The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-17

and woe. 1t had it's origin in the south of Eu-
rope about the middle of the thirteenth century,
and was used long rs n medicine under the maine
of aqua rIle and it was not used as a beverage
till the latter part of the sixteenth and beginning
OF the seventeenth centuries. 10 Arnoldus de
Villa and his disciple Raymond Lully OF Ma)orca,
must be attributed the discovery of this scourge
of man, about the year a. ID. 1850. 1t has per-
plague-destroying millions physically and intel
iectuaily, and bequeathing n long train OF blight
ing diseases and the terrible appetite for its use,
which are hereditary.
Brethren, alcohol is indigesti5Le-it contains no
nutriment, but is a narcotic stimulant more i'm
Inediately irritating to the body to which it is
applied than opium or narcotics OF that class. 1t
mixes with the food and the juices of the stom-
acb, Injuries its coats. and finally indurates that
organ. 1t mixes with the chyle that forms the
mass of blood and is carried into the circulation
II courses through every vessel and rs exhaled at
every pore. You feel it in the respiration of the
drunkard when he blows his nauseous breath upon
you. The liquor has been absorbed in the blood,
is circulating through the lungs at every respira-
ton, and is exhaled from the numerous vessels
containing the circulating blood of these organs.
The vessels of the brain, rs well as other parts OF
the body, are loaded with 1T. On dissection, the
brain of the drunkard has the Odor of whisky, and
the fluid it contains when the candle is applied
burns with a blue lambent flame characteristic of
the poison. How terrible are the evils which fol-
low it's use 1t deadens the faculties till man has
no sense OF crime. 1t stimulates him to the most
mad and ruthless murders. The alcohol In the
brain makes him n raving maniac, and he is i'm
INJURED I'm u mad-house, or lmbrues his hands IN
the blood of those nearest and dearest to him he
expiates his crime on a gallows, or is incarcerated
In prison. Ii he escapes these consequences, he
moves as n walking pestilence on the earth, mis-
cradle to himself and loathsome to all mankind.
The page of crime is red with the blood of vic
Tins of Interference, and amid the dark group
Of harrnry x. ba va tho rod hand af tho maniac
parricide. And oh, the unseen and untold misery
proceeding from that cause alone! All the evils
of Pandora's box are sent forth by it in full activ-
ity, while not even hope remains. Nine-tenths OF
the miseries that afiiict individuals and families
can be safely attributed 70 ardent spirits alone.
! will here use a simile once employed by a dis
tinguished jurist. Ifsome plague of a contagious
character were imported into these Islands and
had commenced it's ravages among us, We would
see the most prompt and vigorous measures mt
once adopted to repress and e%xtinguish it; but
what are the most fearful plaques that ever car
ried death and havoc in their train, compared to
this? They IRE occasional, this is perennial.
They are confined by climate or locality this
malady is of all climates, and of all times and
places. They kill the body at once this con-
sumes both body and soul by a lingering and
dreadful death, involving the dearest connections
in the vortex of ruin. Who can feel the rising
generation safe when the poison is within the
grasp of the young? What parent can feel his
child safe when the deadly draught from the foun-
tain of poison is within his reach? God grant
that it may soon become a fountain sealed in these
its burning stream of death may no
longer carry rnin and moral degradation to the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. it may be banished from
our midst forever! Then would commence the
golden days of Hawaii mel. Then would these
bright isles blossom as the rose. Then would
halls OF peace and happiness take the place of the
pandennon,uns that now exist as fostering gan
grenes in the heart of the community. What a
delightful relief would it be to turn from the
awful and horrid past to the pure, peaceful and
happy future to see the springs of life, feeling
and intelligence renewed on every hand health,
industry and prosperity glowing around us the
affairs of domestic peace and happiness rekindled
in every family the population no longer decreas-
ing, but augmenting with renewed hope and en-
while religion would purify and elevate as
God showered his choicest blessings around us.
Brethren, let US here in imitation Of the great
Declaration of Independence, which has made this
day sacred, declare our independence from the
sway of Intempcrance, and nail our
dag to the mast with n firm resolve never to take
it down till the enemy of man is crushed beneath
our feet-tM the curse of alcohol no longer pol
lutes Hawaiian soil,