The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-30
PROHIBITION
THE THING
Reverend Mr.. Pearson
Against License.
STRONG SERMON SUNDAY
Pastor Kincaid Speaks on The Prob
lem of Evil' and Mr.. Hay
on Faith.


Episcopal Church preached last night
on Prohibition or License of the Sa-
loon-Which?" His text was Woe
unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink and maketh MIN drunken also,
Hab. 2:15.
The sermon was one of the most for
cibie of it's kind delivered from a Ho-
nolulu pulpit and dealt with the local
liquor question fearlessly. The follow
| ing is synopsis of the address:
The three great evils that harm man
kind are RIGHTEOUSNESS, gambling and
traffic in intoxicating liquors. These
are intimately associated and foster
one another.
] The saloon, representing the traffic
in intoxicants. is indeed great evil.
1t is rightly charged with drunkard-
making and thereby comes under the
curse of Gods Word. 1t is a great
source of crime, furnishing at least 80
per cent of criminal prosecution. 1t
is prolific cause of poverty and in
sanity.
In all lands 1t is classed as one OF the
! first great evils of our age While men
agree in this judgment they differ as
to the way to meet 1t. Several sys-
TENS are advocated. chiefly license and
prohibition.
Il plead for prohibition and against
License" said Mr.. Pearson vehemently,
because license is wrong in principle.
License is practical participation in the
evil, a legitimatizing of what we know
to be dangerous evil. We are on the
right principle when We prohibit
Y hnf
when we license so gigantic an evil as
liquor selling. License to a GER
tain degree makes the business re-
| spectacle. License quiets the public
conscience. / am intensely opposed to
| license because it puts practically lit
tie restraint upon the business. The
traffic thrives on license and is salts
! fed with il.
License does not regulate the traf-
/ fic. On these Islands, as elsewhere, it is
a failure. Who will claim that our
system regulates the selling of lntox-
icants in Portuguese stores or Waiki-
Inward or Chinese shops the Islands
over? Who will claim that II regulated
or closed the gin mill lately running
in the neighborhood of east Queen
street, or who will claim that even a
license to wholesale traffic always reg
ulates the wholesaler to wholesaling
only? Our system simply means, as
elsewhere and always, free whisky to
one who wants to buy It, After ninety
years of trial, during which time the
traffic has marvelously grown, license
| is as ever a failure.
Il believe in prohibition because 1t is
right in principle. We can only hope
to overcome this evil on the substan-
tial basis OF right principles. The prin-
| ciple OF prohibiting the manufacturing
OF drunkards, the creation of crime
and poverty, in the interest of the
/ State, the home, the man, Is a holy
one. The traffic cannot be overthrow
until we stand on this just principle.
believe in prohibition because it la the
most effective way of dealing with the
saloon. No one claims that 1t has we;
been absolutely successful over any
large area. But Il has been as well
enforced as some other laws and has
proved its efficiency. / call your atten.
ton to the fact that where prohibition
once has hold and Is tried, the peo-
pie want 1t. They know the results In
less crime, less tax, less drunkenness
1t Is the cry OF the license men thai
fills the air with Prohibition does no
prohibit More whisky drank thar
| uHutT IICt0Se.
Note their inconsistency. III thes,
things were true why should they fgh
prohibition? The facts are, prohibition
IS the only thing the liquor men actual
ly fear. Talk license and regulation
here and all is quiet; but talk prohibi
tion Of the saloon and the American
Liquor Dealers Association is enlisted
on their behalf.
Prohibition prohibits and may b.
and Is in many places great success
1t did not absolutely prohibit In Iowa
yet the Brewer Congress of 1891 re
ported sales in Iowa, 1882, previous {,
prohibition, 2,391 barrels; in 1890
under prohibition $3.50; a decrease o
204, 125. Within two years convicts de
creased from 500 to $50. But under tn,
mulct law the number ran up to III
Prohibition OF liquors could be en-
forced here easier than the prohibition
of opium. Liquors are bulky. IL W.
were not used to its presence and blind
ed by our policy of license, We would
treat 1t as we have done the plague
stamp II out"