The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-17
NEMO'S COMPLIMENTS TO OMEN.

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statement which / have made; until
you have done so or given proof that
| mis-stated the case, you d ought to
be man enough 10 avoid personali-
ties. There's the pure article Of
unadulterated gall for you and no
mistake.
His statistics, where are they?
What do they amount to? Now
then, Mr. Editor, the whole kernel
Of the prohibition party's platform
reads thus: "We assert that the
traffic in alcoholic beverages is the
principal cause Of all crimes, pauper-
ism, insanity and enormous taxa
tion;" which by government stalls
teal figures have proved false to the
core. | have also shown by unmis-
taxable evidence that prohibition
does not prohibit the drinking or
selling of liquor, in prohibition
States, / have also proved that tax
alton and debt are higher in prohibl-
ton States than they are in liberal
States. have also proved that there
is more illiteracy in prohibition than
non prohibition States. In fact, Mr.
Editor, | have proved by govern
ment figures that don't lie, that the
incubus prohibition has proved
curse rather than benefit in every
State in the Union, wherever it has
been introduced. How has Omen
met the above statistical figures on
prohibition; has he refuted one sin
gle point, or come within mile OF
it? Not at all "Until he does he
ought to be man enough to avoid
personalities y of which the would
be innocent lamb will find plenty
galore, in his own article in the
BULLETIN of Sept. Z.
Omen says that my first quoted ar
ticle was written with the evident
intention to deceive when it tried to
make out that there were only 2S0, 900
prohibitionists in Ohio" said then
and | say now, that there were only
go, 600 prohihtionists pure and sim
pie in Ohio III 1880. What Omen
tries to make capital of with the evil
| ident intention to deceive" is where
he SAYS that in 1883 1928, 1879 men
voted for prohibition. If he had
wished to have been honest in the
matter, he would have said that The
1928, 1879 votes cast for prohibition in
1888 was nothing more or less than a
combine of those $4,000 prohioi-
tionists with the Republicans for po-
litcal purposes. Another thing he
ought to have said is that when the
fall elections rolled around the Re-
publican and Prohibitionist parties
combined We're beaten out OF sight
by the Democrats. l should have
answered the above before, but | saw
at the start of Omen's writings, that
his whole policy was to detract from
and belittle those unanswerable Gov
eminent figures, on that old fraud
prohibition. In fact ! was rather
amused than otherwise, to see Omen
squirmng and trying to twist those
solid figures out of shape. In his
article in the BULLETIN of September
10th, in quoting from Gov. Marble in
saying, "it is certainly the best law
of which | have any knowledge, and
wherever public sentiment favors its
enforcement it works perfectly
What in the name of comh,on sense
is to hinder any law from working
perfectly, if public sentiment favors
it? But it don't favor it, as | an
again prepared to prove by one Of
those naughty cuttings that Omer
ablfors so much.
Last winter the Legislature, at the
request of prohibitionists, made The
law iron clad, copper bottomed, ant
so rigid in all its provisions that i
was claimed to be a perfect statute
The following extract from the Port
land Argus shows how it worked OF
the Fourth of July last: "The stian
gers who visited Portland the glori
Gus Fourth were thunder struck
They thought Portland was cit,
where prohibition prohibited, bu
found that there were more drunken
men to the square foot than in an,
city in the country. Whether thu
rum shops were all open for the cele
bralion, or whether the pocket ped
oilers did the business, is not for u
to say. The fact remains that Their
was more drunkenness in this cit,
Saturday than for many years. Th
police were kept very busy, and tn
hurrv-up wagon was on the go al
day and night. No attention wa
paid to simple or respectable &!
DRINKS, and only the vicious ant
troublesome were taken. AS it was
there were thirty five arrested 70
abusing the ardent and locked up i
the cooler. Some Of these were sen
to the Jail to make room for new
comers." SO much for prohibition
Omen says that he don't wish to ca
Memo a "whiskey-bum" or "bal
room loafer. 1t. is immaterial t
me whether he had called me
"whiskey-hum' or a. "bar-roor
loafer," or not. l should only hav
taken it as [ do now, from the sourc
from whence it came. Only thai
and Nothing more.
There, Omen, | think have l.
you down kindly and sympatheticall