The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-26
THE DISPENSARY
BILL CONSIDERED

n,
day nights and Sundays. Well they visit
swipes shops and drink stuff that makes
them crazy. Nearly all the police Of
lenses of the past two years can be
traced to these 'swipes shops If these
men can't drink in saloons they will go
TO 'swipes shops and there WI be more
of them II you shut the saloons down.
And If there Is a Government dispensary,
they will take the stun next door and
drink IT, And they will have to drink
n bottle at a time. ! believe that 1t
would be a coed thing for the communi-
ty II the saloons were opened for few
hours on Sunday. There would be less
drunkenness among the floating popua
ton.
so far as I know. the saloon men OF
the town are not organized to fight the
thing. They have never had to organize.
What they will do do not know"
Robert French of the Pacific said:
There will be more drunkenness on the
streets There will be joints any old
place. And you could 20 into the dis
pensary and buy all the stock they had
on hand and do what you wanted to with
it,"
| II am not worrying" said II. G. Vida
proprietor of the California. 81 am leav-
ing the wholesale men to fight 1t. IL
means more to them than II does to me,
and I can't afford to fight 1t. II they
close me out here, ! can go somewhere
else"
p. r. Ryan, proprietor of the Encore,
argued from the viewpoint of the Prohi-
bltionist. II never saw better-conducted
saloons" he said, "or better class OF
saloon men. They obey the law and are
orderly The conditions can't be better
ed. This bill would throw the town
wide open. Every native would have a
still of his own and have his own stuff.
Then again. II man could not drink
1T on the premises, he would have to
take his liquor home and drink 1t there.
His children would see him and would
ask for some, just as they ask for an
apple or anything else he brings home
The result would be that it would make
drunkards of the whole family.
II have a friend in Charleston, s C..
who says they beat the law there by hav-
ing clubs which hold charters. man
, registers In the club as a member and
gets what he wants There have been
many arrests but they cannot convict
amy one. The trade goes on, but 1t takes
! the revenue from the State.
; and instead of decreasing the sale Of
!, liquor in South Carolina, it has increas-
ed it. At first the profit from the Dispea-
/, sary was 100000. Now it is S6oO.000.
r j. ]. sullivan, proprietor of the FASH
, ion saloon, does not think the bill will
! carry. why? Because there are too
!, many working against 1t. All the bust
: ness men are against IL. They know that
IL
town, traffic will stop and no one Will
, come here. All the wholesale liquor men
: are fighting it, and have been ever since
. it was started.
. when VIM. G. Irwin first heard of IT,
q he snapped his fingers and said he didn't
i, care whether II went or not. But whom
= Spreckels came down, he said why, dc
you suppose built those three new pas
. senger steamers for the tourist tradel
q Nobody will come here If 1t Is a Dry
a town Since then Irwin has been agains,
:, 1t.
II business men have gone to the IcEs.
= 'lators on the quiet and worked agnlns
n 1t. Oh, 1t win never go through
IT'S a frost!" exclaimed ]. T. Silva
a of the Commercial. "Say If those leg
= lslators try to disfranchise the Kanaka
, from going into saloon and getting his
I next election Why, you can't stop the
. Kanaka from drinking his gin. Say! He's
| got to have it, II the Legislature pre-
i vents him. it'll knock the Legislature,
that's all
=, why SURE It'n open up blind joints
l everywhere Look here. on Saturday
night the Kanakas know they can't get
t Anything to drink on Sunday, so they get
, a bottle or two OF gin. Then they all get
, together and everybody has bottle or
two Say! They get IA pretty good jag
, on Saturday night, and Sunday they re
! bye. IL this goes through But 1t won't
, go through. that's ALL"
, j. H. McDonough, manager of the Mint.
, has had "A great deal of experience in
the liquor trade in various places,
/, II saw the Maine Prohibition law in
Vermont" he said, and 1t was an aJso-
Lutte farce. | never saw such a rood
class of men in the liquor traffic, or more
orderly places II any man shoLld so
far forget himselr-well say forget
himself'-to go into the blind l:g busi.
ness he would make heaps more money
than he can this way"
George Hawkins of the Anchor does not
think that it would be a good thing for
the place, and he does not think that Il
could be enforced. How could they
close us ont without compensatns us
for our licenses? This bill says that all
places must be closed in July. but we
have license running until November.
What are they going to do about that?
III they'd left 1t to the people on n
popular vote We would have no kick. but
to try to rush II through the Legsa-
ture like this isn't right There never
was better liquor sold anywhere than
you can get here, and never saw bet
ter places"
CITIZENS GENERALLY.
W. O. Smith approves of the working
of the South Carolina dispensary rn,
from which this is modelled, but has not
studied the pending bill sufficiently 10
have formed an opinion,
Il have not read II thoroughly. he
said yesterday. Il am familiar with the
South Carolina bill, but | understand this
bill has been modified from that, so rs
to cover opium ana what not, As | un-
derstand H. II allows anybody To dslil
nything only he must sell II to the dow
eminent | am acquainted with the
working OF the South Carolina dispensa-
Try bill and am very much IN favor OF
1t"
VIM, W Hall OF h. O Hail and Sons,
who has lived Ia Honolulu many years,
heartily endorses the measure II think
~ rs good thing. he said "a very good
thing ! have not studied n carefully
yet hat think n Ii d step in the right a.
reaction at least n this bin is passed 10
VIII DO away with the saloons, am
opposed tp saloons aud me entire lquor
| tlanip
! ~ the Government srlls liquor, and "a
10 NOT drHuk ON the premises IL viii 80
IaNay Win lhr social bde Of ihu saloon.