The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-02-04
FOR SOLDIERS
AND HAWANANS
WooIley Bases His Prohibition
Argument on Needs of
Two Classes.
HITS ALSO AT THE PLANTERS
Says Illicit Dealers Should Be
Hunted Out Like the
Plague Rats.

law lor tHiS Territory III VIII De be-
cause of the representations made be-
fore the senate committee by John. G.
Woolley regarding the necessity for
saving the Hawaiian people from ex-
tinction and degradation and the plea
made for the creation of conditions to
extend the apti-canteen movement be-
yond the limits of the army and navy
reservations.
Says Mr.. Woolley, in a speech at
Chicago, speech incorporated in the
printed report of the senate commit
tee hearing, issued by the government:
"The federal government has drum
med the drink out of the camps for the
health, safety; and efficiency of the
soldier. The rule is enforced and in
creasingly respected by the officers.
The territorial authorities cooperate as
to the camps outside the city and re-
] fuse to license man traps at the gates.
But distances are short. The marine
barracks is in the heart of the city,
and the city is cantonment of
saloons.
cit is not worse in this respect than
other license cities of its size. 1t is
rather better But the conditions that
obtain make the saloons of Homo
lulu more mischievous than those that
prey upon mainland cities of the same
class
"The Island of Oahu is to all in.
tents and purposes naval and mill
tary camp, from the water to the
clouds on the mountains. The rule
of congress should embrace it all. and
the illicit liquor seller should be hunt
ed out as diligently as plague rats,
for the health and honor of the soldier
and the country.
"The native Hawaiians, reduced
now, by the vices and diseases of
Christian nations, to some 10000 in
number are as fine a race, under the
circumstances as the world can show.
Measured by any standard they ex-
hibit some virtues that would adorn
the nations that are more advanced.
They are nominally Christians That
is, they are precisely like other Chris
tians. But they are still the veriest
barbarians when they take to drink.
"They have no love of money. to
make them stingy. They have no love
of power, to make them prudent.
They have no loud call to thrift and
industry. They are gentle, handsome,
hospitable, peaceful. But they are only
ninety years removed from naked an
imalism. The liquor traffic simply
l murders them.
"For the sake of humanity and
decency, the spirit of the international
agreement to keep alcoholic drinks
r from South Sea peoples and the policy
of our own government, which keeps
American Samoa safe from the saloon,
ought to include Hawaii.
8 "But the Territory is unequal to
s this plain duty, though well enough
T. disposed, until the sturdy, middle
class democracy arrives. 1t has not
arrived, and is not yet beginning to
arrive.
"Hawaii has a population of 170,-
900. Seventy thousand of these are
Japanese. presenting problem that is
: serious, if not dangerous. Their chill
g dren born in Hawaii are American citi-
zens. The time is not far away when
they win be an important factor in
It politics
J, ''Twenty thousand are Chinese
n Sixteen thousand are Portuguese
Seven thousand are hybrids, and ter
. thousand are Anglo-Saxon. A per
e .centage of the beneficiaries of Hawa
= iian plantations reside away from the
. islands. They receive their monthly
semiannual interest on sugar bonds
and contribute nothing to the actua
man to man problem of good govern
ment. \ few of the strong white mel
n take their political duty seriously. bu
d speaking broadly, the better white
trolled by natives. The constabular,
10 is native. The Territory is at TIN
y mercy of the liquor men, who ar,
n white, expert, INSCRIPTIONS and indie
fatigable.
ga majority of the natives are op
posed to the liquor trade. But the,
'e can not cope with the liquor powe
al either in cunning or stability Their
pc is abundant sentiment and courage
but both are undeveloped as to fightin
power and staying power.
even If the native officials wer
rs more nearly adequate to deal with tn
cleverest of all public enemies tn
representatives of the internal revenu
department of the federal government
IN while very efficient in that service
ur are-even by their very efficiency
ne practically abettors of the Illicit liquf
in sellers. The fault Is not in the of
eials but In the law, save in one pa
is tleulari they do not enforce the la
nd that requires the special liquor dea
!. efs TAX receipt 10 be posted up
conspicuous place. N
"The Illicit business in the ISLAM
Is not great. IN volume, but IL Is vel
serious. The government and the mi
We iiary and naval Officers protect q
=. camps on the inside, and the TerTitoI
= does iis best 90 cooperate, and 10 pr
ef' ieet the hshmaTket the great gatbe
Ia ing place OF the natives, Dni the lille
az liquor sailef-wiih his federal tas :
eeipi concealed largely nullihes che
gu ELL and In the operation furnishes D
tai brethren " the legitimate trade wi
ser the stock argument for their hpsins
hlo ekisienee~i thai prohibition does y
prob bit,
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