The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-15
-FOUR GOVERNORS
WRITE TO HAWAII
North South and East Present
Facts Regarding Benefits
Of Prohibition.
BRINGS ABOUT PROSPERITY
Executive Heads of Maine, North
Dakota, Mississippi and North
Carolina Agree.
BRINGS ABOUT PROSPERITY
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Governor Bert NJ. Fernald, Of the
State of Maine, in a personal letter
received in Honolulu yesterday, vouches
for the great good that prohibition has
accomplished in his State.
Governor Kitchin. of the State Of
North Carolina, writes to contradict
the lies of the liquor dealers that pro-
hibition increases taxes, decreases bust
ness and leads to social hypocrisy,
letter from him coming in yesterday s
mail from the mainland.
Governor Noel, of the State of Mis-
sissippi, writing in regard to the plebi-
scite vote to be taken in Hawaii on
the twenty sixth, says: 81 think a
large part of the prosperity that is
being enjoyed in Mississippi and some
Of the other southern States is due
directly to the stamping out of the
legal sale of whisky" Everywhere in
his letter he says; 'God speed the day
when not only our country but the
civilized world will be freed from its
greatest curse. "
Governor John Burke, of the State of
North Dakota, tells Of improved con-
ditions in his State since it went
"dry."
The letters from these four govern
ors who are taking an interest in the
fight for prohibition in Hawaii deserve
the consideration of all thinking men
and should be read particularly by
those who have been misled into be-
lieving that prohibition don't pro-
hibit" and that prohibition hurts
business. The letters in part, are as
follows:
Maine.
"There are more than $4,000 school
children in the State of Maine. Not
one of this great army of healthy, hap
py, rugged boys and girls has ever seen
emblazOned over store front, sigI
advertising the sale of Intoxicating
liquors They have walked the hun
dreds of miles of business streets of oul
81 cities and 454 towns, on their way
to and from their schools, they have
seen the names Of their fathers shining
in letters of gold as sellers of all th'
r wholesome and necessary articles o.
/ trade as lawyers and doctors ant
@ printers, but never as poisoners Of tn
human system and wreekers of homes
n This is the legacy that has come t
q these $4,000 children from the 10000
;. school children of the generation tina
a preceded them. I hope these 212,00
:. children will pledge themselves to be
q queath to the 225,000 school children
= that without doubt will follow then
the same precious legacy.
"BERT NJ. FERNALD,
"Governor of the State of Maine"
North Carolina.
# GAS to non.enforcement; know o
e no case in which the law has not bee
l. enforced by the courts. Hundreds hav
l. been convicted. You understand, G
Ie course, that it is more difficult to eI
rs force the law in some communities tina
n in others, the difficulty being in secu
,e ing evidence, but l have every reaso
rs to believe that our officers generally al
faithfully trying to do their duty an
n. that in all cases where witnesses ca
% be secured, with the proper evidenc
N those who are violating our liquor Law
=, are prosecuted and convicted.
~ GAS to disrespect for the law: Thel
=, is opposition to it, but L think no di
. respect except by those who violate
~ If there is any other disrespect, it
|
n who wish to encourage efforts towar'
- its repeal.
IL "As to the liquor sold: There is fl
IS Is less liquor sold in this State now thi
u before prohibition. There is lie
or drunkenness and less crime, far les
er eliminating violations of this la
y Whether there is increased consumptiC
rs of injurious drugs, l have no inform
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n towns, there is not a word of truth
IT, this. On the contrary, our towns III
az Gastonia, Durham, High Point, Greer
boro, and Charlotte, which had loC
Is prohibition before the adoption Of o
ch State prohibition law, are among t
le. most prosperous, if not the most pr
in porous, towns in the State. AS to
creased taxes, it is probable that sol
lie few communities, owing to the failu
ID to receive high taxes from the sale
ps whisky, are compelled to collect me
cl, money from other sources. But the t
al. rate in the State at large has not
IN. creased.
'er Gas to decreased business: There
iss been no decrease in business of a
ss kind except the whisky business. q
hy towns and our State, including
eis country districts, are on the upwa
sv. grade, developing their resources,
70 creasing in wealth, building sch
'at houses and churches, and going fOrwi
,eT in every line, which would crafty
good citizen and patriot
mt I" AS to corruption of officials; kn
sw of no corruption whatever of ofici,
m. and believe there is no truth in Il
an. charge. If any it is not attribute
ms to prohibition.
"As to society hypocrisy: There
,u no more social hypocrisy than here
10 fore; no more in prohibition terrific
than in open saloon territory, and ]
as much in this State, in my opini
/. as there is generally in the States VIII
whisky is sold. Prohibition was ado
ed by the people of this State by