The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-05-25
LAW To SAVE
THE YOUNG
INVOKED

Sir: By reason of certain prosecu-
ions pending in this department. and
complaints made to me. / would re-
quest at your hands a cooperation in
the enforcement of Section 2293 of the
Revised Laws of Hawaii. This sec
ton Is seif-explanatory, and 81 re-
quires no detailed explanation from me
as to the purpose which l have in
view
The evil which I seek to suppress is
becoming flagrant and inasmuch as the
Treasurer in his discretion has the
right to revoke the license of any
Keeper of coffee or victualing saloon.
upon conviction under the section, L
shall urge instant action by that of
hcia. in the event of successful pros
ecution.
7 have the honor to be, sir. very re-
spectiully yours, E. c. PETERS,
Attorney General
That letter, sent yesterday by the
attorney General to the Sheriff of the
county OF Oahu, marks the first step
In what has been determined by the
lauthorlties shall be a vigorous cam
paign against a great evil.
The section of the Revised Laws re-
Law AS TO CHILDREN.
"Sec. 2293. SCHOOL CHILDREN
PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN PLACES
WHEN; PENALTY. All keepers of
coffee, victualing,l liquor and billiard
saloons and bowling alleys, and also
sugar mills, are hereby strictly forbid
den to allow any school children bovs
or girls to remain upon their nrem-
ises at any time between the hours Of
sunset and sunrise. unless the same be
ae'oi,ip"'i'eo oy their parents or
s suaruiaiis' any keeper OF a coffee,
.lotua'iiis, ilquor or piiliard saloon or
oo"hiis ahey, upon whose premises
any schooi chilu' poy or girl, may be
iouiiu between the hours above named,
"iiiess 'pe same De accompanied by It's
parents OF suaruiah' shaii De deemed
sun.s Vi an oiieiise, ana shall De pun
- ,, ~ me Vi not more .oah twenty
uoi'"i' upon eou' 'ic'ioii' anu MS Incense
may pe feVoheu ny 'he treasurer, IN
III" uisei e'ioii'
1t mas long been recognized that the
Violation of this particular section of
the Revised Laws is one of the most
fertile sources of a shameful kind of
evil with which the authorities of Ho-
nolulu have 70 do. The violation has
always been open, and, as the Attorney
General remarks in his letter, is becom-
ing fragrant. Any citizen who will
take walk through the Chinese quar-
ter, where the small coffee shops run
by Aslatics, and mostly by Chinese of
peculiarly villainous type, abound,
can see for himself how the law is
made a dead letter.
HAUNTS OF YOUNG GIRLS.
These ooffee sbons ord cham roc
t,rro,t ~ ha,,,+e ,, IIn
uoiion ord haIf ,,,t,+, i'll, .,,r,,,a
in aga from, twe,,,a 70 sixteen yaars
1hev are encourag gad of course T., tbis
hanging around by the proprietors of
such places. They laugh and giggle
and, being young and with no realiza-
tion of what it may all mean to them
selves, they encourage the grown
habitues of the places to take liberties
with them. The records of the grand
juries, and the lives these children are
afterwards forced to lead in the slum
quarters of the city, tell the balance
of the story. 1t is a story of promise
spoiled and young lives ruined before
they have even begun to be lived.
OF course, the Sheriff of the County
OF Oahu will give the Attorney Gem
erals department all the aid that it is
possible to give in the enforcement of
this particular statute. Also, it is to be
presumed that the Treasurer Will
speedily revoke the license of any
keeper of a coffee shop, victualing
place saloon or bowling alley who har-
bors minors on his premises in defiance
OF the law. This is matter in which
the whole community is interested and
the forces of law and order can not
bear too hardly upon the wretches who
make practice of debauching the
young.
FIRST IMPULSE TO EVIL.
This is a movement in line more
over. with the spirjt of the sermon
preached by Rishon Restarick nm last
Sunday. The Bishop il is true did NOT
cweu unon the corfae sbon a,,iI in tha