The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-01
10 ACETATE LOCAL OPTION
ENTIRELY NEW TEMPERANCE
CRUSADE PLANNED.
Rev, Chapman Will Explain Purpose of
Anti-Saloon League of America.
Seeks Relief Through Ballot.

Anti-Saloon League of America |
Seeks Relief Through Ballot
An entirely new aspect of the tenn /
perance movement will shortly be pre-
sented to the people of this community.
Rev. DR.. h. 5. Chapman of Los Angeles
who arrived on the Sonoma is the state
! superintendent of California Of the
American Anti-Saloon League and hc
has been invited by tn@ Ministerial
/ Union to elucidate the scheme of the
J league by which it hopes to abolish the
saloons. The keynote of the league is
! local option.
I DIR. Chapman is a man of striking
personality and although his hair is
snowy white, he possesses the vigor
anG enthusiasm of youth which he in
! fuses into his crusades against the
! liquor sellers. He was educated in a
! severe school of reform for he was
among the early abolitionists and made
! 100 speeches in favor of the election
/ of Abrahm Lincoln. DR.. Chapman left
/ the ministry to engage in the anti
saloon crusade and for the past three
years has held the position of state
/ superintendent in California. He is ac-
! companied by his wife and is now at
the Hawaiian hotel.
Learning that l intended passing my
vacation in these Islands, said DR..
! Chapman this morning, "the Ministerial
! Union invited me to do work here in
the interests of the movement / have
| not had a days rest in the past three
/ years and after / will have had time
in which to reCuperate, l may tell the
people here of this new movement and
! help-them to inaugurate it if they wish.
| LAS its name indicates, this move
ment is directed against the legaized
saloon. 1t presents this issue-saloon
suppression 1t is nter-denomina-
( tional and Omni-partisan. 1t is not a
rival OF any other temperance move
ment but a combination of them all in
one 1t seeks to afford every voter an
opportunity to vote for or against the
saloon as he prefers, without any in
reference with partisan political pre-
ferences. 1t has been very successful
in all the states and especially so dur
! ing the past year in California, where
we have carried many towns, districts
and counties and by prohibition, ban
iShed the saloons.
II have now been three years state
superintendent of the league in Califor-
mia and during all of that time have
not heard one person venture to oppose
or criticise the plans, purposes and
workings of. this organization. 1t is
simpt practical. effective and thor
oughly American.
"Our plan is to submit the existence
of the saloon to majority of the peo-
pie in every locality. If they want it
let them have it. If they don't want it
and will say so at the ballot box, no
power can force it upon them against
their will Our wish is to put it on the
Australian ballot and keep it there and
, let them vote on it every election. That
is the end wei are aiming at, that is
| our North Star.
| But this is not all that the league
} seeks to do, We urge the people to
abolish the saloon. We have workers
: out conducting meetings in favor of
} the movement. Our most effective ar
J gument is that the saloon is an enemy
to all legitimate business But / will
have plenty of things to tell when I
begin work here. 1t had been my orr
J ginal intention to go to Australia but
/ decided to stop off at Honolulu The
: invigorating and beautiful climate has
? so refreshed me that 1 feel fully equal
TO the task of conducting work here
] although l had not expected to do any
thing of the kind when left home"
DIR. Chapman evidently is in sympa-
., thy with Mrs. Carrie Nation the terror
! of the saloon keeper in Wichita, Kan
. sas where she has gained considerable
notoriety by demolishing several re-
sorts. DR.. Chapman says that the
, league does not recommend any such
a course as the woman has pursued
4 but he has views more in sympathy
a with her. Upon this matter he said
q "'The anti-saloon league neither pur
: sues nor recommends any such cours,
as has been taken by Mrs. Nation bu
n personally ] am free to say that ac
: cording to the laws of the state of Kan
a saS ii is the liquor men and not Mrs
a Nation who are violating law. BY th'
4 verdict of the people at the ballot boz
g the state of Kansas has a prohibitar!
: law by which the saloon is made anC
V declared an outlaw and a nuisance. On,
d of our greatest difficulties everywher,
S is to secure upon the part of salooI
[ men obedience to law. Knowing as
n do the prevalence of law defiance by
y liquor men and the iniquity and harm
: fulness of the liquor business my grea
wonder is not that Mrs. Nation ha'
i pursued the course that she has bu
e that there are not thousands of other
e rising up to secure for themselves
: their homes and families, the protec
d tion from the liquor curse which tn
5. law gives them.
e MANY questions have been raised b,
n people as to whether Mrs. Nation /
k justified in taking the law into he
n own hands and some have criticised tn
er resort to such drastic measures. 1t
lie about time for some of these people t
direct their attention to the open, Dol
and defiant attitude of lawlessness as
sumed by liquor men rather than I
lie give so much attention to the outburst
It ing of indignation upon the part @
J. some heartbroken wives and mothers
IS Some people seem disturbed becaus
r. Mrs. Nation has not sought to remed
II the evil by due process of law, but the
IS have little or nothing to say with re
IL ference TO the saloon mems "compli
le canoe" with due process Of law"
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