Ke Aloha Aina, Volume XXXIV, Number 28, 1 August 1919 — The New [Illegible] [ARTICLE]

The New [Illegible]

Unpleasant But True The aUegations maeli by U>rm Aiw}rews DoyJe, in intervievys m tho coast' £apers, as to s Jie prevalent in this haveioucliqd the hides^olf- ■■both r our claily i)apers, Botfr nouftced in all the nu>ods and terises for daring to fāir hame of'these istands/ancl for telling what we all be approximately the truth as to this p££ticular moming does iiot minee words in'its Andre>v's as either a liar 6r felinded by prejudiee (you money and ymi t«kes our ehoke); while' the eveniug it« moming relntive one better ffnd xnildly suggests that be ostracized. In both these reekless editorial to - nunciation we have nothing but abuge, with b not the attempt to disprove the follo\ving statenients attiributed rin Andrews: j^H Hundreds of Hnwaiiani», Japanese, Korcans even whites are becoming total!y blinS from okolehacf; Thoutjands of $allons of it are distilled monthj and though the fetleral pfficials make raid raid, it has had liUle effect. There is more - īn.i%Jsljuids iiow -Wentilry. At celebration or eiitert£tfnnieiit |p Uionohilu ōQ per of the people attend under the"mfiuence*of liquor. D ing the last legis|ature fnāny ofthe*mer£bers were tinually intoicat£d. Moonshining is becoming oue the chief occupaitions of the islands.' Prohibition • _iost thousands of dollars to the suggr plantation , Kmpioyees who went on their usual sprees <Saturda,yjH aud Jsunday were soby euough to repyrt for work Aioa-JH day, but after prohibitiou set thp okoiehao seidom appear before Weq[nesday of eaeh week. As to. the truth |of the tlxe hest a^H 16 found m the coluinns of botb daily «papers, whereiu a .-iay passes that one does not fiud aceounts of the of oieoiehao stilis or qf some seizui'e,.of _L|ill Thc mH ber of thēse stiiis and theirinteuse actiyi.ty iiuiieaiu a mand for the stud' and evidence that lai'ge quantities of hao are being con&iuned l>y the laboring eiaaaea and iho&e|H aOle to aii'oia it is not wanting 011 all sides. ilecently Ali'<|H nedy, of tbe lnter-lsiand, compiamed that his'steamers wer3H uig put out oi' coiiimisfaion b.ecause of of okoldS by the various crews of the steamers, aud i*e cited as aaH stance that the Mikaliaia washeld up at Iliio fpr §everai dayJß cause her crew was unabie to work, through drunke»ness, UuH by hoidmg up' a large freighter waitmg to take oii sugar. ■ We have the authority of Jucige of the dis|j court, for the statenient that there is more drunkenness iu ( city right now, and more cases coming to the court as the rejj oi drunicenness than was the case wiien Honoiuiu was a w open town. The mcreased drinkmg of okolehao is proviug' īAeaiia .oi senaing many people to the insaue asylum, besi afliictmg many others with bimdness, etc. Aii these facts, of course, do not funiisli any good arj laeui agamst prohibition ( but they do furnish strong reasons the ie<iot'ai authovities shouid take the situation in hand, a ,provide the men and the meana to. put an end to the maiml ture of okolehao. In this connectioii H miglit be weli to. draw atteiition to the f that practically all tjie okolehap islands is p| duced by Japanese ? and, Ūiat okoleliao eaa boi]£ht practically every Japaiiese taxi • iity. The prqj thing to do with all Japanese thus caught our Am| ean lāws would be to deport them to Japan, where they co|j exercise their ingenuity by making all the okolehao they desir| ihe facts in tliis matter shoijid be faced fairiy and square No good ean eome from unwarranted denunciation and abu Good Promotion The Star-Bulleun's principal kiek agaiok Mr. ilndrews. a that his "statements aie cafculated to offset, in the miuds of thfi readers, any amouiil of advertisuig the promotion committ! W *o extql.our virtues = and om:.attracUQftS." The even« paper also is deeply desolated .Aii(lrews said thj| Beveral of our legislators during ilie recent §ession were contiī3 ally intoxicated. As a maxtQc of.fac'tj we believe Mr, Andrews statements ag about the ueai promotion stuf ,that ean be imagined. For tJ3 reason; There must be a large uumber of weil-to-do but thir§Q mdividuals on the..maiuland r who would be dee-lighted at tīy iere was oue s P°t in these United 6t-ates wheq the booze fiowed freely, and ,that that spot was dear Hawaū where one could load up to Uie gills, and have a well-eai"ned vk cation at the same tiiue. It is reasonable to suppose, therefor| | that these . .y>jrst>' ones, upon iuformaiion supplie< Iy, A^' the eurliest possible iuoment makj i a bee-line Tor tKe land ,of okolehao and the Big Jag. Inasmucl . as tourists are all the. dai|j* papers seem to thhik tiiis munity needs, we should think Mr. Andrew§' bit i)f proiuotio| Uiwly aud to the point. The Promotion Bureau's efforts, iU ■ all tlie respectabie tourist» who ean £ome here while Mr. Andrew's endeavoi~s \vili br% us all tiie old soak| whose principal object in life is to worship at the sliriite oj Bacchus. In this way we should get all the tourists, good, ba<f and.mdifferent } so why worryT As to drunkenness in the iegislaCūre, that was accept<xl & invitable, anei the sergeaut-at-anus on several occasions had i busy tune of it. Even wueu the legislators visited Molokai, on< of uie gentlemen, iu particular ? was so drunk that he had to bt heipsd off Uie and on landing insisteii up<.>n shakinj uauds \v:ith mauy of the iepers standing around! We Wony Along Both the loeal papers apparently aie in perfeet aceoi\l witi Senator Shei'iuan of Illinois, in tiie iatter'£ recent st{Uenieni tfiat President iias inosi unbiushingly betrayixl the l'iiii' 6d i.tates into the hands of itj> euemieā. As against tliis the radicals and soeialists elaim th:U the Pre>adent ;md the Deuuvrat< t*s well as the havq sold out to Wall Stn?et; whik Uie capitalist-eoutrolled press hrays "Eol^heNi^l 1 " at every uivn of the wheel. Verily. it does seem as if tliis old Jand of oun? *or< gomg to the "denmition bow : wows" aud going quiokly. The surpart tl\at in spite of everyihin&, bus'*-