The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-11

ternal revenue mas hlmScit explained,
that in many cases the plantation la
borers go TO their luna or their cook or
the manager of their clearinghouse
and "chip in - to buy tub of sake.
few barrels of beer or barrel Of
whisky. If the luna, cook or boarding
house manager buys the liquor, deals it
out to the men, and charges it up to
them, he is technically selling liquor.
And when the internal revenue men find
it out, he is compelled TO pay the
special $25 tax for the sale of liquor
at retail. But it is certain that the in
ternal revenue force, though numbering
but few men, is much more success
full in learning of such transactions
than are the territorial or county au-
thorities.
Arrests Are Rare.
Convictions for drunkenness are Of
such rarity on Kauai as almost to come
in the class of events. Yet this must
not be taken as meaning that drunk
enness is unknown or even infreguent
on the Garden Island. 1t simply means
that arrests for drunk enness are rare.
And this is not any reflection on the
police, for they are empowered to ar
rest only when one is found drunk in
public place. There being no saloons,
and the blind pigs having of necessity
to take measures to prevent publicity,
most of the liquor sold is drunk in the
plantation camps. A laborer may get
/, as drunk as lord in his own camp,
| and, so long as he does not assault his
! neighbor, try to kill his wife or some
other man IS wife, or commit any other
act which in itself constitutes crime
or misdemeanor, he is safe from ar
rest.
Charles P. Dole, district magistrate
for the district of Lihue, made the
| statement to an Advertiser reporter
| that he had had only one drunk before
| him in three months, and that was a
Korean In his district. said sheriff
Rice, all the DRINKS arrested are Ko-
reans. The men of other nationalities
| buy their booze and take it to their
own camps or homes to drink it. The
Korean acquires, jug of bad whisky
sits down beside the road and calls in
his passing friends and acquaintance
and they proceed to get gloriously
soused and lie there until a cop comes
along and gathers them in
/ No-License Policy Good.
Everybody on Kauai to whom tht
question was put as to the success o.
the no.license policy declared that it il
working out very well indeed.
"The policy of granting no retail
|, licenses is working out splendidly,
was the statement made by Arthu
Rice, treasurer of the county. ''Liquo
, conditions ON this island have beer
,, greatly improved since that policy wa
, adopted"
Representative William j. Sheldon
, made statement to the same effect
but expressed the opinion that tn
congress of the United States ought t
pass law restraining the collector o
g internal revenue from issuing fedora
licenses to any man who does not hol
5 a territorial license. Mr.. Sheldor
e however, apparently 4abored under tn
!. very common, but erroneous, belief tina
: the internal. revenue department issue
l licenses for the sale of liquor. AS
matter of fact, it does not, but onl
s collects special tax from liquor-seller:
0 Mr.. Sheldon said he thought tn
0 legislature ought to make the existin
: liquor law more stringent than it II
e In particular, he would have a la
y making the possession of feeders
: speciai tax receipt prima facie evidenc
l. Of the sale of LIQUOR.
J. This same view was expressed b
h many other Kauai residents, VIII
t thought that such law would be eve
: more eflieacious than the enactment c
d n prohibition law. if the prohibitio
d law is TO be territorial instead of fe,
S eral.
l. Situation Improved.
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The unsolyed Problem
\ 1t is evident that though kaual ma
q have solved the saloon problem, 81