The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12
USES Ne v
NE TH0lS
Francis Muf ply Tells
of His Way.
LOVE PAVEs The ROAD
Custom Of Treating Common to
Americans the Cause of Much
Intemperance.


j speak at Central Union Church
Sunday night, employs methods peculiar
to himself in approaching and appealing
to the people most in need of his help.
In explanation he said:
1T is difficult to explain my methods,
follow out the dictaton of kindness and
love and mercy. When / go to city 4
usually give a lecture at a church, for
that is the only way open, and at that
lecture I trust to find some one, by happy
accident, who is in need of help do not
people, fer they do not need it, and it is
too bad but they are about the only ones
who usually come. 1 always give cor
dial invitation to sign the pledge, and if
some poor, unfortunate fellow comes up
and signs, l do not rush to him with re-
joicing, or patronize him in any way. |
Just shake hands with him and say | am
glad to see him. Then he will come
again. Drunkards are sensitive, and
they do not want to have the fault flung
at them even in forgiveness of il. 1t re-
quires a great deal of delcacy to help a
man WITHOUT W his lduit pul
that is the way to accomplish it. 1t
would not do to announce that I would
give a lecture to drunkards. Not a.
drunkard would come, any more than a
liar Tor an acknowledged one) would
come if / announced a lecture tc liars.
II am not at all in sympathy with ag-
gressive temperance reform. l have been
criticised a great deal by temperance peo-
pie because 1 am not against license and
IL no col mo holt
that if we would close our own saloons.
the saloon between the nose and the
chin. that the rest of the saloons would
close of their own accord. AS to the sa-
loon man, it is wrong to attack him. he
is in business, and often he is quite a
decent fellow. He has his business inter-
ests the same as any other man, and 1t
does not necessarily follow that he is
bad man because he sells liquor.
1.-THE greatest trouble in the way OF
temperance is I think, the custom Of
treating. 1t is so widespread that it is
everywhere, and it expresses all manner
of gentlemanly and courteous feelings, so
that it is very hard for the best of men
to avoid. There is hardly man in
town who will go down town and into
a saloon with the avowed purpose of get
ting drunk. He just drifts into it; prob
ably meets q friend and one or the other
says, Come on in and let's have a drink,
and then there is another, and another,
and pretty soon he is drunk It is not
the fascination of the drink that makes
men drunkards If man goes into a
saloon and finds a lot of the fellows, why
someone treats. and then, through cour-
tesy, and because he is good fellow,
every other man treats at intervals and
they get to drinking. Let a man go into
saloon and find no one there, and what
does he do? Why, he goes out; he don't
want to stay there. If it was the fasci-
nation of the drink that brought him he
would stay. 1t Is not.
And people are not bad fellows be-
cause they drink. It is usually the most
generous and kindhearted that are most
often drinking. They are very easily
appealed to, because they have such Il
good side to their nature. 1 have often
been invited into saloons to talk. and
have gone, not to rant, or shout oat
threats of damnation, or things of that
sort, but to quietly appeal to them with
out alluding to drink at all. I just speak
of better things. Perhaps / point out the
grandeur and the beauties of the world.
and allude to home ties, and pure, whole
some things. / was once Incorporate my
SELF and / know how to talk to the boys.
1 tell them my own feelings, and how
I was with myself at times,
how miserably lacking in self-respecr,
and how ready / had been many times
to quit, had someone helped me in the
right way. When I speak in this way
they understand, and they shake hands
with me. I do not press or urge them.
| just sow little mustard seed, and
leave it to grow in their hearts. I do
not go to saloons to talk temperance to
them, but they talk it to me, and it does
them good. All I do is to love them, and
b.. kind. That touches their hearts, and
INV hot ia
1cne they are, open to appeal, for their
better nature is brought out
There ought to be more love in the
world. Fathers must come down off
their stills and love their boys. Let them
90 down town with their boys and take
them by the arm and be good fellows
with them. Let them be guardians and
,hums, and tell them the wholesome
of things. The boy who is
.reated that way will love his father and
'espect him, and he is bound to him with
hoops of steel. He could not be torn
rom his influence. Love is the fathers
power over his child, not force and
abuse. Another thing too, I have
hought 1t would be a good plan to have
Ill the liquor that is sold examined by
he Government. Why, when man
he is poisoned. Time was when a man
Gould go out and drink %himself off his
egs at night and wake up in the morn
ng feeling fairly good, with at least a
lear head. But now it has become so
hat man is a physical wreck, with his
mental powers paralyzed and his body
acked.
1T is individual abstinence that needs
o be preached, and the way to do 1t is
With brotherly love, the milk of human
,indness, and bountiful mercy. With that
oyalty and fellowship which is shown in
he kindness of one drinking man to an
Their when the stronger takes the weak
T home and puts him to rest, the for
innate abstainer ought to reach out to
is unfortunate Incorporate brother and
raw him away into a purer, more whole
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