The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-24
THE EVIL
OF DRINK
Views of Prominent
Men Cited.
PLEA FOR TEETO7AL|SM
Writer Urges the Tremendous I'M
portance Of the Subject to
Hawaii.

Editor Advertiser: Every man takes
care that his neighbor shall not cheat
care that he does not cheat his neighbor.
Then all goes well. He has changed his
market cart into chariot of the sum
Emerson.
When an authoritative writer puts forth |
his views as an informer or instructor of
If necessary for all such data as will en-
able him to pass pure gold and not
baser sort. This may be troublesome, but
it is necessary. Again, to quote Emer-
son, ''God offers to every mind its choice
between truth and repose. Take which
you please-you cannot have both
Dr. Bishop. replying to Civis in the Ad
vertiser of the 9th ult., repudiating the
charge that he (the Doctor is opposed
to the prohibition of the so-called liquor
traffic, says: Public feeling being
against 1t in Honolulu, we need particu-
larly to submit ourselves to the exactions
of existing public sentiment while we
the Doctor writes of sentiment that up
holds q traffic that the reverend gentle
man believes is perhaps the most de-
structive agency now at work to Stay the
people of these Islands, body and soul"
and that 'brutatzes Their whole nature"
The position taken by Dr. Bishop in his
reply to Civis is certainly inoffensively
nation and a better understanding of
subject often tend to a change of views,
or at least of attitude; yet, while the
Doctors present mode of mind may be
quite satisfactory to himself, some of
his more progressive friends evidently
think war carried on with devotion
and zeal' is hardy compatible with an
attitude of submitting ourselves to the
exactions of existing public sentiment"
DR.. Bishop couples the Anglican" and
| Roman" clergy with this adamantine
wall of public sentiment, for he says they
are 'conscientiously in favor of the use
OF alcoholic stinulants.', This broad
statement is not saved from possible in
correctness by the averment that the said
clergy act ''conscientiously." Taking 1t
for granted that DIR. Bishop has some
spondent of ascertaining when men are
acting conscientiously. / still must hold,
and in SO hola-ng agree with DIR. Bishop.
that the mere fact of acting conscien-
ftiously does not necessarily imply clear
perception Of the truth, or any perception
OF It at all. Men sometimes have views
and theories of Their own, offspring OF
their imagination. with no substratum OF
truth or foundation of fact.
Is Dr. Bishops view that the Anglican
and Roman clergy are al present consci-
entiously in favor of the use of alcoholic
sumulants correct? Do they favor the
fse of beverages we call intoXicants
QntoX care-To drug or poison.) What
ever may have been their practice and
teaching in the past, the voice of au-
tbority in both churches today rings clear
and strong. They tell the world that
wine is a mocker and whosoever is de-
ceived thereby is not wise.
The present Archbishop of Canterbury
Is at the head and front of the movement
having for It's object the passing of a To-
cal veto act giving every parish in Great
Britain absolute power of local prohibit
ton of the liquor traffic, and within the
past six weeks has drawn up a prayer
for use in churches from which the fol-
lowing words are taken: I'VE beseecf
Thee so to direct the actions of the Legis-
lature of this country that the measures
presently to be considered for the pro-
motion of sobriety and the removal OF
temptations to intemperance may speed
lily become law, to the advancement OF
Thy glory and the good of Thy people,
over his signature as the Bishop OF
London he made the following aver
ments: 1.-The experience of the last fifty
years is strongly in favor of the use OF
the special means which have hitherto
I,f ii hot
achieved in stemming the strong cur
rent of this widely prevailing sin Qntem-
perance). The temperance socie.
ties have awakened the church, and with
out these societies we have no evidence tC
show that much even anything would
have been done to deal with the evil. The
temperance societies have compelled the
attention of the public at large, and have
profoundly modified public opinion.
- The temperance societies have compel
led the medical profess on to study the
subject with more care than before, ant
the result of this study has greatly in
fiuenced both their utterances and theil
practice. - To the temperance So
cieties is due the change in the practic,
of insurance offices. Fifty years ago i
J was their ordinary rule to require higher
premiums from life insurers who totally
, abstained from intoxicating liquors. L
is now proved that total abstainers liv,
longer than other men. The bur
den of the work must be borne by thos,
who are willing to abstain entirely.
II Those who are brought much into con
tact with intemperance should arm
themselves with this weapon of total alb
stinence in their own persons"
DRINK DEADENS MORAL SENSE.
The Rev. Canon WHEREFORE, an honor
ed name. In powerful sermon preache,
not long since spoke of the awful capac
ity of strong drink for deadening the NOR
al sense and prompting the revulsion o
the soul from Cod" He urged his hear
ers Ito keep themselves in touch with ev
cry remedial agency and to make them
selves acquainted with temperance liter
allure. Then would they cultivate within
them that instinct which they had go
most deeply implanted in them-the in
J stinct of rescue. The most advantageou
outlet, in his experience, of this instinc
was the example of personal total absti
2 nence."
Mr.. Editor, the question is a tremen
dous one-one in which every living sou
has interest. Should any think that. be
cause the Great Teacher of all tim