Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-10
WOULD WIPE OUT rum


to voice my thoughts through the let.
ter.to the.Editor column of the Bulle.
tin with regard to the liquor question. /
SO as to guard against anyone mis- ,
constituting my motives in dealing with ,
this momentous question, | wish to
say | speak from disinterested
standpoint, hoping to meet others
judgment and incite to aggressive ac'
ton so far as personal influence and
example is at least concerned.
| associate my ideas with one who
said that the cause Of intoxicating
drinks as a beverage Is the cause and
strength of large proportion OF the
wickedness, crime, vice and misery
around us. The baneful harvest of
crime and misery which their con.
sumption has entailed on us as a ma
ton, has opened the eyes OF almost
every thinking and patriotic mind to
the fact that the drink--not tho abuse
of IL, but the drink itself,-is an evil,
and as such to be rejected and es.
chewed by all who have any regard
for their own or their neighbors' well.
being. I agree that there are many
other causes that produce crime, mis-.
cry and wickedness, "but two wrongs
will not make one right"
If the thinking public would only
look at this momentous question
through unbiased eyes, then act out
their conviction with regard to the
liquor traffic, mutitudes of mothers
and the rising generation would Ger.
tainly call them blessed with at least
dealing courageously with this evil.
War. war, cruel war, How hOrrify-
ing to read of the slaughter of thou.
sands of men cut down In their prime,
both on the Russian and on the Japan.
ese side, yet the deaths caused by
cruel war. | think. do not reach the
large amount of the deaths directly
and indirectly caused by the intoXicat
ing drink. II Is estimated that some
thing like 500 deaths occur every TWEEN
tyfour hours directly or indirectly
through drink.
According to the report of the Chief
!, Justice of the Supreme Court of the
l Territory of Hawaii for the year end
] ing l90l.l9O2, we find In the Territor
/ ial summary on page lGi that $3.50 ar
rests were made for drunkenness. Oi
that number 3.7T5 were convicted. The
; 3,775 were divided as follows: 3 Chi
I nese, POI Portuguese, 1868 japanese
1,439 Hawaiians, and 1,7G3 other for
eigners. No doubt IL all were arrested
that were mastered by the drink
drink, the number would probabl!
reach treble 3,775. Surprising thes,
3,775 persons arrested and convicte,
for drunkenness should pass befor,
Il you In review, bloated. bloLd.spattere,
81 faces, old and young, probably a wifi
Il pleading for the drunken husband, or
Il gray.haired man being led by q child
H | ask you. how would the scene affec
Il you? Would you treat 1t as hug
Il joke? AS moderate drinker woul
3 you say, Served them right" As
& dispenser of liquor how would tn
q scene affect you? Would you offer tn
3 excuse, "If don't sell II some one els
4 will?" Then | turn to you in vain 10
4 your cooperation for the banisbmen
X of this blight. But to you who ar
Il interested in sobriety and who woul
4 look upon this scene Of 3.77G drunke
Il people with pitv and would ask tn
Y question, what can do to stem thi
u tide of iniquity?"-to you appeal 10
4 your cooperation in forming blockaC
4 ing fleet against the drink gaining 81
4 trance Or being manufactured on tn
\ Hawaiian Islands. II moderat
4 drinker, for the sake of your wcak1
Il brother become total abstaincr. II
y total abstainer. rise to aggressive a.
3 ton. Fathers, appeal to you for III
3 sake of your children, unite In the d
4 struction of this evil. Men of inf
4 ence, government officials, Sunda
y school teachers. ministers of the Go
~ pei, let us rise to aggressive warfai
p against this evil. Danish II. wheth,
sold at So a flask or cents barr,
L II II intoxicates, Danish II.
L Some one may. and will. say IN
harm in a social glass" Probab
not; but does II end there? A your
and rising lawyer with bright futul
before him, at his marriage the pa
ents, to show their approval, present,
the young couple with q beautii
home as a wedding present. The on
apparent fault the young man appea
ed to have was that he occasional
INDUCED In social glass. Some yea
after his marriage on returning hon
mastered by the intoxicating cup. {
finding his wife with the two childr,
trying TO keep themselves warm wi
what little fire they had. the husbai
declared he would see that they we
properly warmed. What won't
drunkard do In his beastly statee (
set the house on fire! The wife wi
the two precious children started f
the nearest neighbor some distan
away in raging blizzard. The ne
morning the husband In getting ov
his drunk inquired for his wife al
children, not finding them at any
the neiehbors; but when he did fl