The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-11
LIQUOR Man
TALKS SHOP
The Present Law Has
Brought Many
Evils.


agitation going on concerning the
liquor question, 1 wish to express my
self in the matter 1 have been a
liquor man for many years, conse-
quentIy can speak from experience.
! 1t is safe to say liquor will be drunk
as long as it is made. It's absurd to
think it can be done away with en-
tirely. Alcohol has been with us since
the time of the Romans and Egyptians.
! personally, I feel if I had my way
would stamp it from the face of the
! earth) The problem is, then, how to
control it's use and sale SO as TO do the
least possible harm.
! The better class of liquor men of Ho-
/ nolulu ask nothing unreasona bic. Every
bill drawn up by them has been pigeon
holed and some radicaf one substituted
Every man to his own trade There
fore, I shall always believe the re-
spectacle liquor man is better qualified
to make decent liquor laws.
In no bill the retail liquor men have
offered do you find such enemies of
corruption as in the present one; and
everybody knows the present one is not
theirs Here is what the present liquor
law has done:
1t has brought all-night saloons,
Sunday saloons, music in saloons, women
in saloons the right to turn the places
ho1
1t flooded the town and islands with
cheap dives, with a low, vicious ele-
ment to run them. Vile poison is sold
to enable them to make profit. Cap
pers and runners have been hired, and
given a commission on the trade they
bring Lewd women and prostitutes
are induced to hang about these places
to draw men
1t has brought more gambling than
ever and has demoralized more men
and women in one year than the
former law in two.
1t has brought to life the cafe, which
only exists as an excuse to keep open
saloons night and day and Sundays.
The great number of cheap country
saloons has demoralized plantation
help.
The great increase of cheap saloons
has brought into the business a low,
vicious element, capable of doing any
thing With keen competition, they
sell a deadly stuff to make the desired
profit
The Chinese grocery shop saloons and
butcher shop saloons (Which gives
ruined more young girls than all the |
coffee shops.
With about 81 worth of fixtures and |
no sanitary plumbing, these dirty, |
filthy, dead-falls do business like a
place that spends hundreds of dollars
in sanitary measures.
The writer saw Is or 20 people drink
ing in one of these places lately. The
glasses used We're black and greasy,
and never washed. Filth was every
where. A tub Of dirty water stood be-
was filed with drunken men and
We're fighting, some sing
ing and some sleeping. For five cents
they got large glass of something
they called wine. 1t was cheap, and
produced the desired drunk, and that
was all that was wanted.
The ffth-class license Cor country
saloon) is a failure. They were never
meant to run regular bar room, but
for 800 per year they do this 365 days
md nights in the year. Under the old
aw a saloon was situated entirely by
Itself. Not so now. A good many &C.
;upy a hole in some large tenement
house. with a dozen different back en-
RANGES, with back stairs leading to
upper rooms for all kinds of immoral
purposes. Women can frequent the
saloons day and night if they wish.
n fact, they can waltz right up to the
par with the men Women of LOOSE