The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-15
GAMBLING
SITUATION
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| ton is not so very large after all. Still
We are ashamed that the number is so
large. But if the police department is
going TO enforce the gambling law
fairly, those who will be arrested will
not be Asiatics alone but all natfonah-
/ les.
The way it stands at present the
ones arrested are mostly Asiatics and
natives who gamble for small amounts,
| five and ten cents, but you never see
white man arrested who CANDLES for
| large stakes, from one TO two hundred
/ dollars This has caused a certain
amount of suspicion among the Asia
tics. for the appearances are that the
police department is trying to cinch
the Asiatics and natives and dare do
nothing against the wealthy haole Of
| tenders, and we want to impress this
upon Chief Detective Taylor. For our
selves we do not believe that this is
the policy of Sheriff Iaukea, but we
want to ask him to show no partially
and to enforce the law equally against
ALL
ONE CHINESE PAPER PLEASED.
One of the two daily Chinese papers
the Sun Chun Kwoch Bo, the organ Of
will publish a translation of the at
tempted bribery story this morning and
will refer to the matter editorially. 1t
will say that the attempt of the gam
blers to carry on their business of
robbing the poorer Chinese and natives
has received one of the hardest set
backs in the history of Honolulu 1t
will compliment the police and those
who assisted them for the work they
have done in tearing off the mask of
some of the big Chinese gamblers and
will hint at evidence it has in its pos
session TO enable it to make further
disclosures whenever necessary
A HOME RULE POINT OF VIEW.
The Home Rula refuses to put any
credence in the story of the attempted
bribery whatever. 1t says editorially
that it does not believe that Taylor or
any other man would have s1400 a
week offered to him without jumping
at it.
'Our local papers brag very much OF
Taylor and the number of arrests he is
making of gamblers says Home Rula- |
1T is true that he is bringing in big |
amount of money in fines and therefore /
it is necessary to keep lookout on |
him. The minute we go to sleep he |
will get all the honey like a bee and /
might suddenly disappear from the I
country"
In another editorial note the native I
paper makes this equally astonishing |
remark:
1T would be better for our Solons to
make a law as they have in several
of the States of the Union and license
the gambling games"
BULLETIN SEES SOME FLAWS.
The Bulletin treats the matter with
it's customary inconsequence as fol-
lows:
''The weak point in the alleged at
tempt to bride Sheriff Iaukea's Chief
Of Detectives is: First. the haste to
make the matter public before it was
fully completed; and.
Second, the inability of the officer,
who was admittedly trying to learn
If there was a positive intention to
oribe him, to arrange the place of meet
ing SO that third person and compe-
tent witness could testify to how and
for what purpose the Chief secured the
fifty dollars found in his clothes, after
4 visit made to Chinaman.
I'm this particular, the Chief with
LII the opportunities of police man
lgement behind him was not as sue !,
cessful as the former Attorney General,
who was threatened with a bride and
-efused it at the pistol point,-his
pistol.
TT is truly a remarkable fact that
he only persons thus far threatened
With brides during recent years in this
are directly or indirectly !
associated with the morning paper.
Enforcement of the law does not
heed spectacular attempts at bribery TO
thoughtful people with special
in behalf of particular Of
icers anxious to make a record.
"A pound master might work up a '
resistance to bribery if former asso-
,iates labored hard enough in stirring /
lp someone to offer him twenty-five
tents on account of a promised four
dollars week. II
THE Bulletin has always supposed {
hat the Chief of Detectives was doing
lis work as he found it. He has done :
some excellent work. Bribery propo- ,
itions first suggested to him by Adj
yertiser reporters read like a sheet
rom Dick the Sleuth or the King OF
he Hot Potatoes"
ANY person on any police force who
,annot get a bribery proposition full of c
great promises must have an unusual |
peat. Taylor is said to have received
fifty dollars on account to bind larger
bargain. He would have to whistle for
1400 a week in Honolulu Il