The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-04-24
Barg'nS in Embodied Dresses,
The Arcade-EGAN & co.

one is led to believe that drink is the
creation of the devil, who is trying
to destroy the chosen and ruin the
world by this means. Most reverend
men, this is all fallacious. Are you
forgetting the fundamental doc
trines of your religion? You say
that God created the world and
everything in it, and in the same
breath tell us that the devil made
wine. Are you disremembering the
many instances quoted in the book
of books of revelry, debauchery and
shameless drunkenness which in no
case were even as much as rebuked
by the possessor of the all-seeing
eye? Are you oblivious of the little
incident which occurred at the feast
of Cana, where your Saviour drank
wine of his own creation and which
all the world believed, until one of
the lustrous lights of fanatic prohi-
bition, Bishop Chas. Fowler, gave
the holy record the lie by proclaim
ing that Christ had merely hypno-
tized the crowd and served them
with harmless vinegar? Are you
not neglectful of the words of your
Lerd and Master during his sojourn
on earth, when He himself at the
first sacrament of holy communion
made wine the symbol of his blood
which so freely flowed on the cross
for your sins? Are you going to
ridicule, condemn and attempt to
destroy that which He created, drank
and left to you as an inheritance and
emblem of his sufferings for you?
In asking these questions l am
answering them. Alas, this is what
you are doing. And yet all this, you
will say, is none of my business. L
will say it is none of yours, and the
devil, caring for his own, would say
it is his.
So much for the consistency of so
called Christian men and women, as
far as their teachings are concerned
relating to temperance.
| In reviewing the history of the
temperance discussion for the past
forty or fifty years, it is evident its
advocates now concluded that the
man cannot be cured of his appe-
tite; and the only way to save him
is to prohibit everybody from fur
nishing him that which will satisfy
the cravings of that appetite. Ad-
hitting this, we are led to ask the
pert question: What merit is there
in a virtue which accrues to man
who is merely temperate because he
cannot obtain wine? Is this not q
parallel case to natural born thief
who, caught in his evil ways is i'm
prisoned for certain time and OF
necessity becomes an honest man
during his incarceration? Most
thoughtful men, have you ever con
sidered that your one-sided argu
ments are fraught with reasoning:
which bring not alone ridicule upol
your cause but also upon you
Christian religion?
Children, you are not stupid per
sens; you are stupidities!
May L most humbly ask, who are
you? which part of your anatomy il
better than the average mans? Why
is it that you, above anybody, should
undertake to make the majority o
people conform to your principles
when you ought to know that b,
your mode of procedure you ar
casting ridicule upon yourself anc
your cause, and are promulgatin.
sacriligious principles which woul'
make an African Bushman SILVER?
Let us back to common sense
We will say there are eighty thou
sand inhabitants in this Kingdom
| defy all the cold water advocate
to produce more than one hundre
of this number which may be STAN
ped as incurable, hopeless drunk
ards.
Then, for the sake of one hundre
weak men (and it is only the veal
that succumb) the other 1890
, must adhere to the principles of
doctrine which has nothing to recon
mend itself but fanatic imbecilit
and selfish gain. The brotherIy low
which your master taught and ais
practiced, and which you ignore
certainly ridiculously absent frol
your selfish doctrines of prohib
ton.
Gentlemen, if you are so muc
better than the average man {
creation, down upon your knees, sir
and offer sincere thanks for bein
so but for heavens sake, do not tt
to insult common sense and decence
:, a through your fanatlcal, far-fetche
u and contradictory arguments.
u Mr.. Editor, permit me right hel
> to challenge any and all argumen
II of these destructionists.
J In conclusion, ] beg to EXPIRE
q one devout wish, it is this: / won
y like to possess flawless skull Of
Il prohbitionist for the purpose {
!, making it into drinking cul
u Being very fond of sparkling win
n l would like to see it sparkle whe
- nothing ever syarkled before.
- JOHN f. SMITH.
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