The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-04-28
WOOLLEY'S
LECTURE
Sharp Wit Heard at
the Y. N. G. A.
Hall.
(From Wednesdays Advertiser)

excuses for delay how much more
should you discredit a man who goes
10 the polls on election day owing an
obligation to his God and to his coun-
try and says. oh. God, oh country, II
you had a ghost of show to win Ia
be with you, but you are beat and I'm
going to vote with the other fellows!
That was the keynote of John q.
Woolley's address at the Y. NJ. c. A.
last night-that the real reason for
rottenness in government Is that the
Christian. or professed Christian voters
do not live up to their profession when
il comes to politics. Mr.. Woolley went
straight to the point, his address was
sparkling with wit and humor and even
those who do not believe In the plan
of prohibition that he advocates must
have felt the force of his logic. 1t Is
to the discredit of Honolulu that ne
was greeted by a mere handful of peo-
pie.
Mr.. woolley says that he has but one
subject for his speeches now and that
NAV be summed up as Good Citizen
ship" Last night he especially em-
phasized the necessity of testimony
for good citizenship on the part OF
those who wished for Righteousness In
civic affairs. He began by telling of
the cry of humanity for power and
how that power must come after that
the Holy Ghost has come upon you
Continuing Mr.. Woolley said in part:
II have little respect for those peo-
pie who discuss very flippantly the
doctrines of the Holy Spirit and wheth-
er il should be spoken of by the pro-
noun he or the pronoun it, but In
politics are seen in the company of the
dirtiest rascals that ever disgraced the
land. One Of the chief difficulties of
the Temperance reform is that so many
people are trying to train truth and
falsehood to pull together give you my
word that it is pretty poor team. 1
know Of no better example of this than
the license law. A license law is COM
posed of one drop of prohibition, for
they always begin, Thou shalt not sell
intoxicating liquors. in an ocean OF
permission, for they go on, unless you
pay $3.50 per year. Just think of It,
the liquor traffic which debauches our
homes and ruins our youth, acknowl-
edged by the first clause of the license
laws to be wrong, Is permitted to go
on unchecked for only $3.50 year. We
are willing to sell our souls for a paltry
$3.50 year! A drop OF prohibition In
an ocean of permission! And the mix
ture is stirred up a little at every cleo
tion, just enough to befuddle the brain
of the average voter.
"There are those who seem to be con-
-scientious in spots, geographical Chris
tians. Typographical saints. At home
they dispense with wine for conscience
sake but at the convention of the party
they dispense with their conscience for
the sake of the liquor vote. There Is
no local truth, no Honolulu truth, diff
ferent from the standard of other
places. Truth is truth and that is all
there is about 1t.
''Some people are afraid TO stand up
by themselves and testify for the right
They say What is the use of my do
ing right all alone and making a holy
show of myself?' What would you
think of witness in a case who, when
he was asked the first question said,
Excuse me, / want to run around the
corner and see what the other fellows
are going to testify / do not know
whether either the Republican or the
Democratic party can ever be REFORM
ed so that they will stand for the right.
i do not know whether the Prohibition
party with which l am connected will
ever win the victory. I doubt 1t very
much. But I would rather belong to
a small clean party than big unclean
one, better a 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 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; 1t is not his unusual ac-
tivity. for / presume none of you ever
saw such a thing as uncommon ac-
tivity in a policeman; 1t 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 a whole battery of artillery at his
back he could hardly check the vast
flood of traffic. 1t is that by his uni
form, by his white gloves, by the stal
on his breast, he gives testimony tC
the power of the millions of people wht
constitute the great municipality who's
servant he is. So important is our ties
timony for the right.
Perhaps a policeman may walk hi
beat for ten days at stretch and fin
nothing to do but to chew tobacco an
exhibit his form and uniform but som
day there will be runaway and h
must dash out and grasp the bridl
no matter what the consequences. Som
day there will be a threatening mo
whose course he must oppose. some da
there will be a fleeing burglar to b
shot and he must shoot without frs
stopping TO inquire as to whether h
Is a member OF the Legislature or no
Then his true heroism will show in h