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

mind, in favor of w. c. Peacock &
Co. who are looked on as practically
the owners of the Kauai Wine & Liq-
uor Company; and vice versa. To
have refused Ozaki, who, as we'll as
the others had been long established
| there. would have been construed as
race discrimination. Not to have
| granted ]. l. Silva a license at Hama
pepe, in the same district. would have
| been looked on as discrimination
| against him, in favor of the others.
WAIMEA SENTIMENT.
Then, too. there was not the same
unanimity of sentiment in the Waimea
| district that there seems to have been
in other districts. Manager Faye of
Kakaha took the ground, practically,
| that if more than one license was 10
| be granted in that district, there might
| just as well be great many in order.
as he is reported to have expressed it,
so they will cut one another's throats
all the sooner" Manager Baldwin
wrote a letter to the board objecting
| to a license being granted to amy
| Jap which made it almost certain
that Ozaki's application would be
granted. as no modest Board of Ii
eense Commissioners would care to
| create a casus belli with Japan by
turning down Ozaki's application with
| such letter in the record of it's con-
sideration of the application.
COMBINED AGAINST OZAKI.
This letter was not the only oppo-
sition Ozaki's application had. His
application, by an accident of the legal
advertisement of the hearing, came be-
fore the board a week after the appli-
cations of the other Waimea concerns
had been granted. These, forgetting
their rivalries and animosities for a
thine, Joined forces, it is said, to pre-
vent Ozaki getting a license. In this,
however, they were not successful.
THE FIGHT IN KOLOA
In Koloa the fight took on a particu-
lar phase. Conditions, according to all
accounts, had been particularly bad in
Koloa. A number of incidents there
growing out of the saloon business had |
seemed particularly atrocious to sensi- |
tive minds. A drunken man in the |
insensateness of his drunken folly had |
stripped himself perfectly nude on the |
highway in broad daylight as some |
ladies were driving along. That he /
was arrested and fined could, of course,
make no difference to the revulsion of |
feeling this and similar incidents Great |
ed. There seems to have been more
decentralization among the laborers at |
Koloa than at some other places. From |
Koloa came the largest number of in !
cidents of poverty and hunger and dis /
tress among women and children due |
to saloons and the drinking habit. |
There were four licensed places in Ko-
loa during 1905 and three in 1864 i
Japanese holding a f1fth-class license
being squeezed out meanwhile. Per-
haps the excess of competition was
one cause of the excessive democrat /
ization wrought. At any rate there |
was very vigorous opposition to the /
granting of any licenses there. The /
opposition was led by ]. K. Farley
who represents the Smith, the Char
man and his own estates, and Rev.
Hans Isenberg and Manager Veins
heimer of the plantation. These rep
resent practically all of the land own
ers of the locality except the scattered
kuleanas, so that it was not difficult
perhaps for them to prevent the ap-
plicants from getting the necessary
property qualifications for their petit
tions. But, however that may be,
these opponents of licenses for Koloa
did not depend on this fact or this
power. They marshalled a most ap- /
palling indictment against the liquor il
traffic as it had manifested itself in |
results in Koloa. They had a list of L
all the disa greeable incidents, such as
the one of the nude inebriate They Il
had accounts of cases where destitu-
ton and suffering among women and
children had followed directly and Wis
IDLY from the traffic and they were
fortified with facts about the demoral-
ization- of labor and the disarrange-
ment of other lines of business.
THE LIQUOR BILL FIGURES.
But Mr.. Farley also furnished the
figures about the enormous growth and
volume of the liquor traffic. He made
public the fact that s260,O0O worth of
liquor are sold on Kauai by licensed
dealers on the island in one year, and
that seems in large measure to have .
sentiment against the traf-
fic. 1t can be heard from one side of
the island to the other as a reason
why something had to be done. It has
been one of the strongest factors in
unifying sentiment.