The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-15
VIEWS IN
PROHIBITION
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| then approached a business man.
1T will eventually ruin Honolulu,
he said. when you come to reau.
what the revenues from the liquor
licenses amount to annually and the
money that is spent in this town by
tourists, and that expended by the
soldiers in the posts you cannot fan
to realize and see the danger to our
commercial side. There are now IN
yestors or rather intending investors
awaiting the result. And if prohi
biton passes, they will depart to in
vest elsewhere. Surely they can fore
see the result financially The only
money that is spent in Honolulu by
the posts is for cigars, tobacco ana
liquor. All else is furn:sned by the
government. That means after prohl-
bition passes, we can look Tor nothing
from that quarter. The money that
the boys spend circuletes through the
town and keeps business moving. or
vocatedfor Honolulu's disparagement +
this is the worst. No, l do not be.
lieve there will be tourist traffic after
this movement comes into effect.
There is little ensough now in Hone
lulu without taking that away. This
cry of the poor Hawaiian is rather
inane, and comes at a pretty late day.
After the Hawaiian has nothing more
to lose. they are afraid he will lose
it, If they are so interested in "The
Poor Hawaiian" let them remove
from the streets the blind Hawaiian
beggar, a spectacle never seen before
here | make you a safe bet what
coins he does get are dropped into
his palm from the chaps who have
come from the bar"
The next on my list was a society
woman of Honolulu, and as it did not
affect her greatly, her opinion was
neutral. D.
81 should be very glad to see every
saloon in this city with closed doors.
have nothing to gain or lose, but /
cannot see that the humiliating posi-
ton of the native Hawaiian today is
due to spending his honest wages
within those doors. He has lost ev-
erything, even his sense of pride, and
seems an outcast in his own land.
Most Hawaiians mortgaged their
homes for gin, and now there is no
home left, but a tenement in some
foul oriental lodging house. l think
the soldier boys should have their
canteen. Society? All well, society
cannot be affected in any way am
sure by prohibition"
And then I spoke with an intellt-
gent wife and mother.
Prohibition? Well, ! am sure it
cannot come too quickly for some of
US" she said. Men may pirate OF
business affairs and the loss of
money, but money cannot buy happi-
ness, and what is the loss of it com
pared to the forfeiting of respect and
refinement Of the home? Men talk
somewhat idly of women staying at
home to mind their children, when
approached about the ballot, but what
can they answer when you tell them,
that many o woman has no home
through having no voice in the affairs
which controlled it I believe that
that many a woman as no home
en- of voting on the question of pro-
E'hition, there will be no more sa-
looms. l myself 40 not advocate to-
tai prohibition, for there are many
ner who are temperate in their con-
sumption of liquor, but what l do say
is this-that the licenses granted to
saloon men should be high. Not only
if Congress grants the right to wom-
would fewer be able to pay it, but it
higher grade article. They could not
afford to sell a good article cheaply
And naturally, the men who require
good standard would get it, while
those who are selling their souls for
a polluted grade of liquor, and squan-
dcring the wages which belong to the
wives and children would be deprived
Of The home-breaking stuff which now
saloon men sell them. / think, too,
that the number of saloons should be
restricted, and that those few with
licenses should be under the strict
surveillance of the authorities. And
also there should be a list of incom-
petent men in whose behalf their
= wives have pleaded, to whom if liquor
we're sold in an intoxicated condition,
the license would be forfeited. There
seems to be a law concerning this