The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-27
SUPPORT
QUINN LAW
Cont led front ageo ne)

Mclnerny presented the matter as
follows:
Your Excellency: The business
which brings us here this morning,
can I'm a sense be said to have been
precipitated by no less a parsonage
than yourself. with the recent change
in the personel of the Police Depart
ment came the enforcement of our eX-
listing Sunday law, and if we are to
believe what we read i'm our daily
news journals, this enforcement was
approved, if not authorized by you, on
the ground that a Sunday law that
was open to any construction as to the
enforcement or otherwise of its terms
by the mere within of caprice, Of who
ever might be filling the position Of
High Sheriff of this Territory at the
time, was unsatisfactory.
ALSO that the best way to secure
such Sunday laws as would best suit
the people was to enforce those that
were Objectionable, and in this way
compel the enactment of suitable laws
This l submit your excellency is exact
ly what has been done, and we are
here today to ask your respectful con-
labor, and approved by the representa-
tives Of the people i'm Legislature assem-
bled,-The Quinn Bill. My position in
this matter is that of a practical bust
ness man.
81 submit your eXcellency that any
law that permits the enforcement or
ignoring of it's terms, as the mood
suits any individual is unsatisfactory
and dangerous and a perpetual source
of irritation
81 submit that our Isolated position
our peculiar and cosmopolitan popula-
ton with their various bcliefs, religions
and practices, require "A consideration
in applying our Sunday laws, not
equaed in any part of the mainland.
81 believe and insist that the divine
worship of God, by all creeds and sects
should be protected and respected, but
I also believe that that part of Sunday
not set apart for the worship Of God,
should be left free to the individual to
enjoy as he sees fit, provided always
that he does not so conduct himself as
to become a nuisance as the term APP
plies to our every day life
q believe that the necessities Of life
should be sold on Sunday, within pres
cribed hours and that some Of the
luxuries, such as fruits, ices areated
waters and cigars should be available
all day.
81 believe that our ever increasing
commerce should be fostered to the end
that Vessels arriving in port on sun
day should be facilitated in their des-
patch, and permitted to secure their
necessary requirements without hind
rance.
n believe that outdoor sports where
they do not conflict with the hours Of
worship should be permitted and fos-
tered, and more particularly if they
tend to entertain the tourists who are
being brough here at great expense of
time and money. Referring specifically
to baseball 1 submit that 1t is a moral,
edifyng and amusing game, and as it
is scientifically played is at present
denied to nine-tenths of our pOpula-
ton, whose daily grind begins at Z
o'clock on Monday morning and ends
at o'clock on Saturday night. Base
ball on Sunday is to be seen in Homo
lulu Wherever 1t vacant lOl IL " NC
found played by gamins OF juveniles.
But baseball as the national game is
played where quality not quantity is
required, where the brain weary bust
ness man, can find relief from the
cares of the week, and the laborer rest,
i'm recreation, for his tired muscles, can
only be obtained where the contestants
require to charge some fee, to defray
necessary expenses Of field and appara-
tus, and a guarantee that any element
inclined to be bawdy could be excluded.
AS an employer of men 1 maintain that
if baseball on Sunday or any other
manly outdoor sports, fee or no fee,
will quicken their steps, brighten their
eye and clear their brain for their
weeks work, ! will leave no stone I'M
| turned to help secure 1t for them.
"Your eXcellency / don't desire to bur
! den you further with this, but ! want
| to plead with you for a rational sun
! day, such as / believe the Quinn bill
provides. Two years is not a long
period of time and l favor giving the
! law and the people a trial"
McInerny called upon George w
Smith, president of the Merchants AS
ISOLATION, who spoke for the bill. lie
said that the modern tendency was in