The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-29

was not the thing to do to work on
Sunday
Extracts from some of the other opin-
ions are a follow:
NJ. Brash: Am not afraid of Oriental
competition. Many of US close satur-
day nights now and that is probably
the time when the Oriental stores reap
the biggest harvest. The class that
patronlZes the Oriental stores aoes not
patronize the uptown stores mucn.
j. Q, Lutted: We might tax stores
that remain open on Sunday. 1 I'M
derstand that the reason the BARRIERS
aid not want a change i because they
are afraid of the competition OF the
Oriental BARRIERS.
d. H. Lewis: Believe the rights OF
the people TO more liberal sunday
should not be abridged
II. F'ocke: 1 am most decidedly in
favor of the Quinn bill. Mr. Focke
referred to Mr.. Bowen's statement
about Mr.. Atherton's views on work
at Eva. He stated that he supposed
that a majority of the Eva stock was
held by Castle & Cooke and their
friends. He then said that he recentSes
went on trip on the railway on ST
day. He saw a few men working
the fields at Honolulu plantation ~
remarked to a friend, They are y1&.
lating the Sunday law When o.
came to Eva he saw men irriga rs
but said that that was a work of 49,
cessity but later saw men on the sd te
plantation loading firewood on d "a
He asked Mr., Bowen whether he
thought that was right and Mr. Bowen
said that it was not.
James Steiner: / am in favor of
more liberal Sunday law than the pres
ent one. II the Quinn bill is not a sue
cess we can change it in two years.
@. H. Berrey: Conditions are differ
ent here from those on the mainland
There are no theaters and other amuse-
ments for the workingman after hours
so we must allow him more freedom
for recreation on Sunday. I am not
in favor of a wide open town, gambling
and saloons and all that.
Fred Macfarlane: 1 believe that if
baseball We're charged for there would
be a better class Of people at the Sun
day games and that this would over
come the argument that Sunday ball
means a bedlam and Fourth of July
performance. The new bill protects
religious bodies. There is no danger
of disturbances around the churches.
The churches should be given ample
protection.
w. w. Hall: I am opposed to the
proposed bill. There are Slight changes
that might be made in the present law
but 1 am opposed to the tendency to
destroy the Sabbath. The nations that
have disregarded it have reaped the
consequences. I should hate to see
such a Sunday here as they have in
San Francisco.
J. H Soper: believe that every man
should have the right to spend his
Sunday as he wishes. providing that
he does not infringe upon the rights of
his neighbor.
r. II. Trent: I would not have drawn
up either the existing law or the Quinn
bill if I had been drawing up a Sunday
law but as there is such a general de-
mand for a more liberal law I will
vote for the Quinn bill as the best
under the circumstances.
r. A Jordan: I am not in favor of
any change.
After the members had expressed
their opinions a vote was taken and
the resolution adopted by the following
vote:
Ayes: James Steiner. Captain Soule
NJ. Rrash. H. P. Roth. John Mott,
Q. H. Berrey. c. J. Ludwigsen,
Norman Watkins. J. G. RothwelI w.
Lishman. J. o. Lutted. A. Gartenberg.
F. W. Macfarlane. NJ. A. Gonsalves.
A. Focke. D. II. Lewis. c. Du Roi, J.
H. Soper, E I. Spalding. J. A. NJ.
Johnson. E. A. McInerny. NJ. Phillips.
Chas. TT. Bellina S. I. Shaw. H. H.
Williams, G.. w. Smith. r. H Trent,
Fred Waldron, w II. Smith.
Noes: w. A. Bowen, w w. Hall, r.
A. Jordan.
President Smith stated that spe-