Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-04-30

incapable OF sell government. Inc
is as follows:
With this brief statement | will
ask the chairman and the members
of the committee TO listen to Doctor
Woolley or Mr.. Dlnwidde.
Mr.. Woolley. Mr.. Chairman. I
really have no choice about the way
the hearing shall proceed. have
been heard before this committee.
and II the prince has any choice
about II We would be glad To near
from him first, and then try To an
swer him. Or | might proceed now
with u general statement OF the con-
ditions in Hawaii, and then the
prince might be heard. and then
Mr.. Dinwiddie close.
The Chairman. All right.
Mr.. Dinwiddie. That will be sat.
isfactory. ~.
Delegate Kalanlanaole. would
rather hear the proponents OF the
measure. I am here simply repre-
senting the Territory that Is oppos
ed to the passage of the bill, and
should like to know the reasons
which are urged for its passage.
Mr.. Woolley. Shall | proceed. Mr..
Chairman?
The Chairman. You may proceed.
WooLLEY's STATEMENT. -
Mr. Woolley. II was my inten-
ton, Mr. Chairman and Senators, 10
make my part OF this discussion ex.
ceedingly brief in view of the fact
that | have already spoken some
what fully to the committee. But
! the Delegate Is present. and since
he desires To know exactly our posi-
! tlon OIL this measure perhaps had
' better go n little more fully into the
question. However ! shall not be
long.
Whatever spe ,ial problem OF Ha-
wall one would speak about IL seems
I impossible to pass to II without paus-
ing In something like an attitude OF
reverence before the beauty and sal
ubrity OF the land. From the white
surf that wreathes the coral shares
! to the white squadrons of the clouds
that maneuver about the submits OF
their central mountains. the islands
lay spell Of loneliness upon the
mind that makes for quietness and
for goodness and for truth.
| In point of innate amiability and
! piety the people match the landscape
and the climate. but In the kind
OF ruggedness required to resist the
f, degration of alcoholic indulgence
they are very weak. Yet. while the
liquor traffic is sanctioned and pro-
tected In the Territory the natives
will patronize 1t. They are ambi-
tious to be civilized: and to them
civilization means imitation of 'the
white man-his virtues mostly, and
his one colossal Vice.
Down to the reign OF Kalakaua
the last OF the Hawaiian kings, the
common people were protected from
the liquor dealers heartless and dis
astrous exploitation. After Kane
hameha !. the kings themselves. with
hldeous regularity, went hotfoot 70
their graves by way OF drink. but the
people. by the teaching and example
OF the missionaries, the tabu of the
crown, and finally the written law
were well preserved But when King
kalakaua, under the ceaseless, cruel,
mercenary pressure OF the liquor
trade, declared his subjects game for
liquor sellers. they persisted like wild
fowl In the snares OF the pot hunters
The Hawaiian drinks. like thc
American Indian, for the fell. shut
poison OF the liquor. Everybody iec-
ognizes this that knows Hawaii. but
TO make the fact stand out more
sharply here, offer statement OF
the highest native authority--that q
the Hawaiian Delegate to Congress
. | In mi Ia, 10.