The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-11-22

nv children, and now in Gods name want
you 20 let my husband free" a promised
/ would, and did, said the Governor.
Could the cries Of the heart broken mothers
ard wives and sisters and daughters sound in
orr cans. Could the desolaied homes, the FIVE
hundred thousand in England, and the still
greater number in the States, be brought be-
fore our eyes, and the miseTies everywhere
entailed by strong drink, be realized by Us, We
should all be prohibitionists.
But viii add few more extracts from the
papers. DR.. Buer in a recent address before
the Board of Health Of Berlin, stated. That
during the last twelve years the number OF
drinking shops in Belgium bad increased from
5000 to $4,000, and the consumption OF aico-
hol from 4.4s lit-es to II liirus per head"
A citizen Of Hartford, Conn, who twenty
years ago was worth 100000, was three
weeks ago, committed 10 the State Hospital, a
peunyless vagabond, having brought ruin 90
himself and family by drink"
Another writer says: at is certainly no
compliment to the common sense OF this end Of
the nineteenth century, that more than SIX
hundred millions Of dollars should every year
he expended for beverages which not person
IL ten thousand claims to be Of the slightest
utility, and which all know to be the cause Of
So many hfe-destroying collisions, conhagra-
iions, shipvrecks, and trainwrecks, which NIL
SO many prisons and alms-houses, and make
unutterahly wreichcd so many homes.
The amount expended for rum in the Uni
ted States PER annum amounts 10 SIl5,5I5,-
OOO."
a convention Of Temperance organizations
Of Massachusetts, in the interest of a coustitu-
tional praiibif0ry Increment, was held in Bos-
ton last Thursday. Or. Julius Il. Seelye was
elected permanent President, with long list
Of Nice-Presidents. including the Governor.
President Seelye, Or. Dorchester, and others
made addresses upon the necessity Of prohi-
bitiou. The progress Of the prohibitory move
msnt out West was alluded to with satisfao-
tor"
"Ths Governors Of the six New England
States are total abstinence men"
Prohibition SAYS: When you throw open
that door and invite the passers-by to drink,
and when 200 years Of experience have proved
that, by SO doing, you double my taxes, and
make it dangerous for NY child to tread on
those streets. ! have a right to say whether
you shall open tie door OF Eoi. | don't care
whether YOU sell poison or food don't care
whether you sell alcohol or roast beef-it does
not matter: all l know is, that il you under
take to sell something that doubles my taxes,
and that makes NY passage through the streets
more dangerous, you at once invest me with
the right to interfere
No prchibitionist desires to interfere with
the personal Qualification Of any man, but when
that is no necessary Of life. and the greatest
evil that atficis humanity, can only he remov-
ed by so doing, he must yield to the necessity.
Total abstinence ideas are progressing, AID
this can only be accomplished, in any oommu-
nifty, by prohibition. believe that when the
hour comes, all good men will bless God for
the deliverance which prohibition has brought,
from one Of the direst evils which has afflicted
humanity. Whilst longing to see it removed
from my own race, how could help being
panied to see the door more widely opened for
its iurosds upon the Hawaiian race and peo-
pie May God, who only can, save them from
the curse. Yours truly, n. Castle.