The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-04-24

Children's shoes where he formerly sold
one. The fathers used TO drink up the
shoe money and the children went bare
foot He says also that he sells quanti-
ties OF wOmen's hats and bonnets, and
never sold anything of the kind before
prohibition was adopted. The husbands
had no money, so the wives made their
own bOnnets out of calico and splits;
now there is no gallon jug under the bed,
and women have decent head gear, and
even ribbon. That is a solid fact, and is
a whole sermon if you choose to lengthen
it out a "bit. - Mobile (Ala.) Register.
POINTER FOR THE REV. FATHER
M'GLYNN.
The avowed aim of Messrs. George
and McGlyRn is to abolish poverty, but
while they think the best way to accom-
plish that most worthy object is to tax
unearned inCrements, we think that a
Prohibition law with a Prohibition party
to enforce it would be infinitely more
valuable in aiding the poor and alleviat-
ing their wretched condition. To sustain
our view we present this week a few in
tervie vs. with landlords in Atlanta, Ga,
where Prohibition has been tried for over
year now, and, let it be remembered,
tried under conditions very adverse to its
entire success.
Mr.. George Adair, of Atlanta, rents
houses to l 800 tenants. He states that
he has issued in the last year only one
distress warrant where two years ago he
issued twenty.
Mr.. Talley, of Atlanta, another real
estate man, says that he rents from 600
to 800 houses. and that he had to issue
from four to five. distress warrants a
month, while during the past eighteen
months he has issued only one.
Mr.. Harry KrOuse, of Atlanta, was a
strong anti-Prohibitionist, so strong that
he wouldn't let anybody talk to him on
the subject. He says: "My distress
warrants used to average thirty-six to
the wear, and l haven't issued one in
twelve months" When asked why he
continues to DE an Anti, he replied: q" |
am not; | am a red-hot Prohibitionist."
Mr.. Scott, of Atlanta, who did not vote
for Prohibition, says: 81 used to issue
as many as twenty-five distress warrants
a year. Now issue only one in a year"
"Then, how can you vote with the
Ants ?' he was asked. 81 am not an
Anti; Pm going with the Prohibi-
tionists"
Mr.. Roberts, of Atlanta, is a square
man and an intelligent man. He says:
"My testimony is the same. l formerly
issued two or three distress warrants
every month, and l have not issued one
in twelve months"
Mr. Riordan, of Atlanta, was an anti
ProhibitiOnist in the last race. He says:
81 was an observation-disclosures on princi-
pie" Personal liberty man, l suppose,
''but | work from sixty to 100 men, and
| have seen a change that, as an honest
man loving my fellowman | dare not
disregard, and am for Prohibition"
Mr. Boyd, of Atlanta, a large employer
of labor, SAYS: "The punishment, next
to the distress warrant, is the most ini-
Quitous form OF debt-collection. 1t
means that the law lays hand on a
mans wages and holds them in its grasp,
though his little children may Chamber
about his knees and cry for bread. Now,
where there were twenty necessary be-
fore Prohibition, there is at present only
one"
Mr.. Grant, of Atlanta, is a man of pro-
found convictions. You can cut him up
into postage stamps, and he would not
deny a thing he thought was right, and
he was one of the most violent OF the
anti-PrOhibitiOnists. He said: II work
22O men, and see what Prohibition has
done for them, and believe my duty
requires | should let it alone. My fore
man goes to their homes and sees them
they live better, their houses are better,
they have shoes where they were shoe
less, and have plenty to eat where they
formerly barely lived. Formerly l have
had thirty garnishments at once in
my shop; since we have had Prohibition
| have been running seven months, and
1 have not answered one single garnish-
ment."
Mr. Henry w Grady, of Atlanta, in
reference to these testimonies, says:
is there any possible answer to them
Is there any industrial, any social, any
economic revolution that has been
worked since this world began that
would account for the diminution in this
most vicious and intolerahle OF legal en-
actments? Have you thought about what |
a distress warrant Is? Have YOU ever
thought about woman being turned out |
of her hOuse--the little cottage that covers |
her and her children? Can you picture /
you who live in comfortable homes !
filled with light and warmth and books /
and joy-can you think OF these people /
human beings, our brothers and sisters I
the poor mother, brave though her .
heart is breaking, budding her little /
children about heT-and the father weak .
but loving, and loving all the deeper be /
cause he knows his weakness has .
brought them to this want and deprlva-
tiOn-and little children, those OF whom
our saviour SAID, 'SuueI tHtul 10 come
unto Me, and forbid them not, there
asking, Mamma, where viii We sleep
tonight can you picture that, and
then their marching up and down the
streets - this pitiable procession -
through the minimizing streets, by
laughing children and shining windows,
looking for a hole where, like the foxes.
they may hide their poor heads2 My
friends, they talk to you about personal |