The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-20

Among the events of universal i'm
portance for which the year 1909 al
wayse must be remembered is the GEN
eral anti-saloon movement. Tremen-
dous forces representing widely sepa-
rated interests and springing up all
over the civilized world are arrayed to
fight for the Denefit of all mankind. At
this moment there may be lacking
that coordination necessary to reach
the highest degree of success, but it
can scarcely be doubted that the COM
mon aim is sure of speedy realiza-
tiou when the amazing work of the
last year is carefully analysed.
Physicians, legislative bodies, charity
organizations, anti-saloon leagues. anti
alcoholic congresses, and even bust
ness corporations have all had a hand
in the work. The net results of the
activities of the year point to a de-
crease in the sale and consumption of
alcoholic drinks and the rational
treatment of the victims of alcohol. It
is safe to assume that the day is in
that intoxicated men are dubbed by
policemen, dragged to police stations
to suffer agonies, arraigned in court
in state of mental and physical COL
lapse after a night of Indebtedness
and then either turned loose in the
street or sent to the workhouse.
Among the notable facts recorued
in recent weeks the most hopeful for
the inebriate is the prompt cure an
nounced by a prominent physician of
New York. DR.. Alexander Lambert.
He has found a combination of drugs
in ordinary use which seems\ likely
to revolutionize medical reatment in
the cases of the victims of morphine,
cocaine and alcohol.
Equally important is the general
trend toward the idea of the custodial
colony for advanced cases of inebriety
This was urged at length some ten
days ago by Mr. Bailey B. Burritt, AS
sistant Secretary of the States Char
ties Aid Association of New York at
the State Conference of Charities for
Massachusetts in Boston.
Within the week the news has come
from Pittsburg that the United States
Steel Corporation has decided to make
an effort to control the drinking of
$4,000 persons in Fayette County, Penn.
interested in the manufacture of coke,
and will invest $1O,OO0,OOO in the pro-
ippt Tn Obtain nOccaOcio,, OP tho nina
breweries of the county. This merger
is being conducted in the name of the
Pittsburg Brewing Company, but it is
understood that the Steel Corporation
is back of the enterprise and that the
idea is to say when and where the coPe
workers shall drink. The sale of bee
by the key or by the barrel to the
men is what the corporation objects
to, and this it will try to remedy.
For more than a year figures on
drinking have been gathered among
the coke workers, and it was found
that for seventy-two hours after each
pay day the coke ovens do not run
more than two-thirds capacity and
there is scarcely a pay day when hun
dreds of tons of coke are not ruined
by inability to get proper men to care
for 1t in the ovens. In this move the
corporation is backed by the saloon
keepers and business men of Fayette
County. 1t mas been shown that rs
per cent of the crimes in the county
are committed within forty-eight hours
after eacn pay day.
A novel move to enforce prohibition
has just been made at Fairchild, Free
stone County, IeXas, under the Fitz-
hugh-Robinson liquor law. One sa-
loon Is allowed to each 500 inhabitants.
The town had been dry" and recently
went wet" Applications for licenses
were made at once to the Controller,
who approved them. But no saloons
were opened.
1t was found that all the applicants
whose applications had been approved
were prohibition men.
rhe country was stirred a month ago
by the accounts of a temperance parade
of tremendous significance in Chicago.
There were $4,000 men, women and chill
dren in the line, and at the head of the
parade rode Gen. Frederick Dent Grant.
1t was a non-partisan affair, not under
the auspices of the Prohibition Party,
the Anti-Saloon League, or of any
of the recognized organizations which
fight the liquor question from the "dry"
side. One of the dominant features Of
this parade was the number of men in