Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-07-03

4 Editor Evening Bulletin:-May We
ask you to kindly publish the accom-
panying letter which as matter Of
courtesy was first handed to the Pacific
Commercial Advertiser for publication.
but was returned to us after some de-
lay with the explanation that the nee
essary space could not be afforded. We
assure you that this favor will be fully
appreciated.
Yours very truly,
THE HAWAIIAN PROTECTIVE AS
ISOLATION,
Per ]. @. ROTHWELL,
G, J. MCCARTHY, President,
Secretary.
Honolulu, June 10. 1908.
Editor p. c. Advertiser, Honolulu,
7. H.-Sir:-In your issue Of May 2sth
there appears the publication OF let
ter from Governor s. b. Dole to the
President OF the Hawaiian Protective
Association, wherein the Governor ex-
plains the reasons why he did not sign
Senate Bill No. q providing for the
regulation by law for "The Manufac-
ture and Sale OF Intoxicating Liquors"
to which you added in the head lines
the comment that the Bill was Con-
Trajectory and unintelligible." The AS
ISOLATION desires to correct the impress
sion thus jointly created.
The subject is one of considerable
importance to the community at large.
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and interests are at stake. Had the
Governor not deemed the subject to
have been OF sufficient Importance to
have. published his letter. we should
have been content to have accepted his
reasons in silence, especially as, judi
ciously or otherwise, he has exercised
the prerogative that was his in the
premises; his action, however, has pre-.
vented the enactment of law that
met with almost unanimous approval
OF both branches of the Territorial
Legislature, as well as a statute that
represented the wishes Of CONNER
cial body that is conceded to be polit-
ically influential as well as numerous
In the Territory, having very consid.
cradle vested rights, as well as con-
tributing very extensively to the rev.
snue.
Based on TechnicaIities.
The Governors letter presented a
formidable array Of apparently tech
meal defects in the law as passed, 81
much SO that we felt obliged to call on
our attorney for some explanation as
to why no imperfect a measure should
have been presented. We felt con-
WINGED, on reading the Governors OBJ
jections. that not only had our officers
been guilty of considerable carelessness
In overlooking such glazing defcien-
cies, but that the Associations legal
adviser had passed many salient feat
ures. Asser consultation with that gen.
tleman, however, we feel justified in
asserting, in reply to his publication,
that his objection were based on tech
uical grounds rather than as the result,
OF logical reasoning, having in view
either public or political expediency
and that his deductions are. in the
main, incorrect. although perhaps hon.
estly mistaken.
Inconsistent Laws.
1t is well known that the liquor laws
as at present in effect, cover a multi
plicity OF enactments. good. bad and
Indifferent, and, collectively, form 9
maze of legal scripture that is as Otter
exceeded by the authorities in the en-
forcement Of regulations that are moi
law. as 1t is by infringement by the lie
ensees under the law. It is well known
that the laws as they stand are not en-.
forced by the Territorial authorities
Besides, there are very frequent in