The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-23
| letters From
The People
FAIRCHILD ON PRo
HIBITION.

pa.;fc Commercial Advertiser,
Honolulu, Oahu.
Dear Sir:-In The Pacific Commercial
| Advertiser of May IS, 1910, an article
headed kauai Officials for Prohlol-
ton appears the following. " men
senator Fairchild reported the Island
Of Kauai unanimously opposed 10 prom
hilton and quite satisfied with what II
had in the way of liquor trafilc resu-
Iot;or he overlooked great deal ac-
| cording to reports received from inc
| Garden Island.' Will you be KIND
! enough to give me your authority lof
| this statement.
! + will state for your information
that on Nav 3 the Evening Bulletin
| ouoted me as saving "kaual IS az
| soIutelv satisfied with the present Hquor
| law, and u believe the majority OF
| the voters in the county are IN 1aNor
Of maintaining it In explanation L
mioht also state, that whatever the
! outcome of the vote next July may
| he there is a large conservative ele
ment on this Island, temperance ad
yocates and prohibitionists, who be
lieve the 'Woolley Campaign was a
/ mistake and resent the manner III
which it was undertaken. Many are
vet to be convinced that we are not
! being forced to take desperate
| chance on the July election. II the
vote is "dry' the Legislature MUSI
set aside present law, which is adj
mittedlv one of the best in the Unit
ed States If the vote is wet the
| LEGISLATURE MAY set aside the same
law and make this Territory what 1t
was under the liquor law OF l9o9,
/ which will mean the granting of re
tail saloon licenses on Kauai and which
| in 1905 resulted in every Saturday be-
ing a dehauch, with the public high
! way as the arena.
There is great danger that the PROM
bitionists, we'll intentioned though they
NAV be. will deliver the temperance
advocates a good liquor law and them
selves into the hands of the liquor
interests. making it difficult for a
subsequent legislature to again reenact
as GOOD a law as the one we now have.
While the administration of the pres
ent law has not been perfect undoubted
" it has represented the wishes OF
|
all territorial prohibition will be able
TO accomplish.
That Kauai has not always been salts
fed with the ADMINISTRATORS OF
THE LAW by certain deputy shertfs
on this Island is EVIDENCED by the
law introduced by the Kauai represent
atives in the last Legislature resulting
in the deputy sherif,s being no longer
elected.
This action was due to the dissatis-
faction with the conduct of certain
deputy sherltfs.
/ was surprised to find among the
names of the officers Of two of the
prohibition clubs mentioned in your
article. those of the deputy sheriffs, OF
he districts. the administration of the
law in which was 50 severely criticized
by the grand jury referred to by yor
They should have known that THEN
oath of office under the present law
was sufficient authority to correct the
evils they have sought to mitigate by
joining the prohibition clubs.
VIII officials be any more perfect
under territorial prohibition law
than under the present liquor law?
Since the enactment Of the present
: liquor law. | am informed by those il
, ! authority to know, no crimes which
the grand jury has been called upor
/ to investigate had their relation t
/ liquor and the use Of it = whereas prior
[ to the enactment of this law, there
: were many.
In your editorials YOU have advocated
| a dispassiouate discussion OF the vote
? to be taken next july and | believ,
, You would not knowingly mislead YOU
| readers with statements appearing il
your paper, consequently | have been
| tempted to reply as / have to tn,
f article in your issue of May IS. Your.
very truly,