The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-05
TO FIGHT
LIQUOR.
Org anization of
Anti-SaIOon
League.
OFFICERS ELECTED
TO CONDUCT 1T
DR.. Chapman Initiated the Move.
ment at the T.. N. c. A.
Last Night.

A T THE CONVENTION held in the
"A Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton building last night DR.. Chap
man spoke at some length, explaining
the inside workings of the anti-saloon
league, an auxiliary branch of which
was about to be organized. and appealing
t. those interested in the movement to
take up the work earnestly and with a
steady determination to make it pow
erful and permanent factor in the fight
against intemperance.
He said that there are enough of the
better class of people anywhere to hold
the balance of power if they only stood
together, and repeated his instructions as
to the methods to be pursued in working
against the evil of drink. The most i'm
portant thing to be obserN cd, he said,
was the principle of sing. -mlndedness CT
purpose; making appea.s Tor member
ship arc IN exerting illIGe-,Ge IN any
direction, the members u the leasu
should seek not to iIitruue DbUn the po-
iticaI or church vle~ 5 OF any one, but TO
draw the interest OF all by appealing to
the sentiment against the saloon, which
he believed was a universal one among
the better classes. He gave instances
of successful WORK in districts where ne
had labored, and attributed his success
entirely to his faithfulness in never los
ing sight of the first principle. To make
the movement success he believed IT
must be lifted out of politics and church
craftsmanship and put upon the higher
plane of an appeal to the love and pro-
lection the voter owes his children, his
home and his wife.
He spoke of Mrs. Nation and her
Ratchet welding. He said he did not pre-
tend to venture an opinion as to whether
her methods We're efficacious not, but
said that she was within the law, and
that in unfolding the law she evinced
courage and a noble fearleSsneSs which
put to shame the ''lily-livered, shrinking
towards who were afraid to enforce the
law"
When asked as TO his opinion upon the
dispensary bill, Dr. Chapman said he did
not care to express himself upon the
matter further than that it was a step
toward the ultimate extinction of the
saloon, and that as such it should be
taken with all expedition. And said
he ''if the dispensary bill which has been
presented to your Legislature, as / saw
il and understood it, can be passed,
believe you will have made magnificent
achievement" This statement was greet
ed with hearty applause.
In speaking of the urgency for tmme-
date action in furthering the cause of
temperance, DR.. Chapman said that now
was the propitious time to take deter
mined stand and for home-loving, law
abiding and decent citizens to assume
brave and defiant attitude towards the
force of San Francisco men who had
come here with the "hellish purpose of
forging the letters about the wrists of
the people of Honolulu! Continuing,
DIR. Chapman became very excited in his
denunciation of the saloon men, who ne
declared had come to Honolulu to fight
against the temperance movement and
concluded with the emphatic statement
that it was time for the people of Ho-
nolulu to wax red-hot in the defense IF
their homes. 1T is time said he. TO
gather your forces and organize into a
great power that you may huri back at
them the letters they would bind you
with; it is time, l say, for the people OF
Honolulu to say paul"
DR.. Chapman's new forcefui acQuiSi-
ton In the Hawaiian vocabulary was de-
livered with an emphatic stamp of the
foot, and he stated that he meant every
word that he said Applause was forth
coming.
After Dr. Chapman's address the con-
vention proceeded to organize, and Off
GERS were elected. Rev. Mr.. Kincaid was
asked to offer a prayer, and the conven-
ton became silent while the pastor Of
Central Union Church besought the Di-
vine blessing for the new temperance
league. Rev. Mr.. Pearson, chairman of
the Legislative committee offered the tick
ct of nominations which the committee
had prepared as per instructions from
the meeting last Friday evening and
with but a few changes the ticket was
adopted. The following is the list of
newly elected officers,
Theodore Richards, president; Rev. G
l.. Pearson, first vice president; Franklin
Austin second vice president; Mrs. DR..
Whitney, third vice president: j. M.
Moore, secretary; J. B. Anterior, treas
urer; w K. Azbill, chairman of ag;ta-
ton committee; Rev. Westervelt, chair
man of legislation committee; Major
Wood, chairman enforcement commit
tee; j. p. Erdman, chairman of finance
committee, and VIM. Templeton, chair
man of enrolment committee
The above officers now stand as the
newly organized anti-saloon league. the
enrolment of members to begin ir1me-
diately. Dr. Chapman will hold a fare
well service in Central Union Church
next Sunday evening, his sermon being
IN connection with and encouragement
of the league.