The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-16
is THE SALOON DOOMED?

Is THE SALOON DOOM ED
Is the Saloon here to stay? or, are
we justified in expecting that some
day it will be gotten rid of?
A POPULAR VIEW.
II. A. Juen, in the Advertiser of July
18th, says: 1T is safe to say liquor
will be drunk as long as it is made. It's
absurd to think 1t can be done away
with entirely. Alcohol has been with
us since the time of the Romans and
Egyptians. The problem is, then, how
to control its use and sale so as to do
the least possible HARM" Looking in
the same direction, though not quite
so pronounced i'm the conviction, is the
language of Judge De Bolt in his
charge to the jury delivered early in
September. He says: I'm dealing
with the liquor question we should use
plain common sense and be governed
by facts conditions and experiences
rather than visionary and impractical
BILE theories. We should endeavor to
take a broad comprehensive view of
this matter. And, in this connection, it
would be well for us to realize, for we
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the manufacture and use of intoxicat-
ing liquor is almost as old as the HUI
man race; and that, without doubt, so
long as man possesses the knowledge
and ability to make and has the desire
for intoxicating liquor, the liquor ques-
ton will remain and continue in some
form to vex mankind"
Judge De Bolt is a friend of temper
ance. Mr.. Juen, though a saloon
keeper, says if he had his way he would
stamp liquor from the face of the
earth. Many friends of temperance
believe liquor is here to stay. For
that reason they look on the prohibit
ton propaganda as a wild dream, and
think the only wise and practical
course is to attempt to regulate the
drink traffic. The belief paralyses them
until they are unable to enter heartily
into any movement which looks toward
ultimate prohibition. They have grown
accustomed to the evil. They have
heard that it always has been They
are told that it always will be- Finally
they conclude that there is no getting
rid of it. Therefore, the only sensible
thing to do is to mitigate the evils as
much as possible by regulating the
traffic and thereby make the best of
: an inevitably bad condition.
A PROPHECY.
OF course when one attempts to
forecast the future he must recognize
how limited is his vision However,
! there is a certain warrant given him
by even a modicum of Christian faith
when he is dealing with a thing that
hasn't one redeeming feature to offer in
it's defense The drink traffic has its
parentage in greed and a depraved APP
petite. It's only tendency is towards
evil. If there is a God and man is in
his image this hell-born child of the
Devil cannot always triumph. AS one
after another of the worlds evils has
been shaken off so will this one come
to its end. Governor Folks dictum
that Because a thing never has been
done is no evidence that it never will
be DONE" applies just here
Not many decades ago this always
has-b been, always-will-be argument
was used in defense of slavery. Their
it was pointed out (even as now re
garding the liquor eviD that the insti'
} tuition of slavery was almost as old as
the human race, that it belonged to the
Romans and Egyptians as well as &c
, Imoderns. that such renowned philoso'
pliers as Plat and Aristotle had pro
nounced it necessary and even benefi'
ciaI. that the weak must always serve
the strong as long as human nature Il
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NOT IN HIS LINE.
! "Oh, no." said the man with the alb
sent hair as he sat down in the onl!
r vacant seat in the car beside woman
r with an infant in her arms, Il don
r mind babies at all"
Don't you, really?" asked the moth
err, with a sweet and expensive smile.
mot me-" replied the old duffer. :
always let the women mind them"