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


Bill 20, which was the local option bill.
taken from the table. and pessed. He
said that a petition would be prepared
at once and circulated through the
audience. and hoped that it would be
largely signed.
YOUNG MEMS WORK
Raymond Brown sang a solo. and
sang it most beautifully, and then
President westervelt introduced Attor-
ney-General Andrews, who delivered a
stirring address upon "our, Young
Men" I'VE must start from the foun-
dation,' the gentleman said, '.and build
for the future. We do not, when we
build house, build it for the profit of a
day. We do not, when we plant a
tree. plant it for the fruit that it viii
bear today. We build our house for
! the rents and profits of the future. We
plant a tree that we may gather its
fruits. that we may sit under its shade,
in the time to come. So we must plant
in the minds of the young those prin-
ciples of right living that are to make
for the good OF the future of the little
men If they are to grow into good and
upright citizens of this great and glo-
rious land Of which we are so proud to
form a part
1T is our duty to throw safeguards
around the young, that they may do
their duty as citizens. intelligently and
for the right in the years that are to
come. Life in these islands is not the
simple matter that it used to be. 1t
is becoming, day by day, more COM
pick, harder to live uprightly against
its temptations We must, in this COM
plexity. seek to guide the young in the
ways that are the ways of good citizen
ship. We want an electorate that can
not be debauched. We want voters
who will give to this Territory, which
we all love. a government of which
we can be proud. and which will be
for the good of US all.
Let me tell you. Mr.. President and
ladies and gentlemen, that instead of |
spending s25O.OO0 for some springs to |
furnish water we should spend few |
thousands to make Fairgrounds for our |
boys and girls to the end that they may |
have that exercise in the open air
which is the surest way to build up
perfect physical health, the greatest |
safeguard against the influences of evil. |
But it is idle to come here once year
and talk of these things. if we are to
go home from this meeting and go to
sieep-not to wake up until the meet
ing next year. Let us each one go
away from this meeting resolved to do
something, be it never so little. and do
it. This is a fight for those who are to
come after US. If the community is to
be debauched. they must live in it and
suffer for it. Let us all labor, each
with his might, to make this Territory
a better place for the living of the lives I
IF those who are to come"
The local option bill petition had been
prepared while Mr.. Andrews was talk l
ng. and il was now circulated and :
'ery numerously signed. In the mean
line. Rev. Mr.. Kirby, a visitor in the
.ity from Port Adelaide, Australia, was
and made a short address
lpon the progress of the temperance
work in New Zealand and the Austral-
an colonies. Mr.. Kirby signed the
hedge in London, fifty years ago, and
vas perhaps the oldest temperance man
resent. He spoke clearly and forcibly,
cling how the fight in the colonies
vas mainly in the interest of the chill
ren, and how New Zealand had re-
emily been all but carried for prohi-
ition.
WORK FOR TEMPERANCE.
The last speaker of the evening was
sev. c. A. Daniels. d. D.. of Boston.
isftor to the city and worker for
emperance of national fame. Mr..
Daniels began by dwelling upon the
Importance of beginning with the young
1 the teaching of temperance and the
Wis OF the liquor habit, showing how
owerful a factor for good was the
ystem OF illustrated lessons given in
,hool upon the physical effects of alco-
oil. upon the human system. He told, /
DO, Of the work for the temperance
iuse in three states, although his SUBJ
ct had been announced as Boston
nd Temperance" He went from the =
He had been a pastor
Ohio, he said. when his church in
lie city Of Cincinnati was so shut in