The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-16
ATKINSON AN
ADVOCATE

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expensive machinery IN the hands of a
man in the habit CT getting fuddleo
through drink. Likewise, the day OF
the drinking professional man has pass
ed. Nobody will consent to place his
interests as to subject them to an in
firm or unsteady judgment.
Gin the modern world, in truth, there
is no place for drinking man, and this
fact works amazingly for self control
| and for temperance.
| Drinking is no longer fashionable.
No gentlemen s club tolerates a
| drunkard
cit is on the other hand the fashion
to conserve and develop one s physical
powers and to hold them on the basis
of high efficiency Even to Sunday
baseball must be given credit that it
| has given to our young men new and
better standards of conduct in the mat
ter of drinking and other things vital
| in relation to physical health and vigor
Il believe that The great movement
| for the absolute control of the liquor
traffic is upon US, and I want to let
you know where I stand.
81 believe the present liquor bill is
| the best we ever had. / believe that
the liquor commissioners have done
their duty and that the old liquor ring
has lost it's power. I think our first
duty viii be to maintain the present
bill
81 believe a majority of the citizens
should have the right by casting their
ballot to decide whether saloons be al
lowed in the precinct in which they
live.
'sI therefore favor liberal Local
n To- 1a{ tall IT
say 1 believe a thing. mean to let
you know I believe in working for it
by all legal means.'
woOLLEY's PLAIN, TRUTHS.
Mr. woolley spoke at length, elo-
quently urging the hearers to take up
personally the fight against the liquor
traffic. He spoke, as he said, not to
the ones who needed the help them
selves, but to the ones who could ex-
tend the help to those who did need it.
Throughout, his address was practi-
cal and pointed. Without ranting,
scolding or exaggerating he placed be-
fore each one present the duty he owed
his fellows, urging the use of the bal
lot to correct the evils prevalent, urg-
ing the women to exert their influence
for good by prevailing upon their vot-
ing relatives and friends to cast a
temperance ballot. To this address
rapt attention was paid by all pres
ent, the eloquence of the speaker hold
ing the audience and the strong points
made evidently sinking deeply.
Some of the most telling sentences
of the temperance leader in his adj
dress We're:
81 believe that liquor drinking is. as
good as liquor selling; I believe that
liquor selling is as good as license
selling; I believe that license selling
is as good as passing license laws,
and believe that passing license laws
lis as good as voting for a man who
will do it. We are all mixed lip in
this matter and none can afford to
throw stones at the others
THE liquor evil is a million-footed
eentipede, with the virus of sorrow,
shame, greed, insanity and crime drip
ping from every foot
"A victory for temperance in these
islands would stir the heart of the
mainland. We can not bridge over or
dry up the two thousand miles of blue
Pacific, but we can close up the ranks
ment a truly national one
Il am minding my own business. I |
have business and a right to be pres
ent at any spot, on this planet where
men and women are reaching out for
the throat of the liquor traffic"
I'VE must confess with shame that
at this time, when the great white |
fleet, the most powerful fleet that ever
sailed in this ocean, or any ocean, |
sails into the harbor of Honolulu and |
the vessels drop their anchors and |
twenty thousand boys become the |
guests of the city, the greater part of |
the hospitality towards them will be
represented by half a hundred drink |
shops. I understand that the brewery
here is working overtime to manufac- |
ture beer that the supply in the sa-
looms for these boys will not give out
This ought not to be SO. It ought not |
to be permitted. That brewery should I
not be allowed to belch its black
breath out into these blue skies and be
such a Dissertation to this wonderfully
beautiful community"
I'VE are going to win this fight. I
am past middle age, but I expect to
live to get my foot on the neck of |
this traffic and to see the day when
no saloon will be allowed to insult |
women, starve children or debauch
men,
There is but one thing worse than
the liquor traffic today, and that is
scolding. Scolding wives send their
husbands back to the saloons; scolding
fathers drive their boys away from
home; scolding preachers, scolding
teachers and scolding agitators are un-
intelligent and unpatriotic. From
them, Good Lord, deliver US ALL"
There is not enough of brotherhood
IN Honolulu. There is not enough
brotherhood between the Caucasian
and the Oriental, between the we'll
to-do whites and the natives, between
those who live on the hill and those
VINO live on the beach,"
Men. help the man who would oe |
as good man as you are if he had |
the same chance you have Women, |
help the women, just as good as you
are, to have husbands just as good as |
yours are
Praying is not the way to fight the
saloon men,"