The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-04


reader the weakness OF it. But call
ing me "intolerant, hypocriucal,
crankey, etc. - answers nothing. G.. |
questions;
LIST. 'Is the moderate and lcgitl-
mate use of liquors a sin, and if so,
where is the proofY" All the OBJ
jections we have to the moderate use
of rum is, it leads to the immode-
rate use, and the immoderate use
can't be stopped only by stopping
its moderate use first, rs all drunk
ards were first moderate drinkers.
This don't mean that "Ilorner says
every moderate drinker will be n
drunkard, but we will say as
rule, moderate drnker is more
likely to become drunkard than
one who never drinks at all. Be-
sides there are many like the great
temperance apostle Cough, who saip B
"he could no more drink moderately
than he could fire off gun mode
rately, if he touched liquor at all
he must go the whole hog, so his
OltlN SultUN was w lCb ~ ulOllGs
G. knows that there is nume-
rous class that can neither drink
moderately nor let it alone if rum is
within their reach, and for the bene-
fit of this class and their neighbors,
prohibition should prevail, as
blessing to mankind; as it is these
immoderate drinkers when craZed
with rum that commit three-fourths
of all crimes brought before the
courts, which we have good reason
to believe if prohibition prevailed,
all this crime of which rum is the
cause would end. But to stop these
crimes and wretchedness both mod
crate drinking and modern drunk
ness must be stopped, rs moderate
drinking is the egg from which
drunkenness is hatched and drunken
enness is the egg from which all the
above crimes are hatched. SO we
think the moderate drinker should
for the good of humanity set the eN-
ample of one of old who said, "If
eating meat makes my brother to
offend ! will eat no meat while the
world stands" | commend this
worthy example to g., although
there is no more sin for G.. TO drink
moderately than for Paul to eat
meat, but the example.
I'd. cam l not entitled to be
reckoned amongst the educated,
honored, reliable and respectable
people, because l drink my glass of
beer or wine at my dinner" You
would lose none of my respect by
drinking either beer, wine or whis-
key moderately. Some of my most
respected and reliable friends drink
as they feel inclined, but lose none
of my respect or well wishes by so
doing, and l never felt while in
their company, that they despised
me because L did not drink.
Sd. "Have | not the individual
right to do so, just as much as
others have, the right of total absti-
ncnce:" Legally you have, So
cially you have but there is one or
two phrases of the moral side of the
question that may be questioned.
AS it seems to be the duty of man
to always set good example,
Temperance" is good example
to follow it ever so zeaIously never
hurts any one, but that can't be
sad of drinking even moderately.
Moderate drinking is not q good
example for the rising generation or
the weak minded that look to the
strong and able for examples to fol-
low. Again, moderate, as well as
immoderate drinking, encourages
starting saloons, and they are the
curse of all professed civilised and
Christian communities. The man
about to start a saloon counts up
his possible customers before doing
so. He puts down G. as moder..
ate drinker, who drinks little and
often, L as an occasional drinker
who may be improved, f as man
doubtful, but as being often seen in
saloons with those who do drink
and being an honorable man, is
rather credit to the saloon he
visits. Besides he sometimes take
temperance drink. There is X,
J he just drinks, you bet, the only
fear about him is, he may not last
long and his purse may fail. Thus
he goes over mentally all his tran
sient and possible customers and
the showing being good and the pro-
fits 100 per cent or more, he con-
cludes to start his saloon. We Car
readily see that if Mr.. Saloons can
vass for customers had found e /
+ and the rest pronounced temper
ance people, this saloon would not
; have been started. But now it will
take the combined effort of one
church and two schools to counter
act its evil effect upon society.
Mr.. G. may have just as much right
to drink rum as Horner has to be {
tetotaller, but upon close scrutiny
it don't look so. (To be continued).
JNO, Nj, UORNER,