The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-09
rnE PACIFIC CLUB DECISION.


The Pacific Club has for seVera
wears past been selling liquor ~ -
members without paying for I'4u'
license. The club is bona fide socla
club the liquor selling being Simply
an incidental feature, without prom
to anyone, other than nominal o'i'
to pay expenses.
whether or not this was an infringe
,+ of the liquor license law was
,soubtful question. but as there was ~
abuse of the privilege, no one rai7eo
the question, and, but for an unexpect-
I'D development, the probability Is thd'
:. ,,o,,Id not have been raised at all.
Someone with hankering to sell ~
NOR without a license conceived the
idea of patterning after the Faclii0
club. to the extent of forming cIo''
IN whose members liquor could be solu
No sooner said than done, fuIl-
f,edeed club" was formed among inc
aristocrats Of Kakaako and Masooi-
Vile with palatiaI quarters IN a lean
20 ON q back alley, and every 9a-uIuaS
night the beer frothed, swipes sizzied
na 5ov was unconfned. On Sundays
also. Joy with it's liquid refreshhneh'
Accomplishments. cut a stan "loei
Swath. for was not the club the Social
home of it's members, and is not
mans home his castle, and cannot
man do any old thing in his Castle Oh
Sunday or any other day.
The plan worked so well that IN TIC
course of a few weeks the cluo-proiiiol-
ing industry had boom and all SUM
dom became club members in good ana
regular standing, each with a consul
tuition and bylaws, and generous
hacker, who furnished free quarters
and kindly undertook to furnish booze
tn the members without salary.
At about this time the police ana the
regular retail sellers awoke to the Iac'
that a large percentage OF the retain
liquor business of the city was oelhs
handled bv the clubs whose CHIEF
social function was to guzzie cheap
LIQUOR. AS no license had to be pa1d'
this was actually sold cheaper than IN ,
the saloons.
To each charge of Illicit selling the
renIv was made that the seller was the
manager of a regularly organized club +
.all same Pacific Club
This brought matters to a focus ana
forced an answer to a question when
would not otherwise have been raised i
An agreed statement of facts was
therefore prepared and submitted to
Judge v hitney, requesting his dfci-
sion as to whether the Pacific Clab bal {
the right, without a retail license, to f
sell liquor to it's members.
Judge Whitney has decided that it
does not have such right. The dec1- Y
sion is logical and supported by prece- |
lent.
1t is difficult to see how, under the
,tatute any other decision could have /
been rendered. t
A club is either selling or it is not
selling If it is selling, it makes no
Inference whether the sale is to ten'
fifty or one hundred and fifty selected t
men or to the great unwashed. u
What constitutes the gist of the OF
ense of selling liquor without license u
$ the selling; not whom the sale is to.
The sale of a 81 quart of champagne n
o Governor Carter, by the Pacific
Hub, is the same in logic and in the
We of the law, as the sale Of five ,ents I
gorth of rpolasses swiHes to Jack, the
um-boat man, by the Royal Kakaako
lula Club.
If the Pacific Club can sell cham W
agne. to it's members, without a Ii Il
ense. the Hula Club can sell swipes =:
D it's members on the same basis.
One of three things must happen, P
H.: RI
1. Judge Whitney's decision must
tand; or
2. The law requiring licenses for the
ale of liquor will be utterly multi fC
ed: or o,
3. There must be a complete read
lstment of the liquor laws of the Ter
tory be
Which shall it be? ou
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