Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-08

in the personnel of our OiliCc holders,
but this is the first movement which
has attempted reform and morality
by indirect robbery.
If the constitution Of the United
States explicitly states: "Nor shall
private property be taken for public
use without just compensation what
excuse have the opponents of sheriff.
made Morality" for not cmbodyinE In
their local option bills n provision 10
pay for the property which they seek
to destroy? II local option that may
put people out of business and render
their property useless Is not for the
public service, then II Is unworthy
the consideration of any public SER
want or voter exercising his duty IN
the public. II local option Is really
for the public service or use and
property is thereby destroyed, let th"
public pay for It and CXcmpliIy the
fair spirit that these temperance aGi'
tators profess. The plain truth is
that this Is reform run amuck and
Needless of any that may be injured
so long as the leaders, in their blind
zeal. may try an experiment In one
state that has proven futile in other
states. Our legislatures have been
all too willing to clog our statute
with n tangle of thCge experimental
laws. There are some who are not so
Jealous for the public good as they
are to perpetuate lucrative positions
as leaders of this movement, with
| nothing to lose but a good job on their
eide, while the business interests lose
millions on the other side.
There are others who court the
| CoOtlights and are chronic gallery
players that never knew what 1t was
10 thread the devious ways of com.
petition in commerce, but can talk
well and depend upon a popular OBJ
! ject of attack to pGrpetuate thei:
notorioty. There are some who are
| honest in their contentious, but are
| too selfish to consider consequence to
others and not sufficiently profound
to reach beyond hystcria and imprac-
! ticability. Behind these come the
many that follow and do not think.
| They have not thought. and II would
he difficult to get them to think, about
| the value OF the established rights of
! private property In this country, OK
Cept II should happen to be their
property. Not many of them own
breweries or saloon property, and the
full force of the consequence Of their
votes on this subject is not brought
homo to them. They rarely think Of
the far-reaching harm of "A dangerous
precedent and their education AS to
facts relies almost wholly upon the
assertions and arguments of pref
udiced pulpit that would do more
good in the field of moral persuasion
than in its support Of liberty Threatens
, ing laws which are plainly peryer
sion of Justice and can only anger
, the spirit of American freedom, which
denies the right, even of law, to thus
, curtail our privilege.
r This actuatcs every American, but
5 unfortunately. IL seems that 1t !:
aroused usually only after II Is too
l late for him to consider that Tho
: right of others and his own are unit
+ ed by indissouble ties, and that t.
5 protect his nCiGhhor is to protec
4 himself. This spirit can contemplate
I no honor In wrGcking a mammoth In
e dustry. in taking away the fruits o
$ toll and enterprise from any man, m
/ matter how much he may have bee
[ traduced and maligned by his en'
a mics whose calumnies have reache
/. no bounds in the hate and venor
5 poured upon the heads of the maker
d and sellers Of beer.
2, This American spirit, which love
s fair play should be insulted at tn
proposition TO ruin this enormou
l. commerce upon so flimsy pretcN
h that 1t is moral so to do, or that
e encourages morality among that yer
e small proportion Of our populatio
Is which lacks the will.power to refrai
'a from personal degradation. Not owe
1t one In one thousand of our popul
20 ton are drunkards, But We are a
p. asked for the sake of this one'tent
Of one per cent of our people to wrec
IL commerce, plunge millions OF me
to and money into competition wit
to other lines of trade and labor; mai
of idle over four million acres OF far
OF land titled by over one hundred tho
is sand farmers curtail the output
ry the mines and mine labor that su
of plies the machinery for about thrl
mt thousand large plants in this countr!
p curtail the products and labor Of gla'
y, factories, lumber mills, supply col
nd panies. coal mines, and thousar
of other lines of trade where men &c
he and capital has wrought to produc
n? to produce happiness and comfort f
e, millions of families who are all mo
co or less dependent upon the brewli
SO interests for their prosperity, NOR