The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-15

right of the community and of each
Individual to quiet and repose.'
Sec. 322. No keeper of a victualing
house, restaurant or coffee shop, shall
keep his house. restaurant or coffee
shop open after o'clock on Sabbath
afternoon
The penalty for violating sections S17
and s1S is fine not over $50 or impris-
onment not over thirty days; for vio-
lating section 800, a fine not over 500
nor less than $50.
Common sense will prevail in the
enforcement of this statute" said the
High Sheriff yesterday. But there are
many violations of this law which must
be looked after in future In driving
about the city Sunday, 1 found about
every Portuguese store open and sell
ing goods as if it We're a week day
Chinese and japanese stores We're also
wide open. It seemed TO me it was a
breach OF the law. I believe, person
ally, these places should be closed up
and that the law should be respected
as long as we have a statute bearing
on the subject
That law was made for a certain
purpose-that of respecting the Sab
bath. AT the same time no one would
think OF wishing TO stop the Rapid
Transit system, it being recognized
that this is a necessity for transport
ing people from one part of the city
to another Again, a Chinaman might
of necessity be out on a Sunday dry
ing his rice. In that case he has a |
.icyh n lai &c 4
uct which is loerishable. On the other |
hand if he is out narrowing his laud, |
he should be arrested.
For example, one of the police Of |
ficers arrested a man who was haul |
ing a load of watermelons from a |
ship. In that case it was a necessity, |
for the melons were in the hold of the
vessel. and to leave them there was +
to invite loss. That man should not |
have been arrested. At least there
would be no reason in prosecuting him.
The mails also have to be carried on
as well as on other days. and
for that reason steamers may, under
certain conditions, be worked as on
other days.
There are a great many things for
which there is no necessity whatever
Of working on Sundays, but there must
be common sense used in dealing with
all these propositions
There is a wide difference in Sun
lay amusements. The baseball games
[ think. should be stopped, at least
until the legislature meets. I am in
favor of a sabbath law because have
seen the workings of such a law. When
was young man I was in an east
arn city. We had a Sunday law and
could rest on Sunday. Then
[ went West where every man was
forced to work on Sunday, or he would
lose his job. 1t was not a privilege
with the average man to rest. on Sun
days. If he didn't want to work on
Sunday, some one else would.
'All saloons and places of drinking
must be closed. Barber shops may be
kept open for a while in the morning
but there is no necessity for all these
Japanese and Chinese shops to keep
open all day. They must close as theI
white shops do.
LAS to restaurants. that is matter
which must be regarded with a COM
non sense view. There are people who
.ravel by night as well as by day and
here must be places where they satis-
" their hunger, and therefore they
night be allowed to remain open. But
If course, in such places they have to
lire extra men-it is not the same men
VINO do the day work
In fact, it is up to the legislature
% readjust the law if it desires to do
10. The law at present on the statute
book says one thing and that is what
am going to enforce.
Sheriff Coney of Kauai has told me
hat there are some people on Kauai
Who don't want baseball games there
N Sundays. Other people say they
want them. I told him the best thing
Inder the circumstances was to shut
lown on baseball altogether