The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-12
PROHIBITION Should Be FaiirI

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"A LTHoUGHwe have had nothing whatever to
do with it. the fact that this will be practically
the one posi- whs profkb ion sregsrds the army
will be absolute VIII 81 cited a. one more "evi-
dence" of the allegation that Honolulu is place
where the uniform is Disseminated against The
law prohibits the sale Of intoxicants to soldiers
and sailors "in uniform" Elsewhere there is roth
ing to prevent an officer or an enlisted man in the
army from laying aside his uniform at times,
whereupon the prohibition feature Of the new army
law no longer applies. In Honolulu, as the result
of local army regulations, made continuing by re-
peated orders of the war department no soldier is
allowed to appear in public except in uniform.
Thus the combination of the law and the order
Places every soldier IN this department today on
the tabu list. A....-
1t is unfair to permit self-indulgence in intoxi-
cants to class of citizens and forbid to Others
especially as the forbidden ones include those who
have stepped to the front in defense of their and
Flag and Country.
The Advertiser would not suggest that the law
prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to soldiers be
abridged in the slightest, nor its enforcement be
anything less than absolute. 1t does suggest, how
ever, that effort be made to secure executive
order under the Selective Service Act, whereby,
for the duration of the war; every saloon and every
restrictions now applied to the soldier apply to
everyone and in that way remove the discrimina-
ton. If il be good for boys in uniform to fore
go the use of intoxicants during the war period,
it is equally good for all the rest of us.
The act authorizes the President Ito make such
regulations governing the prohibition of alcoholic
liquors in or near military camps " as he may
from time to time deem necessary or advisable"
BY a stroke of the pen the President today can
make Oahu absolutely dry. He should be urged
to do so, and the urging should come from the
civilian citizens of Honolulu. as
1t can be urged with truth that unless this be
done much of the benefit of the partial prohibition
will be lost 1t must be taken for granted that
while there is supply of booze easily obtainable
and some thousands of young men with plenty of
money to spend and sense of being Disseminated
against and forbidden what is free to Others there
will be found plenty of INSCRIPTIONS ready to
be the go-betweens. 6 ..s...,..... .. .-. ~. .i
The temptation for this law breaking should be
removed If this community is to fulfill its patriotic
duty, and the one sure way to remove the temp
tation is shut off the sale of intoxicants entirely
The President may forbid absolutely the posses
sion of booze on this island, except for medicinal
or sacramento purposes. When he does, it will
place us all on the same footing, where all
ought to be- and it will make possible the whole
object of the prohibition now in effect as regards
the soldiers and sailors in the federal service.
Here is chance for our commercial bodies to
have federal prohibition given fair and ample
test here is the chance for prohibitionists to
secure a demonstration Of their theories under the
very best of auspices; here is prohibition to be
secured through our own home rule" efforts with
cut any possible quibbles concerning the constitu
tionality of the law. Here is the chance for the
many who have been protesting prohibition desires
to make good their words.
Who will start the movement?