The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-02-16
R0RNER'S ANSWER TO C. CON
GLUDED.
CONTINUED. |

EDITOR BULLETIN Il wish again
to refer to the "strong expressions
Mr.. Horncr sometimes in
dulges in" and further answer that
the rum question on all sides is a
strong, hard and harsh subject. And
if all the harsh words in the English
language applicable to the question
were used in describing the hellish-
ness of rum used as a beverage it
would then be but imperfectly dis
cribed. Viewing it thus, l don't
feel any compunction of conscience
for having used few seemingly
harsh words when describing rum
and its effect among men.
The rum feind of the land like the
devil fish of the ocean with its numer-
Gus arms or tentacles are always
reaching out for the substance and
life of victims. Causing poverty,
misery and death among the people
and its tentaces for evil are so
numerous that they confuse the
mind to contemplate all, much more
50 to attempt to describe in detail
rash tentacle and its effects among
| men.
| | have wrote six communications
in answer TO G.'s questions, as long
rs an editor cares to print and as
condensed as many other newspaper
articles. Yet | have only touched
| tentacle No. moderate drink
ing-and partially shown its danger
and its pernicious example, etc,
leaving untouched most of the evil
arising from it and that evil is great
among people too poor to supply
themselves with ''just enough"
grog, and the necessary comforts of
life. Yet we are told the grog bills
are paid and in many instances wife
and children, suffer for food and
clothing.
G. thinks and says by his exam
pie that the man is doing right as
long as he don't drink "too much"
just "drunks moderately" a few
drinks II day is not too much "if he
don't get drunk" etc.
So much for few of the evils of
moderate drinking. Tentacle No.
2,-drunkenness-I have hardly re-
ferred to, and as G appears as much
against that as | am, | will only say
that to remove drunkenness, moderate
drinking must first be stopped, then
we will have no drunkards, nor sir
and crime resulting from the effects
of rum.
Tentacle No. 3-Anti Virtue-.wc
find as soon as communities begin tC
daily and repose in this lap Of
Dalila and hug to their bosooms thi,
siren rum. The flush Of modesty
pales on virtues, cheek, morality
loosens her grip, crimes and sins
multiply, the lives of victims shorter
and poverty degradation and misery
results.
Tentacle No. 4-Poverty-Ant
Wealth-Wc find civilized man ell
terprising industrious, increasing hi
intelligence, wealth and happiness
until he becomes infatuated by thi,
imp of misery rum, after which hi
enterprises languishes, his merchan
dising fails, farmers have beer
tiguratively swallowed, and ever
plantations have shrunk at rum,
withering touch, and man himself
becomes a drunken idle hummer
stepped perhaps in crime, a fit sub
ject for the madhouse, the prison o
the gallows. "Anti health" indeed
it is when values turns to nothing
at its touch, and prosperous, intelli
: gent, happy man turns to crimina
: bummers worse than nothing. Dom
say | used too hard language, bu
r say, "HOrner deals too leniently'
with rum, considering its deserts
| Then you will hit it,
There are yet many tentacles 0
= this rum-deyil that space forbids Il
deal with at present, but as a part