The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-17

hkS thrown ID 3 h&r-tcaGs az The doors
OF the conservative JUDICIARY Commit
tee. This Is 70 Sesp an iurerSracs anti
juz el1 from b-eaSirg through 4 has
Also erected barriers before the Dis
t-icc q Columbia CommiStes- Prohiei-
ticu so- all the National Capital Is sup
posed 70 De stalking around in there.
An army c2rrssn threatened rew
weeks ago 20 poke its head inside The
hslL Ths thought oE IL made rns Solons
Shiye-.
AL OF which shows how times do
change Ten years ago the Cd Con
gresSior2l Temperance Society, OF h2I-
= dozen Senator's and members, held a
meeting IN some local church every
twelfth month was the target for
CUPS and ie<ts II clo1k-Coons and
corrfso-s. The Society is now Gstuncr.
bat is spirit is marching Or Dur
frS the SoctsCy'S better days, u tenn
pe-ancs bill got into Congress by hook
o. BY crook with 3 favorable report.
great delegations o< women used 20
swarm the galleries ar voting time
Mos often they saw re TEMPERANCE
bul kicked cur with scanr ceremony or
jusgisd 50 clsvsriy that one might NOT
know for weeks what had really hap
pensd 20 IL
Nov the white ribbon emblem brings
4 Corsrsssusr up standing The great
majority o. the House. II not o. the
senate. = made u q ruraIirsS- The
dry movement. backed by churches
and zIrs6 o-ga1izario1s, enforced by
moral and Industrial considerations.
having swept the rural sections and
aEeG legislatures. makes Co1gresSnsn
afraid = their political lives
OnczsI Washington as q whole Is not
50 ps--urbsd Al the other end OF
Pennsylvania Avenue in the ofice ot
The C0mutSsi1rer OF Internal Revenue
one hears a different story II has been
much asserted that the pruhib 5tton
movement II sCrtccsr regulations OF the
liquor tra6c an IN shutting saloons
aI-ozethe-, Is usracing government
revenues Statewide prohibition
would close internal revenue Offices
Ire latest available figures On the
wirhdrawaI q distilled spirits for con-
Sumption. over which the Treasury De-
us-rue-- exercises the strictest pos
sEbIs supervision tel a tale al their
cEu- As given there these figures are
Gallons Per
Popu-a-tou Withdrawn Capita
1906 S. .s41 80 -z3 735S22 I+5
1857 ----S5-532--sl 13+r4z.G7t Isl
These Do not necessarily mean that
an average o. over a gallon and a half
oE alcoholic SPIRITS vas drunk BY svsry
uzrs1u in the United States, not in
Guiding Alaska and Hawaii, during the
year There = 10 way Of telling how
much more than the beverage srur''
was really drank and what proportion
O. the seventy million gallons Of what
Is known As alcohol and neutral spirits
was used IN the arts and uanufactures-
But q TIE Increase Of I. r.4lsZ gallons
of wtrhdra wa-S. it i known that over
thrss million gallons were bourbon
whisky and close % two and Z half
million gallons were rye whisky
The o6claI figures likewise show
there vas Z material Increase IN the
consumption 0E malt liquors, under
which head are classed beer, ale and
porter Taxes were pGE last year On
ftry-zlght and 9 half million barrels,
which was an Increase Cf almost four
million barrels Of thrJy-twO gallons
each
T1z movement, which has ove-u1
several states and reduced the National
legislature = SubuisstJur ts said 20 De
more against the saloon as Al inSritu-
tlu than z1 effort u correct the per-
S1-zI habt.s q IutividuaIs. The friends
Ct prohibition, EEQSe agents and req
resszrzriv=s ars very active these days
~ TIE Capitol claim that the larger
drink hills, Indicated ~ the internal
RETFEue Commission. are piled Up N
<s5 EcrEIous cs1rsrs and that uzs5
larger quantities q alcohol are used
tlr Manufacturing purposes O6ciaIs
= The Commission are inclined %
61ub- TIE proposition Georgia, which
has Just gone dry. pad LzsC year I4zT
retail Ii1uor dealers taxes st S25 Z
p5ecz- where kansas, with about two
thirds the population Z state under
urotIdE-fo1. which has been resEepc
win Q1ickens5 prohibition sentiment
t1ok cut z.5s3 such licenses Every
drug store that seus aIcoh1I IN any
nus E1g Z =EEt---- --A-+-
corttnEIy the figures Do not uecss-
szriIy Indicate that number q bars
where Intoxicating liquors could De
u-rchzSs,i- On thE ether hand Maine
last yszr paft SIS special retail dealers
taxes and West Virginia z slightly
larger state, paid f.555-
Tie effort u keep liquor cut Of inter-
state ccuuerce, as regards the prOhIbt-
t5ou states * giving Congress the mast
cC1ceru- RspreSenrariys LIttIed=Id. o-
Maine, has been pounding away On
tEzt proposition far years. hut many
o-hzrs have hslpei- Senator's TLImzu,
oE south Carolina, and Clay, q Gsor-
ga have been recent but prominent
advocates al the 11rrh eut q the Capt.
toL Il tEs LirtIe6sLG bf-I- OF souzthing
Ike T. sh0u15 pass, the original pack
age trade would cease, provided the
us-t-uric1zIIty q rhs zE were Up
EsI5- II NJ LttIEfs-f can get his biI
our q COMMITTEES, Il VIII pass by Al
Cvsrw1s-Ui1g majority Il has recsur-
u encountered Z CsW obstacle Il CON-
u1l-rse. Win ths suEzzsti01 from Cali
f1-1izns that It would forthwith Trans
fzr Tia or1E1zI pzcEzze trade % Can
ada. France and ochsr foreign c1un-
tries Thirty Nzf1z men would buy
from NoutrsaI instead q Bost01-
Paris instead OF san Francisco, would