The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26
W. o. Smith to
W. A. Kinney
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OF the meetings beer has been furnish
ed, both by certain OF the candidates
and by others who were not candidates
AS to the amount furnished / cannot
state. The justification for its use ir
the minds of those who furnished II
was, 1 suppose, that 1t would please
those who drank It; that 1t was ar
act of good fellowship and hospitality
As to the details of the circumstances
under which beer was furnished can
not state further.
You ask What Is your purpose In
stating that II beer had been furnish
ed, etc, 1t has not been during the
time when i was present, SO far as
was able to see."
| Answer. The purpose was to cor
rect the impression that was being
disseminated that the Republican meet
ings were drunken carousals.
| You ask, 1.-The Democrats want to
know what part free beer has in teach
| ing the disreputable or even vile or
large number Of children sound doc
trine?"
! I think no fair-minded and honest
' person needs misinterpret what I stat
| ed in the letter to the Advertiser from
which you quote. I made no such sug-
| gestion. The meeting at Iwilei. which
was held in the open air, was conduct
ed in an orderly and decent manner.
! came there from another meeting.
arriving little after s o'clock, and
! remained until half past nine, and dur
, ing that time there was nothing dis
| orderly or offensive excepting the con-
duct Of one man who had been drink
ing: another well-known native, who
is little more than half witted, who
was persistent in his attentions, but
who showed no signs of having been
drinking, and one native woman who
was voluble and demonstrative. If she
was a strumpet there was nothing in
her conversation or manner to indicate
it. With these exceptions, and posi-
bly, one or two others, the audience
was composed of well behaved and ap-
parently respectable Hawaiians, many
of them having their wives and chill
dren with them, and the meeting was
quiet and we'll conducted
Sound doctrine was taught earnestly
and sincerely, and / am sure the meet
lIS WIS lOI CdlCuidteu' " lIlt
hearers or the speakers.
And Is 1t not somewhat remarkable,
Mr.. Kinney, that even IL some draught
beer was given out at the close OF some
of the Republican meetings that such
volleys of denunciations and fierce in
vective should be hurled by you and
your candidates at the Republican par
ty when two of your most prominent
candidates are men who own, or are
interested in. liquor saloons which they
conduct themselves or through others?
Had ice cream and soda water been
offered for refreshments at the end of
our meetings there could have been no
possible objection, but 1t Is because
beer Gf taken in sufficient quantity
would intoxicate and for no other rea-
son that the walls of wrath are poured
out.
At the worst beer was given on a
few occasions as an act OF good fellow
ship and hospitality, while six days
and nights in the week, and every
week in the year. your leading candi-
dates referred to are selling not only
beer but gin. whisky, brandy and all
manner of violently intoxicating liz
uors, and so far as they can, they Of
fer attractions to tempt people to come
and drink. This is done for gain, to
get the money, which is needed at
home by the wives and children. These
are leaders, chosen by your party, and
endorsed by you, and you and your
party, forsooth, attempt to stand on a
high pedestal and rebuke, denounce
and condemn the Republican party!
Again you hold me up to contempt
and scorn and state that could with
lone determined effort shut out the
use of liquor In the campaign" Let
me ask why you did not shut out
liquor from that notable Democratic
meeting at Waianae last week Satur-
day, at which your leading candidates,
the candidate for Sheriff,
were present. and where drunkenness
and carousing were carried on through
the night? And how about the Demo
cratic meeting at the head of Liliha
street last Monday evening. at which
there was not only drunkenness, but
after the audience retired, a man was
found lying deserted on the ground,
stupidity drunk?
i do not hold you responsible for the
liquor which did the mischief on those
occasions.
1t is a matter for congratulation that
the agitation against the use OF beer
At campaign meetings Ia having salu-
tary effect, but how will II be II the
Democrats should prevail-will those
eading members discontinue their con-
slant dispensing OF liquor by day and
BY night?
Might it not be we'll, Brother Kinney.
ighteous indignation and consider your
'wn political household and what 1t
stands for?
WILLIAM O.. SMITH.
DEF DEAtEnV