The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-04
ANTI.sALooN.
We are glad to make room for this
interesting letter:

We are glad to make room for this
interesting letter:
Editor Advertiser:-Your issue of this
morning contained a couple of features
that were especially interesting to me,
the first page cartoon and your editorial
on 1.-THE Temperance Saloon" What mo-
tive prompted the cartoon but little
concerns me. / am interested in the
facts which 1t presents. While the self
interpreting character of cartoon is
supposed to make any explanation I'M
necessary,Syet hope it will not be amiss
to call attention to some facts portrayed
to my mind by the cartoon of this morn
ing. The size Of the barrel suggests the
immensely of the liquor problem and in
terests. The little band of men (some
women might have been inserted), try
ing to push the barrel to the pail sug-
gests that comparatively few are willing
to work at the hard and thankless job.
but that there are enough to make it
move. l also see a hint-the artist may
not have designed it-that the barrel may
start down hill and seriously endanger
If not destroy the lives of some of the
pushers. The poor saloon man under the
barrel has my sympathy, for / see time
when the very business in which he is
engaged will be the instrument of his de-
struction, just as many who had money
interests in slavery were crushed ulti-
mately by the slave business But it is
not the intention of those opposed to the
saloon to crush financially or any other
way the saloon man. as it was not the
purpose of the anti-slavery man to crush
the slave-owner. But when an evil is
eradicated the man who profited by it is
likely to get hurt. There is also a sug-
gestion that getting rid of the saloon
Is an uphill business and a long job. but
the pail viii be reached If the pushers
don't grow weary in weTl-doing
Now these are some of the suggestions
the cartoon makes to me. / NAV not
have gotten the ideas out of IL the artist
put IN. II not, that may be due to NV
own obtuseness. But it is possible some
might say that IT is due to the Iack Of
perspicuity in the artists design: for the
ABOVE suggestions are clearly seen by
some In the cartoon. 1 trust my inter
probation may not be far amiss. But be
mat as IL may, 1 beg little more space
TO say something about the editorial on
THE Temperance Saloon" The article
is worthy Of note by every one interested
in getting rid of the saloon The idea
of a counter attraction is a good one.
and has too long been overlooked by tenn
perance forces
Whether or not all the features sug-
gested in your article are necessary TO
completely furnish and equip "The Tenn
perance Saloon may be a question about
which candid minds might differ IT is
safe at least to say this much, that the
temperance saloon should have every
form of attraction that does not demon
alize- With you I would make it the
most cozy, cheerful, inviting place pos
sible. I would have all proper games
there, and would not be a crank in con-
tending for the exclusion of some games
i have put in the category of the ques-
tionable, IL majority wanted them, pro-
vided gambling was tabooed. 1 would
have the largest possible variety of tenn
perance drinks. Indeed, / would have
every proper thing that could possibly
enter into competition with the saloon.
Now IL we could find some wealthy
man so con.ecrated to the elevation Of
his fellows that his money is included
in the conservation, who would devote
q sufsieient amount of wealth to the es-