The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-04
A BETTER ROAD
FOR PINEAPPLES

Two thousand tons Of pineapples will
be hauled over the road leading from
Pupukea pineapple tract to the Wal.
mea railroad station, and owing 10 the
rough state OF the road at present the
pines are injured in transit.
II. O.. Ginaca on behalf Of the Pupu
kea settlers has written from Mauna.
wal to Mayor Fern asking for imme.
date and necessary assistance in re
pairing the road. The pines will be
hauled over the road for the next FIVE
months Even with the use of spring
wagons and careful driving the fruit
will be injured. Then portions of the
road are exceedingly narrow and more
room is needed for turning out places.
This road is in the Koolauloa dis.
trict of which Manager Adams of Ka-
huku plantation is the road overseer If
the road is improved the expense will
be borne out of Koolauloa Is monthly
road appropriation from the county
funds A. A. Wilson, the contractor. is
now working on a territorial road in
the vicinity and there is n possibility
that the repairs could be done under
contract, as he has his entire road max.
ing plant on hand.
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zeal organization against the business,
whose origin, purpose and produce is
public as well as personal corruption.
The intermittent philanthropy of
good men and women could not com
pete with the steady pull of an organ.
lied and strenuous conspiracy Of PUN.
der
A few odd Christian workers, here
and there, doing odd jobs of human
salvage, could never hold their own
against trained and victorious insti-
| tuition that never rested.
Christian benevolence, acting on i'm
pulse, in work that seemed all but hope
less, at its own expense, was bound to
lose, in competition with consolidated
corporations, doing work that was al
most embarrassingly easy, and brought
a steady stream of riches to their hand.
The Church, that was closed six days
in the week, and nearly seven, had no
chance, in competition with the saloon
that never closed.
The people were beginning to see the
folly of legalizing the liquor business
and then preaching, working and pray
ing that it might get no business to do
They were beginning to see that the
effect of laying a special burden on
the liquor business was only to dis
tinguish it with special Importance and
lative ability. The highlicense treat
ment of the saloon practically amounted
to the administration of oxygen, at pub.
lie expense, to a rival athlete.
1t made no difference to the liquor
dealer how high his license was, for the
drinker paid 1.-THE drinker and his
family, and his neighbors.
The people began, everywhere, to say
the saloon must 60, and they began
to vote it out, by precincts, town, coun-
ties and states, with congress, not too
willingly, cooperating.
This new, sane, stimulating, success
full movement is at food tide, on the
mainland. In 1908, eleven thousand
saloons were closed by the votes of the
people. Eight states of the Union have
formed new sisterhood, to remove the
tag from the public virtue, and refuse
to sell it, or compromise it, at any
price. Nine other states are about to
join them. From Alaska to Florida,
and from Massachusetts to Hawaii, the
liquor problem has been taken up, as
politics, by the people. The politicians
seek to evade the issue, and crooked
officials seek to nullify it. But the
people are right, and the people rule.
The liquor traffic bowls and repents
and begs for n chance to reform. But
it will not get it. 1t is incapable of
it. The only cure for the saloon is
no saloon.
The reputable press is with the peo-
pie. The liquor business has victims
and servants and mercenaries, but it
has no friends.
Hawaii has felt the mighty move.
ment feebly and slowly but she has
caught it at last, and Hawaiian voters
are face to face with the best chance
they ever had, to show their quality.
They did show it, in the last session
of the House of Representatives and that
was only a beginning Hawaiian men
pie. The present licensing commission
will make substantial progress And
there is very good reason to believe
lndl lut utAI StSSlOu VI IOHREeoS VIII
put the islands under prohibition, for
the good of the army, the navy, the
territory and the world, if the Hawai-
ian people only say the word.
The Resolution.
And as a delegate TO this convention
now offer the following resolution,
for such action as you see fit to take:
Resolved, That the Hawaiian Evan.
gelical Association convened in its
eighty-seventh annual meeting, at the
city of Honolulu, this first day of June,
A. ID. 1909, representing one hundred
churches with membership of over
seven thousand and a budget of more
thaD $4,000 annually, in aid of
churches, schools and social settle.
ments, earnestly petitions Congress TO
prohibit the manufacture, importation,
transportation, sale, giving away or
furnishing of any Intoxicating liquors,
malt, fermented, vinous or spurious,
for beverage purposes, in the Territory
of Hawaii, as originally provided in
the Organic Act; Notwithstanding the
fact that the liquor traffic for such pur.
poses is, at present, permitted by the