Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-03
Mr.. W0OLLEY TALKS
ON OUR AFFAIRS
Temperance Worker Has Interesting
Comment on HaWaii's
.i. Ways.

A. l.. c. Atkinson has been named
superintendent of the Anti.Saloon
League to take the place of j. G..
WOolley. The resignation of the lat.
ter was formally rendered at the meet
Ing of the League last evening, and
the name of Atkinson was at once pro.
posed by j. p. Cooke. seconded by Ed
Towse and Theodore Richards. Akin.
son was not present.
Woolley, Scudder and Richards all
made speeches on the special fitness
| Of Atkinson for the work of the
| League, the former giving the details
of his conversion of Atkinson, and the
| latter giving It to be understood that
he was surprised at the presentation
Of the name of Atkinson.
The following officers were elected:
Rev. John w. Wadman, president;
W. ID. Westervelt, first vice president;
Mrs. J. NJ. whitney, second vice pres.
ident Lyle A. Dickey, secretary, and
c. II. Dickey, treasurer. As chairman
of the several committees, the follow
ing were elected Theodore Richards,
agitation committees; p. w. Rider, law
enforcement committee; Rev. o. II.
Gulick, legal protection; Rev. ID. Scud.
der, legislative, and +. c. Anterior
finance.
Following are the leading topics of
John G. Woolley's address:
THE islands are volcanic politically
as well as geologically, and growth by
eruption is battling method of devel.
opment. Christianity or civilization,
which Is the same thing, dropped sud.
denly upon these barbarous islands,
out OF the sky as II seemed to the ma.
lives, but, we know, out Of New Bed.
ford. with the doctrine of inherited
total deprayity taught by uncompro.
missing fishers of men, with an inflex-
ible theology administered from an Of
fee in Boston, seven months sail from
the scene of action, and on the other
hand, new possibilities, illustrated by
certain jovial and irresponsible fishers
of whales.
THE fishers Of whales we're not the
best Of men, but they were good mix.
ers. They married native wives and
founded, or, at least, disseminated
families. The fishers of men were
families, virtuous, detached, severe,
that loved the natives wisely but not
well enough even to let their children
play with them. While the Bible had
TO be translated in order for the mis-
sionaries to perform their high and
wholesome errand. the bottle was easy
| reading in the original, and immed.
lately brought into compact working
union, the weak and vicious elements
of the beach.
| "Then followed convulsion after
| convulsion, until Annexation at one
Of the darkest hours in our history In.
| stalled American commercialism, with.
out. the clear necessity OF social strug.
| gle, existing on the continent, and re.
| iuced all political problems to study
Of sugar and whisky, the natives hav.
ing the votes and the whites having
the money.
'In Hawaii caste exists. The whites
are dominant, but divided sharply by
| Superiolatry and Ishmaoltry. The ma.
tives, trained to be led by the chiefs
| and the missionaries. and then aban.
| doned by the American Board, are
| held to impossible standards by the
4 better class of the white people, as TO
clean, efficient, Independent citizen.
! ship and all but abandoned to the
training and exploitation of the ratti'
est lot of demagogues | have ever
seen succeed. The Orlentals drive out
and keep out the hard.headed. hard
handed American farmer and me
chanic, the good yeast of social fer
1 In, Tho oil ~
| opportunity of education, given t.
masters and mistresses, in the EN-
| ployment of laborers that demand and
| command decent respect and gentle
manners, In business Intercourse, Is
almost wholly missing.
II Immediately sought the acquaint
| ance of the commissioners and am
| glad to give my testimony to theiI
high average quality of men and as
officials.
| There are over fifty licensed liquor
shops in Oahu now. think there car
be no justification for even half that
number, nor any explanation of theil
existence, save a very hazy apprehen
sion by the commission as to what II
Is here for. The population Is below
hundred thousand eighty thousand
are women and children. Not over ter
thousand patronize the bars because
they feel the need to do 1t, or any
strong inclination to do 1t. Half the
patrons of the saloon go there because
they have been invited and treated
and then because they think they
ought, in turn, to invite and treat, OF
simply because the place is open ant
they have time on their hands,
y
1.-THE present law ought to b'
amended so as to prohibit wholesale
dealers from engaging In the retail
business and from soliciting trade IL
antisaloon territory. The will OF thu
people of Kauai has been largely de
ieated, by solicitors for wholesale
houses.
"The local option act that so nearl.