The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-24
NEma's COMPLIMENTS TO OMEN.

CutroR BuLLETIN:-
Rlght you are, Omen, wtsan you
saw that Memo cant see or under
stand the art of twisting four years
out of two. For you distinctly said
in YOUR article Of Sept. Z, thus: "In
New York City from 1889 to 80
there were $50, 026 arrests. OF this
over $4,000 were for drunkenness
and crimes growing directly out of
liquor" Can anything be more
plain? The fact is Omen's queer
twistiugs and his inability to grasp
and hold the truth, has caused II
feeling OF sorrow to steal over me,
that Omen, who wrote with such
seeming familiarity Of snakes, -
.'toads' and "bIue devils" etc in
his article in the BULLETIN of Sept.
~, is far too well acquainted with
such reptiles, for his own good. q
am afraid he has been there). Omen
SAYS that l give no figures that pro-
hibitionsts help to swell the "vice
and crime of New York City," If
Omen will examine the 27th chapter,
22d verse in long metre, he will see
for himself, that prohibitionists from
every State in the Union flock TO
New York City, where they think
they are not Lnown, and let them
selves loose. Which, as ] said be-
fore, no doubt has largely helped to
swell the tide. | am afraid the
truthfulness OF Rev. De Costa SER
mon, plainly showing that false re-
ligion is the principal cause of drink
and crime of New York City, has
given Omen a fit of auditory meat"s.
As have been somewhat the cause
of Omen's unfavorable symptoms |
freely prescribe the following: A
salt water bath every morning for
two weeks, with an occasional study
of Rev. De Costa's sermon, exposing
false religion.
If the Commissioners of Correction
and Charity for New York City
had reported the following they
would have come much nearer the
truth. Many reasons for this pain
ful and rapidly increasing pauperism
among the people may be assigned,
but that which takes precedence
above and beyond all Others is yhe
curse of false religion. Surely,
Omen, you were tight (Which | am
sorry to say is not of en), when you
said: None so blind as those who
won't see.' The reader should no
lice how careful Omen Is to coniine
himself within the circle of New
York City, with his drink and crime
statistics. A city where hundreds
of thousands of immigrants are land
ed yearly from every country in Eu-
rope A city that was for years I'M
der the coHtlol Of tue notorious Boss
Tweed, and afterwards for years I'M
der The notorious Jim Fisk. A city
where bOodlers are made and thrive
all through The curse Of aristocratic
Churchianity, versus Christianity.
| wish to be excused from answering
Omen i'll regard to the vote of 1888
in Ohio, as it will make this article
too long. But in my next l will give
the whole history of that voc, and
make it so plain that no decent man
will have the gall TO dispute it.
Omen says the United States Census
Bureau at Washington has just is
sued Census Bulletin No. l04. And
again says: II will put liquor and
prohibition States side by side and
show you, Memo, that your whiskey
editor in Cleveland, Ohio, didn'
give you the truth to quote from. y
In the first place, Mr.. Editor, the
figures Omen gives to knock Memo
out, | for one am satisfied never
came from the Census Bureau al
Washington as Omen gives them
but were twisted and altered by
someone for a purpose. | don't
wish to dispute Omen's veracity
but the source from whence he re.
ceived those figures is another thing
Anyhow, | will try to prove, not by
government figures alone, but by
plain common sense reasoning that
Omen's figures about the assessed
valuation per capita of prohibition
and non-prohibition States that h,
has quoted, are not what they shoul(
be.
Maine in 1860 received in taxes
State, county and municipal, 81 ,257 !,
2l3, equal to So. 80 to each person il
the State. In 1880 there were pai(
in taxes in the State S., 1872, 1875
equal to S7,9S to each person. This
is more than twice as much as il
1860. (See L. S. Statistics, VOL 8
page 800.
Missouri received in taxes in 1860
81, 109,653, equal to $40 to eacl
person. In 1880 she received $40,
269, 1856, equal to 81 70 to each per
son. Taxation has increased almos
three times as fast in prohibition
as in a license State.
Maine had in 1880 State debt 0
, S22, LOG $50 The population of tn
Il.