The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-06-04
JOHN G.. WOOLLEY
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| Woolley and are enthusiastically
pleased at the success of their efforts
to induce him to locate here and take
charge of the temperance work in the
community.
Mr.. Woolley's fame as a temperance
| leader is not confined to the United
States, lectures having been delivered
| by him throughout the world. On this
lecturing tour he visited Honolulu in
1901, spending short time in the city,
but long enough to impress his strong
personality on all who met him or lis
tened to the sermons and lectures de-
| livered during his stay. He, himself,
also expressed the delight he felt in the
natural beauties of Honolulu, and 1t is
probable that the impressions made
upon him at that time have something
to do with his Willingness to return here
and make this his home.
In addition to his ability as a tenn
perance worker, Mr.. Woolley is a tai
ented lawyer, and arrangements have
been made whereby a considerable part
of the legal business of some of the
strongest commercial concerns of Ha-
wall will be placed in his hands.
In temperance work Mr.. Woolley is
known as a radical Of radicals, his ag
gressiveness having led the Prohibition
party of the United States to place
him in nomination for the Presidency
in opposition to William Mckinley in
1900 In the contest he received 2OS,555
votes after making a whirlwind cam
paign in the course of which he did
not hesitate to call President Mckinley
the murderer of the F'ilipinos'' and
the rum seller of the canteens."
HIS VIEWS ON HAWAIIAN TEN
PERANCE.
During his stay in Honolulu, Mr..
Woolley summed up his impressions of
the need of temperance work here in
an interview with the Advertiser. These
views, quoted below, will give a rather
definite idea of what may be expected
when the new leader of the Anti-Saloon
movement is located here and able to
give the greater part If his time to
putting into practise what he breaches.
In the interview, after deploring the
fact that he found that the political
ideals of this community could MT be
held up to match the scenery and ex-
planning that his view of the question
was that of fanatic rather than that of
a practical politician, he said:
Now, granted that the Hawaiian for
instance, will drink, and that If he
can't get his drink at a saloon that he
will make it himself or smuggle it,
nevertheless the government, which
has undertaken to provide for him the
best environment possible, ought not to
lend itself in any wise or for any con-
sideration to his hurt or injury. If he
will drink, let him drink and take his
chances, but the government that has
prohibited the open temptation to him
will be free from any responsibility for
his failure. But by the licensing of |
saloons the government, instead of |
holding before him high ideals and |
striving for his good, becomes a party |
to his destruction and takes money for |
1t. which is outrageous from whatever !
standpoint you look at 1t.
IF | were convinced that the out
lawry of the saloons would not prevent |
the man from drinking but that the |
use and abuse of intoxicants would go |
right on in spite of prohibitory legisla-
ton, should yet claim, with absolute
that prohibition ought to be |
the law, II not for the sake OF saving
the drinker, at least for the sake of
saving the moral character of the body
polite.
II have been observing your people
here with great deal OF care and It
seems To me that you have compare
lively little drunkenness, and | should
say very little drinking among the bet
ter class OF men, and I think that there
Is not 81 much 10 fear here from the
determined persistence OF the drinkers
NJ your population as you have from
the sloyenly Christianity ANA yielding
virtue OF the dominant whites,
II agree that you could not hope 20
enforce perfectly, nor very hopefully at
hrsi pFohibltory laws In Honolulu, But
! believe that educaiionally Il would
he very valuable "a the rising genera
ton, ana somewhat also 10 the adult
population, for the government 10 hold !,
ITSELF too good % be In partnership with
the salnpn and II enforcement We're pa
tisnl, honest ANA persistent that u
would iell far righteousness from tho
start ana IN lho long ran he AS eneelr
Ne as mo COMMUNICATION ~ other laws
~ lhn Same klndi larceny has not hren
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- nH finn % Frnfraiian nnd besides
ihr fiaiHie 4 Hn ffrrlasllns education
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