The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-14
LICENSE BOARD
AND DEALERS IN
CONSULTATION
Blind Pigs Their Cause and Cure
Are Discussed in Conference
With Observation-Disclosures Of
Opinion Is Shown.

dividuaI Illicit sellers, and to destroy
the Illicit business, in other ways.
'The board also believes that your
interest lies in protecting your GUS
toners, who must be, for the most
part, licensed retail Dealers, and that
therefore it can expect help from you
That is about the outline of the
matter for consideration and we want
to see how far we can enlist you in
the matter.
'FWe shall be very glad TO hear any
thing that you may have to say"
William Lishman of Macfarlane's
said it was certain that neither he nor
his firm desired to sell to "blind pigs"
or knowingly did it. Our sales de-
partment,'' he said, lis in the hands
of two young men who have retail
license themselves and they would be
very careful not to sell to anyone who
would injure them in their business.
Anyway he continued, 'I asked them
the other day if they We're selling
anything to blind pigs and they said
they were not.
But the board must remember that
the retail dealers have the same right
to sell in any quantity that we have,
and so the blind pig business could
go on without the wholesalers selling
a drop to them. I think you will find
that the most part. of the blind pig
business is carried on by Asiatics who
would be less likely to buy of white
Wholesalers than they would of Asia
tic wholesalers, because they might be
Il IA
them away while they would not be
afraid the Asiatic dealers would.
'.But I think the board made a mis-
take at the very start when it de-
cided TO keep all licenses within q GER
tain radius. That left thickly popu-
lated districts, like Punchbowl for in
stance without any saloons. People
will get their liquor at the nearest !
place and if they have 70 walk a long
ways to a licensed place they are pret-
ty apt to force the grocery stores in
their neighborhood to keep it. If the
board would issue some licenses in
thickly populated districts like Punch
bowl, for instance, there would not be
illicit selling because it would be to
the interest of the licensed dealer to |
prevent it. The retail man is the |
blind pig killer. ! mention Punch |
bowl not because I want to see a |
saloon there. but because it is thick |
" populated district and I understand |
here is some illicit selling there. What |
say applies to any thickiy populated |
district, though I would oppose a
saloon in the Makiki district because
he people there don't want any
saloons. But in the outlying districts,
where there are no saloons, there are
Iure to be some blind pigs -
IF licensed places will prevent illicit
elling," asked Chairman Ballentyne,
how do you account for Kakaako
where there are two licensed places,
md according to information we have
bout nine blind pigs?'"
Il think the licensed dealers must
,e pretty lax there then" replied Lish-
nan.
s'Your two boys as you call them,
ave one of the licensed places down
here" said Gilman. "but they don't
eem to be able to detect or prevent
blind pigs any better than anybody
lse.''
wasn't there Illicit selling on
'unchbowl last year when there were
censed saloons there?'' asked Lucas.
One of my employees told me that he
ould get anything he wanted to drink
here on Sunday"
Mr.. I4ishman admitted that he could
OF say that there had been no Illicit |
cling on Punchbowl last year, though |
e still contended, in spite of that and
le Kakaako experience, that the re
Ill dealer is the blind pig killer
A. ]. Wirtz. of Fl. Hackfeld & Co., l
lid:
'Mr. I.ishman suggests that the re-
.ilers should be the police to detect
icit selling. I don't think that is
ir. The retailer is the one who suf-
RS: the wholesaler does not. And yet
10 retailer is usually the last man in
: district to know the Illicit selling.
r the Illicit seller takes care TO keep
out of the way of the retailer.
"The blind pig business is pecu-
,r one. In my opinion the blind pig
the creature, in very large degree,
the iobber. The jobber is dealer 7
no sells In wholesale quantities ana !
a.. even In retail quantities. A Y
,olesale dealer in my opinion Is one :.
10 viii consider II beneath his dig :,
10 to sell in less than wholesale "
antilles. and wholesale quantities are a
I less than the original package To b
IS there Is an exception. The whole q
ler in selling % retail dealer must le
\ sometimes in quantities smaller IS
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