The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-04-11
MINISTERS
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EvanselicaIs On the
Questions Of
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fINanRellCdl. ASsoCidtioll at 1NoWoi
Church, the following resolutions were
adopted:
LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE So
CIAL EVIL.
A memorial to the Senate of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii from the Evangelical
Association of Oahu in session April
9Th, 1905.
In view of the articles by DR.. Cooper
published in the Bulletin practically
proposing that protection of the Social
Evil be legalized by the present Legis-
lature by setting apart a place owned
perhaps by the Government in which
prostitution shall be permitted and in
view of the fact stated publicly by some
of the most eminent and best known
physicians of this city that such a sys-
tenn has been proven a failure over and
.over again in other places and there
fore cannot wisely be undertaken in
this Territory. and
In view of the fact that this plan
Is direct violation of the Seventh
Commandment which says Thou shalt
not commit adultery" and also
In view of the fact that such action
in the Legislature would bring disgrace
in the eyes of the people Of the United
States upon this Territory whose citi-
zens by a large majority are native Ha-
waiian and upon both Houses of the
Legislature the majority of whose men,
bers are Hawaiian and therefore would
greatly injure the good name of the
Hawaiian people as we'll as that of the
.other residents of these Islands.
Therefore be 1t resolved that we ex-
press the hope that the Legislature will
not permit any such proposition to re-
ceive even the least favorable consider
alton.
THE LOCAL OPTION BILL.
A memorial to the Senate of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii from the Evangelical
Association of Oahu in session April
.Sth, 1905.
Whereas a short and excellent Local
Option Bill is before the Senate of this
Territory and
Whereas this bill permits the citizens
of any precinct to decide whether they
are willing to allow the sale of intoxi
eating liquors within their district or
mot and
Whereas it takes the burden of de-
Gliding the difficult question of granting
licenses from the Officers of the Gov
eminent and places the responsibility
upon the people and
Whereas this bill is a new method
+, which may alleviate the evil effects of
the use of intoXicants
Therefore we earnestly ask both
Houses of the present Legislature to
pass this bill and give the people of
this Territory an opportunity to try
this new method.
THE SABBATH QUESTION.
We the members Of the Congregation
al association OF the Island of Oahu
composed of Hawaiian and white Amer
lean, Portuguese Chinese and Japanese
churches and ministers I'M regular meet
ing assembled In the city Of Honolulu,
T. H., this sixth day of Apf1l, 1905,
hereby unanimously declare that
Whereas eighty-five years ago this
month missionaries from America came
to these shores and gave to its people
the Gospel Of Jesus Christ and the priv
ileges of Christian civilization promi-
nent among which was the Christian
Sabbath, and
Whereas we the Hawaiian people
have rejoiced in the blessings and be-
lieve in the sanctity of the Day of Rest
;as ordained in the Fourth Command
ment, ratified by Jesus in His Words,
1.-The Sabbath was made for man" and
'endeared to us by our national motto
1.-THE life of the land Is perpetuated by
righteousness" and
Whereas we believe that the senti-
,ment of the vast majority of Hawaiian
people is against the so-called Quinn
Bill lately enacted into law, that in adj
'dition TO aliens only a small number of
white citizens principally residing in Ho-
nolulu desire this law, that the country
districts have had no chance to be
heard in the question and that the ma
jority of citizens outside of Honolulu
are decidedly opposed to the action of
their representatives In the Legislature
in helping to pass the bill over the Gov
ernor's veto without waiting to learn
the will of their constituents.
Therefore 1t be
Resolved first that we tender our
thanks and the gratitude OF the Ha-
waiian people to His Excellency our
honored Governor Carter for his veto
and for the noble stand taken by him
in the message accompanying 1t in de-
Tense of our rights
Resolved second that we protest
against the action of the Legislature
in passing the Quinn Bill over the
Governors veto.
Resolved third that we call upon the
Legislature TO repeal the new law
Resolved fourth that We appeal to the
Christian public conscience of Amer
lea In doing this We recognize that
we owe as a people all the blessings
we enjoy to that Conscience which sent
: to us the precious tidings of eternal
life in Jesus Christ. that throughout
the past eighty-five years that Con-
science EXPIRE sed in the lives of de-
voted white men has waged and helped
us to wage unceasing war against the
curses brought to our shores by other
whites, against vice whose diseases
t,oya u,all NIGH axtarminatpd our race