The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-21
STILL FURTHER REASONING.
LETTER FROM "NoTA BENE."
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ear few words of kindly advice.
So long as you confined yourself to
your natural and legitimate business,
1 looked upon you with no small
amount of favor from distance;
but when you turned your back
upon the sphere Of usefulness which
YOU seemed eminently qualified to
adorn, and took up the role of an
itinerant mouthpiece, scribe and
whipper-in for handful of people
who have for long time been re-
garded as a species Of beings afflicted
with q mild type of syasmodic Gle.
mentia, I really felt for you, and
was reminded of that touching poem
from the pen of Tom Hood, the
opening lines Of which run some
thing like this:-
One more unfortunate
Weary of work, etc.
Take my word for it, you have
set out to travel over very rough
and thorny road--a road which DIES.
cribes an uneven circle-and should
you be able to keep up without
fainting by the way, as many
stalwart prohibition banner-Dearer
has done before you, you will only
succeed in reaching the very point
from which you started, wearled,
famished, foot-sore and sick at
heart having accomplished nothing
substantial, monumental, or remu-
nerative to yourself or others. AS
an evidence of the kind Of people
whose colors you have flung to the
breeze, Just listen to the following:
cat Bladenburg, a small town near
Mt. Vernon, on the Cleveland, Akron
and Columbus Railroad, man by
the name of Chaplin was brutally
murdered recently by a rabid mob
of prohibition ruffians, who ordered
the victim to close his saloon, which
he refused. They warned him, un-
less he complied with their wish, he
would suffer the same fate as the
saloon-keeper near Columbus, whose
place was blown up. Still he re-
fused, and on Saturday night large
mob surrounded his little frame
house, tore it down and demolished
the furniture. Chaplin made brave
fight and showed much resistance,
when some coward who has not as
vet been discovered felled him with
heavy stone. He died as he was
being borne away, but the mob did
not cease its bloody work Of des-
truction."
Mr., Beecher in recent sermon
truthfully said: mo man can ever
be made secure from any sin by
having temptation kept from him,
Or by resolving to keep himself from
temptation. He is safe only when
he is strong enough to overcome it"
Blatant, fanatical, prohibition would
be coercionists, hypocritical sneaks
under the guise of evangelistic work.
ers, insincere temperance lecturing
tramps and agitators, and Salvation
Army spcctacles of semi-demented
humanity are not the class of beings
designed by the Almighty as agents
for the elevation of the moral, social,
physical, intellectual or financial
condition of the masses around
them. They may plot and pirate,
whine and howl, and wiring their
hands till their finger nails drop off,
but they will accomplish nothing
more than to bring down upon their
heads the ridicule and contempt OF
freedom-loving and honest-hearted
people. How ridiculously absurd it
sounds to the intelligent ear, in this
enlightened and advanced age, that
a very small minority almost entirely
composed of weak-minded creatures
manipulated and bounded on by a
few scheming political place-hunters
and tricksters, take it upon them
selves to dictate to the very large
majority of their intellectual betters
as to what is or is not good for
them.
Return those charts to the source
from whence they came, friend
Crowley, and if you are possessed
of an irresistible longing to dc
something that will render your
name illustrious, buckle ON your
armor and enroll yourself as a true
Christian warrior in the cause o.
temperance. Not in liquor only
but temperance in all things, no
forgetting TO deal stroke or tw'
occasionally at the selfish enemies o
that sweet angel Charity. DO this
and fearlessly persevere in the goo
work, and you will most surely wi
the applaudits of your fellowmen a
well as the heartfelt gratitude Q
the helpless ones in whose behal
you may from time to time do battle
Business matters compel me nc
only to bring this hurriedly put to
gether epistle to close, but also t
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