The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-21
Most Noted Temperance Worker
in the World.
WAS IN HONOL LULU LAST MONTH
But Local Temperance People Let
Him Go By-LeCture on the
Gothenburg System.

Among the passengers, who passed
through this city on the last trip of
the steamship Moana from San Fran
cisco for the Colonies, was Mr.. Joseph
Malins, who for over 80 years has
been a prominent worker in the cause
of temperance, and is practically of
worldwide fame. He is English by
birth, and since boyhood has been
working in the temperance field. His
work was first confined to England,
then he went to Scotland and Ireland,
and finally crossed over to Sweden,
the liquor traffic had assumed gigantic
proportions. Germany was then in
vaded, but the work progressed very
slowly, and it was only after seven
teen years of unremitting effort that
any response came. In Sweden, where
the best results have been had, Prince
Oscar and the Queen of Sweden have
become TemplarS, together with forty
nine members of the Parliament, and
Mr.. Malins has been guest of the
court 1OT a week DIT Il lll1e.
In addition to the temperance cause,
Mr. Malins has taken an interest in
municipal matters, having been a men,
Der of the Worcester County Council
the peace, and chairman of an insti-
tuition for technical education which
has 1 900 pupils.
When the Moana reached Honolulu
there was no one to welcome Mr. Ma
lins to Hawaii, and it is doubtful if
anyone save the writer knew who he
was Mr.. Malins, however, is one of
those temperance reformers who does
not advertise his comings and goings
ahead but rather seeks to hide his light
under bushel. And yet he is a man
of many offices, being vice president
of the United Kingdom Alliance for
the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic
in Great Britain and Ireland, vice
president of the British Temperance
League, honorary secretary of the Ma
tiOnal Temperance Federation of the
British Isles, and right worthy grand
templar of the Good Templars for the
World, and Grand Chief Templar for
England.
His reception in Auckland was, how
ever, a different thing. There a large
delegation of temperance workers well
coined his arrival and paid him every
attention. Speaking to them of the
object of his trip, he said:
Il come here as part of scheme of
a twelve months tour round the world
hn into re, of tom ,l,sor L
ly, and especially of the Good Templar
movement. l may say / emigrated to
America in 1866, being then a very
young man, and while in the States
identified myself with the Good Tenn
plar movement. l returned to England
in 1868, and formed the first lodge in
the Eastern Hemisphere in Birming
ham. In 1870 / formed little grand
lodge for England, which has since
grown SO that for many years now it
has had over 100000 members. 1 am
now in the chair of the grand lodge
for the thirtieth year. From England |
we utilized ministers, sailors, and 9TH |
ers to spread the movement to other |
lands. 1t is now about a quarter of a |
century since l authorized Rev. B. J. |
Westbrook, Primitive Methodist |
minister, to Introduce Good Templar-
ism in New Zealand, which he did at |
Dunedin. The order now exists in a |
hundred countries and States, and two |
years ago we held the international |
lodge in Switzerland, when 1 was elect
ed the president. The last meeting of |
the International Grand Lodge was
in Toronto, Canada. l may mention
my position as president is purely
honorary, as is also my present posi-
ton of delegate to visit the lodges of |
the world. l have now visited the
lodges in America, and willSvisit those