The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-10
THE Personal ELEMENT.


1t is quite common TO attack the
saloon evil as an indefinite, in1personal,
intangible entity. I have no objection
to this method of procedure. How
ever, it will do US good occasionally to
remember that the evil itself exists
only because there are men willing to
perpetuate it. | wish in a measure TO
introduce this personal element. But,
cannot speak of all the classes re-
sponsible for it's existence. I must
limit myself. Therefore, l choose to
speak of the liquor traffic as a profess
sion This will require that l concern
myself with the agents of the traffic.
BY agents | mean not only saloon
keepers, but whoever from brewer
down is engaged IL the traffic with a
view of supplying intoxicants to the
public as a beverage. | shall not speak
by the motives and morals of the traf
fc, as they must be if they prove ac-
ceptable agents. We have all had
brought home to US during recent
months through the stories of the Nc
Calls, the McCurdys and others, how a
man may be good father, a good hus-
band, a good neighbor, good church
man and what not, and yet be a crimi |
nal in the marts of the world. Many |
are not good men. But |
in what follows | am willing to grant |
that many of them are. Many are kind !
of heart, generous to a degree, and, |
aside from their occupations, accepta
BILE citizens. However, if man DELHI,
erately chooses to live a double life he /
Hyde stand along side Jekyll before
the public gaze. 1t shall be my en-
deavor to uncover his motive and let
him stand for what he is worth. This
will get close to the individual. New
it will not forbid dealing
with principles rather than with the in
and such l propose to do. Let
me proceed at once to the discussion.
PRINCIPLE STATED.
To take the fruit of another's toll
without rendering due compensation
therefor is wrong. In the business
world it usually constitutes crime.
No business can legitimately be called
service as well as secure profit. 1t
$ permissible that service and profit
hall be kept well balanced in each and
very transaction. But it is not per
nissible that service shall be elimi-
lated. In fact, if either is to be given
precedence it is service which should
re accorded first place. DR.. Palmore is
light in the following definitions and
Business is service
With the idea of profit. Charity is
service without any idea of profit.
rhine is profit without any idea of
ervice.' When man begins to stress ]
,roft rather than service he is getting !
INTO dangerous ground. And when he {
,oes to work to secure profit without
eHueIlHS SERVICE He DecoiHeS cfiHIHdl.
The method he adopts will determine {
What criminal term shall be applied to {
i'm. If he secretly does his work he is ]
thief; if by force or intimidation he
5 a robber; if by chance games or bet
ing he is a gambler; if by selling out {
is constituency he is a boodler, and so
n with grating, embezzling, counter
citing and all such. The principle in {
Owed is always the same: profit with
ut service; the Fruit of another's toll
7ithout due compens ation. Whether t
he law has yet decreed it or not the /
ccupation of the man thus engaged is {