The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-09
READY To
FIGHT ON
SALOONS
Local Option Is
Remedy To Be
Urged.
Temperance People Will
Confine Efforts to
That System.
Rmsiness Men prnnnse 10 Have Re-
Business Men Propose to Have Re-
strictions About Licenses to Pro.
tect Residence Districts.

Plans are being prepared for the MAX
ing during the coming session of a
fight royal on the question of control OF
the liquor traffic. This has developed
owing to the fact that the committed
report to the Hawaiian Protective As
ISOLATION, has been made public in a de-
gree. and the Anti-Saloon League is not
backward. through some of it's promi-
nent members. to admit that it will
propose that the people themselves be
given the right to settle the matter
of licenses.
Local option viii be the sheet anchor
of the Temperance people and they are.
already making arrangements for a
hard fight. They will have ready when
the Legislature meets, a measure franz
ed along the lines of the Illinois law,
perhaps, which gives the privilege of
decision as to local option to precincts.
There is some feeling that it might be
wiser to make the local political sub
division the county, but this is still to
be fought out among themselves, and
the plan which appeals most forcibly
to those who are in touch with legis-
lators, will be put into the bill. The
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some of those who favored a dispensary
law two years past.
While this is the plan of the men who
will lead the fight, there is a chance |
that business folk will take part in an
other species of attack upon the bill
outlined, as that which may receive the
support of the dealers in drinkables ex-
A draft of an amendment to
the measure, putting into it a provision
similar to that which is in force in the
This will provide that there
shall be a certain distance from any
church or school maintained in the
granting of a license, and further that
there shall be secured the approval of
The owners of large percentage of the
property in the block where it is pro-
posed to locate the saloon. These re-
strictions are expected to keep the re-
tail places out of residence districts.
and to maintain the exclusiveness of
certain retail districts as well.
The Protective Association men are
organized for their fight and they ex-
,ect to make it hard one. They are
determined to secure certain changes
md it is believed that this will be done.
thus it is more than probable that the
,ours of closing will be changed, and
.Iso that there may be some discrimi
lation in favor of hotels and eating
.ouses. Then too there will be perhaps
more stringent laws against Illicit SELL
ng, against special licenses and per-
hitting more liberty in methods of
andling the business.
COUNTY BILL WORK.
Consideration of the County Bill will {
e resumed this evening at Republican
by members of the Legts-
,ture and there is believed to be a
nance that the remaining forty pages
ill be read before adjournment. Then
i'll commence the amending of the bill,
hich will take several days. There is
n opinion that United States Attorney ..
reckons will be asked to sit with the ,
ommittee for a time, that he may as
st in the work of making the meas
re coherent under all its amend V
tents. n
Mr.. Breckons has prepared for the
epublican commission a bill for the !;