Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-08

necessity true, their plan of harassing
legitimate commerce with laws which
are productive of injury generally to
the basic principle of property and
personal rights. would bring greater
damage to the body polite than all
the inebriates now eXtant, or whcih
would be, under any laws, hereafter.
Besides, prohibition has been beyond
question, proven to be failure. The
comparison of a saloon, properly con
Quoted and well regulated with the
dirty "boot.lcSs" and "spoak-easies'
of prohibition states. where the open
temperate drinking of mild.beer and
pure beverages has been transformed
into sneak" indulgence in cheap
whisky, is all that is required to con.
vince the most skeptical.
The zealots of this alleged temper.
ance cause have gone 80 far beyond
the limits of fairness and dcCcncy in
their assaults upon the principles of
personal rights that 1t scems all rca-
son has forsaken them. "Unreason.
able searches and seizures" have been
made and 'cruel and unjust punish
ments" have run rampant In states
where the mania of temperance fana-
ticism has secured so strong hold
that these constitutional safeguards
have been entirely ignored, and the
individuals has suffered serious alb
ridgment of his rights through ignor.
ance of his remedy or lack OF means
to pursue 1t through the courts.
The force of contracts has often
been impaired and the progress OF
commerce, which must plan ahead,
has been delayed and hampered by
the creation of clogging uncertainty,
reaching out into every avenue or
trade touch the plans of the very
government itself, Of whose revenue
| this traffic forms so formidable n
part. A transfer of the burden which
this traffic In its revenue to state,
county and nation carries, to the
backs of the taxpayers OF this coun'
try. would bring home to them too
-, late the facts they should think about
| now, while the people are facing this
ruinous crusade. No individual how
ever small his means or unimportant
| his occupation, could hope to escape
| the serious consequences of the loss
of this commerce. That such Il man.
moth revolution of business condi'
lions would save anything by reduc-
ing crime or lessening the number OF
penal institutions Is fallacious con
lecture only.
To the moral side Of this question
there can be nothing but the matter
of personal volition and the proper
a.. Nntt ~
brewers nor ninety per cent OF the
saloonkeepcrs object to regulation
In fact, they court II and urge II that
the very few who have been reckless
and defiant law and order breakers
; may no longer serve for the basis OF
unfair and unrighteous condemnation
! of them ALL While regulation of any
business to conform with decency and
public propriety Is desirable, the man
, ner In which most of the temperance
! people who do not believe In prom
, bition but do desire regulation woult
/. carry II out amounts practically tt
D prohibition.
/ If tax on the retail business II
g made so high that the dealer canno
!. make moneyit Is nothing short OF pro
( hibition; Is productive of financia
o distress, and any man driven into
n corner has less respect for the Law
?. than when he Is prosperous. Hence
n onoo,'roaas tho Incentive m take lon,
% ohouoaa 10 Laon from, s,rL,ng In Nh
Sn"ths 80 sai,nro and hns,ness disas
10 tar 70 ,h,s 10 roalIy n sgbt for moral
n i,oarsa sbo,id hc issued on basi
,s of moral nmalIacations and a fair Ia