Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-15
For the Coconut Club.

New Zealand il the last week
Of March had an exciting polling
day on the licensing question.
The issues were-1, things as they
are; ., fewer hotels; or3 no hotels
and no single-bottle licenses.
With newly-enfranchised woman
voting everywhere the teetotal
party had great advantage, for.
extreme ladies almost to an in
dividual believe in and love COM
pulsion. Among the privileges
they grudge the selfish sex are
the option men have of entering
an hotel where they are beyond
feminine surveillance and the
option OF smoking tobacco. The
hotel, the club and the pipe have
long been recognized and hated
as rival attractions. The whole
of mans evening leisure, if he
happens to be married, should be
spent in admiring, and praising,
and counting the blessing Heaven
has bestowed upon him; or if he
is single, he should be looking
up with rapture to bright eyes
and listening to pretty prattle,
with a view to going through, at
the earliest moment, that ceremo-
ny ordained from above which
makes one flesh of two persons
until the shoels Divorce Act pulls
them asunder. Of such are the
W. G. 7. U. The teetotal lady in
New Zealand, after shaking her
umbrella in the face of Bishop
julius, aud telling the highest
dignitary in the church that he
is bad man for Directing to
compulsion), has come to be
called the prohibition virago,'
and she wants to close the hotels,
in order To mt an end TO the
evils of intemperance. We
have no statistics at our fingers
end, but taking the run of exper-
fence as a guide-what each per-
sons notices in his own circle of
uaintances-the number of
husbands who bring misery upon
the house by their intemperance
is too small to justify the desper-
ate proposal to close every hotel
and stop every man 5 whisky or
beer. And. if we consider that
there are cases-very rare, of
course-in which wives bring
misery on the house by drinking
cases where intoXicants are OBJ
tanned without going to the
public-house or sending to the
grocer-it is against all reason to
suppose that the closing of the
hotels can be expected, even by
women, to prove an effective and
complete cure to intemperance.
The woman voter as yet knows
too little of Legislation and the
effects or no effects, Of legislation
to be aware that the passing of
law Is one thing and the carrying
of it out another where there is a
strong hostile opinion, and there
fore tits possible she may sincere
ly believe that prohibition can
be managed by act of Parliament;
but the prohibition she is aim
ing at is the prohibition Of rival
~. New Zealand, which has
given women the franchise. will
be an interesting field of observa-
ton 70 the rest Of the world.
should practical acquaintance
with the voting and working Of
statutes have them as blind as
they hitherto have been, and as
determined as ever to bring men
under police authority. then we
may expect to see prohibition
going ANONYMOUSLY out of
fashion. The elections that have
just been held show that, though
in some places there we're major
tiles for prohibition-ineffeetiye
maiorities. by the way-on the
whole moderation is the policy
most in favor and 4h. cfka~~-.