Travelled from Honolu-
lu to Kahuku made poor people work
while the rich owners could go to
church, with one pocket IN the train
days the owners go to their offices ana
receive the moneys taken in the day
before. Seeing the rich can do this,
why couldn't the poor man do the
same?
Aylctt made about the most ridicu-
lous speech ever perpetrated upon the
House members. not even barring Ma
kekau and Kaniho. He descended into
horse play which even circus clown
would have blushed to use.
| He thought that barber shops had
to close at 9 o'clock He went to one
one day. and the police caught him
in the middle OF n shave, and he had
to leave half shaved.
He had seen by personal observation
on the plantations. laborers working on
Sunday. He did not think law Of this
kind was right, as the rich man can
have his mills go on grinding on Sun
day. and the poor man has to go or
working, Such one-sided law ought
to be repealed. Complaint was filed
with the Hawaiian government, but
nothing came of 1t.
! He thought n great many things
hn IN hot ci Of hn nh
ject, for hours. without exnaustInt
the points. There was one point h,
desired to bring out. When the band
boys landed In San Francisco on sun
day. he was surprised to see the cars
going, prisoners working on the streets
and saloons open. He thought ther,
was some mistake, but u policeman
said when asked. that it was Sunday
and that that was the way they did
in America Now, people in Hawaii
had become Americans, and should be.
come thoroughly Americanized. The
Hawaians did not, at first, want to
become Americans, but now that Ha
wall had become a part OF America, all
should be Americans, and not try to
hang on to our old laws. The people
should adopt the laws OF the United
states, and repeal all old laws here
that interfered. They should not ad-
here to the obsolete laws which still
prevail on the statute books of the
Territory.
The average mechanic works long
hours all week, and he ought to have
at least one day for rest and recrea-
ton without any undue Legal restric-
tons
Kumalae said he was gratifled to
hear Aylett evince such interest in the
subject. He said there was more ac-
tual happiness in the little monarchy
of Hawaii under the old laws and Gus
toms than there is today under the
great laws of the United States
Beckley, chairman of the committee
of the whole, at this juncture, called
Makekau to the chair saying that he
was one TO attend the meeting at the
Board of Health !
Kumalae continued by stating that
the Organic Act has specified that
Sundays and holidays of the Legisla-
showing that it respects the old rule.
Rest was one of the rules of life.
and without 1t life was short II the
legislators wanted to shorten life they
could do 1t. but he thought it should
not be done.
Kaniho took the floor and made
motion that the bill be tabled. Puuki
got up and said that he was still on
the side of rejecting this law. That
God had made the laws, and not man,
and that there were no mistakes in the
Territorial laws.
IL was only when men got so wise as
to change the laws Of God that 1t was
allowed for men to do other than char
table things on Sundays. On the Isl
and OF Kauai the plantations grind
away on Sundays; he thought 1t was
the fault of the officials, who did not
arrest the managers and prevent II.
He thought the only proper thing to do
for the House to question the different
officers as to why they do not arrest
the managers
II think we have a remedy for off,
cials who do not attend to their bust
ness" said he. "If "A man goes out
nshing on Sunday he viii get arrested
but 1t seems that boiling sugar ana
i'm the mills is different
thing, and he Is let alone. This is not
right. The Bible distinctly states that
the fear of God Is the beginning or
ana l think II we keep the
SundaN laws we arc doing q MIso