The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
L.|SHMAN'S
SIDE HEARD
Answers the Governors
Liquor License
Charges.

Macfarlane & Co, by its manager,
terday by an Advertiser representative
concerning the charges preferred a
gainst the firm by Governor Carter.
Both Mr.. Lishman and Mr.. Day were
perfectly free in their answers and ex-
pressed considerable surprise that the
Governor should have singled out Mac
farlane & Co. as the one firm against
which to direct his charges, both stat
ing that all the liquor firms in town
were certainly and equally in the same
position.
81 1t is certainly surprising thing
to me that the Governor should take
this stand against the firm of Macfe,-
lane & Co., - said Mr.. Lishman. 81
have been connected with the firm for
thirty years and my conscience is clear
that in all that time our reputation
for fair dealing, under the terms of
our license, has been a good one. In
all that time you cannot find that the
firm of Macfarlane & Co. appears on
the police books. That cannot be i
OF other firms in the city.
1.-THE Governor, it appears to me, is
speaking of a matter which is now be,
fore the courts for decision This is
the case of the Pacific Ciub, club to
all intents and purposes the same as
large number of so-ca.led "clubs',
/ hereabout, except that the Pacific Club
is an aristocratic and exclusive organ
ization. If we have sold liquors to
these clubs, we are not altogether
aware of it. We cannot employ a sys-
fayn Of On, 4o fo7
every man after he has bought from
us to find out whether he is selling it
in &c club We pay liquor license
! and other taxes to the Territory for the
purpose of selling liquors wholesale to
| whomsoever desires it. Part of these
taxes go to maintain a Territorial police
| force under the direction of the Gov
| ernor. Tt is the duty of that police
| force to ascertain these matters, not US.
| Would we dare ask Governor Car
| ter, should he come to our place of
business, and ask for consignment of
liquors and pay for them, what he in
tended doing with them? We cannot
! carry on our business under such a sys-
tenn.
In all the time that have been
with the firm I have endeavored to
sell discreetly. If wife or relative
comes to Us and says that so-and-so is
buying liquors when he cannot afford
it, and is depriving his family of cloth
ing and food for the sake of liquor,
then we will not sell to such person.
- AS to the clubs so often spoken
of, the Pacific Club has sold to it's
members, just as these clubs have
Governor Carter is member of the
Pacific Club, and has presumably order !
ed and paid for glasses of liquor. DID
he have a right to do so, or should he
have done so? That is question now
before the courts.
Il am not. altogether aggrieved over |
this matter. I have a personal friend /
ship for Governor Carter. We are
friends and / hope shall continue so, /
for we were both brought up in this |
city. / know how to conduct my business
on honorable lines. / may not have
had such fine college education as the
Governor received. We went to the
same school here, but I became a bust
ness man long before he went to school.
He may have had a rich daddy, but |
too had daddy, and although not rich,
he was an honorable business man.
g Another thing, our license does not
expire until August and many things
may crop up before that to show
whether or not we are guilty of what
the Governor has charged US. Mind
you, we. have been charged, but we
have not been proven guilty by any