Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-26
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followers held Il publ meeting at
the Armory last evening. At first 1t
looked as II the affair was to be n
fiat failure. for at the hour at which
the meeting was advertised to start
there was just one man there. Aft.
err half an hour or so small
flock had gathered, however. and
as the evening progressed passers.by
dropped in ara added to II. There
were at most thirty men, dozen
women and few children present,
which is pretty poor showing for
Hilo.
Chairman Mahaiula announced
that he would call OH the presidents
OF the various prohibition clubs for
speeches. He first called Il. Kekoa,
but that gentleman excused himself
on account of hoarseness. J. p. Hale
was then called.
Hale opened by saying that he
did not want to attack the liquor
men who were carrying on bust
ness which had been legalized. III
we vote No we will show the Unit.
ed States that we are not fit to gov
ern ourselves" said Hale. repeating
the time worn falsehood. But II
we vote Yes we will show that we
have men here who are capable of
our own laws Some people
say that. in such ase only the rich
can get-liquor,-bu II there are no
saloons. the poor man can save his
money and send to the maitland for
-iis liquor
who viii then get the bene.
fit from that money--the United
states?'s asked a woman
Hale was apparently stumped, but
the chair came to his rescue, an
nouncing that owing to the limited
time no questions could be answered.
President Edmunds of the Kalaea
club made short speech, in which
he, among other things, said that
liquor was responsible in the main
for the overthrow of the monarchy.
President kama Of the Waiakea
club was called for, but he was not
present. Elder Smith of the Nor.
mon church took his place, speaking
in Hawaiian. He dwelt on the mis-
cry for which liquor was responsible
on the mainland, and maintained
that murh OF the re ,ent crime In Ho-
noluiu was dne TO booze.
-Nakookoo's first proposition was
that liquor was the main cause of
the overthrow. On the 26th the Ha.
waiiau people had to choose between
right and wrong. II they voted for
liquor they would show the people
Of the Unified States that they did
not know how TO use their franchise.
The bad results would be blamed not
TO the haoleS. the Portuguese. the
japanese or. the Chinese. but to the
Hawaiians. There were IN 1908, 1000
foreign and 5000 Hawaiian voters,
The latter were in the majority and
they would therefore be blamed.
After referring to his wet" and
dry" maps, Sakookoo said that It
had been said that II the Hawai-
ians voted Yes" they would lose
their vote, but there were many
States which had been dry for years,
and their inhabitants still had the
right to vote.
III we vote for liquor We win
show that we want that which Is
bad" he continued. THE trouble
with the Indians was that they want
ed liquor--we don't want to be like
Indians. We want to show that we
want what Is right, and these fell
lows (pointing to white man In
tho audience), II they zee us do that
which Is not right, will call us fool
tsh Hawaiiaps, II was the haoles
who went to the United States and
said that we We're not entitled to
vote, aid It was Wilcox who got ths
franchise for us. Shall we show
that we are not able to use It? 1t
may be taken away from US II we
vote No The Indians who wanted
liquor are being kept In reserva-
ttons and have not the right to vote.
II we carry prohibition we will show
that we are Il smart people and that
we know how to govern ourselves, "
NakoOkoo finally denied the report
that he was being paid for his work,
lie said that he was doing It abso-
.'utely for love, being paid only his
expenses.
A Hawaiian lady said she wanted
to say few words. but she was told
she could not ask questions. She
then wanted 20 know II liquor could
not be imported from the mainland
even If prohibition were successful
here.
Nakookoo answered that Gully Con
gress could stop that.
Then there will be DRINKS Just