The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-06
WOOLLEY OPENS
ANTISALO0N FIGHT
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terpGeter. Several vocal selections
were rendered by the boys glee club
of the Kamehameha Schools, the boys
having volunteered their services for
the occasion.
Az the close of his address Mr. Wool.
ley was forced to hold an informal re.
ception on the platform, many Of his
friends and admirers who had not seen
him since his return from Washington
taking advantage of the opportunity
to extend their Fluctuations.
Mn wOolley s speech follows in full;
wooIiLEy's ADDRESS.
AS to the merits of the case now sub.
mitted by congress to the voters of this
Territory, have in the present address
but little if any more to say than this:
that we who support the prohibition
side make no fight on any individual,
impugn no man 8 motives, deny no
man 8 right to hold and advocate his
own opinion, wish no man i'll, belittle
no man g possible loss; but with all the
strength we have and all the reserve
| power to be released in the white-hot
moments Of the contest, we wage relent-
less and interminable war against the
meanest thing that ever stole or hired
| the livery of legitimate business in
which to serve the devil of idleness,
poverty, cruelty, insanity, vice and
crime.
| / have often advised public audiences
in these Islands, that we who have
taken up the peaceful arms of demo-
cratic citizenship against the liquor
traffic have no warrant to abuse our
! fellow citizens who engage in it, or
patronize it; for both seller and customer
| alike are victims of an age-long blunder
| in public policy, that has recognized,
| patronized and legalized a trade that
was and is intrinsically, necessarily and
4 inc0rrigibly a crime against eiviliza.
tion. This statement Is peculiarly per-
/ tinent to the case of the liquor dealer.
The organization of society is always a
matter of leadership, and in the early
4 years of human progress, leadership was
based on force. The strong became the
rich; and money won the mastery Of
mankind. The new world left the law
i of force behind, but chung to money
as the handspring of its development.
1 The overwhelming wealth of virgin re.
sources and opportunities shaTpened the
accent over property; and American
history, with all the collateral glories of
&c, became the story of easy fortunes
for capacity and industry, without CAPT.
tai. The strong, the self-controlled, the
i thrifty, could withstand the lure and
the poison of alcohol, while the weak,
the sef.indulgent and the negligent
were submerged, but without any dimi-
mutton of their fecundity. Thus there
came to be an enormous clientele of
liquor buyers-victims and slaves of the
alcoholic environment, branded and
e-damned by the heredity of fail
ure; and over against these, small,
!; stout, shrewd, indomitable society of
|, liquor dealers, victims too, victims of
the head-turning, Merchandising, soul
whitening fever of easy money and easy
power in the negotiation of imprOvid-
ents, weakenings and corruptibles.
But new great light is rising on
the vision of the world Moneyism is
now going to the scrap-heap of past
age, from which millions of spiritual
l pilgrims are pushing off into the great
potent, fascinating deep of human
brotherhood. There is a new star in
the sky of American aspiration, and
it stands over the cradle of manhood
while the voices of the angels of the
twentieth century repeat the new but
ancient chorus: "Glory to God in the
highest, peace on earth and good will
toward meni'
Stamp Out Source.
The issue we are now to try is not
upon the punishment of anybody, nor
upon the reprobation of our own past
but simply this: Shall we change from
a bad policy to better one, fall in
with the spirit of the new time, and
stand straight and strong, for a better
chance for manhood, womanhood and
childhood. We attack the house fly by
prohibiting the dung hill. We eNtermi-
nate the mosquitoes by prohibiting the
marshes. We stamp out the buboniC
plague by prohibiting the rat harbors
We abolish typhoid by prohibiting foul
reservoirs We abolish tuberculosis by
prohibiting filthy streets and dark tene
ments, and upon precisely the same rea
soning and in precisely the same spirit
we shall prohibit the saloon-the dung
hill, the miasmatic bog the rat hole
the foul spring, the open cesspool of SO
ciety. Thanks to the congress and Pres
| luenI OF une united states, we now take
mp this problem in this Territory
, "With malice toward none, with char
. ity for all, with frmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let us
! strive on to finish the work we are in; ,
to bind up the deepest wound in the
bosom of Hawaii mel and give better
chance of health and happiness and
hope to all the people.
No Apology.
It is not my purpose in this address
to offer any apology for my own par
I in the events now coming to a head
Many a man might have managed the
, rather delicate matter better; but die
the best knew how, and apologize
to nobody. came to these Islands fol
love of them; have been absolutely
loyal to them; have played my hant
face up on the table, and il win wiz
because it is winner have said
and say now, that the common peopl,
! of Hawaii are no match for the liquo
politicians in game of strategy. /
. | ia a hanlWkalty fr-,ta e Il l.,