The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-29
WILL LOCATE IN NEW MCINTYRE
BLOCK.
Workers Will Have Office
and Headquarters There-Lawyers
Employed-Hartley Talks.

The Anti-Saloon League has taken
the makai Waikiki room in the McIn-
tyre building at the corner of Fort and
King streets and will make this it's
permanent headquarters. The room
has two windows on King street, is
easy of access and is otherwise fitted
for the purposes of an office as well as
a meeting place for the League. Rev
l.. NJ. Hartley. executive officer of the
League, will make this room his bus-
ness office.
Mr. hartley has already begun his
war against the saloon and intemper-
ance. f. NJ. Hatch and Lorrin Andrews
have been engaged by the League as
his legal advisers. Last week Mr..
Hatch submitted to Mr.. Hartley a
written opinion on the legal status of
the saloons of various kinds. The fol-
lowing day Mr.. Andrews submitted a
detailed statement, showing the laws
governing the various kinds of liquor
establishments and licenses for the
same. 1t is this kind of data with
which Mr.. Hartley is armng himself
before proceeding into the fight before
him.
The Anti-Saloon League will work,
first, for the enforcement of the laws
already on the statute book; second,
to create a strong temperance senti-
ment in the city; and, third. to frame
and by agitation, to pass at the next
session of the Legislature such temper
ance measures as may be deemed pro-
per or necessary. Very little individu-
al-or man to man-work will be at
tempted, this being left to the Murphy
League and similar organizations.
The Anti-Saloon League will devote it's
attention to the enactment and en-
forcing of proper temperance laws.
Il have been blocked in my work
in Honolulu" says Mr.. Hartley. "by
what seems to me to be peculiar con-
ditions. l have found that the Terri
torial treasurer has complete authority
to grant licenses and has control over
the same. On the mainland this i'm
portant power is vested in a board of
supervisors. and even then. in many
places, the endorsement of a majority
of the residents has to be secured be-
fore a license is granted. | have never
met with conditions anything like they
are here and 1t will take me some
time to understand them thoroughly
| may say off-hand. however, that If
ever | saw place in which the laws
relating to the sale of spirituous liuours
needed reforming it is Honolulu. The
system now is vogue, under the present
laws, is the loosest and most slipshod
/ ever saw. or heard of.
Honolulu people do not realize the
Importance to themselves of the war
fare against intemperance now being
4 conducted. They do not realize, as |
do and as members of our Leapue do,
the character of liquors that are being
sold in this city. In the cellars of east
ern distilleries they are manufacturing
all kinds of wines out of cherry Juice.
I alcohol, molasses and sugar Other
liquors are made with chemicals. These
liquors are sold all over the United
States and i'm Honolulu. Some of the
beers brought in here are fortified with
deadly chemicals, partly to preserve
them and partly to give them that
biting taste. The eventual effect of
the use of such liquors can readily be
+ imagined.
"Our aim will be to so stir public
/ sentiment that officers of the govern
ment will be compelled to enforce eX-
listing laws: and by our own aDpeals.
the work of the pulpit and of the press
to create a sentiment in favor Of laws
that will master this giant evil"