The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-17
WOOLLEY
LAST NIGHT
Christian Voters
Are Roundly
Scored.
MUCH LAUGHTER.
AND APPLAUSE
Christian Voters Charged With
ak IF Moral Qackhopo Nv,
Christian Voters Charged With
Lack of Moral Backbone by
Prohibitionist Leader.

M. G. A. hall last night was well at
tended and enthusiastically applauded.
Mr.. Wooltey took up the subject of
Christian Citizenship where he left
off with it Sunday and proceeded to
forcefully and severely score the Chris
tians present for the condition of things
in Honolulu; the lecturer uncompromis-
ingly held to his opinion that the Chris
tan voter is the man to blame for the
saloon evil, in that he votes other than
the Prohibition ticket at elections
AS Mr.. woolley proceeded he paused
now and then after particularly point
ed paragraph to await the pleasure of
his audience, and the applause was
forthcoming, though it at first came
hesitatingly, as though the logic of the
lecturer were rather painfully accepted.
Christian citizenship" said Mr..
Woolley, as related to the liquor traf
fc is my subject and I am going to
take it up where I left off in my last
address. For the benefit of those who
did not hear me speak Sunday l will
say that the substance of my previous
lecture was that you can never save
the world by proxy and that there can
be no great progress made in reform
except by slow process.
'I am going to address myself solely
to Christians tonight. 1t is the Chris
tians to whom 1 look to prohibit the
traffic that disgraces our flag, de-
bauches our sons, despoils our homes
and desecrates our churches-the liquor
traffic that has thrived and continues
to thrive by express authority tonight.
IN the first place, laws don't just
happen. Laws are not mushrooms
that spring up in a night without any
cause Laws are theoretically and act
ually in this country made by the peo-
pie. Now it is estimated that three
ffths of the voting public are Chris
tians, and at the last election 80 per
Icent of these Christian voters voted in
| such a way as 10 give their consent that
the saloon should continue as legal and
as respectable politically as the church
What possible explanation is there for
that?
was it because tire Christian voters
didn't know any better2 They did
know better. They have heard the pull
| pit laundering for years and years, and
thanks to the w. c. T. U. and other
organizations, a splendid literature
against the saloon has been and is be-
ing scattered broadcast throughout the
Hand. There was no lack of knowledge
about that election.
| "Dfdn't they have their attention call
ed to it? Yes they did. They always
do. In New York I witnessed
an example. Thousands of children,
under the arrangement of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, We're
gathered together in such a place that
| the voters would have to pass by them
on their way to the polls and were COM
PEELED to see them; each one of those
Children that election day wore a badge
" hici read For Jesus sake vote for
us and against the saloon Yet the
fathers and brothers of those little ones
passed by them, saw them-perhaps
smiled to them-and went to the polls
and voted against the childhood of the
icity. Nfnety-nine per cent of the church
voters laid down in the dust of the high
way of Christian progress while the
bosses and saloon keepers walked over
their backs and took the Ieins in their
Esnds-and they hold them today. God
help us-with the consent of 80 per cent
of the Christian voters.
"Now, my friends, / am going to do
what your physician does when he is
called into your home-I am going to
make a diagnosis Of the case. First,
the doctor must find out what ails the
patient before he tries to cure him.
Surely there must be something wrong
with us. In land of Bibles where gin
mills beat the church, something must
b. wrong; in a Christian government
iwhsre women's voices cannot be heard
raised against their deadliest enemy
and there are not men of the stuff to
tackle the danger, there must indeed
be something wrong. If men have not
got the backbone to tackle the thing,
for Gods sake let them enfranchise the
women, and go home and go under the
bed and stay there (Applause.)
When the family doctor comes he
first feels your pulse and puts Their
mometer under your tongue; then he
observes your respiration, ETC., and
when he has collected he compares
them with those of the catalogued dis
ease he has in his mind; then by a
process of exclusion he determines what
is the matter. BY the process of exclu-
sion he finds out that it isn't one dis
ease, and it isn't another, or another,
and finally, after excluding all the dis
eases that it is not, he finds out what
1t is; it must be the one that is left.
1t has to be that.
Now by a process of exclusion let
US find out what ais this country OF
ours. l suppose you have heard that
scolding wives will have a tremendous
account to settle for drunkenness.
shouldn't wonder If they were found to
be largely responsible, but We'll have
to go deeper than that to find the bone
of this thing.Again you may have heard
that the pig-headed women sof the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
with their meddling in politics and pes
tering Of politicians, do a great harm
to temperance. Maybe they do. You
will hear lots about the third party
l. ~ i.A.- a.