The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-05

use of liquor in any form; and yet un.
doubtedly there were many present in
that large audience who do take an oc.
casional drink In fact one speaker
Itried to Justify moderate drinking, but
This declaration raised such storm of
protest that no one ventured to pre-.
sent the compromise view again.
Beckley's speech.
Three Of the evening sessions were
set apart for prohibition rallies, On
Monday evening, Fred Beckley and
Rev f. b. Turner were the principal
speakers. Mr.. Beckley, who is chairman
of the league for the organization of
! prohibitions clubs among the Hawaii.
ans, set forth in an eloquent address
! the significance of the present move
ment, showing that it had it's origin in
, congress where, a bill was introduced
by Senator Johnson, who no doubt was
influenced to do it by the appeals which
came to him from the temperance peo
.. pie not only of Hawaii but of the en-
.. tire country.
He paid high tribute to Delegate
Kalanianacle for securing to the Ha-
waiian people chance to vote upon
! the question. He denied emphatically
the objection raised by the antiprohi
bitionists that Mr.. Woolley was the in
stigator of the present movement. And
in conclusion, he urged them all to
! go home and work with might and
main for the success of the vote on
) July 26.
eff we fail to handle this liquor
problem ourselves we are sure to have
government by commission he de-
clared. "We have the power to pre-
/ vent it by carrying this election and
, by enaeting a prohibitory law our
5 Selves
Reply to Opposition.
Rev. E. b. Turner had been asked
: to reply to some of the objections com.
monty raised against prohibition. He
confined himself to three points, show
ing conclusively;
That drinking beer, even moderately
has harmful effects physically, mental
ly and morally.
Men training for athletic teams are
not permitted to use liquor in any
form, because it effects their strength
and power of endurance. Life insur-
anee companies have statistics to
show that the death average among
drinkers is 1642 to every 81 900 and
only $50 among abstainers.
By a recent test with linotypers
(typesetters), men who were given only
two glasses of beer day lost Is per
cent on their speed
In the State penitentiary of New
York out of 1900 inmates, seventy fve
per cent are committed for crimes due
to drunkenness and intemperanee.
That the Bible does not sanction the
use of liquor.
Amy attempt to make any text do so
is to distort it from its original con
text, which is wholly unjustifiable if not
rank hypocrisy,
!, That the statement that the loss of
license revenue will increase taxation
is misleading and untrue.
"Carroll, our greatest statistician," 4"
} he said, "shows that for every 81 of
license revenue paid in it costs the
, government $23 in the maintenance of
! iails, penitentiaries and warehouses;, for
the men who are led into crime through
, intemperanee.
Senate Untrustworthy.
II came like bombshell in camp
Of war when on Tuesday forenoon,
after addresses by Rev. A. B. Dodge
and Rev w. X. Poai on "What We can
do TO promote the cause of Prohibi.
tion,' Makekau of Hamakua, former
member OF the territorial legislature,
made a real hot speech against prohbi.
, tion on the ground chiefly that even
/ If the present movement should sue,
eeed and the plobiseite carry, the next
legislature wouldn't pass a prohibition
3 law. lie named the senators one by
one and showed how either directly or
indirectly nearly every last one wac
! controlled by the liquor men. Tho
thing to do, be said, was 10 ges the
: right senators elected There were
some 30 nnkind enough 20 intimate that
7 he was doing some preeHmpaign olee,
tioneeflng for Aakekau,
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