The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-08
THE ANTS
HAVE A SAY
Continued from Page One.)

We find that this bill calls for. frs
a wholesale license which allows tn
retailing of liquor by the bottle O
flask and, second, a retail licens
which allows the wholesaling of lfquo
| n any quantity. We earnestly pro
test against such confusion and re
| quest that the definitions of whole
sale license and retail license as foun
in Bill Al be incorporated into Bill No
o. TO wit, that Section 8 on page I
| lines and the following, shall rea,
as follows:
First: Wholesale License. To sci
intoxicating liquors of any kind a
wholesale, for a term of one Q) year
| in quantities not less than five 60 gal
| Ions of any one K nd or brand if takeI
| from bulk containers, and not les
| than the original package or case ii
| which any kind or brand may be i'm
ported: such original package, how
ever, to consist of not less than one
| dozen reputed quarts, or two dozen re
| puted pints or four dozen reputed half
pints or four dozen two ounce TASKS
and as to home bottl ng, in quantities
| not less than one dozen reputed quarts
or two dozen reputed pintss or fnul
dozen reputed half-pints. The terms
quarts "pints" ana 'half-pints'
herein used shall designate bottles OF
TASKS containing not less than twenty
three, ten. or five ounces respectively
No liquor sold under a license of this
class shall be consumed on the licens-
ed premises
In like manner we request that Sec
ton 8, pages 7 and 8, lines and the
following, shall read as follows:
Second: Retail License. To sell
intoxicating liqours of any kind at re-
tail in quantities OF less than five 90
gallons of any one kind or brand, in
bulk or otherwise, for a term of one az
year Under this license the holder
may be club or may conduct any one
of the following kinds of business, to
wit: saloon, hotel or restaurant. Every
license shall specify upon its face
whether the holder be a club or which
of said kinds of business the holder
thereof may carry on; and no business
other than that so specified shall be
carried on by such licensee on the same
premises. except the sale of mineral
We submit that if retailers be allow
ed to sell in any quantities the ease
with which so-called blind pigs" can
be supplied throughout the Territory
will defy the efforts of the most vig-
liant police force possible.
Again we request that clubs be in
cluded in this form of license because
we believe they should pay the same
fee with all other places that retail
intoSieants. The club is to the man of
wealth what the saloon is to the poor
man and to make the latter pay four
times as muchA as the former in Ho-
nolulu is unjust.
We request that there be no other
licenses except the first and second as
above. The fourth class license
to be issued for three days
is one of the most vicious pro-
visions imaginable. 1t will permit So
called picnics TO points near our cities
which VIII prove nothing more nor
less than drunken orgies, a menace to
the neighborhood in which they are
held and a disgrace to the Territory.
We request that instead of the an
nual fees for second class or retail
licenses being $1,000 $500 and $3.50, they
be $1,000, $3.50 and $500.
ANY country saloon in this Territory
is worth $500 a year. is the testimony
of q gentleman of wide observation and
acquaintance with the conditions of
our island life.
The QUESTIONABLE of the Civic Fedora
ton issued throughout the Territory
OBJ 81 10 lion
outside Of Honolulu in favor of the
1000 fee for all saloons. We think
that the request to grade the licenses
at $1,000, $3.50 and $500 is therefore ex-
ceedingly moderate
AT the hearing before your commit
tee a few weeks ago one of the liquor
dealers present voiced the sentiments
that one license to 1000 of the popula-
ton in counties would be a wise pro-
vision. We favor the proportion of
one license to 1900 of the population.
We request that page 9, line 2, be
amended to read cor major fraction
thereof
We request that Section IL, page 10,
line 3, be amended by substituting the
word owners for the word holders"
Also that on page II, line 4, the words
owners" and owner" be substituted
for the words holders and holder
respectively. Also that everywhere
else in Bill No. 81 where the words
property holder" or property hold
ers'' are found there be substituted
the words real estate owner or real
estate owners
The owners of real estate and not
property holders are affected by the
presence of a saloon in the neighbor-
hood of their property. Bill 81 as now
drawn threatens seriously to affect the
value of real estate in many parts of
the Territory Bill No. AZ carefully
guarded real estate interests by provid-
ing that the consent of owners of real
estate and not that of property holders
be secured.
We request that on page II, begin
ming with the word provided in line
8, all be stricken out to and including
''as hereinafter provided in line 16.
This will compel the filing of real es-
tate owners consent annually This
requirement has long been in force in
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