Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-06-07

court judges, and not one Of the can
didates said, az am elected, will
put the saloon out Of business. or
will try"
We had several candidates for at
torney-general. and not one of them
said, "If / am elected, | will attempt
to close up the liquor shops in Men,
phis."
Now, we do not cite these incidents
as reasons justifying the violation Of
the prohibition law. We simply call
attention to them, in order to show
the frame OF mind of the people.
In Nashville there is paper Of
wide circulation which, day in and
day out, demands the enforcement Of
the prohibition law in that city, and
yet that demand falls upon deaf ears.
In another part of his address, Mr..
Tigrett says that no one has the right
to ignore the law because he does
not approve the law.
In this Mr.. Tigfett is correct.
Every law that is on the statute
books binds people. but you cannot
legislate an absurdity into verify.
You cannot. by act of law, make
an impossible thing possible.
You cannot, by statute. destroy a
mans appetite for thing which II
Graves.
When the statewide people passed
the bill and applied II to Memphis
they passed law that was absurd
because 1t was based upon a condi.
ton Impossible to be filed
There is law against a certain
class of resorts that have existed In
all cities since man became sinner
The law commands that these
places be extirpated. and yet these
places exist. and have existed for q
thousand years.
What can the law do with them?
II can regulate them.
II can reduce the evil they will dc
to the community;
II can set them In districts, and
warn people to go not into these
places because they are the abode Of
lost souls.
The psohlbition law is a failure In
Memphis, as 1t has been in ever,
large city in the United States.
II were better to regulate the
liquor traffic than to outlaw It, be.
cause by outlawing 1t you cannot xii
1t.
Those who passed the prohibition
law, and forced 1t on the city Of Mem
phis. did this, city. unconsciously, W,
admit, great wrong.
They made the violation of Law
a permanent custom.
In a mass meeting at the Lyceun
theater, Judge Mccall estimated tina
$4,000 drinks were sold every day II
Memphis, and Judge Mccall said tina
this meant $4,000 violations Of tn,
law.
The result of this is that the viola
ton Of the law in one respect lead
to lack Of respect for all law, an,
for the machinery OF the law.
A prominent educator in this city
who has 200 boys in his school, sal
to the writer not long ago. that tn
young boys were so impressed wit
the failure of the prohibition Law
that they said that II men violate
one law, they were encouraged :
violate other laws.
In word. one can imagine wha
the fragrant violation of the liquo
law, or any other law. could have VI
on the forming mind of any boy.
We do not know what the futur
holds In store for us. We are so bus
flying at each others threats, be
cause Of the quarrel between tn
judges and the state committee, an
: fighting over other questions base
, upon personal and political hatred
that we are forgetting the things /
this state that need the careful after
ton OF the best thought in the stat,
The fact is. the best of us seem I
| have lost our canacitv for caIu, ra,