The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-04

| was passed IOrpiOOinS the Sdle ~
hard drinks in the saloons on sun
day. save on prescription 1t was
eloquent of the degradation brought b.
the Iawless liquor selling business. be
said. that men had been found so log
that, physicians as they were. they
stood In the saloons TO write prescrip-
tions for drinks as fast as they were
called for.
He had lived in town in prohibition
Maine. and despite the fact that the
press of New England poked fun at
Maine and the Maine law, charging
that it did not prohibit but encouraged
law breaking, he had at least seen,
while it was violated al times. particu-
larly in towns where the political par
ties were equally balanced, that it pro-
hfbited sufficiently so that there were
boys in Maine of fifteen who did not
know what saloons were 'I thank
Cod he said, for that much. / wish
that no boy in all this broad land knew
what these places were where bright
lights were shown and the doors are
all screened
Lastly, the speaker told of his own
home near Boston, where they had
local option. There were some towns
in Massachusetts, he said, where the
vote, taken every year, was against
license There We're some towns that
swung from side to side, for or against
license, with strange regularity. But
Boston always voted for license. Now
wards or districts. and let each district
vote for itself. Under the present sys-
tenn the city votes as a whole. and then
the authorities place the saloons at
their own will. The result was that
saloons were planted in the residence
districts, where the people did not want
them. but it did no good to protest, be-
cause there was the law that gave the
saloons the right to exist. If the people
could vote by districts, then they might
hope to keep the saloons at a distance
from their homes, at least. He closed
with a strong appeal to begin the
training of the young in the science
of right living for temperance.
After Mr.. Daniels concluded his re-
marks, Mr.. westervelt said that there
was law here for the teaching of the
lessons of temperance in the public
schools. Also he said that the local OPP
ton petition had been largely signed,
and he suggested that all present write
and circulate petitions today something
like this. leaving them at the offices
of the league:
I'VE, the Undersigned. respectfully
suggest that your honorable body take
up and pass Senate Bill No. TO-
OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE.
The nominating committee made the
following report on nominations for
officers for the ensuing year, and it
was adopted by acclamation: no
Trustees-P. c. Jones. ]. P. Cooke.
C. H. Anterior.
President-Rev W. d. Westervelt.
secretary-Rev. E. S. Muckley.
Treasurer-w. A Bowen.
First vice president-Rev C. L. Pear
son.
Second vice president-Mrs. j. NJ.
Advisory committee-w. A Bowen,
Rev. G. l. Pearson. Rev. E. S. Muckley.
Theodore Richards.
Chairman legal protection committee
Rev. w. H. Rice.
Chairman agitation committee-Theo-
lore Richards.
Chairman committee on enforcement
# laws-C. H. Dickey.
Chairman finance committee-w. A.
Iaddon.
The several committees are to be fill
d later by the officers of the league
nd by their respective chairmen.
Just before the close of the meeting
lady in the audience, Mrs. Lack,
rose and said that she had received
letter from her brother in Germany,
tho informed her that the cause of
zeal option had been earnestly taken
p in that country and was making
apid growth.
Then Rev. S. w. Kekuewa, chaplain
the House of Representa- tives, asked
benediction in Hawaiian, and the
ague adjourned.