The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-02
BOOKLET OF WINE q
COMPANYPRO-HON,
VlelLANTE charge
Attention Of Federal Authorities
, .Isfcsllea 70 Advertising Nat
} ! taruRdektd 10 Honoluiu
REFERS TENDEFL Y TO ~ :
FIJI THE FATHERL AND
WiYgoote Literature Should Be
Sent,TO Dry Territory is
Question That Puzzles T..

The attebtion Of the federal author
tiles has BEEN called hx, members Of
The Hawaiian Vigilance Corps o e. the
American Defense Society to an adeer.
Using booklet of the. 9andlaeh. Bunt.
shaa Wine Company, Of San Francisco,
on the contention that, IL the booklet
is not 'atrmAhl propaganda, is certain
ly exhibits nothing approaching AMI
mostly toward the Kaiser and his Hun
hoTdes fr. st7lt ss.
What foundation, II any, there may
DC for the expressed belief that the
wine book breathes disloyalty ito tic
Unifed States remains for the federal
authorities to determine, if they can.
How far they may go in the way of
making an investigation is something
they have not as yet announced. Mar
shall Smiddy said yesterday that while
he had seen copies Of the booklet, he
had not examined il CAREFULLY and was
not in q. position to speak intelligently
concerning it.,
made at a place in California, signifi.
cantly termed "Rhinefarm. = On the
second page Of the advertising book
let occurs the following: -.g.s, Is
Why tho 'Fatherland9"
Here, in the valley Of the Moon,2
our enthusiastic pioneers of California
viticulture LOCATED the scenes} Of their
early strife. Among them was the late
Jacob Gundlach. He early realized the
surrounding country to be favorably
adapted for the production of fine and
selected wines and planted his fertile
acres, the Bacchus vineyards, along the
gentle slopes of the Huichica noun
taip range IN the year. 1858. Swayed
by sentiment and mindful of, 'e1tliet
associations in the Fatherhnd, the spot
was called 'RhinefSrm,' and bears that
name today"
II is the last sentence above quoted
to which objection has been made The
booklet, il appears, was printed in 1915
before the United States went TO war
with Germany, but it Is regarded as
peculiar, to- say, the least, that it IL
still put out with the above tender sen
timents concerning the 'Fatherland, !"
and particularly strange that Homo
Mlp, SHOULD dc flooded with the PUB
lication just at This time when Oahu
is already dry and the whole Territory
is on tho eve of being tabu to the i'm.
p0rtation Of liquor.
Great numbers of the booklet have
fpen received here through The mail
directed to all sorts Of people. The
ctire ritv seems TO have been, flooded
~'th. the publication, although there il
LITTLE more than enough time, for per,
s'ns here to order wine from the Coast
End get it delivered before prohibition
goes Into effect and, impoftafio1l of in.
tO&icants. becomes illegal. ~
This feature of. the case is fhe only
enc cOmpeptcd upon yesterday when
thc matter was called to his attcntier
by Vigilante. "I' don't know VET,
he. said, "Whether or not the bookIc'
cocks with Germanism,' as is charged,
hut it is astonishing that it should be
m"i'ed to residents Of 'dry' territory.
What a. the use of the company going
to the expense Of sending the booklet
"rt whom it cannot expect to get u
businessi"