The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-17

people that get the blame also
Il suppose you have had a number
of brothers of the travelling persuasion,
like myself, address you on this SUBJ
ject, and each one of them no doubt
was able to settle the question of the i
blame entirely to his satisfaction. But
although every one else comes in for
a share it seems that it has not occur
red to anyone to blame the sure-footed,
exemplary Christian voter, and the
Christian voter, in his own satisfac-
ton with himself, seems never to haye /
thought of overhauling himself to find /
out his own personal share in the mat
ter.
If we had less of criticizing friends
and more of good straight-from-the- I
shoulder fighting against the common /
enemy, we would be nearer the goal. L |
have few opinions of my own but I |
have endeavored to keep clear of that |
vinegary disposition which is so apt to
possess those who have been twelve or
fourteen years at work pounding at
the monster of liquor traffic. and that |
too without perceptibly grazing sin |
gle scale of his alligator hide. l think |
I can present my own views without
thinking all those who differ with me
are rascals, / simply hold that
twill not be through the ministers nor
through the churches that prohibition
will be accomplished, but by the small
|fidelities-the undivided efforts of those
who go out into the highways and by
ways and work unfiinchingly for con-
science, and who stand by their con-
Ivictions in casting their votes, whether
o. not they regard the cause as hope
less"
Here Mr.. woolley depressed and kept
his audience amused for some time
with a humorous presentation of the
troubles of the minister and his wife,
and of what people expect of them. The
attitude of the Christian voter was ex-
pressed in the words of a church mem
her who, after helping to select and hire
Il new minister, dressed up and went TO
hear his first sermon on Sunday, re-
| turning home to settle comfortably in
an easy chair and say to himself, Nov
| let the Lord and the preacher go ahead
and save the world for the next twelve
months; I've done my part
| The Christian voter, continued the
| lecturer, goes to the election and con-
tinues to bow his knees and bend his
spine to gin-mill politics, and leaves
| the prohibition work to the preachers
and the women. Don't you think he
viii have some account to settle for
the countrys drunkenness?
Now let us get at the diagnosis
again No doubt if I would take a
vote of those present tonight as to
/ WHO is the real villain in the situation,
the result would point to the saloon
keeper. But I have grave doubts on
that subject. / have no attack to make
OH the saloon keeper. I am too good a
man and too polite a man to come into
a beautiful city and make an attack on
what is perhaps the leading industry
of the place. Gaughter.) I don't love
the saloon keeper but do say that if
one were to measure men by single ac-
tions the man who buys and sells and
drinks whisky. frankly admitting the
same and making no pretense at being
an example for the youth of the COM
In;unity to follow, is a nanlier man than
the man who is a Christian voter who
! disarrroves of the liquor traffic and
breaks out into goose piTapies with in
dignatien at hearing himself called a
friend of the saloon, and who yet, when
he soes to the polls, casts/a vote that
bellies his convictions and allows the sa-
loon to continue OF two such men 1
say the saloon keeper is the manlier.
l(Appisuse.)
4 say there is something wrong Win
Peoples conception of Christian citizen
ship when SO per cent of the Christian
voters vote for the liquor traffic; when
Isa3oon keepers boast that the largest
share of the profits of the liquor traf-
fic go to the Federal Government, so
that with Old Glory can be sent over
a million bottles of Milwaukee cfvfliza-
ton at shipload to aid the Filipinos,
and that with the consent of a Metho-
dist President of the United states.
(Arplause)
mo. my friends, 7 absolve the saloon
keeper from the blame. We are get
ting pretty close to the bones and the
marrow now. The saloon keeper is
not the villain You will blame the
political parties next, and I suppose it
makes you uncomfortable to think
about my attacking your political par
ties. I am not going to do that. If ]
could deal impersonauy with political
parties l should like to talk about them
but l can't and it would be awkward
Your political party is exactly as clean
as you are, politically speaking, and if
you are any cleaner than it is, why 1t
is the worse for having you in it, since
you give it an element of weakness be-
cause you haven't got the backbone to
stand up for your principles. If there
is anything wrong with your party. bear
it in mind that one of the things that
ails 1t is that you are in it. It can't
, clean UP altogether with you in it. You
had better get out of it and help it clean
, up. daughter and applause.)
GAS I said before. you can't shirk your
responsibility for being in party. You
i are there. You are not a toadstoo
I sprung up over night without any vo-
t lition of location, nor any water lily
| sprung in the mud with no choice OF
, anchorage.
, What ais the country is the lack OF
| courage and the right kind of Christian
citizenship; slovenly, slipshod, two-for-
accent Christian voters will never wfr
, the fight. Is that the kind of Chris
, tan you are? 1 don't mean the kind
you were last Sunday or the kind you
) are tonight or the kind you'll be al
prayer meeting tomorrow night. but the