The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

q liberty whlch Is OF human creRtl0n,
and for liberty which is eternal.
The writer somewhat mixes up the
issue; that is, the individual right
to use is joined with the right to
legalize, and conduct the drink
traffic as at present; two distinct
things which, if kept apart, would
have saved him much confusion of
ideas, and consequent loss of right
eous Indignation.
The right of q man to drink
champagne or beer in his own house
no one dispute; prohibition does
not touch that right. But where in
law or equity can man obtain the
right to open, because he owns a
lot, pitfall for his fellow-men? /
don't care what is sold if it is an
open door by which, through the
voice of seductive allurement, or
any other attraction, the passer-by
is misled to enter and something is
sold TO him which increases my taxes
and causes him to be dangerous. l
have right to protest against that
business. If that business makes it
more dangerous for my wife or child
or friend to tread the streets, ! have
a right to say whether that door shall
be open or closed. The real ques-
ton is, not what man may eat or
drink, nor how the vintage was
operated 1000 years ago, but, has
any grogseller right, or has any
Legislative body the right, TO confer
the power to filch from my pocket
to carry on a business based upon
the lowest instincts in human nature;
business of which no one has ever
spoken except apologetically; the
one business which has demoraliz-
alton for its basis and which lives
and thrives only upon vice? Iquote
the compulsory admission of your
correspondent in order that he may
again read his own Indictment of the
traffic of which he advocates the
extension. o consistency, thou art
a jewel! A man becomes criminal
as regards ones self and family.
The unfortunate addicted to drunk
enness of course neglects his bust
ness, and is on the high road to
ruin. His character and credit
suffer and eventually unless be
abandon his foolish course of pro-
fligacy and sottishness, failure and
destitution must be the lot of him
self and all dependent on him, with
scarcely any hope of recovery, for
drunkenness long indulged in be-
comes at last a terrible disease
tyrannizing with almost absolute
and invisible malevolence over its
unfortunate victim" Unfortunately,
the ''malevolence" is only too vlsi-
BILE, in its effects at least: desolate
homes, broken-hearted wives, neg
lected children, ruined regulations,
and physical wreck. We plead for
liberty for those who are bound in
this calling slavery to degrading
appetite, and who have voluntarily
sold themselves for base gratifica-
ton, may of whom will wear their
chains to the grave!
The total abstinence movement
touches no mans freedom. We
may say in the words which Sheridan
Knowles has put into the mouth of
his hero, Tell: we would have every
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"Frce as the torrents are which leap oul
And plough our valleys without asking
leave;
Or as our peaks which wear their caps
of snow,
In very presence of the regal sum-
But this freedom, this liberty,
must not be created liberty. II
must be so pure, so natural, that the
very spirits of the just made perfect
might declare of it, "It is eternal,
it is justified, it is sanctitied." The
extension of licenses IS justified
on the ground that it would put ar
end to illicit distilling, and referring
to Honolulu the writer says, "As
the sale was legalized the surrepti'
tious manufacture and sale were
abandoned" Is the writer moi
aware that so late as about montl
ago still in working order was
found near Honolulu, and about the
same time a quantity of stuff like
beer was seized and brought to the
Police Court? These facts are
against him. Attorney Genera
Armstrong is brought forward in hi
report to the Legislature of 1882 OF
illicit distilling, and what does hi
suggest as remedy? The exten
sion of licenses? No, nothing o,
the kind; not a aoord to help th'
apologist for license. Mr.. Arm
strong says, "The only way to sup
press it (illicit distilling) is to EN-
ploy superior order of men fol
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