The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-13

be held liable under this, it would seem
to be an easy matter to break them up.
The idea of having licensed dealers,
either wholesale, jobbing or retail, held
responsible for sales to Illicit dealers,
will, in my opinion. be absolutely in
effective, and can only result in loss
to the conscientious and immediate
profit to the INSCRIPTIONS and will tend
to force the business more than ever
into the hands of the Asiatics who viii
never be either willing or able to under
stand such a reasoning.
AS to the new laws, I propose for
your consideration the following:
First: That for the purpose of defin-
ing the classification of licenses, / sug-
gest that the towns of Honolulu, Hilo
and Wailuku be denominated districts
of the first class and that the boun-
DIARIES of such districts be within a RAJ
dius of three miles from the postoffice
or police court. All areas outside of
three miles to be known as districts of
the second class. 1 then recommend
the issuance of the following licenses
for districts of the first class:
Wholesale fee $500, dealers $500, retail
$780, hotel $500, restaurant $3.50, saloon
$3.50, and for districts of the second
class: Dealers $500, retail $3.50, hotel
$3.50, restaurant 800.
The retail license is to provide a legit-
innate method of selling by the bottle
and up to the lowest qua nifty sold by
the dealer. This license should only
be allowed to be taken out either by the
holder of a saloon license or a. dealer
in districts OF the first class, the sale
OF bottle quantities being called for
by many of the public, who will not go
to saloon, but cannot now legally
purchase in any other place. This Ii
cense is the one I propose should be
issued in the plantation or second class
districts, and it should be provided
that no drinking is to be done. on the
licensed premises. This will obviate
the great objection of the plantations,
as rule, to the creation of centers
where labor can congregate and ca
rouse and will at the same time enable
the consumer to obtain legally what
ever he requires for his own use.
Hotel and restaurant licenses should
have the privilege of sale by the drink
or bottle, but for consumption on the
licensed premises only
Dealers and wholesale licenses could
remain as they now are, but the dealer
should have the privilege of taking out
retail license if he so elects.
The wholesale license is granted to
those who deal in general merchandise,
and is correctly limited to sa:es in orig
inal packages.
If provision is made for the dealer
or jobber to sell from the bottle up.
under the retail license there can be
no son that such licenses be granted
to grocers or druggists. The liquor
business should be kept absolutely
apart, as it is then more perfectly sub
jeet to police supervision. San Fran
cisco, recognized universally g a "wide
OPEN city, is using strong efforts to
get rid of the liquor license to corner
groceries, which have become nui-
sance on nearly every street corner. If
large grocers are granted liqour license,
there is not any reasonable ground to
refuse smaller concerns. I mention
this because understand that strong