The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-19
IT IS WOMEN WHO
SUFFER BY LIQUOR
Scathing Arraignment Of Those Who
Withhold the Ballot by Rev. Dr..
Chapman at Central Union.

the next few days" said Dr. Chapman.
ifervently.
He then took up the cause Of wo-
mankind and the sufferings women are
compelled to undergo. Few men re-
allied the pain, the anguish and suf-
ferings which came into womans
life. Woman was more responsive and
delicate than man. 1t was IN her very
nature to suffer more. The all-wise
Creator had mysreriousiy allotted to
her far more suffering than to men. No
man, he said, ever meditated upon her
sufferings without his heart melting
within him when he contemplated what
God had allotted to her. He did not
underestimate the toll and drudgery
that falls to man, but it was his honest
iconviction that men would cry like
children did they have one-half the du-
ties that are to be performed by wo-
men. The history of America had up
on its pages the written record of the
burdens placed upon women by men.
j In New York state there was a stat
/ ute repealed not long since after ten
years of almost superhuman work by
Z
power of the father of an unborn child
to will that child away to any stran-
ger. The prospective father. dying,
could will it to another 1t was one OF
| the most shocking statutes ever placed
upon the statute books, said DR. Chap
man.
Il ask you he said, who said that
I'VE might vote? We did. Who
Ga:d ho
We did. We took the right and
we grasped it because we were big and
istrong and in the exercise OF that right
we said the women should not vote. /
am not raising the question as to wheth-
Ter We did it wisely or not. / am saying
/ this: That if any man assumes the right
to vote and in the exercise OF that right
denied it to women, then the best i'm
| pulse of men is that we should vote in
the interests of women. 1t should occur
TO US men that as such a vast amount
/ of suffering has fallen to women, we
should not add needless pang or pain
to the heart of any woman. The man
Is not a true man who will do it.
Cant you see it, men, that the bulk
OF the woe and misery that comes OF the
lliquor traffic rests upon the hearts of
women rather than upon men?' said the
speaker -She drinks the very dregs or
its misery. Take it in life. Here's
girl and a boy whose father is a drunk
ard. Which one does it cause the great
est misery to? The girl every time. She
avoids her playmates on coming away
from school for fear they viii say some
thing abou. her father. But the boy?
He thinks his father is dandy and he
initiates him. lie follows IN his foot
steps. picks up the stub of his cigar and
smokes it A thousand times more that
girl suffers the anguish than her BROTH
er. Think of the inconceivable suffering
which comes to a refined woman after
1 she has stood at the hymeneal altar and
become the wife of a man to whom she
gives her all. Think of that husband be-
coming an inebriate. remember during
the days of the temperance crusade in
Ohio of a crowd of women in front of a
Isaloon praying. There was one voice
which made me irreverenuy look up. I
saw a face pale as death. the most beau
tiful have ever looked upon, but mark
ed with the inexpressip1e sorrow of
theartbroken woman / heard her say:
oh, my Father in heaven, have mercy
on the man In there who crushed the
hopes of my girlhood.'
Women kneeled in the streets befors
saloons then, but they got tired OF It.
the same as they have of Mrs. Carrie
i Nations antics in Kansas. My God!
What must be the iniquity in His sight
when He sees how il crushes the hopes
of a bride at the altari That Is wnat
the damnable, heliish traffic In rum does.
In the United States we have a million
of acknowledgements shaggy haired
men. Picked through and through with
rum; it is written all over their faces
Do you think there is any hell or
anguish deeper that penetrates the heart
of woman than to find herself wed to
such a man? Think of the feelings of a
mother when she sees her child, that boy
into whose face she used to look to see
the reflection of his fathers face, when
she sees her son reeling, staggering
and tottering under the influence of rum
II do not underestimate the anguish
brought to men who drink rum, but
know that women do not legalize it.
Women are not asked whether they want
lit or not Men make 1t, men legalize it,
and men drink 1T. Women suffer from
lit 1t seems to me that your indigna-
ton ought to tear the roof off this build
ling when you think of the sufferings
brought upon women by the liquor traf-
fic. She suffers innocently we see the
snake crawling toward the cradle, and
we have club In our hands to kill 1t.
but We don't use it. TIL wife sees 1t and
would cast 1t into hell If she could, but
she cannot; she is tied hand and foot.
1t is torture that ties them to these
Ichariets OF hell to permit them to be tor
tured even as Mazeppa was tortured.
She is more in danger than is the man.
The saloon Is against the interests of