The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-04
WOOL.LEY HITS
RUM DEMON
lFrom weaneranr Adrerll..r.l

Question last night By Hon. John q.
Noollcy At Central Union church. The
meeting was presided over by Rev. o.
n. Guliek, with Rev. Moses Nnkuina
a. interpreter. Mr.. woolley said;
Escaped conviois from one Of the
penal settlements in Australia brought
She liquor business into the Hawaiian
Islands about hundred years ago.
These men aud been found guilty Of
crime in England and sentenced to be
banished beyond the sea on the ground
that they were not fit to be at large
in the land Of their birth.
In pursuance of that sentence they
had been driven, like dangerous ami
mails, on board Of prisonships, carried
under guard to Australia, put to penal
servitude on n chain-gan during the
day and locked up in cells at night.
Unfortunately for the Hawaiian
people, they escaped and made their
way to these Islands, where, as befitted
their character and their history, they
proceeded to open up the meanest line
Of business that perverted ingenuity
has ever devised-that of bruising the
sweet fruit of the earth, setting it
aside to purify, and then distilling
alcoholic drink from the deathsweat
Of the good gifts of God.
The business so established straigh
way and steadfastly justified the moral
character of its authorship by produc-
ing other convicts, and more convicts
than all other agencies that have work
ed together or separately upon these
lovely shores.
There was Immediately n great in
crease of quarrels and fighting. Whole
villages were submerged in drunken
ness and vice; and everywhere that the
eonvict merchandise extended quick
degradation followed in its train.
The scourges of measles, smallpox,
cholera, were terrible in their day; but
they ran their course and ended in re-
sovery or death. But this convict dis.
order neither got well nor killed-it
only made men crazy, cruel, quarrel.
some, contemptible; and it went from
bad to worse.
Cholera tortured and killed only
those who had it; the convict sickness
tortured those who did not have it,
When man gets drunk, it is his wife
and his child that pay the bulk of the
penalty.
Thus the convicts laid the whole
community under tribute-the sick and
the well, the foul and the clean, the
cruel and the gentle. The drink had
probably made these fugitives from
justice what they were, and they pass
ed on the curse to the Hawaiians.
The great Kamehameha then was
King, and he was no soft-hearted mis-.
6ionary. Death did not make him
afraid. The sight of blood did not
make him sick. But the convict cpl
Semic made him anxious. The sight of
bis people, crazed and besotted by the
new disease, put him in fear.
When he realized what the matter
was, he placed the tabu on the con.
vict product. Then good health and
good order came again.
But not for long; he died soon after
ward, and his son called off the tabu.
The new reign began amid scenes of
drunken revelry and vice and crime,
,hat bafrled all description fit for de.
cent ears.
Since that time the seed sown by the
eonvicts has never ceased to grow and
ipen, to its dreadful harvest. And in
all that hundred years that business
has done not one good thing for any
man or any family.
vh;to ,non un;.h ~ pTeno VI ie"
,o;anahia ID IL s;, anu unson
,ollar of ahioct nnuertv ~ tb t"e I'D"
os r,at;,,os '''' po''i'9 on '"ou''HuS
II has c,othoa ,ho ;ros 90 ,;.,o.
dealers in sill and sno r,,si;n LUZ hHa
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~ hoe ho,soh mo ,;o., :.
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rna h n"s spAis s . no fanh or eonuitioh.
aao,Ia ~ ,at; 'Io iaaN common ION
Pop'' t " 1y iess tIusic, III 'he
st oi "a tne urInh, IMAM the record Oh
ava" ala. -, hnss,
~ eso'y titpe anu every nation the
-. VI neslisent KING OF tne king
teason ana tne penalty OF II is
esa!h, put the liquor franc IN ia
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