The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-12-31
KLEMME TURNED
DOWN BY BOARD
Liquor Commissioners Adhere
to Their Decision to Allow No
Saloons Near Station.

Saloons Near Station.
tFrom Thursdays Advertiser.)
Harry Klemme, proprietor of the Alo-
la Cafe, saloon at the junction Of
Beretania avenue and King street, will
not be allowed to transfer his license
to the premises of the old Kentucky
saloon on Alakea street. The board of
liquor license commissioners turned him
down yesterday afternoon, for the Sec
ond time.
Klemme applied some time ago for
permission to transfer his license and
| business to the Alakea street place, but
the board refused to grant his request.
| l<1emme, who says he can not make
ends meet at the Aloha Cafe, brought
ali his personal and political influence
to bear on the members of the COM
mission, and applied for a rehearing.
This was granted, but Klemme IS plea
before the board yesterday fell on deaf
ears. The board has decreed that there
shall be no saloons in the neighborhood
of the naval station, and the beard evi-
dently intends to stand by its declara
tion.
| About the only other business before
the commissioners yesterday was the
consideration of letter from San
Francisco wholesale liquor tirm asking
| whether or not the sale of imitation
whisky is permitted in Hawaii The
board was obliged to instruct its secre
tary to reply that so long as the imita.
ti~l whisky is properly labeled as such,
the commissioners have not power to
forbid the sale Of the imitation goods.
| Former Minister Hanotaux appeals
for closer relations between France and
the United States, saying that the lat
ter, as a world power, is likely to in
tervene in European quarrels. He
states, further, that this fact is "the
constant preoccupation of Emperor
William.
900 . % 60 .
for homesteading in SO far as that is
profitable. Such lands (of the first
CLASSY are so valuable and there are
such loop-holes in the present laws that
there is great incentive to take such
iands under the homestead laws for the
ulterior purpose of investment or specu-
lation, or, if the homestead is taken
in good faith, there is great danger that
sooner or later it will be found more
profitable for the homesteader to lease
or sell it to an alien or corporation or
large landholder. Thousands of acres
of land previously cultivated in cane
and other superior lands have been dis.
posed of in this way. Experience is
fast demonstrating that unless the laws
are amended it would be wiser for the
government to lease or sell such lands
directly than to attempt to homestead
, them, for then the government woult
at least get their value and, in the
case of a lease, hold them until they
can be homesteaded successfully, while
if they are disposed of under the form
of homesteading under the present laws
they are liable to go eventually to the
same alien, corporation or large holder
and the go-between fake. .homesteadel
will get the greater part of their value
and they will be lost forever for home
stead purposes. The Territory is do
ing what it can to solve this compli
Gated problem, of which the admins
} tration of the lands is only one factor
1t is expected to produce results. But
its hands are tied All it asks is to bt
given a chance. The land laws can b,
, amended only by congress. Let these
amendments be enacted and homestead
. ing can be pushed vigorously with con
fidence in the result.
"These amendments are the resul
of careful and prolonged study OF
the part of the territorial officers,
commission appointed specially for tn,
| nf :
and many Others on the ground anC
familiar with past experience under TIL
Ipresent laws. They are believed to EN-
body the substantial agreement of tn,
people of Hawaii who are desirous o.
developing Hawaii on American lines
They have been made short, simple, an,
complete in themselves, so that the,
may speak for themselves and not in
volve an extensive inquiry into the ex
listing laws or the local conditions. The,
build upon and supplement the presen
system without upsetting it.
Methods of Homesteading.
"There are various methods of home
steading in Hawaii and necessarily fo
this reason as well as because of tn
great diversity of natural condition
and of the needs of different races
there is and must be more or less dis
cretion vested in the executive officers
That is so in large measure even on tn
mainland, especially in respect of re
claimed lands, which the lands of Ha
waii resemble more than they do tn
prairie lands. In the exercise of sue
discretionary power in so far as
exists, the executive officers have don
what they could to meet the conditions
as, by reducing the size of the lot
lengthening the time for obtaining pi
tent, enlarging the requirements OF res
Hence and cultivation, requiring res
denee to be real, forbidding transfer
by leases or otherwise before pateI