The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-11
TEMPERANCE.
League-An Enjoyable Concert and
an Able Address.

A large and enthusiastic audience
greeted Miss Jessie 4. Ackerman's tenn
| perance lecture on Saturday evening at
the Y. NJ. c. A hall. The place was
nearly filed with people of different
| nationalities and various classes. The
| Rev. II. II. Gewen, the President of the
Blue Ribbon League, in brief but select
words hailed the large gathering as an
encouraging indication of public interest,
and was very happy to know that lady
had come to revive the Blue Ribbon
movement, for the local workers were
growing respondent over the lack OF
enthusiasm lately paid by the general
membership.
The musical and literary exercises
were up to their usual standard of excel
lence and received well merited pIaudits.
Mr.. IL. w. Peck, B. A, Assistant Prin-
cipal OF the Royal School, rendered a
selection in a truly sublime oratorical
style, proving himself a possessor of ex-
cellent evolutionary ability.
a fine duet was played by Mr.. w. E.
Herrick on the violin and his daughter,
Miss Phoebe A. Herrick, on the piano.
Miss NJ L.shman and Miss Dressler sang
to the unanimous admiration of all pre-
sent. ,e
Mrs +. NJ Whitney, President w. c.
T. o., introduced the speaker OF the
evening. Miss Alderman spoke for
! nearly an hour, all the while carry
ing her audience with her. All were
! highly impressed with her earnest ex-
hortations, the softness of her voice, her
\ very graceful delivery, and other fine
traits that helped to inspire enthusiasm
or wake convictions among the auditors.
/ The following is a synopsis of her lecture:
l understood that out of population of
$4,000 people, only seventeen men were
present at a recent meeting of the Blue
Ribbon for men in this city. | am not
at all surprised at it. In our great cOun
! try, the proportion of attendance at such
meetings is II women to every man.
| The reason for this perhaps was answered
! by a little Sunday School girl in New
! York recently. When asked by her
! teacher how Eve was made, she replied:
God made a deep sleep upon Adam,
and He took out his backbone, and
created Eve from it," and ever since
woman had a backbone Qaughter). 1t
is right that woman should have such
wide-awake interest in the temperance
cause, because they are the greatest
sufferers from intemperance. No ques-
ton is agitating the people OF the Union
50 much as this, yet our legislators are
very indifferent towards it, and like
every other matter Of legislation the
liquor question cannot be settled until it
is settled right. Is the liquor traffic
right?- Who are the greatest sufferers
through it? The working class are the
suffering ones, they are the victims |
Only the poor classes are the victims of
all laws. Travel throughout America, !
and you'll find the penitentiaries cram |
med with prisoners, and 90 percent OF
them are from the poor class. The rich (
can easily evade any law. Yet l am !
glad to know that there's one son of a |
rich man Observation-Disclosures Ward. |
But the reason why he was put there is |
because ne defrauded the son of another |
rich man, and if he had been the son of !
Il poor man, ne would have been only |
exiled to Canada. l sometimes think it !
a crime to be poor. The poor goes to the |
saloon, gets drunk and is cast out by the |
keeper, and handed over to the police. |
Who ever heard of rich man appear
ing before court on u charge of drunken
ness? How much longer are we going
to uphold this system from which the /
poor are receiving untold miseries?
The worst classes of drinking men are
the moderate drinkers, for from their
ranks are furnished yearly the millions
OF those who lie in the drunkard's grave
l do not say that a man cannot drink
and stop as he pleases. There are many
men who have done so, but their number
is s-Uatly outnumbered by those who
failed to limit their cravings, and have
gone down to the lowest degradation. A
horror runs through the veins of our
legislators whenever they hear of women
bringing forward bills; they always !
thought that women would bring nothing |
but bills relating to WOmen's rights. |
was delegated before an august body of
men recently to secure an appropriation !
for the support of an Orphans Home ia
San Francisco. The money was willingly
granted, but the same body OF men
passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
raising grapes, evidently thinking that /
to have more boys is to have more /
grapes. Our statute books are flied with |
laws, laws for the protection of Apache !
Indians, prohibiting any one to furnish |
them spirituous liquors; laws concerning |
cruelty to animals, thereby we'll protect !
ing dumb animals and mules; yet there T.
is no law protecting the white mans son.
Therefore, it is high time now that wO- |
men should feel a deep interest toward /
mothers and wives, receive sorrow and /.
grief through this inhuman traffic. Many |
men in Oul great country seek the re-
gions of high intellectual excellence, yet /
they do not put high morality on an |
equal basis.
/ am here tonight to tell you of the |
greatest and deepest sorrows that ever |
caused ache TO woman's heart, and you |
may say, " Its the old, old story" Yes, !
many women have travelled throughout |
our great country in the temperance in /
terest, and the story has perhaps become /
old, but as many OF our MODEST and fair
est youths are year by year treading that /
downward path to death and destruction,
the burden of the story can never become I.
old. Remember that the Blue Ribbon !
movement has always the tendency to .
elevate the morals o. the people. And .
am here tonight with special message |
to tell you of the mischief that has |
befallen human nature through the use
OF Intoxicating drink, to urge you to ab- .
stain from it for your own future welfare, |
and to clear the way for you to the path !
of glory.
Rev. H. H. Gowen then closed the
meeting with prayer, after which many !