The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-10
OMEN 10 MEMO.



ID failure, and tells MS that IN 1883
there were 2i66 arrests for drunken
ness IN Maine. Astonishing fact
4 population Of 6ls 900 persons act.
uaily furnished 2i6S arrests for
drunkenness In one year! In 1889,
Honolulu with a population Of $4,000
furnished iOGS arrests for drunken
ness. Judging the effect OF prohibit
ton in Maine bS the Honolulu pro.
portion Of arrests there should have
been over "a 800 arrests for drunk
enness in Maine instead OF PASS.
Yet liquor men say that prohibition
doesn't prohibit - but they shouldn't
quote figures, fol somehow they have
mulish propensity TO kick the
wrong party.
Memo tells us that there were
"ll90 liquor and beer dealers" in
Maine in 1888. Doubtless he wishes
TO bring honor to the cause which he
advocates by publishing to the world
that the liquor business furnished
1890 men, who broke the law OF their
country, secreted themselves and
their liquor in ''holes in the WALL
and any kind of den in order to
keep out of sight of law and de-
cencv, for the laudable purpose of
making 24GS of their fellow beings
drunk. What a proud victory for
the liquor cause! Is there law
against theft in Maine? Were there
any arrests for thieving' One would
suppose so. Then the law (accord-
ing to Nemo's argument) against
thieving is farce and should be
done away, or to follow out the liquor
dealers argument, thieves should be
licensed, pay the government $1,000
per year, and 90 ahead and make as
much as they could. How nice =
for the thieves.
Memo in his eagerness to discredit
the prohibition cause proves too
much. If prohibition is failure in
Maine, and LIQUOR can be had freely,
etc, as liquor men say, what is all
this howl about? Isn't that what
they want? If more liquor is drunk
after prohibition laws are passed
than before, surely the liquor man 8
pocket is the gamer. Why all this
cutlery by liquor men because 'pro-
hibition laws cannot and do not pro-
hibit selling much less liquor drink
ing2" The sleeps skin can't hide
the wolf beneath. The liquor men
know that they are not stating the
facts of the case. Who should be
Judges Of the benefits or losses from
haying q prohibition law in Maine
the editor of whiskey paper in
Cleveland. Ohio, whom Memo quotes
or the people who live III Maine
Why didn't Memo tell the people OF
the Hawaiian Islands through the
BULLETIN that in 1884, after having
lived under a modified prohibition
law for 20 years, the people of Maine
bv vote of over 1900 to %, 1000,
made very strict prohibition law q
part of their State Constitution? Are
the people of Maine such idiots that
they will deliberately, after so long
trial of law, fasten it upon them
selves, with all its $50 the liquor
men saw Gloss of revenue sin.
crease of taxation" "lessening Of
the school population" etc. Anyone
who thinks of il for a moment knows
better.
The difference is just this THE
people of Maine keep their money il
their own pockets, instead of put
ting it into the saloon keepers. Memo
will no doubt appreciate why thu
saloonmen howl about prohibition il
Maine.
If Memo needs any more proof 0
the efficiency of prohibition in Maine
he can have for the asking, the word
of the governors in Maine from
Governor Chamberlain in 1872 VIII
said, "The law is as well exc
cuted generally in the State as othe
criminal laws" down to Governo
Marble IN 1888, who says, " Prohi
bition has closed every distillery an
brewery in Maine. The law ha
greatly diminished the sale and us
of intoxicating liquors and increase
sobriety and morality among til
people, especially outside of tn
cities. 1t is certainly the best la'
of which | have any knowledge, an
7 wherever public sentiment favors it
enforcement it works perfectly"
Nemo's article attempts to prov
that prohibition increases taxatio
and debt and lessons the school pc
pulation, and he quotes Missouri
ETC., as an illustration. He forget
that in the early part of his article
he admitted that liquor was tn
source from which 20 percent of TIL
i criminals, % percent of the paupel
r and 7 percent of the insane sprung
}. If he had doubled his figures h
+ would have been nearer the re-
. facts and figures, but he STATE
enough in his own article to show I'll
foolishness of a liquor dealers clai
to lessen taxation, debt, etc. Wi
Memo tell us just how the groce
dry goods merchant, etc, are aide
by having the money that should
paid to them for goods bought,
into the saloon? Will he tell