Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-13


| premium on the systematic violation
Of law and produces a form of cor.
ruption which is still worse than the
corruption which irradiates from the
licensed saloon Further, IL re.en-
forces drinking in It's most miserable
and dangerous form. The moderate
drmker is cut off, while the immod.
crate drinker is created. II abolishes
light wine and beer; and opens wide
the way for the worst kind Of
whisky. 1t eliminates every sound
supervision and makes minors and
inebriates the favorite customers. A
clean surface appearance is bought
at the expense Of inner moral and
mental destruction. Worst Of all,
the masses who feel the instructive
need of an anaesthetic quickly find
substitutes. speak as psychother-
apist whose experiences cover the
whole country. if | say that the
spreading Of cocainism and morphine
F, ism, Of sexual perversions and ruin
Gus habits among the sbstainers is
/ alarming. But even on the surface
amy one can see TO what degree ~
dizziness on the one side and Of vul.
: garity on the other side the masses
are led II the means Of physiological
relief are cut of from strong hard
working population. To fight In
Temperance by prohibition means 10
/ substitute one evil for another n
reform by slow education towards q
moderate use of light wine or beer,
Is the only way to permanent sue.
cess in this country, as long as Amer
leans remain Americans.
The Contentious of DR.. Williams.
or course there are not y few who
are convinced that alcohol is ruAnous
Cor every one. even IN moderate
quantities: and It has become the
fashion to support this belief by the
results Of scientific investiga ions
My whole life belongs to science, but
after most careful study am con"
WINGED that there exists no scien
tiGeAly safe fact which demonstrates
evil effects II a temperance use of
alcohol by normul adult mon. Every
claim on the one side has been dis
proved by just as important expert
ments on the other side. Even on
physiological ground. everything is
uncertain. DR.. Williams. of New
York, tells us that alcohol Is never
food; and DR.. Dana, of New York,
the president of the New York Acad-
envy of Medicine. tells us that al
cohol is always food DR.. Williams
writes that alcohol always lessons
the power for work: and DR.. Dana
writes that, as proved by recent ex-
perlments. alcohol has no effect, pne
way of the other. on the capacity
to work " given In moderate daily
doses Or. Williams writes that al
cohol is the greatest evil OF society;
and DR.. Dana writes that the i'm
mediate removal OF alcohol from So
cial life would lead to social and
racial decadence.
But !, psychologist, am natural
ly more interested in the mental
sid. DR.. Williams and so many
Others dogmatically assure us. for
! instance, that alcohol cuts off the
power of mental production. But is
really "a psychological laboratory
necessary TO demonstrate the hollow
Il ness of such general statements?
know of scores of men who never
produce better than after moder-
ate use of alcohol. and II Is well
known that this Is true in eXcep-
4 tional cases even where immoderate
use Is INDUCED In. ] had to hypno-
tie only recently well known New
\ York author whose secret trouble Is
that he has never written n page OF
} his brilliant books but after intern
perate use OF whisky. DR.. Williams
assures MS that every moderate use
, of wine and beer reduces the powers
of intellectual activity; and again
the psychological experiment Is said
, TO have proved that, must think
there instinctively of the man who
! has given to the world the method.
of psychological experiment, Profes
sor WuEdt OF Leipzig, the greatest
living psychologist, He Is seventy
six years old today; has written about
, forty volumes, which are acknowl
edged the world over as the deepest
: contributions TO psychological
, thought; has written this year al
epoch making book; aud yet has
/ taken for sixty years, twice a day
: beer and wine with every meal, | at
| tended last summer number. of IN
I tcrnatiOnal congresses and saw there
. at many banquets the leaders Of
: thought from all nations. watch
ed the situation carefully, but die
? not discover any abstaIners among
Q the sharp and great thinkers OF any
/ nation.
r To demonstrate that the abstain