The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-20
MORE QUESTIONS FOR MEMO.

NcuO Ill uQe BULLETIN Vi NUN. ID
says he "differs" with what l call an
attempt to drag down the honored
name of Abraham Lincoln by ascrib-
ing to him license sentiments. To
prove his position he quotes from
Lincoln the following: "Until my
tongue shall be silenced in death, l
will continue to fight for the rights
of man." Then Memo says, PRO
hibition will destroy that very senti-
ment." Lincoln never applied the
above sentiment to Nemo's conclu-
sion. In fact it was spoken of the
curse of slavery, and any compari-
son of Lincoln's sentiment with the
temperance issue results out and out
for Prohibition. l will give the COM
parison in Lincoln's words, spoken
Feb. %, 1912, before the Washing
tonian Temperance Society of Spring
field, ILL.,:
"Whether or not the world would
be vastly benefited by a total and
final Punishment from it of all in
toxicating drinks, seems to me not
now to be an open question. Three
fourths of mankind confess the
affirmation with their tongues; and
l believe all the rest acknowledge it
in their hearts. " Turn now
to the temperance revolution. In it
we shall find a stronger bondage
broken, viler slavery manumitted,
greater tyrant deposed-in it more
of want supplied, more disease heal
ed, more sorrow assuaged; by it no
orphans starving, no widows weep
ing. And when the vic
tory shall be complete, when there
shall be neither slave nor a drunk
ard on the earth, how proud the title
of that land which may truly claim
to be the birthplace and the cradle of
both those revolutions that shall have
ended in that victory!"
/ In 1853 Lincoln signed his name
TO the following as his sentiments,
and with other signers asked for their
general circulation:
"The liquor traffic is cancer in
society, eating out its vitals and
threatening destruction: and all at
tempts to regulate it will not only
prove abortive but aggravate the
evil. n 1t must be eradicated
The most effectual rene
dy would be the passage of law
altogether abolishing the liquor traf-
fic except for mechanical, chemical,
medicinal, and sacramental purposes,
and so framed that no principle of
the Constitution of the State or of
the United States be violated.
Memo says, IL believe Lincoln to
have been true temperance man."
l agree with you, Memo. A better
prohibitionist than Lincoln does not
exist to-day.
Memo, when driven to the wall for
his authority for some anti-prohibi-
ton sentiments which he ascribed to
Lincoln, quotes the South West,
another bogusIFarm Herald, and pub
lished by the brewers of Cincinnati,
! Ohio. AS | said before Mr.. John G.
Nicolay, Lincoln's biographer, calls
all such statements by the mild word
"frauds." What then shall be sale
of those who continue to repeat
them?
Memo also asks, "Why did the
people (of Atlanta) rise and crust
prohibition by an overwhelming maj.
ority?" The "crush" was not by
an overwhelming majority. The
extra liquor vote was caused by JUS
such lies as have been circulated
here in regard to Abraham Lincoln
The majority of the intellectual and
thrifty citizens, both colored ant
white, voted for prohibition; but thu
ignorant vote was cast solidly for thu
saloon, chiefly through the Leadership
Al l.