The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-15
THOU SHALT NOT"

Law fearful and wonderful thing The world occupied
iii making law for centuries before the Christian and will occupy
itself for centuries and the method Of calculation
Looking back the centuries begins wonder what law is and
justice synonymous terms though they ought to be-
AS to what law one presumably to the dictionary That
tells that the word derived from the AngoaXon agu lie while
further research shows that lie derived from the AngoSaxon kge
and the have become ntertwned that unwne them
and deal law ge very nearly synony
There excellent examples be found through
out the mainland and prominent here Not only do
our great and good lawyers love g but they love still more the father
OF yge, However that is detail
Law settles in large what you shall do Indeed the
cutting off OF the liberty of the individual from doing what he
likes is OF the chief attributes of the law minds Jewish
law full OF negatives Indeed might basng law upon the Jew
s tables its sole argument and undoubtedly is strong one is con
tanned in the words Thou shalt not and law published since
that distant day has preached Thou Shalt not is the OF the
commandments and the OF the law of every nation
We have had good deal of Thou shalt not law than
Thou shalt not may something very trivial and will longer
be used soppage When permission instead of repression
objectionable you may for what do and ut advisable not
for what you ought We have law the statute book
whose Thou Shalt not should be changed.
Among the Thou shalt laws sticks prominently
than the Sunday law Theoretically nothing be done Sunday
practically everything except keeping saloons places public
open done 1t curious how authority this
ter of the Sunday law has hrnk and shrk until is almost infn
sma At time could be and stopped from travelling
Sunday AS 1890 there Hawaii where traveller
took big risk he ventured travel Sunday with pair OF saddle
bags He very likely be arrested and locked up 1t is
many years ago that Eva three Cinnamon fined five dollars
apiece for working Sunday The sky threatening and they
ed their rice from their thhng floor Not very far back
the period when excursion boat prevented leaving the arbor
Sunday Further back than that was impossible to even hire hack
Sunday and there used be law which said goods articles
description shall be landed of this kingdom
Sunday under penalty of seizure and confscaon Whether
this repealed has simply become dead letter; there
time to verify.
Most OF these provisions have been repealed or have sunk
travel where Sunday One
can free will Sunday excursion trains excursion
steamers can run Sundays only Chnaman his rice
tresng floor Sunday, but upon gangs OF
Sunday This long way from the apocPha
application Sunday which killed the silk industry The
allowed be fed Sundays The big steamers have as
freight they wish Sundays and the railway ready to nan
die all freight get Sundays.
repeal OF the dead letter Sunday law brought
Hawaiian members united to it. and
relic OF minded remain is bad thing to have
upon the book 1t deogato to the dignity
of and the time not be far distant when
applied When the law energies from its obscuy
will that will be practically
untenable will be stiled for