The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04
A w1DE-OPEN TOWN.

regard of law and we all know II; they
are not observing the conditions o.
| THEN, licenses Gambling is rife ana d
new evil has grown uD IN THIS city
the past two years. Women and girls
for the first time have appeared III
/ thu. saloons. and when this canpalSh n
! opened at many saloons they had
grown 10 be the feature OF the saloon
business. All this is against the Wish
OF the body of Republican as well as
Democratic voters. If this audience
vas II b.. polled tonight and all the
Ken, women and children III the Ke-
publican party also, there would be an
oVerw helming vote against the present
situa ton There is no reason why even
under the present bad liquor law sa-
loon keepers should not live up to the
conditions OF their license. There is
no reason why open gambling should
be permitted. and by all that is good
there is no reason why women and girls
should be throngins these dives. Yet,
what are you going to do about it so
far as the Republican party is con-
cerned? You have held your primaries,
you have nominated your candlc@tes,
or ere supposed to have done SO, and
we find the men responsible for these
conditions are your very nominees
and among all the Republican candI-
dates no voice has been raised in pro-
test against these conditions. The Re-
publican candidates, it is true, have
admitted that the liquor law is a bad
one. but no protest against the police
conditions no admission that they are
unworthy of the Republican party, has
been lisped by a single candidate on the
Republican ticket. On the contrary.
all the candidates have defended and
excused the Sheriff and all have urged
Stra icht vote Have these candidates
voiced your sentiments in SO doing?
They have not, and the reason for 1t is
that thev are in the same boat, travel
ing in the same company, receiving
help and support from the machine,
and in turn must accept or at least be
silent in regard to the n7ali '1ninistra.
ton the machine is giving the people.
The machine would attempt to defeat
any Republican candidate next Tues
day who dared to open his mouth
against it.
UP TO THE VOTERS.
You, the voters. have no such strings
upon you. You are free to condemn
not only IlS pOIiCS VI
this city, but the machine that has
deprived you of legitimate representa-
tives in the primaries. You have a
right to compel the candidates on your
ticket to come out into the open and
tell you what they believe as to the
administration of the police affairs of
this city. If a reputable candidate on
the Republican ticket takes the posi-
he NJ
chine. such candidate has cot to learn
that he can not afford to offend the
Independent voter either. II Republi-
can candidates on a Republican platform
will not say what they honestly think
OF the police nlaladministration, you irL
turn can't afford to vote for them at
the polls. This viii compel more 10y
atty to you and less loyalty or sub
mission to the machine. The Repub-
lican Legislature has given us liquor
law that has spread saloons all over
the country There is no hamlet or
village in our land that has not now a
groggery at its door. There could be
hardly any less restraint if there was
no law at all and liquor sold with the
freedom of common merchandise. Half
of this is due to thoroughly bad law
and the balance of it comes from the
failure, certainly in this county, to en-
force that law. IF men, women and
minors on the Island of Oahu can buy
liquor by the drink, by the bottle, by
the barrel, seven days a week, what
is there left in the way OF restraint?
We say never before has such a con-
dition of things prevailed; it is not
necessary even under the existing
law
IN the days of the native government
under the native monarchy nothing of
the kind was allowed to prevail The
sale of liquor to a single minor in those
days was such a dangerous PROPOSE
ton that it was practically unknown
and who in this law-abiding land ever
before the last two years saw women
the saloons?
THE LAW ENFORCEABLE
There are many provisions in the
present law, bad as it is, that could
prevent any such disgrace to our city
Ihe law provides that no minor should
be permitted to loiter in or about any
licensed premises. No prostitutes,
drunken or disorderIy persons shall be
permitted to remain on or about any
licensed premises. The law forbids
7Siit ~ IfipltUdI uTuilkaFuS. ana nOtUS
Lhat cwo offenses for drunkenness put
him or her in that class The law
forblds sales to minors and provides
that a licensee who violates any con-
iilon Of his license can be fined up to
4 thousand dollars Police officers are
required under the act to arrest the
lcensee without warning for any vio-
atlon of the provisions of the law
Ar4trS Snr1C rh< ITr4
Ire making themselves a nuisance to
helr families may have the right to
liquor cut off by written no
ice to the saloons from their relatives
Has any real or genuine attempt to
heck the evils in question been made
~ an appeal 10 these provisions or
IKE provisions in the law? The penal
les are so high that licensees would
lot run the risk of mourning them if
Sheriff was in there determined to
nforce the law and take their licenses