The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-30


! agitate millions. For if il is ever TO be
settled and settled right it must be set
tied by the people And agitation is the
only means of reaching them
/ THE NEED.
/ have just come from the bedside Of
dying boy. His bloodless face, his
great wistfuI brown eyes his emaciat-
/ ed legs and arms and his bIoated body
made q pitifuI picture. But a more pitt
/ full picture was the sight Of the weep
/ ing mother urging the maudlln. drunk
en- father. no had been on a drunken
] spree continuously for five weeks, not
4 to go to the saloon. This man was
T once an industrious husband and a kind
/ father. But drink has made him
/ selfish brute. Can you think Of any
/ thing that better represents consun-
mate selfishness than the liquor inter
] ests? Here IS man who stands on one
side of the bar and says: L want
| drink of whisky. am aware that it
viii destroy my body and damn my
soul; that II viii bring untold sorrow
! and misery upon my wife and children.
and that in a short time it win make
me burden to the State, but want
my drink" on the other side of the
bar stands a man. who says: II know
/ that what I am pouring into your body
will kill you. body and soul. and hurl
your whole family into abject misery.
| know that. But I want gold Give
me money and you may drink all you
want
Temperance agitators are called IA
natics Would to God that all the
fourteen million voters of the United
States were just such fanatics. Then
this hydra-headed monster could not
long lift its head and live under the
full protection Of the American Govern
ment
Any institution that sends annually
100, 600 bodies TO the grave. and on the
authority Of the Bible. the same num-
Der of souls to perdition; any fnstitu-
ton which costs the United States 81
800. oO0. 0o0 every year, and which pur-
chases neither food. raiment nor shell
ter. ought TO be and must be con
demned.
Gladstone declared that this traffic is
the cause Of more misery than war. pes
thence ana famine combined. It fills
our prisons. our aImshouses and our
insane hospitals. II makes necessary a
standing army of policemen, unnumber-
ed courts and penitentiaries And for
all this the people must pay. according
TO that renowned statistician, Carroll
D. Wright. twenty-one times more
than is produced by the revenue from
the liquor traffic.
The testimony Of the great and in
teIIigent men Of the world upon the
baneful Influences OF liquor would fill
many volumes. Let this suffice:
Major General George B. Mcclellan
said: Had ali tbs officers united in
setting the soldiers an example of total
abstinence from intoxicating liquors il
would have been equal to an addition
Of 90 900 men TO the armies Of the Unit
ed States
Major General Stonewau Jackson's
words were: L never use il. I an
more afraid Of il than OF Yankee bull
let's
In this day when there is being
sounded from the housetops the PERM
eious doctrine that there's new vigor
IN every CROP hear wha- renowned
German officials have to say Of beer:
General Won 1IoItke: Beer Is d far
more dangerous enemy 10 Germany
than q ] tae armies o. France
Count Bismarck: The preva1 ent use
of beer i dep,orab1e. Beer drinking
makes men stupi5. lazy and Tncapab, e
Baron L-eb5g the distinguished chem
ist. says: We can prove with mathe-
maticaI certainty that so much flour as
can lie on the point Of . table knife Is
more nutritious than eight quar- : Of the
best Eavarian beer. Beer. wine, spir-
its. etc. furnish no element capable Of
entering into the composition Of the
blood. secular fiber or any part which
5 the seat Of the vital principle
7 confess that so much has been said
upon The drink evil that every word
spoken il condemnation sounds like q
pIats1u1e. StiII. drinking continues IN
abataz ana laws are made protecting
the fniquilous business If pladtu5es
can make our. people realize the awful
ness of the chasm into which they are
hurting our husbands brothers. aye
sons. 1t them continue
The Anti-SaIoon League Of Honolulu
has Issued its platform. The first and
foremost plank in that platform is .
Senator Dickey's local option bill. Ev- /
cry other plank IS Of minor importance /
The American people have long had the !
fnazien1ble right Of expressing them
selves through the ballot. Why should I
they not have that same right when the I,
1iuuor question IS up for consideration ,
Is not the liquor question Of as much !!
import nee TO the American people as !
i the -ariff? We believe that high Ii |
,o-se i her-ar than low license. but |