The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-05-02
PROHIBITION.

and at the same time advocate pro-
hibition, when God is on record IN
opposition to prohibition p
We cannot see where the above
question comes in while disc usslng
the effects of the Kansas prohihltlon
law, or where s. s. assertion of "a
large class of prohibition hypocrites,
who keep their jug OF rum in the
cupboard, and drink it on the sly"
comes in, as, ifall prohlbitionists were
hypocrites, it would only show weak
mans inconsistency, and not affect
in the least the righteous principle of
prohibition. But if mans character
must be first discussed, we demand
to know who =. =. is. We want his
name, his present and past occupa-
ton, all of his inconsistent acts and
shortcomings, whether he drinks in
secret as a hypocrile, or drinks
openly as rumbloat, having no
shame, that would he consistent with
his doctrines, and what he processes
to believe, viz, that God made strong
drink to be drunk and made him to
drink it, SO to be loyal he must drink
or we must set him down as not only
inconsistent, but a hypocrite, preach
ing one thing but acting another.
Perhaps S. 5. has never fully un-
derstood the aim of prohibtonists
and it may be in order 10 explain.
The prohibitory system does not tell
| n ,,,,, Ia. hol not l,inl. ,,,ni,
object is to prevent Governments,
States, Counties and Municipal au-
thori,ies setting up public nuisances
and fountains of crime in the way of
saloons and liquor stores. If some
will have liquor they must get 1t
without the consent of the prohibi-
tionists, either by voice or vote; thus
we keep our skirts clear and our con-
| sciences condemn us not. Neither
shall we have to answer unto the
Great Father that we voiced or voted
for an institution that degrades, beg
CARS and impoverishes humanity.
We are for neither high nor low IL
censes. Suppose we vote for licenses
high or low, it is license all the same.
S. S. may say, 81 do not favor intem-
perance; | am opposed TO drunken
ness, still | am license man." If
he favors license he favors the thing
licensed. If he favors thus, does it
not follow that he favors the product
of the thing licensed, namely, mod
crate drinking, intemperance, drunk
enness and the saloon fruits of like
evils? The saloon bears but one kind
of fruitage. License the saloon and
you license the fruitage; they are in
separately connected. Prohibitionists
don't want the fruits. The saloon S
product and righteousness are not
yokefellows and do not work to-
gether with one accord.
Tipping and prayer are strangers
to each other. Drunkenness and
Christianity cannot walk together.
Divine favor may not be asked upon
the bathrooms giddy whirl, nor the
climbing glasses of the debauchee.
High license, low license, dries no
tears, soothes no aching hearts, cools
no burning brows-only in the grave
License bushes no cry of hunger, no
plea of nakedness, no plant of dis
grace-only in the gravel License
hears no cry for warmth, no claim for
shelter, no suit for peace, no plea for
domestic felicity, NJ demand for
sobriety, no appeal for honesty, no
supplication for mercy; they are all
hushed in the grave. License makes
no drunkard sober man; it removes
no temptation from him. License
helps to create murderers, wife
beaters, child-destroyers. License
aids in filing our alms-houses, our
asylums, our prisons.
High license gilds temptation ;
places fascinating entcements upon
iniquity, and adds attractiveness unto
deeds Of sensuality and crime. 1t
seeks to make debauchery appear as
it never can be, respectable. 1t
lessons no crime, detracts nothing
from wickedness, makes no wrong
right, is not effectual in covering the
skeleton of death. 1t removes nc
cloud of darkness. 1t happifes nc
home. 1t makes no father man, no
husband protector. Drunkenness
and the traffic in rum tell but one
sad, damning tale. 1t destroys all
honor, all sense of espectability, con-
ceals the blush of shame; makes man
brutal, robs the heart and mind OF
humane principles; dishonors God,
Christ, the church dsthrones reason,
enthrones perverted appetites.
Such are the fruits Of moderate
drinking, drunkenness and licensed
rumselling. They are anti Christian
and anti-prohibition fruits. The
Great Father has enacted His pro.
hibitory edict against the raising OF
such fruits, and pronounced curse,
and even death in some cases,
against the trans9ressors of his pro.
hibitory law. He doesn't counle-
nance or justify so much as one oil
those fruits. Yet S. S. says He is
on record against prohibition. Mr..
). will please inform US where
such record can be found.
1.-The wine made at The feast OF
Cana?' Oh! if rumsellers can find
peg there, TO hang comforter on,
they are MaIcoma In il That Uinn