The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-07

suggestions the wood yard and the
manufacture of gunny bags are prob
ably the most practical
Much has been done here to make
the constitutional pauper uncomforta-
BILE. The scarcity of street begging is
due, more than anything else, to the
Government policy of preventing it by
the arrest of such offenders as vag-
rants. House to house begging has
become almost obsolete through the
cooperation of householders with the
Associated Charities, whereby such
applicants are referred to the man
ager and an investigation made. If
there is anything the pauper hates
more than work it is investigation and
the resulting exposure. The worthy
applicant has no reason to fear it.
Illness in the families of poor people
has much to do in creating need of
assistance The serious interference it
causes in the household economy, its
expense, the anxieties attending it
which lower the productive powers of
the other members of the family, the
occasional costly funerals, all combine
to break down the family independence
and ability of seIf-support. Any i'm
provement of sanitary conditions by
the regulations of authority or the dis
senination of practical information on
the subject, whereby disease and the
death rate are diminished, cannot fail
to be influential both in retarding the
tendency toward pauperism and in
diminishing the number of cases re-
curing temporary assistance.
If all were honest. industrious and
virtuous. there would be no pauperism.
Tt cannot be doubted that the dissipa-
tons of an immoral life are not only
a direct cause of want, but that in the
destruction of self-respect which are
caused by them, they are a fertile
source of the growth of the spirit of
abject and willing dependence If the
young can be shielded during their sus-
ceptible years from vicious influences,
a very large percentage can be saved
from moral failure and It's conse-
quences. Tt must be admitted that this
is a difficult enterprise and that in this
community it is only partially accom-
plfshed. The law aims to protect
minors from the influence of saloons
by Furnishing saloon keepers who sell
liquor to minors, employ them about
or permit them to frequent saloon;
also keepers OF. coffee, victualing, liquor
ana DlllldrQ saloons anu DOHiAiiS oil
leys may be punished for allowing
school children to frequent such places
without the presence of their parents
or guardians between sunset and sun
rise: also children under fifteen years
of age may be punished for being on
the streets without the company of an
adult between nine o'clock In the even
ing and four o'clock in the morning.
This is known as the Curfew Law, and
is not enforced at the present time, it
having been declared unconstitutional
recently in the First Circuit Court.
After all. the best and most effective
protection of young people from vici-
Gus influences is in the environment
of a. happy home, where harmony pre-
walls and parental control is founded
rather on affection and confidence than
on force.
a few years ago, two or three bright
men one of whom was q Roman Cath
Ole priest developed a new departure
in banking systems. They organized
a bank among the peasantry Of Ger
many for their own needs The direc
tors. officers and clerks were peasants,
and the capital of the bank was own
cd by peasants The beginning was
small and humble, but the foundations
we're wisely laid. and the enterprise
was justified by the results. The OBJ
faot of this enterprise was to supply