The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-21
FATHER BOARMAN SCORES
THE TRAFFIC IN LIQUOR
Warns Hawaians That the Use of Intoxicants
Will Be the Lever With Which Yankees
Will Secure Their Property.

God made a success of life, and he that
failed of this service made failure of
his life. We have talked of sin and the
remedy, the holy sacrament of penance.
We are engaged in warfare; We must
take heaven by storm; We must fight for
heaven inch by inch. We must look to
the dangers which confront US. The first
danger viii be- that of growing cold in
our religion. Religion is the best thing
in the worid-there is nothing better. 1t
! Is the sum total of our relations and OBJ
1 legations to God. We will show this in
our neglect of our deyotions TO the
church and especially in the mass One
danger is that of falling into mortal sin.
| One danger, especially to men, is that
of drinking intoxicating liquors to ex-
| cess l will speak of this plainly-very
/ plainly 1t is q great curse. On this
| subject l am not a fanatic There are
some who advocate total abstinence for
all born in the world. They look upon
| the action of taking liquor as a great
curse against God, but this Is not the
truth There is nothing like telling the
truth. The truth is forceful enough, we
| never need to exaggerate. Take COM
pariSon.
Suppose a man comes to Hawaii with
packages of dynamite and powder; sup
need TO use these things, who was sue
cessful in their management and who
used them with all precaution; what
would you say of such a man? You
could not say that he was rash, that he
was insane. But suppose a man came
who had no need of dynamite who had
no skill In their use, who would use a.
hammer upon the packages or throw his
lighted cigar amongst them. You would
say of him that he was an insane man:
he would not only destroy himself but
the whole city, and you would be willing
to lock him up. Suppose here is some
Intoxicating liquor; here comes a man
who needs to use il; the doctors tell him
, so: he is a sick man; perhaps he is con-
sumptive or he has fever; or he is en-
gagged in some dangerous employment;
aind he uses the liquor with all due pre-
| caution, never going into any excess. He
is reasonable man. You may pity him,
but surely he is using good sense in US
ing liquor with precautions. Suppose an
other man comes. He has no need of
these things He is a healthy man and
not engaged in any dangerous employ
ment, and he uses liquor without any
reason, without any good purpose and
he gets into excuses, he drinks and bru-
talizes his mind and body. Suppose he
goes on in this manner and wrecks his
business, wrecks his family. What 20
you say to it? You must say he is a
foolish man. an idiot, he ought to be
locked up in the insane asylum until he
Is cured of his desire, otherwise kept
there until he dies. He will wreck him
self
In these Islands there is no doubt there
is great deal of danger. The climate
is very beautiful II is true, but it is a
innate that is so healthy that very sell
dom ,ub hos
need Of Intoxicating drink. But it is
warm, and people get thirsty. The dan
ger is then, that men may use liquor to
excess, and am told that in these ISL
ands and in this city is made the vilest
liquor in the world l am told that some
of the liquor is made from old potatoes
and rice and tobacco and any old thing
that is lying around ] believe they eau
it swipes; it is enough to swipe any man
off the face of the earth. 10 think that
any man could take and drink sucn vile
stuff; he had better drink ink. Such
things degrade both mind and body If
you tell me you really have need of some
drink | will tell you what to do. Send
to Kentucky, where they make some
thing that is good, and take It up to your
house, lock it up and give your wife the
key, and when you need it, ask your
wife for it, and am pretty sure she will
more
If you listen to my voice. never enter
into one of these saloons here. Ii | had
ii in my power 1 would wipe them from
the face of the Islands. Even to the
last one, every one. I would not have
Il saloon here a man thinks he needs
one drink; he goes into a saloon. finds
companion and has his drink, and in
stead of taking one drink he takes seven
al least, and he goes home more of a
brute than man. That is where men
wreck themselves. Many men stay in
those places for hours and hours. That
is where they get the vile stuff that
wrecks men. How can such man be a
Christian? These men degrade their
bodies. Oh. if there is any Catholic in
this town who is still determined to go
on and brutalize himself. l beg him. for
Gods sake not TO scandaIze his brother
Catholics. You will disgrace your breth-
rem The non-CatholicS will point their
fingers at you and say that such men
are Catholics. and they would not want
! TO embrace the faith. If you are deter
mined to brutalize yourself and live
life of a beast, go down town and buy
jug of swipes take it to your room,
| lock yourself in. drink il down. ara
then perhaps the physician will say you
died of water on the brain, and that VIII
be the end.
! have been told here OF many. many
sad things. / am an American of Amer
leans myself. l am told that for the
native people here there is the greatest
danger in the world What have the
American people done for the American
Indians? BY selling them bad VIII skey
they have killed them and cheated them
out of all their land. We did that We
Americans are doing nothing for 100o0,0p
of the Colored people of the South: they
are more savage today than they were
thirty-six years ago when they were set
free The Americans will come focking
into these Islands soon, and there Will
be little left TO the natives unless they
become temperate men. They are not
equal 10 cope with the shreWd Yankee
If they give way under intoxicating
liquors it will be but a short time be-
fore they are wrecked. The native is the
last man on Gods earth that should ever
take one drop of liquor The cnmate is
his own: he is healthy man.
Hold on like grim death TO every inch