The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-17

I an tod en excellent authority that
NJ WoolIev SAYS that even Il the meas
uEe fails here, he : sure that with work
presumably by hiH15 prohibition VIII
De enacted for Hawaii by the next coz
-rps-. Such statements l consider q
menace % our liberties. Il means this:
IF the people here turn down the
measure IL July. we prohlbitiOnisrs viii
get 20 work 70 have your registered VIII
reversed by congress"
L i said that I an IN favor Of the
Gorhes burg system. I have not studied
r1a1 subject as I hope to do. but there
are prominent men in this Territory
who believe that q system Of this kind
would work here. Such plan could
be made TO abolish the saloon altogether
land responsible officers appointed By the
Governor gould make the law effective.
Conditions have certainly improved
il the past year and half all over the
Islands and the excellent law We have
can be made 70 remedy evils still exist
ing England Is constantly reducing is
drink bill. the decrease last year being
S25- 0oO. o00 THIS i brought. about by
regulation and education.
Mr.. Wo6llev stated in the East. and
be has stated here. that practically all
the churches in Hawaii are for prohibit
ton. = What are the facrso M. W0olley
evidently counts the churches under the
Hawaiian Board as all there are n the
Islands The number OF members ae-
corded % them in Thrum's Annual,
1910. Is 7.lS9. The same authority
gives the Roman Catholic churches IS
having $1,000 members. The Roman
Catholic Bishop has announced himself
as opposed 70 prohibition and we pre-
sumo that the priests working under
him agree With him
What we want n this contest IS not
sentiment but facts. not theory but his
tory. and 3 regard for human nature
as It exists. We can not ignore condi-
-lons existing in human nature. If We
DO we tail n the end. The fault OF
/ Puritan eg.>lation has always been
that il has not sufficiently considered
human nature Such experiments made
/ again and again have always failed.
/ Legislation should not be based On
visions but on conditions. I believe that
education. economic conditions human
! progress and public opinion will con
i t5nue 10 do what Il has done. make
/ drunkenness more and more q shame
and a disgrace. No one who know:
+ history but : aware Of the rremeGdou,
/ progress n this direction IN the past
hundred years.
We should IN all possible WAYS regu
! late The sale Of intoxicating drink. Ne
should make il difficult for the ire
/ .ponssbI men 20 get il. We should II
fuse q license 70 sell 10 an alien. 9TH:
ean Re done | am told by legal author
#i-r1 and TO men who are not Of goot
character We should punish by fer
F. + -8re of license those who sen TO III,
5runzard and punish the seller a
guilty Of a crime. We should abol:sl
/ the saloon ana enforce the law a X,
have i. and seek 70 improve It on Go
rhanburg lines. This course VIII he IA
better for the interests Of the people O.
these Islands than any attempt u over
-5de personal liberty and 20 enfarc,
laws which especially among i co>mopol
tan population are impracticahle an,
harmful. / am therefore by honest con
vlcrl0n for the law SIS I stands ana
vigorous enforcement Of is prov anS
believing that the cause Of temperance
liberty and justice viii be best serve
b. this course.
+ regret that I an compelled 10 tax
2 position which 5 contrary - tina
held bv some 4 my hest friends.
: needless 20 say that | shall be !,
favor Of the full enforcement Of an,
+ measure which becomes law.
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