The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-30

state 20 favor the same interests in
adjoining States
,. The Tax Receipt Question.-The
Treasury Department, contrary to all
precedent and all analogy. has inter
pTeted the war revenue measure OF 1862
70 mean that i must treat the yioIators
Of State liquor la VS. whether In license
or prohibition territory, with the same
consideration and protection as those
who are conducting a legal business.
The department. in addition to the sale
Of tax receipts 10 those legally engaged
in business, issues the receipts TO
joints" blind tigers ''bootIeggers."
hole in the walT' men and speak
easies- The Treasury Department also
protects so far as Federal power ex-
tends, those who. having purchased the
receipt. are trampling state laws under
foot by prohibiting collectors from tes-
tifying in the State courts as 10 who
are the holders Of TAX. receipts. an item
Of evidence which goes far when cap
able Of proof. towards convicting the
indicted party. As long as Congress
persistently strengthens the 'nullifiers''
Of State laws prohibition can never
hope to be complete success.
PROHIBITION PROHIBITS
When it is urged that prohibition does
not prohibit il is meant that it does
not exterminate. We have laws against
murder and stealing. but these crimes
continue in spite of the law. When II
is said that prohibition promotes secret
drinking places; that it excites the spir-
il OF lawlessness; that through unen-
forced laws il breeds a contempt for
\ oF 10
Yes. IN a measure, but through no fault
of the prohibition movement The
blame lies at the door Of Congress for
refusing 10 make adequate laws, and
Of a nerveless police, unwilling TO en-
force the law il has Kansas has been
a prohibition State for years. In Kan
sas are counties in which the county
jail has not been occupied for eight
years, in which there are no pooFhouses
no poorfarms. no paupers. With the.
little or no police force and with the
large sums saved in taxes, towns are
prosperous and people are happy.
To prove that prohibition does pro-
hibit when there is any backbone be
hind the Law. take the recent case Of
San Francisco. Before the earthquake
there We're from 100 To rs arrests per
Mayor Schmftz issued an order forbid
ding any person TO sell, give away or
drink Intoxicating liquors, and when
man caught with a bottle Of liquor in
his pocket was shot down. there were
from two to six arrests only per day.
And this amid the great confusion caus-
ed by thousands of homeless people.
The police testified that they had moth
ing to do.
But the day-July 5-soon came when
for 500 q man could get a liquor IL
cense. and today there are $500 saloons,
with all their attendant evils. running
at full blast in san Francisco. Is il
any surprise that we read that refugee
" omen and defenseIess children. are
outraged and that men are shot down
ty thugs. openly, in broad daylight
The first Monday morning after the re
opening of the saloons there were sew
enty-four victims before the police
courts as against five the previous
Monday; and the second Monday 113
against three or four the second Mon /
day. before reoDening.
But this is enough. and more than
enough, if a man is looking for the /
truth-the truth that viii make him I
free
The go. o09 liquor dealers Of the Unit
ed states, by controlling an average of +
ten votes each, or an aggregate OF two (
and 4 half millions. hold the balance /
OF power. But if the church vote Of
nearly five millions were cast solid for /
prohibition il would more than over /
balance the liquor vote and compel the /
political parties 10 either favor prOhi-
bition or GO out of business. The pow
arfuI trusts Of millionaire brewers and +
distIUers with unlimited resources,
flched from the pockets Of the wage /
earners of the country. through a body I
Of subsidized politicians. have managed /
TO keep before the people divisive is
sues, made To appear Of more import
ance than the liquor question One
wear il is the tariff. another free silver, O.
another imperialism or the Monroe doc
trtne, or perhaps II is trusts Or railroad
rebates. But Of what moment are these
questions when compared with the all
prevailing liquor question: +
I hope the day may soon come when +
many OF Us in Hawaii nei may join that /
valiant band Of 100000 conscientious (
men who 60 TO the polls every year to .
vote the prohibition ticket We need ,
not be afraid Of losing our votes. for
no vote is lost that represents q con- +
scjeEtioUs conviction
With John q WopIey We say The .
Prohibition party gives me a chance To +
vote as think. and as man thinketn .
5nlo a ballot box so IS he"