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


human nature, that the Bible is back
of slavery with It's sanction, that large
property interests were involved and
abolition of slavery would result i'm
grave injustice, etc, etc. Yet slavery
is gone, and never to return
Let me barely mention one more IL
lustration. a very few centuries ago .
the idea Of a government Of the peo-
pie, by the people, for the people, would I
have been laughed out of court in all I
respectable circles. Kings were such |
by divine right, always had been, al !
ways would be. Their subjects were |
weak ana too human to be entrusted !
with the affairs of government, always !
had been, always would be. Yet, the last |
divine autocrat is tottering on his
throne and all the world is moving to- !
ward the Democratic Republican idea. |
God is God. And as long as God is
God wrong is doomed, and the saloon
must go. If MT today, then tomor-
row. But Today if we have the grace
to say 1T shall be So"
Until public sentiment arrives at
this point l suppose the Joshuas and
Calebs will have to wander with the
unfaithful in the wilderness and watch
their brethren as they writhe under the
bite of the fiery serpent. But only the
willingness or indifference of public
sentiment makes it necessary. When
ever we are willing and determined to
change it, it can be done. The day is
coming too when it will be done. Then
our children will look back on us and
blush with shame for us that it wasn't
done sooner.
A CALL TO THE VOTER.
My good-natu easy-going temper
ance friend, don't imagine that what I
have forecasted is going to come about
of itself. 1t will be at the price of
mighty struggle. 1t may not be a war
such as has sometimes freed the slave
or given the ballot to the people. But,
it will be a conflict nevertheless. The
liquor traffic is organized from top to
bottom. 1t constitutes a great HER
archy and a powerful political machine.
Therefore a light skirmish is not going
to end the matter. In the language
of Cough TT is a hard fight. 1t may
be long fight. But victory will come.
Bye and bye the heroes who have la
bored shall come up over thousand
battle-fields waving with grain never
to be crushed into a destroying bever-
age. Bye and bye they shall come up
through vineyards whose purple glory
will never be pressed into that which
debases mankind. Bye and bye they
shall come to the last fire in the last
beverage flowing distillery and put it
out; to the last stream of death and
seal it up forever; to the drunkard's
wife and wipe her tears away; to the
last drunkard's child and lift him up
and to the last drunkard whose burn
ing letters when broken will help to
usher in the final triumph of the cross
of Christ" This is the goal and is as
sure as that right shall triumph over
wrong.
Do you want a part in the triumph q?
If you do, join us now in the battle
Vote only for men who will pledge
themselves to work toward that end
Do more than vote. Use your infiu-
ence to get others to vote that way
Buckle on the armor and fight. If you
, fall, then up again, battered. bruised
armor dealed, covered with scars. fight
again. You cannot hope to sit still and
win You must help in the bringing in
of the new future. Ones noblest duty
is to set himself to the task of making
a better tomorrow than he knows to-
day. In the effort to do it he must be
, willing to suffer whatever is necessary
y That may not be much. Again, it may
be a good deal But in every great
) conflict between good and evil where
2 right has triumphed there has alwav'
} been, and must be the spirit of the
p hero to whom comes
1.-THE voice without reply
F. TITS mans perdition to be safe
2 When for the truth he ought to die
$ G. D. EDWARDS.
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