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

'The policy adopted by the License
Board" said the Rev. Hans Isenberg.
was an attempt to meet and remedy
the conditions that have existed for
two years. "
What were those conditions? The
expenditure last year of over $3.50, 900
for Intoxicating liquors. which we
think Is entirely too much for popu-
lation no larger than ours. We think
| If SO much were not spent for LIQUOR
there would be more money to circu-
late in other lines of business: there
would be fewer women and children
coming to their employers and saying
they had nothing to eat because the
husband and father had spent all for
| liquor.
I'VE think something ought to be
done, when, as at Koloa, by o'clock
In the afternoon 1t frequently became
unsafe or imprudent for q woman to
so along the road because OF the
drunken men on the road, and because
of the drunken antics and vulgarity of
these drunken men.
LIQUOR FORCED ON PEOPLE.
I'VE think something ought to be
done to prevent the Generalization re-
sulting from the liquor business when
it is carried on in such keen COMPETE
ton that liquor is forced on people
who would not seek 1t; when 1t is sold
ON credit to people who can not pay.
One case that know OF showing how
recklessly credit was extended was
that OF a Porto Rican earning $1S a
month who was given credit for liquor
to the amount OF $50.
1T was not a case OF the planta-
lions suffering in their labor alone.
OF course, they did. Laborers de-
bauched by liquor can not be depended
on to work regularly nor to be at their
work when they were wanted. But
all kinds OF business felt 1t. Mer-
chants could not get their pay for the
goods they sold Women came to them
to @GJ them -four on credit because
thew aad nothing to eat for themselves
and their children. In one case a man
bought a sack of flour on credit and
took IL over to a saloon, where he got
seventy-five cents worth Of wine for IL,
the wine being drunk up right there.
FEWER SALOONS.
well. it was conditions like these
that the board and the community had
to meet. One thing was to reduce the
number OF saloons. I have no obtec-
lions to the laboring man. to every
body having an opportunity to get
liquor. IL they want IL. / don't think
it right to be forced on them in the
camps and everywhere. The hundred
dollar license saloon was the worst.
The new license law got rid Of them.
Retail license saloons, where liquor
can be drank on the place, where there
is constant temptation to drink more
than is good for one, because of the
treating habit, are bad. The License
Board decided TO issue no retail IL
censes at all. It has issued seven
wholesale licenses so far in the Is
land. Anybody who wants liquor can
get IL, but they can not drink It on
the premises. This we think Will do
away with much of the evil. Before.
men came from their work at four or
five O'Clock in the afternoon and. In
stead of going home. would go TO the
saloon and sit there and drink as long
as they had any money or any credit
Now they can't do that. If they buy
stuff they are now likely to take It
home and there they are not so likely
to abuse It or themselves.
'eYou say Kauai has adopted DIFF
ferent policy under this law than any
other county? Perhaps we had differ
ent conditions to meet. Anyway, the
board here adopted the policy that 1t
thought most likely TO remedy The
evils we felt"
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