The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-23

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the cool-headed crimes mentioned.
If we want to know how far drink is
responsible for crime, we have it
from the mouths of the judges them
selves. The lowest estimate l know
of, is that given by Justice Kay of
the English Queens Bench, who
says, 81 know by my experience
that so percent of the crime of this
kingdom springs from this cause.
Nota Bene" uses strong language
in the following:--
"In d. NJ. C.'s communication he
shows the true metal of all Prohibi-
tionists, when he endeavors to shield
and defend the unprinciplcd conduct
of their standard bearer st. John.
Of course he had not read in his
one-sided papers, of the rascality Of
their leader, and unless it were
therein printed it must in his opinion
be untrue, and paper printing any
thing derogatory to the hypocritical
character of their beloved chief
must of necessity be an insignif-
cant and totally unreliable villifier."
am reader of newspapers, and
l have not seen in my wide search
any mention of "unprincipled con-
duct" of Gov. st. John. "Nota
Bene," by all rules of fair dealing,
is open to censure for repeating this
imnuendo after challenge and with
out proof, in reference TO his source
of information. A part of the "true
metal" of Prohibitionists is not to
have very high opinion of the
mans mission who walks into print
masked and cloaked in a nom de
plume to stab absent mems char
acters. Gov. St. John is by all
accounts tough man to challenge
face to face.
AS to the references made again
to the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette and Hdrper's, l thought l had
disposed of them before. The
former is owned, and exists for the
benefit of the ''Liquor Dealers
Union" of Ohio. 1t professed to
be Republican, but its love of bar
room phraseology-as the sample
previously quoted by ''Nota Bene"
will show-renders it unfit for any
but its special patrons. Is it on this
score that ''Nota Bene" extols it?
The Christian Statesman and the
Union Signal exist by their mer-
its. AS to Harper's Weekly l am
perhaps an older magazine reader
than "Nota Bene," and can remem-
Der H0rper 25 years ago when it
wasted the small influence it had in
vilifying Abraham Lincoln and try
ing vainly to hamper his admins
tration. Politically, Hurper's never
had the influence of New York
third-rate daily. Governor Hoadly
is evidently great authority with
"Nota Bene," who artfully conceals
the source from whence the great
Hoadly draws the inspiration which
| gives him the correct understand
ing of the liquor business in Ohio.
Will ''Nota Bene" deny that his
Prophet Hoadly is attorney to the
Liquor Dealers Union? What n
mighty force there must then be in
that word "We" in Hoadly's speech,
1--WE are opposed to sumpturcy
legislation, and in favor of licensing
the traffic in Intoxicating liquor. :"
He might have added: 'We, Us &
Co., the attorney, and the $4,000
liquor dealers of Ohio will fight this
out for all the dollars and cents
there is hanging to it. l know that /
can bid long farewell to all my
greatness as governor, that in Octo-
ber next a prohibitionist will he
governor. l know l cannot say
'We' on behalf of the people, as
326, I67 votes were in favor of a
prohibition amendment to the State
constitution in 1888, against 98,05C
for license, but my grip upon the
$4,000 men who are banded together
by the strong ties of avarice and
self-defense is, what want-for
what there is in it,
"Nota Bene" is curious to know
what that party of Kansas editors
were doing out SO far west as
Oregon. cannot pretend to fully
answer the question. A friend lent
me copy of the Weekly Oregoni'
an about March last, in which
about so Kansas editors nailed the
lie about the prohibitory law being
failure in Kansas. 1t may be az
suggested, that they temporarily
migrated to inhale the air of free
dom on the Sound, but apparently
they had mission, for Oregon ha
caught the prohibition infection
her legislature having adopted {
bill submitting constitutional pro
hibition to the people.