The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-11
CENTRAL union
Rev. VIM. Gardeners Ser
mon Last Night.
SIS an Agitation of the Temperance
Question Needed. In Honolulu
atThiS Tim ?''

Last evening there was union
Church at which Rev. VIM. Gardner
spoke on the question, rs an Agitation
of the Temperance Question Needed in
Honolulu" In the course of his re-
marks the reverend gentleman said;
Last week thirty prominent citi-
zens were asked this question by letter,
the most of whom answered in the at
firmative. All great revolutions and
ed by agitation. Jerusalem and all
the region round about was agitated
Shy John, the Baptist, and the twelve
Apostles, and seventy disciples were
preaching continually from the text,
Repent we, for the Kingdom of Hea-
ven Is at Hand Martin Luther, John
Wesley, Patrick Henry, and VIM. Lloyd
which the great things done in their
time could not have been accomplished.
The object Of an agitation of the
temperance question should be to res
cue the drunkard, 10 save the youth
from the drink habit, to secure the eX
ecutiOn OF our laws, and to obtain bet
ter laws, if they are needed Honolulu
has fifteen licensed saloons. That is
hboring cities in California One
with 5000 inhabitants, has eighty Ii
censed saloons, another with 5000 in
habitants has forty places where liquor
is sold. There are over 5000 licensed
dram-shOpS in San Francisco. Last
week | examined the license laws of
Hawaii and find them in many re-
spects the best OF any l have ever be-
fore read. Boys, girls, women, music
and games are all excluded. Sunday
opening is not allowed, and the license
fee is ST 900 per annum.
L am credibly Informed that all the
saloons but one are run in constant
violation of law, and that that one, be-
cause of its known responsibility, is
the place where more young men
from respectable families start in the
Though the number of saloons is
small there are fifteen times too many
and their presence is greater curse
to our city than the constant presence
of smallpox in a centrally located pub
lie house would be. A friend suggests
that alcohol is a food and these insti-
tutions are entirely respectable and
desirable because they simply sell food.
Yes. Professor Atwater, a reliable sci
enlist, has demonstrated that alcohol
is a food. Reasonable temperance
men will accept his conclusion that
far, but it is we'll TO consider the char
acter of the food. DR.. H. F. Hughes
of Boston, also a reliable scientist,
says Professor Atwater's experiments
with alcohol do not show that its food
exceed its poisonous qualities; that,
though a food, it is not such in by
gienic sense. DR.. Cyrus Edison of
| New York says it is a food, and that
| he uses it in his practice, but that, ia
| ken regularly in very small quantities,
| it will do harm, and affirms that if
every drop were wiped off the face of
| the earth the world would be better
off
In the United States last year 1922
| 1919 persons died of consumption, in
| Great Britain 10000. At the National
Association for Prevention of Con-
sumption in Belfast Sir w. Broadbent,
MD, said the use of alcohol was, in
part responsible tOr the consumption
curse Twenty-four of the leading
| physicians, from as many different
States. each one an officer in his State
medical association, agree that the
| use of alcohol is an important factor
| ~, Il nd of %
dread scourge tuberculosis. If it could
| be as certainly proven that tomatoes
cause cancer, surely we would earnest
| " engage in an agitation to prevent
| their sale and use. The keepers of SIG
| almshouses recently report 81, 245 pau
pers. II .091, or 81 per cent. Of whom
| became such from the use of alcohol.
| AT a parade OF labOrerS in Chicago
! a banner bearing the word, Our Chill
dren Cry for Bread was prominently
| DISPLAYED and on that day those same
| Iaborers consumed 5000 kegs of beer
| for which they paid sufficient money to
have purchased $50 900 loaves of bread.
| Secretary Peck of the Y. NJ. c. A. in
this city in his pamphlet on The
Liquor Traffic in Hawaii says that
from 1870 to 1895 S19,000,00 was ex-
| pended for liquor in Hawaii, enough
to buy a lot and build a comfortable
| house for every native man, woman
and child in all the Islands.
From reliable statistics it has many
times been shown that 80 to 20 per cent
| of the criminals are made such by the
| use of alcoholic food The Bible pro-
| nounces woes upon the man who
| drinks or sells it. If eating poi caused
| so per cent of the poverty, so per cent
of the crime, made madmen of kind
husbands, caused the premature death
| of 900 OF our fellow-men annually,
| and was denounced in the Bible, there
| would be no question as to whether
we. of this beautiful city at the ocean
crossroads, should not educate, agitate
and legislate against it as long as its
| traffic or use had place among us.
| in, nj