Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-07-14


cause the former are far worse than the latter,
Ambrose will ay The answer illustrates the
remark | made, that Nc knows vcy little OF
the matter. The shops where soft liquors
are sold. ate At worse and more dangerous
than the others The young and ineSpcr'
enerd never gn into the whisky shops to take
The FIRST downward scps; they resort to wine
aud mild beer II is only when they are con
,idcrabIy advanced 10 their education in alcu
holie,, that they resort to the stronger drinks
After they have lost control of themselves.
they 60 to the whisky shops. heard
reformed dmnkard ,ay in a speech The
mild drinks. IS some people call them, ate the
devils kindling wiud the alphabet Of drunk
enneSs'
CAV License laws, in all experience, have not
been enforced and It they could be. they
would IN no way diminish the evils OF the liquor
traffic But the Anonymous writer quoted gives
| figures. and c,epholy knows that they are
llusory when used by persons who do not
| know hnw To- place them. ot who Tor any con.
sidcraton are inclined to put them in false
I positions ln license towns, there ate always
many persons uul licensed who sell liquors
! freely sometimes twice as many sometimes
three time, AS many IN license towns gen.
orally. any one who chooses to do 50. sells
liquors the Jaw is rarely Il ever enforced.
Why should 20 hc2 Unlicensed liquor is no
more mischtc,uls than the other A high
license will in no way diminish the quantity
of liquors sold. even II 1t should reduce the
number Of liquor shops as it will not In d
license town, there will always be enough shop,
to meet the demand All experience shows
that. lie SAYS triumphantly that under pro
hibltion there were SIN thousand four hundrcc
ami iotty luut dealers. Revenue returns show
a.. ... 4 },
says, only three thousand nine hundred an,
seventy bot he Is careful no, to say that non,
sold liquors who dill not pay the revenue taS
s VIII he ,ay Of his own knowledge. OF on am
reliable authority, thar in 1854 there were n,
more HIuor sellers than three thousand min,
hundred and seventy Will he affirm that Their
were not in fact as many as in 1882 Is he il
{ a condition to deny that there are in fac;
licensed and unlicensed, more liquor seller
now than in 1873, in view of the increase,
population.
The writer talks OF prohibition as II it wer
I l-~nmething independent OF the character OF tn
law which enacts it. There may be prohibi
! ton, technically which has little or no powe
to prohibit The force and effect Of prohihi
t tory law depend upon. its processes, and it
/ pains and penalties. In New Hampshire III
law !, very weak it was drawn by some on
b WHO knew nothing Of the matter. The law II
Maine Is strong, 50 as to have accomplished
. grea, work; but it is defective in some partcu
: lars, and when that WANT shall he supplied
E as !, will be, the liquor traffic will be swept en-
trely away from our state, A. i, is now indee'
in large part of it.
c az He reioiccs in the fact that the stat
has received from the grog- shops $3.50, $50, a
, II 1t were So much earned and added to tn
u tkgfs ff he 81 He In IN
r that the liquor traffic earns nothing it create
T. no wealth-not penny. 1t only ropes in
. the wealth that others have earned, but give
in exchange for it only poverty, pauperism
degradation, brutality, crime, wretchedness
disease, insanity, premature death. II con
vertS good citizens into bad ones, industriou
{ workers into yagabonds and tramps, an
j carries misery and ruin to thousands of happ
y homes. But he is jubiant in the fact as h
considers it to he, that $3.50, $50 is par, com
penSation for the mischief done by the trade.
! l. it Ask the wife whose husband il ha
, destroyed, the parents whose sons have bee
ruined, the children whose fathers have bee
I changed TO drunknrtis, and upon whose home
an infinite misery has come from the gros
shops, whether money is OF can be in any pos
sihlc sense, even in inhnitesimal proportion
"a compensation for that.
a The liquor traffic is the gigantic crime q
crimes Mr.. Morrill, said that in the Unite,
/ States Senate. at iniicts more sutierin
, upon the country than war, pestlence, an
i famine;' Mr.. Gladstone said tina, in the Br
iish House OF Commons That deyilish trade
he wishes to establish and protect by law
= The temperance people Of this and every othe
: English-speaking country wish to pu, it undo
the ban OF the law. II after that, evils com
from it, lie, them be-like robbery and murde
i, against the law, and not by its consent an
, appoin,ment-in accordance with the law
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