The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-05

LlHUE, Aug. 1.-Judge Hardy. in his
charge to the Grand Jury severely scor-
ed the illicit sale of liquor in the Red
Light island He said:
Our laws are based upon the fact of
our social relations that we live among
our fellowmen-have to do with them,
are of necessity mutually dependent !:
that it is impossible for us to stand apart
as separate units, and refuse to have
intercourse with our fellows.
We begin life utterly dependent. We
grow up to mature years by the help
of others. we enter upon active life, and
every movement brings us into contact
with other lives. Our physical wants
are largely met by their activities, and
we rcciprocally affect them.
Our moral nature is exercised and
developed, and trained and established
by the humanity around u.s. Sympathy
kindness. helpfulness, all humane quail
ties grow because they take hold upon
those with whom we are in daily inter
course. And so potent is human fellow
ship, that even when perverted and in
furious. it fails not of its evil effect. He
that walketh with wise men shall be wise
but the companion of fools shall be de-
stroyed.' He who formed mankind to
live i'll social relations, and made these
not only the outward conditions, but the
necessary means OF developing a true
manhood, has implanted in our deepest
consciousness the sense of right and
wrong, and it is by this divirely given
intuition, that We are to be governed,
if we are to attain the true end of life.
But because there could be no scope
for the exercise of conscience, no right
or wrong in human conduct, no respon-
sibility, unless the man were free agent,
we have the power to darken counsel,
to disobey the teaching of the monitor
within, and to take and to follow the
downward road to ruin.
But the evil must not be permitted
to prey upon the good, to stand in the
way of the progress of the race towards
its true ideals And therefore has the
Divine Governor of the world ordained
human government and put the power of
the sword into the hands of the mags-
trate.
AS | have said on former occasions,
our Courts are the vantage battle ground
where we may meet and overcome the
enemies of the right, where retributive
justice may await the evil doer, where
the loyal and the innocent may find pro-
lection.
| would not assert or imply that the
repression of crime is the only impor
tant duty of the Government.
The State, as an organized body, hav-
ing complete and ultimate control in
all civil matters, has the widest field
for its beneficial activity. Its power
of usefulness is great beyond comparison
And the Government that would shut
out from its subjects the increasing light
of advancing civilization, and deny their
aspiration for better life, must go down
before the predestined, the inevitable
uplifting of the race, the coming of the
Divine Kingdom upon earth. AS we
have seen the range of law covers all
our civil relations. Its directing and
repressive force is exerted not alone
upon acts criminal in their nature, which
our moral sense intuitively preceives to
be wrong, but it also includes multitude
OF things forbidden, and of other things
commanded to be done, all of which the
experience that brings wisdom has found
to be needful. Such as fiscal law relat
ing to revenue for the support of the
state, and including duties on imports,
taxes OF personal and real property, Ii
censes. etc. Violation of these statutes
are punished with more or less severity,
in various ways, chiefly by fines or for
FIXTURES. In this connection, Gentlemen,
| desire to direct your attention to the
unlawful sale of Intoxicating liquors,
a breach of the law, it is to be feared
that is far too common throughout the
Territory.
! was much impressed with this harm
full state OF things on reading the Liquor
License statistics of 1903 given out by
the Territorial Treasurer in comparison
with those furnished by the U. S. Col
lector. The late Treasurer gave the
whole number of licenses, wholesale and
retail for 1908 as I42 The U. S. Col
lector for the same year, 1903, reported
the number of wholesale and retail liquor
dealers as $50, showing a difference of
40, that being the number of places
where liquor was sold in violation of
Territorial law.
How many of the crimes of violence,
and serious assaults, that are
becoming alarmingly frequent, arise
from TINS prollhc source OF evil! What
an amount of degradation and injury
to those who commit such acts Under the
influence of Intoxicating Ii
quor! What terrble-what an intoler-
able infection upon the innocent victims
Think of the physical and moral devas- !
tations proceeding from these places OF
unguarded unrestrained traffic i'll liquor
The men who carry on this unlawful |
business have shown their lawless dis /
position in so doing, and it is too much
to expect that they would regard the
welfare OF their customers, or their suf- /
fering families or the peace of the
|
The sale of Intoxicating drink even in
well regulated saloons is unlike the
sale OF the necessaries of life, or of or ,
binary commodities, in the usual course
IF trade The law-making power has
been obliged to recog
nize-the need of surrounding the liquor
saloon with careful and stringent re-
,trctions These are prescribed in the
license and for any violation of them,
{ first offense, the licensee shall be
lined $3.50 and Tor second offense he