THE SALOON IN HAWAII.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 5

THE SALOON IN HAWAII.

VICTORY FOR THE TRADE.

.The first, local; option poll in any'of i the Pacific 1 Islands was held in" Hawaii, on July 26, under a special-Act'of the -United States Congress;'.,. The issue before the, electors-was tho plain ono of total ( prohibition of the . manufacture and sal© ; of: Mcoliolic beverages versus continuance of r ' the.; existing saloons. | The-result was a victory for-.the liquor trade by ! more than 3 to 1. . As the Gazette".- put: its, every i&-' 1 land recorded- a "ivet" rhajority.'.' The returns were not; quite complete when the paper went to press, .the totals then standing .as follow:"Wet,"' 7283; "Dry," 2185;' aggregate; 9468. V '. ■ ' The . "Gazette!' , attribute? the ~ success of the ; liqu6r, campaign,\to good or-; gauisation. / "Thoy '■ , BGnt-\ j "outi,jinto '.tho--highways and byways and gathered them :in—the 'lame,- the halt and ihe ;blind, the drunk; and the sober,, tho Ppor and the-poorer,-Hawaiian haole, .Portuguese,: Porto Rica'n-Hjvery man • who was known to be opposed to tho suppression. 'of tho saloon, and they packed them to the" polls in automobile's aid hacks. They issued street car.tickets by .the hundred; .They did ;everything. imaginable to get -the anti-pro-hibition voter to -the/voting placq.'-,■ .' ■': "The 'prohibitionists, on ' the" .other hand,'; took no measures whatever for ..getting'their voters to the polls. 'They, did hot'.have h single hack Or automorbile. It was left to .the voter and hisconscienco as to whether or not he should - go. to his voting place and, put himself; on; record \as opposed, to .the perpetuation of the' saloon in " Hawaii."