The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-22

It's hands the good or i'll, the veal o.
Woe of larger number OF human be
lngs, than are usually affected by Al
action OF tnat body. When we con.
slider the number of men who are now
IN the army, then call tc, mind the
| ones LETT behind whose Interests arr
closely allied with theirs, we car
realize that whatever influence tol
good or evil Is thrown around the en-
listed man has an influence as wirIe
as the nation-nay, as wide as the
world.
No matter in what manner you bring
pressure to bear upon him it extends
in ever widening circles, just as in
the walks of civil life Every act and
every influence has its bearing for the
future. The soldier is not always to
be a soldier. Then, why place before
him a temptation which everyone viii
admit is not for good?
In the splendid Battle of the Bottle
which is now being waged in some Of
our Southern States, splendid victories
have been won by the force of good
hard business sense against the insen-
safe greed for gold gathered at the
cost of men s souls. Meg who held
back long and fearfully are coming out
strong and true for the 'Fdry' city,
the dry" county and even fer the
dry" state. 1t has proven to be a good
business proposition, irrespective of it's
moral and spiritual side. The great
business corporations are frowning upon
the use of intoxicants. Anything that
dims the eye or befuddles the brain
units man for business, and prevents
him making good" when called upon
to exercise judgment and wisdom.
Do you hear of steel mill or
shoe factory opening bar to keep
its men off the streets? The one thing
that causes the greatest annoyance to
the steel corporation in building the
town OF Gary is that they were forced
tory which they could neither purchase
nor control, and on that strip is the
only saloon in Gary. Shall the people
of our large cities open great tracts
of land and make stipulations in the
deeds of transfer that no liquors should
ever be sold on that property, and
4I,r,, q<oaa a., ar,,,rr aox4aap ;,&4 - ,aoi
denoe of from 500 to 5000 soldiers, per-
haps against their willie A recent news
item states that $4,000 men in the en-
ploy of the c. & n. w Railway, sign
ed the temperance pledge at one time
and that the Northwestern is now
practically dry" road. Why don t
railroad companies put beer saloons
near the car shops and the round houses
of their roads? It's bad business
policy. That s sufficient for them. In
stead of that they prefer R. R. Y. NJ.
C. AS. A ban on intoxicants, and a
cold shoulder to the man with cigarette
stain on his fingers.
Shall the governments be less wise
than the business corporations of the
country? Shall Congress after once
giving the soldier an opportunity, at
least, to lead clean straight life, again
thrust in his very face the temptation,
the invitation to lower himself just as
far as he can2 As well take hand
full of muck from the gutter and dash
it on the pure white of the stars and
stripes. Shall the United States stand 4
inc. as it does, for Christian living and
Christian liberty be guilty of seeking
in anyway, to tempt men to become
slayes of a habit almost unbreakable |
when once fully formed? In all the
of the state and the nation,
shall we allow a backward step to be
taken in this, which so closely affects
The lives of so many2 shams to the
nan who parleys with the enemy.
The army canteen, as beer eanteen,
s gone. Let it stay. Let it not be
,aid that the people of this country
,llowed such thing-once abolished,
0 be returned and renew its work for
he Devil.
It is to be hoped that the day viii
DON arrive when the government of
his Union State will be able to stand
,efore the world with clean hands and
ay that it does not sanction nor en-
age in the liquor traffic.
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