The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-11-21
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER q. 1883.
License or PFohibitiop-which Pays :

Money moves and controls. The whisky
question is one Of money not appetite. Every
saloon is set up - make money. Every
wholesale dealer chooses that business simply
to make money easily and on a large scale.
Distilleries and breweries are in operation for
that reason only. The friends Of license put
in the same money plea. The state license
law rests on the argument Of income. NUM-
cpal licenses are granted for the sake Of the
few hundreds or thousands tha. will flow into
the treasury. Does this greed for money loos
further, and count up the police business? the
arrests2 the trials the costs? the fines &?
Seventy-fve per cent. due to whisky. These
are sure, regular and large incomes, which
employ many persons. Do the questions Of
buildings, rents, transportation and en-
ployment, come into the account Still money
Is the object. No man does this business 10
crafty appetite. Money moves and controls
every one in it, from dis:iller to bartender;
from the grandest saloon to the lowest dive.
Docs it pay anywhere along the line The
bartender seldom lays up a dollar. Saloon
keepers die early and in debt OF fifty Yer
mont rumsellers reported 10 years ago by
merchant WHO knew them all, AZ had became
bankrupt; one hsd excluded rum from his
store and bad psospered two were then in
the rum business. Within ten years one Of
tA'Not alHU AtIAult uduAEuDL. luOEe were
days Of pure rum, gin, brandy and whisky.
hut the business did not pay. Wholesalers
and distillers shared in the wreck Of the CON-
mon trades, and they do now. There are pit
falls along the whole line Of the whisky trade,
and a man must invest in something else to
save anything. Ten fall and lose their money
where one stands and secures his fortune
Men OF other occupations find that licensed
whisky does not pay, and they prohibit it.
The o. :. \. Co, found no profit in il and
cleared their decks Of it. The o. r. & y. Co.
do the same. Railroad managers iiud loss in
stead Of gain from it, and prohibit it on their
lines Of construction on their cars and in
their shops
Where life and property are at stake in any
and all kinds Of business, the men in charge
are forbidden its use. The scope of this ex-
ercIse OF the right Of prohibition by private
persons and corporations in order to protect
life and property, and ensure prosperity is ex-
tending. When skilled labor is wanted. it is
common Tor employers to refuse to employ
liquor drinkers in shops or manufactures, or
even stores. They cannot afford to crafty
a mans appetite for whisky OF beer or any
alcoholic liquors. and do not hesitate to pro-
hibit his indulgence at their cost Large III
dustries in Oregon and Washington are con-
Quoted on this principle. They will fail with
licensed whisky among employees. II is be-
coming a known fact tina: whisky DESTROYS
property on land and sea, and makes no mon
ey. II IS found 10 be a business which wrecks
men and their enterprises. Portland had an
artisan five years ago the peer OF any man in
his line Of business, but saloons have wrecked
him, compelling his wife to toll for food and
clothing for herself and children 4 first
class mechanic sinks under the power Of
licensed whisky and leaves his family 10
starye, because his employer does not enforce
prohibition upon him Another mechanic
rises TO higher degrees Of respect and pros
perity because his employer prohibits his use
Of intoxicating liquors. These cases, which
are common amongst us represent the two facts
license and prohibition-in contrast. They
are plain and simple illustrations Of the sub
jet now under public notice and discussion.
On every trial, license wastes and destroys,
but prohibition wins and pays. The money
argument is on the side of prohibition. No
assured prosperity is found in partnership
with licensed dramshOps Testimony comes
from the men Of true business tact and power,
that they cannot employ men or trust their
enterprise IN the hands OF men who frequent
those places day or night The great money
motive, slowly but surely is swinging over to
the line Of strict sobriely. The drama of life !
~ the past has been drenched more or less in |
drunkenness, but in the greater struggles aud |
keorgl contests Of the future, the men of per
feet subriety and we!l-Poised nerve arc to win
the victories.
Society, which is the organic person or cor
poration, will learn to do, and will be COM !
PEELED to do, what the private individual and |
corporation now do The latter prohibits be- |
cause it pays. The former will prohibit, be- |
cause it will pay. Society will say to its |
members, We cannot afford the cost of your |
appelites for intoxicating beverages. We pro |
hbit their indulgence on grounds of economy |
and public economy and public necessity. In
this final contest society must win q CON-
Plete victory over alcohol, as it did over sav- |
cry, OF be itself wrecked and dissolved So |
ciety cannot exist long while its life blood is
poisoned, and its members are destroyed. Its |
profit is bound up in -protection.-Re G. |
II. Atkinson in OrsygHidH