The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-26
EDITOR
Prohibition--Preveniive for Suffering
JUNE 20
By Walter R. Brinckerhof, MD.


Although individual have unqueonel disagree with the
my the liquor
question fundamentally Bishop
ton and my spiritual hope,
my friend am sure that no one knows Bishop will
dores
the day when alcohol finds such limited and temperate
history
of the past.
my purpose this while joining
Bishop depIorng evil liquor, different
may, position logical
CARDS l prevention
II
interpret attempt
the whole spirit of the thing which rather self explanatory
in the hope that ean ng qner sfs e 9nss @ my eT will
appeal fundamentally logical and whom
deciding the Goth of July whether they
a those the of
suffering above all personal and material considerations
Ugly in
diseased have realize that there
world do obude themselves in all lives at all
consequently overlooked discussion problems
For example discussions efficacy pre-
venton smallpox always place of smallpox hospital
dputants
children the ward perfect health for weeks
unanny opinion prevail Similarly discussions
while drunken bawl stabbing
ARRAY progress
hall while girls being piled with liquor the reade
hospital
prison;
preventable, prevented
abuse of alcoholic beverages
dreetand the directc of much suffering
voluntary
alcoholic beverages is in the class of pevenabe suffering
Every
he voluntary which suffering therefore,
the individual from his responsibility do all that he
the alcoholic beverages which weknown of uf
Two Courses of Action.
Two of action clearly " everyone by which he can dis
both be pursued for failure to act one OF them makes the individual
through the growing total
beverage and by his example can influence those With whom he comes in con-
j ifadop
whole problem
OF he forces o be a
Secondly, community
POmue which will suffering by refusing the
the sale poisonous habtpoaucig which
the o much suffering.
absolutely prevent
suffering.
valid trying by
OF
forces one to be not % total but also an advocate Of bion
provided of that still admit the of individual responsibility
which this i
terms cry of
Visionary for the things
DIVISIONS AN discussion perform
the progress
made in either science social betemsnt.
wish add rather practical which vision
who believes total abstinence and prohibition logical grounds
advance pleas be considered and headed practical
Personal Liberty Versus Public Good.
often claimed that the use of alcoholic beverages be safely left
the will the individual, the OF bteak. This would
be true it We're not for the ugly fact that alcohol is poisonous habit
producing drug from the insoos effects Of which the individual should be
protected by tn" opy f MS own good and the safety OF ms family ~
It is claimed that prohibition even if a logically correct method of re
suffering beverages
doctrine liberty. To advance this objection would
practical purposes governing community, personal
liberty consists voluntary the community consider
it limit forbid community ezpedient
forbid the voluntary drinking alcoholic beverages the public good
don't about liberty personal
liberty This dose the liberty and emphasizes the
responsibility power prohibit
voluntary of drinking alcoholic beverages suffering decreased
Individuals
It likewise claimed that prohibition the alcoholic
beverages This true not argument against the obligation of the