The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-09

rearing of children in times past,
coupled with the aversion of many
of the natives to call in properly
qualified physician to minister to
their wants at the proper time, and
we have the main causes of the
defamation of the Hawaiian race,
which "Aloha" and others of his
school of rcasoners would lay at the
door of rum-'mercly this, and no.
thing more"
After n somewhat strained and
long-drawn out display of llowcry
and windy rhetorical lodgings, and
with the air of u modern literary
Claude Duval, he reaches for my
knowledge purse with: II for one
demand of him to show in what
particular the liquor traffic, in any
state of existence, licensed or un-
licensed, is n benefit to the indi-
v'dual, the home or the nation"
Being of most obliging disposition,
ever ready to throw light into dark
eled places, if the gentleman will
take the time to ponder over and
carefully digest the following bit of
valuable and truthful information
ION a. high authority, l think l
shall fully satisfy his demand:-
DR.. Roberts. of Manchester, Eng
land. obsei ,cs that it is difficult to be-
lieve that the habitual use. even in Il
most t, Inrran nf ca S,Ihtlp and
so potent an agent as alcohol is with
out influence on the moral and intel
lectua' development of individuals and
their descendants. and. therefore. on the
race and nation. Nothing to him is more
astonishing than the different impress
sions produced by an examination of the
alcoholic question as it regards the in
dividual on the one hand and the race
or nation on the other Nowhere amongst
civilized communities is there seen so
much physical, moral and intellectual
ruin of individuals rs in Great Britain,
and vet the national deathrate is one of
the lowest in the world, and the moral
and intellectual vigor of the race and
nation is unsurpassed. Again taking
wider view and surveying the nations
which abstain from alcohol-the vast
Mussulman population and the other
millions of Asia-we recognize that they
are, upon the whole, far inferior to the
alcohol-brcd nations of the West. The
Japanese are the only Asiatic people
who have for centuries consumed alcohol
largely. and it is curious to note that
they display Il mental receptivity and a
love of progress which are in marked
contrast with the stagnation around
them, insomuch that they have been
called the Europeans of the East.
These strange contrasts-and they might
be multiplied - are not, of course,
wholly due to alcohol. Far from that,
but it might be hazardous to conclude
that alcohol was not a contributary fac
tor. 1t would not be altogether salts
factory to find that, after banishing
alcohol, we should become poorer in
manlincss and intellect.
In conclusion, allow me to say to
"Aloha'' and his would-be prohi-
bitionists: Cease your fruitless at
tempts to foist upon mankind laws
totally at variance with the require
ments of this enlightened age, and
repulsive to every liberty-loving
man and woman in Christendom.
Inc tlme which you are Wasting IN
your efforts and struggles to curtail
the liberties of your fellow men,
millions of whom are better qualified
to judge for themselves between
right and wrong, and what is good
or hurtful to them, than you or your
cohorts are to judge for them, might
be more profitably spent in many
another and more laudable pursuit.
Aloha ''Aloha. NORA BENE.
"NIother, our teacher wants us