The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-03

The Rev. a. brahms, of Hllo, has
been writing to governors of prohibit
ton States for their views on the pro-
hibition laws, and the Tribune this
week contains the following letter from
Governor Stubs, of Kansas, part of it
being from n speech the Governor de-
livered in Chicago;
"There is nothing radical or unrea
sonable in helping a weak man to carry
his weeks wages nome to his wife on
Saturday night; there is nothing fanat-
ical In enabling her to send her chill
dren to school with good clothes, good
shoes and a good dinner in the little
basket.
Prohibition serves the child as well
as the man. 1t is for the wife as we'll
as the husband. 1t is for society as
well as for the individual. 1t is for
the government as well as for the gov
erned. In Kansas it pays the doctor
his bills, the lawyer his fees, the pastor
his salary. 1t helps the milkman, the
farmer, the baker, the butcher, the
grocer, the newsboy, the dentist, the
book store, the photographer, the tailor,
the dressmaker, the merchant and the
manufacturer. This is why the people
of our State are so thoroughly commit
ted to its support. Opposition to it has
practically ceased in every quarter.
Every political party in the State has
publicly declared for the strict enforce
ment of the law.
"But here in Chicago and through
out the United States the brewers, dis.
tillers and saloonkeepers, their attor-
neys and retainers are telling in pos
tiers, pamphlets and speeches that pro-
hibition increases crime in Kansas;
that it is making large crop of per-
iurers and hypocrites; that it has
ruined public credit; caused intoler-
able taxation; destroyed industries;
discouraged development; effeminated
the people and reduced them to pauper-
ISM upset social relations, and so on
throughout long list of statements
equally false and absurd.
"These charges are true or they are
not true. They are based on facts or
they are utterly without foundation
On my honor as a man, and upon my
word as the chief executive of nearly
two million sovereign people l say to
you they are UNANIMOUSLY conceived and
maliciously false. The saloon men are
in desperate straits and are simply try
ing to deceive people who a,e aroused
by their crimes that the system may be
kept up. The same devices were re
sorted to by the friends of slavery il
this country, but Illinois produced &
citizen who brought out the truth and
proved to the world that the country
could get along better without the ma
tional curse of servitude. / want tt
tell you the truth about prohibition il
| Kansas:
| "First.-I assert that drunkenness
in Kansas has been reduced to such ;
point that / have not seen a drunken
man in the city of Topeka, a place o.
$4,000 inhabitants, during the las
twelve months; that do not have any
recollection of having seen drunken
man in my home city of Lawrence, {
place of $4,000 people, for severa
years; that in making campaign
throughout the entire State and deliv
ering public addresses in 90 counties
do not recall seeing drunken maj
during the year. !"
Relative to the proper enforcement
of the prohibition law, after officiall.
consulting every county in the State
the Governor has the following to say
"This does not mean that we hav
no violations of the prohibitory law
for if there were no violations such
llaw would not be necessary. 1t doe
mean that the prohibitory law in Kan
sas is as well enforced as other Grim