The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-20

ten copy of the bill in it's latest form
kindly supplied him by Colonel Me-
Carthy of the Liquor Dealers lAssocia-
ton for the occasion, and he took up
point by point the different clauses
in it.
Their objection to the Board of Su-
pervisors being the licensing board fr
the Territories was that it was an
elective board, and that such a board
could be easily Influenced as 1t would
be composed of men who would be
seeking election from time to time, and
the temptation would be great to many
men to use the power as political lever
age to help get them into office.
Another feature of the bill is the
granting of special licenses for three
days at SIS a day to retail liquors at
baseball games, circuses, fairs, etc,
provided the dispensing of same was
favored by the organization In con-
troll. In all it provided for seven diff
ferent kinds of licenses for clubs.
hotels, restaurants, saloons, wholesale,
jobbing and special.
All the points agreed on at the con-
ference between the two parties had
been incorporated in the bill, and some
others of a like nature, but these all
IEil Ill DIS We'll with t1AS 1890
of the liquor men as with the interests
of the others.
The Anti-Saloon League and Civic
Federation will do their utmost in CO.
operation with many other organiza-
lions and most intelligent and law
abiding people to try and secure local
option. Prohibition was their ideal, put
local option was on the road, and was
a good method of expressing the VIII
of the people in this matter. 1t was
the law in thirty-eight out of forty-tWo
States, and there is no reason why TINS
Territory should not come up in line
with the great majority of the states
The Liquor Dealers Association Is
the only one that will get up a law
and tell the Legislature that this Is
the kind of law we wish snail con-
troll our business Imagine dry
goods association doing that. why DO
these men feel it necessary to get To-
gether and spend weeks and weeks
drafting bill2 1t is because thay
know their business is an INJURY 10
society They have tremendous 1nnu-
ence and lots of money. and they VIII
do all they can to serve their purs
poses This bill will help the men VINO
are making money out of the Hquoi
business. 1t will shut out the Chinese,
japanese and other aliens, and It VIII
make the business more profitab bic Tor
them. These are not the men that
have the best interests of the people
at heart The Legislature ought 10
hear as well our committees, as tney
tell what a large part of the pesfia
feel about the matter.
Mr.. Wadman then answered some
questions, and read the report or the
Anti-Saloon League as to the literature
they had distributed, and the WORK
they had been able to do in the way VI
reducing the number of licenses and In
bringing home offenses to liquoG men
who had broken the law.
Mr. Martin, agent of the Antl-Saiooh
League, then addresses the iadies.
First he drew their attention to tna
destitute condition in which many OF
the prisoners left the jail when tney
had concluded their sentence, ana APP
pealed to them to help in movement
to take care of these unfortunates anu
house them for week Or two tlil lhey
could find their footing once mcaS III
the world Some of them have places
to so to, but their egress is apt 70 DC
celebrated by a Iuau, and they return
sometimes very soon through the pris-
on gates.
He then spoke of the efforts tnae
were going TO be put forth by the
Anti-Saloon League during the next
few weeks in bringing local option pc
fore the people and the legislators.
What they were after was local option
-,,.ra a1a SiporTe child could under
stand what that was They did not
want ANYTHING tackled on either before
or behind The LIQUOR men We're
strong. h,,t Cod was on their side and
that made all the difference
Mr. Martin then went on TO prdIse
the work of the present police admin
istration. He praised It for the goou