The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-03

| ment, transportation and practical help
of many kinds. Everybody has been
so helpful that detailed acknowledge
ment is scarcely possible.
"There is nothing in the year s rec
ord to induce vanity, but / myself
have been so helped and interested that
| feel reasonably satisfied. But think
my further presence here is contra in
dictated. There is prejudice against
men that are new, and especially
against non-residents, interfering with
island problems, especially if it can
be charged that they are in any sense
professional reformers. At the same
time there are more extended lines of
influence on the mainland where could
be more usefully employed. / according
ly offer my resignation, to take effect
at the earliest convenience of the
league.
'EThere are plenty of things here
that need correcting, and plenty of
hard work to do. But there is no
shadow of reason for Encouragement
An exceptionally able and earnest min
istry conducts the church activities !;
the Woman 8 Christian Temperance I'm
ion keeps up its steady pressure through
the years; the Young Mems Christian
Association has taken on a new and
strenuous life; the Civic Federation is
increasingly vigilant and influential;
the Territorial government is clean,
careful and able; the press leans clearly
to the good side of things, and the very
tade winds are heavy with the sound
of mighty going in the tops of the
mulberry trees, on the mainland. The
saloon must go. 1t is going. ] hope
every one of you may live to say: 1t
is gone.
81 urge you to lose no time in get
ting to work at the practical details of
the present campaign. The liquor forces
are already organizing campaign of
education in the interest of popular
ignorance. 1t is movement that ought
not to be criticized, nor hindered. 1t
is well within their undoubted rights
as citizens. and really in our interest;
for the absurdity of educating the peo-
pie to drink alcoholic beverages ds
so manifest that a wayfaring man
though an awful fool, and drunk, can
see it as he staggers home from that
school,
''But it must be met with simple,
truthful, respectful teaching of science,
religion and the observation of COM
mon life. There can be no uncertainty
as to the outcome of that competition.
For as Mr. Lincoln once said and to
the end of his life maintained: 'The
real issue in this controversy, the one
pressing upon every mind that gives
the subject careful consideration, is
that legalizing the manufacture, sale
and use of Intoxicating liquors as
beverage is wrong-as all history and
every development of the traffic proves
it to be--a moral, social and political
wrong
"Toward the outlawry of this miser-
able business, alias vice, we work and
ought to work until we win, not by
shrewd politics, or any kind of benevo-
lent, paternalistic tyranny, but by the
free will of the majority expressed in
forms.
"This Territory is not yet ready for
the issue, put so broadly and far-reach-
ingly. The present purpose and bust
ness of the Anti-Saloon League is sim
plv to help the people to take back
into their own hands the power to say
they desire that the liquor
traffic be carried on in the precincts
where they have their homes. 1t is
that they may all vote
Yes to the saloon. Should they do
so, they will but exercise the right of
free men. and the league can not com
plain. In that case we simply 60 on,
kindly, faithfully, peristently, hopefully
with a firm grip on the old
scripture: 'The righteous shall hold on |
his way and the hands that are clean |
shall grow stronger and stronger. 4"