The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-22
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And The Saloons

/ Woman's Christian Temperance
Union day before yesterday
That the liquor prohibited in very large portions of many Of
the most popuou and progressive in the Union
fact which while ITSELF the effect and interest
of news because not hitherto generally known here.
But perhaps the connection with this
bion sentiment is the fact that not momentary sentiment
IS not due to any sudden of feeling enthusiasm But
living, militant, sentiment. a principle
live political and sociological that over
the sale OF liquor it does that the issue of license pro
bon has been submitted the Of election but that
the townships which every
and in the of municipalities that may and very frequently
raised So large proportion of Ohio free
from saloons campaign enthusiasm people
voted the Saloons because every every
the people in serious against the saloons
What true of Ohio with local variations the whole
Mississippi Valley Scores of towns and villages Illinois
year for the past Twenty-Five and thirty have voted against legal
ng the saloons Not generation of but and in
three have annually bennia registered their conviction
that their community better OFT without saloons than with them
The sentiment against licensing saloons townships counties and
and growing sentiment
It is interesting observe very important change
this political of the liquor question Twenty years ago
the naagp Of onPetIon5Jy nJnrt nbIti E % o f
liquor throughout whole Little effort agitation
heard The effort for many has been directed
local prohibition To people each community
the duty responsibility saying liquor should
be sold their comuntywhethe should be offered for
their young men, to their negbo The result has been what might
have been expected The people have risen duty respon
sbty and the from which saloons excluded by the voice
and the people has constantly increased Township after
ship village after village county after county, city after city, through
out the whole United States markedly in the south and the mid
die than anywhere else but everywhere in appecbe growth
has voted abolish the licensed saloon continues keep
may regarding question: the
fact of the growth of the sentiment evidenced by the increasing
number municipal and governing bodies which refuse grant
licenses be ignored Nor this other fact that
the growth Of the has been effective
the the responsibility
brought home the neghbOrhood the village county
town. the has been framed that
by grandoquent refusal dictate such intimate and local
ter what another community shall do.
There this ought be, the element greatest
agernen the local w. c. T. u those think and
work with them Much has been said late of the effect of the
liquor increasing the number licensed liquor selling
the Territory of disseminating them thoroughly throughout
the Territory than they before and OF increasing the
drinking and drunkenness AS the great and spread OF
the Saloons there doubt AS the great drunk
drinking many
licensed places of sale have taken the place of unlicensed and the
police drunkenness either this other counties
they have been compiled and compared do bear the claim
However respect may
doubt that there enough both of drunkenness drink
ing
hopeful feature promise sobe
y that the question of the granting of licenses any locality is
degree within the control the of the locality
within the influence public opinion where the license
asked Better decided awakening
this responsibility Never there
the
under this law. 1t indication that in Hawaii
parts the United States the people community
with the saloon question if the responsibility is thrown them The
law doubt only mperecty the control of the
the people of community but the of the principle
acknowledged and all that will be needed
cpe proper amendment With the principle fully oper-
T. U. and all those who think and feel with them this great
ion