The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-25
didates were elected in nearly every


ward"
The whiskey men are ever assur-
ing the public that prohibition rather
increases drinking and saloons, and
yet somehow they don't seem to
favor the help it gives them. For
years we have been told that liquor
was more common in Maine than
anywhere else, land yet the Grand
Army meeting recently held in Port
land could not get a ration of grog for
love or money. A statement that
the prohibition law in Kansas was a
dead letter has been copied into
nearly every paper on the Pacific
Coast, but few months ago a COM
pany of over fifty Kansas editors
visiting Oregon read the lie, and
nailed it, in the Oregonidn of Port
land. The veracity like the logic of
the whiskey business can only of
necessity be, as Iago would put it,
indifferent honest"
The following from the Toledo
(Ohio) Blade will shew the spirit
animating the state of Ohio now with
more truth than the ex-Mugwump
and Harper's Weekly together =
However, rum is quite another
thing. Its ravages are felt quite as
much in the homes in the country as
in the dwellings in the cities. There
is not a hamlet too small for it;
there is not farm so remote from
the highways of trade, but what its
cold finger reaches. The brewer and
distiller have been for years push
ing out their Internal wares, with a
persistency born of avarice, and
wherever man is they have their
customers. There is scarcely n
family inI the country that does not
mourn rum murder; there is no
community that has not its tale of
shame, sorrow, and distress, caused
directly by rum. Men of the great
est intellect and men of the lower
grades, have alike fallen into the
hands of the rum maker and seller,
and suffered from the domination of
the appetite they have carefully
fostered.
"It needs no argument to con-
vince any one not interested in the
profits of the horrible traffic, of it's
enmity to the human race; it needs
no special pleading to convince any
one of the necessity of doing some-
thing to stay its murderous hand.
This necessity comes home to every
father, every mother, every brother,
and every sister in the land.
every method has been tried to
stay its ravages, and all of them
have failed-but one. Licensing the
sale of liquor has never affected the
evil particle. 1t has in some cases
confined its ravages, but, in fact, it
has added to its power of evil. The
licensed rum-shop has the sanction
of the law, and therefore a sort of
responsibility, which enables it to
draw within its serpent-like embrace
the better classes, while the lower
grades of men find no difficulty in
getting their supplies illicitly. To
license, no matter how high the
license, is to confine their course to
fewer channels, but it increases the
volume of the destroying streams.
''Moral suasion has accomplished
some good, but what can the plat
form, the press, and the pulpit do
against the personal efforts of the
unnumbered thousands whose busi-
ness it is to seduce the young and
thoughtless? What can moral
suasion do for the young man or
boy who has the DEVILS agencies
constantly at his elbow?
"There is but one way, and that
is absolute prohibition. 1t is a dis
ease which admits of no milder treat
ment than extirpation. Prohibition
has accomplished it's work wherever
it has been tried, and everything
else has failed"
But suppose all the false state
ments relating to the failure in en-
forcing the prohibitory law in Iowa
were true, what would it prove? ?
Just this, that the people had legis-
lated in defence of society, and a
number Of men either singly or by
combining were for the money gain
it would bring them plotting to defeat
the law. Just what the legion of
opium smugglers here are doing, the
whiskey smugglers in Iowa are do
ing, and with the same reward when
caught, fine and Imprisonment.
The concluding paragraph OF
Nota Bene's letter, contains the
kernel of the subject. "That pro-
hibitory law Cor any law) can never
be enforced against public senti-
ment," is quite true, but / demur
to the statement that "the senti-
ment of towns and cities is against
prohibitions" and i ask your leave
to reply to these propositions in a
future issue. ID. M. G.