The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-25
WOOLLEY APPEALS
To COMMON SENSE
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his Wav home the other evening when
| he was approached by a poorly dressed
barefootel Hawaiian and asked TO sign
a paper on which was written pledge
to vote against prohibition. The bust
ness man examined the paper and ask
ed: - What do You get out Of this''
The anti-prohibition patriot answered:
l''I get ten dollars if ! return this paper
, full Of names
The Liquor Dealers Association
! thinks the Hawaiian voters can be
| handled in blocks. like cattle, by dull
paupers like that VIII you justify their
| mean opinion, or rebuke it, next Tues
| day'
! The issue in this election is govern
ment by Liquor Dealers or government
by yourselves. Which will you vote
foro
The Peoples Prohibition League or
ganizpd with 1876 high-cIass men. lead
ing men of the Islands, representing all
races, cOlOrs. callings and religions. Did
YOU hear of any such committee on the
other side2 The Peoples Prohibition
| League offers You facts that give light
upon the question and arguments that
| contain instruction. II makes no ap
peal to prejudice or passion. 1t gives
| YOU the advice of good men that do not
speak from selfish motives.
| Every Congregational minister in the
| Islands. Hawaiian or white, advises you
| to vote for prohibition. Every Method
| st minister also: and every Christian
| disciple minister; and every Mormon
! minister. On the other side appear but
! three: Bishop Libert, Bishop Restarick
and Mr.. Felmy.
! Every superintendent of a social set
/ Element. such as Palama. or Kakaako,
advises you TO vote for prohibition.
! Every principal and teacher of the
schools for Hawaiian children, such as
| Kamehameha, Lahainaluna, Kawaiah ao
ard Maunaolu; Professor Scott of the
! Honolulu High School, Mr.. Wood of the
Normal School. Miss Pope of the Semi
nary, and every one Of the teachers in
! the Territory is required by law to
| teach that liquor is poison, worthless
! rs food, dangerous as a medicine, and
| absolutely unfit to drink.
The Governor stands for prohibition ;
the chief Justice, the attorney general,
/ the high sheriff, the treasurer, the audi
/ tor, the chairman Of the Board of
! Health. the chairman of the license
| LIdit q uVSt LUZ, y ut2t bt Do L, Juh-t
Perry, Judge Whitney,-l could keep on
naming them until you would grow
weary of listening.
" nat reasons does The Peoples Pro
hlbltlon League give you: 1t recalls 10
Your mind the words OF hamehameha |.
ana v ana '. 1t turns up the tiles OF
the newspapers and shows you the rec
ord Of murders, suicides, wife -beatings,
and the abuse OF little children.
III SHOWS YOU the words OF great
physicians, who say that Hquor is
contributing cause OF tuberculosis and
lePfosE. 1t SHOWS you the words OF
great statesmen; Inat Hqhor IS the
greatest cause oi erlhhe' PoNtrIY' lhS'h
l'N anu I'NS u Po"e ~ "oIN anu e'I H.
a.lo lIo cav Pr. SItt' u can
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LIVING nndar nrobihi+;on Il shows Won
+ba+ nirn oroa+ Sta+os born ,,asSed ,ro.
hibition and that several more are on
+ba noin+ of doino so and II shows Won
letters from the governors of all but
one of the ninp-and that one a notori
Gus enemy of the law and friend Of
criminals-that prohibition is good for
the people.
It shows YOU that every Evangelical
church in America has declared for pro-
hibition. It shows YOU that every
Young Men s Christian Association in
the world is fer prohibition 1t shows
You that there are as many blind
pigs in license territory as in prohibi
ton territory, It shows YOU that the
men who say prohibition IS failure