The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-31

for that saloon till. This appears to b.
a legitimate case of the liquor bushes
very distinctly despoiling the line of bust
ness. And it opens up our
| Fifth Question-How Does the Liquor
Traffic Affect Other Industries? Will,
We cannot undertake in this paper any
| full examination of facts and figures thai
| pertain to other times and places, vel
| it may be well to present a few points OF
comparison. zone hundred dollars spen.
by the consumer for liquors will furnish
14.7 days of employment in manufactur-
| ing at a total wage of $780, and will re-
| quire material from other industries to
the value of $685." 1.-The same amount
| expended for boots and shoes will fur
nish 1421 days of employment al a total
wage of 800 Sc, and require materials from
other industries to the value of s4027.
Combine the labor and material gone in
to the 800 of liquor and we have only
s13.43. The S1343 becomes the total bene-
fit as money compensa ton to others. The
difference, 1861, would appear to be the
gain to the manufacture, beyond the two
points named Combine the labor and
material gone into boots and shoes, and
S62.9 SO represents the benefits to others
While the margin for gains is less to the
manufacturer of boots and shoes, yet
his benefit to others in material and Ia
Dor is $3.50 more, or 361 per cent greater
than that comes to others from the liz
uor business. We also have a hand
lines of manufacture, whose average
shows $50 per cent greater value to 9TH
ers than that from manufacture of liq-
uors. Now while the manufacturer is
thus contributing less to the benefit of
other industries, he is apparently max
ing large percentage of clear gain. over
and above the cost named, out of the
consumer. But it is only due to the liq-
uor manufacturer, in all fair play to him,
to say that his apparent percentage of
ofr, ha ha Of tori I'll
labor, may be greatly decreased by other
items of cost coming in, of other char
acter, such interest insurance, ex-
change, revenue dues to the government,
etc, which the temperance statistician
may not always think Of When
once attempts to get into a measurement
of the profits of a business in which he
is not directly enga ged, he is largely in
the realm of imagination, and his work
must be pronounced theoretical and I'M
safe.
But it may legitimately be accepted
that the liquor traffic cuts both ways.
1t gives less and takes more, and, fur
Their, while it takes the cash In settle
ment for goods, it most frequently hap
pens that the neighboring tradesman is
obliged to get for his goods only an I'M
certain accCrrt to collect. So we are
forced to the co 1ciuSiOn that the business
end of the Liquor tIa;+ic is like the bust
ness end of a bee, sting-all sting
nothing but sting.
Regarding the Increase of Beer Sa-
looms in Our Midst. There are those who
openly declare the increase to be a good
thing. Our papers report the police court
Judge as among the number. The thought
is that men will drink. 1t has been so
since the days of Lot now $500 years
ago. Since it is so, let them drink that
which is least harmful. Practically there
are not such awful cases of drunkenness
before the police court now as were when
the drinkers could get only the cheap
5wipes. All of this appears to be good
common sense. But beer drinking has
It's points of danger, which should be |
avoided. We will not attempt to more |
nan refer to the harmful ingredients |
hat we understand have often been put |
N, nor to the Investigations here and |
here that have been necessitated
There has just been handed to the writ
er the record of Saloon patrons OBJ |
served in one hour 7:30 to S 80 O'Clock on !
Saturday evening, Nov. 18th last" in or
Ter to test the claim that the establish |
nent of beer saloons would keep young /
men from visiting regular saloons Eight !
saloons were, it appears, under careful |
One hundred and twenty-six men, esti- |
mated to be under 40 years of age visit /
I'd the Encore! So the Merchants Ex- |
mango; Sc the Favorite: g. the Criterion; |
. the Hoffman. q the Anchor; 26 the
'acitfc; IL the Pantheon-totaI 49, aver
ging 81 young men for that one hour of
ime
If the regular saloons are patronized at
he average rate of "a young men per
lour on Saturday nights, and if this is a
ecrease from what it was before the
establishment Of the beer saloons, it sim
ly shows that even yet, in spite of the
o called decrease, there is great room /
or Improvement, and it is time that we
mould realize it; and what a crowd must
ave gone to the beer saloons if these 430
one hour truly represent a decrease
I certainly was most interesting to read
he Liquor Mems Secrets Told in
curt last Saturday morning Jan. 25
vO2 ,. all sworn evidence, reported by
he Hawaiian Star:
- Sla'SeS --.-'...---.----.-on gallon
~ SdAonS -.---...-.--...-...-. one barrel Is
/ parrel ..-....-...-. -...........360 glasses
% drinks at 1215c .........-..........s 45 90 |,
~ drinks at lec ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS on
Inference in profit per barrel .. N
ost price per barrel ............ 10 80
Profit at PFC. $3.50 per barrel or an b;
pparent 345 per cent. I
Profit at 10c, $3.50 per barrel, or an ap-
aren't 255 per cent. II
Really the information carries us baoI, |
the days of our arithmetic tables {
But here again We must not be rnisled 5
any apparent large percentages of
roht, even though worked out from ]
worn evidence in a trial before the |
0urts, for there undoubtedly must be 7
ements of cost to the dealer not ap- ]
caring on the surface, which would re-