The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-28
Rev. w. D. Wester-
welt Chosen
to Lead.
DISCUSSING A
DISPENSARY
W. o. Smith and Mr.. Wcsterveit
Speak on Local Liquor
Question.

Rev. w. d. Westervelt is at the head
of the Anti-Saloon League for the
coming year, having been elected to
that office last evening. at the annual
meeting and convention OF the Anti
Saloon League which was held in the
Y. NJ. c. A. hall. Mr.. Westervelt was
the unanimous choice of the meeting,
and he pledged himself earnestly to the
work which the League had inaugurat-
ed, and to those who were In active
management of the fight upon the liq-
uor traffic in the Territory. The entire
list of officers and chairmen of COM
mittees elected at the meeting for the
ensuing year are as follows:
President, Rev. w. d. westervelt:
secretary, H. C. Brown; treasurer, j.
B. Atherton; first vice president. Rev.
G, L. Pearson; second vice president.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Whitney; third vice presi-
dent, M. K. Nakuina; committees: Agi-
tatien, Theo Richards; legislation, E.
S. Muckley; law enforcement. W. c.
Weldon; legal protection. Lorrin An-
drews; finance. Rev. ]. p. Erdman;
trustees, ]. b. Atherton. p. c. Jones.
J.. p. Cooke.
Owing to the illness of Theodore
Richards, the retiring president, and
also of the secretary, Rev. Geo. L.
Pearson presided during the frst part
of the meeting, with II. C. Brown as
temporary secretary. j. b. Atherton
presented the treasurer's report. show
ing that receipts from April. 1901, to
March 2s. 1902, were ss.12s.2o. and dis
bursements $2,947. Upon motion of J.
P. Erdman, a committee consisting of
o. H. Gulick, NJ. G. Johnson and w. c..
Weldon was appointed to bring in
nominations for officers, which was
done with the above result.
superintendent w H. Rice of the
League presented a lengthy report Of
the doings of the League. combining
both the reports of former Superintend
ent Hartley and his own views as to
the present state of the liquor traffic in
Hawaii. A portion of his report was
devoted to the system of issuing liquor
licenses as carried on by Treasurer
Wright, in which Mr.. Rice held the
Governor personally responsible for the
course in the matter of
liquor licenses taken by the treasurer.
This created much indignation among
members of the League, and Mr.. Rice
was warmly answered by Rev. w ID.
westervelt, w. A. Bowen and others.
Mr.. Rice regretted that he had not
a better report of the result of the
Leagues work to offer, but he said
Rome was not built in q day. and that
feat was only child's work compared
to the struggle against intemperance-
He recognized that only a beginning
had been made here.
w. O. Smith spoke of the dispensary
SYSTEM saying that it did not attempt
to prohibit. 1t did put the government
in the business of selling liquor, there
by taking it out of the hands of indi-
The liquor had TO be analysed
and properly stamped before ii was
sold, so that it would not reach the
consumer in an adulterated form. Per-
naps the chief interest was that no
drinking was allowed at the place Of
sale and thus possibly one of the worst
features of the traffic was done away
with The common saloon was
to a great many people
who might not otherwise drink Peo-
Die drank oftener in a saloon than IL a
system like the dl5penSdry tnelHOo "dS
The same facilities for
drinking would not be afforded. He
,uoted a remark of the late Chief JUS
ice Judd who questioned the wisdom
n Hawaii of selling liquor to the resi-
Tents. and particularly the natives, for
he purpose of drinking in the homes
.ather than in saloons. He thought 1t
vas less dangerous to them to drink
n a saloon than to take a quantity or
iduor home, drink TO excess ana get
ntn trouble with their families. In a
aloon the drinking would not be a