The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-10-28
NEM0'S COMPLIMENTS TO OMEN.

EDITOR BULLETIN -
In the BULLETIN OF Sept. Z appear
ed the following from the pen of
Omen: In n. Y. City from 1889
80 there were 33B, B,02G arrests. OF
this over 250,000 were for drunken
ness and crimes growing directly out
of liquor" Then in the BULLETIN
of Sept. 10, he again says: "Nemo
wants to know the source of my in
formation about the 33,02G arrests
in N. Y. City of which 250, 900 were
for drunkenness and crimes growing
out of it. (Now mark the follow
ing.) In the BULLETIN of Sept. 30,
finding himself getting deeper and
deeper into the labyrinthian cess
pools of prohibition duplicity, he
alters his figures and then has the
gall to say that | quoted from them.
Here they are: ''ln n. Y. City from
1889 80 there were 333, ,026 arrests
for drunkenness and crimes growing
directly out of liquor" And then
whines out like an overgrown school
boy that ! tried to make capital out
of his Typographical mistake. "For
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain, the prohibition crank is
peculiar. :" Omen says that "Nemo
resorts to a little buffoonery when he
talks about 9th chapter, etc., in
long metre, which is an easy way of
saying, Pm caught" He also
says in his continued article
thus: "You made assertions
and about the prohibitionists of N. Y.
when asked for proof you were forced
! to admit you had none The above
splurge from Omen is another false
hood to his credit. | said then as |
say now, with some alterations and
additions, that prohibitionlsts are
known throughout the United States
as a combination of cranks and fana-
tics who assume that they are ordain-
ed by God to force out of existence
the use OF wine; q commodity that
was encouraged, and used by the
Master. These cranks are a party
who if left to themselves would have
died political death years ago. But
with the unscrupulous and cunning
ness of their party leaders, in selling
their votes to the highest bidder (but
more particularly to the Republican
party) and influencing tAe,f weaker
brethren to do the same, has been
the only means of keeping the pro
hlbltion fanatics, as a party, alive.
But the Republicans by harboring
the prohibitionists were beaten out
of sight in the last elections. Mass,
Penn, Mimi, Ind, and West Vir-
ginia Gall Republican States) went
solid against Republican prohi-
bition rule, and elected the Demo
cratic ticket And Kansas, the
hot bed of prohibition, declares
against Republican prohibition rule,
nearly the whole Republican ticket
being defeated. Which goes to show
that prohibition, the curse of
America, is doomed. Now then, Mr.
Editor, when one of those praying
hypocrites gets himself filled up with
tangle-foot whisky, he is worse than
Texas cowboy ever could be. Be-
cause being man generally of
weak and unbalanced intellect, any
one can readily see that "tangle-
foot" would act upon him equal to
red flag upon mad bull. TO dump
from twenty to thirty thousand
yearly upon N. Y. City, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, etc, of those cranks
among a people cursed with the ex
ample of puffed up and purse-ploud
Churchianity, instead of the simple
and unadorned Christianity of the
Master, is enough to ruin the morals
of any city. And deep down in the
heart of every honest person in the
Kingdom dwells the feeling that will
cause him or her to say with a spon-
taneous outburst of truth, that the
above is only too true. | think, Mr..
Editor, that | have shown by fair
argument that if the prohibition
cranks woula stop at home, drink
and crimes in the above cities
would be reduced seventy-fve per
cent. Omen in a fearful way asks
"Why does Memo avoid that part of
the discusslon?" (meaning the de-
grading and debauching of people
by drink. Who is it that degrades
and debauches people by drink
Explain yourself, Omen. Another
thing, Omen, it won't do for both of
us to go to whining and shedding
alligator tears, as you have done in
the past. Why, good heavens,
Omen, it would spoil the mans
paper. You know, Omen, you
have proved such an adept at
that business that | will leave that
part to yourself. Now then, Mr..
Editor, | have proved by unanswer-
able United States government statis-
ties, page and volume, from 1850 to
1880 Ga period of 30 years., show
ing downward tendency CONNER
ciaIly, financially, socially, and
morally in every State wherever pro-
hibition has been introduced.