The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-10
Local Church Organ on Need OF
a Dry Territory for Sol
diers' Sake.

and he may be led into all manner OF
contradictions. This was Illustrated by
the crv of ssWolf! Wolff" very artful-
" sounded BY the liquor interests at the
onnortupe moment in the house. 1t is
NOT the first time the home rule DOGGY
has been successfully worked here. Men
heartily in favor of prohibition allowed
themselves to be swept off their feet
by this appeal to local pride. 1t IS clear
enough to anyone conyersant with our
legislative history that the senate may
be controlled by the liquor interests and
hence the will of the people that de-
mands the opportunity for the express
sion of local public opinion as to hcen-
sing saloons may be indefinitely defeat-
ed. This makes prohibition OF the tfaf-
fic bv congress wise because 1t voices /
the real sentiment of the Hawaiian peo-
ple who would vote out liquor If they
had a fair chance.
The Mainland Side.
Prohibition in Hawaii is also de-
manded for the good of the entire ma
ton We are told by the daily press
III
on it ten thousand soldiers. These, to-
eether with the marines and sailors, the
workmen and purveyors to all these
classes, will augment our population
| bv some twenty thousand. 1t is clear
to anyone who knows congress that the |
nation wants it's battles fought by sober |
| men, the kind of employee which its |
great corporations are seeking. A |
drunken army is disgrace. But if the |
| large force destined for Oahu be sta !
toned here and cordoned with saloons,
a considerable proportion will inev-
itably be tempted to drunkenness. Our
island American form of government
| has proved far less able to save the
/ Hawaiians from drink than that of the
| Kamehameha sovereigns IL certainly
cannot be trusted to safeguard the ma
ton s soldiers and sailors. IF anything
were needed further to demonstrate
this, it would be the protest Of the leg
/ islature against the proposed law now
before congress. Delegate Kalaniana-
ole has also come out against national
action for Hawaii, if he is correctly re
ported in recent interview. Some
months ago it was said around town
that he was in favor of congress acting
| to prohibit the sale and manufacture of
intoxicants here It needs a strong
man, however, to resist the pressure
which the liquor interests can bring to
bear upon a legislator. The protest of
our legislature and Delegate Kalaniana-
ole's attitude are hard nuts for our
Anti-Saloon League to crack But the
spirit of this organization knows no dis
couragement and the fight will be
l fought to the last ditch. May God give
4 the forces arrayed against King Alcohol
] the vietoryl
Enforcement the Aim.
In the same issue of the Friend in
which the above appears, is an edito-
rial signed ''T. r., as follows:
The Home Rule position on the most
recent temperance issue is most plaus-
ible. 1t is substantially this Prohi-
4 bition may or may not be good thing.
1t it is, let the Territory secure its
Il passage in its own legislature. We
are able to take care of our own af-
fairs. To ask federal intervention is
! to admit inability to handle this and
! other questions Such an argument
I as the foregoing has captured both
4 houses of Hawaii s legislature and ST.
fenced some effort in behalf of Sena-
tor Johnson 5 Bill 1862 in favor OF
] federal enactment of prohibition
! Whether the action of the legislature
has seriously affected the chances OF
y the bill S success is doubted by many
who argue as follows:
- If there is need of action on the
part of congress to protect the native
people and L. 5. garrisons from drink
deterioration, that need is the more
81 emphasized by what looks like legisla
tive protection of liquor interests il
the guise of local patriotism. \ pro
tie test OF the liquor people was to be ex
pected. That Mr.. Cohen, who candid
~ announces himself as the represen
. tatlve of the California Wine Assocla
- ton, should voice this protest in con
. current resolution was in line with tn
nature of things. That he should worl
on the patriotic susceptibilities of hi
colleagues was his good generalshlI
! That he played on the pique of tn
legislators who had not been consulted
while "Wooliey, a stranger, had orig
~ mated q bill and on his own respons
. bility was trying to force it over tn
heads of the people, this was NOR
luck than he deserved. The legislator
Its ought to have known better
or Probably the origin of that senat
- bill-entlreiy without the knowledge
anyone III the Islands-is now know
to most of the people here. Many
the legislators know now. if they d
not know then, that the passage
Senate Bill 1862 is hoped for. al
prayed for by goodly number of the
constituents. One member from X
uaI was SO sure Of it that he won
: not vote for the concurrent resolutio
II will not be forgotten of him.
anu But why federal prohibition? r
u answer is too easy. Assuming that N
cohen and friends were really ingenuo
. in that expressed friendliness to ter
torial prohibition, and assuming tn
either one of the political parties W
he willing TO give the people a chan
to vote on the question (bic hypot
new eses!l then what7 eve get statute
prohibition" Aye, we believe that
good majority would vote that way. r
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