The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-11
PULPIT TRUTHS
ON PROHIBITION
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wrong, by saying if we must have the
traffic, we must limit its boundaries.
If it is good, why limit its boundaries9
| Why not let 1t spread out everywhere
| Who ever heard of city saying we
must limit the boundarie. of the gro
Gerry stores? They are necessary and
good, the grocery store does 90 But
the very fact that they say we must
| limit the boundaries Of the saloon saws
| that the traffic is not necessary; that it
is wrong and harmful. Then they rise
up and say, eyes, we must have a
strong law TO regulate it Why regu-
late it if if is right and useful? Did
vou ever hear Of any State. county. city
or municipality rising up and saving.
We VIII pass a strong law to regu-
late the millinery stores Of the citv!''
! Did YOU ever heard Of such a thing1
| Why. they are right; they are useful;
they do not need the strong arm of the
| law. Why regulate the saloons or the
liquor traffic? Because it is WRONG,
nd YOU KNOW 1T.
| Every saloon, and the traffic itself. is
only permitted to exist by permission.
1t has no right to live. ! do verify
affirm to day that if it was on trial for
lis life, and the jury brought iu a yer
Dict Of guilty, and the Judge should ask
it to rise and give Il reason why the
sentence of death should not be pro
uounced upon it, there would he no an
swer; no voice; it would stand with the
silence Of the grave and receive its
death sentence.
They are trying to mistify you
further. They are trying to say it is
WoolIeyism. Suppose it is Woolley
| ism? That is not the question. IS IT
RIGHT? That 5 the question. No mat
ter whether it 5 Woolevism, Johnson
ism, Americanism or Hawaiianism. or
any other ism. Is it right, ana do you
| want to answer to the civilized world
today, owe want to do the right!
They also try to mistifv YOU by say
ing YOU Will have blind pigs | presume
people viii violate the prohibitorv law
And by the way these people talk you
might think they were afraid if we pass
this law that there might somewhere be
a blind pig, and they are so afraid Of
blind pigs that they say. ''Let the
liquor traffic alone; let prohibition 90,
for fear we might have blind pigs -
But they ought not to be afraid Of a
pig with no eyes. The pigs to be afraid
of are those with good, open eyes.
| would rather have a blind pig of that
kind than one Of seeing kind If there
is a vicious pig here, ! would rather
have it blind than to have it able to
see. If the pig is blind the boys of
this town have a chance TO get out Of
its road But these pigs with two good,
wide-open eyes are hard 70 escape. ]
am trying to get the eyes out Of the
pigs.
! They say prohibition won't prohibit.
We have license law; they say it is
a good one don t know what a good
| license law is, but every one says it is
| a good one: the best we ever had. Under
this license law that gives open, free
saloons. We have innumerahle blind pigs
! all over town, and no one is scared by
| them now. You have an open saloon
| on nearly every street corner, and
| blind pig in every alley in Honolulu,
and no one is scared. Under the license
YOU have the damnahle influence of the
| open saloon and the influence Of the
| blind pig; 50 II is the open saloon plus
| the blind PIC. That is bad. But sup
pose We enact prohibition; we can close
the open saloon, and while there may
be some blind pigs, instead Of having
the open saloon plus the blind pigs, YOU
have the blind pigs minus the open sa-
| loom Ism I that better2
| 1t Will prohibit as much as any pro
| hihitOrv law on any statute book. The
law to prohibit the liquor traffic can be
made to prohibit just as much as a law
| against murder, against thieverv.
against robbery. They viii violate the
law, but You can enforce one Just as