The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-26
WOOLLEY'S LECTURE
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- laws to be wrong is permitted to s
on unchecked for only $3.50 a year. "
are willing to sell our souls for paltr
: $3.50 a year! a drop of prohibition i
an ocean of permission, And the mix
ture is stirred up little at every cleo
ton. just enough to befuddle the brai
of the average voter.
"There are those who seem to be con
scientious in spots, geographical Chris
j.. | tians. typographical saints. At hom
they dispense with wine for conscienc,
sake but at the convention of the part,
; they dispense with their conscience fo1
the sake of the liquor vote There i:
no local truth. no Honolulu truth, diff
ferent from the standard of other
, places. Truth is truth and that is al
there is about it,
Some people are afraid to stand ur
by themselves and testify for the right
They say What is the use of nv do
ing right all alone and making a holy
show of myself?' What would you
think of a witness in a case who, when
he was asked the first question said,
Excuse me, l want to run around the
corner and see what the other fellows
are going to testify. 1 do not know
whether either the Republican or the
Democratic party can ever be reform
ed so that they will stand for the right.
do not know whether the Prohibition
party with which I am connected will
ever win the victory. I doubt il very
much But 1 would rather belong to
a small clean party than a big unclean
one, better hundred clean defeats
than one dirty victory
Mr.. Woolley then went on to tell of
the effect of testimony, illustrating his
remarks with the case of the power of
the flag On the American cruiser sent
to Brazil to protect the Monroe Doc
trine when the newly formed republic
of Brazil was threatened by the Euro
pean powers. He then told of the police
man who stood at the corner of Broad
way and Fulton streets in New York
and started or stopped the great tide
of traffic there by a simple motion of
his hand. Continuing Mr.. Woolley said:
1t is not the strength of that police |
man, although undoubtedly he is an
athletic man; it is not his unusual ac- |
tivity, for L presume none of you ever |
saw such thing as uncommon ac- !!
tivity in policeman; it is not his weap- |
ons for he only carries a light club |
at his belt and even if he was armed
to the teeth with guns and knives and
had whole battery of artillery at his
back he could hardly check the vast
food of traffic. 1t is that by his uni
,orm by his white gloves, by the star
IN his breast, he gives testimony to |
he power of the millions of people who
constitute the great municipality whose
servant he is. So important is our tes-
imony for the right.
Perhaps a policeman may walk his |
1eat for ten days at a stretch and find
nothing to do but to chew tobacco and
exhibit his form and uniform but some
lay there will be a runaway and he |
must dash out and grasp the bride
10 matter what the consequences. Some l.
lay there will be 6, threatening mob |
whose course he must oppose. some day II
here will be fleeing burglar to be
shot and he must shoot without first
stopping to inquire as to whether he II
s member of the legislature or not
Then his true heroism will show in his
devotion to duty. We must not be
more remiss in our duty at the polls.
''The dress parade of the police on
decoration Day or LABOR lay or any
If the other great days is a fine sight
md is probably worth all in cost to
impress the vulgar, common mind, but
t is worthless unless it is backed up
~ the devotion to duty of each indi-
7idual member of the force. SO the
eleven o'clock dress parade on Sunday
morning is a fine sight. The men APP II
1ear with their Prince Albert coats and
he women with their Prince Albert
lats and the preacher congresses into
hirty or forty minutes of eloquence
he work of six days in his study. 1t
S one of the most splendid sights I
'eckon, to impress the vulgar, common
mind. Yet unless each Individual church
has the backbone to stand up
or righteousness in the state as well
is the church and turn the rascals
when there are rascals to be turned
Tut of public office, the Sunday morn
ng parade is an empty show" Mr..
Noolley closed with an eloquent plea
or interest in questions of civic right
,ousness on the part of Christian vot-
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