The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-19


and ship direct to customers.
TO PREVENT MACHINE POLITICS
There was also another feature of
this plan which appealed to some. II
was that not more than one license
should be given 10 one man. The
trouble is that where one man owns
or controls licenses in more than one
district, it offers the opportunity and
the temptation to build I'D a political
machine, which is not for the best in
terests of the country or the public,
RETAIL LICENSE.
There was still another plan that
had some hackers and has some i'm
portant considerations in support of il.
That plan was that in place of issuing
wholesale licenses with the extra-stat-
utory condition that the licensee should
solicit business only at his place OF
business, that only retail licenses
should be issued. The argument in
support of it is this: Under the retail
license, the icensee could solicit the
sale of liquor wherever he wanted to,
but he could deliver 1t only at his
place OF business. Therefore the pur-
chaser would have to go for it or send
for it. which would be pretty good evil
dence that he wanted it, and that 1t
was not being forced on him. On the
other hand, it is not certain whether
the agreement Of the licensee not to
solicit elsewhere than in their places
of business is legally enforcible or not.
Some think that the law having de-
fined the rights and duties of the IL
eensee, his rights cannot thus be cur
tailed nor his duties increased. But
far more practical consideration than
this is urged by a survey of probable
results. The wholesale ltcensee, paying
thousand dollar license, is restrained
by his agreement from going through
the country and soliciting business.
But the Honolulu wholesaler is not.
The Honolulu wholesaler can send his
drummers right into every district In
this island soliciting orders to be filled
from Honolulu. It will be pretty hard
for the local licensee to sit down and
see his Territory invaded. his business
taken away, and not be able to get
out and protect himself by soliciting
too. It Is argued to the contrary of
this that the Honolulu dealers will not
do 1t, that having sold to a dealer
here they will not then invade his
territory. This would have more force
as an argument If all the Honolulu
dealers had licensees as customers In
each district OF the island. But they
have not. Hackfeld & Co.. for in
q he 40 In,
one district. and Peacock & Co. In an
other. There is nothing to restrain
each from invading the territory Of the
other with drummers. And there are
cases In which there Is business rivalry
and business hostility to tempt one Ho-
nolulu dealer to thus invade the ter
ritory Of another.
FOREIGN INVASION.
mo doubt If 1t shall prove that this
is done to the detriment of the local
licensees, there will he feeling that
in justice to the local people the LIZ
cense Commission will have to protect
them I'm some way against this. and
the way that has been suggested would
be by relieving them of the restriction
against soliciting for business.
On the other hand, it is argued. if
retail licenses had been issued instead
of wholesale, the local dealers could
have gone everywhere to solicit that
the Honolulu dealers could. They
could make delivery only at their
places of business which would have
protected the community against the
evils of liquor in the camps" as that
term is understood here, and which
after all is the great evil that most
of the effort is being made to cope
with, and at the same time would have
enabled the local licensees to protect
themselves against the invasion of
their territory by the Honolulu dealers.
SPECULATIVE ARGUMENTS.
yet all these arguments are more
Or less speculative. They are all to
some extent based on the effort to
foresee what will be. The truth is
that we are more or less in an ex-
pertinent stage. Time alone can de-
terpine the actual working out of the
policy adopted and the policies pro-
posed. The very important thing that
Is certain is that there is very strong
and very general sentiment in favor |
Of putting an end to the abuses that |
have filed the island with drunken |
ness and demoralized, not alone labor |
and laborers, but the business commu- |
nifty in general. There is, I believe, |
more unity of purpose in the commu |
nifty on this subject than there has |
often been before. Not that the COM |
nunity is united as to plan; I think |
[ have made it clear that it is mott
But there is disposition. I believe, |
% take less partisan views of plans |
3ther than our own and to give other |
1lans than the ones each Of us par
favors a fair trial.
THE BOARDS POLICY.
81 have pointed out why l think the |
plan L favored and recommended to
he board would meet the situation /
pest. / have given the arguments Of
,thers in favor of their particular
,lans, and their arguments against the
policy that the board has actually
ldopted. But l haven't yet given the
easons and the assurances that moved
he board to adopt the policy 1t did
nd the plans they have adopted and
he means they have taken 10 make 1t
Elective.
I'm the first place there is much in
he experience of the past two years