The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-07-30

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Illicit Liquor Sellers Will
Get the Limit.

An aged, partly blind and decript
Chinaman, named All Heong was
recently arrested for running a
blind pig at Waiehu. He had a
small stock of wet goods, a five
gallon demijohn and twelve bottles
of wine, and when arraigped before
adges Rprchard he plead guilty.
His Sxel 1fS stating the law was
that being partly helpless be had
no other means of support. Itwas
his first offense, but the police sus-
pected he was merely acting as a
blind for a Chinese store keeper
nearby.
In sentencing the prisoner, after
the plebiscite had settled the public
view on the liquor issues Wednesday
last Judge Burchard expressed him.
self in the following terms:
This defendant had plead guilty
to a charge made in this Court of
having sold intoxicating liquors
without license-in common par
lance, of having conducted a blind
pig"
The defendant is old and blind,
and yet it appears from the evidence
taken that he has been quite an ex-
tensive dealer in the forbidden
merchandise. / believe from all
the facts that he is trying to shield
others more guilty than himself, yet
he persists in denying that he is so
doing. Ordinarily a man in his
condition would appeal strongly to
ones sympathies, yet it is shown
by the evidence that he has been a
persistent dealer; he has carefully
prepared a plan and actively en-
gagged in disregarding this whole
some law, and by reason thereof all
those sentiments that are shield to
the helpless and unfoi tunate do not
obtain.
? l cannot find words too strong to
condemn the crime charged against
this man. In fact, the Legislature
has provided strong penalties to be
administered in such cases as the
one before us; we have laws regu-
lating ;he sale of intoxicating IL
quors which provide limitations as
to days of sale, as to persons to
whom liquors may be sold, as to
the character of liquors to be sold,
and many other wholesome provi-
sions intended to guard the public
against imposition and fraud.
To men engaged in similar busi-
ness as that to which this defendant
has plead guilty, they know no law
of society or decency; for mere
avarice and gain they will sell any
compound however injurious to the
physical, mental and moral nature
of their victims; as they do not pay
a license and are not subject to any
limitations they become unjust COM
petitors Of those who obey the law
in order to conduct their business; /;
they become a menance to society
at large by producing the worst form
of debauchers, and thereby their
injury is far greater to society than
that of the criminal who, led by inn
pulse and emotion, or the sudden
rise of passion may commit an act
violating the law. These pestilen-
tial spots breed crime, dethrone
reason, blunt the intelligence, ruin
homes, make widows and orphans,
and brutalize their victims. / need
not draw the picture of their villain
Gus influence upon the public at
large; they produce calamities that
cannot be measured in words; they
worse than destroy human existence
itself. They must and shall be
suppressed, and no officer or citizen
who has either respect for his Office
or his duty as a member of society