The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-18

20 btIttht iudt he II ABOUT TO StODC
You, you can shoot him, and the law
will not punish you. A man can for
felt his right to life. and if any man
can forfeit his right to liberty and his
right to life, he may, under some cir
cumstances, in great extremities, for
felt his right to drink all he wants to.
"a man forfeits his right to drink
when he abuses that right. | want the
cases made specific before | answer
whether | think that an infringement
proposed is iustifable one. but [ viii
give you some cases that | think are
justifable.
'If you show me a man who drinks
to excess, who spends money getting
drunk that belongs to his children and
his family, and who fills himself up
with liquor and goes hon. to make his
home a hell. I tell You that that man
has forfeited his right to drink and
society has alright to restrain him.
81 will give you another case. If
a man, under the pretense that he is
defending his right to drink, insists on
establishing a saloon and is running it
in such way that it is menace to
society, that it is corrupting place,
runs il in much a manner that it be-
fouls the neighborhood and ieopardizes
the community say that when the
man insists not merely on the right
to drink, but the right to drink in that
saloon and at all hours and under all
circumstances. he is asking for the en-,
forcement of his right in such a way
that he is infringing upon the rights of
others. and he has no right to ask it
and it ought not to be allowed
81 give YOU these two illustrations.
There are many more. I simply give
them to you that you may see that the
man who talks about personal liberty
has something more to do than to get
up and talk about it, He must be pre-
pared to come down and in black and
white outline what he regards as within
the limits of his personal liberty. and
then You have a right to decide wheth-
er he has gone too far and invades your
rights.
ENow. don t know who did that ap-
plauding. but I don t want YOU to labor
under a misunderstanding When I say
I am in favor of county option and
state option and national option. do
not understand me to say that 7 am
in favor of the exercising of that on
t4tH III an ItdI tjtHidf way III any par
ticularlv place. 7 am speaking now for
the right of people TO rule I believe
| that the larger unit always controls
the smaller one and that everywhere
| the smaller unit has a right to act, ex-
| cept as restrained by the larger unit
| There is no reason WHY YOU should not
t have township option as well as city
| option and county option all in the
! same State. There is no reason why
| You should not allow people everywhere
| and anywhere to act on this question.
Saloon Never Fair.
"Your fallacy is this, that you talk
! about fairness in regard to saloons,
whereas, if you viii read the lexicon
| Of the saloonkeeper. there are two
| words that do not appear, fairness
| and Justice. There IS no fairness
or Justice about the saloon, and Won
might as well understand that these
words can t be used of the liquor bust,
! ness.
"A saloon at the bet is nuisance
and never tolerated except As q neces-
sary nuisance. Nobody defends the
saloon. They apologize for it, hut
they never defend t. You cant find
a State in this Union or a part Of a
State where the people asking for a
saloon ever urge II as moral center
an educational institution or an econo
mic asset.
eft is understood that the saloon /.
not a blessing Go and examine the
homes Of your great liquor dealers. IN
rich oneS, ana see how near they are
to saloon. Go with q petition IN.