The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-16
DR.. HARTLEY
ON TEMPERANCE

hotd that 20 preclude q saloon from
a s~aIoonless neighborhood. is as great a
Benefit thereto as to build a hapel.
which viii be open onIy one or two days
in the week. whereas the saloon will be
open every day and night in the week
except Sunday
Dr.. l.. NJ. Hartley. superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League OF the Hawaiian
Islands. gives the above terse statement
as the secret Of the anti-saloon agitation
and the probable solution of the much
mooted questin Of saloons or no sa-
looms" In an interview yesterday upon
the subject of the A~nti-Saloon Leagues
work in Honolulu, Dr.. Hartley says that
the results of the organization of the
League " fully come up to his expec-
%tations. He came to the Islands reaIiz-
ing that the situation here was exception
ally peculiar, that the conditions were far
different from those found in almost any
other city in the United States, and for
this reason he is confident that the prin-
ciples of temperance have been firmly
implanted here.
Despite the large number of beer sa-
-6NC OtNn tCAabAASAANu III Va
rious sections of the city, where hitherto
none existed, and the promise of more,
DR.. Hartley states that the further issu-
ance of licenses has been effectually
checked, due largely to the work of the
League, and also in the hearty co-opera-
ton of Treasurer Wright, through whom
all licenses are issued.
The treasurer is given and required to
AXE the full responsibility of licensing
Saloons" said DIR. Hartley yesterday.
within my personal recollection there
are but two limitations placed upon him;
one is that he may not extend the limits
Of the spirit saloon district without the
consent of the governor, and the other is
that he cannot issue a license for wine,
beer and ale within two miles of the
xh.skey and spirit saloons. With these
exceptions he has entire power in
he premises, with great responsibilities.
fhe law makes no provision as TO the To-
alton of the saloons for which license
IS are given, but simply authorizes the
r~easurer 10 license, and fixes, Of course,
amounts. Through the agitation
which has been aroused in the Islands,
he people have come to q realization of
he responsibility of Treasurer Wright.
fr. Wright has seemed to me-. through
he various contacts / have had with
i'm. to be disposed to be fair and just
nd 10 do what is right; he seems to feel
is responsibility and to wish for some
ne with whom he could share it. He has
taken Jpn himself the personal
l~vestigation of the Vocational places
here the saloons are to be put. He has
$50 adopted what may be called a local {
ption rule-the law authorizes him to do n
lis-namely. that TO ascertain the win
T the people of the neighborhood in
mic a saloon is proposed to be planted,
efOre issuing a license. He viii give a
length of time between the
ing of an application and the decision
the treasurer. during which time the
eople are asked to show their will.
Furthermore. he has decided not to Il
any more Honolulu Brewery Ii
,nses until the legal question that has
zen mooted has been settled. l believe
lat Treasurer Wright is susceptible to
ie increase of temperance agitation, and
am glad to say that the temperance
sople have succeeded in securing a di-
mutton in the number of proposed sa- y
ons by the temperance people showing :
lat the win of the people in the neigh !
orhoods was against it.
"A beer saloon in some respects has a
pernicious effect than a spirits sa-
on, for it is in reality the preparatory
.hool to the latter. 1t Is in the beer 49,
loon that boys form the saloon habit
reaches the younger and larger number
using them to fall into habits of in
Beer appears to be the =
ore innocent liquor, but it is alcoholic.
had beer examined here by DR.. Shorey
hich showed Ito per cent of alcohol. .
lis makes a man drunk. There are n
any men who cannot drink Whiskey,
It they can drink beer. and as they are
mt on getting drunk, they drink the
er until they reach that state, and this
a9 Is. IN cpraa paces very LARGO nr7aDYf-
IS. 4 beer saloon is an alcoholic sa-
on. There is a big difference in the
ense. For the spirit saloon the license =,
$1,000; for the beer saloon is it $3.50. 4
1t the latter certainly has almost fu1
portunity TO sell spirits. Il Use quite
The hardest work Of the police in
city is in the regulating of the sa- -
ons, and it is just the same here. EX =.
else all the vigilance they can and yet
q police can be deceived. W
There is great promise in the future II
r the Anti-Saloon League to do good -
'rk here. I do not mean b. this that -
ere VIII not be saloons here in the next
o years, but I mean that the situat.on
Il be greatly ameIiorated. e.
Islands viii get no bad name III
I'm my lips on my return to California.
of the best people in the world are -,
hit here, and they viii be prominent as u
ay have been in doing great things for
good. The Islands are, Il many
5pects, in the very lead Of progress Ga
ere will be some delicate local racial A
atoms to be settled and there will be a
difficulties in fitting the peculiar 5
editions here into the national life INTO
Itch the Islands have been brought.
During my stay in the Islands we have FL
;ured not only the completion OF the
5anization of the League. but the head
are well established. and we ar
We paid our expenses in fun without ar
King our subscribers a second time for ST
;.stance. We go to December 81 with m,
any debt. There will be ample SUP -
It for the work in 1902. In the renewal
subscriptions there has not been Il
gle subscriber who has wished TO re- 2
&c his or her pledged noun There
: a number of prominent fnancicrs,
% a few months ago hesitated wheth-
IS was a practical thing in which 10
est, who have been willing subscrib-