Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-16
RES7AR|Ck ON
EXISTING Law
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am not going to be foolish enough
10 try To minimize the evils brought
on by the misuse of Intoxicating
drinks, but what strikes me in the
paper and pamphlets circulated In ad
Vocacy Of prohibition Is the cxaggrr-
atcd and unfair statements made.
Sentenancos are printed with some
famous mans name at the end of IL
without any reference to where m.
quotation may be found
II Is asserted over and over again
that alcohol II always poison. VII
bur q Atwatcr. professor of chemis
try at Wesleyan University. IN an az.
ticle In the Century some years ago.
proving that In certain Quantities II
was u food said tina the text books
used In schools to advocate total alb
stinence contain statements which.
when young men go to college. they
find false, and realizing that they
have been taught mtruths. a bad ef.
feet ensues. Personally | am old fash.
Toned enough to believe that our.
Blessed Lord would not institute the
blessed sacrament, using as one of the
species IA poison. And agree with
Or. Lyman Abbott that anyone wOh
tries to make out that It was not wine
but grape Juice which he used Is ex.
cecdingly foolish ! say this in view
Of many attacks on the use of wine
In the holy communion and the at
80. NJ 1.na .I.t A.
its use. Again | do not forget the fac,
that nalmost every race some drink
which taken In excess win intoxicate
Is made and used. and what IL practi
cally universal can not be considered
as having no other properties than
poison.
There are enough arglime nts against
intemperance without statements
which do harlm. When young people
find they have been misled they are
apt 20 go to the other extreme.
In circular issued and sent broad
cast. comparisons are made between
conditions in license and prohibition
towns One comparison was Redlahds
and San Bernardino In southern Cali
gOrnia. What Is the truth? Red!ands
Is a remarkable community of well to
do people largely from the East. San
Dernardino is a railroad town in which
there are machine shops and 50 on.
II is ON the main line OF railroad and
Is the first town of Importance In Cali,
fornia which tramps reach. These
are only mentioned as samples OF IN
fair arguments.
Wears ago. as was travelling
through FHnsls, read In a paper
that Governor ST. John vehementiy
denied that prohibition was a failure
In Kansas. That same day, on the
station at Wichita, ! saw more beer
barrels and cases OF liquor from Kan.
sas City thar I have ever seen IN a
station before except once at Burton.
on.Trent.
Ny personal experience in many
places is that not only does prohibi. |
tion not prohibit but that it's effects
are In many ways bad on society.
II Is said that drink Is killing OF
the Hawailans. Acknowledging as | |
do the evil of dring among the lila |
waiians, ! believe that the race has |
been killed on In far greater degree |
by sexual excuses, irregularities and |
consequent diseases brought here by |
white men and spread by lascivious
practices, than by drink. In this
opinion I am borne out by the testi-
mony OF many of the sons Of mission
aries and by intelligent Hawaiians.
And yet one would scarcely advocate
MS a remedy for this lamentabe con.
ditions the prohibition Of all sexual
Relationship. II Is a fact that the
period of most rapid decrease OF the
Hawaiians was In the days when pro-
hibltion was In force.
Again as to exaggeratlon. | met a
man recently who said: do you
know that ninety per cent. of insanity
is due to drink and eighty.hve per
cent. of crime Is due to the same
cause?" said | did not know II and
did not believe II and asked for his
authority which he could not give.
! spoke Of righteousness being the
cause OF suffering, sorrow and disease,
He said. Drink causes lascivious.
ness" ! referred him to the Turks
and other orientals whose religion
prohibits drinking, yet they are known
as lasciyious. The fact Is II we could
abolish drink we should not abolish
lascivious proctices with the attend.
ant diseases, Jealousies and crime.
Professor Munsterberg, the great
psychologist. says that these would
increase II prohibition was enacted
and enforced. We should not, II we
had prohibition, abolish greed, GOV.
eteousness, theft. envy, hatred, ma.
lice and the long list of sins.
But says one, conditions would be
improved. To improve conditions at
tho price of liberty is never worth