Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-30
GUT THE JAPANESE
AND CHINESE OUT
No Saloon Licenses For
0rientals, Say The
Liquor Men

No saloon licenses for Orientals
was the sentiment expressed by the
liquor men at the meeting of the Lii.
cense Commission, at which they
were invited to be present yesterday
afternoon to express their ideas as tC
the way the saloon business should
be regulated
The Oriental ought to be driven
cut of the business, they said. Sen.
ator Mccarthy stated that the way
most of them conduct their business
is disgraceful THE whole trade is
disgraced through them and they
have dragged the business down sc
low that some of us are almost
ashamed to be connected with it.
My idea in drawing up the liquor
bill so as to give the Board of Ii
cense Commissioners such absolute
lower was to provide a means by
which we could keep the Orientals
from getting licenses without theil
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This statement, made by Senator
Mccarthy, confirms what have been
the suspicious of the japanese and
Chinese since the new liquor bill was
first introduced into the Legislature
and the flat-footed avowal of opposi.
ton to Oriental saloon-keeping is
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up the Orientals even more than the
more quiet efforts to drive them out
of the business.
William Lishman, president OF
Macfarlane & Co., was equally EN-
phatic in the assertion of his belief
that the Orientals ought to be driver
out of the liquor business. 1t is the
Japanese who are running our bust
ness he said. THAT is the result
CT my experience in Honolulu. They
will not conduct their business prop,
erly, and there is no trickery in
which they cannot teach the white
man. The liquor business should be
in the hands of responsible white
men, but now it is being Orientalized
the same as the whole Territory is
being Orientalized
These sentiments concerning the
Orientals in the saloon business
which were concurred in by all the
saloon keepers present, were some.
what of depression from the real
object of the meeting. The Commits
sion had called number of the
more prominent liquor men to meet
with it in order that they might give
their ideas as to what rules and reg
ulations should be prescribed by the
Board for the conducting of the bus
mess. But the liquor men had few
suggestions to make along that line
In fact, they were, almost as whole
opposed to any hard and fast rules
Their idea, as expressed by several OF
their number, was that no rules
should be made which should apply
to everybody. They thought that
each case should be handled separate
ly and regulations made for each sep
arate saloon when the license had
been granted
The Board asked the opinion of the
liquor men as to whether back en-
frances should be prescribed. The
answer was an emphatic negative
Some of the men said that in some
instances it would be well to order
back entrances closed, but it would
not be fair to make any such rule &c
apply to everybody. Mccarthy was
of the opinion that this was matter
which should be regulated in indi-
vidual instances according to the
recommendation of the inspector
The policy of the Board regarding
the boundaries of saloon limits also
came in for general condemnation on
the part of the liquor men present
Lishman told the Board fatty that
while they had the power according
to law to make such boundaries, they
Eau NJ mural ElSHI. IL Il l1dH OUT
side the boundaries set by the Board
is conducting a decent saloon, there
is no reason why he should be refus-
ed license, and the Board has no
right to refuse to grant him one.
Peacock even went so far as to con-
denim the action of the Board in re-
fusing to grant licenses for saloons
near the fish market. While, it Is
true he said that some of the saloons
in that district have been run in a
disgraceful manner, there are some
saloons there that are well conducted,
and there is no reason why their pro-
prietors should not he allowed to con
tinue in the business,
Peacock tuld the Commissioners
that IL they had been playing the
game longer lhey would know that